Stars: Ryland Brickson Cole Tews, Doug Mancheski, Olivia Graves, Wes Tank, Luis Rico | Written by Ryland Brickson Cole Tews, Mike Cheslik | Directed by Mike Cheslik
When my partner asked me what movie I was watching perhaps “checking out Hundreds of Beavers” wasn’t the best of all possible answers. And I suppose trying to clarify it with “big hairy Canadian beavers” didn’t help. But despite the title and opening quote from St. Augustine, “Lord grant me chastity, but not yet!”, this isn’t that kind of a movie.
The new film from director Mike Cheslik and co-writer Ryland Brickson Cole Tews, the pair who gave us the Tews-directed Lake Michigan Monster, never really gets raunchier than an old episode of The Benny Hill Show as it relates the tale of Jean Kayak (Ryland Brickson Cole Tews) who, as we see in the opening animation, has lost his apple orchard...
When my partner asked me what movie I was watching perhaps “checking out Hundreds of Beavers” wasn’t the best of all possible answers. And I suppose trying to clarify it with “big hairy Canadian beavers” didn’t help. But despite the title and opening quote from St. Augustine, “Lord grant me chastity, but not yet!”, this isn’t that kind of a movie.
The new film from director Mike Cheslik and co-writer Ryland Brickson Cole Tews, the pair who gave us the Tews-directed Lake Michigan Monster, never really gets raunchier than an old episode of The Benny Hill Show as it relates the tale of Jean Kayak (Ryland Brickson Cole Tews) who, as we see in the opening animation, has lost his apple orchard...
- 4/16/2024
- by Jim Morazzini
- Nerdly
It should go without saying that a "Squid Game" reality competition series is a terrible idea. Seriously, I shouldn't have to say it and this series was doomed to completely miss the point of "Squid Game" just by its very existence, but here we are. "Squid Game" was Netflix's most popular series ever and it's understandable that the streaming service would want to capitalize on it to some degree, but since the original show is about the horrors of capitalism and the game is clearly considered evil, maybe they shouldn't have recreated that very same evil game in reality. All reality television is morally questionable to some degree because the audience is getting entertainment from the struggles and often the suffering of real people, but there's something about "Squid Game: The Challenge" that feels especially insidious.
"Squid Game" was a global phenomenon that heavily criticized capitalism through the use of a fictional game show.
"Squid Game" was a global phenomenon that heavily criticized capitalism through the use of a fictional game show.
- 11/20/2023
- by Danielle Ryan
- Slash Film
Lately, for Hayden Silas Anhedönia, time feels like a slippery concept. If she’s not playing shows halfway across the world, she’s usually tucked away in her bedroom, a quiet hideaway in Pittsburgh with a sloped roof that doubles as a portal to another world.
Here, the hours glide by, one after the other. She might spend 12, 13, even 14 hours trapped inside, leaning over her computer, lost in the expansive sounds she’s creating. “You’ll get up at 9 a.m. to start working, and then you’re like, ‘Oh,...
Here, the hours glide by, one after the other. She might spend 12, 13, even 14 hours trapped inside, leaning over her computer, lost in the expansive sounds she’s creating. “You’ll get up at 9 a.m. to start working, and then you’re like, ‘Oh,...
- 8/30/2023
- by Julyssa Lopez
- Rollingstone.com
Stars: Ryland Brickson Cole Tews, Doug Mancheski, Olivia Graves, Wes Tank, Luis Rico | Written by Ryland Brickson Cole Tews, Mike Cheslik | Directed by Mike Cheslik
When my partner asked me what I was doing tonight perhaps “checking out Hundreds of Beavers” wasn’t the best of all possible answers. And I suppose trying to clarify it with “big hairy Canadian beavers” didn’t help. But despite the title and opening quote from St. Augustine, “Lord grant me chastity, but not yet!”, this isn’t that kind of a movie.
The new film from director Mike Cheslik and co-writer Ryland Brickson Cole Tews, the pair who gave us the Tews-directed Lake Michigan Monster, never really gets raunchier than an old episode of The Benny Hill Show as it relates the tale of Jean Kayak (Ryland Brickson Cole Tews) who, as we see in the opening animation, has lost his apple orchard...
When my partner asked me what I was doing tonight perhaps “checking out Hundreds of Beavers” wasn’t the best of all possible answers. And I suppose trying to clarify it with “big hairy Canadian beavers” didn’t help. But despite the title and opening quote from St. Augustine, “Lord grant me chastity, but not yet!”, this isn’t that kind of a movie.
The new film from director Mike Cheslik and co-writer Ryland Brickson Cole Tews, the pair who gave us the Tews-directed Lake Michigan Monster, never really gets raunchier than an old episode of The Benny Hill Show as it relates the tale of Jean Kayak (Ryland Brickson Cole Tews) who, as we see in the opening animation, has lost his apple orchard...
- 7/31/2023
- by Jim Morazzini
- Nerdly
An Austin police detective named Danny Rourke (Ben Affleck) sits in a therapist’s office. His daughter was kidnapped at a playground — he’d been watching her, then suddenly, poof, she’s gone — and the story has been all over the news for months. The cop is dutifully attending his mandated psych-evaluation sessions. Rourke is finally cleared to go back to work, and he and his partner (J.D. Pardo) have been assigned to a stakeout. Two banks in Texas have been robbed; in both cases, the culprits have only taken a single safe-deposit box.
- 5/11/2023
- by David Fear
- Rollingstone.com
There is a succinct, incredible moment of catharsis at the conclusion of Ari Aster’s feature debut Hereditary when one of its beleaguered, terrified protagonists makes the break-neck decision to defenestrate themselves rather than endure the horrors to come. Three features into his career, Aster has not only made a name for himself as an inventive horror auteur but as a peddler of relentless suffering. Both Hereditary and his 2019 sophomore effort Midsommar push their characters, their runtime, and their audience to the brink of agony. This unending pain often culminates in brief artfulness, but in his third film, Beau Is Afraid, Aster has finally crafted something so annoying it had me searching for a window through which I might release myself.
Beau Is Afraid stars Joaquin Phoenix as the titular Beau, a nervous schlub living in decrepit urban life, tormented by his anxieties and the ever-dangerous world around him. He...
Beau Is Afraid stars Joaquin Phoenix as the titular Beau, a nervous schlub living in decrepit urban life, tormented by his anxieties and the ever-dangerous world around him. He...
- 4/11/2023
- by Fran Hoepfner
- The Film Stage
Director David Bruckner’s Hellraiser reboot just made a big and gooey splash on Hulu. In its messy aftermath, folks are discovering the old burning questions fans have long had about the world of Cenobites and chains: Are these creatures, created by Clive Barker, demons out of the actual biblical Hell, and is their menacing puzzle box (aka the Lament Configuration) a gateway to the whole of damnation, debasement, and diabolical disfiguration? Or is it something more… delicious? The original Pinhead in 1987 teased that they are “demons to some, angels to others.” So can these monsters represent a more heavenly glow? (And is that any better?)
