#Guest Movie Review

[sprinkleonthatcriticism]

This will premiere in 6 hrs :P My first ever roblox film review :D

[seanleelevin]

My mom and I, both huge Robert Altman fans, watched this on Prime (where it's available to rent for a reasonable price) this afternoon. Not one of his masterpieces, but a very entertaining film, with typically great performances by Jeff Goldblum and Christopher Guest (whose character Bob is a clear precursor to Corky St. Clair of Waiting for Guffman fame), and very strong ones by Julie Hagerty (who has really good chemistry with Goldblum and plays a severe neurotic quite convincingly), Glenda Jackson, and Tom Conti. Of the supporting players, Genevieve Page (who I know best as brothel owner Madame Anais in Belle de Jour) as Bob's "theatrical" mother Zizi is the highlight. In the best Altman tradition, the opening credits appear over the sound of people talking over each other. It's surprisingly LGBT-positive for a late '80s film too. Definitely worth a look.

[jimsmovieworld]

THE GUEST- 2014 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Top notch action thriller set during halloween.

A family is grieving over their son dying in the Iraq war. A soldier called David (Dan Stevens) turns up at their house claiming to have been close friends with their son and delivers a message from him. They invite David to stay for a while and he starts to find a place in the family. Unfortunately he was part of a training program gone bad that has turned him into an unreasonable cyborg who knows no bounds.

Such a fun movie. Great soundtrack and fun 80's vibes. The bar room scene is good business. David is ice cold. Maika Monroe is great as Anna.

This film was intentionally "structured as a horror film with the pace of a thriller"

Directed by Adam Wingard.

[wttnblog]

Blink Twice: Zoë Kravitz's HUGE Debut Film & What I Think

When it comes to films, I must say I’m a sucker for a murder mystery. When I saw the trailer for Blink Twice (2024), that was exactly what I thought it was going to be. It wasn’t until I watched the trailer for Zoë Kravitz’s directorial debut a second time—and saw advertisements on my social media—that I realized there was more here than I initially thought. The plot seemed reminiscent of…

[watching-pictures-move]

Movie Review | Casino Royale (Guest, Hughes, Huston, McGrath & Parrish, 1967)

This was a notorious bomb, and what I will say in its defense is that between the overpaid cast, expensive production design and general sense of visual clutter, you can see where the money went. It consistently looks lavish, and at times, such as the Mata Bond scenes, Le Chiffre’s psychedelic torture scene (likely inspired by the one in The Ipcress File) and the villain’s lair, quite striking. I’m guessing some of that visual beauty comes from the “Additional Photography” by Nicolas Roeg.

That being said, this is in the vein of star studded spoofs that trade in wackiness over actual jokes and pile on the comedy music in the hope that you don’t notice how few gags there are. (The one musical highlight is “The Look of Love” sung by Dusty Springfield, for which movie received an Oscar nomination.) The cast alternates at extremes of entirely phoned in and extra strength mugging, although there are times, like Deborah Kerr’s Scottish accent, when the lameness of their shtick crosses over into being funny. (Kerr is not the only one doing an accent. Peter Sellers practices a few that he would reuse in The Party and Murder by Death.) A lot of the women here are cast for eye candy, and I won’t pretend that I didn’t enjoy their presences for that reason. But I did appreciate that Barbara Bouchet as Moneypenny has more to do than Lois Maxwell ever did as the character, except maybe in the Bond rip-off Operation Kid Brother, where she played the highly similar but legally distinct character Miss Maxwell.

This is leaden, shapeless and mostly unfunny, but I suppose there’s enough stuff happening that I didn’t entirely zone out, even if it did take me three sittings to finish it.

[visplay]

Chris: The Guest is a thriller about a family who takes in a soldier who claims to have known their son, Dan Stevens is captivating in the lead role as the soldier, with Lance Reddick, Watch: Rent.

