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EVERYTHING EVERY TIME ALL IN ONE PLACE

Playing wide in the multiplexes right now:

Here--A spot in a living room in an upscale eastern Pennsylvania suburb--that's the title locale of this latest from Robert Zemeckis. It's our static vantage point for, essentially, the whole movie, looking across the room through a picture window that offers a view of the big brick colonial-era house across the street. 

We see the view there before it was a living room--long, long before. As in, we see it during the extinction event that ended the Cretaceous Period, sixty million years ago. We see it as a woodland make-out spot for indigenous lovers (Dannie McCallum and Joel Oulette), and as a burial site. We see it as part of a dirt road leading up to the aforementioned historic manse, which once was occupied by William Franklin (Daniel Betts), estranged Loyalist son of Benjamin (Keith Bartlett).

After the house is built, we get glimpses of the lives of its early 20th-Century inhabitants, like an enthusiastic aviator (Gwilym Lee) whose wife (Michelle Dockery) frets about his flying. They're followed by a whimsical inventor (David Fynn) and his sexy flapper wife (Ophelia Lovibond). This guy is trying to perfect a reclining chair; his working title for it is "Relax-y-Boy." And we see the house's early 21st-Century occupants, an African-American family; Nicholas Pinnock and Nikki Amuka-Bird are the parents, and Anya Marco-Harris is the beloved housekeeper.

But the movie's main focus is the midcentury family that takes the place over after WWII: Dad (Paul Bettany), a combat veteran and a seething, disappointed functional alcoholic, his sweet, quietly unfulfilled wife (Kelly Reilly), and his oldest son (Tom Hanks), an aspiring artist. The son gets his beautiful girlfriend (Robin Wright) pregnant, so there goes both art school and her college dreams. They move in with the parents, and stay for decades.

So the movie packs in a lot of history (and prehistory), a lot of longings fulfilled and unfulfilled, and cultural references ranging from the Spanish flu to the Spanish Inquistion sketch from Monty Python. But I'll admit that when I realized we were going to be parked in one place for the whole thing--I went in not knowing this--I panicked for a moment.

I needn't have worried. Zemeckis has always been a skillful showman, and while the audacious experiment of Here is by no means an unqualified success, it certainly never bored me. The script, by Eric Roth and Zemeckis, is based on a 2014 graphic novel by Richard McGuire, and Zemeckis employs comic-book techniques like overlapping inset panels to interweave the various timelines and bounce them off each other thematically. It's an impressive and confident exercise in narrative, and it does carry a cumulative emotional punch.

There are downsides, however. The fixed point of view means that the actors tend to seem a bit far away from us a lot of the time, and when they are brought up into the foreground it somehow feels forced. Zemeckis may have been worried about this distancing too; Alan Silvestri's music, though pretty, is ladled on a bit thicker than it should be, as if to telegraph what we're supposed to be feeling.  

Much more jarringly, though, the people in Here often have an ersatz, CGI "Uncanny Valley" look to them. The leads were taken all the way back to teenaged through some sort of real-time computer tech, and while the results are tolerable, they aren't perfected in realistic terms.

It must be admitted, however, that Hanks and Wright transcend this limitation, especially Hanks. The other actors sometimes feel like cyber-phantoms, but Hanks is so vibrant that he can project his humanity right through the program. And after Apollo 13, Castaway, Captain Phillips and Sully, it's also a relief to see the poor guy stay put.

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If only I were she!

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ECHO

1.3 — TUKLO

Black and white scenes play as an intro. Starts off with a statement, “In the late 1800s, Indian country was infested with dangerous criminals, threatening the safety of the Native Nations. Tribes established their own police force to Bri g these criminals to justice. These tribal police were called… the Lighthorsemen.” Footage plays of them, then TUKLO and her dad. A next statement reads: “Her father was a Lighthorseman, but TUKLO was a mighty force all on her own.” She shows accuracy with both a pistol and a projectile. She is quoted as saying, “The time is right, Father. I am ready to join you. I want to be a Lighthorseman.” Her father disagrees: “No. Women are life-givers. Men are life-takers.” She counters: “To give life means nothing if I cannot protect it.” She rides off, and is next shown by the water. The next statement reads: “Braids are for men. Braids are for Choctaw warriors.” She braids her hair, resolute in her goals to be a warrior like her father before her. Her thoughts read: “They will see me. Not as they think I should be. They will see me as I am.” The next statement: “Across the plains, the Lighthorsemen are called to action!” One of them say (as the words onscreen reflect), “These are the criminals we’ve been looking for.” But it’s “A TRAP!” They get shot. The onscreen text reads, “Meanwhile, TUKLO senses something…” She receives a vision, and goes to shoot the men who shot her father’s companions. Her father is proud. The black and white film stutters out.

