9/1/2023 0 Comments Netflix hidden gems for march![]() ![]() It has all the signs that it's going to be a well-written, very funny, deeply disturbing and beautifully observed dark comedy-cum-satire. ![]() Why you should watch: Not only does this boast an amazing cast, including Meryl Streep, Cate Blanchett, Ron Perlman and Mark Rylance, but the writer and director behind it is the same individual who gave us "The Big Short" and "Vice" And "Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy," Adam McKay. Turns out warning mankind about a planet-killer the size of Mount Everest is an inconvenient fact to navigate. The problem is that it's on a direct collision course with Earth. Randall Mindy (Leonardo DiCaprio) make an astounding discovery of a comet orbiting within the solar system. Synopsis: Kate Dibiasky (Jennifer Lawrence), an astronomy grad student, and her professor Dr. We hope to see great things in the future from both Arnezeder and Swiss writer/director Tim Fehlbaum. Iain Glen ("Game of Thrones") and Sebastian Roché ("The Man in The High Castle") round off a solid cast, but the children really steal the show. The plot is, in essence "Waterworld" meets "Children of Men," but thankfully it's better than both of those. Don't let a less-than-epic rating on IMDb fool you, this is an exceptional indie sci-fi movie that's full of nice ideas. Nora Arnezeder, who plays the sole survivor of the expedition, is a force to be reckoned with. Why you should watch: This could very well be the surprise hit of 2021. Generations later, a crewed mission returns to Earth to assess whether it's possible to procreate there ![]() ![]() However, the colonists who escaped have found themselves unable to procreate. Synopsis: Cataclysmic climate-related disasters have left most of the world submerged, causing the Earth to be abandoned and forcing a mass exodus to a distant planet. Zachary Levi ("Shazam!") joins the voice talent along with Glen Powell ("Top Gun: Maverick") and Josh Wiggins ("Greyhound"). This might not appeal to everyone and Jack Black’s “Wonder Years”-style narration might be appealing to many, it's not for everyone. Dick's "A Scanner Darkly." It focuses less on actually going to the moon and more on what it was like to actually grow up during that chapter of history. Why you should watch: This is, in essence, a rotoscoped home movie about the space race from the perspective of writer and director Richard Linklater, who lest we forget, gave us the epic animated interpretation of Philip K. It's ultimately both an exacting re-creation of this special moment in history and a kid's fantasy about being plucked from his average life in suburbia to secretly train for a covert mission to the moon. It both captures the astronaut and mission control view of the triumphant moment, and the lesser-seen bottom up perspective of what it was like from an excited kid's perspective, living near NASA but mostly watching it on TV like hundreds of millions of others. Synopsis: The story of the first moon landing in the summer of 1969 from two interwoven perspectives. Plus it's directed by Shawn Levy, who also gave us "Free Guy" and "Real Steel." 2. Joining Reynolds is an impressive line up, including Mark Ruffalo, Jennifer Garner, Zoe Saldana and Catherine Keener. While not paying too much attention to the so-called "rules" of time travel, it brings drama and the complexities of human relationships into a spirited science fiction movie aimed at older kids and young adults. Why you should watch: Ryan Reynolds leads an all-star cast in this family action drama that incorporates much of Reynold's dry wit. Adding to the challenge of the mission, the two Adams discover they really don't like each other very much, and if they're going to save the world, they're first going to have to figure out how to get along. Together they must embark on an adventure into the past to find their father, set things right, and save the world. He has risked everything to come back in time on a secret mission. This mysterious pilot turns out to be the older version of himself from the future, where time travel is in its infancy. Synopsis: 13-year-old Adam Reed, still grieving the sudden death of his father a year earlier, walks into his garage one night to find a wounded pilot hiding there. ![]()
