#Laeta Kalogridis

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Hello everyone!

The series I will introduce to you today is an American science fiction series categorized as cyberpunk. Created by Laeta Kalogridis (Avatar, Shutter Island, Alita: Battle Angel) and based on the novel of the same name written by Richard K. Morgan which was written in 2002, the first season of the series was commissioned by Netflix in 2016 and was released on the streaming platform in 2018. I'm going to tell you about the Altered Carbon series.

As always, let's start with a short synopsis: In a future where humans can transfer their minds from one body to another, Takeshi Kovacs -a rebel- is brought back to life 250 years after his death to solve the vicious murder of the richest man in the world -Laurens Bancroft- in exchange for his freedom. He must find allies, pay attention to every detail, and remember what he was taught as a diplomatic corps to succeed. And a short technical presentation : - Created by Laeta Kalogridis. Based upon Richard K. Morgan's Altered Carbon trilogy. - Music by Jeff Russo. - Main cast: Joel Kinnaman, Renée Elise Goldsberry, James Purefoy, Kristin Lehman, Martha Higareda, Dichen Lachman, Chris Conner, Ato Essandoh, Trieu Tran, Anthony Mackie, Lela Loren, Simone Missick, Dina Shihabi, Torben Liebrecht.

THE PRODUCTION

As I said in the introduction, Netflix ordered the series in January 2016, fifteen years after Laeta Kalogridis - the series's creator- optioned the rights for a film adaptation of Richard K. Morgan's 2002 novel Altered Carbon. According to her, the complex nature of the novel and the fact that the subject matter is rated R made it difficult to sell the project to a production company. But that was before Netflix launched the project as a series! In fact, the series was one of the many dramas commissioned in a short space of time by the streaming platform, which had committed to spending $5 billion on original content and agreed to make it a project for a mature audience over the age of 16.

Laeta Kalogridis co-wrote the script and was executive producer in addition to her role as creator of the project. Richard K. Morgan, the author of the novel, acted as a consultant during the production of the series. The first season - consisting of 10 episodes - was released in 2018 and the second season - consisting of 8 episodes - will be released in 2020.

In 2018, Netflix also announced an animated film derived from the series to ‘expand the universe’ by adding new elements to the story's mythology.

Titled Altered Carbon: Resleeved and released in March 2020, a month after the release of season 2, the feature film uses character designs by manga artist Yasuo Ōtagaki (Moonlight Mile). It is written by Dai Satō (Ghost in the Shell, Cowboy Bebop) and Tsukasa Kondo, directed by Takeru Nakajima (Sword Art Online) and Yoshiyuki Okada, and produced by Anima Studio. It also features an original soundtrack by Keigo Hoashi (Square Enix's Nier franchise) and Kinuyiki Takahashi.

Following the release of the second season and the animated film, Netflix decided in April 2020 not to renew the series. Unlike the cancellation of other series, the decision to cancel Altered Carbon was not linked to the COVID pandemic but stemmed from the lack of return on viewings to the production costs. In fact, the series is the most expensive Netflix production to date and, although production costs have not been disclosed, Joel Kinnaman - who plays Takeshi Kovacs, the series' lead character - said they had “a bigger budget than the first three seasons of Game of Thrones”.

Enough introductions, it's time to get to the heart of the matter! To be perfectly honest, I didn't enjoy watching this series, but I'll come back to that later. I didn't manage to watch it in full and haven't seen the film, although I'll give it a chance one day. In my observations and remarks, there could be questions that remain with me and which may have been answered in the episodes I couldn't bring myself to watch.

THE UNIVERSE

But let's start by giving you more information about the universe into which the series plunges us. The first season takes place in 2384, in a futuristic city called Bay City. In this future, a person's memory and consciousness can be stored on a disc - called a stack - implanted in the back of their neck. The shell can be human or synthetic. In the event of physical death, these storage discs can be transferred to a new envelope. However, if a person's disk is destroyed, then their death is final. While theoretically, this means that anyone can claim immortality, in practice only the richest people - the Meths - have the means to do so through the use of clones and remote back-ups of their consciousness. But these are very expensive and so reserved for a certain financially comfortable elite.

