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NCRN Films was founded in 2019. Since then we’ve created 3 feature projects with many more to come. From birthday events to commercials and marketing videos, our work will continue to show unique quality that will land NCRN Films on many platforms in the future. Our new feature documentary, “The New Towers Of Babylon – 5G (The Devils Devices)” will be released in the fall 2019.
Our services cover all stages of production whether that be early development and conceptualization stage or the final touches in post-production. We regularly conceptualize, produce, direct, shoot, edit, and color grade video and film content but we are also happy to step in at any stage of the creative process to offer our services.
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In Australia - Esther attended the Mcdonald College of Performing Arts, where she trained in drama, music and dance and on the weekends attended classes at the National Institute of Dramatic Arts.
After graduation, Esther was accepted in to Screenwise's One Year Intensive course, a leading screenacting school in Sydney, run by award winning actress Denise Roberts and taught by industry professionals consisting of agents, casting directors, directors and actors.
The year culminated in a showcase, where Esther was offered representation by a UK agent.
The following year Esther moved to London, where she has been training and acting in various productions and institutions.
Esther is currently freelance and welcomes contact from any agents and other industry professionals.
Recent roles and news
Esther has recently completed the Professional Actors Masterclass run by the Australian Institute of Performing Arts (AIPA) in April/May '14 held in Los Angeles.
Kaitlin in independent feature film Dead Love (release 2014).
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Chris Hemsworth as Thor. Image: Instagram/@chrishemsworth
Chris Hemsworth ticked an item off his bucket list as he fulfilled his “dream” of exposing his butt in the upcoming Marvel film “Thor: Love and Thunder.”
In a scene in the official trailer released by Marvel, Hemsworth, who plays the character of Thor, can be seen with his butt exposed after Zeus (Russell Crowe) “flicked” to take off Thor’s disguise. The trailer, as released in Marvel Entertainment’s YouTube channel, blurred the said body part.
Hemsworth spoke about how he prepared for the scene, disclosing that going butt-naked was actually one of his goals, as per an exclusive interview with Variety for the film’s premiere night last Saturday, June 25.
“I did a lot of everything. It was kind of 10 years in the making, you know? It was a dream of mine,” the Australian actor said. “The first time I played Thor, I took my shirt off and I thought, ‘You know what’s [going to] sweeten this? A decade from now, it’s all [going to] come off.”
Hemsworth then pointed out that although it was not his first time to have done it, this particular exposure is apparently a whole different experience for him.
“I had that out in ‘Rush’ many years ago,” Hemsworth added, referring to his 2013 film. “In a Marvel film, it was a very large screen, it was a very big pair of cheeks, and, I don’t know, I had seen it before.”


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I have never really been one to act, largely because I have stage fright. As a child I did the obligatory Christmas productions in primary school where I was always either an angel or a swan - the costumes being much the same every year. I never had to do anything, just stand there, so I was fine. Then my only other acting experience was in the year six production (I don't know how things work, but in the UK most primary schools have their pupils do a production of some kind in their final year). Here I played the Greek goddess Hera, and I managed quite well as I was actually relatively confident at that point.
As soon as I started high school though, I never acted again because that stage fright I mentioned earlier started to develop around the same time. While I did not perform myself, I have always enjoyed watching plays and going to the theater.
In the UK pretty much every theater in the country has a pantomime at Christmas (these are usually twists on classic fairy tales and always have three staple characters: Buttons (a kind hearted idiot), X's mum (X is the main character and their mum is usually played by a burly man) and a main character who is played by the opposite sex). For as long as I can remember I have seen at least one panto a year, even now when I am eighteen years old and most people my age have given up, I always find someway to see one.
My favorite play has to be The King and I, which I have seen maybe five times in different theaters. I just love it. It was the first 'proper' play I went to see. Other than that my experience hasn't been too extensive, only seeing The Twits, Wicked and something else, but I forgot what it was called. It was good though.
I love going to the theater and I wish that I went more.


I don’t mind telling you this made me cry.
Such a clear way of explaining what it must have felt to the heavenly Father when he gave his son Jesus. Except we know that was harder in that he had to suffer for so long.
And yet it does seem to mean something heartbreaking yet hopeful in this short film. The actual film is called ‘Most’ and is 40 minutes long, but this shortened down version was made, and it probably suits a lot of English people better as the full film would otherwise be subtitled.
‘The Bridge’ is a film which illustrates in such a powerful way that of John 3:16:
God loved the world so much that he gave his one and only Son so that whoever believes in him may not be lost, but have eternal life.
A strong reminder of God’s love to us all.
The sacrifice of One brings hope to the future…


Aug 16, 2021 · “Hotel Transylvania 4” is no longer coming to theaters this fall as Sony Pictures is in the process of bringing it to Amazon’s video-streaming platform.
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Oct 06, 2021 · Now it appears that Amazon has set a new release date for the film, as the studio announced that Hotel Transylvania: Transformania will release on the streaming service on January 14, 2022, in over 240 countries and territories on Amazon Prime Video. This will be the first time a film in the franchise has opened in January.
Sony has postponed 'Ghostbusters: Afterlife' several times amid the COVID-19 crisis, but the studio has remained determine to keep the film on the big screen even as it nixed theatrical plans for its 'Cinderella' remake, the animated adventure 'Hotel Transylvania 4′, Tom Hanks' drama 'Greyhound', and several others.
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Bartlett Television Productions Films Nightclub Security Video
April / May, 2004 - Excelsior Entertainment enlisted the help of Dave Bartlett and crew to create a 30 minute video that is designed to train security employees in the nightclub and bar business.
The video was actually shot with actors as if everything happening was real, even though it wasn't, to give it a "Cops" sort-of feel. All footage was shot at night in Rochester area nightclubs and bars. The "re-enactments" were meant to look real, and shot handheld with available light. The introductory segments were meant to look more like those seen on "Americas Most Wanted", and shot with a jib arm and stylized lighting. They were all shot early on a Sunday morning at a local bar, before it opened later that day.
Bartlett Television Productions also handled the edit of the production, which featured some animation sequences as well. Dave acted as assistant producer on the project as well as Director of Photography.


