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A Killer Duo in the Studio: Don Becker & Topher Chambers on “Night Talkers” 🎬🧛‍♂️

Get ready for thrills with Don Becker & Topher Chambers! Join us as they reveal the making of Night Talkers & their Oct 14 VIP Premiere! 🧛🎬

This week on IN the Loop, we’re joined by Don Becker and Topher Chambers, the creative masterminds behind the chilling new horror film, Night Talkers. These versatile talents bring an impressive background – Don, a Marine veteran and retired Foreign Service officer, and Topher, an archaeologist-turned-writer/director. Together, they discuss what it takes to bring horror stories to life on the big…

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George Lucas and his dog Indiana, who inspired the Wookiees and Indiana Jones.

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George Lucas with his dog Indiana (1975)

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If beauty with brain had a face

Phoebe Waller-Bridge at Cannes

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“Good movies are always better when you watch them with someone.” - Ed Chigliak (Northern Exposure)

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Happy 78th Birthday to 3x Academy Award Winning, 2x BAFTA Winning, 12x Emmy Winning, 7x Golden Globe winning filmmaker and producer Steven Spielberg! ^__^

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If You Don't Have Money Or Connections... Can You Be A Filmmaker? - J. Horton

Watch the video interview on Youtube here.

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INDIANA JONES AND THE DIAL OF DESTINY MOVIE REVIEW

Daredevil archaeologist Indiana Jones races against time to retrieve a legendary dial that can change the course of history. Accompanied by his goddaughter, he soon finds himself squaring off against the Nazis.

Why does Kathline Kennedy continue to think that taking legendary characters and turning them into bitter, depressed, old men and only for them to be outdone and replaced by a young, British woman is a good idea. It failed spectacularly with The Last Jedi and you think she would have learned to stop self-inserting her Mary Sue characters into these stories. But nope she fails again with is massive box office bomb.

The more I have thought about the Dial of Destiny the less I enjoy it because to simply state it, it's a mess that is a piss poor excuse for spending over $300 million on. I believe it would be easier to state the positives before I delve into the negatives. This is easily Harrison Ford's best performance as Indiana Jones. He still has that charisma and charm of the iconic character decades later. But his ability to weave the grief and depression his character is facing into his performance is outstanding. Furthermore, Mads Mikkelsen delivers a great performance as the movies main antagonistic. His ability to take paper-thin characters and elevate them to the next level is worthy of much praise. Lastly, John Williams score is out of the park. Despite being in his 90s, he still delivers memorable and powerful scores. Alright that is about it for positives lets get into the negatives.

To state that this story is a mess is a massive understatement. The story is filled with numerous plot contrivances, inconsistent characters, and plot armor. For example, Jones becomes wanted for murder thus forcing him to flee the States. This conflict adds nothing to the story as it is just a device to get Indy out of his shell and for them to call the Nazi cop "trigger-happy Cracker". Not only is it a poor plot device but a very lazy political commentary on police brutality. But what is even more ridiculous is that the movie totally forgets about it by the end as Indy returns home. You think he would still be wanted, but nope they drop the conflict. Another example is during the opening train chase, Mads Mikkelsen character gets smacked in the face by a train light going over 40 MPH. In reality this would have been instant death, but Mikkelsen somehow survives without a single scratch. He should be at least somewhat deformed with a massive scar but nope he looks as handsome as ever. This is worse than surviving a nuclear blast in a fridge.

However, one of the biggest problems this movie faces is Kathline Kennedy's self inserted character of Helena Shaw, played by Phoebe Waller-Bridge. Now Waller-Bridge does okay job playing the character, but the issue is how she is written and how the story treat her. To state it simply, she is a sociopath that the film plays for female empowerment. She uses Indy at without hesitation to get what she wants. She disregards his feeling and belittles his character, while mocking the death of his colleges and friends. To state that Helena is a horrible person is an understatement. What is even worse is that the movie is totally oblivious to how horrible she is. As a woman I am tired of how Hollywood is writing female characters. The fact that writers believe the only way to write a strong female character is to turn them into the definition of toxic masculinity, is incredibly sexist. You think after so much backlash against these type of characters, Hollywood would finally learn, but again their egos are too big for them to learn from constructive criticism.

As it is becoming more a common practice is Hollywood writing, nostalgia is heavily used here to cover up the questionable storytelling. Whether is bring in Miriam last minute to cover the rushed and obviously re-shot ending, or bringing in Sallah for only a few seconds to cover the fact Sallah knew exactly where Indy was right when someone was about to report him to the police, the use of nostalgia is heavy. When this quality of writing is present, it really makes be question the WGA Strike.

One aspect that was somewhat good were the action pieces. I really enjoyed the opening train chase in Nazi Germany. Though the de-aged Harrison Ford with old Ford's voice was really awkward. Then the following chase during the Astronaut Parade was also really fun. However, the tuk-tuk chase was ridiculous as it was drawn out much longer than what is should have been. Furthermore, seeing an 80 year old Harrison Ford beating guys who are less than half his age, was funny to watch.