Whenever a mortal encounters an angel in the Bible, Old Testament or New, the first sentence the angel heralds is: “Be not afraid.” Representatives of God on Earth are not easy on the eye, and very quick on the draw. They are not the cute cherubs of Sunday school,...
Whenever a mortal encounters an angel in the Bible, Old Testament or New, the first sentence the angel heralds is: “Be not afraid.” Representatives of God on Earth are not easy on the eye, and very quick on the draw. They are not the cute cherubs of Sunday school,...
- 10/12/2022
- by David Crow
- Den of Geek
For years, Awesome Art We’ve Found Around The Net has been about two things only – awesome art and the artists that create it. With that in mind, we thought why not take the first week of the month to showcase these awesome artists even more? Welcome to “Awesome Artist We’ve Found Around The Net.” In this column, we are focusing on one artist and the awesome art that they create, whether they be amateur, up and coming, or well established. The goal is to uncover these artists so even more people become familiar with them. We ask these artists a few questions to see their origins, influences, and more. If you are an awesome artist or know someone that should be featured, feel free to contact me at any time at theodorebond@joblo.com.This month we are very pleased to bring you the awesome art of…
Dave Merrell...
Dave Merrell...
- 10/1/2022
- by Theodore Bond
- JoBlo.com
. The Surreal Romanian Sci-Fi Animated film Delta Space Mission from Directors Mircea Toia And Călin Cazan is set for February 2022 Release with Ocn Distribution, Digital Releases To Follow With Grasshopper Films. Here’s a New Teaser From The Restoration:
Deaf Crocodile Films is proud to announce the upcoming 4K restoration release of the wildly surreal Romanian animated sci-fi film Delta Space Mission (Misiunea SPAȚIALĂ Delta) from directors Mircea Toia and Călin Cazan. Pre-sales will launch on February 1, 2022, followed by a digital launch several weeks after, released in collaboration with Grasshopper Films.
Delta Space Mission features a new 4K restoration from the original 35mm picture and sound elements by the Arhiva Nationala de Filme – Cinemateca Romana / National Film Archive – Romanian Cinematheque and the Centrul National al Cinematografiei / Romanian Film Centre (Cnc). The Blu-ray edition of Delta Space Mission contains a new interview with co-director Călin Cazan, an essay by acclaimed comic...
Deaf Crocodile Films is proud to announce the upcoming 4K restoration release of the wildly surreal Romanian animated sci-fi film Delta Space Mission (Misiunea SPAȚIALĂ Delta) from directors Mircea Toia and Călin Cazan. Pre-sales will launch on February 1, 2022, followed by a digital launch several weeks after, released in collaboration with Grasshopper Films.
Delta Space Mission features a new 4K restoration from the original 35mm picture and sound elements by the Arhiva Nationala de Filme – Cinemateca Romana / National Film Archive – Romanian Cinematheque and the Centrul National al Cinematografiei / Romanian Film Centre (Cnc). The Blu-ray edition of Delta Space Mission contains a new interview with co-director Călin Cazan, an essay by acclaimed comic...
- 2/1/2022
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
There are certain rules that one must abide by in order to successfully survive a horror movie: You can never have sex, never drink or do drugs, never say you’ll “be right back.” But there are also certain rules that characters have to adhere to in order to navigate a meta-horror movie, like: Be extremely well-versed in the rules of horror movies, especially the classic slashers (your Halloweens, your Friday the 13ths, your Nightmare on Elm Streets). You should be enough of a fan to recognize potentially stabby situations...
- 1/12/2022
- by David Fear
- Rollingstone.com
One is your friendly neighborhood wall-crawler, a kid from Queens trying to juggle his life and his duty to help others. The other is the grand protector of our dimension, fighting mystical threats from throughout the multiverse. They may not sound like they complement each other on paper but, believe it or not, Spider-Man and Doctor Strange work really well together.
It’s actually fairly common to see the two of them working together–their paths cross pretty frequently on the streets of New York, and Spidey is the type to always (inadvertently or not) stick his nose in other heroes’ business. And with them showing up on the big screen together in Spider-Man: No Way Home, we figured it was worth looking back at some of their best comic book team ups.
Spider-Man: One More Day (2007)
Spidey and Strange’s most controversial pairing is also probably the biggest influence on No Way Home.
It’s actually fairly common to see the two of them working together–their paths cross pretty frequently on the streets of New York, and Spidey is the type to always (inadvertently or not) stick his nose in other heroes’ business. And with them showing up on the big screen together in Spider-Man: No Way Home, we figured it was worth looking back at some of their best comic book team ups.
Spider-Man: One More Day (2007)
Spidey and Strange’s most controversial pairing is also probably the biggest influence on No Way Home.
- 12/13/2021
- by Jim Dandy
- Den of Geek
Burnham and the Star Trek: Discovery crew rushed to help a space station spinning out of control in the Season 4 premiere — and the new captain earned a new adversary in the process.
Burnham and Book open the premiere on a remote planet populated by chalky white butterfly people, offering them dilithium as a gesture of goodwill. Their emperor is suspicious, though, and when Book tells them about Grudge the cat, he gets angry: “Have you come to make pets of us?” They go into attack mode and grow giant butterfly wings, chasing after a fleeing Burnham and Book. The...
Burnham and Book open the premiere on a remote planet populated by chalky white butterfly people, offering them dilithium as a gesture of goodwill. Their emperor is suspicious, though, and when Book tells them about Grudge the cat, he gets angry: “Have you come to make pets of us?” They go into attack mode and grow giant butterfly wings, chasing after a fleeing Burnham and Book. The...
- 11/18/2021
- by Dave Nemetz
- TVLine.com
There’s nothing that kicks off a summer holiday weekend like a good blockbuster battle and that’s what the courtroom showdown between the Walt Disney Company and Fireman’s Fund Insurance has all the potential to be.
Sure, the price tag of the $10 million or so dispute filed today in LA Superior Court isn’t that epic, However, the ramifications for a Hollywood still unsteady on its feet after the production shut-downs and lockdowns of the coronavirus could be immense. Already we’ve seen UTA and others get in pandemic dust-ups with their insurers, and if you think more lawsuits like this aren’t being prepped right now by other insurance companies, I have some questions to ask you about Lee Harvey Oswald and did he act alone that terrible day in Dallas?
To get back to this particular case, Disney put in claims with the Burbank-based insurer...
Sure, the price tag of the $10 million or so dispute filed today in LA Superior Court isn’t that epic, However, the ramifications for a Hollywood still unsteady on its feet after the production shut-downs and lockdowns of the coronavirus could be immense. Already we’ve seen UTA and others get in pandemic dust-ups with their insurers, and if you think more lawsuits like this aren’t being prepped right now by other insurance companies, I have some questions to ask you about Lee Harvey Oswald and did he act alone that terrible day in Dallas?