There is nothing we enjoy more then working on title sequences, especially when it’s super dark and moody and ‘Stabby’! So, as you can imagine we were over the moon to be chosen to create the main title sequence for Guillermo Del Toro’s gothic romance CRIMSON PEAK. This project, built entirely in CG, was an exercise in careful pacing and art direction. Like the film, we wanted the titles to drip with detail in every shot with moths leading us through each eerie scene.
Working closely with Del Toro and our production team at Topix, we worked 5 full months to craft this project into a piece of design that would flow and compliment the overall tone of the film.
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Later in the play, claudius manages to talk his way out of laertes' rebellion, too even at swordpoint, claudius manages to calm the kid down and convince him that he is innocent of polonius' death by telling laertes to speak, man and ordering gertrude to let him demand his fill (45143 147. Claudius character analysis in shakespeare play essay example - king claudius, as illustrated in shakespeare’s hamlet, displays both charm and eloquence claudius is an intelligent person and is able to deceive people into believing he is innocent and morally guided. The prince of denmark, son of gertrude, nephew of claudius, and heir to the thronehamlet is a deep thinker, focusing on impossible to answer questions about religion, death, truth, reality, and the motivations of others. King claudius is a fictional character and the primary antagonist of william shakespeare's tragedy hamlet he is the brother to king hamlet , second husband to gertrude and uncle and later stepfather to prince hamlet. Character analysis of hamlet print reference this he showed an immense amount of loyalty to one person unwaveringly throughout the play, horatio horatio was hamlet’s confidant and best friend throughout much of the play horatio was the only person that hamlet could truly trust they come not single spies, but in battalions (william.
Overall story throughline synopsis hamlet, prince of denmark, returns from his studies abroad to attend the funeral of his father, king hamlet, and the subsequent wedding of his mother, queen gertrude, to his uncle, king claudius. Hamlet 's uncle, and gertrude 's second husband power-hungry and lustful, claudius murders his brother in order to take the throne of denmark and marry his wife claudius is a great talker and schemer. Character analysis of claudius in hamlet: sample essays the throne-stealing and family-dividing villain who is the ‘something rotten’ in the state of denmark in the end, he is “justly served” by “a poison tempered by himself. Introduction to the characters in hamlet character analysis hamlet although hamlet himself desires to see claudius pay for his crime, he realizes the evil in the deed of killing the king, prompted by both heaven and hell (iiii586.
Claudius is the antagonist of hamlet, and this quiz/worksheet combo will help you test your understanding of the character you'll also be assessed on your understanding of the play's story. Exploring the character of gertrude gertrude is hamlet’s mother and queen of denmark she was married to the murdered king hamlet (represented by the ghost in the play) and has subsequently wed claudius, his brother. Set in denmark, the play dramatises the revenge prince hamlet is called to wreak upon his uncle, claudius, by the ghost of hamlet's father, king hamlet claudius had murdered his own brother and seized the throne , also marrying his deceased brother's widow. Hamlet is a complex character with multiple character traits that lead him through his many confusing and often conflicting actions throughout the play shakespeare has developed a character whose conflicts of interest and personality traits combine to lead him through actions that eventually led. Introduction to claudius in hamlet as with all the supporting characters in hamlet, claudius is not developed to his full potential his primary role in the play is to spawn hamlet's confusion and anger, and his subsequent search for truth and life's meaning but claudius is not a static character.
Hamlet is the melancholy prince of denmark and grieving son to the recently deceased king thanks to shakespeare’s skillful and psychologically-astute characterization, hamlet is now considered to be the greatest dramatic character ever created. - character analysis of claudius from the play hamlet by shakespeare in the play, hamlet, shakespeare needed to devize an evil character, a villain that is ambitious, and has the ability to scheme to get what he wants. Hamlet a discussion of the main characters in hamlet must begin with the title character, the play's protagonist summary: hamlet, prince of denmark, is called home on account of his father's deathhamlet is suicidal, cynical, introspective, intelligent, and crafty he struggles to make decisions, yet acts rashly.
Hamlet stages a performance about a murder to discern claudius's guilt this is part of hamlet's exposition rising action climax falling action how does the excerpt reveal character development claudius exhibits sincere mourning for his friend polonius hamlet analysis other sets by this creator. Hamlet uses the players to stage an adaptation of the death of gonzago which he calls the mousetrap -- a play that reprises almost perfectly the account of old hamlet's death as told by the ghost -- in order to be sure of claudius' guilt. Character analysis: king claudius essay along with the other main characters in the play, king claudius’ character is one of the significant establishments of hamlet’s personality - character analysis: king claudius essay introduction king claudius was hamlet’s uncle the brother of hamlet’s father. Learn all about how the characters in hamlet such as hamlet and polonius contribute to the story and how they fit into the plot hamlet | character analysis share share click to copy jealous, and controlling man—characteristics exhibited again and again throughout the play claudius carries himself well at the outset of the play. Hamlet’s major antagonist is a shrewd, lustful, conniving king who contrasts sharply with the other male characters in the play whereas most of the other important men in hamlet are preoccupied with ideas of justice, revenge, and moral balance, claudius is bent upon maintaining his own power.
The plan involves complex themes like revenge, treachery, moral corruption, and incest prince hamlet is enraged by the fact that his mother, queen gertrude, married his uncle, claudius, soon after the death of his father, king hamlet. Character analysis of claudius from the play hamlet by shakespeare in the play, hamlet, shakespeare needed to devize an evil character, a villain that is ambitious, and has the ability to scheme to get what he wants. Claudius is the antagonist (the enemy of the main character) in the play hamlet claudius is a morally weak villain who values power and material things more than he values others. Claudius is able to see through hamlet’s charades of madness, and sees that hamlet is a potential threat demonstrates that fear can create a downward spiral for a character, as he goes from very stable to unstable, thinking about spying and murder as time goes on, until his eventual death at the end.
Extended character analysis claudius is the newly crowned king of denmark whose ascent to the throne follows the death of his brother, king hamlet.


Anonymous asked: Good luck for the year ahead! Remember all the hard work pays off :)
Thank you so much! Ahh I’ve been taking advantage of this much needed 2 week break! Back to school next week ahhhh, but thank you so much! I just have to keep reminding myself that, exactly like you said it’s all worth it in the end :D
There will be a hairdressing scene in Pretty Little Liars Season 5 Episode 4. Lisa Hoggatt (above with Ashley Benson) is actually the Pretty Little Liars Hairdresser on set and will be acting in the episode as Hanna’s hairdresser in the episode as confirmed by Ashley Benson via Instagram.
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Both the CD's & DVD's are the original cast recordings and live film production of the tribute show celebrating the music and songs of Barbra Streisand & Neil Diamond, entitled The Musical Celebration Manhattan Nights. The CD and DVD packs features a 27 track double Cd album for the two act show with almost 2 hours of great songs and music and both include an inset 16 page show brochure. The Musical Celebration Manhattan Nights toured the United Kingdom in the early 2000's. The UK theater shows were hugely successful and greeted with great acclaim from the media and theater going public alike. Both the CD & DVD are rare editions of the remaining copies produced and originally sold at live performances. All the tracks are beautifully performed by top west end stars with live musicians on stage. Neither Neil Diamond or Barbra Streisand appear in The Musical Celebration Manhattan Nights or have any direct connection or otherwise endorse the production. $29.50 each for the DVD, or the CD, including worldwide postage & packing; full returns policy applies if not totally satisfied.


We just finished a new short film made with the JJEM crew. Please watch and share!
Here’s an Entertainment Weekly interview with writer/director Dan Poliner. Faith and Julia talk to Dan about what inspired him to make Jack, Jules, Esther & Me. Thanks Entertainment Weekly, and thanks Sirius Radio!
We are live on iTunes, Amazon, Time Warner, Comcast, Cox Cable and so many more!!! Yay!!! Please help us spread the word!!!
Once you've seen the movie, please write a review on iTunes, Amazon or imdb. That is incredibly helpful.
Many of you have been working on this film for over 2 years now. Wow! Thank you so much for your immense skills, your heart and your support. It's amazing how much were able to accomplish. I hope we can roll this success into this release and into all our future collaborations!
Let's share and celebrate!!!
FilmBuff has picked up our movie and will be distributing it worldwide starting December 17th! Woo-hoo!!!
It will be available on iTunes, Amazon, Google Plus, Vudu, Google Play, YouTube Movies, Xbox and Playstation and on multi-service operators nationwide including Comcast, Time Warner, Cox, and Verizon all on December 17th. It will also eventually be available on Hulu and Netflix.
Watching Jack, Jules Esther & Me sure does feel like a great way to celebrate the holidays! I'll be asking you all for help spreading the word.
But for now, just a huge thank you to everyone who gave your time, your creativity and your spirit. It's been a long journey from script to screenings, and I feel so blessed to have all of your support, advice and love along the way. Time to celebrate! #FilmBuff
So happy and proud for our world premier to be part of the Austin Film Festival. We'll be screening in the Narrative Feature Competition. If you're near Austin or know anyone who is, please help us spread the word!
We'll be screening opening night (Woo hoo!!!) October 24th at 9:30PM at the Rollins and Sunday the 5:30PM at the Alamo Village Galaxy. Tickets go on sale next week! I'll be in attendance at both screenings.
More info soon! Looking forward!!!
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Thanks so much for visiting. Enjoy and help spread the word!


Jeanne Cagney 10x8 signed photograph
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10x8 signed photograph sister of James Cagney
signed in fountain pen ink
there are some scratches to the bottom of the photograph
not affecting the signature
Date of Birth
25 March 1919, New York City, New York, USA
Date of Death
7 December 1984, Newport Beach, California, USA
Jeanne Carolyn Cagney
Sister of James Cagney.
Sister of actor-producer William Cagney.
Appeared with brother Jimmy in Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942), The Time of Your Life (1948), A Lion Is in the Streets (1953) and Man of a Thousand Faces (1957). Had two daughters: Mary Anne Roberts of Athens, Ohio, and Theresa Cagney Morrison of Newport Beach. Was a model during the late 1930's, before beginning her acting career on stage at the Pasadena Playhouse. Her best film performance is considered to be in Quicksand (1950), as a femme fatale opposite Mickey Rooney.


