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Adalytics finds 9,000 pirated movies, including summer blockbusters, TV shows, and live sports on YouTube, amassing a collective 250M views from July to May (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/t…

YouTube Pirates Are Cashing In on Hollywood’s Summer Blockbusters
More than a decade after the platform cracked down on copyright infringement, thousands of unlicensed movies, TV shows and live sports are available.

Adalytics finds 9,000 pirated movies, including summer blockbusters, TV shows, and live sports on YouTube, amassing a collective 250M views from July to May (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/t…

YouTube Pirates Are Cashing In on Hollywood’s Summer Blockbusters
More than a decade after the platform cracked down on copyright infringement, thousands of unlicensed movies, TV shows and live sports are available.

Hollywood insiders report widespread off-the-books AI experimentation in studios, often hidden due to avoid backlash, despite union contracts limiting AI use (Lila Shapiro/Vulture)
https://www.vulture.com/article/generative-ai-hollywood-movies-tv.html…

Hollywood Already Uses Generative AI (And Is Hiding It)
With dozens of new studios and rapidly evolving tech, generative AI video is more embedded in Hollywood movies and TV than we may realize.

Research shows family movies stereotype males as predators and females as vulnerable prey
https://phys.org/news/2025-06-family-movies-stereotype-males-predators.html

Hollywood insiders report widespread off-the-books AI experimentation in studios, often hidden due to avoid backlash, despite union contracts limiting AI use (Lila Shapiro/Vulture)
https://www.vulture.com/article/generative-ai-hollywood-movies-tv.html…

Hollywood Already Uses Generative AI (And Is Hiding It)
With dozens of new studios and rapidly evolving tech, generative AI video is more embedded in Hollywood movies and TV than we may realize.

Before this #LetterboxdFriday ends, I share my #LastFourWatched
The Greatest Hits (3½★)
Despicable Me 2 (3★)
Despicable Me (3½★)
Sing (1½★)
🔗 https://…

movielens_100k: MovieLens 100K (1998)
Three bipartite networks that make up the MovieLens 100K Dataset, a stable benchmark dataset of 100,000 ratings from 1000 users on 1700 movies. These data capture the tag-movie, user-movie, and user-tag networks. (Also available from MovieLens are 1M, 10M and 20M folksonomy datasets.).
This network has 24129 nodes and 95580 edges.
Tags: Informational, Folksonomy, Unweighted, Multigraph, Timestamps

If the movie F1 gets sequels, can they not be F2, F3, F4?
Like, have some fun with it:
F off
F yourself
F the f’in’ f’ers
#movies

Dustin Lance Black, Sean Penn Hit Back as Navy Ship Is Stripped of Harvey Milk's Name: "These Guys Are Idiots" (Exclusive) (Seth Abramovitch/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/dustin-lance-black-sean-penn-pete-hegseth-navy-harvey-milk-1236255648/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250604/p127#a250604p127

Think movies and shows entirely generated from AI are still a long way off? Check this video made with Veo 3 that starts at just $67/month
Veo3 test // non-existent car show https://www.veo.co/en-us/pricing

Delays, reshoots, and inflation have driven up the budgets of this year's summer blockbusters, with Superman costing $400M when including marketing spends (Pamela McClintock/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.co…

Would You Pay $400 Million for This Movie?
Between delays, reshoots and rising costs, this year's summer blockbusters are racking up astronomically high price tags when factoring in marketing costs. Can the box office keep up?

movielens_100k: MovieLens 100K (1998)
Three bipartite networks that make up the MovieLens 100K Dataset, a stable benchmark dataset of 100,000 ratings from 1000 users on 1700 movies. These data capture the tag-movie, user-movie, and user-tag networks. (Also available from MovieLens are 1M, 10M and 20M folksonomy datasets.).
This network has 24129 nodes and 95580 edges.
Tags: Informational, Folksonomy, Unweighted, Multigraph, Timestamps

When my wife and I are watching things, we're always amused at how many characters in TV shows and movies are named Tommy or Billy. These are obviously fairly common names, but the amount of times we've noticed it in all kinds of different shows like X-Files, SVU etc is so often that it's comical-- it's bizarre. And sometimes in episodes right next to each other in a season. Just a ton of fictional guys out there with these two names across age groups, all over popular cultur…

How many times do I have to tell people in horror movies to set a pin on their phones? The killer just used their victim’s phone in this one I’m watching.