Richie: It was very good, it had good performances from everyone, a nice score, Watch: Rent.

[closetdbisexual]

its timgregg tuesday remember to manipulate your coworker today

[surmp]

Episode 117: Breaking News and Breaking Hearts!

This weeks March Podcasting Madness release I’m joined by Joey “Keebler” Cholo to talk about 2013’s Anchorman 2 and not Star Trek V but don’t fear I’ll tackle that one next week. But for now enjoys this episode in video format on Spotify and YouTube. Follow Keebler on Tik Tok @keeblerhernandez and X @keeblercholo39 Check out https://linktr.ee/Shutuppopcorn #NetworkFamilia

[sprinkleonthatcriticism]

So, I finished my review on The Last Guest and if it gets 1.5k views I'll talk about it's sequels and explain why I don't like them

[moviesandmania]

THE ABOMINABLE SNOWMAN Reviews of Hammer horror

The Abominable Snowman is a 1957 British horror film about an English botanist and an American scientist on an expedition to the Himalayas in search of the legendary Yeti. Directed by Val Guest (The Quatermass Xperiment; Quatermass II), it is based on a 1955 BBC television play, The Creature, written by Nigel Kneale (The Quatermass Xperiment and sequels), who also wrote the screenplay adaptation…

[nightingale-prompts]

God's TV- DC x DP prompt

Accidentally summoning a god from another dimension can happen, especially when cults are involved. However, no can could predict that the not only was the god a teenage boy but also a very bored teenage boy who didn't want to leave.

So he stayed and moved into Titans tower.

Danny is helpful (when he wants to be) but rarely goes out on missions. He says they are boring and nothing is dangerous enough to exert the effort. Instead, he minds the medical bay. Having a healer more than made up for the lack of help.

It's not like anyone disliked Danny or thought he didn't do anything it was just that he was unpredictable. Danny could be nice, considerate, and even sweet if he was working in the medbay. He could also be a pain in the ass anywhere else. He loved pranks and scaring people with his powers. He was harmless though.

No one really knew what he did all day. He was usually in his room doing something they guested. Said room was an anomaly. It was larger on the inside having been made into a pocket dimension. The appearance and organization of the room changed every time you went in.

It was after one mission that the team learned what was in the room.

A rogue had used their invention to erase Superboy's memories and they didn't know what to do. They took him to Danny who was currently rearranging the medicine by color. They hoped that his powers covered mind-altering afflictions. Unfortunately, Danny couldn't wave a hand and fix this.

Instead, Danny took the group to his room. The decor was neon Tokyo meets space right now. The furniture was currently floating and almost hitting Wonder Girl in the head with an end table. Of course, there was no gravity here.

"Stay here while I grab it," Danny said flying up the vertical corridor.

While he was gone the room rearranged itself into a contemporary format. The furniture grounded itself and shifted into a normal living room.

Danny returned with a cart and a headset. He placed a card he pulled out of the cart into the headset and put it on the dazed Superboy's head.

"Wait what is that?" Tim asked.

"It's his memories. I kept a backup in case this happened." Danny shrugged.

Immediately everyone began asking what the hell does that mean and why does he have that.

"Oh please, this dimension has this happened all the time. Amnesia is so cliché and cheap. I saw a pattern and decided the easiest way to prevent you from losing the entirety of your lives was to make save states of your memories." Danny said matter of fact.

Robin pinched the bridge of his nose.

Impulse studied the rack of cases and looking for the card with his name on it.

Wondergirl sighed, she was used to this from Robin but even he wouldn't go this far.

"What? It's not like just anyone can find these. Only you can access your own memories anyways. I just decided to repurpose my RE:Viewer." Danny pouted.

"What is a reviewer?" Wally asked flipping through the cases. Each one had titles like moves or shows with an arrangement of stickers.

