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#NowWatching A Man Called Otto (2022) 🚉🚲🫀

“𝙸 𝚌𝚊𝚗'𝚝 𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚠𝚊𝚝𝚌𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝚒𝚍𝚒𝚘𝚝 𝚝𝚛𝚢𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚝𝚘 𝚝𝚎𝚊𝚌𝚑 𝚊𝚗𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝚑𝚘𝚠 𝚝𝚘 𝚍𝚛𝚒𝚟𝚎. 𝙸𝚝'𝚜 𝚕𝚎𝚜𝚜𝚘𝚗 𝚝𝚒𝚖𝚎!”

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A Review Called "Some Thoughts About 'A Man Called Otto'"

A Review Called "Some Thoughts About 'A Man Called Otto'"

Purrer and Otto (CREDIT: Niko Tavernise/Columbia Pictures) Starring: Tom Hanks, Mariana Treviño, Truman Hanks, Rachel Keller, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Cameron Britton, Mack Bayda, Juanita Jennings, Peter Lawson Jones, Christiana Montoya, Alessandra Perez, Mike Birbiglia, Kelly Lamor Wilson Director: Marc Forster Running Time: 126 Minutes Rating: PG-13 Release Date: December 30, 2022…

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A Man Called Otto (2022, dir. Marc Forster) - review by Rookie-Critic

TW: suicide

A Man Called Otto had its moments, but tended to be a little too sickly sweet for its own good (when it wasn't being way darker than advertised). I'll admit that I was on the side saying that I wasn't sure I could believe Tom Hanks as a grumpy old man, but for all of the film's faults, the believability of Hanks' Otto Anderson is not one of them. As much as we as an internet collective have corralled Hanks into the role of "America's Dad," and as much as Hollywood has begun to cast Hanks for roles that genuinely don't suit him (excuse me while I glare at Baz Luhrmann), we tend to forget that Hanks is a phenomenal actor that got as famous as he is now for being consistently great, not just in his more typecast-aligning roles like Big and Sleepless in Seattle, but also for movies like Road to Perdition and Philadelphia. Also, let's be honest, we all love him as Woody in Toy Story, and he's basically playing a giant buzzkill (pun absolutely intended) for a majority of the first film in that franchise. I actually found most of the film's cast to be quite endearing, especially Mariana Treviño, who practically steals the film from Hanks, which in and of itself is an impressive feat. As I've said in previous reviews, I love when we get to see fairly unknown actors play big roles in movies alongside the legacy names. The big name draws in the crowd and then they get to see this new (or new to the average moviegoer, anyway) face thrive. I hope to see Treviño in bigger and better things in the future because she was a delight in this.

The biggest detriment to the film is that it really tends to get caught up in itself a lot. I'm actually quite a sucker for sentiment in a film and get swept up very easily in a movie's emotional manipulation if I'm even remotely enjoying it, and I'm not ashamed to admit that I did shed some tears while watching A Man Called Otto, but there were moments that, had they been dialed back about 75%, would have been so much more effective. There are multiple montages set to the most over-the-top, Josh Groban-esque music (which I'm seeing now was mostly written by Hanks' wife, singer and fellow actor Rita Wilson) that absolutely kill the emotional momentum of the film. It is so unbelievably heavy-handed and saccharine that I think I was audibly groaning by the third time it happened. I really can't stress how hilariously atrocious these sequences are. There's also quite a few scenes of these incredibly out of touch depictions of the younger generation that seem to be plaguing a decent handful of films in the recent months, including one sequence involving a train station that is laughably obtuse, and the way the young people in that scene behave ends up being beneficial to Otto later in the film anyway, so I'm not really sure what the commentary is supposed to be, and I don't think the film does either. I find it odd that these sequences are even in the movie for how amazingly progressive a lot of the film seems to be.