Taiwan Latino Film Festival – To the Other Side
The Taiwan Latino Film Festival titled “To the Other Side” is currently underway at the Spot Taipei Film House. It started on Friday, December 16th, and runs until January 6th. They’re showing twenty-six films from seventeen Latin American countries. Anyone familiar with films from Latin America knows that this is a real treat.
Individual tickets cost NT$200 and they can be purchased at the ticket counter at the Spot Taipei Film House and at any ArtsTicket outlet. The films showing on opening night were sold out, but my sense is that you could show up at the Spot before the film you want to see and be reasonably sure of getting a seat. It’s a small 80-seat theater and they don’t generally offer reserved seating. You can sit anywhere you like.
For those that don’t know, the Spot Taipei Film House is located in the old American ambassador’s residence at No. 18 Zhongshan North Road, Section 2. It’s about a four-minute walk from the Zhongshan MRT station on the Red Line. You can take the escalator at Exit 2, and then turn left down Nanjing Road. You’ll pass a McDonald’s, a big department store, and then a bunch of small shops and restaurants. At the corner of Zhongshan Road, turn left. The Spot Taipei Film House will be on your left at the second alley. There are also a couple of bar/restaurant/cafes there and a funky shop selling funky things and DVDs and movie-related stuff.
There are about seven films showing a day during the festival starting at 11 a.m. every morning. All the films have Chinese subtitles. They’re projected onto a separate little screen running along the bottom of the main screen. And nearly all of the films have English subtitles as well. Only two don’t: Nostalgia for the Light and Days in the Country. You can see the schedule here.
I went to see a couple of movies at the festival last night. The first was called Historias Minimas. It’s from Argentina and was directed by Carlos Sorin. It’s from 2002 and apparently won more than twenty awards. I enjoyed it very much. It’s exactly the kind of movie that I enjoy most. It shows what life is like in another part of the world. It focuses on the lives of ordinary people. It’s funny and touching and beautiful and is something of a road trip movie as three people set off on a short but perhaps life-changing journey to a nearby town. I find that I don’t have a lot of patience anymore for films that show people as evil and selfish and rude and dangerous. We get a lot of that these days. My experience is totally different. I find people to be friendly and helpful and generous. And in Historias Minimas we see people like that. It almost feels like a throwback to the forties or fifties when everyone knew their neighbors and you stopped to help people in trouble and people opened their doors to strangers and weren’t always suspicious and afraid.
The second film was an interesting counterpoint. It was a documentary called Nostalgia for the Light. It was also set in Argentina but this time in the Atacama Desert. The altitude and the dryness of the Atacama combine to make it the perfect place to situate telescopes to observe the far reaches of space. It was also where Pinochet located camps to house political prisoners and where many bodies of the disappeared were buried. The climate preserved these bodies as well as the remains of some ancient peoples that lived there. The film moves back and forth between the search for celestial bodies with high-powered telescopes and the search by relatives for the bodies of their loved ones in the sand and rock. The subtitles were in French, but my high school French was sufficient for me to keep up with what they were talking about. And the highlight was the visuals anyway. The film featured fantastic images of galaxies in deep space as well as close-ups of the cratered surface of the moon. It was a beautiful slow-moving film, a treatise on the nature of reality and space and time and what it means to be human.
It was a good start to the festival for me, and I plan on seeing as many of the films as I can.


Hollywood seems to have a death wish. After a half century of ignoring the conservative half of America, Hollywood has taken to insulting it. Headlines like “Meryl Streep Pledges to Stand Up to ‘Brownshirts’ in Tirade Against Trump” will assure another record low audience for the upcoming Oscars.
A few years back Streep was among the many who gave Roman Polanski a standing ovation when he won an Oscar for best director in absentia. That he admittedly drugged and raped a thirteen-year-old, then fled the country to avoid prosecution, did not trouble Streep and her fellow Hollywood worthies. Streep’s brownshirts apparently have a keener sense of irony than Streep does, a keener sense of morality too.
All that said, Hollywood managed to produce a better-than-average crop of Oscar nominated films, none of which actively offends and several of which are worth seeing. Many are still playing at local cinemas. A quick run down from the top:
La La Land: Okay, it is a musical, but the freshest and most original since Singing in the Rain. Will win Best Picture and should.
Hidden Figures: While Hollywood was busily producing films designed to put the white man in his place, Hidden Figures sneaks in and shows how faith, family, and patriotism pull us all together. It has proved to be a surprise hit, a surprise that is to people who don’t understand America.
Hacksaw Ridge: Mel Gibson was allowed back in the fold and responded with this tribute to the power of Christian faith in war time. Not for the squeamish, but no more violent than an effective war movie has to be.
Hell or High Water: An amoral crime thriller but tightly made and relieved by Jeff Bridges’s shockingly un-PC banter.
Lion: Another worthy tear jerker about the power of family, this one set in India and Australia.
Manchester by the Sea: Moving and visually impressive, it is the rare Hollywood movie about real adults having real problems in real places.
Fences: An earnest if stagy film version of August Wilson’s play, Fences, like Hidden Figures, focuses on universal issues, not strictly racial ones. It co-stars Kansas City’s Stephen McKinley Henderson, whose late blooming career has not gotten its due locally.
Moonlight: Critics loved this coming-of-age tale of a young black man with sexual identity issues, but how could they not? That said, it makes some good, gritty points about the perils of family breakdown.
Arrival: A dopey, PC sci-film with moral pretensions not unlike,say, the original The Day the Earth Stood Still.


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The Hornet’s Nest Movie: Tribute Video
If you haven’t seen the movie, “The Hornet’s Nest,” you should as soon as it’s available in your area. It’s one of the most powerful movies I’ve ever seen. It’s the year long story of veteran war correspondent Mike Boettcher’s embedded adventures with the US military in Afghanistan. The sounds, the action, the scenes, the bullets, and the bombs are all real. The Hornet’s Nest is a slice of life from the war in Afghanistan.
During the course of the movie, Mike Boettcher captures some of the most compelling war footage ever seen. And he also captures moments with his son, Carlos. Early in the film, you’ll hear panic in Mike’s voice when Carlos is pinned down by enemy fire. Bullets buzz by like bees. Bullets hit the trees just in front of Carlos and his life is in real danger.
One mission takes Mike and a platoon into the hornet’s nest. A two-day mission that stretches into nine. Exhaustion, fear, and casualties take their toll on the group.
Perhaps the most emotional moments in the film, though, are near the end at the muster. As the Sergeant Major calls roll, you can see the pain of battle in young men’s and young women’s faces.
If you see this film, you’ll never forget it. And you’ll know why young men’s dreams are haunted by battle scenes. The range of emotion you’ll feel in this movie span everything from fear to sadness to relief to happiness. Watch all the way to the end for outtakes and tributes to the men and women who’ve made the ultimate sacrifice in service to the United States of America.
Every parent who watches this movie will go home and hug his or her children or call the ones that aren’t close enough to touch. You’ll never be the same after watching it.
It’s rated R for language and violence.
I think everyone should see this movie.
My personal message to the people of Afghanistan:
I’m sorry for what’s been brought upon you and your families. I believe that you want the same things we want: to worship God, to enjoy your families, to work, and to live peacefully without any person imposing his will on you and your people. Please know that the American people mean you no harm nor wish you any ill will. We are not your enemy and we want you to be free from oppression. Our hearts go out to yours.
May Allah protect you and bless you all the days of your life.