To get back to this particular case, Disney put in claims with the Burbank-based insurer...
- 7/2/2021
- by Dominic Patten
- Deadline Film + TV
‘F9’ Film Review: Superheroes and Soap Opera Soaked in Gasoline and Testosterone, and It Still Works
Starting at about the fifth entry in the series, the “Fast and the Furious” saga zoomed past dealing with car thieves and drag races and went right into international-superspy territory. “F9” shows the strategy still succeeding, even if it makes zero sense that a gaggle of car fanatics with shady pasts is all the planet has to protect it from massive global cyberterrorism.
Don’t bother asking why said car fanatics are the only people sent to investigate a plane crash in a foreign country; “F9” won’t be providing answers to that, much less to how and why some of the crew go into actual outer space by the final reel. These films demand that you just roll with the cockamamie plots, and in return, Justin Lin will craft a breathtaking melee of automotive destruction that plays like Wile E. Coyote and M.C. Escher competing in the Cannonball Run.
Don’t bother asking why said car fanatics are the only people sent to investigate a plane crash in a foreign country; “F9” won’t be providing answers to that, much less to how and why some of the crew go into actual outer space by the final reel. These films demand that you just roll with the cockamamie plots, and in return, Justin Lin will craft a breathtaking melee of automotive destruction that plays like Wile E. Coyote and M.C. Escher competing in the Cannonball Run.
- 6/24/2021
- by Alonso Duralde
- The Wrap
Above: English-language festival poster for There Are Not Thirty-Six Ways of Showing a Man Getting on a Horse. Design by Marcelo Granero.So another nine months have gone by since I last did one of these round-ups. As I’ve been doing for many years, I have tallied up the most popular posters featured on my Movie Poster of the Day Instagram (previously Tumblr). The biggest surprise, not least to its designer, was the popularity of a festival poster for an experimental Argentinian film There Are Not Thirty-Six Ways of Showing a Man Getting on a Horse which has racked up some 2,335 likes to date and was the third most popular design I posted in the whole of 2020 (after the two Parasite posters that topped my last round-up). When I say it’s surprising it’s because film recognition tends to play a big part in the popularity of posts,...
- 3/5/2021
- MUBI
If you’re of a certain age, the mere mention of the name M.C. Escher can nudge you into a heady swirl of nostalgia. Robin Lutz’s joyful and kaleidoscopic documentary “M.C. Escher: Journey to Infinity” took me back to the days when I was in junior high in the early ’70s, and I would go downtown to visit the head shops and stores selling beads and waterbeds, and there, amid the R. Crumb comix and hash pipes and alternative newspapers and tie-dye T-shirts, you would see those jaw-dropping eye-popping posters, most of them in black-and-white, and you would stare at them until they seemed to be staring right back. They looked like melting geometric acid trips from an alternative earth.
A large staircase that folds around into a square, yet somehow keeps ascending. A puddle in the woods, reflecting the trees and sky with such clarity that the...
A large staircase that folds around into a square, yet somehow keeps ascending. A puddle in the woods, reflecting the trees and sky with such clarity that the...
- 2/9/2021
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
"Then he said, 'I'm not an artist. I'm a mathematician.'" Zeitgeist Films + Kino Lorber have debuted a new official US trailer for the entrancing art world documentary M.C. Escher: Journey Into Infinity, which is finally launching in the US in February after originally premiering in The Netherlands in 2018. The doc film tells the story of world famous Dutch graphic artist M.C Escher (who lived from 1898-1972). Equal parts history, psychology, and psychedelia, Robin Lutz's entertaining, eye-opening portrait gives us the man through his own words and images: diary musings, excerpts from lectures, correspondence and more are voiced by British actor Stephen Fry, while Escher’s woodcuts, lithographs, and other print works appear in both original and playfully altered form. I'm a big fan of M.C. Escher and his work! It looks like a fascinating examination of his life and his art, trying to pull back the...
- 12/18/2020
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Billie Eilish couldn't take viewers to an abandoned mall for her American Music Awards performance, so she did the next best thing: she built a mini maze on stage and brought her brother along! The "Therefore I Am" singer - who's nominated for two awards, including best social artist - performed her new song for the audience, keeping it simple as she walked through the series of hallways and sang along to her biting new single. The only other people on stage were a masked Finneas O'Connell on guitar and a similarly covered-up drummer.
There was a bit of an M.C. Escher moment when Billie climbed some stairs, dropped herself out a doorway, and appeared in another hallway, and it was so startling that the small audience cried out from the shock. If there were an award for the performance that left us a little shook, Billie would definitely be taking it home.
There was a bit of an M.C. Escher moment when Billie climbed some stairs, dropped herself out a doorway, and appeared in another hallway, and it was so startling that the small audience cried out from the shock. If there were an award for the performance that left us a little shook, Billie would definitely be taking it home.
- 11/23/2020
- by Mekishana Pierre
- Popsugar.com
The first wave of reviews is in for the most anticipated and mysterious release of 2020. While movigoers are still pleasantly unspoiled on just what exactly Christopher Nolan’s Tenet is about, or even what its title means, initial critical consensus is emerging less than a week out from the film’s international debut in markets that include the UK and other parts of Europe and Asia.
Depending on who you ask, the opinion ranges from this is a fine piece of eye-candy and Nolan brain-teasing to it’s evidence Nolan has devolved into self-parody. Intriguingly, all seem to agree that it not Nolan’s “masterpiece.”
Our own UK editor Rosie Fletcher was satisfied overall with the film’s visual wonder and audacity, even if she found it among the chillier and more impenetrable films Nolan’s made.
“When Tenet is at its best it’s frankly breathtaking and it’s...
Depending on who you ask, the opinion ranges from this is a fine piece of eye-candy and Nolan brain-teasing to it’s evidence Nolan has devolved into self-parody. Intriguingly, all seem to agree that it not Nolan’s “masterpiece.”
Our own UK editor Rosie Fletcher was satisfied overall with the film’s visual wonder and audacity, even if she found it among the chillier and more impenetrable films Nolan’s made.
“When Tenet is at its best it’s frankly breathtaking and it’s...
- 8/22/2020
- by David Crow
- Den of Geek
Although the PlayStation 5 is set to release this winter, we still know very little about it. Sony’s online press conference from a few weeks ago answered some burning questions, such as what the console will look like, and what titles we’ll be able to play on it, but many important things, like its price tag, still remain unknown.
Every day, though, we get a bit of new information from the company and now, Sony has teased not one, not two, but six new PlayStation 5 titles that we’ll be able to play come the end of the year. Sadly, there’s no Uncharted 5 or God of War 2, but they all look pretty promising and here’s a quick rundown.
First off we’ve got Haven. A cell-shaded production faintly reminiscent of Nintendo’s Zelda: Breath of the Wild, it follows two lovers who escaped a “forgotten planet” and...
