Month: September 2016

Happy Birthday: Jason Sudeikis

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jasonsudeikisJason Sudeikis

Born: September 18, 1975 in Fairfax, Virginia, USA

My floundering career has nothing to do with my lack of talent, or being a five in the looks department. It’s the height that’s going to get me, you’re absolutely correct. I don’t know why people keep hiring me. I’m like, “Guys, I’m really way too tall to be doing this.” I bring it up all the time, but nobody’s listening. Maybe it helps that I tell people I’m five foot thirteen.

HALL PASS
dir. Bobby Farrelly
Peter Farrelly
Stars:
Owen Wilson
Jason Sudeikis		 THE BOUNTY HUNTER Movie PosterThe Bounty Hunter
dir.Andy Tennant
Stars
Jennifer Aniston
Gerard Butler
Going the Distance Movie PosterGoing the Distance
dir. Nanette Burstein
Stars
Barrymore
Justin Long,		 MOVIE POSTERHORRIBLE BOSSES
dir. Seth Gordon
Stars:
Jason Bateman
Charlie Day
What Happens in Vegas
2008
Directed by Tom Vaughan
Starring
Diaz
Aston Kutcher		 MOVIE POSTERA GOOD OLD FASHIONED ORGY
dir. Alex Gregory
Peter Huyck
Stars:
Jason Sudeikis
Leslie Bibb
Semi ProSemi Pro
2008
Directed by Kent Alterman
Starring
Ferrell
Woody Harrelson		 MOVIE POSTERTHE CAMPAIGN
dir. Jay Roach
Stars:
Will Ferrell
Zach Galifianakis
MOVIE POSTERWE’RE THE MILLERS
2013
dir. Rawson Marshall Thurber
Stars:
Jason Sudeikis
Jennifer Aniston		 MOVIE POSTEREPIC
2013
dir. Chris Wedge
Stars:
Amanda Seyfried
Josh Hutcherson
MOVIE POSTERDRINKING BUDDIES
2013
dir. Joe Swanberg
Stars:
Olivia Wilde
Jake Johnson		 tv POSTEREASTBOUND AND DOWN SEASON 4 TV SHOW
2013
Created by: Danny McBride, Steve Little, Katy Mixon

 

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I got my appraisal and it was possibly the best I have ever received, not because it was good or complimentary, but because they had obviously read it, and I mean completely and they properly criticized it! So their comments were not only ‘left of field’, but they were an accurate observation and they actually improved the script, not matter how hard they were to swallow. It was so worthwhile it was worth the price of entry just to get that feedback.
– Richard Harrison, Feature Screenplay “A Shooting Star:

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Thanks to you and your team for such excellent and detailed feedback. It’s clear that those reviewing the script have put a great deal of time and effort into breaking it down and assessing it professionally – and we’re very grateful. We particularly appreciate the fact that both the strengths and the weaknesses have been highlighted, so we can see what we’re doing right, as well as which elements need work.
– Sara Myles, TV Pilot (May Contain Nuts)

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I think it’s the timely and respectful feedback that has influenced me to enter the festival. For a reasonable price, I can get insightful feedback and a chance to have it read aloud. And it’s a chance you get monthly, which is cool.
– John-Arthur Ingram (Feature Screenplay, Three Play)

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I found it very refreshing and I was glued to the screen. It was good to hear the audiences reactions to the film and what they took away from it. It really is exciting when you find an engaged audience.
– Shekhar Bassi (NO LOVE LOST – Short Film)

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TIFF 2016 Movie Review: WEIRDOS (Canada 2016) ***

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weirdos_poster.jpgWEIRDOS (Canada 2015) ***
Directed by Bruce McDonald

Starring: Dylan Authors, Rhys Bevan-John, Francine Deschepper

Review by Gilbert Seah

Bruce McDonald (HARD CORE LOGO, THE TRACEY SEGMENTS) turns down the angst a little with his latest film penned by playwright and fellow filmmaker Daniel McIvor. The setting is the town of Antigonish in Nova Scotia on the 4th of July of 1976, the American Bicentennial. Music-loving 15-year-old Kit (Dylan Authors) spends his time either alone in his room listening to Elton John albums, or hanging out with his platonic girlfriend, Alice (Julia Sarah Stone).

Like Kit, Alice feels out of place, and her divorced parents have too many issues of their own to offer much comfort. The film pays tribute (or copies, depending on how one wants at look at it) from films like Woody Allen’s PLAY IT AGAIN SAM and John Schlesinger’s MIDNIGHT COWBOY. Andy Warhol appears at various points in the film, unseen by anyone except Kit giving silly advice to Kit which Kit never takes anyway.

