#and the SCORE! christian henson did great work here!!

[vagueeyes]

As someday it may happen that a victim must be found  I've got a little list - I've got a little list   Of society offenders who might well be underground    And who never would be missed - who never would be missed!

INSIDE NO. 9 | S9E1 "Boo to a Goose"

[neuroticphysiologist]

what we know about paw patrol the mighty movie

(will always update, so if you want to reblog, it's best to do it after september 29)

hi everyone, finally, i made an ICYMI article for this film! i also made a playlist of all the trailers, promos, featurettes, etc., it's all right here.

and as always, no major spoilers.

- it was announced in october 2021 that there would be a second film

- the premiere date in the us moved from october 13 to september 29. it's also the premiere date for canada

- the movie will focus on skye

- first cast member anounced - taraji p. henson

- kim k revealed that she'll return as delores

- january 27: voice cast announced!

we have eight ryders! finn lee-epp will be ryder in the film

i predicted that justin paul kelly will be voicing chase in the film TWICE, but it never happened. i was wishing for him to shine as chase. well anyway, i'm sure christian convery will do great

christian corrao did well in all paws on deck, so yeah, confirmed that he's marshall

crying because it's not lilly bartlam as skye. clues are showing that it's mckenna grace. at first i was worried because i've heard her normal voice before. but because of spirit untamed, i'm sure she'll do great

callum shoniker returns as rocky

i knew luxton handspiker will be voicing rubble. he did well in rubble and crew

nylan parthipan as zuma? interesting...

- liberty with superpowers 😮 some sources say she has the power of elasticity, kinda like elastigirl from the incredibles. but we'll see

- chris rock is voicing one of mayor humdinger's cats

- for the other celebrity cast, we have kristen bell and james marsden as janet and hank who work in a junk yard, and serena williams as yoga yvette

- according to an article from the toy book magazine, the movie will explore chase and skye's "unique relationship". i'm a bit curious about this one... probably about their friendship? shippers, please don't

- the work-in-progress trailer was shown at cinemacon last april

- a giant mayor humdinger but better

- official promotions started with an ad on an airplane. let's take to the sky!

- their new hq is called aircraft carrier since the adventure city hq got destroyed by the meteor (source: trailer)

- the trailer was released june 12

- they have the junior patrollers: tot, nano, and mini, three little pomeranians that become part of the paw patrol, and they were trained by liberty

- the movie is rated pg due to mild action and peril. i have no problem with it. superhero films today are rated pg. it's surprising for some fans tho

- the main six pups have the same powers from the tv movie and subseries, but there are a few upgrades: marshall can create fireballs, rocky can be a magnet, zuma can turn into a puddle of water, and skye has super strength

- the detail on pups' power paws OMG? kinda looks like they leave some.fairy dust or smth

- we have 3 new songs for the movie!

down like that by bryson tiller was released september 8

bark to the beat by mckenna grace ft. blackbear was released september 15

learning to fly by christina aguilera was released september 22. the lyric video had some spoilers from the movie, the director warned us about this one.

- yes, we have a song for the movie by mckenna grace. will skye sing in the movie tho

- unboxing movie merch! so far, only nylan (zuma) posted about this one.

- last september 23, team canada cast went on an advance private screening of the movie

- last september 24, paramount pictures had set a guinness world record of "most dogs attending a film screening" in los angeles. 219 dogs came to watch the film

- so far, only finn lee-epp (ryder) had several interviews about the movie. the team us cast appeared only on featurettes and interviews that were recorded a few months ago

- the official soundtrack with original score by pinar toprak was released on september 29

- there will be a third theatrical film set to release in 2026!

- the movie is on digital on october 31!

- the dvd for the mighty movie will release in the us on december 12.

more to come!

[crispsevans]

Films in 2019

It’s been a while again. Maybe I should make this review-thing a monthly thing LOL. My current count is at 33/150 for 2019, 18 out of 33 seen in theatre.

filmpage - filmlist - suggest a film

CAN CONTAIN SPOILERS. ( I review Endgame in this post, there are Endgame spoilers in this so don’t read, if you haven’t seen it yet.)

Hidden Figures (2016)

streamed on Amazon Prime Germany production country: USA OV: english seen version: OV Starring: Taraji B. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monáe Director: Theodore Melfi Plot summary: The story of a team of female African-American mathematicians who served a vital role in NASA during the early years of the U.S. space program.

Review: 99ct Prime Deal movie. So glad it was on the list of the deals, because I’ve been dying to see this one ever since it came out. But as always I had no one to watch it with and I waited a little too long.

