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A throng surrounds the speaker’s platform and music stand on Swing Street, 52nd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues, July 23, 1942. The street, packed with night clubs, staged a war bond rally and invited everyone who had at least a dime to buy a war stamp. Well-known bands and Army music outfits supplied the background for dancing.

Photo: Kenneth Lucas for the AP

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Judas and the black messiah, 2021

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Manchester by the Sea 2016

Dir. Kenneth Lonergan

“Can’t you see we’re burning.”

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Payroll (I Promised to Pay) (1961) Sidney Hayers

October 5th 2024

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📽️ Red Dawn (2012)

I remember watching this when it first came out, but I really only remembered bits and pieces, so I watched it again. I don’t remember my impression of it the first time, but this time was not super favorable. For having several big names, the acting seemed more B-level. Part of that was the dialogue, which was absolutely horrendous at some points and so corny. Added to that is the fact that there are several plot holes and plot points that just don’t add up. There were some redeeming qualities, but overall this one is a flop.

Sex/nudity: 2/10 (a couple sexual comments that fall into the “corny dialogue” category, kissing)

Language: 4/10 (one f-word, multiple uses of milder language as well)

Violence: 7/10 (it’s a war movie, but it’s not as violent as it could’ve been)

Overall rating: 5/10

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I may have a slight creative burnout but I still wanted to draw! So take my children as memes I was able to draw over. They're from the same project Hanako, her brothers, and Yuri are from!

IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE: Kenneth Toussaint, Lucas Rivera, Dong-Hyun Lee

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Manchester by the Sea (2016, Kenneth Lonergan)

11/11/2023

Manchester by the Sea is a 2016 film written and directed by Kenneth Lonergan.

The main actors include Casey Affleck, Michelle Williams, Kyle Chandler and Lucas Hedges.

Lee Chandler leads a private and solitary life in Boston, where he works as a doorman and handyman. One day he receives the news that his brother Joe has had a heart attack and quickly returns to his hometown, Manchester-by-the-Sea, where he manages to arrive only after Joe's death. Lee remains in Manchester to organize the funeral and to be close to his sixteen-year-old nephew Patrick, Joe's son, for whom he discovers he has been appointed guardian.

In any case, the two are forced by events to re-establish a difficult relationship: Patrick has his own adolescent problems made more bitter by the death of his father, and Lee, due to his constant depression, finds himself unable to manage them.

Through a series of flashbacks, meanwhile, Lee's past is reconstructed: he once lived happily in the town with his wife Randi and their three children, until one day, due to his carelessness while he was drunk, he caused the fire in their house in which their children perished.

On January 23, 2016, the film premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival. It was subsequently presented at other film festivals such as Telluride Film Festival, Rome Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and the London Film Festival.

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Casey Affleck and Lucas Hedges in Manchester by the Sea (Kenneth Lonergan, 2016)

Cast: Casey Affleck, Michelle Williams, Kyle Chandler, Lucas Hedges, C.J. Wilson, Heather Burns, Gretchen Mol, Matthew Broderick. Screenplay: Kenneth Lonergan. Cinematography: Jody Lee Lipes. Production design: Ruth De Jong. Film editing: Jennifer Lame. Music: Lesley Barber. 