"The RE:Viewer is something I created to catalog things I've seen looking into other dimensions. I don't have an infinite memory you know. But the longer I have my title the more I'll lose touch with my mortality. These things help me stay close to people by giving me the chance to remember how it feels. I also have been using them to get the stories of others. Keeping their experiences like you'd keep a TV show or movie. So many stories could have been lost to time but now they are saved. I use them to teach myself." Danny smiled.

The concept genuinely sounded interesting. Like experiencing a movie in 4d.

It had been 3 minutes before Kon took off the headset and back to his old self.

Danny pulled the input card out and it disappeared into another realm with a flick of the wrist. Danny was completely honest that the copies were inaccessible to everyone but him.

"You feeling alright Superboy? Your memory should be backed up until a week ago." Danny said shining a light in his eye.

"I'm fine. I think. What happened?" Kon asked batting the light out of his eyes.

"Explanation later. Take a nap first. You aren't concussed at least." Danny informed.

"What are the stickers for?" Wally said pointing at the rainbow of colors the card cases had.

"Just the emotions associated with the experiences. Orange is comedy, red is action, pink is romance, and blue is tragedy." Danny listed. "That one with the pink is one of my favorites. I meddled a bit in that world. Two people who had never met fell in love at two points at different times. One of them was doomed to die but I worked my magic on a mirror that allowed them to meet once. They shared notes left in different places for the other months ahead. Makes you believe in true love. A real tear-jerker."

"What about the black stickers?" Wally asked.

"Don't touch the black ones," Danny said darkly, smacking his hand away. "You don't need to know about those. I don't like thinking about them."

"So you just take the memories of others and put them inside your machine to replay later?" Batgirl asked. "Isn't that kind of wrong?"

"No, I asked permission. I usually pull them aside at some point and ask. If it's my memories (that's the green stickers) I don't need to. The rainbow ones are simulations. Like a video games." Danny responded patting her on the back for not being to hard on him about this admittedly weird situation.

"So what's the black one with the rainbow sticker?" Wally asked picking up the case that was obviously stuffed in the back.

"STOP TOUCHING THOSE!" Danny yelled pulling him away.

[alpha-mag-media]

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[in-the-stacks]

An interview with Halley Sutton, author of The Hurricane Blonde, the September MyLibrarian book club pick.

http://www.inthestacks.tv/2023/09/author-chat-the-hurricane-blonde

[katieroo28]

☀️KATIE’S JUNE CHECK-IN☀️

I’ll be honest with you…I’m so burnt out lately that I actually forgot we’re in a new month now. Sorry for the delay!

TOP FILMS

Bound

Benedetta

The Invisible Guest

Kylie Minogue: Aphrodite Les Folies - Live in London

Love to Love You, Donna Summer

No Hard Feelings

The Shallows

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Trixie & Katya Live: The Last Show

TOP TV

Dark Side of the Ring

I Hate Suzie

It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia

The Other Two

The Righteous Gemstones

Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets

SisterS

Stars on Mars

Summer House: Martha’s Vineyard

BOOKS READ

Dykette by Jenny Fran Davis (4 out of 5 stars ⭐️)

The Harpy by Megan Hunter (4.5 out of 5 stars ⭐️)

You Should Have Left by Daniel Kehlmann (4 out of 5 stars ⭐️)

[esperderek]

I have to have a chuckle at the Screenrant article posted recently about the Galactic Starcruiser, which totally wasn't about Jenny Nicholson's video honest.

In part, because early in Nicholson's video, she talks about how unnatural it is to have your influencers speak in adcopy and copyright rather than the more colloquial nicknames, and how it makes the people speaking about the product seem very insincere and, well, paid off. Because normal humans don't speak that way, but advertising does.

What's the first two lines in this article?

"As a life-long fan of Star Wars, there was nothing quite as exciting as finding out that I would be working on the immersive Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser experience. Located at the Walt Disney World Resort, the Galactic Starcruiser opened on March 1, 2022, and welcomed passengers to board a two-day, two-night cruise through the stars, during which they could live out their own Star Wars adventure."

