#darwin del fabro

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they/them said yes being unapologetically queer is good for your skin but that doesn’t mean you can forget to moisturize and they’re so right for that

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DARWIN DEL FABRO debut album "REVISITING ELIS REGINA" celebrating the ICONIC BRAZILIAN SINGER

Madalena Music has announced the release of Revisiting Elis Regina – the debut album Brazilian-born, New York-based singer and actor Darwin Del Fabro – in digital and streaming formats today Friday, January 26. Del Fabro, who uses he/they pronouns, is best known for Blumhouse Productions’ acclaimed slasher film They/Them, directed by three-time Oscar nominee John Logan. Singing in Portuguese, Del…

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They/Them (2022)

This is a Movie Health Community evaluation. It is intended to inform people of potential health hazards in movies and does not reflect the quality of the film itself. The information presented here has not been reviewed by any medical professionals.  

They/Them has lights flickering on in the middle of the night late into the first night the story takes place. This flicker lasts about 3 seconds. A late scene involving a projector in the dark uses rapidly-changing images that create a strong strobe effect for about 30 seconds. One of the last scenes is lit by police car strobe lights at night.

All of the camera work in this film is either stationary or very smooth.

Flashing Lights: 6/10. Motion Sickness: 1/10.

TRIGGER WARNING: This film takes place at a gay conversion camp, with extensive language depicting that mission as a positive. Graphic pictures of past abuses of this camp are shown in one scene, and two scenes depict shock aversion therapy. A trans person is aggressively misgendered. Real-world experiences of LGBT+ people are shared, including descriptions of hate crimes and slurs. Someone is forced to euthanize a dog with a gun while listening to homophobic abuse.

Image ID: A promotional poster for They/Them

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They/Them

directed by John Logan, 2022

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W A T C H I N G

Semi-Controversial film. No doubt somewhat triggering for some people. Understandable.

But the underpinning allegory is intolerance and bigotry is the enemy.

Excellent inclusive casting (imo).

THEO GERMAINE is awesome, what a cute human being. Follow them on their socials. I think they have such a great heart. I hope they get many more roles!

AUSTIN CRUTE was already a favorite character actor on DAYBREAK. This is such a different side to his masculine Apocalyptic Samurai. Really - this guy has range!

KEVIN BACON, as always, is excellent. I mean has he ever been anything but? He's like Keanu. A good dude that has a fan favorite status.

[allthebrazilianpolitics]

They/Them's Darwin Del Fabro On His Journey From Brazil To Starring Opposite Kevin Bacon

Brazilian born and raised Darwin Del Fabro arrived in New York just four years ago with the dream of building an acting career in America. He'd been performing since an early age, but didn't speak fluent English. Luckily, Del Fabro's drive and confidence served him well, and today, he's celebrating his first Hollywood role in the gay conversion camp-set slasher film "They/Them."

The movie, which was written and directed by John Logan, the Oscar-nominated scribe of "Gladiator," takes the tropes of slasher films set in summer camps, like "Friday the 13th," and turns them on their head to create a scary yet surprisingly uplifting tale of LGBTQ+ empowerment. Even as the bodies pile up, the campers rise above the horror by accepting themselves for who they are. 

Among them is Del Fabro's Gabriel, who the actor makes sympathetic and mysterious all at the same time. It's a stand-out turn that's sure to get viewers talking. Del Fabro radiated an infectious joy and excitement during a wide-ranging conversation with Looper in which he shared his thoughts on "They/Them," talked about his journey to this point in his career, and discussed what's coming up for him in the near future.

Continue reading.

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Kevin Bacon, Anna Chlumsky, Carrie Preston e Theo Germaine in bella mostra nelle prime foto dell'horror Blumhouse They/Them, ambientato in un campo di conversione per giovani gay.

Il film è la storia di un gruppo di adolescenti LGBTQIA+ che vengono mandati in un "campo di conversione gay" gestito da Owen Whistler (Kevin Bacon). Qui i ragazzi vengono coinvolti in una settimana di programmazione intesa ad aiutarli a trovare un nuovo senso di libertà. Poiché i metodi del campo diventano sempre più psicologicamente inquietanti, i campeggiatori devono unire le forze per proteggersi. Quando un misterioso assassino inizia a mietere vittime, le cose si fanno ancora più pericolose...