This ploy by McIvor is remotely funny, but serves no purpose but provide a little humour. The beginning of the film feels like MIDNIGHT COWBOY together with the falsetto part of the song resembling “Everybody’s Talkin’ of me” by John Nilsson.

Throughout the entire film, one has the feeling McDonald thinks he is pretty cool and that his film is pretty cool stuff. It is a good thing he is a confident director, as his watchable film is inventive in certain places.

But the film is too weird, pretty much like its characters and all over the place.

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TIFF 2016 Movie Review: LE CIEL FLAMAND (FLEMISH HEAVEN) (Belgium 2016)

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le_ciel_flamand_posterLE CIEL FLAMAND (FLEMISH HEAVEN) (Belgium 2016) **
Directed by Peter Monsaert

Starring: Sara Vertongen, Wim Willaert, Esra Vandenbussche

Review by Gilbert Seah

Twin stories are told in writer/director Monsaert’s second feature set around the events at a local brothel called LE CIEL FLAMAND. One is the rearing of little Sylvie, the 6-year old daughter of the owner Monique who works there together with her own mother.

The brothel has been passed down through generations though it is falling apart, business-wise. Monique is shown as both a smart businesswoman and mother. She keeps the sex acts from Sylvie.

The film’s most amusing segment has Sylvie questioning her mother where babies come from. But when Sylvie appears to be sexually assaulted, things become extremely tense. Uncle Dirk is suspect but it is he who eventually finds the culprit.

All the events are set, ironically at Christmas time, when the joy of Christmas carols is in the air. The performances are excellent, especially those of real mother and daughter Sara Vertongen and Esra Vandenbussche. But the film’s trouble is director Monsaert trying to polish his film with metaphors and ends up becoming confusing and annoying.

An example is the puzzling last scene when Uncle Dirk uses a rope, initially thought for the making of a noose, that turns out to be the two parts of a swing he is making.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5FM0pOaSF4

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TIFF 2016 Movie Review: ARRIVAL (USA 2016) ****

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arrival_poster.jpgARRIVAL (USA 2016) ****
Directed by Denis Villeneuve

Starring: Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Forest Whitaker

Review by Gilbert Seah

Finally arrives a sci-fi futuristic alien film without the blow ups, collapsing buildings and end of the world scenario. Well, all of the above might still happen but it is up to theoretical physicist, Ian Donnelly (Jeremy Renner) and linguistics expert, Dr. Louise Banks (Amy Adams0 to find out the purpose of the landings.

The landings occur at 12 different locations around the globe and there is a reason for that. Director Villeneuve (PRISONERS, ENEMY) builds up the suspense carefully aided by Jóhann Jóhannsson’s captivating score, unique set design by Patrice Vermette and cinematography by Bradford Young. But it is surprising that the best part of the film is the simple shot segment of Dr. Louise’s explanation of what it means to communicate the question: “What is the purpose of your visit?” to the visitors.

Every word and even the question mark and the pronoun you (singular or collective?) might have different meanings. The non-linearity of time is also a neat concept that is also examined.

The title ARRIVAL in the film, could also refer to two things – the arrival of the visitors or the birth of Dr. Louise’s baby.

ARRIVAL is a fascinating film on all counts.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFMo3UJ4B4g

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Happy Birthday: Roddy McDowall (1928–1998)

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roddymcdowall.jpgRoddy McDowall (1928–1998)

Born: September 17, 1928 in Herne Hill, London, England, UK
Died: October 3, 1998 (age 70) in Studio City, Los Angeles, California, USA

[on Mia Farrow] Trying to describe Mia is like trying to describe dust in a shaft of sunlight. There are all those particles. Her conversation is clotted.

[in 1968, on his career] . . . totally isolated, really suffocating. As a child, I was always lied to about myself and about the world.

OVERBOARD
1987
dir. Garry Marshall
Starring
Goldie Hawn
Kurt Russell
PLANET OF THE APESPlanet of the Apes
1968
dir. Franklin J. Schaffner
Starring
Charlton Heston
Roddy McDowall
Beneath the Planet of the Apes
1970
dir. Ted Post
Starring
James Franciscus
Kim Hunter
CONQUEST THE PLANET OF THE APESConquest of the Planet of the Apes
1972
dir. J. Lee Thompson
Starring:
Roddy McDowall
Don Murray		 battle for the THE PLANET OF THE APESBattle for the Planet of the Apes
1972
dir. J. Lee Thompson
Starring:
Roddy McDowall
Claude Akins
MOVIE POSTERTHE LONGEST DAY
1962
dir. Ken Annakin
Andrew Marton
Bernhard Wicki