#Adam Egypt Mortimer

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Daniel Isn't Real // Adam Egypt Mortimer // 2019

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Daniel Isn’t Real (2019) dir. Adam Egypt Mortimer

MILES ROBBINS as Luke Nightingale

“I'm a tad insane, but I promise you won't forget me.”

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Monster from Daniel Isn't Real. Marker on sketch paper.

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W A T C H I N G

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DANIEL ISN'T REAL Adam Egypt Mortimer USA, 2019

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MILES ROBBINS as LUKE NIGHTINGALE

Daniel Isn't Real (2019) dir. Adam Egypt Mortimer

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Miles Robbins as Luke Nightingale Daniel Isn't Real (2019) dir. Adam Egypt Mortimer

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Glenn Howerton as "The Manager"

Archenemy (2020 dir. Adam Egypt Mortimer)

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It's like a half finished thesis and a little bit incoherent but fuck it goes hard and raw.

The ghost in Some Kind of Hate really goes harder than almost all others.

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Well, today's scary movie was an interesting one. I'll start out by saying, if talent and/or acting chops are somehow passed down by heredity, Miles Robbins definitely has the talent and chops you'd expect from the son of Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins. :-D

And Patrick Schwarzenegger has pretty much the talent and chops you'd expect from the son of Arnold Schwarzenegger. :-/

Daniel Isn't Real was written by Adam Egypt Mortimer (who also directed) and Brian DeLeeuw, based on DeLeeuw's novel In This Way I Was Saved. In this psycho-horror, college freshman Luke (Robbins) calls forth the support of his childhood imaginary friend (Schwarzenegger) in order to cope with his social awkwardness at school and family trauma at home.

This movie opens with a horrifying bang (literally) as six-year-old Luke (this child actor is painfully cute) witnesses a bloody crime scene, where he meets his new best friend, Daniel. Soon enough Daniel causes the kind of trouble that makes Luke's mother insist he is no longer welcome, and Luke "locks him up in Grandma's dollhouse." Years later, Luke is lonely at school, and his mother (Mary Masterson) is unraveling at home in a spiral of mental illness. In desperation, Luke unlocks the dollhouse and Daniel returns, helping him develop a smooth patter with the ladies, give comeuppance to his annoying dormmate, and develop his artistic skill. Eventually, it all goes wrong.

The film's "is Daniel a manifestation of Luke's new-blooming schizophrenia, or is Daniel somehow a real entity?" premise is so unsettling, and the slow reveal of good-buddy Daniel as an agent of chaos, violence, and cruelty is truly terrifying (despite the fact Daniel dresses like a douchecanoe and Schwarzenegger's performance is fairly one-note). Miles Robbins gives a tour de force performance that is endlessly engaging and brilliantly nuanced. The rules of the film were clear enough that what could have been a very confusing story is easy to follow (Daniel can occupy Luke's body, and does, and this is handled well, as are the sequences in the metaphorical prison of Luke's mind). In the first act I was tempted to label this one Gen Z Fight Club, but any comparisons are. . .well, I think they're legitimate, but probably a little too cute.

If you love a psychological horror--with some demonic overtones and creature design right out of a painting by Hieronymous Bosch--this film is for you. There is some body horror and a not insignificant amount of blood, as well as violence the filmmaker doesn't shy away from (apparently this is my Month Of Realistic Stabbings), but you can watch through yr fingers, because this movie is absolutely worth the time.

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The Cleopatras - BBC Two - January 19, 1983 - March 9, 1983

Historical Drama (8 episodes)

Running Time: 60 minutes

The Cleopatras:

Michelle Newell as Cleopatra III and Cleopatra VII

Elizabeth Shepherd as Cleopatra II

Caroline Mortimer as Cleopatra Thea

Prue Clarke as Cleopatra Selene

Sue Holderness as Cleopatra IV

Pauline Moran as Cleopatra Berenike

Amanda Boxer as Cleopatra Tryphaena, Queen of Syria

Emily Richard as Cleopatra Tryphaena, Queen of Egypt

Francesca Gonshaw as Arsinoe IV

The Ptolemies:

Richard Griffiths as Potbelly

David Horovitch as Chickpea

Daniel Beales as Ptolemy XIII

Adam Bareham as Fluter

Lauren Beales as Ptolemy XV

Gary Carp as Eupator

Graham Seed as Ptolemy

Sadik Soussi as Memphites

Ian McNeice as Alexander

David Purcell as Alexander the Younger

Shelagh McLeod as Berenike IV

Francesca Gonshaw as Princess Arsinoe

Graham Crowden as Theodotus

Romans:

Robert Hardy as Julius Caesar

Christopher Neame as Mark Antony

Geoffrey Whitehead as Scipio Africanus

Donald Pickering as Lucius Licinius Lucullus

Phillip Cade as Gnaeus Pompey

Rupert Frazer as Octavian

Manning Wilson as Cicero

Godfrey James as Cato

Matthew Long as Ahenobarbus

Graham Pountney as Archelaus

Patrick Troughton as Sextus

Karen Archer as Octavia

The Seleucids:

Stephen Greif as Demetrius

James Aubrey as Grypus

Nicholas Geake as Seleucus

Colin Higgins as Seleucus

Donald MacIver as Alexander Zebinas

Granville Saxton as Cyzicenus

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Song of the day: September 16 2024

White People For Peace by Against Me!

About Against Me!:

Against Me! is an American punk rock band, formed in 1997 in Naples, Florida, by singer and guitarist Laura Jane Grace. That same year, Grace moved to Gainesville, Florida, which is considered the band's hometown. Since 2001, the band's lineup has also included guitarist James Bowman. After releasing three studio albums through independent record labels, Against Me! moved to Sire Records for 2007's New Wave, which reached no. 57 on the Billboard 200. In 2011, the band launched the record label Total Treble.

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About White People For Peace:

An anti war song by Florida punk band Against Me!

White People for Peace was first released as a 7" vinyl single in May 2007. The single also included the song Full Sesh. Both songs were then included in the band’s fourth studio album New Wave with White People For Peace being the album’s fourth track, and Full Sesh being a bonus track on the deluxe edition.

The song’s music video was directed by Adam Egypt Mortimer. In video two teams of men in gasmasks fight each other on a football field. Cheerleaders cheer and a politian encourages the fight. One lone protester is shown, he is potrayed as sickly, to reflect how weak his voice is in society.

(Via genius.com)

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Daniel Isn't Real (2019) dir. Adam Egypt Mortimer

"Oh my sweetheart, your blood spilled crimson."

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Fantasy  Horror  Mystery

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Hmm, I have a whole bunch of comfort movies.

Buckaroo Banzai is formative, and I think Night of the Living Dead changed my life; but I used to re-watch the original Dawn of the Dead like monthly.

May (2002) was a great go to anticomfort for awhile, like it hurt so much to watch I could watch it when I felt inconsolable and use it to rail my depression out along the movie tracks. And then 12 Hour Shift, also with Angela Bettis in the lead role, came along and has been a joy to watch.

Adam Wingard's classics You're Next and The Guest are so good I can lose myself in them. Still waiting for him to come up for air from tentpole CGI movies and make more like them, or at least something that's better than him directing 100 pages of producer notes.

Also in the guys named Adam category is Adam Egypt Mortimer whose Some Kind of Hate, Daniel Isn't Real, and Archenemy are like trifecta of total joy, though Archenemy is the one I always seem to lean on the most.

I try to watch Everyly every year because I think it's time to replace "Die Hard" in the "ha ha the action movie is also an Xmas movie" category. Frankly not only is Everly better than Die Hard, and not only is Salma Hayek a better actor than Bruce Willis but it's a pure bonkers action movie that goes harder than almost a anything I've seen. It fills me with glee.

Critters and Critters 2 also make me unreasonably happy. They're along with Demon Knight with movies that have no right to be any good but are so much fun and such rightly written films, they're never anywhere on anyone's radar unless you like horror.

Also also Happy Death Day is like so good it's just a perfect film and I cry big ugly tears every time I watch it, which is a lot. Just, you know a bunch of stuff.

List 7 comfort movies. Tag 7 people.

Tagged by @tehjai who already tagged a lot of the people I would have who then in turned tagged a lot of the people I would have who -

I should've been faster on the trigger I guess

Now, the list: Tron Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan Batman (1989 version) Terminator 2 Wall-E Ghost in the Shell Wallace and Gromit (any one of them) Equilibrium Tagging @saesama, @scalefeathers, @sasslett, @eorzeanflowers, @mremaknu, @yzeltia, and wildcard @cipheramnesia because I want some chaos in my life.

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DANIEL ISN’T REAL (2019) dir. Adam Egypt Mortimer