#also the lucas and brad parallels

[baywindowproductions]

. Maya Hart/Hunter 🤝 Sydney Novak

Angsty teen lesbians who are Soft™ for their bi/pan sunshine and rainbows girlfriends

[chalkboardgirl15]

Credits page from the “Lunch Boxes & Choklit Cows” album that was released by Daisy Berkowitz (April 20, 2004)

Transcription:

I didn't think anything would come of it. No sooner did Brian Warner and I agree to "put a rock band together and make a million bucks" (an idea I did not take seriously) than I found myself looking out over a packed room wondering; "why are all these people here?" We had no drummer (just drum machine), we weren't particularly metal, not exactly techno and in no way pop. Our live show was a psychedelic cartoon with a good spatter-ing of horror movie. We used stage names combining a famous female for the first and an infamous killer for the last. Our show flyers were often bizarre and offensive. There was just no logical reason for people to like us - but they loved us - well, some hated us but even if they did they sure talked about us. We were a breath of fresh air for aging glam rockers and metal-heads and a torch of hope for industrial rock fans, I guess.

It was the early 90's and Seattle was still known only for software and rain - but not for long. In South Florida though, bands like Young Turk, Saigon Kick, Nuclear Valdez and the Mavericks were helping to put a place no one expected on the map. After a few years sweating it out, practicing in a dirty old warehouse, we were the next to "make it" -but getting signed is never what it's cracked up to be. Bands that never get signed just barely outnumber bands that get signed and dropped. Warner was a writer for the South Florida magazine "25th Parallel" and had interviewed Nine Inch Nail's Trent Reznor - who let us open for NIN at Miami's Club Nu July 4th, 1990 (just a few months after making our first demo Big Black Bus and three months after our very first show, April 28th 1990 at Churchill's Hideaway in Miami). The Club Nu show was also Brad Stewart's (Gidget Gein) and Stephen Bier's (Madonna Wayne Gacy a.k.a. "Pogo") debut performances. Despite rotting meat pinatas, nativity scene thefts, fire extinguisher fiascos and crowd-surfing paper mache' (or "choklit") cows we kept getting shows. We even attended a rally protesting then-sheriff Nick Navarro's bringing obscenity charges against 2 Live Crew and a record store owner for selling their album. By the end of 1990 Marilyn Manson and the Spooky Kids brought in live drummer Fred Streidhorst (Sara Lee Lucas) and had won Best New Band at the south Florida Rock Awards. This is when I started to get the feeling we would mutate into something much bigger that kids would love and parents would hate.

How did we do it? You could say that we had a wild show and that we brought theater back to rock. You could say that we had a distinctive and original sound. You could say we were a flash-in-the-pan that people wanted to keep on burning. I would sheepishly agree with all those assessments but then I would remind you of the most important reason. We developed a following of particularly loyal fans who we took to calling - very inclusively - "the spooky kids". Dressed in baggy black shirts, heavy eye liner, colored and spiked hair, striped leggings, and thrift store boots (among many other clothing combinations) they emulated the band not just in make-up and clothes but by carrying lunch-boxes (I, however did not - I chose to be the rebel among rebels and only occasionally carried a gas can). They bought our tapes and t-shirts and stickers and came to every show they could. I'd like to take this time and space to thank all of you for making us happen - a band goes nowhere without its fans and the more rabid, the better.

Daisy Berkowitz

[pass-the-bechdel]

Continuum s03e10 ‘Revolutions per Minute’

Does it pass the Bechdel Test? 

Yes, four times.

How many female characters (with names and lines) are there?

Six (40%).                                                                                                            

How many male characters (with names and lines) are there?

Nine (60%).

Positive Content Rating: 

Three.

General Episode Quality: 

Better.

MORE INFO (and potential spoilers) UNDER THE CUT:

Passing the Bechdel: Sonya picks ups Christine. Kiera speaks with Catherine. Sonya drops off Christine. Kiera picks up Christine.  

