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oh I HATE you Olivia Ortiz (but I love you Veronica)

[brokehorrorfan]

Imaginary will be released on Steelbook 4K Ultra HD (with Blu-ray and Digital) on October 1 via Lionsgate exclusively at Amazon. The 2024 horror film is up for pre-order for $29.99.

Jeff Wadlow (Kick-Ass 2, Truth or Dare) directs from a script he co-wrote with Greg Erb & Jason Oremland (The Princess and the Frog). DeWanda Wise, Tom Payne, Taegen Burns, Pyper Braun, Veronica Falcón, and Betty Buckley star. Blumhouse produces.

Imaginary is presented in 4K with Dolby Vision HDR and Dolby Atmos sound. Special features are listed below, where you can also see the full Steelbook layout.

Special features:

Audio commentary by director/co-writer Jeff Wadlow and actress DeWanda Wise

Meet Your New Imaginary Friends - Featurette with the cast

Frills and Thrills featurette with costume designer Eulyn C. Hufkie

Crafting the Beasts of Imaginary - Featurette with the Spectral Motion team and puppeteers behind Chauncey the Bear

Bringing Nightmares to Life - Featurette with production designer Meghan C. Rogers

When Jessica moves back into her childhood home with her family, her youngest stepdaughter, Alice, finds a stuffed bear named Chauncey. As Alice’s behavior becomes more and more concerning, Jessica intervenes only to realize that Chauncey is much more than the stuffed toy bear she believed him to be.

Pre-order Imaginary.

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Veronica Falcón

Known to 911 fans as Councilwoman Ortiz who appears in several episodes of season 7, and also in season 8.

In Mexican and US film and TV series, Veronica has played numerous and wide-ranging roles since 2005.

She has portrayed cartel bosses in both 'Ozark' and in 'Queen of the South' (interview here on youtube). You may also know her as Catherine Castillo in 'Why Women Kill' (image left), or as Lupe Gibbs in 'Perry Mason' (image right).

Her former husband, the Polish actor Marius Biegai, also acted on Queen of the South. She recently became an American citizen and now lives in LA with her son.

In the nineties she choreographed several Pop Latinx singers, and more recently has been a well-respected choreographer for the Mexican National Opera.

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Title: Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

Rating: PG-13

Director: Aitch Alberto

Cast: Max Pelayo, Reese Gonzales, Eugenio Derbez, Veronica Falcón, Kevin Alejandro, Eva Longoria, Luna Blaise, Marlene Forte, Isabella Gómez, Maynor Alvarado, Hanani Taylor, Jose Diaz, Martin Morales, Emiliano Torres, Diego Parra, Juliocesar Chavez, Natalie Camunas

Release year: 2022

Genres: romance, drama

Blurb: Two teenage Mexican-American loners in 1987 El Paso explore a new, unusual friendship and the difficult road to self-discovery.

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Why Women Kill (Season Two)

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cynthia.quiles Why Women Kill holiday reunion lunch with our amazing cast and showrunner Marc Cherry! I love all these people so much! Missing all our cast members not pictured! Can't wait to see you all soon!

[ruleof3bobby]

JUNGLE CRUISE (2021) Grade: D+

Overall boring, no charm, little chemistry amongst the actors, predictable.

No memorable scenes or lines.

[eddiecore118]

I loved Veronica as Camila. Excited to see what her guest appearance is going to be.

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Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

Movies watched in 2024

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (2022, USA)

Director & Writer: Aitch Alberto (based on the book by Benjamin Alire Sáenz)

Mini-review:

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe is one of those extremely rare books that left a life-changing mark on me. It came to me exactly when I needed it most, and it's one of the stories that made me who I am right now. Needless to say, the thought of it being adapted into a movie made me feel both excited and terrified. Having finally watched it, I must say I have very mixed feelings. It's clear that it was made by people who love the book just as much as me, and the acting is pretty good. Max Pelayo and Reese Gonzales really managed to capture Ari's stoic awkwardness and Dante's artful whimsy. However, you just can't adapt a 400-page book into a 90-minute movie. The story moves at an incredibly rushed pace, and Ari's beautiful character arc ends up feeling very underdeveloped. It's pretty obvious this adaptation should have been a proper limited series, but alas, it is what it is. For the record, I did enjoy the movie and I'm glad it was made, cause the world needs more stuff like this on its screens. But that doesn't change the fact that it's pretty underwhelming when compared to such a brilliant book.

