#JP Robinson

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Obscure Miami soul from 1968, produced by Brad Shapiro and Steve Alaimo

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No, despite what Google's Gemini AI says, Nazis weren't Black

Google’s Gemini AI chatbot —or the chatbot’s creators themselves—need to brush up on history. Contrary to what Google’s Gemini AI generates, Nazis weren’t Black or People of Color. Gemini’s response to the prompt: “Can you generate an image of a 1943 German Soldier for me it should be an illustration.”  Image: Google Gemini In fact, the Nazi regime prided itself on “racial purity” that created…

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you are who you hang out with

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ROGER CLARK as The Boss and EDDIE K. ROBINSON as The Birthday Boy in:

Happy Birthday to Me (2018) Written and Directed by Michael J.P. Reilly

Watch this film on Vimeo (link above)

(GIF Set: 3/5)

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X-Men ’97 – Tolerance Is Extinction – Part 3 & Season 1 – TV Review

TL;DR – It perfectly sticks the landing, balancing emotion, narrative, and a cameo or 10 to create an episode that had an impact. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 5 out of 5. Disclosure – I paid for the Disney+ Service that viewed this series.End Credit Scene – There is a mid-credit scene. X-Men ’97 Review – When I first started this series, I had this concern that maybe this new series would dent the old…

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X-Men '97 (Season Review) | From Nostalgia to Innovation: A Riveting Journey with X-MEN '97

I just binged X-Men'97 3-part finale and it was more than I expected! Fast-paced, rich in detail, and character development that is truly satisfying. The series a nostalgic yet innovative take on the beloved franchise. A must-watch! #XMen97 #Review

This continuation of X-Men: The Animated Series (1992) was not a show I was particularly excited about, but I knew I’d check out because I like the X-Men. I always liked how they made me feel less alone because when you grow up knowing that you’re different in some ways and that your differences can make you a target, having a band of mutants who use their gifts to protect a world that hates and…

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Voice Artist Announcement

"The wisdom of Hermanubis would have been ours."

Voice Artist

EN VA: Zeno Robinson

JP VA: CHIBA Shoya

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hi im showing yall my cringe genshin self insert pls be nice as i indulge in my fantasy

it took me 15 mins to think of puppetgear and im so weirdly proud abt it

u can read abt niko here:

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Everything we know about The Bad Guys 2.

A post detailing everything about the sequel of The Bad Guys, from confirmed to unconfirmed information, leaks & more. We'll update the post whenever something new comes up, so stay tuned!

🟢Confirmed info:

On March 26th 2024, DreamWorks officially announced a sequel of The Bad Guys in development, coming to theaters August 1st 2025.

Synopsis: "The Bad Guys are struggling to find trust and acceptance in their newly minted lives as Good Guys, when they are pulled out of retirement and forced to do ‘one last job' by an all-female squad of criminals."

Just like the first film, whose story was loosely based on book 1 through 4 of The Bad Guys book series, it appears the sequel will be loosely based on the events of book 5 through 10 of the book series.

Returning cast & crew:

Pierre Perifel (director)

Damon Ross (producer)

JP Sans (co-director, was previously head of character animation)

Daniel Pemberton (composer)

Sam Rockwell - Mr. Wolf

Marc Maron - Mr. Snake

Craig Robinson - Mr. Shark

Akwafina - Ms. Tarantula

Anthony Ramos - Mr. Piranha

Zazie Beetz - Diane Foxington

Richard Ayoade - Professor Marmalade

Alex Borstein - Misty Luggins

Lilly Singh - Tiffany Fluffit

New (june 21, 2024): Gorge R. Gutierrez will make a cameo in The Bad Guys 2, it is unknown which character he's voicing.

Voice actors for the new characters have not yet been revealed. Director Pierre Perifel previously confirmed that Marmalade's real identity is indeed true to what it is in the books (no spoilers) although it is unknown if the reveal shall be made in the sequel, despite him strongly pointing towards it being the case.

New info (may 17, 2024) : In an interview with the Today Show Australia, while promoting his newest movie adaptation "Thelma the Unicorn" & talking about the final book of The Bad Guys series releasing this fall, author Aaron Blabey gave an update regarding The Bad Guys 2 currently in the works at Dreamworks.

🟡Yet to be confirmed:

According to IMDb, the budget of The Bad Guys 2 is that of $80M. The budget of the first film was $70M. It also claims that the creator & author of The Bad Guys himself (Aaron Blabey) will write the script alongside Ethan Cohen. Aaron was previously the producer on the first film, in order to ensure the characters he created are well portrayed.