For Tracey Forbes, the question is not “who done it” but more so “why done it”.
The Beach area resident is referencing the new CBC police crime drama Cracked, a show she co-created, writes and produces.
Premiering in early January, the show features a newly formed Psych Crimes Unit headed by Inspector Diane Caligra (Karen LeBlanc) and comprised of officers, psychiatrists and psychiatric nurses. It is their responsibility to respond to any crime or crisis that involves a person with emotional distress, psychiatric disorder or mental illness.
The audience is able to watch a complex cast of characters and criminal investigations through a psychological lens.
Each episode portrays an individual with unusual behaviour, or someone affected by mental illness. This could be the perpetrator of the crime, the victim, the witness or a character who provides a key piece to the puzzle to be solved.
“We go to great lengths to portray them [people with mental illness] fairly”, says Forbes. “We show them as people who have family and friends. They love and they work, . They have hope. And they have mental illness.”
Forbes structures each episode around a character with behaviour that at first, you don’t understand. Slowly, you get to know the individual, know what their life is like and how they are involved in the case.
The viewer will come to realize mental illness is not to be feared and one should not equate it with guilt or crime.
The initial idea for Cracked stemmed from veteran Toronto police officer Calum deHartog, who produces the show with Forbes.
Dr. Steven Cohen, a psychiatrist from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) joins the team to help Cracked achieve the best possible balance of drama and authenticity.
“We want to create an awareness of mental health issues,” says Forbes, “but unlike many other shows, not further demonize mental illness.”
Each episode develops its main and guest characters, portrayed in both complicated and emotional roles.
In the pilot episode, lead character Detective Aidan Black, played by Canadian born David Sutcliffe (Gilmore Girls) has a public break down where he clucks like a chicken. Detective Black, who lives with symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), is “diagnosed” by the unit’s forensic psychiatrist Dr. Daniella Ridley, played by Vancouver born Stefanie von Pfetten (NCIS).
Her assessment of the detective is that he is “not broken”, but “cracked”.
Forbes, who has written other television shows including Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Flashpoint, says that Cracked has been able to attract excellent guest actors by writing complex and emotional roles often with behaviour associated with mental illness.
Cracked, seen Tuesday nights at 9 p.m. ET on the CBC, is filmed in Toronto. Although the city is not specifically identified as such, the images of the skyline and references to neighbourhoods and landmarks make no attempt to disguise it.
As the first season nears its end, Forbes says the show receives positive feedback from both the mental health community and the fans. She looks forward to deepening the characters and their relationships in future years, especially the dynamic between characters Aidan and Daniella.


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Sweet Dreams tracks a series of encounters a young boy has with his everyday environment--the experiences of which dreams are made.
Told mostly through visual and musical cues instead of dialogue, Sweet Dreams is a story that examines the impact of everyday images on the imagination.
Running time: 6 min 45 sec
Projection format: DVCAM, Beta SP, DVD
Production format: 16mm color
Stocks: Fuji 8682 (400T), Fuji 8622 (64D), Fuji 8662 (250D)
Equipment: Arriflex SR-II, Zeiss Lenses, LTM Pepper Lights
Locations: Jersey City, NJ and Lambertville, NJ
Shooting Dates: March 2004


Nov. 30th, 2011: Aaaaaannnnnddddd We're Back!!! After a long hiatus, we present Episode 9: "The Count!!!"
Nov. 14th, 2011: Episodes 9 and 10 will have their world premieres this Saturday, at the Suck And Moan First Season Interactive Screening! November 19th, 5PM, at Flapper's in Burbank!
Mar. 27th, 2011: Suck And Moan was presented with the LAWebfest awards for "Outstanding Dramedy Series" and "Outstanding Directing in a Dramedy Series!"
Mar. 21st, 2011: Suck and Moan's been accepted in LAWebfest and will be screening this Sunday, March 27th at 11AM!
Feb. 9th, 2011: What's taking so long?! We're currently scouring Southern California for the secret "castle" location for Episodes 9 and 10!!!!
Dec. 29th, 2010: Wow!!! So, we've made SciFi Pulse.net's Top Ten Web Series of 2010!!!
Dec. 16th, 2010:
Suck And Moan is nominated for Comedy Web Series of 2010 by Clicker.com! Place your votes now!
Nov. 28th, 2010: Suck and Moan's been nominated for Best Vampire Web Series of 2010 by Suburban Vampire! Please vote for us!
Oct. 20th, 2010: The outbreak has begun.
Oct. 15th, 2010: Episodes 1-3 will be screening at the Beverly Hills Film, TV, & New Media festival October 24th at 2PM.
Sept. 24th, 2010: The official Launch Date for "Suck And Moan" is 10/20/2010 (October 20th, 2010)!!!
Sept. 21st, 2010: Warm up that Brandon Walsh fist pump! "Suck And Moan" was just accepted to the Beverly Hills Film, TV & New Media Festival! http://www.bhfilmtvnewmedia.com
Sept. 13th, 2010: Guess who's back into production???? "Suck And Moan" is currently filming and finishing up it's 1st season. We're looking to officially launch in mid-October. And it's lookin' gooooddddd.....!
July 8th, 2010: The offical program schedule for ITVFest has been released! "Suck and Moan" will have its WORLD PREMIERE on July 31st @ 8PM, with a second screening on August 2nd @ 5:30PM! Tickets are available now!!!
June 24th, 2010: The outbreak has been unleashed! "Suck And Moan" (Episodes 1-3) is now an official selection for the 2010 Independent Television Festival! The festival runs from July 30th to August 5th. More details to follow!
June 8th, 2010: Check out Brendon Fong's "Creator's Corner Interview" about "Suck and Moan" on Scifinal.com!!!


The Orphan of Zhao
Set & Costume Design - Conceptual
Co-design With LIN LUO
Play Writer - James Fenton
Story by Junxiang Ji
Set & Costume Designer - Jessica (Wenjing) Ji & Lin Luo
The whole play is set in the background of the Warring States Period in ancient China. The stage design abandons the expression of traditional ancient drama. The main space is abstract elements, and the presentation form combines traditional elements with new media technology. The main body of the entire stage space is composed of two giant rings. The lower ring is slanted and semi-enclosed and fixed to form a multi-level space for actors to perform. The upper ring can be raised and lowered or tilted to create a depressive and solemn atmosphere. Different scenes can be changed in the middle of the lower ring.


I've watched 3 bad movies recently:
1) Lady in the Water: This movie proves, yet again, that M. Night Shyamalan needs someone to stand behind him while he is on his auteur chariot and whisper "All fame is fleeting. All fame is fleeting." What the hell M. Night? What the fucking hell? Watch Unbreakable and get back to your core, dude.
2) Black Dahlia: The same for Brian De Palma. Just because you can make a stylish movie, doesn't mean you should try to do it with a convoluted script and some very bad acting. Poor De Palma. Scarface beckons you.
3) Superman Returns: Paying homage to Christopher Reeve and Marlon Brando is one thing, totally ripping the poor dead guys off is another. The only redeeming thing about this movie is Kevin Spacey's imitation of Gene Hackman with none of the humor that Hackman brought to the role. He was positively menacing, like Jack Nicholson was menacing as the Joker in Batman. Postmodern, indeed this film sort-of was. Too bad the Lois Lane actress didn't get it and put on a spoof of Margot Kidder. Too bad the directors really didn't get it either.


The video for NOT TONIGHT, JOSEPHINE was shot over the course of two days in late October and early November, around the band’s home base in the Pretoria’s Moot area. Directed by frontman Floris Groenewald, who together with photographer extraordinaire, friend of the band and lead actor in the video, Marnus Strydom, took turns shooting. The video stars Adél Swanepoel, aka cosplayer Avelyn Swan, as the female lead.
With a simple concept featuring a run-and-gun guerilla shooting style, the video was inspired by French New Wave film director Jean-Luc Godard. In 1960, he released a film called A Bout de Soufflé (aka Breathless), and KABAAL KLANKBAAN‘s video is very much a homage to, or a mini-remake of the film. They decided that doing this kind of visual tribute not only enables them to retell a fun little story in their own style, but also borrow some of the built-in 60’s French ‘cool factor‘, and reference a classic for any cinephiles who happen to see it.
“We definitely wanted to do something that’s somewhat out-of-the-box and a music video that we haven’t seen before. I have a serious soft spot for French New Wave films in general, and specifically for Breathless, and since the movie already addresses similar themes to the song, features an unconventional will-they/won’t-they relationship, and practically welcomes homage through leading by example, it felt like the perfect fit.” – Floris Groenewald.
Fans can look forward to a black-and-white mini-movie about a guy who’s on the run, who meets up with a woman and hides out with her. The band tried to mimic the French New Wave style that inspired the video through using jumpcuts, handheld cameras, documentary-style production values, and very lightly touching on the existential themes presented in the original film. But of course, they have also included their signature tongue-in-cheek sense of humour.


