#garrick hagon

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A New Hope (1977) dir. George Lucas

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Orange jumpsuit 🍊

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GARRICK HAGON (aka STAR WARS character BIGGS DARKLIGHTER) promo trading card for a then-upcoming appearance at a March 1999 Sci Fi Expo convention held in Plano, Texas. Scanned from my personal collection.

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Bad movie I have Antony and Cleopatra 1972

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John Levene pops up as Gene Bradley's co-pilot on his private jet, called Tony, (John Levene's character, not the jet) in The Adventurer: I'll Get There Sometime (1.15, ITC, 1973)

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CONCLAVE (2024)

Starring Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci, John Lithgow, Sergio Castellitto, Isabella Rossellini, Lucian Msamati, Carlos Diehz, Brían F. O'Byrne, Merab Ninidze, Thomas Loibl, Jacek Koman, Rony Kramer, Valerio Da Silva, Joseph Mydell, Vincenzo Failla, Garrick Hagon, Merab Ninidze, Madhav Sharma, Loris Loddi, Roberto Citran, Antonio Toma and Balkissa Maiga.

Screenplay by Peter Straughan.

Directed by Edward Berger.

Distributed by Focus Features. 110 minutes. Rated PG.

Who would have imagined that one of the most intriguing and suspenseful films of this year would be about a bunch of cardinals sequestered in the Vatican to vote on a new Pope? In fact, intriguing and suspenseful is not giving Conclave its full due. This is simply one of the best films of the year. Don’t be surprised to see it on a bunch of best films of the year lists and also for it to get a whole bunch of award nominations.

It's that good. Who would have guessed?

Again, it was about a bunch of cardinals in the Vatican. Blessed are the believers, indeed.

Conclave is based on the novel by Robert Harris and shows us – very forcefully and at the same time very subtly – that some very devout and proper people can still have some skeletons in their closets. In fact, pretty much everyone here, and they are mostly good and spiritual followers of Christ, has some serious secrets which they are not willing to allow to see the light of day.

Many of the deadly sins – lust, greed, pride, envy and wrath – all show up at different points in the story. (Gluttony and sloth don’t seem to be on the menu but give it time.) The final twist – which I will certainly not spoil – is not even on that deadly sins scale and may even go too far afield dramatically for a chunk of the film’s potential audience. Yet somehow it does make a certain strange sense for the story.

Even arguably the most devout person of all – Cardinal Thomas Lawrence (Ralph Fiennes) – the man in charge of making sure the conclave runs smoothly and essentially the moral center of the story (assuming you don’t count the dead Pope) makes some dubious moves and forms some sketchy alliances. And yet you can tell he is doing these things for the right reasons.

Or is he?

The choosing of the Pope itself turns out to be oddly like an extremely solemn reality show. Cardinals take the lead in the votes, make alliances with (and against) each other, sabotage each other’s campaigns and as their secrets meet the light of day, they are basically voted off the island.

There is much more subterfuge and backstabbing than you would expect from such a serious pursuit, but that just points out the humanity of the process.

The acting here is unfailingly spectacular, particularly Fiennes, Stanley Tucci as a moderate cardinal and particularly Isabella Rossellini as a quiet but steely head nun, who is mostly ignored by the men, until she finally has to take some moral stands to keep the process going fairly. Seriously, Rossellini should definitely be in line for a Best Supporting Actress nominee.

Like I said earlier, don’t be surprised if that is only one of many Oscar nominations.

Jay S. Jacobs

Copyright ©2024 PopEntertainment.com. All rights reserved. Posted: October 23, 2024.

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Title: Chasing Liberty

Rating: PG-13

Director: Andy Cadiff

Cast: Mandy Moore, Matthew Goode, Stark Sands, Caroline Goodall, Jeremy Piven, Annabella Sciorra, Briony Glassco, Sam Ellis, Terence Maynard, Mark Harmon, Lewis Hancock, Garrick Hagon, Zac Benoir, Jan Goodman, Robert Ashe, Tony Jayawardena, Beatrice Rosen

Release year: 2004

Genres: romance, comedy

Blurb: Unable to experience life like a normal 18-year-old, the President's daughter escapes from her entourage of Secret Service agents while travelling in Europe. She falls in love with a handsome British stranger...who just so happens to be working undercover for her father.

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Oppenheimer - BBC - October 29, 1980 - December 10, 1980

Historical Drama / Biography (7 episodes)

Running Time: 420 minutes

Stars:

Sam Waterston as J. Robert Oppenheimer

John Carson as Narrator

Christopher Muncke as Colonel Kenneth Nichols

Jana Shelden as Kitty Oppenheimer

Kate Harper as Jean Tatlock

Edward Hardwicke as Enrico Fermi

David Suchet as Edward Teller

Manning Redwood as Lieutenant General Leslie Groves

Peter Whitman as Robert Serber

Matthew Guinness as Hans Bethe

Bob Sherman as Ernest Lawrence

John Morton as Robert Wilson

Garrick Hagon as Frank Oppenheimer

Liza Ross as Jackie Oppenheimer

Barry Dennen as Isidor Rabi

Peter Marinker as Haakon Chevalier

Phil Brown as Lewis Strauss

Sarah Brackett as Priscilla Duffield

The series aired on PBS' American Playhouse from May 11, 1982 to June 22, 1982

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Star Wars Fan Fun Day 2024 will take place on Sunday 5th May 2024 at Ewood Park, the home of Blackburn Rovers and Neil, Paul and the SWFFD team bring us their latest guest announcement. From A New Hope we have Luke Skywalker's best buddy Biggs Darklighter Garrick Hagon. https://www.facebook.com/StarWarsFanFunDay/posts/pfbid02HkBJy8PX5bqaB5Jb6ECyqfhbyRMvxFQG5tVjauSQhCPk6QDNWcAo9wsbtYM1Jgpyl Garrick joins previously announce guests Anton Valensi, John Fensom, Nick Joseph, Derek Lyons and Anthony Forrest. It's one of the most enjoyable, well-run events on the global Star Wars calendar, and we'll do our level best to bring all the news as we run down the months, weeks and days to the show. [amazon box="B0C7P7X635"]

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Garrick Hagon - IMDB

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Or Star Wars characters never really die?

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Ninja (2009), dir: Isaac Florentine

I have a lot of affection for this movie: it's not great, it has silly sound effects, a little goofy, went with CGI blood instead of squibs which looks bad, definite power rangers influence and not always in a good way; but I genuinely like the characters and their relationships with each other

we start with various characters at a dojo in Japan, we meet Casey (Scott Adkins) and Namiko Takeda (Mika Hijii) sparring and they definitely have crushes on each other, they're generally very cute but aren't acting on the obvious attraction yet

so Casey is obviously an American white guy, seemingly the only one at the dojo, and that's implied to be part of why another student Masazuka (Tsuyoshi Ihara) is so hostile

he intrudes into Casey's personal room around bedtime (while Casey is lost in thought looking at a photo of his mom) seemingly just to push his trauma buttons

"must suck not to have a heritage :) shame your mom abandoned you and your dad drank himself to death :)", it nearly provokes a fight but Sensei Takeda (Togo Igawa) scolds him

later they have a sparring match, it's a good showing but Casey notably struggles, it widely escalates and Masazuka tries to kill Casey, Sensei exiles him and everyone feels bad about it; it's not a bully getting kicked out to applause, it's a favored student with potential who has lost the family's trust

presumably months later, Masazuka has become an assassin for the Illuminati-esque Ring, he returns to the dojo mostly to threaten them about he's the only one who deserves to inherit the Yoroi Bitsu (a box of ninja gear that's culturally important), he's also here to stare threateningly at Casey, but comes off less "I'm going to happily murder you later" and more a come hither look

so Casey and Namiko are sent to New York with the YB to hide it in a museum for safekeeping, Casey's definitely focused on the task but him carrying the photo of his mom suggests he has a second motive, they then contact a an old friend of Sensei called Professor Garrison (Garrick Hagon)

they have a nice dinner with him and Prof asks how Casey ended up at the dojo, Casey proceeds to trauma dump to professor, "yeah my mom left me when I was 12 :) dad drove off a cliff :) a family friend dropped me off at the dojo so I'm perfectily fine", our boy definitely has unprocessed trauma

Masazuka slaughters those at the dojo (unclear how many), has the advantage with a high-tech ninja suit with infra-red vision, angry about Sensei rejecting him (definite parallel to Casey's history of abandonment), kills Sensei but realizes that YB has been moved, realizes location thru Namiko's phone messages

Casey goes to find mom, learns she died of a stroke months before; quietly comforted by Namiko, romantic undertone but interrupted by intruders who kill the professor

they get away and hide in motel, Namiko has quiet breakdown when she realizes her father is dead, they end up sharing a shower but it's more of a keeping warm/comfort than sexy, more trouble with police thinking they're suspects

next morning Casey panics when she isn't there, although just went down to coffee shop, another ambush, train fight, first kill, arrested by police

this is about where the film loses steam for me, the story still works okay but a little less gripping, also wish Namiko got a better showing because she struggles more in fights than Casey despite the beginning suggesting they were on equal footing

there's an interrogation where Namiko sticks to the cover story of visiting then running because they were scared of the attackers whereas Casey basically tells the truth about ninja assassins and isn't believed; Masazuka breaks into the precint, kills police and kidnaps Namiko

Casey tracks down the cult and calls Masazuka to make a deal, the Yoroi Bitsu in exchange for Namiko (she's willing to die to keep it hidden but he isn't)

final fight: meet at a construction site, Namiko freed when box is handed over, turns out box is empty because Casey decided to wear the gear instead, Namiko gets a good fight but poisoned and taken out of commision halfway through, Casey wins the fight and gets antidote for Namiko

ends with beheading Masazuka, interesting tone because it doesn't feel exultant, more like a grim necesity

final scene is Casey and Namiko at Sensei's grave before returning to the dojo, implied they're now a couple

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İngiliz aktör Garrick Hagon'dan, Çağrı filmiyle ilgili yıllar sonra gelen itiraf! Neler anlattı neler

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I first thought that was Pedro Pascal and not Garrick Hagon ...

I also had no questions about that ...

Hugh Fleming: Luke and Biggs