Every day, though, we get a bit of new information from the company and now, Sony has teased not one, not two, but six new PlayStation 5 titles that we’ll be able to play come the end of the year. Sadly, there’s no Uncharted 5 or God of War 2, but they all look pretty promising and here’s a quick rundown.
First off we’ve got Haven. A cell-shaded production faintly reminiscent of Nintendo’s Zelda: Breath of the Wild, it follows two lovers who escaped a “forgotten planet” and...
- 7/3/2020
- by Tim Brinkhof
- We Got This Covered
In a good haunted-house thriller, architecture is destiny. Early on in “You Should Have Left,” when Theo (Kevin Bacon), a wealthy retired banker with a tabloid scandal in his past, shows up with his movie-actress wife, Susanna (Amanda Seyfried), and their six-year-old daughter, Ella (Avery Essex), at the vacation home they’ve rented for a getaway in the Welsh countryside, you know in your bones that you’re watching a variation on “The Shining.”
The creepy originality of the home design is part of it. Just as the fantastic, gargantuan, ski-lodge-gone-Native-American set for the Overlook Hotel was such a major dimension of Stanley Kubrick’s film, here we’re sucked in by the eccentric contours of a place that looks, from the outside, like a gray designer modernist Bauhaus Monopoly house. Inside, it’s a vast airy network of light gray brick and Scandinavian wood, with flickers of pastel, and...
The creepy originality of the home design is part of it. Just as the fantastic, gargantuan, ski-lodge-gone-Native-American set for the Overlook Hotel was such a major dimension of Stanley Kubrick’s film, here we’re sucked in by the eccentric contours of a place that looks, from the outside, like a gray designer modernist Bauhaus Monopoly house. Inside, it’s a vast airy network of light gray brick and Scandinavian wood, with flickers of pastel, and...
- 6/18/2020
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
Somewhere in the bowels of HBO right now, there is probably an executive smirking, “We have such sights to show you.” After all, the prospect of a big budget television adaptation of the Hellraiser franchise on the premium cable network would be a hell of a sight, indeed.
Deadline was the first to report HBO has made a deal to develop a Hellraiser TV series with some big names attached, including David Gordon Green at the top of the list. Green became a horror genre darling after successfully rebooting Halloween for its 40th anniversary in 2018 with a box office hit that brought Jamie Lee Curtis home to the franchise. And he’s now signed on to direct the Hellraiser pilot about Cenobites and Hellworlds as well as several more episodes of the show should it be ordered to series.
Joining Green as executive producers are Mark Verheiden and Michael Dougherty,...
Deadline was the first to report HBO has made a deal to develop a Hellraiser TV series with some big names attached, including David Gordon Green at the top of the list. Green became a horror genre darling after successfully rebooting Halloween for its 40th anniversary in 2018 with a box office hit that brought Jamie Lee Curtis home to the franchise. And he’s now signed on to direct the Hellraiser pilot about Cenobites and Hellworlds as well as several more episodes of the show should it be ordered to series.
Joining Green as executive producers are Mark Verheiden and Michael Dougherty,...
- 4/27/2020
- by David Crow
- Den of Geek
, Florian Zeller’s “The Father” envisions senility as a house of mirrors in which everyone loses sight of themselves. Adapted from Zeller’s award-winning play of the same name, and directed with a firm hand by the playwright himself, this M.C. Escher drawing of a movie chips away at the austerity of the Euro-dramas that inform its style until every shot betrays the promise of its objectivity, and reality itself becomes destabilized.
“The Father” is a slippery film in which even the most basic information can be vaporized in the span of a single cut, but there’s no ambiguity to the fact that Anthony Hopkins plays the title role. Anthony is not well, but even that much isn’t clear at first. For better or worse he still has the vim and vigor of a much younger man, but his mind is a leaky ship in search of a lighthouse surrounded by jagged rocks.
“The Father” is a slippery film in which even the most basic information can be vaporized in the span of a single cut, but there’s no ambiguity to the fact that Anthony Hopkins plays the title role. Anthony is not well, but even that much isn’t clear at first. For better or worse he still has the vim and vigor of a much younger man, but his mind is a leaky ship in search of a lighthouse surrounded by jagged rocks.
- 1/28/2020
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
My Hero Academia turns out one of the best episodes they’ve ever done as Mirio shows what it means to be a hero as he faces Overhaul.
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My Hero Academia Season 4 Episode 11
“I will become your hero!”
It’s very interesting when the creator of a series starts to fall in love with his new characters to the point that they want to champion them more than the original main character. It happens all the time, especially on shounen series like My Hero Academia that feature a large cast. I’m not saying that’s what happened here with Kohei Horikoshi, the creator of My Hero Academia, but there’s no denying that Izuku Midoriya has taken a backseat during many episodes of this season while other heroes get to shine.
Midoriya has also struggled with insecurity issues over how...
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My Hero Academia Season 4 Episode 11
“I will become your hero!”
It’s very interesting when the creator of a series starts to fall in love with his new characters to the point that they want to champion them more than the original main character. It happens all the time, especially on shounen series like My Hero Academia that feature a large cast. I’m not saying that’s what happened here with Kohei Horikoshi, the creator of My Hero Academia, but there’s no denying that Izuku Midoriya has taken a backseat during many episodes of this season while other heroes get to shine.
Midoriya has also struggled with insecurity issues over how...
- 12/28/2019
- Den of Geek
On an unseasonably warm October afternoon, in a basement in the historic Cooper Union Building in Manhattan, Ronan Farrow, flanked by a team of well-dressed publicists, is diligently signing books. It is Tuesday, the day of the book’s release, and he says it is the first time he has seen them laid out en masse in labyrinthine stacks, almost like an “M.C. Escher drawing,” he says.
Farrow is one of the last true cultural polymaths. He is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and the author of Catch and Kill,...
Farrow is one of the last true cultural polymaths. He is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and the author of Catch and Kill,...
- 10/17/2019
- by EJ Dickson
- Rollingstone.com
One of the coolest games I’ve played in recent years, Remedy’s Control lends itself to a world where anything is possible. Part The X-Files and part M.C. Escher, the game plays with reality in ways that keep gamers on their toes. As we previously wrote, the worlds of Control and Remedy’s 2010 title Alan Wake […]
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- 9/11/2019
- by Jonathan Barkan
- DreadCentral.com
When you consider the history of Control developer Remedy Entertainment and its string of innovative, highly regarded titles, it’s easy to think of Control as the Sideshow Mel of the video game world – it has some big shoes to fill. Not does Control fill those shoes, it bursts through the seams, standing (albeit in need of new shoes) as a beautiful, fun and innovative new IP that looks like a strong contender for game of the year.
Control follows the story of Jesse Faden’s arrival at the Federal Bureau of Control (Fbc) in search for answers about the whereabouts of her brother who was taken by the Fbc years earlier following an incident in their hometown. Things quickly take a turn for the inexplicable when Jesse find that the Bureau’s headquarters (The Oldest House) has been overrun by menacing otherworldly creatures known as The Hiss that have...
