#WILLIAM DEMEO

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3x08 liveblog (probably objectively the best episode this season):

Visiting director? I wish I could tell if that was supposed to be someone we know… (Teddy Dimas)

Her baby boy : (

That guy (Oliver, I think) teetering on the edge of the building in the intro.

“I’ve been crashing with Theo for now.” Vibrating. I hope we get to see even 10 seconds (!!!) of that before this season’s over.

“I have a lot to figure out.” I’m so wondering if she suspects Tobert at all. I’m not sure if her trust in him feels out of character because she doesn’t actually trust him, or because we’re meant to think she’s not doing well.

The best parts of this season for me, someone who doesn’t care about theater, have been the time spent with the trio together and with minor characters we already know from previous seasons. So many shows keep trying to expand their universe when what they should really be doing is going deeper into themselves. I hope next season’s victim is an Arconia resident who makes that happen.

We could just assume Gregg was allowed to post bail, but actually I think kidnapping and attempted murder are just misdemeanors in this universe.

Great entrance from Detective Williams.

Who’s ‘they?’

I feel like Cliff and Donna, at least by themselves, are just too easy, but their reaction to the critic is pretty incriminating.

I like how the trio and Detective Williams are friends now.

Howard and his fanfic.

Usually I don’t really care about Howerd but I’m liking him this episode.

I’m fairly certain that isn’t a weighted blanket.

What will Loretta do to protect her child?

DW, probably: ‘wow, old friends really SHOULD be forgotten and never brought to mind.’

“You know killers sometimes insert themselves into investigations.” She totally suspects Tobert at least a little bit.

“Isn’t he like 50?” “Yeah, he’s a child.” That line makes me feel so many things.

Wouldn’t it be funny if it WAS Bobo and K.T.

🎶which of the Pickwick triplets did it🎵

The more episodes that pass, the more I think Ben and Co staged the poisoning/first death.

This IMovie editing is a little overwhelming to look at.

“What if none of it is true?” !!!!

Loretta’s gonna confess to protect Dickie, isn’t she?

I wish all the episodes of this season were this good.

“With Tobert’s GoPro, we recorded everything.” Yeah, what else did Tobert('s GoPro) record?

Redemption!

Donna starring into the camera is just as uncomfortable as it’s probably meant to be.

(I’m guessing Ben didn’t even drink his protein shake? ‘Fucking pig’)

That whole thing was so dramatic in the best way possible.

Not sure where I'm at with the Ben faking his own death theory after that. Need time to process.

[escapedaudios]

I'll just cast all the rats. (Ahem)

Eddie Hall as Badaboom

William DeMeo as Badabing

Robert DeNiro as Tricky Ricky

Massimiliano Caiazzo as Arrigo Belardi

Mylene Jampanoi as Stacy Beaumont

If you could cast any actors (dead or alive) to play your main characters who would you cast?

I'm going to overextend my interpretation of the "dead or alive" part to include older actors in different eras of their lives. Anyway (Ahem).

Eduardo Noriega as Jean DiPietro

Alan Tudyk circa 2001 as Fletcher

Joe Jonas in mustache mode as Ivan Ibañez. He's 27 in this photo but he's 34 now so he's the perfect age to play him too if he just returns to the mustache.

Ricky "Steamboat" Blood circa 1983 as Crow

Miguel Angel Muñoz as Alfonso Villalba (if only I could get him to shave)

Ethan Lamb Kelly as Ashley Walker, I'm pretty sure he can do a convincing Califonrian accent with enough training.

Moses Thiessen as Thaddeus Clydesdale. Word is that he's gotten more jacked in his post-Riverdale years and soon he'll be buff enough to be a perfect Thad.

Timothee Chalamet as young Benji

Hafþór Björnsson as Basher

Liam Hemsworth as Jäger

No idea who'd play Walter, he just is the mask.

[lifeiswhathappenstoyou]

Analyze That (2002) dir. Harold Ramis

Films I watched during quarantine #231

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Gotti (2018)

You haven’t heard of Gotti? I don’t blame you, It didn't even make back half of its $10 million budget and was primarily distributed by the now-defunct Movie Pass. So why are we talking about it? Well firstly, it holds a rare 0% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Even Freddy Got Fingered managed to scrape an 11% so this has got to be the worst movie ever, right? Further enticing us is the advertising campaign. “Audiences loved Gotti. Critics put out the hit. Who would you trust more? Yourself or a troll behind a keyboard?” After such words, how could one NOT check it out?