Short series movies are a hot trend right now, and for good reason. They’re an easy way to get your message out there without having to commit to an entire season or movie. Plus, they’re great for whetting the appetite of viewers who might not have time for a full-length movie. Here are five businesses doing a great job at short series movies.
What is a Short Series Movie?
Short series movies are a great way for businesses to get their message out there. Not only are they an interesting watch, but they can also be used as marketing tools. This is because short series movies can be tailored to target specific demographics. In addition, they can be used as a way to promote a company’s brand.
There are many different types of short series movies like MEANWHILE IN BUDAPEST that businesses can use. One example is a corporate video. This type of movie can be used to promote a company’s image or products. It can also be used as a way to introduce new employees or products. Another example is a promotional video for a product launch. This type of movie can help promote the product and increase sales.
In addition, short series movies can be used as marketing materials for events such as trade shows or conventions. They can also be used in social media campaigns and online advertising campaigns. In fact, there are now even Short Series Movie Maker software programs that make creating these films easy!
All in all, short series movies are a great way for businesses to get their message out there and connect with their customers or clients in an intriguing and entertaining way.
What are the benefits of Short Series Movies?
Short series movies offer businesses a variety of benefits. Chief among these is the sheer volume of viewing potential. A short series can be watched multiple times, potentially increasing viewership and brand awareness. Additionally, short series movies are often easier to produce than feature-length films. This means that businesses can get a high-quality product quickly and at a fraction of the cost. Finally, short series movies are often more affordable to advertise than feature-length films.
What are some of the biggest challenges in producing a Short Series Movie?
In today’s digital age, it’s easier than ever for businesses to produce and distribute short series movies. But producing a high-quality short series movie is no easy task. Here are some of the biggest challenges businesses face when producing a short series movie:
Creating a compelling storyline: The first challenge businesses face when creating a short series movie is developing a compelling storyline. If the storyline isn’t interesting or engaging, viewers won’t stick around to see what happens next.
Finding the right talent:
The second challenge businesses face is finding the right talent to star in and produce the movie. If the cast isn’t talented enough, viewers will quickly lose interest.
Creating an effective production schedule:
The third challenge businesses face is creating an effective production schedule. If the timeline for production is too long, viewers will lose faith in the movie and may never return. On the other hand, if production deadlines are not met, viewers will be angry and disappointed with the finished product.
Making sure everything looks perfect: The fourth challenge business face is making sure everything looks perfect on camera. If anything goes wrong during filming, it can ruin the entire movie experience for viewers.
Eliminating potential mistakes:
The final challenge businesses face when producing a short series movie such as MEANWHILE IN BUDAPEST is eliminating potential mistakes prior to filming. This means ensuring all script changes are prope like rly approved and that every scene is planned out meticulously so there are no unexpected hiccups during shooting.
5 businesses doing a great job at Short Series Movies
When it comes to movie series, there are a few businesses that are excelling at Short Series Movies. These businesses know how to cater to audiences and produce high-quality content that is engaging and exciting. Here are five of the best:
Netflix: Netflix is known for their long-running series, but they also produce some great short series. They have produced several horror short series, including A Series of Unfortunate Events, which has become one of the company’s most popular titles. They also produce great family fare with shows like Stranger Things and The Crown.
Hulu: Hulu is another company that produces both long-running series as well as great short series. Their current hit show is The Handmaid’s Tale, which was based on a novel by Margaret Atwood. Other popular shows include The Mindy Project and Difficult People.
Amazon Prime: Amazon Prime is known for their streaming service, but they’ve also started producing some great short series over the last few years. One of their recent hit shows is The Man in the High Castle, which is set in a dystopian future where the United States has been taken over by Nazi Germany.
YouTube Red: YouTube Red has been producing some great original content lately, including their popular show Cobra Kai. This show follows two childhood friends who reunite after 10 years of being apart and must face off in karate tournaments to win back their old friendship.
Apple TV: Apple TV is best known for their streaming service, but they’ve also started producing some great short series. Their hit show at the moment is Carpool Karaoke, which follows a group of friends who drive around singing songs.


The Curious Case of the Dog In The Nightime
On Monday I was again invited by Official London Theatre to see one of their exciting shows. This time it was The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime. I had heard of this show before because it had won several awards and I knew it had been turned in a book but I didn’t know much of the story line.
From the title is seems like it would be quite a lighthearted show about, well, a dog and it is but it’s so much deeper than that. It follows the story of a teenage boy living with autism and his take on life. You get to see the world through his eyes and how different and sometimes scary it must be to live with this condition. In one sense he is remarkably intelligent but on the other hand he still needs constant supervision from situations he cannot grasp.
It's definitely an eye opening show and even features a cute little puppy at the end. Oh and a pet rat!
I enjoyed this play a lot more than I thought I would. It’s currently showing at Piccadilly Theatre in London until the end of April 2019 and you can buy tickets here.
Have you seen any good shows recently?
Lauren xx Follow me here @wonky_lauren
* These tickets were gifted to me but all opinions are my own *


Audrey Hepburn - the legendary actress of the XX century, considered a style icon. Being emulated to this day. Her legacy has become a large collection of dresses, accessories and footwear. What fate befell the dress of Audrey Hepburn?
December 8 English auction house, Kerry Taylor svmestno with Sotheby's held auctions in which 40 subjects were exposed to the wardrobe of the great actress. Also under the hammer gone rare letters, in which the actress talks about her first steps in the cinema.
Total bail was 268.3 thousand pounds http://www.flanmark.com, which is approximately 440,000 dollars. This amount is twice the estimated revenue. Half of the funds that were received during the auction will go to the Children's Fund, named after Audrey Hepburn Audrey Hepburn Children's Fund and the Fund for UNICEF is an international organization. Part of the money will go to the development of the project "Schools for all children."
All dresses Audrey Hepborn have their own interesting history. All of them rushed the actress in real life and in movies. To wear this romantic actress equal to all the women in the world. Most of the dresses Audrey Hepborn belonged to her friend Tanya Star Busman. Their friendship lasted over 15 years. And all this time the famous actress FLANMARK.com gave their clothes to his girlfriend. the door Thani constantly flocked packages gorgeous costumes and accessories. They were, and little black dresses and gowns that were used in their films, and coats and hats. Tanya herself Star Busman confessed that every time I open another box, I felt like a little girl in front of the tree at Christmas. Among these "Christmas" gifts were dresses from Valentino dress from the designer's favorite Audrey Hepburn - Hubert de Givenchy, a cap, in which she starred for Vogue.
The most important lot was a wedding dress Audrey Hepburn. This dress is a very interesting story. His stitched for Audrey in the Roman workshop sister Giovanna, Zoya and Mikola Fontana. At that time, the actress starred in the film "Roman Kani molecule. But marriage to businessman James Hanson did not take place. The actress broke off her engagement two weeks before the gala event. But the dress itself has got "the most beautiful Italian girl, the poor, which only can be found." Amabiliiya Altobella wore it only once, and all the rest of the time poviselo in the closet FLANMARK.com. It was only in 2002, the last of the sisters Fontana - Nikolai was able to find this dress. And an Italian peasant woman gave it to fund an actress. And at the last auction outfit was sold for 13,800 pounds, is about 22,600 dollars.
Most of the money was received for the black lace dress from your favorite couturier Hubert de Givenchy actress. In 1966, the dress Audrey Hepborn appeared in one scene, the famous film "How to Steal a Million." Posted an anonymous buyer paid for it ? 60, which is almost 100 thousand dollars. This amount is three times more than the starting price.
Among the exposed to the auction there were other "kinonaryady" star. This is a dress that Audrey starred in such films as "Love in the Afternoon," "Two for the Road", "Paris, when there is heat." Most of these dresses FLANMARK.com Audrey Hepburn wore in the fifties and sixties of last century.
In general, things are great actresses not often appear at auction. Therefore, always attract attention. For example, in held in 2006, an auction is one of the dress Audrey Hepburn went under the hammer for 467,000 pounds. It was a black gown from Hubert de Givenchy. In this dress, the actress starred in the film "Breakfast at Tiffany's. And in 2007, pink cocktail dress, in which she appeared in the same film, was sold for 192,000 dollars.
These are the dress of Audrey Hepburn and their history. They served not only his famous mistress, but now benefit, serve a charitable purpose.