This is an especially good time for you vacationers who plan to fly, because
the Reagan administration, as part of the same policy under which it
recently sold Yellowstone National Park to Wayne Newton, has "deregulated"
the airline industry. What this means for you, the consumer, is that the
airlines are no longer required to follow any rules whatsoever. They can
show snuff movies. They can charge for oxygen. They can hire pilots right
out of Vend…

Yeah, here are my favorite movies and shows below, separated into series and movies.
Movies
Lady Oscar: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077827
Joker (2019):

Another step toward generating “live action” movies and shows.
AMC Networks Is Teaming up with AI Company Runway https://ground.news/article/amc-networks-inks-deal-with-ai-company-runway

And I just rewatched #TheHatefulEight this week. RIP best actor for roles of total psychopaths in #Tarantino movies, “Joe Gage”—erm, #MichaelMadsen
🙇😢

There are all sorts of movies where I can’t remember the name, but certain iconic lines have become the titles for me instead:
“Get Your Ass to Mars: Two Weeks”
I just used that and nobody missed a beat in the conversation.

All the different species in the #StarTrek universe have different requirements for (bodily) comfort. An aspect only sometimes mentioned in the different series and movies. But we will look at this aspect for today's #TrekTriviaTuesday question.
As always no googling and no spoiling t…

The Project Hail Mary #trailer looks fun. #movies

When 2 of my favorite movies collide...#TheBigLebowski #NightmareOnElmStreet Genius!

Combining social relations and interaction data in Recommender System with Graph Convolution Collaborative Filtering
Tin T. Tran, Vaclav Snasel, Loc Tan Nguyen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02834

Combining social relations and interaction data in Recommender System with Graph Convolution Collaborative Filtering
A recommender system is an important subject in the field of data mining, where the item rating information from users is exploited and processed to make suitable recommendations with all other users. The recommender system creates convenience for e-commerce users and stimulates the consumption of items that are suitable for users. In addition to e-commerce, a recommender system is also used to provide recommendations on books to read, movies to watch, courses to take or websites to visit. Simi…

the year is 2025 there are TWO (2) types of videos on YouTube: adults obsessing over kids movies (8 hour long video essay) & political analysis (30 second infotainment)

Various Artists – Beyond The Body
#electronic

I have mixed feelings about this.
a - first Bond film not under the control of the Broccolis.
b - But its Amazon.
c - But its Villeneuve.

I'm conflicted.
#movies #bond #jamesbond

I hadn't heard of Project Hail Mary, but it has Ryan Gosling and it's coming next year. Looks promising.
#movies

Most accurate review of Andor I have ever seen
(Link does contain hints of what was fairly obviously to come in season 2. We have yet to watch the final two episodes so no further spoilers please)
https://www.jwz.org/blog/2025/05/recent-movies-and-tv-30/

Get up right this damn minute and go see Sinners. If you ever loved Call of Cthulhu, John Wick, Django Unchained, From Dusk til Dawn, or any of the movies that are so clearly made by people who *love* making movies - go. now. See it in Dolby or IMAX if you can for the best sound; you won't regret it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch…

Ranking dynamics in movies and music
Hyun-Woo Lee, Gerardo I\~niguez, Hang-Hyun Jo, Hye Jin Park
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21944 https://

Ranking dynamics in movies and music
Ranking systems are widely used to simplify and interpret complex data across diverse domains, from economic indicators and sports scores to online content popularity. While previous studies including the Zipf's law have focused on the static, aggregated properties of ranks, in recent years researchers have begun to uncover generic features in their temporal dynamics. In this work, we introduce and study a series of system-level indices that quantify the compositional changes in ranking lists o…

On The Ice Storm (1997)
> A film one can admire without actually enjoying.
#LeonardMaltinBurns
#LeonardMaltin
#Movies

Been watching live tv for the past few hours. I’ve seen commercials for 4 movies in theaters. Three of them are live-action remakes of animated movies. We really are out of ideas aren’t we?