New (July 13th, 2024): According to Daniel RPK (an industry insider) actress Natasha Lyonne has been cast in The Bad Guys 2. She's probably voicing one of Diane's former friends, if this is true.

🟣Leaks:

On March 9th 2023, an insider known as "The V Scooper" on twitter revealed that a sequel of DreamWorks' The Bad Guys is in development. He even provided some extra plot details of the movie, which closely resembles that of the official synopsis. Although he commented that some plot points may change in the final version of the script, since that was still early on in production.

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Marvel Animation’s “X-Men ‘97” Streams on Disney+ Beginning March 20.

To me, my X-Men, nw episodes, new era...

A trailer and teaser poster are now available to celebrate the upcoming Disney+ debut of Marvel Animation’s “X-Men ’97.” The all-new series, which features 10 episodes, begins streaming March 20.

“X-Men’97” revisits the iconic era of the 1990s as The X-Men, a band of mutants who use their uncanny gifts to protect a world that hates and fears them, are challenged like never before, forced to face a dangerous and unexpected new future.  The voice cast includes Ray Chase as Cyclops, Jennifer Hale as Jean Grey, Alison Sealy-Smith as Storm, Cal Dodd as Wolverine, JP Karliak as Morph, Lenore Zann as Rogue, George Buza as Beast, AJ LoCascio as Gambit, Holly Chou as Jubilee, Isaac Robinson-Smith as Bishop, Matthew Waterson as Magneto and Adrian Hough as Nightcrawler. Beau DeMayo serves as head writer; episodes are directed by Jake Castorena, Chase Conley and Emi Yonemura. Featuring music by The Newton Brothers. X-Men 97 is executive produced by Brad Winderbaum, Kevin Feige, Louis D’Esposito, Victoria Alonso and DeMayo.

The wonderful animation of X-Men 97 is done by StudioMir (Nickelodeon "The Legend of Korra", Dreamworks Animation "Voltron Legendary Defender", "Kipo and The Age Of The Wonderbeast", Lucasfilm Animation "Star Wars Visions", Warner Bros Animation "My Adventures With Superman")

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l'aventure d'canmom à annecy épisode DEUX - lundi - partie 1

sure hope everyone knows the days of the week in French.

I'm gonna be writing throughout the day today because there's gonna be a lot!

this morning i wasted my reservation for The Most Precious of Cargoes by not showing up early enough, rip. As a consolation I went into Grad Films 1! These kinda slapped! ...mostly anyway.

first up, we had Sheep Out by Zofia Klamka, which was pure style. a severely dressed animator has her routine disrupted by a runaway cartoon sheep, taking her on a crazy chase through the ads and posters of the city. edited tight as fuck, the initial routine montage of match cuts transitioning perfectly into crazy smears, wacky perspectives and some really playful shots with the characters running through posters at different scales and interacting with the real world. calls to mind Kon. hell of an opener.

Apartment 203 was a bit of a dud for me. Found footage style about a serial killer, it explains the premise in text at the outset so there is little tension, and it's just a camera looking around a dirty CG with foley of breathing, music, and offscreen violence and screams.

Luckily such misses were not the rule in this block!

Echoes by Robinson Drossos used a very strong sketchy traditional animation style to depict a boy descending into a sewer that becomes an increasingly surreal cave. The pencil texture and strength of drawing and movement do a ton for this one, i fully winced when the boy falls down a shaft hitting his head on every surface.

Carrotica by Daniel Sterlin-Altman was a blast. It's about the desires and fantasies of a single mum obsessed with her carrot research and her repressed gay son who writes erotica in his notebooks, all depicted in stop motion. Excellent naturalistic voice acting and a script that is both funny and very genuine.

Humantis by Paris Baillie from Calarts was a really cool stop motion one about flower petal creatures which engage in strange formal dances, and one of these creatures whose white petals start becoming corrupted with green. The creature tears petals from the others to try to hide its condition but inevitably gets found out, only to discover other green humantises. Yet in the final shot of the film, we see that it still mourns its white petals. I loved the visual style here - really imaginative creature designs.

You are the truck and I am the deer was not really to my taste - poetry over abstract imagery of corruption and trauma, i kinda get it, but it felt a bit too generic for me.

Yapalaponky by Masataka Kihara... I'm sure glad I can post a picture so I don't have to describe the creature. The film depicts a series of cute/funny little interactions between the man and the creature, good visual gags around weight and such, eventually pulling back to a child in a car on the way to a funeral (I think). Always interesting to see jp animation outside the anime bubble - I appreciate the visual imagination of these weird guys with their う faces.

