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Closed the nomination form! I made a list with all nominations by category! I'll accept suggestions of stuff to move around (change a character from minor to one of the other lists, but not the other way around cause the minor list is long enough). The Main Character list is a bit awkward with 18 characters, but I'm not really willing to move any away from it even if people might disagree? Unless I see a very strong argument.

the only nominations that didn't get in were the artifacts, since people voted for those to have their own poll later on!

So here's the 3 lists I have under the cut!

Main Characters 

Jonathan Sims

Martin Blackwood

Timothy Stoker

Sasha James

Basira Hussain

Daisy Tanner

Melanie King

Georgie Barker

Elias Bouchard

Jane Prentiss

NotThem/NotSasha

The Distortion

Nikola Orsinov

Peter Lukas

Gertrude Robinson

Jonah Magnus

Gerry Keay

Annabelle Cane

Minor Characters with Major Impact 

Michael Shelley

Adelard Decker

Michael Crew

Oliver Banks

Jude Perry

Simon Fairchild

Robert Smirke

Mikaele Salesa

Agnes Montague

Simon Fairchild

Jurgen Leitner

Julia Montauk

Trevor Herbert

Mikaele Salesa

Breekon and Hope

Mary Keay

Minor Character

Joshua Gillespie (MAG 002)

The Admiral (Georgie’s Cat)

Major Tom (MAG 016)

Helen Richardson (MAG 047) 

Karolina Gorka  (MAG 071)

Graham Folger (MAG: 003)

Alexander Scaplehorn (MAG 054)

Jordan Kennedy (MAG 055)

Hezekiah Wakely (152)

The Piper (MAG 007)

Gabriel/Worker of Clay (MAG 126)

John Amherst (Corruption Avatar)

Naomi Herne (MAG 013)

Amy Patel (MAG 003)

Werewolf/Hunt Avatar (MAG 031)

Alfred Breekon (MAG 096)

Alexia Crawley (MAG 110)

Emma Harvey (MAG 167)

Elias Bouchard (original)

Evan Lukas (MAG 013)

Laverne (MAG 136)

Callum McKenzie (MAG 125)

John Haan (MAG 072)

Tom Haan (MAG 030)

Jonathan Fanshawe (MAG 127)

Fiona Law (MAG 167)

Spider on the wall (MAG 038)

Leto (MAG 184)

Nathan Watts (MAG: 001)

Sebastian Skinner (MAG 087)

Carlita Sloane (MAG 033)

Erika Mustermann (MAG 034)

Jan Novak (MAG 034)

Piotr Petrov (MAG 034)

Pavel Petrov (MAG 034)

Fulan Al-Fulani (MAG 034)

Juan Pérez (MAG 034)

Jane/John Doe (MAG 034)

Lee Kipple (MAG 042)

Robin Lennox (MAG 100)

“John Smith” (MAG 100)

Celia/Lynne Hammond (MAG 100)

Brian Finlinson (MAG 100)

Carlos Vittery (MAG 016)

Francis (MAG 172)

Wilfred Owen (MAG 007)

Father Edwin Burroughs (MAG 019)

Maxwell Rayner (MAG 002)

Rat from the Bone Turner’s Tale (MAG 017)

Sergey Ushanka (MAG 065)

Angela (MAG 014)

The Anglerfish (MAG 001)

Jan Killbride (MAG 106)

Natalie Ennis (MAG 025)

Alfred Grifter (MAG 042)

Benoît Maçon (MAG 102)

Dr Lionel Elliot (MAG 034)

Rosie Zampano (MAG 192)

Manuela Dominguez (MAG 135)

Petite Scarabée/Little Beetle (MAG 102)

Sarah Baldwin (MAG 001)

Agape (MAG 153)

Monster Pig (MAG 103)

Callum Brodie (MAG 173)

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nathan owens (x9) — galerie.

[tinkerbellcreations]

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~OFFICIAL FANDOM LIST~

the official list of characters you can expect to be on this blog!