Wes Anderson movies are just awesome! Go watch #ThePhoenicianScheme !

A feature request came in asking to allow users to enable/disable the watched check mark individually for each library.
Here's what I came up with.
A new setting button in the top left that opens the library settings menu. Currently, only 1 setting, but gives us room to expand in the future.
#jellyfin

I've seen 51 of these top 100 movies from the nytimes
https://www.worldofreel.com/blog/2025/6/23/nyts-best-films-of-the-21st-century-polls-over-500-filmmakers

AMC Entertainment has reached an agreement with National CineMedia to run ads right before the start of a film, starting July 1 (Thomas Buckley/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-03/amc-theater…

Bravo Bravo Effing Bravo
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

Bravo Bravo Effing Bravo | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: Bravo Bravo Effing Bravo Hosts: Nathan and Mariana Category: TV & Movies Sub-Category: After Shows & Reality TV First Episode: 2021 Bravo Bravo Effing Bravo is a place where you can hear no…

Still one of my favorite films . . . RIP
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/movies/enzo-staiola-dead.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

I've enjoyed Michael Madsen in films ever since I first saw Reservoir Dogs, probably when I was 13 or 14, right after it came out. And then in Species, Sin City, Kill Bill- and the most recent Madsen thing I've seen, The Hateful Eight, from 10 years ago. And he was in 8 movies last year, and 4 still upcoming! Truly one of our time's greatest actors, and amazing right up to the end. He'll be missed. RIP

douban: Douban friendship network (2009)
A friendship network among users on Douban.com, a Chinese website providing recommendations for books, music, and movies.
This network has 154908 nodes and 327162 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/douban…

Woo!
https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/news/beloved-actor-rick-moranis-returns-to-acting-in-spaceballs-sequel-after-nearly-30-years-away-report/ar-AA1GBqWG

Even though most of the #StarTrek series and movies have a fixed crew, every once in a while a new character is introduced. As in the case of today's #TrekTriviaTuesday question.
As always no googling and no spoiling the answer for others. Please boost after voting! :BoostOK:
V…

Most accurate review of Andor I have ever seen
(Link does contain hints of what was fairly obviously to come in season 2. We have yet to watch the final two episodes so no further spoilers please)
https://www.jwz.org/blog/2025/05/recent-movies-and-tv-30/

James Cameron: Headsets Solve The Problems Of 3D Cinema in deal for #Meta #Quest
Meanwhile, still short of 3D movies unlike Vision Pro.

James Cameron: VR Headsets Solve The Problems Of 3D Cinema
James Cameron, who recently announced a partnership with Meta, waxed lyrical about how XR headsets solve the problems of traditional 3D glasses.

So if anyone wants better Bad 70s Movies, I will nominate "Killer Bees" and "Ssssss!"
#Monsterdon

Late-Night Hosts Joke About Trump's F-Bomb: 'Talk About Dropping a Big Load' (Emily Zemler/Rolling Stone)
https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-news/late-night-host-donald-trump-f-bomb-jokes-1235371533/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250625/p8#a250625p8

I spotted this '100 best movies of all time' (maybe most popular/influential, see how they chose them) list via Empire, some I agree with, some I'm disturbed by. Now I can't stop thinking about it. Check the list, agree/disagree? What would YOUR top ones be? I'm gonna throw mine together and see what I get. Can I even come up with 100 that are WORTHY? 😂

The 100 Best Movies Of All Time — And Where You Can Watch Them
Explore Empire's top 100 best movies, ranked by our critics. From blockbusters to cult classics, see what made the list and what you need to watch now!

at the movies but lynn hasn’t told me what we’re seeing. last time it was that execrable robbie williams monkey film (which seems not to have been released anywhere around here)

I've moved on from re-binging "The Last Kingdom" to re-binging "Vikings."
I love historical fiction movies but at some point the forever-burning torches and ubiquitous candles start to bother me. The trouble is that cold darkness doesn't film well.