Lastly, I'd like to talk about something I mentioned at the beginning of this review about the film being way darker than advertised. I would also like to take this moment to issue a trigger warning (TW: suicide) for those that might have PTSD or anxiety about this topic. This film presents itself in its advertising as a wholesome family drama where a young, friendly family melts the heart of the neighborhood grump. What this movie is really about is a suicidal man learning to find his reason for living again. I won't divulge the details of why for people who don't want those plot spoilers, but I feel it is heavily important to know going into this film that suicide is a heavily felt presence throughout the entirety of the film, and I think I counted five suicide attempts that are shown on screen (it could be six, but I remember at least five). I'm not against the depiction of suicide or suicidal thoughts in film, I think it's an incredibly important topic to discuss openly and without shame or judgment, but I also think that it is paramount for a piece of media to clearly state when it is going to depict something as potentially traumatizing (or re-traumatizing) as that on screen. When the first attempt happens, the film is barely 15 minutes into its runtime, and I was so jarred by it that I almost thought I had somehow walked into the wrong theater, that this had to be some other grumpy Tom Hanks movie and not the fun-loving, cheery looking one whose trailer got "The End of the Line" by The Traveling Wilburys stuck in my head for weeks. I don't know if I can hold a fault of the trailer against the film itself, but I was quite angry with the film's marketing for not giving some kind of indication of what the film and its tone actually were.

I'm having a hard time thinking of what score to give A Man Called Otto, because for all of the things that were objectively bad about the film, I did find myself getting emotional on more than one occasion. The film's sentimentality gets in its own way a lot, but when it's able to find a good balance between heart and drama it really sings, so I'd say there's a little more to like about it on the whole.

Score: 6/10.

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On this day:

FIRE SPOOKS

On August 7, 1887, reports came from Woodstock, New Brunswick, of fires bursting forth spontaneously in the two-story frame home of Reginald Hoyt. Hoyt shared his home with his wife, four children, and two nieces, all of whom were in a state of great agitation due to the unexplainable blazes. At least forty self-igniting fires within twenty-four hours kept the family racing through the house with buckets of water, continuously dousing flames that shot from various smoldering items: a high curtain, a bedroom quilt, basket of clothes, a child's dress hanging from a hook, a feather bed, straw mattress. One report said, "[A] carpet-covered lounge was found to be all afire underneath, among the jute stretched above the springs." Only the family's vigilance kept the entire house and surrounding buildings from burning down.

On August 7, 1948, the Charles Willey farmhouse, located outside Macomb, Illinois, saw the beginning of over two hundred self-igniting fires in one week. Hotspots appeared, starting on the front porch and then moving inside the house. The family stripped the wallpaper from the walls, but it made no difference. Curtains, an ironing board, and an entire bed caught fire. Buckets and pots of water were placed throughout the house in readiness. Finally, there were too many fires to control, and the home burned down. In the following days, two barns, a milk house, and a chicken house also went up in flames. Macomb fire chief Fred Wilson commented, "The whole thing is so screwy and fantastic... Yet we have the word of at least a dozen reputable witnesses that they saw mysterious brown spots smoulder suddenly on the walls and ceilings of the home and then burst into flames."

Text from: Almanac of the Infamous, the Incredible, and the Ignored by Juanita Rose Violins, published by Weiser Books, 2009

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MOGAI BHM- Belated Day 21!

happy BHM! today i’m going to be talking about some famous ‘black firsts’!

Black Firsts in Science-

In 1965, David Harold Blackwell became the first Black member of the National Academy of Sciences

Robert H. Lawrence was the first Black astronaut; Mae Jemison was the first Black female astronaut, and Guion Bluford was the first Black astronaut to actually travel in space

Thomas Jennings was the first Black patent holder in the U.S, and Judy Reed was the first Black woman patent holder in the U.S

Daniel Hale Williams performed the first successful heart surgery

James Smith was the first officially trained Black American doctor

Robert Freeman was the first Black American dentist

Black Firsts in Politics-

Macon Allen was the first Black American admitted to a law school, and Charlotte Ray was the first Black woman admitted to a law school.

