#Timothy V. Murphy

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Criminal Minds - One Quote per Episode ↳ s06e16 - Coda

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Tragedy Girls

What would it do to Roger Corman��s THE LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS (1960) if you added a scene explaining the pain that turned Audrey’s boyfriend into a sadist? Or revealed the trauma that led one of Seymour victims to a life of prostitution? Well, that’s what happens to Tyler MacIntyre’s TRAGEDY GIRLS (2017, Shudder, AMC+, Hulu, Peacock, Plex, Tubi). What starts as a zippy black comedy about the thirst for fame suddenly gets a heart and never quite recovers.

High school best friends McKayla (Alexandra Shipp) and Sadie (Brianna Hildebrand) run a YouTube page dedicated to murder under the name “Tragedy Girls.” With few subscribers, they set out to capitalize on a series of killings in their small town and actually manage to capture the serial killer (Kevin Durand). But the police keep calling the murders accidents, so, with Durand locked up, they start killing people themselves in order to drive viewership.

As long as their victims are utterly obnoxious — Shipp’s ex- (Josh Hutcherson), a poseur who runs his own murder site, the snooty head cheerleader (Savannah Jayde) and a local celebrity (Craig Robinson) who steals their thunder  — it’s all slapstick grand guignol fun. We don’t care about the victims, so we get caught up in the Tragedy Girls’ outlandish efforts to draw attention to their social media presence. And two of the deaths are Rube Goldberg delights that prompt a well-earned reference to FINAL DESTINATION (2000). But partway through, Hildebrand’s crush (Jack Quaid) has a heartfelt scene with his father (Timothy V. Murphy), the local sheriff, discussing the death of the boy’s mother. The actors are playing what the script has given them and playing it quite well. But after that, it gets hard to laugh at the rest of the action. Suddenly these are real people we’re dealing with, and the whole thing starts to go sour.

Former film editor MacIntyre directs well and pulls off some nice montages. In one, the camera roams about the high school to reveal a series of scenes of the Tragedy Girls pontificating about the murder to their classmates as their views grow. And the cast does well. Both leading ladies are good actresses, Durand is funny and scary as the volatile but dim-witted serial killer and Quaid is a natural as the school mensch. MacIntyre would go on to do better work with “The Gawkers” segment of V/H/S/99 (2022), the script to FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDIE’S (2023) and directing Michael Kennedy’s script for IT’S A WONDERFUL KNIFE (2023), which does a much better job of balancing black comedy with heart.

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Movie Review ~ The Fabulous Four

The Fabulous Four Synopsis: Three friends travel to Key West, Florida, to be bridesmaids at a surprise wedding of their friend from college.Stars: Susan Sarandon, Bette Midler, Megan Mullally, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Bruce Greenwood, Timothy V. Murphy, Michael BoltonDirector: Jocelyn MoorhouseRated: RRunning Length: 99 minutes Review: Within the last decade, there have been a pleasing number of films…

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Look who resurrected in law and order organised crime? 😂✨

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OC rewatch out of order part ?/?

Was making a character guide to the show for my dad and while listing the villains I straight up forgot Eamonn Murphy because I melded him in my head with Ian Doyle.

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This is a nice drama (more) - comedy (slightly less), romance movie.

No over-the-top scenes, but a more subdued characterization (well done too).

Not predictable Hallmark romance movie type either (and there's nothing wrong with that either).

Check if it suits your taste (skip the initial few minutes, if you need to).

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HERD trailer released

Framework Productions is thrilled to share the first trailer for action horror HERD. Officially Selected for this years FrightFest, the film will celebrate its World Premiere on August 26th at the iconic horror festival. Directed by Steven Pierce, the film stars Corbin Bernsen (Major League, Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang, LA Law), Timothy V. Murphy (Snowpiercer, National Treasure: Book of Secrets), Ellen…

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HERD (2023) Zombie survival movie - trailer

Herd is a 2023 American survival horror film about a woman who ends up trapped between a zombie outbreak and warring militia groups. Directed and co-produced by Steven Pierce from a screenplay co-written with co-producer James Allerdyce. Also produced by Bret Carr, Ryan Guess, Lori Kay, Matt Mundy, Lev Peker, Michael Szmyga and Matt Walton. The Framework Productions movie stars Corbin Bernsen,…

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WATCHLIST 2022: MacGruber

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my edit used in the trend… I made it!

