@Thrillhouse@lemmy.world, don't take these things personally.
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| Title | Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour | |
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| | Genre: | Musical, Documentary | | MPAA Rating: | NA | | Runtime | 02:48:00 | | Release Date (USA): | October 13, 2023 | | Director: | Sam Wrench | | Main Cast: | Taylor Swift, Amanda Balen, Taylor Banks | | Summary: | The phenomenon that is Taylor Swift continues, now on the big screen! Immerse yourselves in this once-in-a-lifetime concert film event and witness the history-making tour in theatres. Within hours after tickets went on sale, the film surpassed $10 million in pre-sales, which box-office analysts likened to the performance of a Marvel film. Admit it: you're going! |
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How about a non-archive.today link, please? It's insecure (http) and more often than not times out.
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Whatever precious jewel there is in the heavenly worlds, there is nothing comparable to one who is Awakened.
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Only out of perverse curiosity, where are you from?
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'PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie' Beats 'Saw X,' 'The Creator' To Top Domestic Box Office
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Over the top of over the top! Flying saucers from outer space…check! Absurd, drug-fueled cartoon characters…check! Thai zombies with exploding heads…check! Loud, fast, distorted rock 'n roll…CHECK! ALL SYSTEMS GO!
We're talking about the lo-fi, lo-budget Wild Zero, the 1999 punk rock Night of The Living Dead starring power trio Guitar Wolf. This Japanese cult film pays homage to all things rock 'n roll filtered through western Pacific sensibilities. Framed within the buzzsaw roars of Guitar Wolf's "jet rock 'n' roll", you're gonna get cars, motorbikes and microphones that spit fire like the 1966 Batmobile! Of course there's the Yakuza and gallons of fake blood! There's even military-grade weaponry that wouldn't seem out of place in Michigan's upper penninsula! Oh, and the soul searching…
It's a bunch of stupid fun for the whole family…if your surname is Addams or Manson! See it!
Love knows no nationalities, genders or borders! Rock and roll!
Color me embarassed. Link has been corrected. The responsible LinkMonkey(s)™ will be severely reprimanded!
Afterthought EDIT: thanks for bringing that to my attention. I was wondering if anybody was clicking any of the links.
Saw the 2021 documentary about the life of actor Paul Newman the other day, Pierre-François Gaudry's Paul Newman, derrière les yeux bleus (Paul Newman, Behind Blue Eyes). It's hard not to make a film about Newman's life without sanctifying the man, although he really did come close with all of his humanitarian work aside from all of the iconic roles he'd played in his career. But I'm not here to list his filmography nor his philantrophic endeavors today. Possibly another time.
Something Newman said, it had to be around 1977-1980 (it's unclear from the film exactly when), stuck with me as it's as timely today as it was 40-odd years ago—maybe more so.
It's very hard to take a lot of pride in your craft if the three biggest stars in America are two robots and a shark.
| Title | The Exorcist: Believer | |
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| | Genre: | Horror | | MPAA Rating: | R | | Runtime | 02:01:00 | | Release Date (USA): | October 6, 2023 | | Director: | David Gordon Green | | Main Cast: | Leslie Odom Jr, Ann Dowd, Jennifer Nettles, Ellen Burstyn, Norbert Leo Butz | | Summary: | A 12-year-old girl is possessed by a mysterious demonic entity, forcing her mother to seek the help of two priests to save her. |
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| Title | Foe | |
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| | Genre: | Science Fiction, Thriller | | MPAA Rating: | R | | Runtime | 01:50:00 | | Release Date (USA): | October 6, 2023 | | Director: | Garth Davis | | Main Cast: | Saoirse Ronan, Paul Mescal, Aaron Pierre | | Summary: | The lives of a married couple are thrown into turmoil when an uninvited stranger shows up at their door with a startling proposal. Based on best-selling author Iain Reid's novel. |
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| Title | The Royal Hotel | |
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| | Genre: | Thriller | | MPAA Rating: | R | | Runtime | 01:31:00 | | Release Date (USA): | October 6, 2023 | | Director: | Garth Davis | | Main Cast: | Julia Garner, Jessica Henwick, Hugo Weaving, Toby Wallace, Ursula Yovich | | Summary: | Americans Hanna and Liv are backpacking in Australia. After they run out of money, they take a temporary live-in job at a pub called ’The Royal Hotel’ in a remote Outback mining town. Soon they find themselves trapped in a situation that grows rapidly out of control. |
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Yeah! I felt the same way about...wha...John Davi...sorry, I thought we were talking about Avatar.
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Link 1: A Study of Black and White Filmmaking
Link 2: Film Noir: The Case for Black and White
Have you ever heard somebody say "I can't watch black and white movies?" I have a problem with this. Not because some of the most important movies are in black and white but because black and white can do just as much—if not more—than color.