Female Characters:                                                                          

Kiera Cameron (OTL)

Betty Robertson

Christine Dillon

Sonya Valentine

Jacqueline

Catherine

Male Characters:

John Doe / Brad Tonkin

Alec Saddler (Green)

Jason

Carlos Fonnegra

Inspector Jack Dillon

Lucas Ingram

Matthew Kellog

Julian Randol

Warren

Other Notes:

A low-key but really interesting detail this episode is that both Sonya and Dillon each feel like they’re losing the war against each other. 

Of course the present day has a proto-Corporate Congress.  Only they could make this version of Alec--who organizes a memorial for Green Kiera partially so that he can conceal evidence that he scavenged her CMR--seem less-than-sinister. 

After ending their partnership on a cordial note, Kiera and Catherine are suddenly frosty. I’m interested.

Brad, it seems fairly clear, is from a different future than Kiera’s. Interestingly enough, it’s one where Kellog is well-known, and Alec isn’t. 

There are again suggestions that a sexual / romantic connection between Kiera and Brad is imminent, if not already in existence. I don’t get these. Granted, Kiera dismisses these comments herself, but the show is also pushing the parallels between them--they’re both married parents from the future!--fairly hard. 

One thing Brad’s presence does highlight, though, is just how asexual Kiera comes off.  She obviously cares about Brad--weirdly so, given how little they know about each other and Kiera’s trust issues--and yet there’s not an ounce of heat between them.  

Is it a coincidence that the episode where the male:female character ratio has returned to average is also considerably better than the one that came before, and had almost no female characters?  Probably, but still. 

[travelcafemt-blog]

All About Cabo

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All About Cabo

Cabo San Lucas Beach

  In a land known for its inexpensive travel destinations, Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, is one of the priciest—and one of the most popular—as travelers are willing to pay handsomely for what the area has to offer: fine beaches, world-class restaurants, sumptuous resorts, excellent golf courses, lively nightlife and some of the best sportfishing in the world.

Los Cabos, the name Mexican tourism officials bestowed upon two once-remote Baja California communities—Cabo San Lucas and nearby San Jose del Cabo—are connected by a stretch of coast, known as the Corredor Turistico (Tourist Corridor), that saw rapid development beginning in the 1990s. The high-tone resorts it contains are sought out by Hollywood’s A-listers. John Travolta, Jennifer Aniston, George Clooney, Susan Sarandon, Brad Pitt, Reese Witherspoon, and Britney Spears are among its visitors, celebrating birthdays at its reclusive and exclusive hideaways.

Visitors from abroad often find Cabo San Lucas—and the whole Los Cabos area—one of the most Americanized resorts in Mexico with English as common as Spanish, many expatriates running businesses, and prices on restaurant menus, in shops and in bars given in dollars instead of Mexican pesos. The Baja port also receives several cruise liners a week, which has spurred the building of the strip malls and eateries around the marina.

Highlights:

Sights—Romantic sunsets over Land’s End and El Arco; driving the Eastern Cape Road to Todos Santos in a rental car and finding isolated beaches; the shops along Calle Zaragoza and Boulevard Mijares.

Memorable Meals—Traditional Mexican fare and creative tequila drinks at the colorful Mi Casa in the heart of Cabo San Lucas; incredible lobster at Lorenzillo’s; an epic meal in a spectacular setting at El Farallon.

Late Night—Dancing the night away at frenetic El Squid Roe or The Giggling Marlin; shaking to the rhythms at Passion Nightclub or Pink Kitty Cabo; chilling out at Barometro; catching a glimpse of rock’s elite at Cabo Wabo.

Walks—Strolling the marina or Playa Medano; picnicking at Playa del Amor after exploring the trails; vestiges of Old Mexico in downtown San Jose del Cabo; traversing horseshoe-shaped Bahia Santa Maria.

Especially for Kids—Whale-watching, swimming with dolphins, riding glass-bottomed boats, snorkeling and other activities organized by child-friendly resorts.

Geography:

Cabo San Lucas and San Jose del Cabo, as well as a 20-mi/32-km stretch of shoreline,  called the Corredor Turistico (Tourist Corridor) that connects these two towns, combine to make the Los Cabos region.