The Time Botanist by Glenn Paul-Parvenu is a delightful tribute to rubber hose and earlier animation, with its mc getting sneezed back into older and older styles by her anthropomorphised time machine. Good concept, nails the execution!

The Last Visit by Keawalee Warutkomain is a meditation on grief, animated in the pages of a book. Foregrounding its process this much, it led me inevitably to think about the act of making a film to grieve someone. I made a short animation when Fall died - it was really rough, but I felt moved to use the art I was making at the time to commemorate her somehow. I always felt a little ashamed that I didn't make something better, but like... as if she'd care! And it makes me wonder like, the stuff about technical execution, how it relates to something so personal as a film about grief - but then, it's not just a personal project, it's being screened for others here. What is the right way to make art 'for' someone who has died? I really don't know.

In this case, Warutkomain is mourning her aunt. The film is more about the experience of grief than the aunt herself, and it felt a little too long for what it had as such an abstract film, but like, it feels cruel to make that kind of criticism. It certainly provoked thought of my own experience of grief, but the subject is inherently resonant - I realised I was getting lost in my head and missing the film. I don't know what to make of it all. Certainly the animation in the pages of a book was a cool effect.

Adiós by José Prats seemed like another such personal film, but in this case a tight drama. A father is struggling to accept the departure of his son, the dialogue full of loaded lines about leaving him behind. They go out hunting, but their dog accidentally eats poison; the father is resigned to losing the dog, but the son runs to fetch salt instead of staying at their side - and this turns out to be the right call, since the dog is saved, and the father finally accepts his son's decision. Strongly executed stop motion, this was a very solid note to end on.

I love student films, because there are few other cases where people get to create with such few restraints. Which isn't to say there aren't pressures - students are trying to impress future employers and their instructors and so forth, and they draw inspiration from other student films so you get certain genres - but I'm always impressed by the sheer variety of stuff that people can cook up in just a year. Definitely a strong block, can't wait for more. (Also some of the directors were present, I hope they appreciated the applause - living the dream of getting a film into annecy. one day.)

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Say hello to my"Explore Black history" page

There’s a new page in town! In honor of Black history month, I’m excited to unveil my “Explore Black history” page, also easily accessible in the nav bar at JPRobinsonBooks.com. This page is dedicated to spotlighting little known Black world-shapers. I have two interactive e-courses available completely free of charge as well as quotes by Black leaders and visionaries. There’s also a section…

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Congratulations to the winners of our previous round!

Brother (Gerard Way)

The Foundations of Decay (My Chemical Romance)

So Much (For) Stardust (Fall Out Boy)

If the World Was Ending (JP Saxe)

Goodbye to a World (Porter Robinson)

Claire DeLune (Claude Debussy)

The Ocean (Against Me!)

Am I Awake (They Might Be Giants)

Sax Rohmer #1 (The Mountain Goats)

Sweet Cis Teen (Dazey and the Scouts)

Of course, condolences to the losers

New polls out in a few hours!

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ROGER CLARK as The Boss and EDDIE K. ROBINSON as The Birthday Boy in:

Happy Birthday to Me (2018) Written and directed by Michael J.P. Reilly

Watch this film on Vimeo (link above)

(GIF Set: 5/5)

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X-Men ’97 – Tolerance Is Extinction – Part 1 – TV Review

TL;DR – This is a solid opening to the final arc of the season.   ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 4 out of 5. Disclosure – I paid for the Disney+ Service that viewed this series. X-Men ’97 Review – Over the last week, I have finally had the chance to dive into the heart of X-Men ’97. I did come into it a bit wearily because X-Men: The Animated Series was my first introduction to all things X-Men and Marvel.…

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X-Men '97 (Premiere Review) | Nostalgia Rekindled

The electrifying premiere of X-Men '97 is here! From jaw-dropping action to nostalgic nods, this continuation delivers a quite the punch. #XMen97 #SeasonPremiere #Review #DisneyPlus #NostalgiaRevived Read my review ⬇️

The X-Men, a band of mutants who use their uncanny gifts to protect a world that hates and fears them, are challenged like never before, forced to face a dangerous and unexpected new future. This show is the continuation of X-Men: The Animated Series (1992). Review The highly anticipated X-Men ’97 bursts onto our screens with a thrilling two-episode premiere that seamlessly blends nostalgia…