Thought: The inclusion of this intro in such a format gives us context in a way that we’ve never seen before in the MCU.

Chula visits Skully, and is upset that Maya is in town and that Biscuits is “caught up” with her. Clearly, Chula is hurt over Maya, but tries not to show it.

Maya takes a walk and receives a vision. But she is taken by surprise. She wakes to find herself strung upside down in the skate ring she visited in the first episode. She falls to the ground, sees Henry (her Uncle?) gagged, and gets pulled to the back and restrained. Bonnie walks in, unaware of the trouble. Henry redirects her back out, but she is accosted.

Bonnie is upset, but Vickie has her removed from the premises.

Maya makes an improvised weapon. Very resourceful.

Henry and Bonnie are interrogated. Maya’s rigged the laser tag area, and takes down several assailants. She calls on the power of her ancestors, specifically TUKLO. Maya goes on what seems like a one-woman rampage to take down those seeking to hurt her. She makes use of her surroundings and props to fight back, very much like Jackie Chan.

Zane and his associates are called off: Bonnie, Maya, and Henry are let free.

Skully visits Maya, and gives her a gift for her new prosthesis. He says it represents who she is. She likes it.

She sees Bonnie, but gets on her way.

Biscuit, Chula, and many others are at a gathering, singing a Choctaw song titled “Vba Isht Taloa #121”.

She arrives back home, only to see Fisk at her doorstep. She is shocked.

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What to Do When You Find Yourself 'Here'

What to Do When You Find Yourself 'Here'

What’s the best way to get Here? (CREDIT: TriStar Pictures/Sony Pictures Entertainment) Starring: Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Paul Bettany, Kelly Reilly, Michelle Dockery, Gwilym Lee, Ophelia Lovibond, David Fynn, Leslie Zemeckis, Jonathan Aris, Daniel Betts, Harry Marcus, Lily Aspell, Joel Oulette, Dannie McCallum, Nicholas Pinnock, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Cache Vanderpuye, Anya Marco Harris, Mohammed…

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Echo. (Disney +) Review.

The original intent was for this author to cover every single newly released piece of the MCU on this blog following the release of one Wandadivision. That’s only lasted for one more season of Falcon and The Winter Soldier. As one of the few viewers still keeping up with all the MCU-related visual content the release schedule for phases 4 and 5 may not be a lot in terms of the landscape of the…

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Echo: Season 1 – TV Review

TL;DR – There are clearly some rough edges where the production issues the show had shone through. But I do think it found its feet, and it could be the start of an interesting new direction for the MCU. ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 3.5 out of 5. Disclosure – I paid for the Disney+ service that viewed this series.End-Credit Scene – There is a mid-credit scene in the final episode. Echo Review – It is an odd…

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Are you sure are lines of dialogues aren't swapped?

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Bad movie I have Sympathy for the Devil 2023

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Hot Vintage TV Men's Bracket - Round 1 - Part 1/2 (Polls 1-99)

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First Lines :)

tagged by the wonderful @alllthequeenshorses who has been writing The Old Guard joe/nicky fics that deserve to be read!! go check them (and other good reads) out!

i, myself, have been sitting peaceably in the phandom quicksand. more specifically, the phandom quicksand that is crossed over with DC :)

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As king, Danny is beholden to the emotions of his subjects, is able to feel them in the bottled swirl of an orb, the centerpiece to his icy crown.

i had the VIVID mental image of danny dragging a dead joker thru the streets of Gotham in a color blocking sort of thing? where it's a dark grey silhouette outline of danny and joker's body on a black street lined with towering white buildings- joker is trailing red and danny's looking back, eyes glowing green. a red sky and people observing on the streets. i might do this with colored paper? tmr actually since i've got the time

Approximately 54 minutes ago, Damian set off his panic button on his civilian identity.

i do not particularly like this line; i gotta go find batman's voice later, but i haven't found a way to continue Unknown Caller ID that i am happy with. please be patient with me, and if you have anything you think might happen/could see happening, i'm always up for a chat abt my fics! drop into my ask box! (anon is on too)

They’re in a transitional period now.

timeskip just slip me on, i'll be your blanket???? is that you??? guys idk if i'll finish it since it's mostly directionless rn, but istg in my heart of hearts it's not really finished and i'll never be free until i'm satisfied

Spencer stepped out of the elevator, sipping from his to-go coffee cup.

i found out about danny phantom x criminal minds, specifically the spencer reid is a gothamite trope, and I Need More. gotta do whatcha gotta do.