RoboCop: Rogue City (Multiplatform, XPd on a Linux PC via Steam)
In an original story set between the 2nd and 3rd movies of the OG series, take on the role of RoboCop and end a crime wave by taking down the "New Guy" in town. TL;DR: Robo fan? Play this.
So right off the bat, this is not a AAA game. There's definitely rough edges here. But that's OK with me, as the things it does do right it does quite well.
Starting with hiring Peter Weller to reprise his …

Not been watching any of the recent Terminator movies but watched “Terminator: Dark Fate” yesterday on the plane and it was surprisingly good.

My #LastFourWatched in this #LetterboxdFriday:
The Room Next Door (3½★)
Paddington in Peru (4★)
Freaky Tales (4★)
Saturday Night (3½)
#Letterboxd

Do we have a fediverse equivalent to Trakt for scrobbling TV and movies? #askfedi

Will the next Apple movie be called F2? Will there be 12 movies?

1st PR opened to add a setting allowing you to choose how many columns you want your library displayed with in #Jellyfin for #Roku.
Here's a screenshot of me viewing #movies in genre vi…

I think the new Mission Impossible is the first time I’ve seen a British Film Commission logo in the credits.
I’d always respected that the U.K. government never required a Union Flag be added to the credits on movies it assisted, but that’s apparently no more?

Disney's live-action Lilo & Stitch grossed $610M globally in just 10 days, and could reach $950M; the film cost $100M and may make $300M in box office profit (Brooks Barnes/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/busines

How ‘Lilo & Stitch’ Became One of the Most Profitable Movies in Years
The film was originally aimed for Disney+. But it was rerouted to a theatrical release and is on pace for at least $950 million in ticket sales.

I thought NeoDB was a general database but I was wrong.
When I understood what it is it felt more like an open source version of Bookwyrm(since Bookwyrm isn't open source. It is source-available)
Apart from that it also includes movies and some other stuff...so it's like an open source alternative to BookWyrm but with extra features...
#OpenSource

I'm not really a fan of #Spiderman. Spiderverse was a great movie experience. But before that? Not really into the character nor the movies.
This look at the evolution of the web-slinging effects, however, made me appreciate the franchise a lot more.

Did anyone else really enjoy "Air", the #Nike/Sonny Vaccaro/Phil Knight/Michael Jordan movie?
Between the 80s references, 80s music & David Falk's hilariously unhinged phone rant, this is one of the most wonderful movies ever for a #GenX'er.
▶️

Hey #Piracy community!
Do you think $10 is too much to pay for a DVD of Joker (2019), or is that a fair price?
#VHS #DVD

An adorable indie movie that's like a love-letter to the fantasy movies of the 1980s? Yes plz. I really recommend "Man and Witch" https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/man_and_witch_the_dance_of_a_thousand_steps

An adorable indie movie that's like a love-letter to the fantasy movies of the 1980s? Yes plz. I really recommend "Man and Witch" https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/man_and_witch_the_dance_of_a_thousand_steps

Man and Witch: The Dance of a Thousand Steps | Rotten Tomatoes
Discover reviews, ratings, and trailers for Man and Witch: The Dance of a Thousand Steps on Rotten Tomatoes. Stay updated with critic and audience scores today!

moviegalaxies: Moviegalaxies, movies 410-466 (2018)
Social graphs for over 700 movies from the moviegalaxies.com website. Each node represents a character in a movie and each edge is a same-scene appearance between two characters in that movie. The weight gives the number of same-scene appearances. Networks are extracted from movie scripts automatically.
This network has 25 nodes and 91 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Weighted

AMC Theatres, facing financial pressure, reverses course and joins its rivals in adding regular ads to its pre-movie lineup, in a worrying trend for studios (Pamela McClintock/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/m

Get Ready for More Commercials in Movie Theaters
Industry leader AMC Theatres is reversing course and joining its rivals on July 1 in adding regular ads to its pre-movie lineup in a worrisome trend for studios.