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9/1/2023 0 Comments Jewel euphoria hbo![]() Their reckless freedom is not, exactly, to be encouraged. The consequences are awful, occasionally catastrophic the girls, in particular, endure so much pain, humiliation, and violence in the pursuit of things that make them feel good. These badly behaving teens, who operate with minimal to no supervision from their parents, are jumping off the edge of adolescence into adulthood without so much as a helmet. Mary McNamara, observing the differences between the high school experiences in Euphoria and Booksmart, writes that pop culture keeps returning to high school because those four years mark the threshold to adulthood-an awakening, a rite of passage, that is “a perpetual oscillation of mood best described with hyperbole.” It gives the audience a chance to try to understand Jules, whose cotton-candy hair and girly bicycle belie a fearless, plucky soul willing to be herself at all costs.Įuphoria makes the crises and triumphs of being a teenager into operatic drama-the kind of drama that we are all susceptible to, at some point or another, but are especially vulnerable to when we’re drenched with hormones, free of most responsibilities, and terrified of what other people might think of us. It’s rare to see a show engage with a fantasy perceived as ugly and dark, and stay with it-to neither judge nor ignore it, but rather digest it. Euphoria later revisits the moment from different angles, in ways both painful and illuminating Rue, who is narrating, is trying to understand and come to terms with Jules’ erotic self, her desires and compulsions. ![]() It’s violent, in a way that seems to be what Jules and Cal both crave, but consent-insofar as a 17-year-old on a dating app can give consent-does not make the scene easier to watch. The most notable example is an early sexual encounter between Jules, a teenage trans girl, and Cal ( Eric Dane), a middle-aged family man. But when the show circles back on the same inciting incidents, it feels as if it’s mimicking the circularity of trauma, which sends us back to the source of our pain over and over again. ![]() It’s a problem when a series is more premise than plot, and Euphoria is a little guilty of sacrificing forward momentum out of a perpetual need to set the mood. It’s a provocative juxtaposition-a bleak view of over-drugged, hypersexed American youth, but depicted in a way that makes it all seem romantic, enviable, and apparently free, even when underage characters (played by adult actors) take their tops off, onscreen, for teasing girls, leering boys, and, of course, the camera.Īnd cannily, Euphoria weighs in on its own shocking moments again and again. And, it should be said, so beautifully: Euphoria’s vision of teenage dissipation, even when it goes awry, is shockingly gorgeous, a color-saturated vision of California youth that picks up on deep purples, candy pinks, and flat, orangey haze. On the other is the scandalizing behavior these high schoolers get up to-drugs, sex, alcohol-which is conflated with shock that the show would depict high school bodies so explicitly. ![]() On one hand is the show’s wall of cool-cred talent: executive producers Drake and Future the Prince lead actor Zendaya, a former Disney star with incredible style, a Marvel universe role, and 56 million Instagram followers co-lead Hunter Schafer, a model in her first on-screen performance and a supporting cast including model/actress Barbie Ferreira, comedy scion Maude Apatow, Wrinkle in Time star Storm Reid, and The Kissing Booth’s breakout heartthrob Jacob Elordi, who is almost always shirtless. As she told us, she’s not a reliable narrator-just a damaged, perceptive, charismatic one.Įuphoria, from writer/director Sam Levinson, is already controversial. ![]() She’s self-pitying, sure, but her logic is hard to argue with: active-shooter drills, climate change, the pervasive sexual pressure of porn. In voiceover, Rue has been telling us the story of this one party, interrupting herself with bitter digressions about how fucked-up it is to be young right now. She’s just snorted something in the bathroom of a crowded house party, and while staggering back downstairs, the hallway hurtled around her, Inception-like, so that she walked onto the walls and the ceiling, dodging picture frames and light fixtures, until the floor regained its gravity. “To be honest, I’m not always the most reliable narrator,” says Rue ( Zendaya), a 17-year-old drug addict, in the middle of the first episode of Euphoria. ![]() 9/1/2023 0 Comments Houdini movie 1998![]() It wasn't as prying or explicit about Houdini's personal life, but it was easily as entertaining and less messy. "Houdini" was also the title of a 1953 movie biography starring Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh. After a medium fails to make psychic contact with Mama's spirit, Houdini embarks on a prolonged rampage against all crystal ball gazers, denouncing them as "the lowest form of life." Like most everything else in the film, this bit is done, as it were, to death. The movie flounders when Houdini freaks over the death of his mother in 1913. Another villainous boss, and so soon? Densham is never content to do anything just once everything must be repeated for fear we didn't get the point. One or two scenes later, when Ehrich tries out for vaudeville with his brother Theo, the producer is a petty tyrant who tries to force himself on the future Mrs. Little Ehrich's boss at a sweatshop is a petty tyrant and antisemite. The mama's boy angle is never fully explained, and it conflicts with Houdini's stated mission of breaking all ties that bind him. The seance is a pretty corny device, but it builds to an ending that is effectively eerie.