The four-lane highway traversing the Corridor parallels the coast and is lined with upscale resort developments and golf courses. Los Cabos lies at the southern end of Mexico’s Baja California Peninsula in the state of Baja California Sur. The dramatic juxtaposition of desert against the blue waters of the Pacific Ocean and Sea of Cortez is striking.

The Baja Peninsula is bounded to the west by the Pacific Ocean and to the east by the Sea of Cortez, which is also sometimes called the Gulf of California. Los Cabos’ most distinctive geographic feature is El Arco, a wave-cut arch, and headland jutting out into the sea at Land’s End, the tip of the Baja Peninsula.

Note: Some businesses in Los Cabos are located on unnumbered streets and labeled as “s/n,” or sin numero (without number). Most taxi drivers are able to recognize places by their names.

History:

Seafarers have long been attracted to the shores of what is now Los Cabos. In the late-16th and early-17th centuries, legend has it that notorious English seafarers such as Sir Francis Drake and Thomas Cavendish concealed themselves in the bays and coves along the southern coast of the Baja Peninsula, slipping out to ambush passing Spanish galleons. Later, Spanish missionaries attempted to convert the Guaycura and Pericu natives, but by the early 1800s, European diseases had decimated the indigenous population.

After the missionaries moved on, the rocky spires and arches that characterize the southern tip of Baja went pretty much unnoticed until after World War II. That’s when private planes began flying in celebrities—Bing Crosby and John Wayne among them—to go deep-sea fishing. Because the area was remote and difficult to reach, it remained the private hideaway of a few well-heeled travelers until the 1970s, when the Mexican government completed the Transpeninsular Highway.

The highway gave Californians a straight, 1,060-mi-/1,705-km-long shot to the tip of Baja. This improved access and the area’s beautiful setting made it a natural pick when the Mexican government went scouting for resort sites, and construction has been going on in earnest since 1976.

Today, Cabo San Lucas and the Los Cabos areas are internationally renowned tourist destinations that attract more than a million visitors each year. All this development has brought prosperity to the region, as well as crowding and environmental concerns.

Things to Do & See:

Cabo San Lucas’s main attractions are its beaches, golf courses, and lively bars and nightclubs.

Several of the luxury hotels, especially those along the Corridor, were designed by well-known Mexican architects and are worth visiting for their innovative and spectacular designs.

The area’s biggest natural draws are the gray whales that arrive each winter from their Arctic feeding grounds. Tour operators in Cabo San Lucas offer a variety of options for getting up close and personal with these giant marine mammals.

Those wishing to explore the Baja’s history and culture can do so at the Cultural Pavilion in Cabo San Lucas. Near the marina, it has a museum, library, shops, restaurants, an open-air theater with 1,130 seats, a main theater with 740 seats, administration offices and, eventually, a hotel. It hosts international exhibitions and large performances. Otherwise, visitors can make side trips to towns such as San Jose del Cabo, Todos Santos, and La Paz, which have historic areas, museums, and a more authentically Mexican atmosphere.

For a look at what Cabo San Lucas was like before the development, drive northeast of San Jose, past the Puerto Los Cabos complex and up the Eastern Cape Road. You’ll soon leave modernity behind and discover tiny, paradisiac beaches and little towns such as Los Frailes, Los Barriles, Cabo Pulmo and, after 60 mi/97 km, the town of La Ribera. Much of the road is dirt, but it’s passable for passenger vehicles except after heavy rains.

Historic Sites:

Iglesia de San Lucas

This landmark church was built in 1730 by Spanish missionaries. The inside is pretty Spartan, with a few statues and Stations of the Cross, but if you’re lucky enough to attend a Mass, you can see how it springs to life. The picturesque courtyard that surrounds the church is also worth checking out—it’s filled with vendors selling food, art, and souvenirs.

A bilingual Mass is held on Sunday at noon.

Zoos & Wildlife:

Whale-watching in Baja California is some of the world’s best. Blue, sperm and especially humpback and gray whales winter off Cabo San Lucas late December-March. The California gray whale migrates from the Bering Strait to breeding grounds in secluded lagoons on the Pacific side of Baja, and some continue on to the Sea of Cortez.