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Exclusive Interview: Oscar-nominated filmmaker John Logan & the cast of They/Them on creating an empowering queer slasher movie

Exclusive Interview: Oscar-nominated filmmaker John Logan & the cast of They/Them on creating an empowering queer slasher movie

They/Them (pronounced “They-slash-Them”), marks the directorial debut of Oscar-nominated veteran screenwriter John Logan (Skyfall, Hugo, The Aviator, Gladiator), who brings his own script to the screen with his queer take on the slasher genre. As a lifelong committed horror fan, Logan had longed to see himself represented in the genre. “When I was growing up, queer characters were for the most…

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They/Them

Summary: A group of LGBT+ teenagers at a conversion camp find themselves the targets of a masked killer.

Decent effort with great title and show-stealing Austin Crute that sidelines actual slashing in favour of focus on message.

Rating: 3.5/5

Photo credit: IMDb

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THEY/THEM Premiere Date & First-Look Images.

Kevin Bacon plays Owen Whistler in this slasher horror film set at an LGBTQIA+ conversion camp. Several queer and trans campers join Whistler for a week of programming intended to “help them find a new sense of freedom”. As the camp’s methods become increasingly more psychologically unsettling, the campers must work together to protect themselves. When a mysterious killer starts claiming victims, things get even more dangerous. 

(l-r) Carrie Preston as Cora Whistler, Anna Chlumsky as Molly, Boone Platt as Zane, Kevin Bacon as Owen Whistler -- (Photo by: Josh Stringer/Blumhouse)

THEY/THEM, pronounced “They-slash-Them,” from Blumhouse will premiere Friday, August 5. The LGBTQIA+ horror film, formerly known as ‘Whistler Camp,’ is a queer empowerment story set at a gay conversion camp.  

Anna Chlumsky as Molly -- (Photo by: Josh Stringer/Blumhouse)

THEY/THEM is award-winning screenwriter John Logan’s directorial debut from Blumhouse and will exclusively premiere on Peacock.

(l-r) Monique Kim as Veronica, Anna Lore as Kim -- (Photo by: Josh Stringer/Blumhouse)

“THEY/THEM has been germinating within me my whole life. I've loved horror movies as long as I can remember, I think because monsters represent 'the other' and as gay kid I felt a powerful sense of kinship with those characters who were different, outlawed, or forbidden,” said writer and director, John Logan. “I wanted to make a movie that celebrates queerness, with characters that I never saw when I was growing up. When people walk away from the movie, I hope they're going to remember the incredible love that these kids have for each other and how that love needs to be protected and celebrated.”

(l-r) Darwin del Fabro as Gabriel, Austin Crute as Toby, Cooper Koch as Stu -- (Photo by: Josh Stringer/Blumhouse)

THEY/THEM is produced by Blumhouse. The film is created, written, and directed by three-time Oscar nominated screenwriter John Logan (Skyfall, Gladiator, The Aviator), marking his directorial debut and serving as an executive producer on the film. Kevin Bacon (You Should Have Left, City On a Hill), Scott Turner Schofield (Euphoria; The Craft: Legacy), Howie Young (Mission: Impossible III, Hit and Run), and Jon Romano (Firestarter (2022), Vengeance) also serve as executive producers. Jason Blum (Get Out, The Invisible Man) and Michael Aguilar (Penny Dreadful, Kidding) are producers.

(l-r) Theo Germaine as Jordan, Austin Crute as Toby -- (Photo by: Josh Stringer/Blumhouse)

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The men of THEY/THEM (2022) clockwise from top right-Kevin Bacon, Darwin Del Fabro, Theo Germaine and Cooper Koch

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spooky tuesday is a (now not so new!) podcast where we’re breaking down all of our favorite slashers, thrillers, monster movies and black comedies on the new scariest day of the week.

if you missed out on watching they/them (2022) when it debuted last summer, you better step up your pussies and get to it! while it doesn’t actually feature any theys slashing thems like the title might have you believe, this conversion camp horror movie is well worth a watch. we’re not saying it’s good exactly — that’s for you to judge — but there is definitely a lot going on here. for one, there’s kevin bacon, a CLEAR REFERENCE to friday the 13th. there’s also a jason voorhees name drop followed by a pivotal pride month moment. on a new spooky tuesday, we’re talking about all that and more as we explore the glee project vibes, surprise singalongs, and absolutely mesmerizing monologues.

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2022 Horror Challenge: [20/?]

↳ “It’s a good day to be alive, isn’t it?” They/Them (2022) dir. John Logan

Plot: A group of teenagers at an LGBTQ+ conversion camp endures unsettling psychological techniques while being stalked by a mysterious masked killer.