No one talks like this naturally. No one writes like this naturally.

This is supposed to be your passioned defense of the place you worked at, the people you worked with, and the memories you made along the way. C'mon! Why don't you open with a story, perhaps an anecdote about the best moment you had working there, or the devastation of the day you lost your dream job. We need to feel your humanity! But there's nothing of that here, to the point where you can just hear the TM behind Galactic Starcruiser.

The first half of this article continues in this vein, reading like a press release Disney marketing put out, just with past tense rather than present or future tense:

"Essentially, the Starcruiser experience was a 48-hour movie that passengers were actually a part of. It was all facilitated through the "datapad," which was accessed through the Play Disney Parks app."

"To facilitate the overarching immersive experience and storytelling, the Starcruiser built a jam-packed itinerary for each and every guest that would consist of a variety of important activities: the captain's toast at muster, a bridge training exercise, lightsaber training, and more. These types of events were essential to understanding what was happening, as they would give passengers the chance to interact with characters and build their story. This is why the Starcruiser could never be just a hotel; every part of it was designed for enthusiastic interaction."

Like, c'mon. I used to work in television. I've seen and used adcopy in my former job, and this is some serious adcopy. It honestly wouldn't shock me if the author dredged up some old adcopy they had lying around about the topic and just transferred it over, changing the tense. You're not here to sell us this product, because there is no product to sell. It's gone, it's been gone for a year, you don't have to sell us on IT. Speak about your experiences.

The next part is yet another topic that Jenny Nicholson pointed out, the bad faith excuses that influencers and advertisers made for the extreme price point:

"What many people don't know, however, is that the price included much more than just a room. The passengers' food, park tickets, recreation activities on board, non-alcoholic drinks, and more were all included - with merchandise being one of the few additional costs on board."

Which is absolute bad faith reasoning, especially when there are plenty of other vacation options that are ALSO all-inclusive, but are MUCH cheaper and offer MORE amenities than the Galactic Starcruiser did! Including Disney Cruises, owned by the same company! Seriously, you can go on a halfway decent sounding cruise or all-inclusive resort somewhere warm for, like, a week or two and spend far less than GSC cost.

Then the last part is essentially: "All the workers liked working there and the bad reviews afterwards make the workers who worked on it feel sad. :("

Which, like, companies have been hiding behind that reasoning for ages. Curiously, the author never offers....any reasons or stories. WHY did working on it impact you so much? What set it apart, what were the people like, what did you like about working there, why are you so passionate about it even a year later? There's nothing, just a generic sort of "We worked hard." and "We're sad it's gone." Why? How? What happened? The video you're obviously writing this in response to is filled with personal anecdotes and stories, it's the backbone of the video! Again, you need to give us something to show your humanity!

Especially when you consider that Nicholson repeatedly points out that the only highlight about her experience, the only thing that kept the damn thing going was the workers.

She had nothing but praise for them, and nothing but contempt for the higher ups who wasted and abused that enthusiasm, to the point where one of her last points was "Hey, Disney is basically exploiting labor."

Much like Jenny, I'm also not condemning anyone who had a good time working there. Good! If you were having a good time at work, that's great. If you have good memories about the people, awesome. But I'll note two things:

a) That doesn't meant you weren't being exploited, and

b) That doesn't mean you have to be a useful idiot for the corporation you worked for afterwards.

I'm not conspiracy brained enough to go "Oh, Disney TOTALLY forced this article into being.", because a cursory examination of the author's prior works and such suggests a lifelong passion for Star Wars, she did work at the hotel, and she's a Star Wars Editor (whatever THAT means in this day and age) for Screen Rant. Apparently one of the heads of Screen Rant says that Disney had no hand in it either.

Though, I can see why people would think that way. It READS like a press release, not something a normal human being would write about an experience they feel passionate about.