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💀W A T C H I N G 💀

[realjediverse]

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe Movie Review!

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe is a 2023 American coming-of-age drama film directed by Aitch Alberto and written by Alberto and Jesse Peretz, based on the 2012 novel of the same name by Benjamin Alire Sáenz. The film stars Max Pelayo and Reese Gonzales as two Mexican American teenagers who form a close friendship and explore their sexuality and identity in 1987 El Paso,…

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Imaginary will be released on Digital on May 7 and on Blu-ray and DVD on May 14. Produced by Blumhouse, the 2024 horror film is currently available on PVOD.

Jeff Wadlow (Kick-Ass 2, Truth or Dare) directs from a script he co-wrote with Greg Erb & Jason Oremland (The Princess and the Frog). DeWanda Wise, Tom Payne, Taegen Burns, Pyper Braun, Veronica Falcón, and Betty Buckley star.

Special features are listed below.

Special features:

Audio commentary by director/co-writer Jeff Wadlow and actress DeWanda Wise

Meet Your New Imaginary Friends - Featurette with the cast

Frills and Thrills featurette with costume designer Eulyn C. Hufkie

Crafting the Beasts of Imaginary - Featurette with the Spectral Motion team and puppeteers behind Chauncey the Bear

Bringing Nightmares to Life - Featurette with production designer Meghan C. Rogers

When Jessica moves back into her childhood home with her family, her youngest stepdaughter, Alice, finds a stuffed bear named Chauncey. As Alice's behavior becomes more and more concerning, Jessica intervenes only to realize that Chauncey is much more than the stuffed toy bear she believed him to be.

Pre-order Imaginary.

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A Million Miles Away (2023)

Jahr: 2023 Genre: Drama / SciFi Regie: Alejandra Márquez Abella Hauptrollen: Michael Peña, Rosa Salazar, Garret Dillahunt, Eric Johnson, Veronica Falcón, Michelle Krusiec, Sarayu Blue, Julio Cesar Cedillo, Bobby Soto, Ashley Ciarra, Carlos S. Sanchez, Blake Webb, Jordan Dean, Isaac Arellanes … Filmbeschreibung: José Hernández (Michael Peña) entstammt einer Familie stolzer Landarbeiter aus…

[randomrichards]

A MILLION MILES AWAY:

Migrant farmer’s son

Who became an astronaut

From years of hard work

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realveronicafalcon #fbsunday I love this pic! I met some pretty fabulous peeps when we were shotting @why_women_kill Here's proof..back there is the amazing and very talented @friedgold #photobombing us brilliantly!! Then there's me doing my best #fishface 69 (I'm so annoying with that) and my dear @lanaparrilla hugging, she's looking great, no surprise there (she always look fabulous) and she happens to be an amazing friend. Can you believe that she went all the way to New York to see the play I just did there? How fabulous is that? #fashback #sometimeago #greatcast #bts #whywomenkill

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9-1-1 REACTION

It's a new week which means a new episode of 9-1-1. So, let's talk about it! This reaction is for the season 8, fourth episode "No Place Like Home" which originally aired October 17. 2024. The episode was written by Lyndsey Beaulieu and directed by Marita Grabiak. Spoilers ahead!

I want to start off by saying I love this show. I love the characters. I love the emergencies. I love the big disasters. I have been thoroughly entertained by this show since episode one. There have been many amazing episodes over the last eight years. "Buck Begins", "The Searchers" and "Fight or Flight" come to mind. If I were to make a list of my Top Ten or Top Twenty Episodes of the series, tonight's episode would be a strong contender for either list. Yes, you read that correctly. Tonight's episode has everything I like in an episode of 9-1-1. We have two brutal emergencies. We have some comedic moments as well as some heartwarming ones as well. We also have one of the best villains I've seen on primetime television in a long time. Olivia Ortiz is part mafia boss, part Captain Planet villain and I loved hating her this episode. I have a feeling this will not be the last time we see her. But, I'm getting ahead of myself. Let's start off by talking about the best plot.

Best plot?

There are a few strong contenders for best plot of the episode. I really enjoyed Eddie's side quest to reunite the cheerleader Weston (played by Trent Mason) with his father Mike (played by DaJuan Johnson). The plot really endeared me to Eddie and his situation. I haven't been the biggest Eddie fan since he blew up his life last season but I'm starting to see glimmers of what his character was like back when he was first introduced. I hope they don't carry on the 'Christopher is mad at Eddie' storyline too much longer. I need Gavin McHugh back on my screen again and not via a FaceTime call. 