In this reality, Takeshi Kovacs - played by Byron Mann (Skyscraper, The Big Short) in flashbacks - is a political agent with mercenary skills. He is the only surviving soldier of the Envoys, a rebel group defeated during an uprising against the New World Order.

In the first season, which takes place 250 years after the destruction of the Envoys, Kovacs' stack is pulled from the prison where Kovacs was sentenced by Meth Laurens Bancroft. Played by James Purefoy (Solomon Kane, Churchill, Rome), the 300-year-old Bancroft is one of the richest men in the established worlds. Bancroft offers Kovacs a new shell - played by Joel Kinnaman (RoboCop, Suicide Squad) - and the chance to solve a murder and get a new lease on life.

The second season of Altered Carbon begins 30 years after the conclusion of season 1 and finds Takeshi Kovacs - played by Anthony Mackie (Captain America: Civil War, Black Mirror, Notorious) - the sole surviving soldier of an elite group of interstellar warriors, continuing his age-old quest to find his lost love, Quellcrist Falconer - played by Renée Elise Goldsberry (Hamilton, The Good Wife, Masters of Sex). The season picks up some of the characters from Broken Angels - the second book in the series - but has a plot closer to that of the third book in the series, Woken Furies.

THE POST-CYBERPUNK GENRE

The term post-cyberpunk was first used around 1991 to describe Neal Stephenson's science fiction novel Snow Crash.

In 1998, in an article entitled Notes for a post-cyberpunk manifesto, the writer and critic Lawrence Person identified the emergence of a post-cyberpunk current. Cyberpunk was popular in the late 1970s and 1980s (Ridley Scott's Blade Runner, William Gibson's Neuromancer). Lawrence Person defines post-cyberpunk as ‘bringing in characters and settings different from cyberpunk, and, above all, making fundamentally different assumptions about the future. Far from being lonely outsiders, post-cyberpunk characters are often an integral part of society. They evolve in a future that is not necessarily anti-utopian (in fact, they are often bathed in an optimism that ranges from caution to exuberance), but their daily lives remain marked by rapid technological renewal and ubiquitous computerized infrastructure.’ (Notes for a post-cyberpunk manifesto, 1998).

The following are the main differences between post-cyberpunk and cyberpunk:

Like its predecessor, post-cyberpunk describes a realistic near-future rather than distant futures set in space. The focus is on the social effects of technology deployed on Earth rather than on space travel.

Cyberpunk typically deals with addicted loners in a dystopia, whereas post-cyberpunk tends to deal with people who are more involved in society, from the middle classes of the population, and there are very detailed descriptions of the characters' environment.

The post-cyberpunk individual tends to be warm and funny, attempting seduction through optimism after years of seduction through dread with the cyberpunk individual, who is colder and more sinister.

In cyberpunk, the alienating effects of new technology are highlighted, whereas in post-cyberpunk, technology is society. Post-cyberpunk therefore allows more technocratic themes and themes relating to the downside of technology to be included than cyberpunk.

Post-cyberpunk also offers a more realistic description of computers, consisting, for example, of the replacement of traditional virtual reality by a network of voice, image, sound or holography based on the Internet, or the abandonment of metallic implants in favor of body modifications using biotechnologies (particularly nanotechnologies).

Post-cyberpunk undoubtedly emerged in part because science fiction writers and the general population were beginning to use computers, the Internet, and PDAs without suffering the massive digital divide predicted in the 1970s and 1980s. The underlying idea was therefore to humanize the construction of cyberpunk universes and bring them closer to the life that the world's population could envisage in the future with the new technologies that were flourishing. The nightmarish visions engendered by the genre, including and especially in the popular imagination, covered what such a future could contain that was desirable. This is not to say that technological paradise is just around the corner, but that it is possible to be healthy and sane in a hyper-technological universe.