Last Updated: April 8th, 2024

✨ = my favorite characters

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MCU

✨Bucky Barnes/Winter Soldier

✨Steve Rogers/Captain America

✨Peter Parker/Spider-Man (Homecoming/Iron Spider Era)

Sam Wilson/The Falcon

✨Loki

✨Thor

Vision

Tony Stark/Iron Man

Bruce Banner/The Hulk

Clint Barton/Hawkeye

Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow

Yelena Belova

T'Challa

✨Shuri

Killmonger

Runaways

Harry Potter

Harry Potter

✨Hermione Granger

✨Ron Weasley

✨Fred Weasley

✨George Weasley

✨Luna Lovegood

Neville Longbottom

Tom Riddle

✨Draco Malfoy

Disney

Encanto

Bruno

Luisa

Isabela

Dolores

Camilo

Mirabel

Julietta

Pepa

Félix

Augustín

Antonio

Abuela

Tim Burton

Nightmare Before Christmas

Betelgeuse

Frankenweenie

Corpse Bride

OG Disney Films (Pre-Frozen)

Lion King

Mulan

101 Dalmations

Bambi

Little Mermaid

Lilo & Stitch

Tangled

Princess and The Frog

Disney (Post-Frozen)

Moana

Encanto

Frozen

Raya and the Last Dragon

Coco

Luca

OG Disney TV Shows/Movies

Wizards of Waverley Place

Good Luck Charlie

ANT Farm

Suite Life of Zack and Cody/On Deck

Kim Possible

HSM

Musicals

Rent

Hamilton

Wicked

Maze Runner

✨Gally

✨Newt

✨Thomas

Minho

Teresa

Frypan

Ben

Winston

Star Wars

Obi-Wan Kenobi

Luke Skywalker

Leia Skywalker

Anakin Skywalker

Padme Amidala

Kylo Ren

Han Solo

The Outsiders

✨Dallas Winston

Ponyboy Curtis

✨Sodapop Curtis

✨Johnny Cade

Two-Bit Matthews

Darry Curtis

Steve Randle

Tim Shepard

Youtube

✨Daz Games

Jacksepticeye

Markiplier

Emkay

Dee Lee

lilsimsie

✨Hazbin Hotel

✨Helluva Boss

Buzzfeed Unsolved

✨Watcher

TV Shows

Teen Wolf

✨Stiles

Scott

Allison

Lydia

Jackson

✨Derek

✨Liam

✨Isaac

✨Malia

Peter

Cora

Hazbin Hotel

✨Charlie

✨Vaggie

✨Alastor

✨Angel Dust

✨Husk

✨Nifty

✨Sir Pentious

✨Lucifer

Adam

Lute

Lilith

✨Emily

Sera

Vox

Valentino

✨Velvette

South Park

Queen's Gambit

Psych

The Office

Michael Scott

Dwight Schrute

Jim Halpert

Pam Halpert (Beesely)

Stanley Hudson

Kevin Malone

Angela Martin

Meredith Palmer

Oscar Martinez

Andy Bernard

Phyllis Vance

Erin Hannon

Parks and Rec

Grey's Anatomy

✨Alex Karev

Meredith Grey

Andrew DeLuca

✨Arizona Robbins

✨Callie Torres

✨George O'Malley

Jackson Avery

✨April Kepner

✨Miranda Bailey

Richard Webber

Katherine Avery (Fox)

Izzie Stevens

✨Cristina Yang

✨Lexie Grey

Mark Sloan

Derek Shephard

Amelia Shephard

✨Addison Montgomery

Owen Hunt

Teddy Altman

Nathan Riggs

Jo Wilson

✨Stephanie Edwards

✨Maggie Pierce

Friends

Rachel

Pheobe

Ross

Monica

✨Chandler

✨Joey

Merlin

✨Merlin

✨Arthur

Morgana

✨Gwaine

Elyan

Leon

✨Percival

✨Lancelot

✨Gwen

Mordred

Gaius

Uther

Avatar: The Last Airbender

✨Sokka

✨Katara

Aang

Toph

✨Zuko

Legend of Korra

✨Korra

✨Mako

✨Bolin

✨Asami

Stranger Things

✨Steve

✨Eddie

Mike

✨Eleven/Jane

Henry/001/ Vecna

Lucas

✨Dustin

Max

Billy

✨Robin

Nancy

Nancy Drew CW

Nancy

Nick

✨George

✨Ace

✨Bess

911 (OG & Lone Star)

Bobby

Athena

✨Hen

Chimney

Maddie

✨Buck

✨Eddie

Ravi

TK

✨Owen

✨Carlos

✨Grace

✨Judd

Wyatt

✨Marjan

✨Paul

Matteo

Nancy

✨Tommy

Video Games

Stardew Valley

✨Shane

✨Sam

✨Sebastian

Abigail

Alex

✨Haley

Emily

Harvey

Marnie

Jas

Vincent

Pam

Penny

Maru

Penny

Demetrius

Uncharted

Sims (3 & 4)

Animal Crossing

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Avatar 2'den yeni kare (Set halleri)

