#nick meaney

[astralbondpro]

In Honor Among Thieves when Bilby pets Chester goodbye for the last time, and then the end when O'Brien is sitting there petting Chester... It fucking gets me man. Right in the fucking heart.

[bob-the-movie-man-film-reviews]

Bring Them Down ('15'): X-Rated For Sheep (Pt. 2).

One Mann's Movies Film Review of "Bring Them Down". A bloody and gritty Irish-set farm drama that makes shepherding look a dangerous business. 4/5.

A One Mann’s Movies review of “Bring Them Down” (2024) (From the 2024 London Film Festival). I first used the review title “X-rated for Sheep” for the 2015 film “Far From the Madding Crowd” with Carey Mulligan. You might remember that this movie starts with a flock of sheep being chased off the cliff at Golden Cap in Dorset by a dog. But believe me, this is NOTHING compared to the fate of some…

[randomrichards]

CON AIR:

Die Hard on a plane

Tries to be Michael Bay film

Delicious Cage-ness

[kwebtv]

From the Golden Age of Television

Series Premiere

Bat Masterson - Double Showdown - NBC - October 8, 1958

Western

Running Time: 30 minutes

Teleplay by Gene Levitt

Produced by Frank Pittman and Andy White

Directed by Walter Doniger

Stars:

Gene Barry as William Barclay "Bat" Masterson

Robert Middleton as Big Keel Roberts

Jean Willes as Lucy Slater

Elisha Cook Jr. as Pete Sheeley

Adele Mara as Maria Costa

King Donovan as Shorty Keenan

Charles Maxwell as Marshall Ed Caulder

K. L. Smith as Chuck

William Vaughan as Nelson

Stephen Wooton as Sandy

Richard Warren as Townsman

Quentin Sondergaard as Townsman

Leon Alton as Older Card Player

Troy Melton as Man Holding Gun on Shorty

Harry Raybould as Card Player

James Winslow as Townsman

Sean Meaney as Townsman

Nick Nicoll as Townsman

[raybizzle]

"Foolish" (1999) is a comedy film produced by Master P under his label, No Limit Films. Master P also wrote the film with Eddie Griffin, Anthony D, and Tony Wilson. The movie features a large cast, including Master P, Eddie Griffin, Amie Petersen, Andrew Dice Clay, Jonathan Banks, and Bill Nunn. The soundtrack is a mixture of soul, funk, and hip-hop, with several tracks performed by No Limit members. It peaked at #32 on the Billboard 200 and #10 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums.

Overall, this movie is a decent independent comedy with Master P helping advance hip-hop artists' presence in the film industry. Eddie Griffin was an all-star comedian at the time, and he was in the middle of starring in the T.V. show "Malcolm and Eddie" with Malcolm-Jamal Warner. The movie cuts to several standup routines with Griffin and other comedians, which adds some context to the film.

Director: Dave Meyers Writers: Master P, Eddie Griffin, Anthony D, Tony Wilson

Starring Eddie Griffin, Master P, Amie Petersen, Frank Sivero, Daphne Duplaix, Jonathan Banks, Andrew Dice Clay, Sven-Ole Thorsen, Marla Gibbs, Traci Bingham, Bill Nunn, John Marlo, Clifton Powell, Anthony Johnson, Anthony Boswell, Marqel Lee, Honest John, Bill Duke, Nick Meaney

Storyline Miles "Foolish" Waise (Eddie Griffin) is a fast-rising phenomenon on the local comedy nightclub scene. While his manager wants him to sell out and make the big bucks, Foolish wants to chill out and make his audience happy. He's also got to put up with the half-baked schemes of his always scammin' brother Quentin "Fifty Dollah" Waise (Master P) - a small-time hoodlum whose secret dream is to start a comedy club with Foolish. But when the two brothers get caught up in a gun-toting prank that goes bad, Quentin finds himself on the wrong side of the hood's most ruthless drug lord, the infamous El Dorado Ron (Andrew Dice Clay).

Available on DVD and streaming services

[abriefingwithmichael]

“Star Trek: Deep Space Nine” s6e15 (1998)

Honor Among Thieves, teleplay by René Echevarria.

DS9 does Wiseguy! With Nick Tate and Colm Meaney, two of my favourite actors, as in the equivalent of the Sonny and Vinnie roles.