Most party or sunset cruises offer two- to three-hour whale-watching tours in the winter (usually mid-December to March).

If you’re really serious about whale-watching, charter a sportfishing boat and ask the captain to take you to the hideouts of these and other cetaceans, several of which are just off the coast. You needn’t necessarily go out on the sea to spot whales, although your chances of spotting the magnificent creatures do improve out on the water.

When the whale migration is at its peak (usually in February), you can easily spot whale spouts from any clifftop in the Corridor or from the beach in front of the Solmar Suites hotel.

Bird-watching is available in the San Jose del Cabo estuary. It has hundreds of birds, but no organized bird-watching excursion; however, there is a path around it that you can easily walk on your own.

Cabo Expeditions:

This well-established whale-watching outfit uses small Zodiac boats that lie flat in the water and can motor close to the migrating creatures. Certified by the U.S. Coast Guard because of their safety, the Zodiacs carry no more than 15 passengers including a marine biologist as a guide. Private charters are also available. Snorkeling, stand-up paddleboarding (SUP) and sea-trekking are additional programs.

Cabo Dolphins:

This state-of-the-art dolphin center, designed by noted architect Enrique Norten, is at the Marina Cabo San Lucas. This interactive experience allows you to swim and play with Pacific bottlenose dolphins and learn about their physiology and environment.

Daily from 9 am. Hourly dolphin programs begin at 9 am Monday-Friday, 10 am Saturday and Sunday. The last program is at 4 pm Monday-Friday and at 1 pm on Saturday and Sunday.

Recreation:

Water and land activities include beaches, boating, and sailing, fishing, golf, health clubs, hiking and walking, horseback riding, scuba diving, snorkeling, surfing, and swimming.

Spa treatments have gained much favor, particularly at Corridor resorts…

Get the full scoop in our comprehensive All About Cabo Report including:

Lots more to see & do

All kind of delicious dining places

Exciting events

Tips on safety, dos & don’ts, tipping, weather, what to wear, etc.

Tons of Hotel info

Fantastic excursions

More!

Click here for the report.

[mthrynn]

DENVER, Colo., Nov. 11 — Computing and networking experts from Indiana University will gather in the Mile High City next week for SC17, the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis taking place November 12-17 in Denver. SC17 is one of the world’s foremost tech events, annually attracting thousands of scientists, researchers, and IT experts from across the world.

IU’s Pervasive Technology Institute, Global Research Network Operations Center, and School of Informatics, Computing and Engineering (SICE) will team up to host a research-oriented booth (#601) in the exhibition portion of the conference, showcasing current research and educational initiatives.

With the theme “We put the ‘super’ in computing,” the IU booth will showcase staff and faculty members and projects that are pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in computing and networking. Although they may not sport capes, the IU team devotes its considerable abilities to harnessing the cloud, achieving maximum throughput, engineering intelligent systems, and thwarting real-life cybervillains.

“SC17 marks the 20th anniversary of IU’s first display at the Supercomputing Conference, a milestone that underscores our deep commitment to leveraging high performance computing and networking to benefit the IU community, the state of Indiana, and the world,” said Brad Wheeler, IU vice president for IT and chief information officer. “In that time span, our researchers, scientists, and technologists have not only put IU on the map in the world of HPC, but their talents and discoveries have made IU a true leader in this increasingly important realm.”

One highlight of IU’s participation in SC17 is Judy Qiu’s invited talk, “Harp-DAAL: A Next Generation Platform for High Performance Machine Learning on HPC-Cloud.” Qiu is an associate professor in the intelligent systems engineering department in SICE. She will discuss growth in HPC and machine learning for big data with cloud infrastructure, and introduce Harp-DAAL, a high performance machine learning framework.

The Supercomputing Conference is always a fantastic opportunity to showcase the work that is being conducted at SICE and provides a spotlight for our wonderful faculty.