Finally saw it and what can I say - I loved it very much. What a great and important movie. 

My favourite part is probably where Janelle Monáe’s character fights for her right in court aspiring to be the first african-american woman to attend a white school in order to get higher education to qualify for a better position. LOVED IT. She slayed. Rating: 4/5

The Big Short (2015)

streamed on Amazon Prime Germany production country: USA OV: english seen version: german Starring: Christian Bale, Ryan Gosling, Steve Carell Director: Adam McKay Plot summary: In 2006-7 a group of investors bet against the US mortgage market. In their research they discover how flawed and corrupt the market is.

Review: 99ct Prime Deal movie number 3. I was a huge fan of Vice so I really needed to see this one.

To be honest this one was a bit harder to understand, because you have to have a little knowledge about economics and how they work - esp. on Wall Street. I mean, I took an A-Level class in Social Sciences and Economics so it was okay for me, even though I didn’t fully understand everything, but I just put it into context. They try to explain it in an easy way, but just make sure to pay attention :) 

Shocking reveal of the real estate market and how things went downhill in 2007 causing the global financial crisis that affected my family in a really bad way. 

Though I have to say it didn’t involve me as much as Vice, I felt like it was a little bit like chewing gum in between the scenes. Maybe I had to watch it in theatre to love it as much as I love Vice. Rating: 3,5/5

Spotlight (2015)

streamed on Amazon Prime Germany production country: USA OV: english seen version: german Starring: Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams Director: Tom McCarthy Plot summary: The true story of how the Boston Globe uncovered the massive scandal of child molestation and cover-up within the local Catholic Archdiocese, shaking the entire Catholic Church to its core.

Review: 99ct Prime Deal movie number 4. Hands down - THE BEST out of all of them. 

What a movie. Very emotional, very dramatic, very captivating, very important.

I have nothing more to say except for: WATCH IT IF YOU HAVEN’T ALREADY. What a shame that it took me so long to actually see it. Outstanding cast, Mark Ruffalo and Rachel McAdams are killing it! Rating: 5/5

Serenity (2019)

seen in theatre production country: USA  OV: english seen version: german Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jason Clarke Director: Steven Knight Plot summary: A fishing boat captain (McConaughey) juggles facing his mysterious past and finding himself ensnared in a reality where nothing is what it seems.

Review: #sneakmonday movie. I was hoping they’d sneak it and I was so happy when they did, even though this movie kinda was a let down considering the cast of the movie. 

It was a decent movie with decent acting, liked McConaughey and Clarke in it, Hathaway (even though I love her very much) didn’t deliver her best performance here. 

I liked the plot twist mid-through the movie that made you rethink the entire thing. It was a little too surreal for me though. I’ve seen worse but I’ve also seen a lot better than this. Rating: 2,5/5

Independence Day: Resurgence (2016)

streamed on Netflix Germany production country: USA OV: english seen version: OV Starring: Liam Hemsworth, Jeff Goldblum, Bill Pullman Director: Roland Emmerich Plot summary: Two decades after the first Independence Day invasion, Earth is faced with a new extra-Solar threat. But will mankind's new space defenses be enough?

Review: This never happened to me before. In one of my previous review post I reviewed ‘Independence Day’ and I didn’t like it that much. Now THIS ONE, the sequel, IS SOOOOOOOO MUCH BETTER! I freaking LOVED it. 

I really don’t know if it’s the new CGI (which is obviously 10000 times better than in the 1996 version) or the storyline or whatever it is - it’s way better than the first one. It really caught my attention and I just love Jeff Goldblum - he’s such a class act.  Rating: 4/5

Greta (2019)

seen in theatre  production country: USA / Ireland OV: english seen version: german Starring: Isabelle Huppert, Chloë Grace Moretz, Maika Monroe Director: Neil Jordan Plot summary: A young woman (Moretz) befriends a lonely widow (Huppert) who's harboring a dark and deadly agenda toward her.

Review: #sneakmonday movie. 

Can I just say I really love obsessive lover/stalker movies?! I know I’m weird and it’s nothing you should fancy, but the movies about this topic always get me. They keep me on the edge and sunken in my seat until the movie’s over. 

I was pleasantly surprised by this movie, I thought it was really good most of the time - also something I haven’t seen before. The performances by Huppert and Moretz are really convincing.

It just really lacks in some of the decisions Moretz character makes. Sometimes it drifts off into a B-Lister movie, which this clearly shouldn’t be, but the lines and decisions of the character make it seem like a weird thriller horror thing. No one is really that stupid, but they wrote her character that naive. I didn’t like that.