īorn Ehrich Weisz, the son of Hungarian Jewish immigrants, Houdini suffers through the death of his father and grows up very attached to Mama, played by the ever-enigmatic Grace Zabriskie. It's 10 years after Houdini's death and Rhea Perlman, as the medium, is trying to summon his spirit for the benefit of Bess and a few others who knew him. ![]() Her arguments with Houdini have no apparent motivation other than Densham's desire to inject spurious conflict.Īs the movie clunks along, chronological episodes from Houdini's life are intercut with a bizarre seance supposedly broadcast by a radio station. ![]() Late in the film she appears to have a bout with alcoholism, but that consists of exactly one scene in which she holds a drink and slurs words. She's just sort of sweet and nice and adoring of Houdini. As Bess, Stacy Edwards seems lost in a fog, but in her defense, Pen Densham, who wrote and directed the film, didn't make Bess much of a part to play. He does a good job of imparting Houdini's fiery fanaticism. Schaech, in addition to boasting a bulgy physique, puts in a performance that is strenuous and intense. Some viewers will empathize with Houdini's wife, Bess, who, early in the second hour of the two-hour film, laments, "Just tell me when it's going to end." Unfortunately, that's about the only idea the movie has, and after a while, watching Houdini pop out of this and crash out of that becomes tedious. ![]() In facing mortality and defying it repeatedly, the movie says, Houdini not only thrilled and frightened audiences but in a sense liberated them as well. The movie, premiering tomorrow night at 8, presents Houdini as a man whose life was one long string of challenges to death. We watch as Schaech wriggles and writhes on a soppy wet floor, and soon enough he's a free man, much to the consternation of the constabulary. ![]() It's 1906, and the fabled illusionist is proving to a skeptical audience of prison officials that he can break out of a jail cell even while bound by chains. "Houdini," the TNT cable network's new movie biography of the famous magician, could have been called "Hunkdini," because in the first scene and a couple of others, actor Johnathon Schaech, in the title role, parades around in a black bikini that might have come from Frederick's of Hollywood. ![]() 9/1/2023 0 Comments Proper no 12 whiskey![]() ![]() He won via technical knockout (TKO) in the first round. On 17 February 2007, at the age of 18, McGregor made his mixed martial arts debut in an amateur fight against Kieran Campbell for the Irish Ring of Truth promotion in Dublin. While in Lucan, he met future UFC fighter Tom Egan and they soon started training mixed martial arts (MMA) together. Following that, he commenced a plumbing apprenticeship. In 2006, McGregor moved with his family to Lucan, Dublin, attending Gaelcholáiste Coláiste Cois Life. At the age of 12, he also began boxing at Crumlin Boxing Club, as a way to defend himself against bullies and raise his confidence. In his youth, he played football for Lourdes Celtic Football Club. He was raised in Crumlin and attended Irish-language schools - the Gaelscoil Scoil Mológa, in Harold's Cross, at primary level, and Gaelcholáiste Coláiste de hÍde in Tallaght at secondary level, where he also developed his passion for sport, playing football. Early lifeĬonor Anthony McGregor was born in Dublin, Ireland. He also featured in the list in 2018, when he was ranked fourth, with a reported income of $99 million. McGregor was ranked as the world's highest-paid athlete by Forbes in 2021, earning a reported $180 million. His boxing match with Mayweather drew 4.3 million PPV buys in North America, the second most in combat sports history. His bout with Khabib Nurmagomedov at UFC 229 drew 2.4 million PPV buys, the most ever for an MMA event. He is the biggest pay-per-view (PPV) draw in MMA history, having headlined the five highest-selling UFC pay-per-view events. In his debut professional boxing match, he was defeated by Floyd Mayweather Jr. He is also a former Cage Warriors Featherweight and Lightweight champion. He is a former Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Featherweight and Lightweight Champion, becoming the first UFC fighter to hold UFC championships in two weight classes simultaneously. Owen Roddy, Raj Vrînceanu: Boxing īrown belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu under John Kavanagh Ĭonor Anthony McGregor ( Irish: Conchúr Antóin Mac Gréagóir born 14 July 1988) is an Irish professional mixed martial artist. ![]() |
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