My take on HDR:
HDR shines when applied to movies that are shot with modern, state-of-the-art digital cameras (such as ARRI Alexa) as the digital RAW files can handle dynamic range much better than, say, 35mm film. HDR is putting a strain on the source material and if the material is not meant for being pushed in terms of dynamic range, the results can be less than ideal. One of my favorite examples would be John Wick 2 - the entire movie has been shot with Arri Alexa + Arri Alexa XT Plus and the end result in HDR looks amazing in my opinion (though if I wanted to be nit-picky: the intermediate is "just" 2K). On the contrary, Harry Potter was shot on 35mm and with HDR activated on the 4K Bluray release, the end result is rather grainy and noisy and looks rather overblown (though on a positive note: black levels have been fixed). So what I do before I go out and purchase a movie in (4K) HDR, I research the movie first on the internet as there are some websites dedicated to inform on what material the movie was shot and if it has a 2K oder 4K intermediate. If I see that the movie was mostly shot with, say, an ARRI Alexa camera, I'm more inclined to get the 4K Bluray release.
Buying a TV for watching HDR content is another story ... it is worth knowing that movies are mastered at different Nits levels. So some movies will be mastered at 1000 Nits and your Sony A1 OLED TV might be best suited for displaying those movies in HDR... while other movies are mastered at 4000 Nits and then your Panasonic TV might be better suited for the job. This doesn't solely come down to what the TV can actually achieve in terms of maximum brightness but also at how the TV handles tone-mapping. Of course, high maximum brightness is probably the most important factor when it comes to HDR, but since none of the existing TV (to date) can display 4000 or 10000 Nits, tonemapping is just as important.
There are a lot of factors that come into play when displaying HDR content, and we haven't even mentioned the competing HDR standards yet or that OLED may not be able to get as bright as LED TVs but might just be the better TVs when it comes to overall contrast... currently I think the biggest issue with HDR is that it demands a lot of research, but once one has gone through the hurdle of getting all the necessary information, HDR becomes more enjoyable.
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Since she will be making her directorial debut with the upcoming film The Dating Game,
Anna Kendrick, who has been around for a while, appears to be moving her career to the next level. While the script was on the Black List and written by Ian MacAllister McDonald, Kendrick will play the lead role in the film, producing and directing it.
Although this is Kendrick's first time directing, she has produced before with her production company Let's Go Again, whose works include the Netflix series Stowaway and the HBO Max series Love Life. Kendrick said in a statement about the news that she was instantly in love with the script.
See some of her movies below.


During the winter evenings at Chateau de Bois Giraud, you may care to view a DVD, and so I recommend A Shot in the Dark as one of my favourite French-set pictures. Of course, one of the principal cast was from that nation – Peter Sellers hailed from Southsea, George Sanders was Anglo-Russian, Herbert Lom was Czech, and Elke Sommer is German. Most of the film was made in the UK, with the addition of some second unit work in France and the production was backed with American monies. But A Shot in the Dark has music from Henry Mancini – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjq0WDvapow – pin-sharp colour cinematography and some splendid French vehicles – a Citroën DS19, a Peugeot 403, a Renault Dauphine – and Seller’s finest outing as Inspector Jacques Clouseau.
The least effective officer in the history of the Sûreté made his debut in The Pink Panther. The character was original to be played by Peter Ustinov, who eventually proved unavailable. The nominal star of Panther was David Niven – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwA_ar7_qUw – but the time of the film’s release in 1963, it was obvious that Sellers was the principal attraction. The character was incorporated in a big-screen version of the stage play A Shot in the Dark, which entered production later that year.
And why do I love this particular film? Perhaps it is that first shot of the as he practices an array of facial expressions, he deems suitable for his rank and position. Here is a detective who tries to maintain the dignified pose of a figure from a police recruitment film, even when investigating a nudist colony. There is also a career-best turn from Lom – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIu_CYwemFo – and any picture containing such a sequence is clearly a masterpiece – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uAIbLLSniw. PS And yes, that is Bryan Forbes as the guitar-playing beatnik.


My Five Favorite Films of 2011 (in no particular order)
5. The Tree of Life directed by Terrence Malick
I find the backlash against Terrence Malick to be terribly funny. When I saw The Tree of Life in the theater, a group of women who were sitting behind me left about forty minutes in and one said out loud, “I told you we should have seen Bad Teacher!”
Terrence Malick is too abstract! There’s no story in his story! Nothing happens! It’s just a series of beautiful images! To these supposedly negative statements I say EXACTLY. I could watch this film over and over again and still not understand what Malick is trying to say about God and the Universe and Family, but I don’t care! It’s GORGEOUS! It’s beautifully acted! It’s filled with emotion! The child actors in it are completely honest and real and perfect! I love it.
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The Pegasus "Rising Stars" Program is a full-day, two-week theatre camp for students entering grades 7-9. Beginners and veterans of the stage will immerse themselves in the dramatic arts.
Daily workshops will challenge you to stretch your imagination, build your acting skills and collaborate with your fellow actors. During each session, actors will work with an experienced director to create and perform a production in our professional theatre facilities.
Though the focus is on the ultimate performance, there are occasional non-acting challenges, games, and activities led by Pegasus Counselors to help break the ice and build a cohesive team of actors and crew. As opening day arrives, the workshops become crucial rehearsal time. During each session, the anticipation builds as the show takes shape. Those who are interested in being involved in a production, but not as an actor on stage are encouraged to join as well!
The house is filling and the courtain is about to rise. Come be a part of another exciting season of Pegasus "Rising Stars" theatre!
The "Rising Stars" fee of $410 per session includes lunch.
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Without the latest Bollywood songs, our music collection would be lacking, wouldn’t it? For every moment, we need the right set of songs. Also, it’s simple to update the music collection with new songs because there’s an abundance of them in Bollywood. Here is a collection of Hindi movies that offer some of the best songs for every mood.
- Satyameva Jayate 2
Song: Kusu Kusu
The newest Bollywood dance number is called Kusu Kusu, and it is from the movie Satyameva Jayate 2, the sequel to Satyameva Jayate. John Abraham plays two characters in this film: one is a police officer, and the other is a politician. The song tops the charts of trending songs in Hindi movies. Kusu Kusu is quite catchy, and you’ll end up humming the lyrics of this banger. The song features Nora Fatehi gracing the screen with her incredible moves.
- Baaghi 3
Song: Do You Love Me
Baaghi 3 is a high-octane action film featuring Tiger shroff, Riteish Deshmukh and Shraddha Kapoor, among others as the lead star cast. The film has a great story of two brothers and their bond followed by power-packed action sequences, romance, and a drool-worthy number by Disha Patani. Even the most sluggish person can get up and dance to the upbeat sounds of this catchy, contentious tune. This upbeat song won’t let you down if you enjoy shaking your booty.
- Jai Mummy Di
Song: Mummy Nu Pasand
The romantic comedy film is about a lovestruck couple who plan to get married. When the couple discovers that their mothers do not get along, things get tricky for them. There is one song in the movie that goes with the story. It is a remix of Sunanda Sharma’s Punjabi song, Jaani Tera Naa. The Hindi song is recreated by Tanishk Bagchi, while the lyrics are by Jaani. If you like the first version of Mummy Nu Pasand, you will surely enjoy the new one as well.
- Kabir Singh
Song: Pehla Pyar
Remade from the Telugu blockbuster Arjun Reddy, this movie came out in 2019. Irshad Kamil wrote the words to the song “Pehla Pyaar,” sung by Vishal Mishra. It is about experiencing first love and perfectly conveys the simplicity and pleasure of young love. It is a beautiful song that you will remember for a long time.
- Gully Boy
Song: Mere Gully Mein
Ranveer Singh performs the vocals on this song from the 2019 film Gully Boy. Divine and Naezy wrote the lyrics for the music. It is about overcoming obstacles while growing up in Mumbai’s slums. Because it resonates with so many people, this is one of the most loved Bollywood songs. It highlights the hardship and determination of those who start from nothing and must work to obtain everything. Both the message and the lyrics are stirring. After you’ve heard it once, this song will stick with you.
- Pal Pal Dil Ke Paas
Song: Pal Pal Dil Ke Paas
“Pal Pal Dil Ke Paas,” which translates as Every Moment, Close To The Heart, is a song from a romantic movie of the same name. After Ghayal Once Again and Dillagi, Sunny Deol directed this film. It was released in September 2019 and marked the acting debuts of Sahher Bambba and Sunny’s son Karan Deol. Arijit Singh and Parampara Thakur perform the title track, with the latter making her Bollywood playback singing debut. Siddharth-Garima wrote the song’s lyrics.