But all in all it’s a good one, I enjoyed it very much. Rating: 3,5/5

The Collini Case / Der Fall Collini (2019)

seen in theatre production country: Germany OV: german / italian seen version: OV Starring: Elyas M’Barek, Alexandra Maria Lara, Franco Nero Director: Marco Kreuzpaintner Plot summary: A young lawyer (M’Barek) stumbles upon a vast conspiracy while investigating a brutal murder case.

Review: #sneakmonday movie. This is a german movie.

Elyas M’Barek is usually a comedy-actor. A little bit like Jennifer Aniston but as a male and in german. I never saw him as a guy who’d play a serious role. But here we go and I was pleasantly surprised by his performance. Never thought he’d do this good. 

Interesting story, very captivating and not too revealing. It takes quite a while until the movie really lifts off and the storyline begins to paint a picture and you understand what’s going on, but the reveal is very tragic and very emotional. I loved the screenplay and also the cinematography in certain points.

But whoever directed the music in this movie, please reconsider your job. It was a disaster, really. The score itself was good, but the usage was so out of place most of the times, it bothered me SO MUCH. 

German produced movies try to be so much like Hollywood Blockbusters, but they’re not and this is another example for it. But it’s one of the better ones. Rating: 4/5

The Perfect Date (2019)

streamed on Netflix Germany production country: USA OV: english seen version: OV Starring: Noah Centineo, Laura Marano Director: Chris Nelson Plot summary: To save up for college, Brooks Rattigan (Centineo) creates an app where anyone can pay him to play the perfect stand-in boyfriend for any occasion.

Review: I don’t know what I was expecting from a Netflix RomCom, but this kinda let me down yet again (just like ‘Isn’t it romantic?’).

It was okay and kinda cute in some places, but nothing fancy and a lack of entertainment for me. Overall it was okay and it’s a movie to watch before you go to sleep or when you’re sick.  Rating: 3/5

Overdrive (2017)

streamed on Sky Cinema Germany production country: France / Belgium / USA OV: english / french seen version: OV Starring: Scott Eastwood, Freddie Thorp, Ana de Armas Director: Antonio Negret Plot summary: Two car thief brothers (Eastwood, Thorp), who journey to the south of France for new opportunities, wind up in the cross hairs of the local crime boss.

Review: I literally just watched this for Scott Eastwood LOL. It’s such a cringe movie, I just couldn’t. 

I know Scott can do better than this. The character-writing was so damn flat and so was the entire screenplay. I’m not a huge Fast & Furious Fan, maybe this movie is for people who love those movies - at least you get to see some really nice cars. 

But really, this is such a cringe movie. My rating is for Scott (because DAMN) and the beautiful (!!!!!!) landscape cinematography of South France! Rating: 2,5/5

Avengers: Endgame (2019)

seen in theatre (soon thrice) production country: USA OV: english seen version: german (soon OV) Starring: Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Josh Brolin AND SO MANY MORE. Director: Joe and Anthony Russo Plot summary: After the devastating events of Avengers: Infinity War (2018), the universe is in ruins. With the help of remaining allies, the Avengers assemble once more in order to undo Thanos' actions and restore order to the universe.

Review: ... here we go.

I went to see it on the first screening of the day when it came out over here in Germany. I know Europe was blessed with being two days ahead of the US.  I literally cried for 3 hours. The entire 3 hours OKAY. Sitting through the credits because I couldn’t believe what I just saw. 

It took me a few days to completely understand what I had watched.

There are so many things wrong with this movie, but also so many good things about this movie I JUST DON’T KNOW. 

When I went to see it the second time I liked it a LOT better and with every day and every clip I see and listening to the score more and more I grow to love this movie more. 

And against the mainly common opinion in disliking the ending of this movie, I loved it - even though it may makes no sense in a scientific way. Hate me all you want, but you can read HERE why I loved Steve’s ending, Becka wrote a beautiful piece. 

Also Tony Stark. Let’s talk about Tony Stark. What is there left to say though? His actions speak louder than words. He basically did ALL OF IT for PETER FREAKING PARKER. How beautiful. He did it for him, because he missed him, because he couldn’t live with the thought of losing him. And sacrificing himself for Peter, for the rest of the Avengers, for the entire universe, WHAT A MOVE.