Emblematic works of the genre such as Masamune Shirow's Ghost in the Shell, and the video games Deus Ex and Deus Ex: Invisible War by Ion Storm, Deus Ex: Human Revolution and Deus Ex: Mankind Divided by Eidos Montreal have all played a large part in democratizing the genre among a wider audience.

DIFFERENCES FROM THE NOVEL

As I haven't read the books, I'm giving you the information as I found it during my research into the series. I think I'll try to read the novels one day because, like the animated film, I'm very interested in the theme. As someone afraid of the direction our society is taking, of its relationship with technology, and in particular of its untimely and irrational use of artificial intelligence, I'm always interested in the warnings that artists try to convey through their work, whatever the medium. And I like to think that just because I didn't like an adaptation - it can happen - doesn't mean that the original material isn't worth discovering.

The first season is based on the novel Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan, published in 2002. This is the first volume of a trilogy recounting the adventures of Takeshi Kovacs, a post-cyberpunk techno-thriller series set on the West Coast of the United States at the end of the twenty-fifth century. Although the adaptation retains most of the main plot points of the first volume, the series introduces several major changes to its characters and organizations:

In the novel, the Envoys are elite soldiers of the Earth-based United Nations Protectorate, the complete opposite of the rebel freedom fighters portrayed in the series, who hail from Harlan's World where Takeshi Kovacs was born.

In the book, Takeshi Kovacs was imprisoned for his independent work after leaving the Envoys, whereas in the series, Kovacs is a captured rebel.

Reileen Kawahara's character in the novel was merely Kovacs' ruthless underworld boss and had no blood relationship with him, unlike their brother/sister relationship in the series where she is played by Dichen Lachman.

The Envoy who trained Kovacs in the book was Virginia Vidaura, whereas in the series she is only a minor character. The role of her trainer and her story are carried over to the character of Quellcrist Falconer, who in the third book is the messiah-like historical figure.

Falconer's rebellion did not take place during Kovacs' training, as in the series, but long before Kovacs was born in the books.

In Richard K. Morgan's novel, the Hendrix Hotel is a crucial character. It's not just a Jimi Hendrix-themed building, but also an artificial intelligence in the guise of Jimi Hendrix that has a strange bond with its only guest, Takeshi Kovacs. With Hendrix's estate refusing to license his image for the TV series due to its violence, series's creator Laeta Kalogridis chose the likeness of Edgar Allan Poe - played by Chris Conner - and a Victorian hotel for the replacement AI in Poe's image and said it would juxtapose well with the futuristic look of Bay City.

In the books, Kristin Ortega - played by Martha Higareda- is a much less important character. The main female character in the series, the dedicated detective doesn't have a devastating fight with the Ghostwalker, nor does she get a new super-powered arm. Her subplot with her family and religion isn't explored in the book and she isn't captured and tortured by Rei - although she is tortured all the same. Also, in the book her partner is called Rodrigo, not Aboud, and he doesn't date her mother.

And these are just some of the changes that were made when the novels were adapted for Netflix.

THEMES

Let's move on to the themes addressed in this dystopian work. Many of the themes addressed by the series - such as the human-machine interface, the alliance between technology and our society, cyberspace and objective reality, hyper-urbanisation and artificial intelligence - are recurring themes in cyberpunk and post-cyberpunk works.

Because of the technological implications, the subject also raises moral questions. Is murder always immoral if it is consensual and the victim can be reimplanted in a new body in the space of a few minutes? The police themselves issue permits for spectacular fights to the death, organized in the homes of the rich, with husbands and wives teaming up to fight to the death for entertainment (the winner receiving a new, improved body).

