#super/man

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Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story (Ian Bonhôte & Peter Ettedgui, 2024).

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Super/Man The Christopher Reeve story

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The documentary Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story has captivated audiences and critics alike, earning a remarkable 98% on Rotten Tomatoes. This deeply moving film takes you on a profound journey through the life of Christopher Reeve, who skyrocketed to fame as an iconic film star before a devastating horse-riding accident in 1995 left him paralyzed from the neck down. Yet, Reeve’s story didn’t end there. Instead, it became one of extraordinary resilience. He redefined courage, dedicating his life to advocating for spinal cord injury research and fighting for the rights of people with disabilities.

Adding even more emotional weight to the film is the participation of Christopher Reeve’s children, who reflect on their father’s life and legacy with honesty and love. Matthew Reeve, his eldest son, shares in the documentary his hopes for what audiences will take away—not just about his father, but about their family as a whole, including Reeve's wife, Dana. Dana was Christopher’s unwavering partner in life and adversity, yet tragically passed away not long after him.

While promoting the movie, Matthew spoke about his father’s essence, reminding us that Christopher Reeve wasn’t just the man who donned Superman’s cape or the man who faced immense challenges head-on. He was also a devoted husband, a caring father, and a profoundly brave individual who, like all of us, was imperfect yet incredibly human.

Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story is now streaming on Max.

[cinamun]

What a time to be alive.

Happy Black History Month to all and to all a good night ❤️🖤💚

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Can you believe I'm having to make this meme even after successfully finishing up taxes and applying to job

[houseofgeekery]

My 2024 Movie Year In Review!

Ahhh it’s that time once again! That time when I reflect on the year that was in film. I’m happy to report that the reports of cinema’s demise have been greatly exaggerated. While I wouldn’t call 2024 revelatory, it certainly offered a crop of excellent films, one of which I consider to be in the top ten of films released this century. As with other years I tried to take in as many films as I…

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you said you were stuck in a time loop, which was fine. i feel like late-stage capitalism has us all in a time loop, ammiright? you came barging in at 5:33. in the morning. i hadn't even processed the idea of coffee.

but you had this look of utter panic in your eyes. terror like the ocean. you grabbed my cheeks. im in a time loop.

i don't know why in movies the first reaction is to deny it. when someone is panicking like that, it's not appropriate to ask them to calm down. it didn't matter if i believed it, what mattered was that you believed it so much that it was consuming you.

so here we are. i pour you some of the dark roast. "you look like utter and entire hell," i say.

you push your fingers into your eyes. "you always say that."

i try to think of something funny to say that i wouldn't have said on previous time loops, but jokes don't land without the proper timing (lol). "remind me to think -"

"-yeah, of a joke that only works in the future. and before you say anything, i know you're pissed i just stole your punchline." you bolt the coffee, which is wild. it's very hot. you don't seem to notice.

i blow on mine to cool it down. i both am very pissed at you and also i can't see you in this amount of panic without wanting to help. but i'm also not really sure what we are, not since i saw you kiss her like that, no offense. it just was like, kind of rude when you knew i liked you.

and besides. i'm just like, barely a person. i write omegaverse fanfiction. i love the concept of a time loop, but what the fuck am i gonna do? send an alpha in there? i open my mouth.

you point at me. "you're about to ask why me. and then say some disparaging shit about yourself. i'm just a nerd who plays dnd or something. that self-own is slightly different each time." you sigh. "i know you think you can't really help me. i don't know who can help me. i only came to you because you fucking believe me." you check your watch, sigh, and throw your head back. you cover your eyes with one hand. "i've come here on 26 separate revolutions," you say. "you have believed me every time. and yeah, i have no idea how you fit into this but i just -" you sigh again. "i just like fucking talking to someone about it."

"do you need more cof-" i start, but you're already holding the empty cup out. i frown at it. "you're not getting any more until you promise not to bolt this one like an animal."

you laugh a little and sit up, pushing your hair out of your face. "okay, that's new dialogue. but to be fair to you, i'm not usually this rude. i'm still pretty new at all of this." you check your watch again. another sigh. i guess you're cruising for a personal best in the Sigh Olympics.

i almost tell you im not an NPC but i've played enough video games to know i'm very much an NPC. i pour you another cup. "so what happens in the loop?"

"really bad explosion." you mutter into the mug. you put your elbows on the table (rude) and bury your face in your arms like an angsty teenager. one hand floats up while you talk, because evidently you literally can't talk without your hands. "i have to save the day and there's this bomb and i have no bomb training and it keeps moving, you know."

"do i die?"

you peek up from your arms. "yeah. bigtime. you keep trying to run or stay or do anything and you always super die."

"oh."

"to be fair, like, everyone dies in it though.... so you're in good company."

i hate that you make me laugh. i hate that being around you always feels tingly and strange, this electric tension between us. something that is evidently (given how you stuck your tongue down a stranger's throat literally 3 days ago) (well. 3 for me) super one-sided. i take a sip of my coffee and close my eyes.

i die today, i guess. a little spark of panic starts at the top of my hands and starts whipping up my wrists.