Now let’s move on to Natasha Romanoff, because she doesn’t get enough credit. First female Avenger, the glue, heart and soul of the Avengers, the mom that held everything together, that kept the world a safe place after the snap and Thanos being dead in 2023 like. She still cared, she cared about her family (the original 6 more than anyone else really) and she kept looking for Clint (DON’T GET ME STARTED ON CLINTASHA) and.. I just.. and then she sacrificed herself and her life, for her family. FOR THEM. FOR LOVE. FOR CLINT. SO THEY COULD SEE THE SUN AGAIN (to put it in Loki’s words). I JUST.... 

It started with Tony and Nat and it ended with Tony and Nat and I just... I just can’t. Literally I CAN’T. Still not over it.

P.S. America’s ass. Rating: 4/5

Fighting With My Family (2019)

seen in theatre production country: UK / USA OV: english seen version: german Starring: Dwayne Johnson, Florence Pugh, Vince Vaughn Director: Stephen Merchant Plot summary: A former wrestler and his family make a living performing at small venues around the country while his kids dream of joining World Wrestling Entertainment.

Review: #sneakmonday movie. Based on a true story. I had no expectations, really. I gotta say, I’m not into Wrestling AT ALL. And I don’t really want to be. So this was a bummer for me. 

But nonetheless this is a cute family movie. The bond between the siblings and the entire family is really beautiful to see and so is the character development of Paige’s brother Zak. 

Also the interaction with all these kids learning how to wrestle is really just beautiful. Kids from all ages, different backgrounds, different identities, sizes and also a blind kid - they all come together and become friends through Wrestling. That’s really beautiful. 

It’s just not my cup of tea, because of the Wrestling topic. It’s a decent movie though. Rating: 2,5/5

Journal 64 (2019)

seen in theatre production country: Denmark / Germany OV: danish / arabic / spanish / german seen version: german Starring: Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Fares Fares, Johanne Louise Schmidt Director: Christoffer Boe Plot summary: A series of mysterious disappearances in 2006 are eerily connected to the same institution.

Review: #sneakmonday movie. Based on a crime thriller by Jussi Adler-Olson.

Scandinavian films are so good, really. They are SO DAMN GOOD. Especially crime thrillers - they’re just really good at not only writing them as books but also making them into movies and TV shows. I don’t know how they do it. Norwegian/Swedish/Danish crime thrillers are kinda dark most of the times, this one had a nice comedic effect, though, because the main character is a blatantly honest person and drops a lot of bricks, but is still a very charismatic character.

Really liked this one. Very dramatic story, there should be a trigger warning though (tw: rape / tw: abuse / tw: abortion). So keep that in mind, if you decide to watch it.

Rating: 4/5

[tileyarded-blog]

TILEYARD EDUCATION IN CONVERSATION: Goetz Botzenhardt

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TILEYARD EDUCATION IN CONVERSATION: Goetz Botzenhardt

Justin spoke to the legendary producer Goetz Botzenhardt at his studio here at Tileyard. Goetz teamed up with Rollo Armstrong (Faithless) in the nineties and their collaboration led to many of the big dance records and remixes of the time. He went on to record and mix the first two highly acclaimed Faithless albums and then recorded Dido’s multi-platinum selling album ‘No Angel’. He has also produced artists such as Bjork, Craig David, Sugababes and many, many more.

  Justin: Your career has been pretty incredible, so please start by telling us about how you got started and who you’ve worked with.

Goetz: “I came to London in 1989, went to college for a year and then started as an assistant at a recording studio by the name of Swanyard Studios, just behind Highbury Corner. We had two SSL rooms there, and a smaller studio as well. We did a lot of big records there, and that’s where I learned how to be an engineer. It was a different time then, we were working with magnetic tape, and it was quite an interesting time in music, it was just when dance music was getting really big, we were working with Technotronic, and Acid Jazz was really big as well, and The Young Disciples and Incognito and all those bands came and recorded there. My first big jump from being an assistant to being a proper engineer and a mixer was when I started working with Rollo Armstrong, and we started Faithless which was a studio project, and we made a few records and eventually made “Insomnia” there, which blew up big, and then Dido, Rollo’s sister, came along after that, and I worked with them for about six years and just made tonnes of dance records and remixes.”

Justin: Were you always into dance music or was it just the timing of when you entered the music industry?

Goetz: “It was just the timing, growing up in the 80s there was a lot of dance and house stuff came along, before that it was more band stuff which I also really liked. But it’s always easier to make your name with a new style of music, of you can still do indie etc. but there’s already a bunch of people who are really good at it who get all the big jobs, so you have to create something new and ride that wave. I liked the immediacy of dance records, where you get your track pressed up to an acetate and you hear it in a club a week later, but of course now the turnaround is even quicker. After that period I worked with Craig David and the Sugababes into the late nineties and early naughties.”