For me, it's a terrific take on the idea. No surprises, because we've seen it done on many cop shows before, but it's great to see this story done so well in Star Trek.

My 785th episode of Star Trek, out of 893.

My 690th TV episode of 2023. Averaging 1h57m of TV every day.

9/10

[cricketfun]

Week 1 player selections, injuries, latest updates, predictions, lineup; Ryan Papenhuyzen to miss Storm spot for Bronson Garlick Melbourne legend Billy Slater says supe... #usa #uk

[buckleyxdiaz]

My beautiful footy boys in round 21, finally all back! NC off suspension, K and L back in first grade for the second week in a row and sweet C, G and NM being good as always 😂 couple of tries (2 for Gutho and 1 for Mr Meaney), 2 wins from 4 teams but that’s okay, the two losses were close, super proud of my boys 💙

[hummingzone]

Coach’s message for NRL bad boy

Coach’s message for NRL bad boy

Bulldogs firebrand Jack Hetherington has once again come under fire for his tackling style, this time during his side’s loss to the Tigers. Bulldogs coach Trent Barrett doesn’t think Jack Hetherington should have been sin binned for a high shot in his side’s 28-16 loss to the Wests Tigers on Sunday, but concedes his aggressive front-rower needs to work on his tackle technique. Hetherington…

[rookie-critic]

Con Air (1997, dir. Simon West) - review by Rookie-Critic

What an absolutely wild time the late '90s must have been that this was a big blockbuster production. 1997 alone was absolutely wild, with this, Event Horizon, Contact, Face/Off, and so many others dropping all within the same cycle around the sun. Studios were really just throwing absolutely anything at the wall to see what stuck, and sometimes it really paid off (Strarship Troopers), and other times it didn't (Speed 2: Cruise Control), and sometimes I think it landed right in the middle, somewhere between good and awful, where it's really riding that line, but is just self-aware enough to be incredibly entertaining, and that's where Con Air lives. You have Nic Cage there to bring the zaniness, to give us brilliant moments like the classic "put the bunny back in the box" scene, and the absolutely asinine premise completely backs him up and gives him as much room to play around in this bananas space as he wants. There are some side characters that also help the zaniness move itself right along (I'm lookin' at you, Danny Trejo and Dave Chappelle). The one-liners range from eye-roll inducing to exceedingly clever, and the action set pieces are big and bombastic and generally just a crazy, explosive good time. All of this is fun. It doesn't hold together in the slightest, but it is fun. However, you then have Ving Rhames, Steve Buscemi, and John Malkovich delivering absolutely great performances that aren't Cage's brand of "good by humorous proxy," they're actually just really good. I found myself slack-jawed from the whiplash between bonkers scenes of Cage using the body of a dead con to send a message to ground level (something that I really don't think would have actually worked, which is indicative of a lot of the stuff in this film), and these amazing scenes where Malkovich or Buscemi just get to interact with their environment or even just give a line read that is way above and beyond the quality of the line itself. I know that Malkovich, at this point in his career, has almost become a bit of a meme (possibly in part due to the general goofiness of his name, probably in part due to the 1999 cult classic film Being John Malkovich, which I don't think he ever really was able to reclaim himself from fully), but damn, he's just an amazing actor, and this is someone saying this in reference to his performance in Con Air, of all things!