"shit," you say. you look at your watch and jump to your feet. "i have to go. if i can come back, i will. i am still trying to figure out when is best to do everything, you know? the order of stuff. maybe morning isn't good for us."

i look up at you and think about how you keep kissing me in the back of my car and in alleyways and in the dark. and i can never fucking get a read on you. and i also think about how incredibly panicked you look. how broken. how long have you been doing this? "i don't want to die," i say.

you glance downwards. "well, you're not really dead, you'll come back in the loop."

"but i will have died." my hands are shaking. i am trying really hard to stay calm.

you push your hands through your hair again. "i really have to go. i will have this discussion with the next version of you, though. it is like, something i am thinking about."

"but i don't get a next version," i say. i don't really have the language for this, because i haven't had 26 tries with you. i only have my memories: you, a week ago. drunk and telling me you loved me in my ear. you, kissing her anyway. you, months ago, throwing up on my birthday, whispering to me i ruin everything i touch, always, over and over. please don't ask. i can't ever fucking have that be you.

i run my finger along the rim of the mug. "i don't want to die in this one."

you seem baffled by this. "i get that but - time will reset, you'll be fine, you won't even remember we talked about this."

"but i know now." i stand up too. "i have to live the rest of this day knowing i could die. knowing i probably am going to."

"you could always die, to be fair."

i feel my hands get out of control. "earlier, you said i always say a different insult about myself. what if you're just going through different parallel universes and those are all just different - but real - versions of myself? what if you're not in a time loop, you're in a fucking universe loop?"

"if it helps, i've wondered this too. also, you're hot in all of them. if that helps."

i point at you. "no flirting. i'm trying to figure out if i die today."

"who's flirting?" you catch my wild hands and give me that long, perfect smile. like we're in this together. "i won't let ya die." you check your watch and sigh again. "well. maybe not this time."

i grit my teeth. you are so not making quips at me while i try to explain the existential dread i'm having. "does the time loop reset if i fucking kill you?"

"honestly i don't know how long it continues after i die, because i just wake up. it could be that the loop goes until the explosion for everyone, and we're all in the loop, or it could be that when i die, the loop restarts. when i die i wake up, is all."

i pull away from you and stalk into the kitchen and start doing all 3 of my dishes. "okay, first, you know i was joking. and secondly, this is exactly my point. you don't know if this is just a parallel universe. maybe in the ones where you died, the explosion happened and nobody reset and it's just you travelling." i have to stop and push the heel of my palm into my eyeball. "... how often have you died?"

i look at you. you look at me. you give me this very sad, halfway smile and a little what can ya do shrug. something in that action seems so old and weary that i want to burst into tears.

"i have to go," you say. "really. for real. there's this family of five i save from getting into a car crash. and i know it's like oh but we're all gonna die in the explosion anyway, what's the point. and..." you shrug again. "it matters to me, is all. at least i saved them for now. at least i saved anything."

you pad over to me and wrap me in a tight hug. you always seem so tall against me. i feel your cheek rest against the top of my head for a moment. for a second, it's just us, and the space is warm, and my heart is a little broken hare.

you leave me there, and i stand in my stupid badly lit kitchen with my stupid mugs. i think about you. i start texting my mom that she needs to get out of the city, but it feels pointless.

i don't know what to do. tomorrow is the same day for you. but i have to prepare to die in my today.

[passionforfiction]

2024 Documentaries

This year I watched 18 documentaries. They were mostly bio documentaries about people that whose work I like. Others were about a moment in history that take me back to my childhood and teens. Others are historical events and true crime documentaries. They all impacted me one way or another. Here are those 18 documentaries in more or less the order in which I watched them.

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Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story Ian Bonhôte, Peter Ettedgui USA/UK, 2024 ★★★ Quite sobering and restrained, which I appreciated.

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Sighs and twirls hair …. Jayvik……………. This isn’t fun I am rotting !!!!!

I don’t know man I don’t know I man okay I don’t k now I

I HAVE to stop I am giving myself 1 more arcane post after this and then I have to get back to loz somehow

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Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story (dirs. Ian Bonhôte & Peter Ettedgui).

DC's documentary biopic about the incredible life story of the actor made famous for his seminal 1978 portrayal of the Man of Steel on the big screen puts his many personal trials and professional tribulations into clarity. We learn how his 1995 horseriding accident left him paralyzed from the neck down and his subsequent activism for the disabled community forged new awareness for those struggling for better accessibility in the world. It's moving portrait of resilience, perseverance, and sacrifice. You'll believe a (Super)man can walk again...

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Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story (12A): Moving and Uplifting.

One Mann's Movies Film Review of "Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story". A moving documentary about the actor's life. 4/5.

A One Mann’s Movies review of “Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story” (2024) (From the 2024 London Film Festival). I was sat next to a lovely lady at this screening called Laura who works for a company that predicts film’s box-office success. I suggested that “Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story” would do very well, but she said it had already opened in the US and it has done poorly. She…

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Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story (2024)

The story of actor Christopher Reeve will forever be tied to the films he is most well known for. He had other accomplishments and struggles, but he was the embodiment of the character of “Superman” in spite of denying any pretentions of heroism. The tragedy that befell him strikes others and leaves them with difficult choices to make and personal challenges to face, but if a hero is someone who…