Tüm zamanların en çok izlenen filmi rekorunu 10 yıl boyunca taşıyan Avatar'ın devam halkasından yeni set fotoğrafı paylaşıldı. Daha önce ise Avatar 2'de zorlu yollarla ve yeni teknolojiler sayesinde yapılan sualtı çekimleri ortaya çıkmıştı. James Cameron, yönetmen koltuğundan seti yönetmeye devam ediyor. Avatar 2’nin ardından üç devfam filmi daha çekilecek. Üçüncü film 2023’te, dördüncü film 2025’te, beşinci film ise 2027’de gösterime girecek. Tom Hiddleston, Marvel’ın Sinematik Evreni’nden doğan Thor, The Avengers, Thor: The Dark World, Thor: Ragnarok ve Avengers: Infinity War filmlerindeki Loki karakterini bu defa dizi için canland��rıyor. Tom Hiddleston’a dizide Owen Wilson eşlik ediyor. İkili, Disney+ kanalı için hazırlanan Loki dizisi setinde ilk kez görüntülendi. Atlanta’daki sette ikilinin yağmur altında ıslanma sahneleri çekildi.   Keanu Reeves, başrolünü oynadığı The Matrix 4 filminin setinde objektiflere takıldı. 55 yaşındaki aktörü sevgilisi Alexandra Grant ziyaret etti. San Francisco’da çekimleri devam eden serinin dördüncü filminin, 21 Mayıs 2021’de vizyona girmesi planlanıyor. Margot Robbie, Gerçek Kötüler’in (Suicide Squad) devam filmi setinde.  Idris Elba, Steve Agee, David Dastmalchian, Nathan Fillion ile birlikte kamera karşısına geçen Robbie’nin Panama’da gerçekleştirilen çekimlerde kırmızı bir elbise giydiği görülüyor. Read the full article

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20 Freshest Web Designs, January 2020

January 2020 is picking up where 2019 left off, with lots of animation and even more bold, bright color schemes. We’re also seeing an unusual number of luxury sites this month, and as always there’s a strong set of startups trying to break into the market. Enjoy!

Plink

To take on giants like PayPal, you need a compelling brand and a simple message, that can also wow with its first impression. Plink hits the nail on the head with its 3D animation.

Madame Turfu

Are you wondering what 2020 will hold for you? Why wait to find out when Madame Turfu can predict the future with this wonderfully fun set of digital tarot cards.

Nathan Taylor

What’s not to love about Nathan Taylor’s playful site? There’s so much to explore and do, but our favorite part is the different lighting modes.

Meatable

Selling Meatable is a tough prospect; it’s real meat, grown in a lab instead of taken by animal slaughter. The simple step-by-step site does a great job of explaining.

Sussex Royal

Whatever your view of Harry and Megan, there’s little doubt that their website oozes class. For a promotional site that isn’t actually selling anything, it’s a strong presence.

Emotive Feels

This fantastic manifesto from design agency Emotive Brand illustrates an A–Z of potential brand emotions with simple animations that would grace the cover of a Bluenote release.

UN\REAL

Swiss design agency UN\REAL’s site is a wonderfully chaotic love affair with web animation. It’s the type of site we can click around for hours, enjoying the sharp transitions.

Kate Jackling

Sometimes the best design takes a step back and allows its subject to bask in all the attention. Kate Jackling’s site does this, letting her gorgeous photography take center stage.

Helias

Helias has fully embraced the blob trend with a flood-filled area of color supporting each of its various products. It’s appropriate, engaging, and breaks up the formal grid well.

Klokki

Sometimes the hardest sites to design, are the ones for products about which there’s very little to say. Klokki is one such product, but its site is bold, confident, and persuasive.

Jonnie Hallman

Jonnie Hallman’s simple résumé site benefits greatly from the household names he’s worked for. We really like the details, like the way the monogram changes color as you scroll.

eaast

eaast is a design and development partnership from Paris that’s fully embraced the Memphis style. Their simple site proves you don’t need years’ worth of work to sell yourself.

Pantheone Audio

Proving that elegant scrolling is still very much a thing in 2020, Pantheone Audio uses the scroll to seamlessly navigate a luxurious site with a complex grid underpinning it.

Leaf

After decades of the best a man can get, the half of the species that shaves daily seems to be obsessed with reinventing the process. Leaf taps into that simple marketing approach.

Mociun

Most sites that sell jewelry miss the spirit of the pieces by focusing on the financial value. Mocuin gets it right with an on-trend color palette and stunning product photography.