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Law & Order: Organized Crime – 3x14 All in the Game (x)

Christopher Meloni as Elliot Stabler Timothy V. Murphy as Eamon Murphy

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Fire Island (2023)

Boy, did I watch the wrong FIRE ISLAND! It’s not that I stumbled into Paramount+ thinking I’d launched Hulu and watched half of Myles Clohessy’s 2023 retro slasher film thinking I was watching the gay PRIDE AND PREJUDICE. I actually sat through the trailer, thought it looked promising and had a hot leading man, and deliberately set out to view it. It even had some good things going for it at the start. But before long I came up against some serious flaws related to the slasher genre. Basically, if you don’t have the sustaining vision of a John Carpenter or a Mario Bava or even, Goddess help us, a Sean Cunningham, your slasher tends to be one of two things. If you can’t build characters, it’s just a mindless gorefest, and if you can, it’s monstrous. Clohessy’s film falls into the latter camp.

Troy (Connor Paolo) has been a recluse since his ex-boyfriend committed suicide just as the pandemic hit, driving him into isolation. His lesbian best friend (Annie Fox) browbeats him into joining her and some others who’ve been isolating steadily for a weekend on Fire Island. Her partner even wants to set him up with a new man. Before they get there, however, a killer wearing a deer’s head has taken out a young lesbian and an older gay couple. Once they arrive, he sets his sights on Paolo and his friends.

Clohessy and his co-writers (Emma and Phil Harrell) do a good job of setting up the serous issues tormenting Paolo. They capture the relief at finally coming out of isolation when he and his friends agree to become a pod and the trauma he’s still dealing with from finding his ex-lover’s body. And Paolo and Fox are charming, empathic actors whose scenes together really pull you in. In addition, Kahyun Kim, as the flighty hostess, is a natural comic with some great line-readings. But then the killings start, and you’re so invested in the characters it’s monstrous seeing them threatened. Clohessy also writes a few checks his script doesn’t cash. The older couple (winningly played by Ramesey K. Helman and Bryan Foster) is also recovering from a trauma from years earlier that left someone dead, but nothing’s explained, and it ends up having no bearing on the plot. Paolo is twice accosted by a Scot (Timothy V. Murphy) warning him to get off the island, but that goes nowhere (though it’s funny that the closed captions turn the Shakespeare quote “unsex me here” into “and sex me here”). And though Paolo speaks warmly of his ex-, Kim tells her boyfriend he was a horrible person.  Again, nothing comes of it.

And then there’s the killer. The man in the deer’s head is a strong image, but when he’s revealed, the motivation seems like some desperate attempt to tie into the themes of trauma and isolation. And the actor is just plain bad. It’s overplaying with nothing beneath it. He doesn’t even have enough style ot make it camp. So he seems to have wandered in from another movie. By the end, I was wishing the film had been mashed up with the better-known FIRE ISLAND (2022), so that Bowen Yang and Margaret Cho could have quipped the killer into oblivion. There’s a lot to be said for having a sharp tongue.

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Got jumpscared by Timothy V. Murphy (Ian Doyle) playing a sheriff with a curly mustache and a thick southern accent while watching Tragedy Girls omg

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Tell me why I'm rewatching the second National Treasure for like the 50th time, and am just now realizing that Ian Doyle is in it

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Writer-director Adam Sherman (This Game’s Called Murder) has set the cast for his newest indie feature, the horror comedy Vampires of the Velvet Lounge. Mena Suvari (American Beauty) and Dichen Lachman (Severance) lead the ensemble, which also includes Stephen Dorff (Blade), Rosa Salazar (Alita: Battle Angel), Lochlyn Munro (Peacemaker), India Eisley (I Am the Night), Sarah Dumont (Scout’s Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse), Mark Boone Jr. (Sons of Anarchy), Tom Berenger (Platoon), Timothy V. Murphy (The Fabulous Four), Sherman Augustus (Strangers Things) and Tyrese Gibson (Fast & Furious franchise).

Drawing inspiration from titles like Shaun of the Dead and From Dusk Till Dawn, the film currently shooting in Georgia [ed. filming has currently wrapped] watches as a coven of the blood-suckers struggles to come to terms with the modern world and their own mortality as they are locked in a battle with a deadly foe.