Justin: How does it feel to work with such big names?

Goetz: “You sort of get used to it, because I started in a big studio, there was a constant flow of big superstars coming through, like George Michael, it was just one famous person after the other, but they’re just people aren’t they… and most of them are okay.” **Laughs** “Well, it’s more the entourage or the hangers-on who might cause problems.”

Justin: So, what are you working on at the moment?

Goetz: “At the moment I’m mixing for a film with a composer called Anne Nikitin, who was here just a second ago, and it’s a film called American Animals.”

Justin: How do the skill-sets differ when mixing a dance track compared with a score for a film?

Goetz: “Well, the main difference is that you’re working with surround sound for the film, also you deliver everything in stems, so you have to make a big template in Pro Tools and everything runs through all these different busses so that the final mixers can do edits when they dub the film. Also with film work, if there’s a decent budget you always have big orchestral recordings which again is a huge track count. It’s nice because they always record them in nice studios, like Air Studios, where my management is based, or Abbey Road, they’re the two big London studios where the orchestras get recorded for films, and they sound amazing and they know what they’re doing so it’s not that hard to mix. Then also sometimes the recordings come from Eastern Europe when the money is tight.”

Justin: Is that quite common, to record stuff abroad?

Goetz: “Yeah, because it’s much cheaper, so they go to Slovakia, Prague or Budapest, and the quality is fine, they’re still good players but they find it harder to play to a click for the really exact stuff and that’s the main difference, really.”

Justin: So, do you do a lot of film work at the moment?

Goetz: “Yeah I do a lot film work these days. It’s nice to vary your work, as you get older, it’s nicer sometimes. Some of the music in the charts doesn’t excite me that much, with all the autotune on the vocals. You have to be in your early twenties or late teens to get into that. But I like some of the bub-step guys, like Skrillex, they make amazing music. When you watch Glastonbury on the TV you think, wow there’s still a lot of amazing music out there these days, there’s more music now being made than there’s ever been.”

Justin: So you think the industry’s doing well, is it still thriving?

Goetz: “Well I think there’s a huge problem in that the writers and producers don’t really get that much money any more. If you’re a live band you can still make decent money, but when I started working you could make a hit record and make some serious money with that but now you have to have a billion plays on Spotify to get any kind of money to make a living from. Some of the younger artists might get adverts and make money from that but they don’t make money from record sales. A lot of records don’t even get produced properly anymore, it’s just someone in Logic on their laptop, and they just knock something up. It’s much harder these days, which is one of the reasons I diversified into film music because they still get paid decent money.”

Justin: Do you think Spotify is a good thing overall, or is it an unfair system?

Goetz: “I think it’s quite unfair on the writers as far as I can tell, but the labels do okay but I don’t really agree with the distribution model. I don’t think it’s Spotify that’s the problem but more the labels dealing in what’s most advantageous to them and not to the artists or the writers but it’s difficult to see how we can change that, unless everybody goes on strike!” **Laughs**

Justin: You’ve got an amazing studio here at Tileyard, how long have you been based here and how did you originally hear about it?

Goetz: “I’ve been here for five and a half years, and I heard about it through some of the other composers like Dru Masters and Sam Sim, and I moved here with Christian Henson who runs Spitfire, I used to mix all of his stuff.”

Justin: What’s it like working at Tileyard?

Goetz: “It’s great, people like Nick and Michael do a great job of connecting everybody, and it’s really cool, I like it.”

Justin: Do you find that you can collaborate easily with people here?

Goetz: “Yeah absolutely, you meet new people, and the thing with working in this industry and being self employed, the more people you meet the better it is, and I don’t really go out to parties that much anymore, so here it’s great. If you have your own studio away from everybody it gets quite lonely.”

Justin: We encourage our students to attend the networking parties here, and to get involved. Would you say the networking aspect is very important?

Goetz: “It’s vital, yeah. The squeaky wheel gets the grease!”

Justin: And finally, what would your advice be to the students here looking to start their careers in the music industry?

Goetz: “Just be creative and make great music, and play your stuff to people, and push to get out there because you have to get noticed. You have to open the doors for yourself, it’s a very competitive industry, and at the end of the day if your music’s no good you’re not going to get anywhere, that’s what it all comes down to.”

Justin: Thanks very much for your time, and we look forward to your masterclass with us next week!

For more information about Goetz, go to: https://www.goetz-botzenhardt.com/