Today is the day.

from the Young Justice part of dc (screw it not being continuity, and also wally is dating dick wdym) crossed over with dp, of course, where danny joins the justice league as a consult/doomsday protocol, but he lives at the hall of justice and acts as a heimdall??? basically. the extended league is awkward around him bc he reminds them that they can't save everyone; inspo'd by a fic

Damian was gone.

not a cross over, it's just dc. is more of a character study on Alfred Pennyworth, maybe? but also i'm not really pulling from observing a ton of canon, it's more of my understanding and imagination on him and his relationships (and how his family's night activities affect him) [i love him and david mccallum is MY alfred]

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aaand that's abt it, in terms of new things i've worked on in the past four weeks! imma try to tag some new folks (hello there!!), but no pressure, and anyone is welcome to post their first lines (tag me, i'd love to see them!)

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NCIS on Monday paid its final respects to star David McCallum, who died September 25 at the age of 90.

A fan favorite, McCallum was the last remaining original cast member on NCIS, in which he played an eccentric but highly efficient investigator Donald “Ducky Mallard” for two decades.

As heavily teased in the promos, the episode dubbed “The Stories We Leave Behind” opened with Jimmy Palmer (Brian Dietzen, who co-wrote the episode) arriving at Ducky’s house to find his mentor — dressed in his monogrammed jammies — dead in his bed, with his sweet corgi looking forlorn in the foyer.

“Dying quietly in your sleep isn’t the worst way to go,” comments Timothy McGee (Sean Murray) back at the NCIS offices, after wrapping up a call with Scottish parliament who apparently wanted to send “a mountain of thistles” to honor their native son’s passing.

“He lived a very long, very rewarding life, which he would want us to celebrate more than anything,” added Director Leon Vance (Rocky Carroll).

So that’s exactly what the episode did — show old scenes from past seasons to remember the character who once said “we all die twice; when our bodies give out, and again when are stories stop being told.”

There was a flashback featuring Leroy Gibbs (Mark Harmon) with Tony DiNozzo (Michael Weatherly) and Ziva David (Cote de Pablo). Then came a scene with Ducky and Abby Sciuto (Pauley Perrette), followed by one with Ducky and Gibbs talking about how the latter never really shared personal stories at work.

But first, there had to be a case du jour: the last thing Ducky was working on involved a dead soldier named Danny whose name was getting smeared by an ambitious councilman named Allan Berger (um, not to be confused with, we guess, veteran talent agent Alan Berger). The official word was that Danny died in an Afghan brothel, his body riddled with heroin — but his daughter, Serena, suspected otherwise.

So did Ducky. The team does some digging and it turns out Danny was a former bodyguard for Berger, who previously worked as a contractor in Afghanistan and took money on the side from a local heroin operation. Once Danny threatened to expose the shenanigans, Berger had Danny killed.

With the case in the bag and Danny’s good name restored, the team could then move on to Ducky’s memorial. But first, a surprise was in store for Palmer, who was prepping to deliver a eulogy. In walks DiNozzo, who brought Palmer a special gift — a bowtie similar to what his mentor used to wear in the lab.

“He had a good friend in you,” DiNozzo tells Palmer. The two then head to the memorial, after Palmer turns the light off in Ducky’s former workspace.

Weatherly hasn’t appeared on CBS since his drama Bull ended in 2022. He left NCIS in 2016.

The episode ended with a title card that read, “In memory of our dear friend and colleague David McCallum. We will miss you.”

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HERE (2024)

Starring Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Paul Bettany, Kelly Reilly, Michelle Dockery, Gwilym Lee, Ophelia Lovibond, David Fynn, Leslie Zemeckis, Lauren McQueen, Beau Gadsdon, Jonathan Aris, Albie Salter, Harry Marcus, Lilly Aspell, Joel Oulette, Dannie McCallum, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Anya Marco Harris, Mohammed George, Dexter Sol Ansell and Stuart Bowman.

Screenplay by Eric Roth and Robert Zemeckis.

Directed by Robert Zemeckis.

Distributed by TriStar Pictures. 104 minutes. Rated PG-13.

It’s hard to believe that it’s been 30 years since Forrest Gump. All this time later, the stars (Tom Hanks and Robin Wright), the writer (Eric Roth) and the director (Robert Zemeckis) have reunited for a new film. Gump has always had a bit of a weird reputation. Many people – me included – very much enjoyed Forrest Gump. It even won the Best Picture Oscar. Yet, at the same time, many people who don’t like it consider the film to be sappy and condescending, and these critics do have some very legitimate points.

Not to worry, though, for better or worse, other than some of the same talent Here really has little in common with Forrest Gump. In fact, Here is pretty unique to itself. It is not taking a traditional storytelling path. Instead of focusing on characters – although there are quite a few characters in the film – this movie is particularly about a setting. Very specifically, the living room of a small but charming 250-year-old house. Here tracks what has happened on this specific plot of land over the centuries – starting with the dinosaurs and ending in the present day. (There are a few early segments from before the house was built, in which it is merely a field or a road.)

