#Michael Pearce

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News • 'Echo Valley' 🐴 officially wrapped up filming with Sydney Sweeney and Julianne Moore July 14, 2024 after coming back from a long hiatus due to the SAG-AFTRA/WGA strikes in 2023.

The film is currently in post-production. Release date TBA!

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Encounter (2021)

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Michael Pearce

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Beast (2017)

It’s really a shame that the film wasn’t able to deliver on what it suggested to be setting up in the trio of characters between the brow-beaten Moll, her domineering mother, and the strange new figure of Pascal. Hillary is vicious and manipulative toward her daughter, blowing hot and cold to keep Moll under her thumb. In the opening, Hillary decides to announce another, more favored daughter’s pregnancy at Moll’s birthday party, and later infantilizes her by demanding to know if she knows right from wrong and humiliates her in front of her family before turning on a dime and saying that they should all be friends. This sort of psychological torture creates a figure primed for any sort of opportunity for escape or rebellion. Pascal is introduced scaring off someone making untoward gestures at Moll by firing a gun into the air. He’s a coarse presence, both in the face of the “polite society” tax-dodging British occupants of Jersey due to his lower class status, and in his risky behaviors. But is he risky or dangerous? It’s one thing to drive too fast or encourage someone to follow them along up a cliff for a romantic kiss, and another to be a killer. Is Pascal grooming Moll, or is he just a bit of a roughneck? The film veers sharply off course, ironically as it delves into Moll’s interiority. She has a spotty background herself which comes to light, having attacked a classmate out of self-defense or revenge, she states both. Her character shifts dramatically from a put-upon victim seeking an escape to a desperately selfish target for ire by the community, behaving ever more erratically. For a stretch this becomes my least favorite subgenre, the tar-and-feathers community bullying thriller such as Kristoffer Borgli’s Dream Scenario or Thomas Vinterberg’s Jagten. These situations are always focused on everyone behaving like complete shitheels, angry mob and victim/target alike. It’s a lazy way to put viewers through an emotional wringer. Once that’s dispensed of, we enter… Moll’s villain era? This is at best a woefully misguided handling of the nature vs nurture debate, with our waif suddenly wanting to become Bonnie and Clyde or something, and then a non-answer as to whether it’s Pascal or the random Portuguese dude as the killer. So either xenophobia or poor understanding of mental health wins. Cool!

THE RULES

SIP

Hillary says something super controlling and manipulative.

Caring for Moll's father is mentioned.

BIG DRINK

Choral singing begins in a scene.

Strange dreamlike imagery.

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Season in the Abyss by Slayer, from The Big Four: Live from Sofia, Bulgaria

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"I can call any of them on the phone any time I want to. John, Desi, Mike, or Papa Mike … my four dads."

-Sean Astin

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Encounter (2021) dir. Michael Pearce

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Peter Weyland + David 8 / Alien: Covenant (2017) / Director Ridley Scott

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ALIEN: COVENANT (2017)

Director: Ridley Scott Cinematography: Dariusz Wolski

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happy valentines day!!!!!!!!!!

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titaniquemusical: The Gleek X #TITANIQUE crossover you never knew you needed. Thanks, @ darrencriss for joining us aboard the Ship of Dreams!

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Today in the Department of Before They Were Star Trek Stars, Majel Barrett guest stars in "Three Brides for Hoss," episode 22 of the seventh season of Bonanza (original air date February 20, 1966). Barrett plays Annie Slocum, the first of three mail-order brides who show up at the Ponderosa claiming to be engaged to Hoss Cartwright. They were really sent for by Hoss's friend, a widower who wants a mother for his high-strung daughter. Hijnks ensue, but in the end Annie bonds with the daughter and decides to marry the widower. The other two brides marry Annie's backwoods brothers, and the Cartwrights' bachelorhood survives another week.

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Poll: Favourite Ebenezer Scrooge?

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Cole: So glad to be back on Smackdown with a competent GM.

Pearce, In The Distance:

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Alien: Covenant (2017) Ridley Scott