Sometimes, to appreciate how good a film is you have to imagine how bad it could have been. The conventional way of telling a story is beginning-middle-end, cause-effect-remedy, disease-diagnosis-cure. But if Kenneth Lonergan had taken that strict linear approach in crafting Manchester by the Sea, we would have been deprived of the element of discovery that makes it such a powerful film. To put it this way, Lonergan could have opened with the calamitous event that so blights the life of Lee Chandler (Casey Affleck), and then shown the breakup with his wife, Randi (Michelle Williams); his efforts to lose himself in menial work as a handyman/custodian in Boston; the death of his brother, Joe (Kyle Chandler), and Lee's return to Manchester; the discovery that Joe has made him guardian of Joe's son, Patrick (Lucas Hedges), and the subsequent attempts to arrange his life around that fact. But by postponing the revelation of the terrible event in Lee's life, placing it in a flashback, Lonergan makes it what it has to be: the very center of the film. We want to know what is troubling Lee, why he's so blocked emotionally, and Lonergan makes us wait for the answer, to speculate what it might be. When the revelation comes that he accidentally killed his small children, it probably fulfills what many of us had guessed it might be, so it doesn't come as a brutal surprise but as an elucidation. To put it at the start of the film, including Lee's aborted attempt at suicide, would have turned the film into a sentimental slog toward redemption. But by first showing us the ways in which Lee has responded by hiding away or lashing out at comforters or the curious -- by putting the middle before the beginning, the effect before the cause -- Lonergan focuses on Lee's continuing everyday pain, not on the enormity of what caused it. And then there's the ending: poignant, inconclusive, but at least somewhat hopeful. A conventional ending that provided balm for the pain, a cure for the disease, would have been phony. We may want the film to end with Lee finding some consolation like that of new fatherhood with Patrick, a rapprochement with Randi, even some kind of successful therapy or -- like Elise (Gretchen Mol), Joe's druggie ex-wife and Patrick's strayed mother -- submission into religious faith, but we would be satisfying our desire for a tidy narrative, not Lee's deep needs. Lonergan handles the traditional religious "cure" brilliantly, showing Patrick's discomfort at the evangelical piety of Elise and her new husband, Jeffrey (Matthew Broderick), and his complaint to Lee that Jeffrey is "Christian." Lee reminds him that they're Christians too -- "Catholics are Christians" -- ironically widening the gulf between Patrick and his mother and her husband. Lee's Catholicism is steeped in guilt, an emotion he knows too well and cannot imagine a life without. The strength of a film like Manchester by the Sea lies in its acknowledgment that life is too shaggy, bristly, and spiky to be neatly wrapped up with cures and fixes for whatever ails it.

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A Beatle Book Bonanza in 2023

We appear to be in something of an avalanche of Beatle books at the moment with lots of titles either out now, about to be released, or in the longer-term pipeline. A couple of Paul McCartney books available right now are The McCartney Legacy Volume 1 1969-73 (see our review of this terrific book here), and another new one called Paul McCartney: Music Is Ideas – The Stories Behind the Songs…

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love @layelli 's OCs so much lmao

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Round 6 Summary

Total Sims- 52 Fires-0 Burglaries- 0 Sims Born- Jadyn and Jaelie Whitestone, Lamar Somers, Zabrina Fischer, Idris Clover, Parker Khun, Eamon Damas, Saul Smyth, Sally Benson, Caila Foster Sims married or moved in- Tyron Smyth Married Sophie Miguel, Mari Clover married Chandler Platz, Molly Clover married Stephan Benson, Peter Khun married Lydia, Eron Damas Marries Marisa, Households: 15 Sims…

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These kids appointed themselves neighborhood guardians for the duration of the war. Here, on September 19, 1942, the sergeant-at-arms, Charles Au, admitted two new members, Arthur Werner and Leonard Buchanan. Their headquarters was in a shack, replete with street maps, shovels, rakes, sand buckets, and other equipment.

Photo: Charles Kenneth Lucas for the AP

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Judas and the Black Messiah, 2021

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Round 6 Summary

Total Sims- 52 Fires-0 Burglaries- 0 Sims Born- Jadyn and Jaelie Whitestone, Lamar Somers, Zabrina Fischer, Idris Clover, Parker Khun, Eamon Damas, Saul Smyth, Sally Benson, Caila Foster Sims married or moved in- Tyron Smyth Married Sophie Miguel, Mari Clover married Chandler Platz, Molly Clover married Stephan Benson, Peter Khun married Lydia, Eron Damas Marries Marisa, Households: 15 Sims…

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Manchester By The Sea (2016): A Heart-Wrenching Masterpiece by Kenneth Lonergan

Manchester By The Sea (2016) #FilmReview

Synopsis- After his brother’s death, Lee Chandler is named guardian to his 16-year-old nephew, Patrick. This forces him to return to his hometown and confront his past. Director- Kenneth Lonergan Cast- Casey Affleck, Lucas Hedges, Michelle Williams Genre- Thriller | Drama Released- 2016 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 6 out of 6. “Manchester by the Sea,” directed by Kenneth Lonergan, is a poignant and…

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