I can respect that kind of story idea – who hasn’t passed by houses and wondered what was going on in them, or what had happened there? I particularly am intrigued by this kind of idea because I too live in an old house and have often pondered about its history. My house is not quite as old as the house in Here. It’s about 125 years old – the official building date on record is 1900, but I have been told several times that is because they didn’t keep records before 1900, so it is quite probably older than that.

So why not take a look at the history of a place? The people who have lived and died there, the joy and pain experienced there, the parties, the funerals, the hopes, and the dreams. It’s an interesting idea for a film, although eventually it turns out that it is not exactly a cinematic one, or at least it doesn’t quite work as well as the filmmakers would have hoped.

Much of what happens in Here feels random, which I suppose even makes a certain amount of sense, because it is not the story of people so much as it is the story of a place. Some characters connect, others don’t, the storyline flips back and forth through time, and the whole story seems to have no true through line – unless again you count the single room in which pretty much all of the action occurred.

We meet and then move away from many people over the years, to the point that the audience feels like it is not really learning enough about any of the main characters. Essentially, the Here house has four families living in it over the years, although it even skips further back in time to the indigenous people who once lived on the land and the Revolutionary war-era citizens who built the huge house nearby that will become the center view of the living room window for the yet-to-be-built home.

With all of these characters flittering in and out of the storyline, it becomes a bit difficult to build up a relationship with many of these characters. (The Native Americans, the colonials and a furniture inventor who is married to a pin-up model seem to have particularly little to do here…)

Much of the narrative revolves around a two-generation family which kept the house for decades – the mother Rose and father Al (Kelly Reilly and Paul Bettany) eventually leave the house to one of their sons Richard and his wife Margaret (Hanks and Wright), who end up spending much of their life there.

Quite frankly, had Here focused on this one family they would have had more than enough for a more engaging storyline. Also, Here does spend more time with these characters than any other, but every time you start to build up an interest in the character arcs, the film suddenly moves back or forth in time to another story, losing the narrative momentum.

Speaking of Hanks and Wright, through some very disturbing de-aging tricks, they end up playing their characters from age 18 until sometime in their 70s or 80s. The old-age makeup in their later years is all right and mostly normal although it probably is done with SFX, but the computerized de-aging effects are distracting and unrealistic. It is as if director Zemeckis is still trying to sell us on his motion-capture process that made Hanks look so creepy in The Polar Express when he is the only one who doesn’t get how wrong it all looks. To make it even more disorienting, most of their de-aged shots were done in extreme close-up, which made the flaws even more noticeable.

Here was an interesting film experiment and, in some sections, it is quite beautiful. However, it doesn’t quite work.

Jay S. Jacobs

Copyright ©2024 PopEntertainment.com. All rights reserved. Posted: October 30, 2024.

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Batfamily Audiovisual Headcanons, Part 1

Dick Grayson: sounds like either Loren Lester (B:TAS) or Neil Patrick Harris (UTRH), both of their voices are pretty similar. Tbh I think about Ian Somerhalder a lot when I’m writing him description-wise, but so as not to ignore Dick’s Romani background, Danny Shepherd (who played him in the great Youtube series Nightwing: The Series) is probably a better fit. I don’t know what his ethnicity is.

Jason Todd: OK, it’s easiest for me to think of Jensen Ackles (UTRH) when it comes to Jason’s voice. However, since hearing Alejandro Saab in the fandub of Wayne Family Adventures, my heart has found another. In terms of looks...*sighs*. I HC Jason as being half-Hispanic & half-Italian, with green eyes (whether they’re natural or because of the Pit, IDK) and curly hair. Lately I’ve been using Peter Gadiot as his FC. Just don’t forget the white streak & thick thighs!

Tim Drake: the only age-appropriate voice actor take I’ve liked was Cameron Bowen’s (YJ). Personally, I’m cool with Tim being any race, as long as it reasonably fits his floppy long-haired look. A buddy of mine recommended Ryan Potter to play Tim, and I like that (yes, I know he’s in Titans, playing Garfield Logan). Ryan’s Jewish-American & Japanese.

Damian Wayne: at least while Dami’s a teen, I think Stuart Allen’s voice acting in The Judas Contract is a good fit. Though biracial children can look more like either parent, I do like to see Damian portrayed with tan (rather than light) skin. Arsalan Ghasemi is too old to play a teenager now (he’s 27), but I can’t help thinking about him as the little guy. Picture him years ago.

Alfred Pennyworth: I really like David McCallum’s (Son of Batman; look at 3:29) take on Alfred’s voice. I tend to think of the animated version of him (B:TAS), who is sassy as hell.

Bruce Wayne: Kevin Conroy (JL:U) is the perfect Bruce/Batman voice, IMHO. I tend to imagine his look in the animated series B:TAS, but I guess someone like Eric Bana would make a good Bruce.

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