Control follows the story of Jesse Faden’s arrival at the Federal Bureau of Control (Fbc) in search for answers about the whereabouts of her brother who was taken by the Fbc years earlier following an incident in their hometown. Things quickly take a turn for the inexplicable when Jesse find that the Bureau’s headquarters (The Oldest House) has been overrun by menacing otherworldly creatures known as The Hiss that have...
- 8/26/2019
- by Jonathan Jones
- The Cultural Post
“American Heretics: The Politics of the Gospel” is a documentary about an idea that’s now such a contradiction in American culture that it has come to feel like an oxymoron, or maybe an M.C. Escher brain teaser: liberal Christianity. I mean liberal in the classic sense (per Webster’s: “marked by generosity…associated with ideals of individual especially economic freedom [and] greater individual participation in government”), and I also mean Christianity in the classic sense (the teachings of Jesus Christ). It’s far from counterintuitive to point out that those two things actually fit rather well together.
So why is the political face of Christianity in the United States today exclusively, and dogmatically, Republican? Is it because Jesus himself would have cheered on tax breaks for corporations? Or would have embraced New York Times headlines like “‘There is a Stench’: Soiled Clothes and No Baths for Migrant Children at...
So why is the political face of Christianity in the United States today exclusively, and dogmatically, Republican? Is it because Jesus himself would have cheered on tax breaks for corporations? Or would have embraced New York Times headlines like “‘There is a Stench’: Soiled Clothes and No Baths for Migrant Children at...
- 7/10/2019
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
CBS Television Studios is producing the new "Frankenstein" TV series pilot "Alive, directed by Uta Briesewitz, starring Ryan Phillippe as 'M.C. Escher', a San Francisco cop who mysteriously returns to life after being killed in the line of duty, co-starring Katrina Law ("Spartacus") as medical examiner 'Elizabeth' and Aaron Staton ("Mad Men") as 'Victor Frankenstein':
"...the story follows 'Escher' after his 'resurrection', haunted, like 'RoboCop' by visions from the case leading up to his untimely death.
"As Escher begins to investigate who killed him and how he came back to life, Elizabeth suspects her ex-boyfriend Victor of being involved, with the brilliant scientist on the run from the Chinese government..."
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"...the story follows 'Escher' after his 'resurrection', haunted, like 'RoboCop' by visions from the case leading up to his untimely death.
"As Escher begins to investigate who killed him and how he came back to life, Elizabeth suspects her ex-boyfriend Victor of being involved, with the brilliant scientist on the run from the Chinese government..."
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- 3/26/2019
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
Einstein famously said that “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” I wonder if ol’ Albert would’ve changed his mind after giving Dark Souls a whirl, then? I say this because so many aspects of From Software’s intensely revered action-rpg riffs on this distinct ‘if at first you don’t succeed, try, try again’ motif.
From the game’s constantly resetting enemy positions to the unendingly cyclical nature of its narrative, to the interlocking M.C. Escher-esque world of Lordran, it’s the thoughtful blending of all these disparate elements into an electrifyingly addictive gameplay loop that sits at the heart of this brutally unforgiving experience. Delightfully, all this trying, trying again has been made a hell of a lot easier with Virtuoso’s latest port to Nintendo Switch (the China-based developer also ported L.A. Noire to the big N’s hybrid console).
In essence,...
From the game’s constantly resetting enemy positions to the unendingly cyclical nature of its narrative, to the interlocking M.C. Escher-esque world of Lordran, it’s the thoughtful blending of all these disparate elements into an electrifyingly addictive gameplay loop that sits at the heart of this brutally unforgiving experience. Delightfully, all this trying, trying again has been made a hell of a lot easier with Virtuoso’s latest port to Nintendo Switch (the China-based developer also ported L.A. Noire to the big N’s hybrid console).
In essence,...
- 10/18/2018
- by Dylan Chaundy
- We Got This Covered
From its opening shot onward, Sam Esmail’s “Homecoming” is designed to throw you off-kilter. What appears to be a palm tree in the night sky is quickly revealed to be a decoration inside a fish tank. That fish tank is within an office, and that office is within a compound. But where’s the compound, and what are they doing in there? Who’s watching and why? Subversion runs rampant throughout Esmail’s joyfully paranoid first four episodes, as the “Mr. Robot” creator builds a universe where keeping your head on a swivel is as instrumental as acknowledging what’s right in front of your face. Forged from inventive long takes and killer audio cues, the upcoming Amazon original series feels like Alfred Hitchcock has made a new mystery, and it’s a deliciously good time.
Based on the podcast of the same name (and written for the screen...
Based on the podcast of the same name (and written for the screen...
- 9/7/2018
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
From the start, “Adventure Time” was at war with its own potential. Creator Pendleton Ward transformed the format of an animated children’s show into a poetic rumination on childhood, merging geeky sensibilities with sophisticated imagery and a freewheeling mythology with no real parallel in popular culture. It was a transformative approach to all-ages entertainment, but it was also too good to last.
In between its zany punchlines, the show had profound things to say about Cartoon Network’s core audience of drooling toddlers and hyperactive pre-teens — as well as the adult nostalgia for those halcyon days. But none of that fits in a marketing box, and as ratings dwindled, Ward left the show after Season 5. Showrunner Adam Muto kept the DNA intact, but “Adventure Time” faded into oblivion by the time it was officially canceled in early 2017. Since then, episodes have been released in short bursts, with tiny narrative...
In between its zany punchlines, the show had profound things to say about Cartoon Network’s core audience of drooling toddlers and hyperactive pre-teens — as well as the adult nostalgia for those halcyon days. But none of that fits in a marketing box, and as ratings dwindled, Ward left the show after Season 5. Showrunner Adam Muto kept the DNA intact, but “Adventure Time” faded into oblivion by the time it was officially canceled in early 2017. Since then, episodes have been released in short bursts, with tiny narrative...
- 8/27/2018
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
Of the five games that I have installed on my phone, the enigmatic puzzler Monument Valley from Ustwo Games in one of them. In the game, players must lead a princess through a series of optical illusions and M.C. Escher-style mazes with the goal of seeking forgiveness for the pointy-hatted patrician. Throughout her journey, the princess uses magical objects to maneuver her way past sacred geometry, all while... Read More...
- 8/23/2018
- by Steve Seigh
- JoBlo.com
Three data points do not make a trend, and therefore I may be wrong on this. However, after perusing the series of potential posters for Terry Gilliam's The Man Who Killed Do Quixote, one of them stood out immediately as a familiar sight. It is the 'vortex' styled one (below), that features Quixote and Sancho Panza...er...Adam Driver's Toby looking into the spiralled M.C. Escher version of the medieval Spain. Back in January, when the key art for Justin Benson & Aaron Moorhead's cult drama-scifi The Endless debuted online, there was immediate chatter about how exciting the deign. So much so that a few weeks ago, that when our own Ard Vijn asked the question of 'What is your favourite Movie Poster Of All Time?' as...