However, another major implication was raised during the first season of Altered Carbon, which Laeta Kalogridis herself underlines: the separation of soul and body and the question of gender identity. If you could choose your own body, would you choose the one you were born with? This is a critical question for transgender people or those whose gender is fluid, and, for the show's creator, the subject was only touched on in this first season. However, she told TheWrap in 2019 that she would like to explore this dimension in more detail :

“The idea that this kind of technology creates interesting intersections between your idea of your physical self and your idea of your inner or spiritual self, or your idea of being fluid in some way, certainly the idea of reassigning your gender, becomes a whole lot easier if you don’t actually have to do it surgically. At the very least it becomes different. You are still in a body you weren’t born in. And I think exploring the idea of being able to recreate the physical self in another different way, I mean we’ve barely scratched the surface of that. And LGBTQ, and so many issues, and the ways in which we feel comfortable or uncomfortable in our physical bodies, are things that I think the show is very right to explore but has not yet been able to do. Certainly first season. We touched on it a little bit — but not much. I mean if we did get a second season — which we don’t know yet — but if we were to get a second season, I would definitely say that was one thing we frankly didn’t have time to touch on and wasn’t dealt with in the book at all. We went a little further than the book did, but honestly, it was just about time.”

What's interesting to me about these themes is that the creators - Richard K. Morgan and Laeta Kalogridis - are both aware that technological developments of all kinds are changing the structure of the world, just as cars, air travel, the Internet, and cell phones have done, and that they're not trying to wrap a soft pink cloud around the dangers that could await us in a few decades.

COSTUMES

There's one aspect that surprised me, it's the costume work in the series. Having read that the production had created approximately 2,000 costumes for the series, including 500 unique, made-to-measure pieces, I was expecting to get a real kick out of this. And although the work of Ann Foley (Marvel's Agents of SHIELD) for season 1, Cynthia Ann Summers (The Last of Us) for season 2 and their teams is visible, I was expecting more grandiose costumes, especially for the Bancrofts who are one of the wealthiest families on Earth at the time of the story. The artistic direction chosen was to make simple, realistic costumes to illustrate the fashion of the future, while adding a color palette and specific details, notably for the Meths.

However, I really like the idea of subtle costume changes for characters who use the same body envelope to differentiate them, as with Miriam Bancroft and her daughter Naomi - both played by Kristin Lehman. Upon this subject, the actress declared that she was very interested in the challenge this ambivalence would require and that it was quite different from her usual roles.

SHOOTING LOCATIONS

The series was mainly filmed at Skydance Studios in Vancouver, Canada, where they stayed for eight months to shoot the first season. Most of Altered Carbon's scenes were created on green screen and in CGI to accentuate the futuristic effect of the universe.

Lead actor Joel Kinnaman told Canadian publication K5 News about the shoot:

"We had a set three soccer pitches deep. Around 400 or 500 extras were bustling around us, it was a real living city, with noodle stores, construction workers and police officers… You could just breathe in the universe without having to imagine anything."

Some of the sets were filmed in real locations, such as Laurens Bancroft's gardens pictured above which were filmed in the Rose Garden at the University of British Columbia, or the hall of the Marine Building, which served as the Bancroft family home.

The former Canada Post building was used as the setting for the Wei Clinic, where Kovacs was tortured. The scenes with the Envoys were filmed on the Sea to Sky Gondola suspension bridge in Squamish.

Other filming locations in Vancouver included the Convention Centre West Building, the VanDusen Botanical Gardens Visitor Centre, the UBC Museum of Anthropology and the Qube.

MUSIC

Finally, I'd like to mention the work done by Jeff Russo (Umbrella Academy) and his team on the series' soundtrack, which is, to me, the only real positive point of this adaptation. What I particularly liked about their proposal is that they managed to combine very modern tracks like techno or hard rock (e.g. Karate by BABYMETAL) with much older pieces like jazz masterpieces by Django Reinhardt or even classical music (Anton Dvorak or Mozart). Mingling this alliance with the original creations composed by Jeff Russo for the series allows this soundtrack to create the unique atmosphere of each scene, making it easier for viewers to identify the characters and the stakes involved.