Overall, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny is a massive disappointment. It's an unneeded film, that is simply a cash grab that is reliant on nostalgia to cover up it's questionable story. If you are like me, then the real ending for this franchise was Indy and company riding off into the sunset at the end of The Last Crusade. Also where were the gruesome and horrifying villain deaths. That was a greatly missed opportunity.

My Rating: C-

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this quote is too #deep and #real for it to be about. sending shia labeouf off to be killed by the viet cong after crystal skulls

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Shelby Hiltunen: Multi-Talented Artist Spotlight - In The Loop TV

🎬 Dive into the creative world with Shelby Hiltunen on In The Loop TV Show! Explore her journey as an actor, director & more. Don't miss this inspiring episode! 🌟 #InTheLoopTV #ShelbyHiltunen #Filmmaking #Inspiration #LocalTalent #WatchNow

In an insightful segment on ‘In The Loop TV Show’, host Renee Michelle Merrifield and executive producer Jason Aaron delve into the creative world of Shelby Hiltunen. Shelby, a multifaceted artist, discusses her journey as a writer, director, and producer, with a special focus on her comedic series “The Usual”. She shares the unique challenges and rewards of creating content in New York and…

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Indiana Jones and How to Give Indy the Great Cinematic Farewell He Deserves.

There are probably a hundred reasons why Indiana Jones’ final film bombed at the Box Office and fail to connect with the audience. The biggest problem with the franchise is quite simple. No one ever really take any real creative ownership of the character Indiana Jones. George Lucas “created” Indiana Jones. Steven Spielberg directed the original trilogy and Harrison Ford is Indiana Jones. However, none of them has never really shown any ownership in such an iconic film character. Lucas and Spielberg were always butting heads on who’s ideas were better and some other BS, while Ford is more of an old school actor. He showed up on set and does his job and go home. Ideally, Harrison Ford would have be the one to claim ownership of the character in the same way Stallone does with Rocky and Rambo. Problem is Ford is not a writer… just an actor. Lucas and Speilberg are legendary filmmakers, but neither of them are great writers. When James Mangold came onboard to direct the final adventure of Indiana Jones, I was excited because he is a better writer than Lucas and Spielberg combined. After seeing Dial of Destiny, I truly have a hard time believing that Mangold had full creative freedom of his film. Dial of Destiny looked like a mediocre modern day Spielberg/Lucas film. The single biggest problem is it’s not an adventure film. There were more action sequences than adventurous ones and it wasn’t even Indy’s adventure. It was the sidekick/goddaughter’s “adventure” and Indy is just tagging along.

Now here is what I would’ve done to give the iconic character a great cinematic farewell. First thing is to not turn Indy into a typical grumpy old man. I would keep one subplot the same from Dial of Destiny… the death of his son. However, I would make that storyline more meaningful. I would start the film off with an aging retired Indy on the one year anniversary of his son’s death… including a flashback to Indy and his son’s final heated conversation before going off to war. Even though I was never a big fan of Marion, for the sake of continuity, I would bring her back in a substantial role (compared to her brief cameo in DoD). Indy return home from visiting his son’s grave and find a stranger in his house. Marion let the stranger in after introducing himself as a fellow soldier who had just return from Vietnam. He tell Indy that his son shares stories about Indy’s countless adventures to him and the other soldiers as a distraction from the war. The soldier will eventually mention his son’s guilt about refusing to assist in solving one of Indy’s last great mysteries. Before leaving, the soldier hand Indy a piece of paper that was left behind at camp that had drawings that the son did. Indy didn’t take the paper, Marion did and the soldier leave their home. Indy went to his office to be alone and Marion leave the paper on the nightstand by their bed. Indy wake up the next morning and see the paper on the nightstand and notice something familiar about the drawing. He unfolded it and suddenly realize that his son may have find a clue about his last great mystery and his final adventure around the world begins. Along the way, Indy meet up with old friends and have a few callbacks to the earlier films, but this is Indy’s adventure and outsmart the bad guys whoever they are… Nazi, Russians and solve his final great mystery and find peace with his son’s death. 

So instead of focusing on a new and unlikeable character.(with the idea of spinning her off into a new film franchise), the final Indiana Jones film should be a celebration of Indy and his adventurous spirit and solving one last great wondrous mystery. 

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Filmmakers grapple with 'tectonic' AI shift at Cannes Film Festival

a brown oh In Cannes Beach Talk, one presenter’s voice is cloned and a random phrase is used in three languages, while the other’s face is changed as they speak on the live screen. Some of the film lovers attending the premiere industry fest are perplexed. Since artificial intelligence chatbot chatgpt Having taken the world by storm six months ago, the technology has taken the film industry by…

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Happy 79th Birthday to Academy Award Nominated filmmaker, writer, Emmy Winning producer George Lucas! ^__^

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this post about indiana jones annoys me so much bc the answer to why he fights nazis is so incredibly simple if your head isnt up your ass. hes jewish. hes a jewish character created by one of the most famous jewish filmmakers in history who made the most famous movie about the holocaust in history. he is literally played by a jewish actor. its not anachronistic for him to hate nazis

anyway watch this video about how raiders of the lost ark and the last crusade are structured around the punishment of nazis and their collaborators- including rich white american industrialists. steven spielberg made indiana jones hate nazis bc HE hates nazis