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- 8/3/2018
- Screen Anarchy
(The mother all spoiler alerts: Please do not read ahead unless you’ve seen the “Westworld” Season 2 finale, “The Passenger,” which aired Sunday.)
Well, after an ending like that, where do we even begin?
“Westworld” brought its second season to a close Sunday night with a feature-length finale that threw us completely off our programmed loop. But while the episode, titled “The Passenger,” answered many a question we’d been pondering throughout the sophomore year of co-creator Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy’s HBO sci-fi series, it left us with a whole new mess of head-scratchers.
Also Read: 'Westworld' Season 3: Here's Everything We Know Right Now
Seeing as we are still very much in Tbd territory on an air date for the third season, we’ve got a long wait in store before we can stop scratching ours heads. But to help, TheWrap caught up with Joy...
Well, after an ending like that, where do we even begin?
“Westworld” brought its second season to a close Sunday night with a feature-length finale that threw us completely off our programmed loop. But while the episode, titled “The Passenger,” answered many a question we’d been pondering throughout the sophomore year of co-creator Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy’s HBO sci-fi series, it left us with a whole new mess of head-scratchers.
Also Read: 'Westworld' Season 3: Here's Everything We Know Right Now
Seeing as we are still very much in Tbd territory on an air date for the third season, we’ve got a long wait in store before we can stop scratching ours heads. But to help, TheWrap caught up with Joy...
- 6/25/2018
- by Jennifer Maas
- The Wrap
So Easter’s just around the corner, and most kids are already enjoying that great Spring-time break from school. So where are the “all ages” movies at the multiplex? Those fightin’ giant robots may be a bit too violent for the wee ones (the same could be said of a trip to Wakanda). And that “Time Wrinkle” is a quite a “snoozefest”(if it’s still playing “first run”). Peter Rabbit and Paddington may have hopped and scampered away, on the road to VOD and DVD. Before the Incredibles return, how about a sequel to a modest kid flick from seven years ago? Wish granted as the lovebirds from 2011’s Gnomeo And Juliet are back, and they’re not alone. Another famous literary property (in the public domain, too) joins the talking ceramics fun. As he states several times in the film, he’s the world’s greatest detective And the protector of gnomes everywhere.
- 3/23/2018
- by Jim Batts
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
The third season of “Channel Zero” is almost here, and the latest installment of the Syfy series looks like a terrifying vision that Upton Sinclair and M.C. Escher would both be proud of.
“Channel Zero: Butcher’s Block” will continue in the series tradition, drawing from a popular viral Creepypasta tale. This time, Kerry Hammond’s “Search and Rescue Woods” is the inspiration for a season that follows Alice (Olivia Luccardi), a young woman struggling with an ominous threat to her newly adopted city. As she begins to investigate stories of impossibly constructed staircases, she discovers that that might be connected to some eerie neighborhood disappearances.
As this exclusive first look of the new season shows, that danger might have to do something with Alice’s older sister Zoe (Holland Roden) slowly being submerged into a bathtub filled with blood. Toss in a devious, bespectacled Rutger Hauer and a handful...
“Channel Zero: Butcher’s Block” will continue in the series tradition, drawing from a popular viral Creepypasta tale. This time, Kerry Hammond’s “Search and Rescue Woods” is the inspiration for a season that follows Alice (Olivia Luccardi), a young woman struggling with an ominous threat to her newly adopted city. As she begins to investigate stories of impossibly constructed staircases, she discovers that that might be connected to some eerie neighborhood disappearances.
As this exclusive first look of the new season shows, that danger might have to do something with Alice’s older sister Zoe (Holland Roden) slowly being submerged into a bathtub filled with blood. Toss in a devious, bespectacled Rutger Hauer and a handful...
- 1/4/2018
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
[Editor’s Note: The following review contains spoilers for “Rick and Morty” Season 3, Episode 8, “Morty’s Mind Blowers.”]
One of the joys of “Rick and Morty” is that there’s no standard Rick and Morty adventure. As last week proved, there’s no concrete shortcut to a classic episode, no formula to ensure success with this group of characters. So after the gut-wrenching, soul-crushing madness of last week’s “The Ricklantis Mixup,” it would be easy to write off a subsequent clip-show curveball as a necessary breather before heading back into a more serialized story. Instead, this week’s “Morty’s Mind Blowers” laid the the groundwork for a new kind of one-off. While not the Season 3 game-changer that recent weeks have ushered in, it took an established format and twisted it to the usual fiendish “Rick and Morty” ends.
For a series that delights in its visual inventiveness, it’s hard to believe that this was the first time “Rick and Morty” ventured into the M.C. Escher zone,...
One of the joys of “Rick and Morty” is that there’s no standard Rick and Morty adventure. As last week proved, there’s no concrete shortcut to a classic episode, no formula to ensure success with this group of characters. So after the gut-wrenching, soul-crushing madness of last week’s “The Ricklantis Mixup,” it would be easy to write off a subsequent clip-show curveball as a necessary breather before heading back into a more serialized story. Instead, this week’s “Morty’s Mind Blowers” laid the the groundwork for a new kind of one-off. While not the Season 3 game-changer that recent weeks have ushered in, it took an established format and twisted it to the usual fiendish “Rick and Morty” ends.
For a series that delights in its visual inventiveness, it’s hard to believe that this was the first time “Rick and Morty” ventured into the M.C. Escher zone,...
- 9/18/2017
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
The late M.C. Escher, the Dutch artist whose recursive graphics continue to trip out fans, never got to diagram the dysfunctional relationship between online publishers and Google. But my, what fun he would have had drawing the latest turn of events here. Irony has piled on irony in a circle of confusion only an Escher could hope to portray.
To begin with, the battered publishing industry is asking for an antitrust exemption so it can band together to better negotiate with Google. Publishers say they need the exemption because Google has built a near-impregnable position astride the lucrative business of search-based advertising. That position exists because there are gaping holes in the very same, wildly outdated antitrust laws from which the publishers are seeking an exemption.
On top of that, the news organizations seek an exemption from a Congress and, especially, an administration that have been notably hostile to the media’s mere existence.
To begin with, the battered publishing industry is asking for an antitrust exemption so it can band together to better negotiate with Google. Publishers say they need the exemption because Google has built a near-impregnable position astride the lucrative business of search-based advertising. That position exists because there are gaping holes in the very same, wildly outdated antitrust laws from which the publishers are seeking an exemption.
On top of that, the news organizations seek an exemption from a Congress and, especially, an administration that have been notably hostile to the media’s mere existence.