Jon Way

Jon Way’s portfolio features work from over a decade of art direction. There’s a clear, consistent aesthetic thanks to a lovely ‘static’ effect that plays across the whole site.

Kota Yamaji

There’s some amazing work in Kato Yamaji’s portfolio, but what really strikes home is the amount of color he manages to squeeze in.

Robb Owen

We’ve seen lots of animated vector avatars over the last couple of years, but rarely do we see one with as much personality as Robb Owen’s. The cursor tracking makes it feel real.

Glasgow International Festival 2020

The Glasgow International Festival takes place between 24th April and 10th May 2020. Its site features some distinctly celtic typography, and tons of bold color.

Megababe

Megababe is taking on the beauty industry with a range of body products that are insanely popular, and as positive as its super-confident sales site.

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Ambition and Acceptance with D.C. Pierson

First Draft Episode #202: D.C. Pierson

D.C. Pierson, comedian, writer, filmmaker and author of The Boy Who Couldn’t Sleep and Never Had To and Crap Kingdom, and co-writer and star of indie comedy movie Mystery Team, talks about getting more vulnerable with age, using his fiction to explore the gap between what we expect of the world and what turns out to be true, and being sick of not finishing things.

Links and Topics Mentioned In This Episode

Dan Eckman and Meggie McFadden are two comedians D.C. has worked with for years, in part on an adaptation of D.C.’s first book, The Boy Who Couldn’t Sleep and Never Had To

D.C. loved the cover of his dad’s copy of Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton

Rubber Soul was the one Beatles album D.C.’s family had on cassette or CD

In conjunction with the documentary The Beatles Anthology, detailed compilations of Beatles ephemera were released in three double-CD sets: Anthology 1, Anthology 2, and Anthology 3. D.C. listened to these more than the regular Beatles albums, which means he listened to a lot of alternate versions of songs and random studio chatter. He credits that with jumpstarting much of his curiosity as a storyteller.

While D.C. attended the Rita and Burton Goldberg School of Dramatic Writing at NYU’s Tisch Institute of Performing Arts, one of his teachers was Charlie Rubin, who wrote for Seinfeld and In Living Color, and was a showrunner for Law & Order: Criminal Intent

Derick was D.C.’s improv group which formed at NYU, made up of D.C. Pierson, Dominic Dierkes, Donald Glover, Dan Eckman, and Maggie McFadden

Mystery Team was a fully independently-made movie that the Derick Comedy group made, which had a screening at Sundance, and led the group to move to Los Angeles

Upright Citizens Brigade improv theater is where D.C. honed his comedy and performing chops during and after college

The concept for Mystery Team is basically: what if characters from Encyclopedia Brown never really grew out of their idealized, 1950s childhood, and kept trying to solve crimes?

Donald shared what he learned writing for 30 Rock (with Tina Fey, Robert Carlock, Matt Hubbard, Kay Cannon) with his Derick Comedy friends to help them write a tight script for Mystery Team

Nathan Rabin, who wrote for The A.V. Club at the time, wrote a glowing review there for Mystery Team that D.C. credits with helping the movie gain momentum

A passing encouraging comment from comedian, actor, writer, and musician Eliza Skinner gave D.C. the boost he needed to start writing a book

Dianne McGunigle, manager and a producer of Atlanta, was D.C. agent at the time that he wrote a first draft of The Boy Who Couldn’t Sleep… and she read it quickly, a favor for which D.C. is forever grateful

Gerry Howard, who edited David Foster Wallace’s The Broom of the System and Girl with Curious Hair, as well as Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life, was the editor D.C. worked with for The Boy Who Couldn’t Sleep… D.C. was starstruck to be going to the offices where Sloane Crosley—essayist and writer known for I Was Told There’d Be Cake, How Did You Get This Number and her newest, Look Alive Out There—also worked.

The Los Angeles Times gave The Boy Who Couldn’t Sleep… a lovely review

D.C. was inspired by psychologist Carol Dweck’s book, Mindset: The New Psychology of Success

One of D.C.’s favorite English teachers sent him Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham provided a quote that summed up what he likes to explore in all his writing

To me, Crap Kingdom is asking, “What if Lord of the Rings was deeply uncool?”