In the second semester of 2014 the School of Communications will offer the first course in Uruguayan cinema for English speakers. The course, Uruguayan Culture through Film, is part of FCOM's project to bring Uruguayan cinema to the world.
The course includes the analysis of prominent works in Uruguayan cinema in order to gain a greater sense of Uruguayan culture, and of film as an artistic medium. Combining theory and practice, the course is also open to Uruguayan students, and includes weekly film screenings, guest lectures, student presentations, and a final project.
The seminar will be taught by Professor María Teresa Rodríguez Murphy, a producer and director who has taught at The University of the Arts and Swarthmore College. Her award winning work, which includes Niños de la Memoria and Mirror Dance, has screened in international festivals, on public television, and has been funded by ITVS and the Sundance Documentary Fund, among others. She has facilitated community based workshops with older adults, migrant workers and youth at Scribe Video Center and has received numerous grants and fellowships including a 2012 Fulbright Fellowship and a Leeway Transformation Award, which recognizes the work of women artists engaged in social change. She received her BA from the University of Virginia and her MFA from Temple University.


Musical Theatre 101 was first launched this Fall as the series that provides aspiring performers an opportunity to enhance specific training and technique in singing, dancing and acting. This series offers 2 different classes with a slightly different format, focusing on the specific theater disciplines including: acting, improv, vocal and stage movement, breathing, pitch, choreography, vocabulary, and so much more. Musical Theatre 101 is open to all levels of performers who are looking to hone in on the technique and how those disciplines work on stage.
Thursday, February 5th – Thursday, April 9
(no class April 2
Southern Village Clubhouse
- Song & Dance “Fairy Tales” – Cost: $200 3 rd – 6 th Grades 3:30pm – 4:30pm
- Actor’s Studio “Fairy Tales” – Cost: $200 3 rd – 6 th Grades 4:30pm – 5:30pm
Although the focus of this series is on technique, your performer will still have the opportunity to present their skills in a final performance. Musical Theatre 101 will perform an end of semester Showcase featuring the disciplines learned within both classes. Once Upon a time … Musical Theatre 101 will present their craft in musical numbers inspired by the magic, mystery and happy endings of Fairy Tales.
FINAL SHOWCASE: Thursday, April 16 th @ 7pm (Dress Rehearsal 5:00-6:30) at Culbreth Middle School