- 7/17/2017
- by David Bloom
- Tubefilter.com
Craig Lines Jul 5, 2017
Saboteur? BMX Ninja? Ninja Golf? Shadow Warriors? The Last Ninja? We dissect the ninja videogames of the 1980s...
When I was a kid, I picked what I wanted to be when I grew up based on computer games rather than actual life experience. First, thanks to Lunar Jetman, I wanted to be an astronaut. Then Elevator Action and Impossible Mission convinced me a spy would be an even cooler job. Winter Games and, uh, Horace Goes Skiing made me think I had a shot at the Olympic Slalom. By the time I got to playing Tapper, running a redneck bar that only served Budweiser to furious cowboys looked like a solid option too.
I didn’t end up doing any of those things in real life, but one thing I did pick up from gaming that’s never gone away was an obsession with ninjas. At the...
Saboteur? BMX Ninja? Ninja Golf? Shadow Warriors? The Last Ninja? We dissect the ninja videogames of the 1980s...
When I was a kid, I picked what I wanted to be when I grew up based on computer games rather than actual life experience. First, thanks to Lunar Jetman, I wanted to be an astronaut. Then Elevator Action and Impossible Mission convinced me a spy would be an even cooler job. Winter Games and, uh, Horace Goes Skiing made me think I had a shot at the Olympic Slalom. By the time I got to playing Tapper, running a redneck bar that only served Budweiser to furious cowboys looked like a solid option too.
I didn’t end up doing any of those things in real life, but one thing I did pick up from gaming that’s never gone away was an obsession with ninjas. At the...
- 6/27/2017
- Den of Geek
From the movie review site The GoodTheBadandTheUgly.Ca, take a look @ "the good, the bad and the ugly" in director Scott Derrickson's Marvel Studios' feature "Doctor Strange", starring Benedict Cumberbatch:
Michael Stevens/SneakPeek.Ca For The Good
"'By the Hoary Hosts of Hoggoth', as an early fan of "Marvel Comics' 'Strange Tales", I was more than willing to 'open my mind to the endless impossibilities' of the IMAX 3D world of 'Doctor Strange'.
"...immediately entranced by the M.C. Escher-like VFX, complete with loopy, angled landscapes and bending skylines...
"...amused by droll Benedict Cumberbatch as 'Stephen Strange'...
"...chilled by madman Mads Mikkelsen as 'Kaecilius'...
"...and enlightened by the radiant Tilda Swinton as 'The Ancient One'.
"'By The Shades Of The Seraphim', I also enjoyed the sentient 'Cloak Of Levitation'...
"...and all of the hand-waving, finger-gesturing flourishes...
"...reminding me of the mystical energy in John Carpenter...
Michael Stevens/SneakPeek.Ca For The Good
"'By the Hoary Hosts of Hoggoth', as an early fan of "Marvel Comics' 'Strange Tales", I was more than willing to 'open my mind to the endless impossibilities' of the IMAX 3D world of 'Doctor Strange'.
"...immediately entranced by the M.C. Escher-like VFX, complete with loopy, angled landscapes and bending skylines...
"...amused by droll Benedict Cumberbatch as 'Stephen Strange'...
"...chilled by madman Mads Mikkelsen as 'Kaecilius'...
"...and enlightened by the radiant Tilda Swinton as 'The Ancient One'.
"'By The Shades Of The Seraphim', I also enjoyed the sentient 'Cloak Of Levitation'...
"...and all of the hand-waving, finger-gesturing flourishes...
"...reminding me of the mystical energy in John Carpenter...
- 11/26/2016
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
With “Doctor Strange,” Marvel entered the supernatural realm for the first time, requiring a new set of VFX tricks for Benedict Cumberbatch’s arrogant wizard. They not only found inspiration in “Doctor Strange” comic book artist Steve Ditko’s psychedelic tropes but also Christopher Nolan’s Oscar-winning “Inception” effect of bending and folding buildings.
“It was about creating new worlds and magic, going from simple ring shields to portals opening to other dimensions to entire cities being bent to time going backwards,” VFX production supervisor Stephane Ceretti told IndieWire.
There are three major dimensional worlds — Mirror Dimension, Dark Dimension and Astral Realm — each requiring different looks. And Strange’s introduction was called “Magical Mystery Tour” (with VFX created by Method), a film-within-the-film psychedelic journey, leveraging Ditko’s artwork, for starters, where Strange gets pushed out of his body into worm holes and various kaleidoscopic shapes.
“Charles Wood, the production designer,...
“It was about creating new worlds and magic, going from simple ring shields to portals opening to other dimensions to entire cities being bent to time going backwards,” VFX production supervisor Stephane Ceretti told IndieWire.
There are three major dimensional worlds — Mirror Dimension, Dark Dimension and Astral Realm — each requiring different looks. And Strange’s introduction was called “Magical Mystery Tour” (with VFX created by Method), a film-within-the-film psychedelic journey, leveraging Ditko’s artwork, for starters, where Strange gets pushed out of his body into worm holes and various kaleidoscopic shapes.
“Charles Wood, the production designer,...
- 11/14/2016
- by Bill Desowitz
- Indiewire
Chicago – We’ve reached a point where comic book films are no longer a scarcity, but an eventuality. With several coming out every year, each one competes for our attention even though the originality behind their approach has the opposite effect. A great cinematic fatigue is almost upon us, but “Doctor Strange” shows a promising deviation that could possibly alter the franchise’s fate.
Rating: 4.0/5.0
Director and co-writer Scott Derrickson assembles a team of writers (Jon Spaihts and C. Robert Cargill) that best compliment his horror background and that would be needed to create this previously unexplored comic book world. Derrickson successfully blends the needed gravity (both the force of nature and the serious tone) the material calls for with a unifying sense of levity that interconnects every Marvel film. The film still agonizingly suffers from the predictable hero origin story that we have seen done so many times before,...
Rating: 4.0/5.0
Director and co-writer Scott Derrickson assembles a team of writers (Jon Spaihts and C. Robert Cargill) that best compliment his horror background and that would be needed to create this previously unexplored comic book world. Derrickson successfully blends the needed gravity (both the force of nature and the serious tone) the material calls for with a unifying sense of levity that interconnects every Marvel film. The film still agonizingly suffers from the predictable hero origin story that we have seen done so many times before,...
- 11/4/2016
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
We’re just two days out from Doctor Strange hitting theaters all over the United States (with some screenings arriving tomorrow evening). The film has already been pulling in some decent cash overseas after hitting plenty of international territories last weekend, and it’s bound to have a good weekend at the domestic box office as well. […]
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- 11/2/2016
- by Ethan Anderton
- Slash Film
Any other actor in a high-collared burgundy cape and goatee would risk looking like a lounge magician. But Benedict Cumberbatch is so unmannered, so smart, so playful, he makes the title character of Doctor Strange one of the best Marvel movie superheroes yet.
