#Casper Kelly

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𝐓𝐨𝐨 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐂𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬 (𝐀𝐝𝐮𝐥𝐭 𝐒𝐰𝐢𝐦 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟒)

𝐃𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫: 𝐂𝐚𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐫 𝐊𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐲

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THE SCOOBY DOO PROJECT (1999) Dir. Steve Patrick & Casper Kelly

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This holiday's hottest new movie is Adult Swim Yule Log aka The Fireplace. This movie has everything: hillbilly serial killers, haunted yule logs, a cabin in the woods, cults, silver aliens, edibles, time altering demons, and pimento cheese.

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Adult Swim Yule Log/The Fireplace (2022) dir. Casper Kelly

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Celebrate 50 Years of Star Trek Animation with the Launch of Star Trek: very Short Treks

The first of five 'very Short Treks' to debut on Star Trek Day 2023 along with the first chapter of a new comic book!

Star Trek continues its salute to the 50th anniversary of Star Trek: The Animated Series with the launch of Star Trek: very Short Treks, five all-new animated promotional shorts, and the new comic book, Star Trek: The Animated Celebration Presents The Scheimer Barrier, both debuting on Friday, September 8 as part of the annual Star Trek Day global celebration.

Previously announced Star Trek Day programming and events can be found at StarTrek.com/Day.

CBS Studios is launching Star Trek: very Short Treks, a series of all-new animated promotional spots in the style of Star Trek: The Animated Series.

The very Short Treks will feature previously announced fan-favorite characters voiced by cast members from across the Star Trek universe, including icons Jonathan Frakes as Will Riker, Doug Jones as Saru and Armin Shimerman as Quark, and a new line-up of exciting voices, including Ethan Peck as Spock, Gates McFadden as Dr. Beverly Crusher, Celia Rose Gooding as Uhura, Connor Trinneer as Trip Tucker, Bruce Horak as Hemmer, Noël Wells as Tendi and the legendary George Takei as Sulu.

Star Trek: very Short Treks comes from creative consultant Casper Kelly, best known for the viral smash hit Too Many Cooks and his work on Star Trek: Short Treks and Adult Swim. The first animated spot will launch on Star Trek Day, September 8, exclusively on StarTrek.com and the official Star Trek YouTube channel, with four additional animated spots rolling out weekly on Wednesdays through October 4 at 10:00 am PT / 1:00 pm ET. Titles and release schedule include:

September 8 – “Skin a Cat”

September 13 – “Holiday Party”

September 20 – “Worst Contact”

September 27 – “Holograms, All the Way Down”

October 4 – “Walk, Don’t Run”

Casper Kelly will also release a new comic book with IDW Publishing, Star Trek: The Animated Celebration Presents The Scheimer Barrier. The first chapter of the comic will debut digitally on September 8 on StarTrek.com with physical copies available at New York Comic Con in October.

Additional chapters of the comic will drop weekly on Wednesdays on StarTrek.com at 10:00 am PT / 1:00 pm ET.

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Adult Swim Yule Log (aka The Fireplace) (2022)

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Adult Swim Yule Log (aka The Fireplace). Directed by Casper Kelly (2022)

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Adult Swim’s Yule Log (The Fire Place) Mini-Review

A few years ago, there was a viral video called Too Many Cooks. It’s creator, Casper Kelly blended sitcoms, with sci-fi, horror, and surrealism. In short, it was fantastic and utterly original.

This year, Adult Swim presented a live broadcast of one of those yule log fire videos, but about two minutes in, it turned out we were getting a feature length narrative feature. The result ‘Adult Swim’s Yule Log’ also known by the alternative name ‘The Fire Place’ was equally as chaotic, surreal and intriguing as you’d expect a feature horror film from the creator of Too Many Cooks to be.

The film follows our lead couple Zoe and Alex as they’ve booked a cabin (where, as we learn, Alex is shooting the fireplace video for his YouTube channel) and Alex plans to propose. The couple gets an unwanted visit from the local sheriff and deputy telling of recent murders in the area, and later it turns out the cabin was double-booked (between this and Barbarian, it seems to be an emerging trope). From that fairly grounded set-up things spiral wildly out-of-control and descend into the surrealism you’d expect from Casper Kelly. 

The film takes its time, sticking to it’s ‘fireplace video/found footage’ set-up for longer than expected before taking a hard-left turn about 30 minutes in. The beginning is necessary to establish characters, plot, and some surprisingly clever and insightful theming. There’s discussion of intergenerational trauma around Zoe and her mother, how we dwell in our personal failings and regrets, and fear for the future (and especially around how our children will fare). Surprisingly festive in that there’s frank discussions about family, and the film does indeed involve the ‘Yule’ tradition, the film likely will go in my holiday horror rotation. 

The film does have its flaws, notably, some of the dialogue was far quieter than I would’ve liked, and the first act may go too slow for some, but it’s more than worth it for its bonkers experimentation (the framing of an early scene involving a reflection was one of the best ‘found footage’ scares I’ve ever seen). The closest you can even come to comparing this film to is a sequence with a tiny man standing in the fireplace being reminiscent of a David Lynch-like fever dream experience, but Lynch never made a holiday horror film, nor one with as much camera trickery and genre subversion as this.