Based on the true story, John Gotti (John Travolta) rose through the ranks of New York’s Gambino Crime Family, eventually eliminating its previous leader and replacing him. The film chronicles his 30-year reign as well as his personal life, particularly his relationship with his wife, Victoria (Kelly Preston) and eldest son John “Junior” (Spencer Lofranco).

Honestly, it isn’t really THAT bad. The big green 0% implies a special kind of awful, which it isn’t. This is an extremely vanilla mob film. The performances are just kinda there, nothing about the cinematography, characters, dialogue, etc. stand out. We get the usual suspects of crime films with characters being revealed to be snitches, the police scrambling to make the evidence stick while the crime family eliminates or intimidates witnesses, the media circus which accompanies “The Teflon Don” every time he manages to get acquitted of all charges, etc. You wonder why the film was even made, as it brings nothing new to the genre… except right at the end.

Predominantly told in flashback, the makeup effects Gotti uses on Travolta look are great. The other characters age unconvincingly - mostly because all they do is change clothes and hairdos - but the one responsible for those prosthetics deserves praise. Still, this isn't really noteworthy. What catches your attention are the conclusions' bizarre implications. In the clips of John Gotti’s funeral, hundreds mourn him, proclaiming that while he might’ve been a criminal he did good for the community. Right... I just watched two hours of him unrepentantly murder and intimidate people to line his pockets. Worse is a text crawl which implies the Justice System wasted time, effort and money convicting John Gotti Junior when, instead, it should’ve focused on the people who testified against him. Because Jr. couldn’t have simply NOT gone on to become a career criminal. Come on.

The story behind Gotti - the movie, not the man - winds up being more interesting than the film itself. You could pick apart some of the clunky dialogue or the out-of-place soundtrack, the overall execution or why the community embraced him… but why? This is too bland a movie to demand such attention and I wager few people who see it will remember the film down the line. (January 4, 2019)

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Gotti

June 15, 2018

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(GIFS) Hayden Christensen behind the scenes action on First Kill. Now on DVD, Blu-ray and Digital.

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Day 6. With their friends.

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william_demeo_   On set of @gravesendseries with the beautiful @ginagershon who plays the role of Maria Tremaldo. God Bless! #blessed #ginagershon #brooklyn @mybrooklynbrand #onset 🎥 🎬 #makingithappen #Godisgreat

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[CRITIQUE] First Kill (2017)

[CRITIQUE] First Kill (2017) #Critique #FirstKill #BruceWillis StevenCMiller

Résumé : Un financier de Wall Street est forcé d’échapper à un policier enquêtant sur un braquage de banque, tandis qu’il tente de récupérer l’argent en échange de la vie de son fils.

Critique :

Steven C. Miller (Marauders) est de retour dans le paysage québécois avec la sortie de First Killen DVD / Blu-ray. Cette fois-ci, le cinéaste a réussi un exploit en réalisant un film complet en moins de…

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First Kill

Movie Review: First Kill

Will (Hayden Christensen) takes his family back to the town where he grew up to teach his son Danny (Ty Shelton) how to hunt. As they are waiting for a deer, two men wander into the area. The men argue about the money from a recent bank heist, resulting in one of the men being shot. When the other man hears Will and Danny nearby, he starts shooting at them. Will shoots the man, only to find out…

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Bruce Willis And Hayden Christensen In This Trailer For Action Film, FIRST KILL Do you remember the good old days back when a Bruce Willis action movie is something that we look forward to watching on the big screen in theater because it's bound to be the most badass thing that year?

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2020 Theatrical Holiday Premieres

Updated: December 10,  2020

Lina From Lima (holiday-set drama written and directed by Maria Paz Gonzalez; starring Emilia Ossandon, Sebastian Brahm and Cecilia Cartasegna; A Peruvian woman working for a wealthy family in Chile prepares for a Christmas trip home to see her son, her first in a decade, but things don’t go as planned) - Jan. 4, festival (Trailer); also available on HBO Max as of Oct. 8

The Lodge (Christmas-set horror film starring Riley Keough, Jaeden Martell and Alicia Silverstone; A soon-to-be stepmom gets snowed in with her fiancé's two children at a remote holiday village. Just as relations begin to thaw between the trio, some strange and frightening events take place.) - Feb. 7, Rated R (Trailer); also available on Hulu as of May 5 

The Crossing (a.k.a. Flukten Over Grensen; Norwegian-language film directed by Johanne Helgeland; In WWII Norway, two young children’s parents, active in the resistance, are captured by Nazis just days before Christmas, leaving them to fend for both themselves and the Jewish children they find hidden in their house) - Feb. 14, Norway/US TBA (Trailer, Website)