I did also love the stuff involving Bobby and Athena. I totally get where both of them are coming from. Athena wants something familiar and Bobby wants something new. I'm honestly surprised they lasted as long as they did living in Athena and Michael's home especially after Michael ended up in her bed that time. Perhaps Athena didn't want to uproot her children from their childhood home. Maybe her thought process was that it didn't matter if her family looked different (divorcing Michael and marrying Bobby( as long as the environment she was in stayed the same. I'm glad that Athena really acknowledged Bobby's feelings. Listening and taking into account each other's feelings has been an obstacle for them to overcome. I really think the cruise saved their marriage. They seem to be so in tune with each other. I can't wait to see where they end up living.

While I enjoyed the two aforementioned plots, the best plot of the episode, in my humblest of opinion, was Hen and Karen's fight to get Mara back. First off, shout-out to Veronica Falcón. Councilwoman Olivia Ortiz is hands down the best villain we have ever gotten on this show. Psycho firefighter Jonah Greenway (played by Bryce Durfee) and serial rapist Jeffrey Hudson (played by Noah Bean) or even Vincent Gerrard (played by Brian Thompson) can't hold a candle to this ruthless person. In the scene where Hen goes to Olivia's campaign office, I actually thought that she'd finally gotten through to the councilwoman. Boy was I wrong. No one holds a grudge quite like Olivia Ortiz. The woman is pure evil and I don't even think she cares as much about her son as she would like us to believe. The only thing she cares about is having power and maintaining it.

My heart broke for Hen and Karen when they were told they could no longer be around Mara. It never occurred to me there could be something wrong with Maddie and Chimney fostering Mara as a way of having Hen and Karen around. At least they didn't remove Mara from the home. I think that would've broken Hen and Karen. And just when I thought things couldn't get any worse, we learn via Gerrard that the ultimate goal is to not only break up Hen's family at home but her work family as well. The woman is diabolical I tell you! In the most surprising move on the episode, not only do we get a conclusion to the Mara/Olivia Ortiz storyline, we get a twist! Turns out, Gerrard is still a steaming pile of horse shit but he is capable of doing something really good - even if there's something in it for him. 

Who knew that Chekov's bodycam would be the thing that brought Olivia down. I just knew that when we saw Gerrard go to Ortiz's office that things were about to go left. Turns out, Bobby does manage to get through to Gerrard during his visit to the firefighter show set and he uses his own bodycam to expose Olivia's nefarious plans to close the 118. We get to see that footage played during the hearing at the end of the episode and just like that, ding-dong, the wicked witch is dead and that's not even the best part. Gerrard ends up taking over Bobby's job at the studio and Bobby is reinstated as the rightful captain of the 118. It's a win-win situation although something tells me we haven't seen the last of Olivia Ortiz.

Best emergency sequence?

One of the major complaints about last season is the lack of emergencies we got to see the 118 respond to. The first three episodes of the 10-episode season were dedicated to the cruise ship disaster. We had an episode devoted to Maddie and Chimney's wedding. The last two episodes were all about Bobby. Thankfully we're back to the kooky emergencies that really put this show on the map. As far as what's the best emergency sequence of this episode - that's a hard one. Out options this week is Death Becomes Cheerleader and Tiger King. The emergency involving the tiger in the high-rise building was especially fun because we got to see Chimney be a total bad-ass with a tranq gun. My pick for best emergency sequence is our totally twisted cheerleader. Not only does it involve body horror and toxic masculinity, this emergency also feeds into Eddie's storyline. It did make me a tad bit nervous when we got the establishing shot of a football field and cheerleaders performing a routine. The last time we had cheerleaders in the show, it ended in tragedy. Weston does manage to survive his injury thanks to Eddie and his superior paramedic skills. I do wish they would play up his paramedic side a bit more on the show but that's sort of hard to do when you already have Hen and Chimney there.