Stephen King’s On Writing is one of the writing books that has inspired D.C. in his fiction process

One of D.C.’s earliest imrpov teachers, Owen Burke, referred to the following passage from Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia, on the endurance of human thought and creation: “We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. But there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it. The missing plays of Sophocles will turn up piece by piece, or be written again in another language. Ancient cures for diseases will reveal themselves once more. Mathematical discoveries glimpsed and lost to view will have their time again. You do not suppose, my lady, that if all of Archimedes had been hiding in the great library of Alexandria, we would be at a loss for a corkscrew?”

D.C. sometimes teaches at Writing Pad, a writing program offered online and in L.A./S.F.

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WHAT TO WATCH THIS WEEKEND – Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom and More

While to most “normal” people, the summer starts this weekend, to movie buffs, it’s already almost midway through the summer movie season. There are still a few bigger movies to come, but it feels like this might be the last weekend with a mega-juggernaut that will open with more than $100 million.

JURASSIC WORLD: FALLEN KINGDOM (Universal)

Last week, Disney-Pixar’s The Incredibles 2 set a bunch of new records coming out 14 years after the original movie, but it wasn’t the first time this has happened. In 2015, Universal and producers Steven Spielberg and Frank Marshall finally got a fourth Jurassic Park movie off the ground, and the demand was there for the reboot/sequel Jurassic Worldto open with more than $208 million, surpassing the record set by Marvel’s The Avengers a few years earlier, as it became the third highest-grossing movie domestically after only James Cameron’s Avatarand Titanic.  (Since then, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Black Pantherand Avengers: Infinity Warhave surpassed it with Black Panther edging closer to $700 million.)

Coming out three years after Jurassic World, this sequel takes place three years after with Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard once again front and center as Owen and Claire, the love-locked dino-trainer and former Jurassic World publicist, who have been called back to Isla Nublar to save the raptor Blue, as a volcano threatens to destroy all that’s left after the last dino-escape.

Taking over the directorial reigns is Spanish filmmaker Juan Bayona, best known for his debut The Orphanage(produced by Guillermo del Toro); its follow-up The Impossible, starring Naomi Watts, Ewan McGregor and a younger Tom Holland; and the adaptation of the book A Monster Calls.  The middle of those did the best with $19 million, but Bayona hasn’t really crossed over to the mainstream with critics still being his biggest fan.

So far, reviews are mixed with 54% on Rotten Tomatoescompared to the 71% Fresh for Jurassic World, but it’s on par with the ratings for Spielberg’s second movie The Lost World – Jurassic Park, which ended up setting and holding an opening weekend record for a number of years. It’s doubtful reviews will have that much of an effect on the movie, because the franchise has so many fans that have seen the previous four movies, and these movies are the type best seen in theaters (especially in IMAX at premium ticket prices).

There isn’t that much more to say to the movie, because it essentially uses the same formula as the previous four Jurassic Park movies, and there’s still a demand to see dinosaurs chasing after and eating humans.  Universal is giving it the maximum possible oversaturation of theaters as it takes over screens that will be vacated by Deadpool 2, Solo and others.

Coming out on the second weekend of The Incredibles 2 could pose a problem going by that movie’s A+ CinemaScore rating that makes it seem like it will remain a player for family audiences and younger kids, but young boys and girls love dinosaurs almost as much as superheroes, so their parents will likely bring the whole family despite the movie’s PG-13 rating and bonafide scares.

It’s highly unlikely Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom can match the opening of the previous movie with so many factors going against it, but I still think it’s good for $150 to 160 million this weekend, which is still very good even if it’s lower than its predecessor. It should do well for the next week or two but then Marvel Studios’ Ant-Man and the Wasp will likely cut off its legs keeping it under $350 million domestic.

My Review

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom is the only new movie in wide release, but at one point, Focus Features planned on using the slower summer weekend to expand the Mister Rogers doc Won’t You Be My Neighbor nationwide after it grossed $1.7 million in less than 100 theaters.  Instead it’s expanding into 348 theaters Friday, which should allow it to continue to build word-of-mouth and possibly even sneak into the bottom of the Top 10. (Reviews have been great for the film, and it’s definitely a possible frontrunner for the documentary Oscar next year. It’s also my favorite movie of the year, so far, so definitely go see it if you haven’t already.)

The Top 10 should look something like this…

1. Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (Universal) - $153.2 million N/A

2. The Incredibles 2 (Disney-Pixar) - $85.5 million -53%

3. Ocean’s 8 (Warner Bros.) - $9.8 million -48%

4. Tag (New Line/WB) – $7.5 million -49%

5. Solo: A Star Wars Story (Lucasfilm/Disney) - $4.5 million -55%

6. Deadpool 2 (20thCentury Fox) - $4.3 million -50%

7. Hereditary (A24) – $3.3 million -46%

8. Superfly (Sony) - $3 million -52%

9. Avengers: Infinity War (Marvel/Disney) - $3 million -45%

10. Won’t You Be My Neighbor (Focus Features) - $2 million +100%

LIMITED RELEASES

Fortunately, there are decent and half-decent limited releases that I can also recommend… although the first there are probably for the older set i.e. over 40. I saw a few of the movies at Sundance and a few more in recent weeks.