To be perfectly honest, when I was writing this article, I was listening to the series' soundtrack which, even outside the series, is very catchy and captivating. Even though I wasn't really hooked on the series, it allowed me to immerse myself in this universe and draw some personal reflections from it. For me, it's one of the greatest proofs of a successful composer's work: managing to draw someone into a specific universe using a few pieces of music alone.

CONCLUSION

And we are done with the Altered Carbon series. If you've made it this far, thank you for reading and staying!

I'm a pretty tenacious person and don't like to give up on series along the way - even when I don't like them - so I have to admit I'm disappointed to have to add this series to the short list of abandoned series where it joins The Walking Dead and Breaking Bad (amongst others). Someday I hope that the animated film Altered Carbon: Resleeved will find favor in my eyes and redeem the adaptation of this universe, which at the moment still looks fun and interesting to explore.

Until that day comes, I'll leave you to it. Despite this setback for me, I can only advise you to follow Laeta Kalogridis' work and read this fine interview with her on the Refinery29 website, in which she talks, among other things, about her approach to nudity as a feminist weapon.

For those of you who have seen the series or read the novels, I'm curious to know your opinion, especially if it differs from mine. So feel free to leave a little comment below the article or send me a message, on the blog or on Instagram at @theaddictedwatcherreviews.

Have a great week, happy viewings, and I'll see you next time!

Eli.

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Interview with screenwriter Laeta Kalogridis reveals Nova's motives? (possible spoilers for cinematic universe of Alita: Battle Angel)

So, #AlitaArmy once made Q&A with Laeta Kalogridis, co-writer of Alita: Battle Angel. You can learn about interesting things from this interview, I'm surprised people didn't catch it and discuss it.

For example that there was a version of the script where Alita not only finds berserker body in the Badlands, but also Kaos.

And Ido is like - so you just brought home a berserker body AND a stray revolutionary? You're grounded for the rest of your f#ng life.

(Radio K.A.O.S. was supposed to be in the first movie)

The meeting of Alita and Kaos was one of Laeta's fav scenes but they had to cut it from the script.

But what blows my mind is when Laeta says:

(sorry it's a bit hard to transcript)

There was a version of the story that involves the theme of what everyone wanted was actually Kaos himself, he was the desired thing, Desty Nova was pulling the strings, but he was pulling the strings because he wanted his kid back without anybody knowing who he was'

This is just, wow. Such a big piece of info but at the same time still enigmatic and raises even more questions. It really sheds a new light to what we already know and is a great material for theorizing about the lore and the plot of the movies.

And just because they didn't use it in the first movie, doesn't mean they won't in the sequels. Rodriguez said there is a whole document about Alita trilogy, and they had to decide what to put in the first movie and what not.

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Alita: Battle Angel (2019)

My rating: 7/10

Actually liked this one a bit better this time. No idea why, but the boyfriend seemed a mite less tedious, and the absolutely ridiculous body count a bit more entertaining.

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The Franchise Files - Scream 3.

Scream 3. 2000.I have been putting off writing this review because this is my least favourite movie in the franchise. You can definitely tell that the production was absolutely riddled with issues. To start with, Kevin Williamson wasn’t available to write this movie, so Ehren Kruger was hired. He hadn’t seen the first two Scream films before, but accepted the job because he wanted to work with…

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Cléopâtre : Gal Gadot explique pourquoi la production est si longue

On ne sait toujours pas si Gal Gadot reviendra pour Wonder Woman 3, mais elle incarnera bien la reine d'Égypte dans le film Cléopâtre.

Avant que le syndicat des acteurs d'Hollywood, la SAG-AFTRA, ne se joigne aux scénaristes en grève le 14 juillet 2023, Gal Gadot avait déjà commencé la promotion d'Agent Stone, le sous-Mission Impossible de Netflix. Pendant ce début de promotion, l'actrice a évidemment évoqué son futur au sein de DCEU, et a révélé que Wonder Woman 3 avait été relancé. Ce premier choc a vite été suivi d'un second, encore plus absurde. En effet, quelques jours plus tard, et malgré les annonces de Gal Gadot, on apprenait que finalement, Wonder Woman 3 était sûrement toujours annulé.