Tidy Tim’s (holiday comedy starring Shane Woodson, Rich Williams and Jennifer Day, about a father and son run who run a rickety used car lot in Southern California that is facing foreclosure.) - Feb. 15, Rated PG-13, festival (Trailer) also available on DVD Oct. 6

12 Days of Christmas (holiday movie starring Annie Newton and Drew Petriello; directed by Michael Boyle; Best friends home from college on Christmas break navigate an unplanned pregnancy, making it a tricky holiday with their families) - Mar 7, Cinequest Film Festival (Facebook, Website, Trailer) also available on DVD Sep. 1

The Last Christmas Party (indie drama starring Samantha Brooks, Anna Clare Kerr, Lainey Woo, James Williams, Martin Drop and Gabriel Armentano; directed by Julian Santos; Three college couples attend the last fraught party before Christmas break; filmed in New York) - June 7, Festival (Website, Trailer) available on Amazon Prime Nov. 13

Merry Christmas, Yiwu (Documentary from director Mladen Kovacevic focusing on life for workers in the Chinese city that has over 600 Christmas ornament and decor factories.) - June 24, Hot Docs Film Festival (Website, Facebook, Teaser)

A New York Christmas Wedding (starring Chris Noth, Avery Whitted, Joe Perrino, Adriana DeMeo and Tyra Ferrell; written and directed by Otoja Abit; As her Christmas Eve wedding draws near, a woman is visited by an angel and shown what could have been if she’d allowed her feelings for her childhood friend to flourish instead.) - Aug 21, Festival (Trailer, Trailer 2) also available on Netflix as of Nov. 5

A Christmas Cancellation (holiday movie starring Lauren Melty, Marcus Ellison and Elliott Kashner; written and directed by Justin Timpane; A group of fictional TV characters who become sentient as their show is set to end; filmed in Washington, D.C.) - Aug. 31, American Golden Picture International Film Festival (Website, Facebook, Trailer) available on Amazon Prime Nov. 13

A Christmas Tree Love Story (holiday movie starring Gregory Piccirilli and Ashley Holliday Tavares, filmed in Georgia; Two old friends reminiscence while searching for the perfect Christmas tree) - Sep 8, Richmond International Film Festival (Website, Trailer); also available on Amazon Prime as of Dec. 21

Blackbird (drama starring Susan Sarandon, Kate Winslet, Sam Neill, Mia Wasikowska and Rainn Wilson;  A woman with ALS who wants to end her life on her own terms, gathers her family for one final Christmas celebration) - Sep. 18, Rated R (Trailer) also available VOD

We Three Kings (faith-based film from writer-directors Joseph and Stacie Graber; starring Michael W. Smith, Rebecca St. James and Nice Davies; The story behind the Christmas carol; filmed in Denver, Colo.) - Sep. 27, festival (Website, Trailer)

It Cuts Deep (horror-comedy from writer-director Nicholas Santos; A couple on Christmas vacation trying to figure out their future have their lives turned upside down by a disturbing stranger; filmed in Cape Cod, Mass.) - Oct. 8  (Website)

The War With Grandpa (holiday-set family comedy starring Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, Uma Thurman, Jane Seymour, Rob Riggle and Cheech Marin; A grandfather comes to live with his daughter, ousting his grandson from his room and prompting a declaration of war from young to old) - Oct. 9, Rated PG (Trailer), available on digital Dec. 15 and DVD Dec. 22

The Wolf of Snow Hollow (holiday-set horror comedy written, directed and starring Jim Cummings, alongside Riki Lindhome, Robert Forster and Chloe East; A small town sheriff tries to keep control of a panicking small town as a string of murders on full moons makes the townspeople think supernatural thoughts) - Oct. 9, Rated R (Trailer)

The Food Club (a.k.a. Madklubben; Danish film directed by Barbara Topsøe-Rothenborg and starring Kirsten Olesen, Stina Ekblad and Kirsten Lehfeldt; A women abandoned by her husband on Christmas Eve leans on her friends, a widow and lifelong singleton who take her to Italy to take part in an culinary adventure) - Oct. 22 Denmark (Danish Trailer)

Fair Haven (partially crowd-funded indie from Red Skies Studios starring Bobby McGruther and Amandalyn McLellan; A death in the family brings a musician on the verge of making it back to his hometown for the holidays) - Oct. 24, Catskills International Film Festival (Facebook, Indiegogo)