I don't want to just rant my bias for goofy self-aware action films on this one, though. For one, I already did that recently with Plane (which Con Air is vastly more ridiculous than), and two, there are quite a few problematic things in this film [TW AHEAD: mentions of rape]. I think firstly is Danny Trejo's character in general, who is a con doing time for raping 23 women, possibly more. His entire arc as a character is that there is one female guard that is a hostage onboard the plane, and Trejo wants nothing more than to... well, you get the idea. Granted, everyone else in the film, even the other criminally insane convicts, try to prevent him from accomplishing this, and the film is not so depraved as to ever actually let him get away with it, but it was something that was massively uncomfortable anytime it was given attention, and something that was, at the time, probably seen as "edgy" or "envelope pushing," but really was just incredibly problematic. The film is also just kind of vaguely racist any time a white character is referring to a nonwhite character, especially at the beginning. There's also a character, referred to in the end credits of the film as "Sally-Can't-Dance," (I have looked it up and the character's name is actually Ramon Martinez, which I think they're maybe only referred to as once in passing) that is a... problematic(?) portrayal of a character that is trans (again, while watching the film I wasn't entirely sure they were being presented as trans, but every article and piece of writing I've looked at refers to them as trans, so I'm going with that). I put a question mark next to problematic in the last sentence because, while Ramon never does or says anything that is inherently problematic or questionable, the way that everything surrounding them presents is like the butt of a joke, like we as the audience are meant to be laughing at "how ridiculous this character is." Maybe that's an incorrect read, but regardless it didn't sit right with me. It also has that classic, cheesy as all get out opening and closing with an incredibly sappy song that has no business being in a movie that is even remotely like Con Air. In this case, the song is the Dianne Warren-penned, Trisha Yearwood-performed "How Do I Live," which I had no idea was actually written for the film and was even nominated for an Oscar at that years' Academy Awards, where Con Air was also nominated for Best Sound. Granted, those are two fitting categories I guess, but the fact that this film was nominated for not one, but two Oscars is absolutely baffling. Getting back on track, it follows in the steps of songs like Top Gun's "Take My Breath Away" and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves' "Everything I Do (I Do It for You)" as songs that clash in every possible way with the films they were written for, and it's an aspect of action films from that era that I am so, so happy has not carried over to the present. Despite all of these many faults, I can't lie and say that I didn't have a lot of fun with Con Air. I'm not sure I can recommend it in good faith, but if you're a fan of dumb, bananas action movies like I am, then Con Air basically fits the bill.

Score: 6/10

Currently unavailable to stream unless you have the Live TV add-on on Hulu. It is available to rent/purchase on digital (iTunes, Amazon, Vudu, etc.) and on Blu-ray & DVD through Disney/Buena Vista.

[sigurism]

Boys in the Trees [2016] Dir: Nicholas Verso

[scenesandscreens]

Con Air (1997)

Director - Simon West, Cinematography - David Tattersall

"Sorry boss, but there's only two men I trust. One of them's me. The other's not you."

[genevieveetguy]

- You lost your mind? - According to my last psych evaluation, yes.

Con Air, Simon West (1997)

[fuckyeahrugbyleague]

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - FEBRUARY 19: Nick Meaney of the Storm passes the ball during the NRL Trial match between the Melbourne Storm and the New Zealand Warriors at Casey Fields on February 19, 2022 in Melbourne, Australia. (Photo by Daniel Pockett/Getty Images)

[borvooven]

yesssss lemme hear the list of old men, we have the same taste

i will never forgive myself if i forget someone.

Tim Roth

Harvey Keitel

Michael Madsen

Chris Penn

Steve Buscemi

Quentin Tarantino

Simon Pegg

Nick Frost

John Hurt

Martin Freeman

Paddy Considine

Rivers Cuomo

Brian Bell

George Clooney

Malcolm McDowell

Lawrence Bender

Damon Albarn

Armin Shimerman

Ricky Wilson

Brent Spiner

Christoph Waltz

Al Pacino

Alexander Siddig

Dwight Schultz

Rene Auberjonois

Robert Rodriguez

Egar Wright

Dominic Keating

Colm Meaney

Jeffrey Combs

Leigh Whannell (my first crush ever ig)

Cary Elwes

Jeff Goldblum

Colin Meloy

Connor Trinneer

Wil Wheaton

Patrick Stewart

Sam L. Jackson

John Cusack

Dave Grohl

Thom Yorke

Ed O'Brien

Greenwood Bros

Pat Wilson (weezer's drummer, not the actor)

Keir Dullea

Brad Greenquist

Pete Doherty

Carl Barat

Kurt Cobain

Anthony Hopkins

Anthony Perkins

Joe Mazzello

Harrison Ford

Eli Wallach

Clint Eastwood

Josh Brolin

Steve McQueen

Charles Bronson

Richard Attenborough

Donald Pleasence

Angus Lennie

Rafe Spall

Harry Dean Stanton

Keanu Reeves

Ian Holm

Michael Palin

Michael Shanks

David Hewlett

Robert Picardo

Matthew Modine

Vincent D'Onofrio

Arliss Howard

Sam Neill

Peter Stormare

Joey Santiago

Alex Kapranos

im not sure this is everyone so:

the saga continues