We learn that Weston has a strained relationship with his father who isn't exactly thrilled about having a cheerleader for a son. I've always found the whole 'cheerleaders aren't real athletes' sentiment to be baffling because one could argue that cheerleader requires a lot more athleticism than playing football does. Yes, I know that football players are putting their bodies on the line for the sake of winning a game but cheerleaders are flipping and being tossed in the air all without wearing pads and there's a strong chance they may fall on their head or in the case of this Weston, get their entire body twisted around. Unfortunately, Weston's father Mike doesn't see cheerleading that way. He thinks cheerleading is for girls and deems his son as less masculine for being a cheerleader. Eddie decides to talk to Mike about his treatment of Weston which leads me to my award.

Episode MVP?

The MVP of this episode is Eddie Diaz! Yes, you read that correctly. I really liked the scenes we got with Eddie. Minus the awful mustache, it really felt like we got old Eddie this episode. I was totally on board with the advice he gave to Weston's dad. At first I thought it was a bold move for Eddie to seek out Mike and talk to him. No offense but Eddie is hardly the person to be doling out parental advice at the moment. I did like his approach to talking to Mike. Eddie was very honest about his own fraught relationship with Christopher. I truly felt for Eddie during this conversation because things have not improved between him and Christopher and he doesn't want things to get so bad that he becomes Mike and Christopher becomes Weston. Eddie does manage to get through to Mike and we see father and son reunited at the end of the episode. Even if Eddie isn't able to repair his own father/son relationship, at least he can facilitate reconciliation between Weston and Mike. Hopefully we get to see more of his journey towards forgiveness and reconciliation in the next episodes. I miss Christopher and I can't wait until he's back in Los Angeles where he belongs.Hey writers! More of this Eddie please. Oh, and please, please, pretty please with sugar on top get rid of that creepy mustache! Ryan Guzman is a gorgeous man and it's diminishing his sexiness. 

BuckTommy Corner

There's no BuckTommy in this episode. For our third episode straight, Tommy Kinard is nowhere to be found. But I'm not too upset about it. Lou Ferrigno Jr. did shout-out the episode on Twitter so I am quite confident we will be seeing him soon. The man stays booked and busy so the show has to work around his schedule. I do think this is a sign that he is meant to stay for the long haul because I'm sure they could find another actor who is more available. I get the sense that Tim and the gang really love Lou and what he brings to the show so they are more than willing to take what they can get.

Something I found amusing that is BuckTommy is adjacent to Gerrard's nickname for Buck in this episode. He calls our dear sweet Evan 'tight-end' which is a reference to his position when he played football back in high school. I did wonder if Gerrard's usage of the name is more about Buck's sexuality than it is about a football position. Also, I never really figured out if Gerrard knew about Buck and Tommy. I'm sure he knows about Tommy but does he know  they are dating? I guess that's all moot because Gerrard is gone and Bobby is back. Poor Buck has been so miserable as of late. Hopefully Bobby being back will mellow him out a bit. 

Overall, I really enjoyed this episode. It felt like classic 9-1-1. I've said it once and it bears repeating - the move to ABC continues to be one of the best things that has happened to the show. The network truly cares about 9-1-1 and is throwing all the money at the show. I do wish they could have rescued 9-1-1: Lone Star as well. Maybe Sierra McClain would still be on the show if the spin-off made it over to ABC as well. I have heard some scuttlebutt about there being another 9-1-1 sequel that will air in conjunction with the OG series but nothing definite. I do wonder which city they would pick if we do get another show. My vote is for New Orleans or Atlanta. But hey, we're talking about 9-1-1.

I am curious as to what's in store for everyone now that everything's been reset. Bobby is back at the 118 and Hen and Karen got Mara back. I hope we get to see more of Buck and Tommy. I am curious about the journey Eddie's about to embark on. The B*ddie shippers seem to think we're about to see Eddie wrestle with his latent homosexuality but I think the man has bigger fish to fry. Eddie needs to deal with his religious trauma. I think he also needs to reckon with his feelings about Shannon. He also needs to get Christopher back. Our boy has a lot of work to do and playing kissy face with his best friend and coworker is not even remotely a priority. Another thing I think we're going to focus on is Maddie and Chimney's first year of being married. Maddie's last marriage was a total nightmare and old habits die hard. I wonder if we will see her struggle with own personal demons as she navigates a marriage with Chimney. I can't wait to see Bobby and Athena move into a new home and deal with being empty-nesters. I do wonder what they have in store for Hen and Karen. Hopefully they're good for now and maybe all we need is the occasional scene of domestic bliss. I guess we'll have to wait to see what happens next. Until next time ...