Anyone noticed how the characters in the Alien movies (the ones about Rippley) got progressively dumber as new chapters were released?
Don't remember it? Try to watch them in a row, it's astonishing. It's a good "exercise" because them being part of the same series makes it much easier to make comparisons.
I'd say that's what makes a big difference between the first one and the rest, not the plot in itself, but how idiotic are the characters after the first chapter.

New Toxic Avenger poster is epic. Comes out August 25.
#TheToxicAvenger #PeterDinklage #horror #movies

I couldn't help but laugh yesterday when I saw Darth #Trump transfer from Air Force One in a large military helicopter and take off in a blaze of glory heading G7.
He just loves B-movies! Such a little wannabe. 🤣

i need recs what movies are we watching? #movie #netflix https://www.tiktok.com/@annieagar5/video/7

Friendly reminder to put some money toward preservation of our digital heritage.
Non-US peeps: The USD is cheap right now :) You might consider that when choosing your amount.
https://archive.org/donate

Movie Wars: How Hollywood and the Media Limit What Films We Can See - Jonathan Rosenbaum
> Ebert reviews a good many film books, and to my knowledge Siskel never did; if he ever read any books about film on his own, it would have surprised me.
#films #movies

moviegalaxies: Moviegalaxies, movies 410-466 (2018)
Social graphs for over 700 movies from the moviegalaxies.com website. Each node represents a character in a movie and each edge is a same-scene appearance between two characters in that movie. The weight gives the number of same-scene appearances. Networks are extracted from movie scripts automatically.
This network has 35 nodes and 89 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Weighted

"Is this your homework, Larry?" I'd kill for a #TheBigLebowski movie done entirely with #Muppets. Where do I sell my soul to get this done? #movies

movielens_100k: MovieLens 100K (1998)
Three bipartite networks that make up the MovieLens 100K Dataset, a stable benchmark dataset of 100,000 ratings from 1000 users on 1700 movies. These data capture the tag-movie, user-movie, and user-tag networks. (Also available from MovieLens are 1M, 10M and 20M folksonomy datasets.).
This network has 24129 nodes and 95580 edges.
Tags: Informational, Folksonomy, Unweighted, Multigraph, Timestamps

Star Wars Outlaws allows players to operate in the criminal underworld of the Star Wars universe.
Except there’s no real crime. It’s defanged. There’s smuggling, gambling, violence. But no drug trade, and apparently no chattel slavery (which Hutts and Pykes engaged in during the period). It’s in the movies, but not appropriate for the game, I guess because it makes the characters less sympathetic?

Texas passes a bill distributing $150M/year to movies and TV shows through 2035; the film office can reject incentives for shoots with "inappropriate content" (Winston Cho/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/busi…

Hollywood South? Texas Makes Its Bid With Major Film Incentive Expansion
Texas is slated to give productions $150 million annually across the next decade. The program includes some quirks that will give the film office some say in movies and TV shows that qualify for the cash grant.

There are a number of stellar phenomenon seen across all the #StarTrek movies and series. And some even play a small role in the plots. As in the case of today's #TrekTriviaTuesday question.
As always no googling and no spoiling the answer for others. Please boost after voting! :Boost…

Various Artists – 2000’s Horrors
#byncnd

Modern streaming.
#entertainment #tv #film #movies

Amazon MGM Studios says it will have a $1B slate in 2026 and release 20 movies; 10 will have theatrical runs and will not be exclusive to Prime Video thereafter (Stewart Clarke/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/06/amazon-mgm-2026…

Amazon MGM Talks $1B Slate And Says “We Are Heavily Invested In Theatrical” & “We’re Not Holding Any Content Back”
Amazon MGM Studios Talks $1 Billion 2026 Slate with theatrical releases and global distribution part of the plan.