Raj Acharya, dean of the IU School of Informatics, Computing and Engineering

“The Supercomputing Conference is always a fantastic opportunity to showcase the work that is being conducted at SICE and provides a spotlight for our wonderful faculty,” said Raj Acharya, dean of SICE. “The conference itself is so valuable because it brings together the greatest minds in supercomputing in an atmosphere of collaboration that is as inspiring as it is informative. We’re always thrilled to be a part of it.”

This year, the IU team continues its leadership role in organizing the conference. Matt Link, associate vice president and director of systems for IU Research Technologies, serves as a member of the SC Steering Committee. Scott Michael, manager of research analytics, is vice chair of the Students@SC committee, and Jenett Tillotson, senior system administrator for high performance systems, is a member of the Student Cluster Competition committee.

Additionally, IU network engineers will continue a decades-long tradition of helping to operate SCinet, one of the most powerful and advanced networks in the world. Created each year for the conference, SCinet is a high-capacity network to support the applications and experiments that are the hallmark of the SC conference. Laura Pettit, SICE director of intelligent systems engineering research operations, is the SCinet volunteer services co-chair, and ISE doctoral students Lucas Brasilino and Jeremy Musser are also volunteering with SCinet.

This year, the IU booth will include a range of presentations and demonstrations:

Current Trends and Future Challenges in HPC by Jack Donagarra, University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Special event: Jetstream and OpenStack by Dave Hancock and partners. OpenStack is the emerging standard for deploying cloud computing capabilities, and cloud-based infrastructure is increasingly able to handle HPC workloads. During this special event, members of the Jetstream team and the OpenStack Foundation Scientific Working Group will discuss how they use OpenStack to serve HPC customers.

Science Gateways with Apache Airavata by Marlon Pierce, Eroma Abeysinghe and Surresh Marru. Science gateways are user interfaces and user-supporting services that simplify access to advanced resources for novice users and provide new modes of usage for power users. Apache Airavata is open source cyberinfrastructure software for building science gateways. During this demonstration, the presenters provide an overview of recent developments.

Big Data Toolkit Spanning HPC, Grid, Edge and Cloud Computing by Geoffrey Fox. This demonstration looks at big data programming environments such as Hadoop, Spark, Flink, Heron, Pregel; HPC concepts such as MPI and asynchronous many-task runtimes; and cloud/grid/edge ideas such as event-driven computing, serverless computing, workflow and services.

Cybersecurity for Science by Von Welch. The Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research, affiliated with the Pervasive Technology Institute at Indiana University, specializes in cybersecurity for R&D. In this scope, the center works with science communities across the country, including leading the National Science Foundation’s Cybersecurity Center of Excellence. This talk will provide an overview of what cybersecurity means in the context of science and how it can enable productive, trusted scientific research.

Enabling High-Speed Networking for Researchers by Chris Robb. With data networking becoming increasingly complex and opaque, researchers are often unsure how to address poor performance between their endpoints. This talk will introduce the IRNC NOC Performance Engagement Team (PET) and show how it can help researchers determine the best approach to achieving their maximum bandwidth potential.

Scientific Workflow Integrity for Pegasus by Von Welch and partners. The Pegasus Workflow Management System is a popular system for orchestrating complex scientific workflows. In this talk, the PIs of the NSF-funded Scientific Workflow Integrity for Pegasus project will talk about scientific data integrity challenges and their work to add greater assurances to Pegasus for data integrity.

Macroscopes from the “Places & Spaces: Mapping Science” Exhibition by Katy Börner. See up to 100 large-format maps that showcase effective visualization techniques to communicate science to the general public. These interactive visualizations, called macroscopes, help people see patterns in data that are too large or complex to view unaided.

Proteus: A Configurable FPGA Cluster for High Performance Networking by Martin Swany. Proteus is new HPC cluster and research testbed that will enable investigation of novel and advanced architectures in HPC. Using FPGAs to optimize the performance of common parallel operations, this serves as a model for hardware accelerated network “microservices.”

International Networks at IU by Jennifer Schopf. International Networks at IU is a multi-million dollar NSF-funded program that supports the use of international links between the United States, Europe, Asia and Africa. Demos will review our currently supported links, as well as the measurement and monitoring services deployed on the links.