Ben Lewin’s The Catcher Was a Spy (IFC Films) stars Pal Rudd as Boston Red Sox catcher Moe Berg, who led a double life as an undercover OSS agent for the government, trying to uncover the Nazi’s plans to build an atomic bomb. This may have been a strange choice to premiere at Sundance, but I generally enjoyed the historical drama that also stars Paul Giamatti, Mark Strong, Connie Nielson, Sienna Miller, Guy Pearce, Jeff Daniels and more.  I got to speak with Lewin about the film at Sundance (you can read that interview here), and I thought it was an innovative look at part of World War II that hasn’t already been well-covered in films.

David and Nathan Zellner (Kumiko the Treasure Hunter) return with their quirky Western Damsel (Magnolia), starring Rob Pattinson as Samuel Alabaster, a pioneer who treks across the frontier with plans to marry his beloved Penelope, played by Mia Wasikowska. It’s a quirky movie that played well at Sundance, mainly due to a miniature horse named Butterscotch, but I didn’t like it as much as Kumiko. It’ll open in New York and L.A. on Friday and then in other cities on June 29.

Eugene (Why We Fight) Jarecki’s new doc The King (Oscilloscope) is a road trip doc that uses Elvis Presley’s Rolls Royce as a vehicle (quite literally) to visit all the places that were part of his life and meteoric rise to fame, as well as his career crash and burn until his untimely death.  Some of the actors who go on this journey with Jarecki include Ethan Hawke, Alec Baldwin, Mike Myers and even Ashton Kutcher, and it’s a must-see for music and Elvis fans. The King opens in New York this Friday and then in L.A. next Friday, and hopefully it will get to some of those other areas where Elvis was popular, particularly down South. 

All three of the above movies are opening at the IFC Center in New York with the filmmakers doing QnAs for the last two.

Speaking of road movies, Christopher Plummer and Vera Farmiga play estranged father and daughter in Shana Feste’s Boundaries (Sony Pictures Classics), in which Farmiga plays a single mother who keeps taking in stray cats and dogs, who agrees to drive her pot-dealing father to California in exchange for money to pay her son’s tuition.  The dramedy also stars A Monster Calls’ Lewis McDougall as her son, and includes cameos by Peter Fonda and Christopher Lloyd. I thought the movie was cute if not unspectacular, maybe a little better than The Leisure Seeker, but honestly, the fact that the cute puppies steal scenes from Farmiga and Plummer gives you some idea that this might be the strongest offering this weekend. Either way, it opens in New York and L.A. on Friday.

The always-magnificent Mackenzie Davis stars in Christian Papierniak’s Izzy Gets The Fuck Across Town(Shout! Studios), a hipster comedy in which she plays Izzy, a hung-over woman who needs to get across town… to stop her ex-boyfriend’s engagement party. The movie has an impressive supporting cast that includes Alia Shakat, Haley Joel Osment, Carrie Coon and Annie Potts, and it opens in select cities Friday. Personally, I thought it was a little too hipster-y and L.A. for my tastes, so not sure how well it might place elsewhere. I guess it has its moments? One of those is an impromptu duet between Davis and Coon, as sisters who used to play in a band together.

Then there’s a bunch of movies I haven’t seen, including Laura Fairrie’s timely doc Spiral (Cohen Media), dealing with the new rise of far-right nationalism and how it affects Jews in France; both Pascal Laugier’s thriller Incident in a Ghostland (Vertical) starring Crystal Reed (Teen Wolf) and Jason Saitel’s thriller Beach House (Archstone) will be released in select cities and On Demand.  Opening at the Film Society at Lincoln Center is João Dumans and Affonso Uchôa’s Brazilian road movie* Araby (Grasshopper Film), while the Kyle Gallner movie Zen Dog will also hit VOD and digital platforms Friday.

(*Okay, did I miss the memo that every indie road movie needs to be released on the first official weekend of summer?)

That’s all for this week, and I’ll be back next week talking about Sicario: Day of the Soldado and Uncle Drew, as we get a little breather from the big tentpoles for at least one week.

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