Friendsgiving  (a.k.a. Dinner with Friends; starring Kat Dennings, Malin Akerman, Christine Taylor, Aisha Tyler, Jane Seymour, Chelsea Peretti and Ryan Hansen; directed by Nicol Paone; Friends host a chaotic Thanksgiving dinner) - Oct. 23, Rated R (Trailer) also available on blu-ray Oct. 27

Gledelig Jul (a.k.a. Another Happy Christmas; Norwegian comedy starring Anne Marit Jacobsen and Otto Jespersen; directed by Henrik Martin Dahlsbakken; The story of a family coming together for holidays for the first time in years, where secrets are revealed.) - Oct. 30, Norway  (Website)

A Christmas Gift from Bob (sequel to 2016′s A Street Cat Named Bob, based on the book; starring Kristina Tonteri-Young and Luke Treadaway; A ginger cat saves a homeless man at Christmas) - Nov. 6 UK (Trailer)

My Dad’s Christmas Date (UK holiday-set, comedy-drama starring Joely Richardson, Jeremy Piven, Roger Ashton-Griffiths and Olivia-Mai Barrett; directed by Mick Davis and co-written by Brian and Jack Marchetti; A teenager struggling to cope with her mother’s death signs up her depressed, widower father for a dating service) - Nov. 6, limited (Website, Trailer, Trailer 2) Also available on iTunes

The Santa Box (family movie from writer/director Spanky Dustin Ward and starring Cami Carver and Shawn Stevens; A girl who thinks she’s cursed by Christmas finds a note in a Santa Box left on her doorstep that changes everything; filmed in Utah) - Nov. 6, limited (Facebook) also available via DVD and digital on Nov. 10

Julemandens Datter 2 (a.k.a. All I Want for Christmas 2; Danish-language family film sequel to the popular 2018 movie; After Lucia becomes the first girl to gain entrance to the Santa School, she most prove her best friend, Oscar’s, innocence, after he’s wrongly accused of a crime and expelled from school.) - Nov. 12, Denmark (Trailer)

A Wrestling Christmas Miracle (low-budget movie from right-wing Justice for All Productions, starring Ken Del Vecchio and Oriana D’Agostino and re-using many scenes from last year’s A Karate Christmas Miracle; A young wrestler gives up the sport to make a movie he hope will wake his comatose friend for Christmas) - Nov. 15, festival; also available as of Nov. 27 on Amazon Prime

Malous Jul (Danish-language fantasy film from Frederik Norgaard; starring Karla My Nordquist and Lars Ranthe; A troubled girl finds herself spending Christmas on an island with a family of elves) - Nov. 19, Denmark (Website)

Some Kind of Christmas (holiday movie written and directed by Davien Harlis and produced by his own Act1Scene2 Productions; starring Tomathan McGinnis, Mariela Perez Calderon, Andre Lamar and Derrell Lester; A man comes home for Christmas for the first time in years, but finds his holiday spirit tested when he hires a fake boyfriend to bring home for Christmas) - Nov. 19-21, Cinevision in Ga.  (Website)

A Carolina Christmas (right-wing, faith-based holiday movie from Dalton Pictures; A new city inspector tries to stifle a town’s Christmas celebrations; filmed in South Carolina) - Nov. 20, limited (Making Of Series)

Michael McClean’s The Forgotten Carols (filmed adaptation of the long-running, faith-based, original musical; filmed in Cedar City, Utah) - Nov. 20 in select theaters (Website, Trailer)

The Christmas Chronicles: Part Two (holiday movie sequel to the 2018 film starring Kurt Russell as a sassy Santa, Goldie Hawn, Kimberly Williams-Paisley and Tyrese Gibson; directed by Chris Columbus; Kate Pierce—now a cynical teenager—is unexpectedly reunited with Santa Claus when a mysterious, magical troublemaker named Belsnickel threatens to destroy Christmas forever.) - Nov. 25 (Trailer) also available on Netflix

Fatman (action-comedy written and directed by Ian and Eshom Nelms, starring Walton Goggins, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Chance Hurstfield, and Mel Gibson as a “rowdy, unorthodox” Santa Claus who is fighting his popularity decline when a 12-year-old hires a hitman to do him in after receiving a lump of coal the previous season.) - Nov. 13, Rated R (Trailer), available on digital Nov. 17

A Christmas Carol (live-action animated feature starring Andy Serkis, Carey Mulligan, Daniel Kaluuya, Martin Freeman and Leslie Caron; abstract re-telling of A Christmas Carol when, during a children’s paper theater telling of the classic story, we enter the imagination of a child hearing it told.) - Nov. 19, limited release (Featurette, Trailer) also available in the UK starting Dec. 4