Toujours avant la grève, Gal Gadot a eu l'occasion d'évoquer son prochain grand rôle, celui de la célèbre reine égyptienne, Cléopâtre. Patty Jenkins, la réalisatrice des deux films Wonder Woman, devait réaliser le biopic, mais elle a finalement quitté son poste en décembre 2021 et la réalisation a été confiée à Kari Skogland, qui a notamment mis en scène plusieurs épisodes de Falcon et le Soldat de l'hiver et de The Handmaid’s Tale. Ce départ cacherait-il une production compliquée ?

Mort sur le Nil : photo, Gal Gadot, Armie HammerLa future Cléopâtre

GAL GADOT : MISSION CLÉOPÂTRE Annoncé en 2020, le projet n'a pas beaucoup avancé depuis, mais malgré la polémique autour du choix de l'actrice, Gal Gadot a hâte de jouer Cléopâtre. Si le film met autant de temps à se faire, c'est peut-être seulement parce que la tâche est immense. C'est en tout cas ce qu'a expliqué Gadot dans une interview accordée au média Flaunt :

"La tâche est conséquente. Je ne veux pas me précipiter, c'est un projet qui a besoin de beaucoup de réflexion et d'attention parce qu'il s'agit de Cléopâtre. Nous avons des scénaristes incroyables qui travaillent sur le scénario, avant et après la grève des scénaristes, comme Laeta Kalogridis. C'est un très beau scénario. Nous ne précipitons rien parce que vous devez être responsable lorsque vous avez affaire à une femme aussi incroyable, iconique et légendaire."*

Wonder Woman 1984 : photo, Gal GadotLe rôle de la rédemption ?

Si le projet avait déjà l'air de prendre son temps, les grèves à Hollywood ne devraient pas arranger la chose. Comme le rappelle Gal Gadot, nous retrouverons au scénario Laeta Kalogridis, scénariste de Shutter Island, Alita : Battle Angel, ou encore Alexandre. Côté casting, seule Gal Gadot a été annoncée.

L'actrice est également productrice du film, comme Patty Jenkins et Charles Roven, producteur des deux Wonder Woman. Le film n'a pas encore débuté son tournage et aucune date de sortie n'a été annoncée. En attendant, Gal Gadot incarnera une autre reine, celle du film Blanche-Neige, prévu pour 2024.

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CALIFICACIÓN PERSONAL: 5 / 10

Título Original: Pathfinder

Año: 2007

Duración: 99 min

País: Estados Unidos

Dirección: Marcus Nispel

Guion: Laeta Kalogridis, Nils Gaup

Música: Jonathan Elias

Fotografía: Daniel Pearl

Reparto: Karl Urban, Moon Bloodgood, Russell Means, Clancy Brown, etc

Productora: 20th Century Fox, Phoenix Pictures, Dune Entertainment, Major Studio Partners, Dark Horse Entertainment

Género: Adventure; Action; Drama

TRAILER:

[watchingbehindtheeyes]

So, according to Laeta Kalogridis, in the early version of the script, Alita brought home not only the berserker body but also Kaos...

and it made me imagine a cute silly thing.

Kaos - being Nova's son - most likely, he lacked parental love throughout his life.

So Kaos is brought to Ido's home, and he senses that Good Dad Energy™ in Ido, so Kaos would be like :

"Damn wish he adopted me too :("

and on a silly note:

Alita: Hey, back off, that's MY dad, I've found him first!

Kaos: I mean... it was HIM who found YOU, like, literally. Found you in a pile of trash.

Alita: Ooh whatever, you know what I mean!