William Henry Hastie was the first Black federal Judge, and Constance Motley was the first Black female federal Judge

Thurgood Marshall was the first Black SCOTUS Justice

Alexander Lucius Twilight was the first Black state-elected official

Pierre Landry was the first Black city mayor, and Carl Stokes was the first Black mayor of a major US city

Jonathan Wright was the first Black state supreme court justice

Hiram Revels was the first appointed Black US Senator, and Edward Brooke was the first elected Black US Senator

P.B.S Pinchback was the first appointed Black state governor

Crystal Fauset was the first Black female legislator in the US

Shirley Chisholm was the first Black female U.S representative

Carol Braun was the first Black female U.S Senator

Joseph Rainey was the first Black person to serve in the US House of Representatives

Joseph Jenkins Roberts was the first African-American president of any nation (Liberia)

Black Firsts in Education-

Theodore Wright was the first Black graduate of an Ivy League School

Lucy Stanton was the first Black woman to graduate college in America

Charles Reason was the first Black college professor

Daniel Payne was the first Black college president

Dr. David Peck was the first Black person to graduate from medical school

Alexander Lucius Twilight was the first Black person to receive a degree from an American college

Mary Patterson was the first Black American woman to earn a B.A

Fanny Coplin was the first Black woman to become principal of a school

Richard Greener was the first Black Harvard graduate

Black Firsts in the Arts-

Lucy Terry was the first Black American poet and Phillis Wheatley was the first published Black American poet

Gwendolyn Brooks was the first Black Pulitzer Prize winner

William Brown was the first Black American novelist, and Harriett Wilson was the first Black female American novelist

Toni Morrison was the first Black winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature

Francis Johnson was the first published Black American musical composer

Marian Anderson was the first Black member of the Metropolitan Opera

Harry Swan was the first Black American to found a record label, Black Swan Records

Count Basie was the first Black person to win a Grammy, and Ella Fitzgerald was the first Black woman to win a Grammy

William Lane was the first nationally famous Black dancer, and Arthur Mitchell was the first Black principal dancer in a major dance company

Oscar Micheaux was the first Black film director

Hattie McDaniel was the first Black person to win an Oscar, and Juanita Hall was the first Black person to win a Tony

William Still was the first Black American to both direct a major orchestra and have their composition performed by a major orchestra

Black Firsts in Sports-

Oliver Lewis was the first Black jockey to Win Kentucky Derby

Moses Walker was the first Black professional baseball player

John Shippen Jr. was the first Black professional Golfer

Marshall “Major” Taylor was the first Black world cycling champion

George Poage was the first Black Olympic medalist at the Summer games, and John Taylor was the first Black Olympic gold medalist at the Summer games

Jackie Robinson was the first 20th century Black MLB player

Rajo Jack de Soto was the first Black professional race car driver

Willie Thrower was the first Black NFL quarterback

Willie O’Ree was the first Black NHL player

Alice Coachman was the first Black woman to win an individual gold medal at the summer olympic games

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A grumpy Tom Hanks stars in 'A Man Called Otto'

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Sentimental tales about grumpy old men and American decline have, until recently, typically been the domain of Clint Eastwood.

But in “A Man Called Otto,” Marc Forster's adaptation of Fredrik Backman's bestseller and a remake of the 2016 Swedish film “A Man Called Ove,” it's Tom Hanks prowling the neighborhood and irritably grumbling about how things used to be. In the original, Rolf Lassgård richly inhabited the role of Ove, a curmudgeonly widower — a Forrest Grump —whose suicide attempts are foiled by needy neighbors and, ultimately, his grudging, sincere devotion to them.

Exasperation, whether directed at a crying ballplayer or a slobbering canine, has always been squarely in Hanks' wheelhouse. But despondency or even plain get-off-my-lawn orneriness are less obvious traits possessed by the actor sometimes called “America's Dad.” Following Hanks' villainous turn as Col. Tom Parker in “Elvis,” the 66-year-old has found in “A Man Called Otto” another role that interestingly, if not always entirely successfully, caters to his strengths while tweaking his familiar screen presence.

It also may rob “A Man Called Otto," which opens with Otto buying rope to hang himself with, of some of its spirit. We know there are dark roads that Hanks just isn't going to go down, and some of the early, more caustic scenes of Forster's film strike a false note. But as “A Man Called Otto” makes its way through Otto's life, cutting between his present-day squabbles and flashbacks of happier times with his wife, Sonya (Rachel Keller), Hanks movingly tailors the role to himself. How "A Man Called Otto” unfolds won't surprise anyone, but it does the trick for a little post-holidays heart-warming.