Starring: Theo Germaine, Carrie Preston, Anna Chlumsky, Austin Crute, Quei Tann, Anna Lore, Cooper Koch, Monique Kim, Darwin del Fabro, Hayley Griffith, Boone Platt, Mark Ashworth & Kevin Bacon

This a catch-up review. Watched this when it became available because of mild curiosity after hearing all the bad reviews. I mean, that IMDB rating?? Enough to make anyone wanna know just how much of a trainwreck it had to be. But I also wanted to keep an open mind too because I wanted to be sure it wasn’t because of homophobia or anything like that. Sadly, no, it’s not all that. Honestly, it was an interesting concept actually. Because there should be more rep in horror so it’s nice that there are actually people of the community that were involved in the making of this. And they’re young and talented enough so the blame for this movie is not on any of them. For me, it’s a horror movie that totally forgets that it’s supposed to be a horror movie until near the end. The masked killer aspect feels completely tacked on, and the twists there don’t totally land. Basically the execution of the whole thing just ruins what you’re hoping to get out of this imo as a horror movie. That said, as a regular movie and getting rid of the killer aspect, you had potential with this storywise actually imo. Anyway, as negative as this review is, it kinda worked out as a hate watch cuz it had its meme-able moments. lo

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They/Them (or “They Slash Them”) is the new slasher film out Friday on Peacock, billed as “an LGBTQIA+ empowerment tale set in a conversion camp.” They/Them (pronounced "They-Slash-Them") is a 2022 American slasher film written and directed by John Logan in his feature directorial debut, and produced by Blumhouse Productions. It stars Theo Germaine, Carrie Preston, Anna Chlumsky, Austin Crute, Quei Tann, Anna Lore, Cooper Koch, Monique Kim, Darwin del Fabro, Hayley Griffith, Boone Platt, Mark Ashworth, and Kevin Bacon, and follows a group of LGBTQ people who are targeted by a masked killer while attending a conversion camp. https://www.instagram.com/p/Cg7IWZnrp59/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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“I am a man,” says a middle aged white woman, Dominique (Rebecca Gibel), at the beginning of “Real,” which you could call a ghost story.  “I am a man because it’s how you see me. But I want to be more.”

About 70 minutes later, and 84 years earlier, Dominic (Darwin del Fabro), a 20-year-old gay Latino man wearing red lipstick, makes the exact same speech.

“Real,” a play by Rodrigo Nogueira at The Tank through January 20, takes place in New York in two different eras.  The scenes alternate between Dominic in 1935, an immigrant musical prodigy who is composing a fugue and writing a play, and Dominique in 2019, a lawyer who is giving a dinner party for her husband, her best friend and her best friend’s husband.  It doesn’t take long before we realize the parallels between the two characters go beyond the similarity of their names.

I suppose it would be a spoiler to reveal how the parallel lines ultimately meet. In truth, though, the spooky and melodramatic aspects of the plot, and the two characters’ surreal pile-up of connections, are less engaging than the astute social observations the playwright threads throughout the piece.

In particular, Nogueira notes in varying degrees of subtlety the persistence of political and personal challenges involving race, gender and sexual orientation. It’s bracing that one of the characters in the 1930s fears deportation under The Mexican Repatriation, a historical event in which the U.S. government shipped to Mexico as many as two million Mexican-Americans, the majority of whom had been born in the U.S. and were legal citizens.

Dominic’s father and Dominique’s husband (both portrayed by Charlie Pollock) represent patriarchal attempts to squelch individual identity and artistic expression. Dominique, we learn, was herself something of a musical prodigy at age 20, but her husband more or less forced her into becoming a lawyer and going into practice with him. (That a wife would feel forced to give up a musical career in the 21stcentury is certainly possible, but feels less persuasive than a son being forced to give up one in the 20th.)

Not all the observations are so pointed.  There are fascinating and funny tidbits largely delivered by Keith Reddin, who portrays two characters (one in 1935, the other in 2019), neither of whom is given a name.  For example:

“Animal is a relatively recent word, and it’s related to soul, anima. Before that they were called ‘beasts’ and they were perceived as soulless enemies that should be killed. After being named ‘animals’ they were seen as friendly, useful allies to human kind.”

The comment is obviously connected to the title of the play, and has to do with a theme in it about how reality differs based on perception. There are several such intellectual themes, each of which could anchor its own play.

Nogueira, a playwright of some renown in Brazil who’s a newcomer to New York,  still manages to land some astute and amusing comments about living in New York – or, more precisely, about taking the New York City subway. Which makes him a New Yorker.

Real Review: A Man and A Woman Eras Apart Merge Surreally in New York “I am a man,” says a middle aged white woman, Dominique (Rebecca Gibel), at the beginning of “Real,” which you could call a ghost story.