Der Dollar steht, ähem, günstig, eine Gute Gelegenheit™ mal wieder an das Internet Archive zu spenden, ist es nicht?
Die haben ja in letzter viel gespeichert, was von US-Regierungsseiten gelöscht wurde. Brauchen also Geld für zwei, drei neue Festplatten.
Ja, ich wünschte, sie würden sich internationalisieren. Damit die Daten nicht nur in den USA liegen. Damit wir eine Spendenquittung für's Finanzamt bekommen könnten. Aber ist wie es ist.

moviegalaxies: Moviegalaxies, movies 410-466 (2018)
Social graphs for over 700 movies from the moviegalaxies.com website. Each node represents a character in a movie and each edge is a same-scene appearance between two characters in that movie. The weight gives the number of same-scene appearances. Networks are extracted from movie scripts automatically.
This network has 34 nodes and 96 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Weighted

Max, soon to be called HBO Max, says it is working on an AI tool that will identify "standout" scenes from its shows and movies to play as video previews (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/688313/max-video-previews-autoplay-update…

Max will show autoplaying video previews picked by AI
Max is rolling out an update that will show video previews of shows and movies as you scroll over them. It will use an AI tool to help pick which scenes to feature.

I enjoy that the droids in Star Wars have pronouns. Will there be a tariff on future movies if this continues to be the case?
https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/C-3PO

dbpedia_starring: DBpedia film-actor network
A bipartite network of movies and the actors that played in them, as extracted from Wikipedia by the DBpedia project. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 157184 nodes and 281396 edges.
Tags: Economic, Employment, Unweighted
https://network…

I enjoy that the droids in Star Wars have pronouns. Will there be a tariff on future movies if this continues to be the case?
https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/C-3PO

dbpedia_starring: DBpedia film-actor network
A bipartite network of movies and the actors that played in them, as extracted from Wikipedia by the DBpedia project. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 157184 nodes and 281396 edges.
Tags: Economic, Employment, Unweighted
https://network…

dbpedia_starring: DBpedia film-actor network
A bipartite network of movies and the actors that played in them, as extracted from Wikipedia by the DBpedia project. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 157184 nodes and 281396 edges.
Tags: Economic, Employment, Unweighted
https://network…

dbpedia_starring: DBpedia film-actor network
A bipartite network of movies and the actors that played in them, as extracted from Wikipedia by the DBpedia project. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 157184 nodes and 281396 edges.
Tags: Economic, Employment, Unweighted
https://network…

Amazon MGM Studios says it will have a $1B slate in 2026 and release 20 movies; 10 will have theatrical runs and will not be exclusive to Prime Video thereafter (Stewart Clarke/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/06/amazon-mgm-2026…

Amazon MGM Talks $1B Slate And Says “We Are Heavily Invested In Theatrical” & “We’re Not Holding Any Content Back”
Amazon MGM Studios Talks $1 Billion 2026 Slate with theatrical releases and global distribution part of the plan.

douban: Douban friendship network (2009)
A friendship network among users on Douban.com, a Chinese website providing recommendations for books, music, and movies.
This network has 154908 nodes and 327162 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/douban…

Tubi announces plans to distribute 20 films funded on Kickstarter, starting in the fall, and to invest in Kickstarter's FilmStream Collective Fund (Charles Pulliam-Moore/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/684374/tubi-kickstarter-initiative

Kickstarter-funded films are coming to Tubi
Tubi and Kickstarter are partnering to bring a selection of crowdfunded movies to the upstart streamer.

Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos says the company will invest over €1B in Spain from 2025 to 2028; Netflix has an 8.7M subscriber base in the country (John Hopewell/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/global/netflix-spain-1-2-billion-…

Netflix Commits to Invest Over $1.2 Billion in Spain Over 2025-28 
Made by Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos in Madrid Tuesday, the commitment reflects the extraordinary global results of standout Spanish shows and movies.