About the IU School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering The School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering’s rare combination of programs—including informatics, computer science, library science, information science and intelligent systems engineering—makes SICE one of the largest, broadest and most accomplished of its kind. The extensive programs are united by a focus on information and technology.

About the Pervasive Technology Institute The Pervasive Technology Institute (PTI) at Indiana University is a world-class organization dedicated to the development and delivery of innovative information technology to advance research, education, industry and society. Since 2000, PTI has received more than $50 million from the National Science Foundation to advance the nation’s research cyberinfrastructure.

About the Global Research Network Operations Center The Global Research Network Operations Center (GlobalNOC) supports advanced international, national, regional and local high-performance research and education networks. GlobalNOC plays a major role in transforming the face of digital science, research and education in Indiana, the United States, and the world by providing unparalleled network operations and engineering needed for reliable and cost-effective access to specialized facilities for research and education.

Source: Indiana University

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[londontheatre]

A Nazi Comparison

I wonder if there are people like Clare (Louise Goodfield) on almost any university course. I knew – past tense – someone who I did a group project with when I was an undergraduate, and she vowed she would take down what she called “the system” and change it to suit her worldview. Any attempt to get her to explain further what she meant by “the system” and quite how she intended to revolutionise it resulted in a terse response, and unjustified personal remarks. It wasn’t difficult to deduce she was anti-capitalist. It is with some irony that her first job after graduating was with Lloyds Banking Group, where she stayed for some years.

Here, in A Nazi Comparison, it’s left unclear as to where exactly Clare ends up, as the narrative covers only a few weeks, from what I could tell. This production’s pre-show was made up of on-stage warm-ups, a communal huddle and then the drinking of bottled water. The tops worn by Craig Edgely and Lucas John Mahoney, who play characters bearing their own first names, have slogans that make clear their positions – “NHS not Trident” and “You Are The Government – Bad Religion” respectively.

The comparison between Nazism and more recent rhetoric from the White House (and other places) only scratches the surface in terms of the ground that the play covers. Put simply, Clare has substituted the word ‘Jew’ with the word ‘Muslim’, and in so doing, Adolf Hitler’s speeches sound plausibly like those of a number of modern political leaders who wish to gain votes from their electorate by sounding tough on tackling so-called ‘Islamic fundamentalism’.

The somewhat unimaginatively titled The Community comes across as the sort of group I would broadly equate to Occupy London, famous for its campsites in various places in the capital. Their most prominent camp was the one outside St Paul’s Cathedral, which formed in late October 2011 and finally evicted at the end of February 2012. The play is slanted in favour of Jeremy Corbyn, though without ‘Tory-bashing’, instead, laying the blame on both left and right-wing media for their rhetoric. Credit where credit is due, though – their assertions are backed up with well-researched figures, even if the old adage “lies, damned lies, and statistics” should never be entirely discounted.

The social and political commentary that permeates the narrative is rarely subtle. A shouting match between Clare and her mother (Helen Foster) reveals the true colours of opposing viewpoints more than the more civilised conversation Clare has with her father (Thomas Thoroe). This is, in some ways, surprising, but on reflection the fuller and franker discussion, although less comfortable to watch, naturally lends itself to a more impactful conclusion.

I also note with interest ‘Godwin’s law’, not mentioned or discussed in the play, which puts forward the theory that if an online discussion, for instance in a forum or social media, goes on long enough, at some point somebody will make a comparison between someone or something to Hitler, irrespective of the original topic of the conversation. A Nazi Comparison contains distinctly off-line dialogue, but the principle stands, and as the said comparison was made relatively early on in the play, the show drags in the final scenes.

There is, unfortunately, far too much melodrama, from Clare and Craig, who both, separately, alienate themselves from long-standing friends on account of their incivility. Elsewhere, some of the humour may have been welcome comic relief for some. Leaving aside that I was personally not amused, it jarred with the serious messages the play was trying to put across. The plot came across as unnecessarily complicated: the family dynamics between Clare and her parents were more interesting than the political debates, which probably wasn’t what the play was trying to achieve. Although mostly briskly paced, the play is very broad but ultimately lacks depth.