In addition to Sherman, producers on the project include Marcus Englefield and George Lee for Storyoscopic Films (Animal Crackers). Noémi Santo is co-producing for Adam Sherman Film.

“I’m making a modern-day feature with an amazingly talented cast and crew about the most prolific serial killer in history, the historical countess Elizabeth Bathory, in the style of the ’70s and ’80s horror movies that I grew up watching,” said Sherman. “She believed bathing in the blood of young women would make her live forever, and there’s no physical or scientific evidence that she ever died. I look forward to the day I can share this insane, twisted, and surrealist story with audiences.”

Producers Englefield and Lee added that the film is “a sexy, funny, and original thriller packed with stunts and action that takes viewers on a fun ride. Between Adam’s vision and the stellar performances delivered by our incredible ensemble, we know the film will have strong market appeal both in the U.S. and internationally.”

A few pictures behind the scenes:

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By Matt Grobar

EXCLUSIVE: Sheryl Lee Ralph (Abbott Elementary), Timothy V. Murphy (Appaloosa) and Bruce Greenwood (The Fall of the House of Usher) have boarded The Fabulous Four, a new comedy from Bleecker Street, which has entered production in Georgia under an Interim Agreement from SAG-AFTRA.

The actors join an ensemble that also includes Susan Sarandon, Bette Midler, and Megan Mullally, as previously announced. Ralph takes over the role of Sissy Spacek, who was attached as of last fall but was forced to drop out due to scheduling conflicts. Bleecker Street nabbed North American rights to the pic last October and will release the film in U.S. theaters in 2024. UTA Independent Film Group and CAA Media Finance arranged the financing and brokered the deal for U.S. rights, with Sierra/Affinity repping international sales.

Written and directed by Jocelyn Moorhouse, the Cannes prize-winner best known for her Kate Winslet pic The Dressmaker, the film follows three life-long friends (Sarandon, Mullally, and Ralph) who travel to Key West, Florida to be bridesmaids in a surprise wedding of their college girlfriend Marilyn (Midler). Once there, sisterhoods are rekindled, the past rises up again in all its glory, and there are enough sparks, drinks and romance to change all their lives in ways they never expected.

Richard Barton Lewis’ Southpaw Entertainment is producing alongside Lauren Hantz of Hantz Motion Pictures.

An icon of stage and screen, Ralph has won an Emmy and numerous other accolades for her portrayal of kindergarten teacher Barbara Howard on Abbott Elementary, the ABC mockumentary that has emerged as one the most popular scripted series on linear. The show, created by and starring Quinta Brunson, was renewed for a third season in January but only recently returned to the writers’ room, following the conclusion of the WGA strike. Otherwise perhaps best known for her Tony-nominated turn as Deena Jones in Broadway’s Dreamgirls, Ralph has also been seen in Mistress with Robert de Niro, To Sleep with Anger with Danny Glover, The Distinguished Gentlemen with Eddie Murphy, and Sister Act 2 with Whoopi Goldberg, along with such series as Moesha and Ray Donovan.

Most recently recurring on Law & Order: Organized Crime and ABC’s The Company You Keep, Murphy previously reprised his role in Uni’s comedy MacGruber on the same-name Peacock series. Other recent credits for the actor on the TV side include S.W.A.T., Snowpiercer, Westworld, and True Detective, to name just a few. Additional feature credits include In Full Bloom, The Lone Ranger, and National Treasure: Book of Secrets.

Greenwood puts in a stellar turn as Fortunato Pharmaceuticals CEO Roderick Usher in Netflix’s Edgar Allen Poe-inspired miniseries The Fall of the House of Usher from Mike Flanagan, which bowed on the platform earlier this month. He also recently starred in the Fox medical drama The Resident, which ran for six seasons, and will soon appear in fantasy pic The Invisibles with Tim Blake Nelson and Gretchen Mol, among other projects.

At this year’s Toronto Film Festival, Bleecker Street nabbed U.S. rights to James Hawes’ One Life, starring Anthony Hopkins, and the starry British comedy Fackham Hall, which goes into production next year. The company also locked down UK rights, alongside Elysian Film Group and Anonymous Content, to Hayao Miyazaki’s The Boy and the Heron. Upcoming releases include the Meg Ryan-helmed rom-com What Happens Later, coming to theaters November 3, which she leads with David Duchovny, and Sara Bareilles and Jessie Nelson’s Waitress: The Musical, out December 7 with Fathom Events.