[cinematicfbombs]

Film: Alita: Battle Angel (2019) [PG-13] Studio: Twentieth Century Fox Character: Alita Actor: Rosa Salazar Director: Robert Rodriguez Screenwriters: James Cameron & Laeta Kalogridis Timestamp: 1:09:21

https://cinematicfbombs.com/2020/01/14/2019-alita-battle-angel/

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LIGHTHOUSE (2019) & SHUTTER ISLAND (2010)

The first time I saw this movie, well, I found it difficult to follow, but in end, it all falls into place. The acting and photography was great. Perhaps, for those of you who may have some difficulty in understanding the movie, the following vid will give you a helping hand.

Edward Daniels & Chuck Aule | SHUTTER ISLAND (2010) What the hell, boss? I’m your partner, for Christ’s sake. ​​​

This blog came about being reblogged from witchinghour who reblogged from kieselguhrkid

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Shutter Island is a 2010 American neo-noir psychological thriller film directed by Martin Scorsese and adapted by Laeta Kalogridis, based on the 2003 novel of the same name by Dennis Lehane.  The film is noted for its soundtrack, which prominently used classical music, such as that of Gustav Mahler, Krzysztof Penderecki, György Ligeti, John Cage, Ingram Marshall, and Max Richter.

Leonardo DiCaprio stars as Deputy U.S. Marshal Edward "Teddy" Daniels, who is investigating a psychiatric facility on Shutter Island after one of the patients goes missing. Mark Ruffalo plays his partner and fellow deputy marshal, Ben Kingsley plays the facility's lead psychiatrist, Max von Sydow plays a German doctor, and Michelle Williams plays Daniels' wife.Shutter Island (film) - Wikipedia

IMdB: 8'2 MYSTERY - THRILLER RUNTIME: 2h 18m

935-2 LINK https://ok.ru/video/6646035581642

The Lighthouse is a 2019 film directed and produced by Robert Eggers, from a screenplay he wrote with his brother Max Eggers. It stars Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson as nineteenth-century lighthouse keepers in turmoil after being marooned at a remote New England outpost by a wild storm. The film has been difficult categorize ranging from a horror film, a psychological thriller, and a character study, among others. The Lighthouse (2019 film) - Wikipedia

the lighthouse (2019) directed by robert eggers REBLOGGED FROM goryhorroor

IMdB: 7'4 DRAMA-FANTASY-HORROR RUNTIME 1h 49m

Two lighthouse keepers try to maintain their sanity while living on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.

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The Two Takeshi Kovacs - Altered Carbon Season 1

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My Own Personal Film Crew if I was a director

Composer: Daniel Pemberton

Cinematographer: Larry Fong

Screenplay Writer: Laeta Kalogridis

& John Logan

Costume Designer: Michael Wilkinson

Production Designer: Gavin Bocquet

Editor: James Herbert

Art Director: David Allday

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*Terminator Genisys (2015, dir. by Alan Taylor)

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Alita: Battle Angel (2019)

20th Century Fox

Impression: brilliantly told story! Absolutely amazing!

Collection: definitely

Overall: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2

Concept: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Story: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Storytelling: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Characters: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Casting: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Visually: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Score/Soundtrack: ⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2

Entertainment: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2

Best: Alita! Visually. Her story. As a character. Everything about her!

Worst: no sequel!!!

[brokehorrorfan]

Funko will soon release Altered Carbon Pop vinyl figures. The line includes three forms of Takeshi Kovacs: Elias Ryker Sleeve, Birth Sleeve, and Wedge Sleeve.

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Ten years ago, one of my favourite directors of all time dropped his most troubling, most head-fucky of a movie to date on us, the film that, in my opinion, contains the best performance that Leonardo Dicaprio has EVER delivered.  This is about as dark and disturbing as cinema gets, and I LOVE IT.  Here’s to a decade of this big scary bag of psycho-thriller genius ...

WARNING!  Potential spoilers ahead for the uninitiated ...