Review by Chris Omaweng

How engrained are aspects of Nazism in our current political climate? The reality might scare you. Craft explores this question in a new hard-hitting and piece of devised satirical theatre.

Clare, a young woman at university happens upon an English translation of a play written by Hitler’s favourite playwright. Unshockingly it upsets her deeply; less expectedly it upsets her entire world view. Every line of script shows an uneasy familiarity and Clare begins to realise the strong parallels in how the media was manipulated then, and now.

Filled with anxiety that the world is far from as noble and progressive as people are led to believe, Clare digs deeper and deeper, tumbling down a rabbit hole that eventually isolates her from everyone she knows and loves. Friends shun her; her parents dismiss her; she becomes sullen and confrontational. Her life begins to implode; she is fired from her job and expelled from her studies.

Her anger consumes her. If the truth is the truth then why won’t anyone listen? Clare’s thoughts turn more extreme and she soon finds extremists to confide in. Together they begin a dangerous plan. As Clare continues in her quest for truth, does she reveal her worst fear, or does she become it?

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[deltamovies]

Little Evil Free Full HD watch online & movie trailer

Release Year: 2017

Rating: 6.1/10 ( voted)

Critic's Score: /100

Director: Eli Craig

Stars: Evangeline Lilly, Adam Scott, Clancy Brown

Storyline Gary who has just married Samantha the woman of his dreams, discovers that her six-year-old son may be the Antichrist.

Cast: Evangeline Lilly –

Samantha

Adam Scott –

Gary

Clancy Brown –

Reverend Gospel

Sally Field –

Miss Shaylock

Bridget Everett –

AL

Tyler Labine –

Karl C. Miller

Donald Faison –

Larry

Chris D'Elia –

Wayne

Kyle Bornheimer –

Victor

Owen Atlas –

Lucas

Kim Evans –

Girl Talking to Officer

Sasha Craig –

Waterpark Mom

Brad Williams –

Gozamel

Christopher Mele –

Waterpark Dad

Schuyler White –

Clown

Taglines: Samantha is his dream. Lucas is his nightmare.

Country: USA

Release Date: 3 Jan 2017

Filming Locations: Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Technical Specs

Runtime: 95 min

Did You Know?

Trivia: The scene when Lucas is swinging is an homage to The omen as he also wears the same clothes. See more »

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Rating: 5/10 I wouldn't have watched this if I hadn't loved "Tucker & Dale vs Evil" by Eli Craig, which like "Little Evil" is a parody of a horror sub-genre. Unfortunately this film is entertaining enough that I was never bored, but it lacked the creativity and fast- paced humour a premise like this should have.

It begins promisingly with a lot of funny jokes, but after the first 15 minutes, the jokes kind of take a backseat to the exposition, and the humour becomes less crafted, and more akin to an Apatow joint. Adam Scott is great as usual, and though I expected his sidekick Al to be incredibly annoying, Bridget Everett was having so much fun I warmed to her after a while, Clancy Brown is also good. The rest of the cast is pretty average, Kate from LOST phones it in, and Turk from SCRUBS is distracting, as he's cast as one of the 3 useless comic relief step-dad friends that never have an impact on the story. The kid that played Lucas was also really awful, even by the standards of child actors. Why didn't anyone give this kid better directions. Nothing he or any of the other child actors said or did were well-done at all.

The direction was much better than any modern Apatow-esque comedy. Craig used a lot of horror conventions to his advantage and I wish the script he wrote paralleled his direction, even if the cinematography still looks like a cheap Netflix film. He does however, use identical speed-cutting transitions to Edgar Wright that is incredibly distracting, like with the same sound effects and pacing and everything.

The structure was not great, it lumbered in parts and then sped through the climax at an insane rate. The film also stops several times and repeats aspects, like expositional scenes.

I wish this were as strong as "Tucker & Dale" which I strongly recommend, yet "Little Evil" lacked a great supporting cast, or any innovative way to spin the subject matter. Instead, it's just a funnier version of the Omen, which was already kinda funny to begin with.

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