#origin movie

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Official stills of Victoria Pedretti starring as Irma Eckler in ORIGIN (2024)

[soovermyself]

No big deal, just our girl hanging out at Angelina Jolie’s house…

[it-happened-once-in-a-meme]

The Umbrella Academy Spin-Off Concept🎅🎄

Plot idea: When it for once isn't Viktor who's posing a threat to planet earth (affectionate), the apocalypse is still a looming danger somewhere in the future, and the earth is destined to be destroyed before the year is over...

Join Klaus as he is forced to team up with the dead, and fight for happiness, while making sure that his isn't neglected by dancing his way to the North Pole with his dear siblings Allison, Five, Luther, Viktor, Diego, and maybe or maybe not Ben...

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ORIGIN

everyone should see this film. see it and take someone with you when you see it again.

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Ava DuVernay @ 96th Academy Awards, March 10, 2024

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My favorite movies of 2023 (so far), part 3

(there's another movie I wish I could put on here, but due to NDA, I cannot)

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Ava DuVernay’s Origin, a biopic centering around the writing process of Isabel Wilkerson’s novel Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, is a powerful, poignantly profound examination of empathy and the injustices of our world. Scored by the incomparable Kris Bowers and shot on 16mm film, the narrative also subtly addresses the significance of journalism and writing, diving deep into how vital it is to continue asking questions. It opens with the vicious murder of Trayvon Martin and ends with Wilkerson’s completed book, piecing together the hatred the world continues to recycle from one country to another.

The film isn’t easy to watch—it’s meant to show the cruelties people often shut themselves off from. We can turn off the news and take care of our mental health if it becomes too much to stomach, but it doesn’t stop the terrors from occurring. Today, right at this second, as I write this review, while I sat in the theater watching the movie, someone somewhere experienced a vicious hate crime. The ongoing genocide of Palestinians in Gaza and racist attacks in America as we gear up for yet another election—it’s never-ending. Just last year, my family lost their ancestral home in Artsakh because of another Armenian Genocide the world remained silent on. It’s happening everywhere, all at once, whether we see it or not. And for this reason, we need films like Ava DuVernay’s Origin now more than ever. 

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Movies of 2024 - My Pre-Summer Rundown (Part 1)

The Runners-up:

20.  ROAD HOUSE – ranked VERY HIGH INDEED on the list of great movies that really don’t need remaking, Doug Liman’s stab at turning 1989’s beloved original guilty pleasure action-fest into something a bit more modern doesn’t QUITE succeed, but it’s still a whole lot better than it has any right to be.  Jake Gyllenhaal’s Dalton is a very different beast from Swayze’s but he is the surprisingly warm heart at the centre of this deeply revisionist take.  Ultimately the old one’s STILL the superior film, but this is still a very admirable attempt.

19.  ARGYLE – while it ultimately fails to capture the charm of director Matthew Vaughn’s far more enjoyable original Kingsman film, this gloriously DAFT sort-of-meta adaptation of the popular espionage adventure novel is still a whole lot of fun.  Bryce Dallas Howard is charmingly nerdy as the author who discovers that the fictional adventures she writes about Henry Cavill’s titular master spy are actually VERY REAL, but the true star of this film is Sam Rockwell as one of the most unlikely action heroes out there …

18.  SIXTY MINUTES – Netflix’ razor sharp, super-trim real-time action thriller is a tour-de-force breakneck romp which is sure to provide a major breakout for French writer-director Oliver Kienle (Isi & Ossi, Two Hands).  Martial artist Emilio Sakraya shines as Octavio, an MMA fighter who ditches a match in order to attend his daughter’s birthday party, only to find himself fighting his way through various thugs as he races through Paris streets in a desperate bid to make it on time to avoid losing custody of his little girl.

17.  I.S.S. – sneaking in largely under the radar, this super-tense sci-fi thriller from director Gabriela Cowperthwaite (Blackfish, Megan Leavey) deserves a lot more attention than it’s likely to get.  The International Space Station becomes a microcosm for the world as the sudden eruption of nuclear war between America and Russia leads to a fraught standoff between the astronauts and cosmonauts in orbit.  If nothing else, this should be a star-making turn for its lead, Ariana DeBose (Hamilton, Schmigadoon!).