“A Man Called Otto” is set in the prefab row-house development Otto has long lived in, where he tirelessly tisk-tisks any rule breakers, re-sorts misplaced recycling and berates drivers who violate the street's regulation against through traffic.

Screenwriter David Magee ("Life of Pi," “Finding Neverland”) hues closely to the Swedish film as a kind of parable of community. Up and down the street are all the people the freshly retired Otto barely tolerates: friends-turned-enemies (Peter Lawson Jones, Juanita Jennings), a friendly exerciser (a delightful Cameron Britton), a transgender paper deliverer and former student of Otto's wife (Mack Bayda). Most of all there is Marisol (a terrific Mariana Treviño), a pregnant mother of two has just moved in with her husband (Manuel Garcia-Rulfo). Various needs — a stray cat, a borrowed ladder, driving lessons — intrude on Otto's desires for a peaceful death and, in between aborted suicide attempts, gradually rekindle his will to live.

It's sometimes too broadly drawn. Mike Birbiglia plays a predatory real estate agent from a company not-so-subtly called Dye & Merica. (“Sounds like Dying America, which it is,” says Otto.) But “A Man Called Otto” is less after realism than it is a modern-day fable, with shades of Scrooge and the Grinch. As a tale of a solitary man, Hanks has made it a poignant work of family. Rita Wilson, his wife, is a producer and is heard singing a song in the film. The younger Otto is played in flashbacks by their son, Truman Hanks. Even Chet Hanks' “White Boy Summer” blares from a car radio.

Another tune, though, is a more thrilling needle drop. The less said probably the better, but suffice to say, it could be a sign that the Kate Bush renaissance so hearteningly kicked up by “Stranger Things” has not yet abated. If that's not life-affirming, I don't know what is.

"A Man Called Otto,” a Sony Pictures release, is rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association for mature thematic material involving suicide attempts, and language. Running time: 126 minutes. Two and a half stars out of four.

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Tomato Red (2017)

dir. Juanita Wilson

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Renee Zellweger in What / If

Kathryn Hahn in The Romanoffs: End of the Line

Ruth Wilson in Mrs.Wilson

Emma Stone in Maniac

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Crime by Night (1943) William Clemens

January 12th 2020

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On this day:

LOCH NESS MONSTER

On February 25, 1934, Mrs. M. MacLennan saw the Scottish Loch Ness Monster surveying the large loch from side to side before it plunged back below the surface. In spite of hundreds of reported sightings, Nessie's existence has never been conclusively established.

In AD 565, a Pict disciple of the Irish St. Columba was swimming across the mile-wide, murky water when the monster unexpectedly surfaced "with a great roar and open mouth." From the shore St. Columba commanded, "Think not to go further, nor touch thou that man. Quick go back..." Obediently, the beast retreated.

Some Loch Ness monster sightings have taken place on land. From their car, a London businessman and his wife saw a six-foot-long, four-foot-high, snail-like creature emerge from the bracken at the roadside and head into the lake. Years later, a veterinary student on his motorcycle observed a small creature with a snakelike head, large eyes, huge body, and two sets of flippers come from the bushes, cross the road, and enter the water.

The year 1933 saw the appearance of the famous "Surgeon's Photo,” taken by Robert Wilson and showing the monster from a distance of 200 to 300 yards. The photo revealed the creature's long neck and arched body. Many, many years later, the photo was claimed to be a hoax, but the claim was made under suspicious circumstances. In 1951, a forestry worker was milking his cows when he noticed three humps arise from a disturbance on the loch. He took one picture before his camera jammed.

In the 1960s, science took over. Cameras, sonar equipment, and other gear were strategically placed around the 950-foot-deep lake. A submersible was employed, and a preposterous concoction of animal components was prepared. But Nessie refused to take the bait.

Text from: Almanac of the Infamous, the Incredible, and the Ignored by Juanita Rose Violins, published by Weiser Books, 2009

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