Katherine Jenkins: Christmas Spectacular (concert film featuring the Welsh opera singer's 2019 Royal Albert Hall Christmas show, including special guests Vanessa Redgrave and Bill Nighy) - Dec. 1 in UK, also available VOD

The Loss Adjuster (holiday movie starring Luke Goss, Martin Kemp, Joan Collins, Gary Siner and Cathy Tyson; An insurance adjuster’s wife leaves him a week before Christmas and his day just gets worse from there, until he discovers how truly lucky he is with the help of some Christmas magic) - Dec. 1 in UK (Trailer, Facebook) also available same day digital in the U.S.

Christmas in the Jungle (Latvian-Estonian family adventure movie, with mainly English dialogue; starring Paaru Oja, Tonu Kark, Rukman Rosadi; directed by Jaak Kilmi; When a 10-year-old girl is moved to the tropics by her parents, she has trouble getting into the holiday spirit, so she and a local friend head into the jungle in search of the Christmas Shaman; filmed in Indonesia) - Dec. 1 in Estonia

Saving the Spirit of Christmas (holiday musical written, produced and directed by members of the Grand Prairie Arts Council; A teen mourns the loss of her favorite Christmas traditions due to COVID, prompting the Spirit of Christmas to visit her) - Dec. 3, drive-in, benefit premiere at South Grand Prairie High School

Dear Santa (feature documentary from filmmaker Dana Nachman; based on the USPS’s Operation Santa, which allows people to adopt and answer children’s letters to Santa.) - Dec. 4 (Website, Trailer) Also available VOD

Lost at Christmas (holiday movie starring Natalie Clark and Kenny Boyle; After being dumped by his fiancé after a rejected proposal, two strangers stranded in the Scottish Highlands join forces to try and get home in time for Christmas; filmed on location in Scotland) - Dec. 4 in UK (Website, Trailer) also available VOD on Dec. 7 (UK only)

Nomadland (drama starring Frances McDormand, Gay DeForest and Patricia Grier; directed by Chloe Zhao; Exploring the life of a modern nomad, who travels the country looking for temporary seasonal work; starting at the holidays) - Dec. 4, limited (Trailer)

Our Lady of Guadalupe (Directed and written by Pedro Brenner, starring Guillermo Ivan and filmed in Mexico, the holiday-set, faith-based story of a reporter sent to research the meaning of a miracle who ends up needing one himself) - Dec. 10, limited (Trailer)

Silent Night (UK action-thriller written and directed by Will Thorne, starring Bradley Taylor and Cary Crankson; An ex-con hoping to go straight and spend a nice Christmas with his daughter, but who gets drawn back into the criminal life) - Dec. 11 in UK (Facebook) also available on UK VOD Dec. 14 and DVD Dec. 28 

Christmas on Mars (a.k.a. Un Natale su Marte; Italian Christmas comedy from director Neri Parenti; filmed in Rome) - Dec. 17 in Italy

The Lost Christmas (Dutch comedy about a theater producer who tries to save his theater from a Coronavirus-caused crisis by putting on a spectacular holiday show that goes horribly wrong; filmed in Velsen) - Dec. 21, Netherlands (Instagram, Trailer)

Pieces of a Woman (partially holiday-set drama starring Vanessa Kirby, Shia LeBeouf and Ellen Burstyn; A home birth goes horribly wrong, leaving a family and community to pick up the pieces) - Dec. 30 (Trailer), available on Netflix, January 7, 2021

Creatures (holiday horror-comedy about a group of students who find an adorable injured alien, only to find he’s being chased by terrifying creatures) - Dec. in UK (Facebook, Trailer, Trailer 2)

[memento-nobis]

“L. to R. Watters, Babcock, DeMeo, Schmit. This type of transportation is still in use very much in most of the towns. From what I seen of the town they are about twenty years behind times down there.” Watters was Joseph O. Watters. Enlisted 8/19/43 in New York, NY. USNRS. Received onboard 12/6/43. Babcock was Richard W. Babcock. Enlisted 7/24/41 in Los Angeles, California. Received onboard 2/25/44. (He looks like our mystery man from a couple photos before, doesn’t he?) DeMeo was Samuel Donorie De Meo. Enlisted 11/27/42 in New York, NY. Received onboard 7/28/43. Schmit was Elroy William Schmidt. Enlisted 11/5/42 in St. Louis, Mo. Received onboard 7/28/43.

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First Kill