Stephen Strange, a neurosurgeon whose hands have been mangled in a car accident, travels to Nepal to seek out a mysterious healer, the Ancient One. She’s played by a bald Tilda Swinton with timeless wisdom and a rather alluring British reserve, something like a cross between Yoda and Anna Wintour. (This non-Asian incarnation, which prompted some...
Stephen Strange, a neurosurgeon whose hands have been mangled in a car accident, travels to Nepal to seek out a mysterious healer, the Ancient One. She’s played by a bald Tilda Swinton with timeless wisdom and a rather alluring British reserve, something like a cross between Yoda and Anna Wintour. (This non-Asian incarnation, which prompted some...
- 11/1/2016
- by tgliatto
- PEOPLE.com
With only a solitary passing mention of The Avengers, Doctor Strange is as stand-alone an adventure as we will get from Marvel — prior to a mid-credits sequence, at least. As explained by a master of the mystic arts, Wong (Benedict Wong), the Zen-exuding good guys here are meant to protect a mystical realm outside the physical one we’ve seen endangered thirteen times prior in the McU. This higher, inherently more important calling pleads for more demanding visual effects, and it comes in psychedelic spades throughout director Scott Derrickson’s origin story. But despite all the aesthetic glee tied to infinite dimensions and symmetrically-collapsing architecture, the “origin” of Doctor Strange feels disappointingly rote and the “story” is little more than a series of groovy platitudes relayed to Benedict Cumberbatch as he jumps around the universe — or, more accurately, two-to-three primary locations.
Admittedly, such reflections on life, death, space, and time...
Admittedly, such reflections on life, death, space, and time...
- 10/31/2016
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Louisa Mellor Oct 19, 2016
30 years after Jim Henson’s much-loved Labyrinth was released, we chat to concept designer Brian Froud...
As Labyrinth celebrates its 30th birthday with a posh new disc release and visual history book, we spoke to the man from whose mind sprang its evocative character and world designs.
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Artist Brian Froud, famed for his paintings of folkloric creatures, was first invited to work with Jim Henson on 1982 puppet fantasy The Dark Crystal. That led to live-action-puppet musical Labyrinth, and would have continued to a troll-themed feature film had Henson not sadly passed away before work on their third collaboration could begin.
Read on to hear Froud discuss the proposed sequels to the films he made with Henson, the one scene he really,...
30 years after Jim Henson’s much-loved Labyrinth was released, we chat to concept designer Brian Froud...
As Labyrinth celebrates its 30th birthday with a posh new disc release and visual history book, we spoke to the man from whose mind sprang its evocative character and world designs.
See related Nintendo Nx is Nintendo Switch: announcement trailer Nintendo Nx will offer "a different experience" says Ubisoft boss Nintendo Nx is a "home console or handheld device" it's confirmed
Artist Brian Froud, famed for his paintings of folkloric creatures, was first invited to work with Jim Henson on 1982 puppet fantasy The Dark Crystal. That led to live-action-puppet musical Labyrinth, and would have continued to a troll-themed feature film had Henson not sadly passed away before work on their third collaboration could begin.
Read on to hear Froud discuss the proposed sequels to the films he made with Henson, the one scene he really,...
- 10/17/2016
- Den of Geek
The multiplex has been all about a certain science-fiction feature film franchise of late. I’m speaking of all the hoopla last December with the release of Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens (and it’s started up again for the stand alone flick Rogue One: A Star Wars Story). And the year before that, 2014, the big buzz was about the new planet-hoppin’ series from Marvel Studios, Guardians Of The Galaxy (a sequel touches down next May). Somehow, the grand-daddy (or maybe the older uncle) has been neglected. Star Trek has been drifting in the cinema cosmos for over three years. In 2009 Paramount Studios recruited J.J. Abrams to reboot the films with younger versions of the characters from the original TV show (and first seven features). Four years later they were back, with Abrams directing once more, for Star Trek: Into Darkness. Soon after its release, he was whisked into that galaxy far,...
- 7/22/2016
- by Jim Batts
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Like all the best fairy tales, Jim Henson’s 1986 film Labyrinth is a much more grown-up effort than its fantasy trappings let on. Sure, it’s directed by the man who introduced both The Muppets and Sesame Street to the world, but don’t be fooled by all of the puppets and cute creatures and catchy songs: this is a film geared at children but actually about the end of childhood. Bittersweet, that.
On its face, Labyrinth offers a traditional take on the hero’s journey codified by Joseph Campbell: Jennifer Connelly’s sixteen-year-old Sarah wishes her baby brother would be taken away by Goblin King Jareth (the late, great David Bowie) and, when he is, must travel to a fantasy realm to rescue him. On a deeper and darker level, however, the screenplay by Monty Python’s own Terry Jones is the story of a young woman maturing into an adult,...
On its face, Labyrinth offers a traditional take on the hero’s journey codified by Joseph Campbell: Jennifer Connelly’s sixteen-year-old Sarah wishes her baby brother would be taken away by Goblin King Jareth (the late, great David Bowie) and, when he is, must travel to a fantasy realm to rescue him. On a deeper and darker level, however, the screenplay by Monty Python’s own Terry Jones is the story of a young woman maturing into an adult,...
- 7/15/2016
- by Patrick Bromley
- DailyDead
Stephen Harber Jul 14, 2016
Low on nightmare fuel? Fill up your tank by reliving your scariest memories from The Real Ghostbusters, a truly twisted 80s cartoon...
The Real Ghostbusters was a pretty messed-up cartoon sometimes. I think that’s one of life’s universal truths. I’m not quite sure why the world needed an unholy amalgam of anime, cheesy 80s synth music, and mind-bending eldritch horror with a chiselled version of Bill Murray on top. But it did, and it still feels so right to this day.
Video of The Real Ghostbusters: Intro and Closing (without credits) [HD]
Ah, Dic Enterprises. What would my childhood have been without you? Well, for starters, I suppose I wouldn't have been terrified of the cartoon demons you dreamt up in your Real Ghostbusters cartoon, you sadistic monsters!
Ahem. Sorry, I didn’t mean to snap. It’s just… Rgb (as the hardcore fans...
Low on nightmare fuel? Fill up your tank by reliving your scariest memories from The Real Ghostbusters, a truly twisted 80s cartoon...
The Real Ghostbusters was a pretty messed-up cartoon sometimes. I think that’s one of life’s universal truths. I’m not quite sure why the world needed an unholy amalgam of anime, cheesy 80s synth music, and mind-bending eldritch horror with a chiselled version of Bill Murray on top. But it did, and it still feels so right to this day.
Video of The Real Ghostbusters: Intro and Closing (without credits) [HD]
Ah, Dic Enterprises. What would my childhood have been without you? Well, for starters, I suppose I wouldn't have been terrified of the cartoon demons you dreamt up in your Real Ghostbusters cartoon, you sadistic monsters!
Ahem. Sorry, I didn’t mean to snap. It’s just… Rgb (as the hardcore fans...
- 7/13/2016
- Den of Geek
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