Thanks, MovieSnob LinkMonkey™! Have a banana! And thanks to YouTube Channel Now You See It for both these videos succinctly and smartly analyzing the use and history of black and white in cinema.
Regarding the above opening quote (from the linked Film Noir video), an excellent recent example of this, forgive me if I'm repeating myself, is Robert Egger's 2019 The Lighthouse.
MovieSnob Ad Warning: as some YT vids are want to do, the first link contains promotional content (translated: advertising) fortunately at the end of the video (roughly at 00:13:14). Act accordingly.
Geez, I really want to contest this seemingly unfair declaration…but after perusing Ms Bernhard's (my mistake adding the final "t") fimography, of all of her performances listed that I'm familar with…
I just can't. This is her shining moment.
How many buttons does this movie push? The cult of personality. Stalking. Delusional disorder. Prisoner of fame. Local boy makes good. If Travis Bickle had stand-up aspirations. Today in 2023, even though Todd Phillips has already 'fessed up to it, it's hard not to notice the resemblance in Todd Phillips' Joker (2019), especially with De Niro standing in for Jerry Lewis and…himself as the neurotic ~~Bickle~~ Pupkin. Was Scorsese just decades ahead of his time, like with New York, New York? Yes and no.
Although Scorsese himself admits an inspiration from Porter's Life of an American Fireman (1903)^1, in my research neither our director nor any film critics mention the resemblance to Steno's post WWII comedy Un americano a Roma (1954) starring Italian national treasure Alberto Sordi (RIP). Like Scorsese's Pupkin, Steno's Nando Mericoni also has an unrealistic obsession: to be American. Just as delusional as Pupkin, Nando's particular obsession with all things American brings him to the point of speaking English-sounding gibberish: his actual command of the language is almost nonexistent so he babbles to his friends and family in what sounds like American to their ears. He does so at any opportuniy, even when detained in a German prisoner camp during wartime!
Comedian Jerry Lewis plays comedian and Johnny Carson-like late night talk show host Jerry Langford: the duality (irony?) here is that when Langford is off stage Lewis' performance is delivered as serious as the proverbial heart attack. He is a man cornered, seething with a rage, and Lewis shows his dramatic skills brilliantly. Sandra ~~Bernhardt~~ Bernhard as crazed heiress and Langford's other stalker shines hilariously during her scene with her masking-taped hostage. Robert De Niro is just like other NYC natives The Ramones: even when The Ramones covered Louis Armstrong's What A Wonderful World, it was still inescapably The Ramones. This is a role like not quite like other in his repertoire and De Niro tries—and mostly succeeds—as obsessed nebbish Pupkin. But it's still De Niro, a tough and menacing presence and that's hard to reconcile with the Pupkin character.
It's got laughs. Cringey laughs. As is, you'll find yourself laughing at the most uncomfortable things in this film. It could have had more laughs if Scorsese had decided to play it as a straight-up comedy. This is most likely why The King of Comedy flopped at the box office. The tide had turned: the era of The Blockbuster was in full swing and people wanted easier entertainment than the New Hollywood was giving them. Friedkin had spent (and lost) millions with his epic Sorcerer (for another post), Cimino was about to bankrupt United Artists with Heaven's Gate and the New Hollywood was in the process of being shown the door. If Scorsese had gone more Taxi Driver on the treatment and played it straight-up drama, then The King of Comedy might have won Best Picture at the 1983 Academy Awards instead of Joker at the 2020 Oscars®…?
As for the open ending…I've made my own conclusion. You?
Bonus link: Porter's The Life of an American Fireman. See if you can find the inspiration.
| Title | The Creator | |
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| | Genre: | Science Fiction, Action | | MPAA Rating: | PG-13 | | Runtime | 02:13:00 | | Release Date (USA): | September 29, 2023 | | Director: | Gareth Edwards | | Main Cast: | John David Washington, Madeleine Yuna Voyles, Gemma Chan, Ken Watanabe | | Summary: | Joshua, an ex-special forces agent, and his team of elite operatives are recruited to kill the Creator, the elusive architect of advanced AI who has developed a mysterious weapon with the power to end the war… and mankind itself. They journey into AI-occupied territory only to discover the world-ending weapon is in the form of a young child. |
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| Title | Dumb Money | |
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| | Genre: | Biographical, Comedy | | MPAA Rating: | R | | Runtime | 01:45:00 | | Release Date (USA): | September 29, 2023 | | Director: | Craig Gillespie | | Main Cast: | Paul Dano, Pete Davidson, Vincent D'Onofrio, America Ferrera, Nick Offerman, Anthony Ramos | | Summary: | Based on the true story of a group of rag-tag investors from the Reddit r/WallStreetBets, who banded together to put the squeeze on hedge funds that had bet that GameStop shares would fall. |
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