8.5/10

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Adult Swim Yule Log (aka The Fireplace)

directed by Casper Kelly, 2022

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The Fireplace/Adult Swim Yule Log (2022)

7/10

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Hello everybody and welcome back to Manga Mavericks @ Movies, the show where we don’t talk smack about movies, we celebrate them, except for the rare occasions we do talk smack about movies, but that wouldn’t be very Christmasy of us would it?

Yes, it’s been a while, but we’re back to throw another log on the @ Movies fire just in time for Yule as a Christmas gift to our dear listeners, presenting our first ever special Manga Mavericks @ Movies interview with Casper Kelly, the creator of many adult swim classics like Stroker & Hoop, Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell, Too Many Cooks, Final Deployment 4, and his newest special and first ever feature film, Adult Swim’s Yule Log (aka The Fireplace)! 

Yule Log was the wonderful wintertime gift we didn’t know we wanted when it premiered after the Rick & Morty season finale last Sunday night, it’s the kind of special surprise and creative novelty that I absolutely love [adult swim] for and why they’re still the best network around, because no other network would greenlight a feature film based around a Yule Log video gone horribly wrong like this. But the film is so much more than just an inspired gimmick, and we go deep with Casper to ask burning questions about what sparks his imagination and lit the fire of the themes placed in the film, and he lays down a lot of fascinating insights you’ll want to log! 

If you have not seen Yule Log yet I highly recommend you go to adult swim’s website or HBO MAX and watch it first, going in completely blind, and then coming back to this interview. I do not avoid spoilers in my questions and one of mine involves discussing the ending of the film and its implications, so definitely watch the film first, and don’t start a flame war with me if you don’t! But enough burning the midnight oil, let’s crawl into the fireplace and chat with the man behind this Yuletime jewel sublime, Casper Kelly!

Enjoy the show, and follow us on twitter at @manga_mavericks, on tumblr at mangamavericks.tumblr.com, and subscribe to us on Youtube. You can follow the hosts on twitter at @LumRanmaYasha and @VLordGTZ. Don’t forget to also like and subscribe to us on Youtube and iTunes and leave us reviews to help us curate the show and create better content! If there are any topics, series or mangaka you would like to see us talk about on the show, drop us a line in the comments below, or e-mail us at mangamavericks@gmail.com! Thanks for listening!

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Watch Adult Swim Yule Log on Adult Swim or HBO MAX! 

Check out more interviews with Casper Kelly in this playlist!

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ADULT SWIM YULE LOG Interview with Casper Kelly!

Hello everybody and welcome back to Manga Mavericks @ Movies, the show where we don’t talk smack about movies, we celebrate them, except for the rare occasions we do talk smack about movies, but that wouldn’t be very Christmasy of us would it?

Yes, it’s been a while, but we’re back to throw another log on the @ Movies fire just in time for Yule as a Christmas gift to our dear listeners, presenting our first ever special Manga Mavericks @ Movies interview with Casper Kelly, the creator of many adult swim classics like Stroker & Hoop, Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell, Too Many Cooks, Final Deployment 4, and his newest special and first ever feature film, Adult Swim’s Yule Log (aka The Fireplace)! 

Yule Log was the wonderful wintertime gift we didn’t know we wanted when it premiered after the Rick & Morty season finale last Sunday night, it’s the kind of special surprise and creative novelty that I absolutely love [adult swim] for and why they’re still the best network around, because no other network would greenlight a feature film based around a Yule Log video gone horribly wrong like this. But the film is so much more than just an inspired gimmick, and we go deep with Casper to ask burning questions about what sparks his imagination and lit the fire of the themes placed in the film, and he lays down a lot of fascinating insights you’ll want to log! 

If you have not seen Yule Log yet I highly recommend you go to adult swim’s website or HBO MAX and watch it first, going in completely blind, and then coming back to this interview. I do not avoid spoilers in my questions and one of mine involves discussing the ending of the film and its implications, so definitely watch the film first, and don’t start a flame war with me if you don’t! But enough burning the midnight oil, let’s crawl into the fireplace and chat with the man behind this Yuletime jewel sublime, Casper Kelly!

Enjoy the show, and follow us on twitter at @manga_mavericks, on tumblr at mangamavericks.tumblr.com, and subscribe to us on Youtube. You can follow the hosts on twitter at @LumRanmaYasha and @VLordGTZ. Don’t forget to also like and subscribe to us on Youtube and iTunes and leave us reviews to help us curate the show and create better content! If there are any topics, series or mangaka you would like to see us talk about on the show, drop us a line in the comments below, or e-mail us at mangamavericks@gmail.com! Thanks for listening!

LINKS:

Support us on Patreon!

Find us on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to podcasts!

Wanna Leave Us a Tip? LumRanmaYasha also has a Ko-fi!

Read Lum’s reviews on All-Comic! 

Watch Adult Swim Yule Log on Adult Swim or HBO MAX! 

Check out more interviews with Casper Kelly in this playlist!

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My ★★½ review of Danny Ketchup (2020) on letterboxd: https://boxd.it/4AZsWP

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Adult Swim Yule Log

Adult Swim Yule Log

Adult Swim Yule Log (2022) What Is It? The 2022 Adult Swim comedy horror Christmas special TV movie Adult Swim Yule Log. Trailer: Fireplace Yule Log | adult swim Movie: Watch it for free here: https://www.adultswim.com/videos/specials/adult-swim-yule-log Here is how Fandom describes this movie: The Adult Swim Yule Log is an Adult Swim original movie that premiered uninterrupted on…