16.  GHOSTBUSTERS: FROZEN EMPIRE – 2021’s Afterlife may have been a clunky misstep in Sony’s attempt to soft-reboot the franchise, but this follow-up definitely gets things RIGHT back on track, delivering a much more interesting and original story and making the new generation of spook-wranglers a good deal more interesting.  It’s still a ways short of the quality of the original Ivan Reitman movies (or even the unfairly maligned 2016 movie), but it’s at least good enough to appease us the fans …

15.  SOCIETY OF THE SNOW – writer-director J.A. Bayona (The Impossible, A Monster Calls) retells the true story of the desperate battle for survival of the Uruguayan rugby team who crash-landed in the Andes in 1972, previously brought to the screen in Frank Marhsall’s divisive 1993 movie Alive.  This is a far more introspective and authentic film, and ultimately proves the superior cinematic account, lending a moving air of poetic beauty to an otherwise harrowing tale of loss and hard-won triumph

14.  REBEL MOON, PART TWO: THE SCARGIVER – once again, this is likely more of a placeholder than a true review, since I fully expect to give both movies a far more comprehensive once-over when the Director’s Cuts of Zack Snyder’s two-part overblown sci-fi space opera are finally released.  Suffice to say, this is already a MUCH better film than Part One, regardless of what the reviews are saying, so I can only imagine whatever we get in the extended version will only add flavour to what’s already a perfectly decent flick.  Honestly, I really LIKE these movies, even in their chopped-down condition they’re far more fun than we really expected them to be, and there’s no escaping the fact that, just like the first half, this is a genuine visual work of art, Snyder again proving that whatever else you might wanna say about him, he really is a master of visual storytelling.  We’ll just have to see how the proper FINISHED films turn out, whenever that is …

13.  DAMSEL – Millie Bobby Brown shines as a princess shipped to a far-off kingdom to wed a prince in order to save her impoverished land from succumbing to famine, only to discover she’s really being sacrificed to a ferocious dragon.  Following the Dragonslayer blueprint of playing medieval fantasy as pure survival horror, this taut suspense thriller from 28 Weeks Later director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo does a really beautiful job of taking a classic genre trope and turning it on its head in winning style.

12.  ORIGIN – both adaptation and biopic,this moving drama from writer-director Ava Duvernay (Selma) tells the true story of journalist and author Isabel Wilkerson (Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor) while also following her journey as she wrote her incredibly important nonfiction novel Caste: the Origins of Our Discontents.  The subsequent film is at once a powerful account of a woman’s struggle to overcome personal grief and a potent treatise on how centuries of systemic racism and elitism have created massive social divides all across the modern world.

11.  MONKEY MAN – Dev Patel makes his directorial debut while starring in this wonderfully bizarre action thriller about a poor boy living in Yatana while seeking revenge against the powerful men who destroyed the forest home of his childhood.  Touted as an Indian John Wick, this is actually a far more psychologically intriguing film than that, tackling weighty sociopolitical themes with powerful emotional and theological resonance.  That being said, the action sequences ARE genuinely spectacular too …

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Go watch it!

Edit: It isn't a rickroll guys 😭 idk why some of you think that 😭

EDIT 2: THE YOUTUBE VIDEO WILL ONLY BE UP FOR A WEEK! WATCH IT AS SOON AS YOU CAN!

[watmalik]

“in another “why not this

life-“ one?”

“now?” “yeah.”

[ashesfordayz]

Can't believe Deadpool and Wolverine has got me drawing fanart for Xmen Origins Wolverine in the year of our lord 2024 😂

[jonathanmoya1955]

Origin

Neon MOVIE INFO: While grappling with tremendous personal tragedy, Isabel sets herself on a path of global investigation and discovery. Despite the colossal scope of her project, she finds beauty and bravery while crafting one of the defining American books of our time REVIEW: Neon Origin is Ava DuVernay’s ambitious adaptation of Caste, former New York Times journalist Isabel Wilkerson’s…

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"They call it the MANGLE" - FNAF 2 phone guy

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Early visual development for Wish (2023) by Griselda Sastrawinata-Lemay and Brittney Lee.

An earlier version of the film saw Star take on a human form as a magical, glowing character inspired by Peter Pan. Ultimately, the creative team reconceptualized Star as an ethereal, playful entity resembling Mickey Mouse. "Now Star and Asha have an emotional journey. They are soulmates." -Allison Moore.