I am not a movie buff, but, uh, here you go. I think I want to be a film person more than I currently am; I certainly have outgrown my television phase 1 but I don’t make a particularly strong habit of watching movies.
There is one exception to this, which is that almost every Sunday night for the past year my partner and I have watched a movie together. These come in phases — we had our Miyazaki phase, our pre-code screwball phase, and our Harry Potter phase — but it’s been a really nice tradition.
If you’re doing a similar thing with your movie reviews, please let me know! The only person I know of doing this is my friend Oliver 2 and I really don’t want to have to go through the whole process of creating a Letterboxd account. 3
(Also, be warned: my writeups will probably contain spoilers.)
This was a very well executed show. Great acting, direction, and cinematography. The plotline was predictable and each little twist and turn felt a trifle on the cheesy side, but I didn’t mind that much — I think it lowered the ceiling of the show to have the developments be as rote as they were, but it was still gripping and thrilling. I particularly enjoyed the warmth and humanity that the show gave to the bit roles: the druggist, the lovelorn former rival, etc.
(Oh, but the ceiling chess is dumb as hell.)
Early-era Grant and Hepburn: charming(ly obvious) plot, dynamite script, 97 minute runtime. I don’t know what’s not to love. It is not as obviously wonderful as Bringing Up Baby (which is still, I think, the funniest in the era) or The Philadelphia Story but I think it’s carried equally by the strength of the supporting cast.
pros: beautiful shots of the amalfi coast; excellent costume design
cons: two and a half hours runtime; the single worst script I think I have ever experienced
I don’t think this movie quite succeeded at threading the line between satire and comedy-of-errors; the points where it wavered into what felt like gravitas (in particular the final act) felt like missteps. But the comedy — the script! the performances by Buscemi and Tambor! — was sensational, and I could have spent an extra hour listening to the insane banter.
Good things about this movie:
- The Gadot-Pine chemistry is a lone bright spot in the vanilla hellscape of superhero romance.
- The “hey, we’re in 1984!” stuff was fun and silly (until they dropped it for no real reason in the second act.)
- Wiig was not bad!
Bad things about this movie:
- The plot doesn’t make sense. Why does Lord require more wishes? Because it makes him more powerful? But it was also killing him? Why doesn’t he just wish for immortality or whatever? Why is he trying to get more shit at all?
- “I’m touching them through particles!” Come on that it just the dumbest shit ever.
- The effects were particularly bad this go-round. Lasso-of-Truth-ing a lightning bolt was a nadir.
- TWO AND A HALF HOURS OF RUNTIME.
- The movie doesn’t even stop to examine the fairly intriguing premise of what happened to Not Chris Pine’s soul while Chris Pine was inhabiting NCP’s body!
- As mentioned above, the movie decided 1984 wasn’t interesting starting in the second act and so we had to settle for very boring set pieces.
I don’t know. I think you need something memorable and good to elevate a superhero movie into something bigger, and I grade on a curve! I thought Thor: Ragnarok was delightful because it leaned into its triviality. But this movie has nothing going for it, and lacked the pathos of its predecessor. Oof.
You can say whatever you want about this movie. You can say the plot is nonsensical, that every line is twice as maudlin as it needs to be, and any character that isn’t Stewart’s is a pastiche that makes A Christmas Carol look modern and nuanced. You can make fun of Jimmy Stewart’s delivery as much as you want. You — and everyone’s — criticisms are valid and fair.
But man, if you don’t tear up during Auld Lang Syne, I will probably call you a liar. I remember the first time this movie made me cry — 2012 — and it’s made me cry a little more every year since.
I think this is what a low-stakes, low-investment romantic comedy should be! There are, I guess, suggestions of conflict and stakes — will Cameron Diaz’s character stay in England? will Kate Winslet break free of her manipulative boss? — but you know exactly how every plot line will unfold and resolve within the first ten minutes of the film. The moments of genuine surprise — Jude Law’s character having two children, Dustin Hoffman randomly being in a Blockbuster — are joyous. All this movie is is a vehicle to let some charming people bounce around each other’s orbit and to make you feel slightly warmer, and it does that very well.
I think the two quibbles I have are:
- It is one hundred and forty minutes! That is too long for an airy romantic comedy. Cut out thirty minutes of the fluff (though I suppose one would argue that it’s all fluff) and it’s a much leaner enterprise.
- The movie suggests at some clever meta-commentary on romantic comedies, between the WGA playing a role and the (fairly well-done!) non-diegetic movie trailer shenanigans. It could have leaned into this like three degrees more and still gotten some mileage, I think.
Exactly three entertaining things about this film:
- Bette Midler and Sarah Jessica Parker absolutely chewing up the scenery and being legitimately entertaining.
- The visual gag of a witch using a vacuum cleaner as a broomstick.
- “Billy, the friendly zombie.”
Everything else is bad.
If there’s ever a movie that seems unfair to judge on its own terms its this one. Part 1 was tough to judge on its own terms because it existed purely as table-setting for this, but in many ways this entire movie is only legible to those who are well versed in the universe: and not just the universe of the movies, but the universe of the books. (This is one of those statements that seems impossible to contradict; I am sure there are people who have only seen the movies and they enjoyed this one, but I don’t know of any.)
So if the movie’s goal was to transmute a thrilling and satisfying ending to the books onto the screen, I think it did a really good job. The climactic battle was thrilling and wondrous; some of the manic set pieces, like the Gringotts’ heist, felt the appropriate mix of fun and dangerous. And, true to the book’s form, the epilogue sucked. It’s well acted, well directed, and well scored.
I don’t know what to say, then! It’s a movie you’ll enjoy if you’ll enjoy it. I had a good time.
My understanding was that this was the ur-romcom in a lot of ways, and it felt like that! The chemistry between the leads was great — and not great in a “great for its time” way. I thought the framing of the entire movie through the Greyhound bus was fun, and it’s hard not to see the threads of this movie (upstairs woman, downstairs rogue) show up in so many of its successors (His Girl Friday! Roman Holiday!) while having that basic structure not cheapen or dullen it in any way. I don’t think there’s anything, like, exclamatory about the film — I wouldn’t peg it for a five-Academy-Award winner — but it was good and fun and easy to recommend.
It’s interesting the extent to which this movie feels divorced from the ones preceding it “Hogwarts is the best and most important character” might be a stale take but it’s a true one, and while the cinematography of this film (the camp-outs are truly gorgeous!) tries to make up for the lack of turrets and parapets it feels impossible. Everyone is grimy and nobody is wearing robes: besides a few warm and entertaining scenes the film is straight up morose and Serious (which doesn’t bother me quite as much as the Order of the Phoenix’s lack of levity, because here at least it makes sense.)
It’s worth saying that this fails utterly as a stand-alone movie. There is no true climax or denouement; it ends on a bummer and the entire thing feels like the prologue that it truly is. But it still isn’t bad!
Okay, now this is what a fantasy movie should be. Absolutely gorgeous effects & cinematography (a marked improvement from the drab darkness and excessively cool tones of Order of the Phoenix), a script with a bunch of levity (the first and I think only Harry Potter movie that legitimately made me laugh more than once!), and a climax that, sure, is overwrought, but looks cool and seems important in the overall narrative.
What a joyless two hours. Some notes:
- An important test for a fiction is: does it imbue its villains and obstacles with any redeeming or interesting characteristics whatsoever? (The answer here, of course, is no.)
- Helena Bonham Carter appears to be the only person in this movie who knows that it is a fantasy film and that it is okay to emote.
- Nothing happens! There is so much angst and nothing interesting or useful happens that isn’t a death! Who gives a shit about the prophecy!
- Okay, the final wizarding duel is pretty fun, and a marked step up from the tug-of-war climax of the fourth movie.
A very good low-stakes rom-com. There were just a lot of things I liked:
- The return of Tony Randall, who was delightful (and perfectly weaselly) in Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? and even more so here.
- A very charming opening credits
- Incredible early-sixties set design and costume design
- A very fun and of-its-time framing device (I was completely unaware of the concept of a “party line”!)
- A generally winsome and tweak-y script and direction which made up for the lack of chemistry between the two leads.
And the only thing I think I disliked is the complete lack of climax/denouement — the last ten minutes seemed to melt away without conflict or actual resolution besides “well, they’re together now!”
Just a really, really solid slapstick. Cary Grant is incredible (reading on Wikipedia this was the impetus for his launch into superstardom, which is totally earned); Irene Dunne, who is not my favorite, puts up a superlative back half (her scene as “Lola” is perhaps the best in the entire film.) The movie feels loose and improv-y in a way that few movies of its era do; there are a few bits that age it (my mind is drawn to the very cute and very advanced-for-its-time special effect with the cuckoo clock) but you could do a shot-for-shot remake of this and it’d be well-received.
You know, the conventional wisdom is that the Craig Bond movies have been in a tick-tock nature: Casino Royale is glorious, but Quantum is bad; Skyfall is glorious, and then Spectre suffers.
And this is true to an extent. Watching this for the first time, after having watched Casino Royale the night prior, highlighted its flaws in sharp relief. The cast is universally less interesting (with the exception of Fields, who I thought played her role superbly); the script is more muddled; the set pieces comically unrealistic.
But it also compared favorably in a few respects! The pacing of the film is, on the whole, better (it helps that it’s forty minutes leaner!); the climactic showdown in the erstwhile hotel, while grandoise in true Bond fashion, was dramatic in a way that I don’t think Casino Royale ever hit. And the general theme of the movie — Bond as an out-of-control widower — works having freshly seen the denoument of the previous film.
It’s not, like, a good film. But it is unfairly maligned, and fine by popcorn standards.
I rewatched this having watched it once a long time ago; I remembered liking it quite a bit, and I still do, though perhaps my patience/illusionment with Bond films has waned quite a bit. The cast is great and the setting & plot is superb, but I couldn’t help having two ornery thoughts, somewhat commingled:
- How is this thing two and a half hours long?
- Why do the action sequences need to be this long?
There’s probably a taut, superior version of this movie that clocks in at a hundred minutes. But it’s still the most vivid realization of what Bond movies are or can be (barring Skyfall’s slightly meta turn).
I came in with high hopes: I like Allen’s ouevre and this was supposed to be one of his best.
And there were parts that I really liked: I thought Allen’s self-insert narrative was sort of silly and sweet, I thought the dynamic between the three sisters was vivid and real, and I thought the thesis of the film — the titular Hannah being the person to whom we’re afforded the least interiority despite her having a lion’s share of grief — was clever and interesting and, given a generous eye, an interesting inversion of the “model sitcom mom” trope so prevalent in the eighties. (Ah, and the music was good.)
But — and maybe it is unfair to say this, to view this film through a 2020 lens — parts of it were just gross! I can ignore the foreshadowing of Allen writing about a man who leaves his wife for a family member, sure, but everything Michael Caine touched in this movie felt despicable. I am okay with him portraying a flawed husband, but his chemistry with every single other character feels pained and alien, and his perspective affords no sympathy.
If I wanted a vaguely misogynist and beautiful film, I’d watch Midnight in Paris; if I wanted something sweet and a little mournful, I’d rewatch Radio Days. I have no desire to re-mine this movie.
Incredibly good if not revelatory. Heston and Welles (and even Leigh!) were all amazing. The script was great and the core plot was tight (even if the script wasn’t a world-beater.) The opening shot is just as great as all of the direction following it. My only complaint, such as it is, is that I think the best noirs have to leave you with a little bit of emptiness or melancholy: they have to shake your belief a bit. The ‘twist’ ending (Welles’ hunch was right!) was a bit of this, but…I dunno. Not quite enough.
I am maybe being too harsh on this movie with its rating: if I watched it divorced of context, I would surely raise it higher. But, viewed in light of the series, it feels so devoid of so many of the sources of its greatness: interplay between the cast (Jet and Faye are all but absent), a coherent and timeless soundtrack, well-tuned pacing.
There are unquestionably good bits here: the animation and direction are wonderful and unambiguously improved, the Moroccan aesthetic is lovely, and the story of Vincent & Elektra feel very much “in the vein” of the melancholy themes of the show. But elevating this story into a film feels unfair: it would have been better as a two-parter.
It was…fine, bordering on solid! I definitely laughed at a handful of parts, and it was surprisingly meta/postmodern (I initially ascribed this to the fact that it was based on a play, but after reading more it sounds like this had absolutely nothing to do with the play itself.)
I think my partner and I called this wholesome at least seven times over the course of the film. It was so good! I love Kiki; I love Jiji; I love the cast of characters whom are all universally warm and kind-hearted. I love flying as a motif, and even though the true arc of the movie (Kiki’s self-assuredness) came to a natural end I could have spent an entire series watching Kiki bop around this lovely world.
It’s tempting to compare this to Totoro, given that I watched it for the first time so recently as well. Totoro definitely hit me harder, and I think the purity and moral at the center of it is more potent; but unlike, say, the Pixar canon, it’s not that Kiki was a slightly lesser version — it had a completely different ambition and message.
Gorgeous cinematography; really really lovely denouement; pretty fun and chill time overall.
And yet, feels regressive compared to, say, Bringing Up Baby (maybe I’m biased from having spent July watch Grant / Hepburn vehicles?) despite coming out fifteen years latter. Peck doesn’t play lighthearted well, and Hepburn is obviously luminous but there isn’t a tremendous amount of moment-to-moment chemistry (again, excepting those final scenes.)
In retrospect, almost a proto-Blade Runner 2049. I thought the acting and general plot was kinda milquetoast but the underlying setting was a hair above neat, and the depiction of an unevenly distributed future is probably one of the best realizations of science fiction I’ve ever seen on film.
Objectively a fun, good movie. (I don’t know about “best romantic comedy of all time” — When Harry Met Sally still holds that crown in my opinion — but it’s up there.) The Grant-Hepburn-Stewart trifecta was great, though I was surprised to learn that this was late in the Grant-Hepburn partnership (their chemistry felt off, especially having watched Bringing Up Baby so recently); Hepburn and Hussey were honestly the standout performances, and the script was just the right blend of screwball and sly.
This movie was exactly what we expected: kind of clever, utterly predictable, very pleasant. I will probably not think about it other again but I recommend it!
There were a few particularly memorable bits to Connery’s performance — his scene peeling and eating an orange, and his absurd over-the-top double entendres — and there is of course a comfort that a Merely Good Heist Movie bestows, but that’s all this was: merely good. It was two hours that were entertaining and utterly predictable and that’s not a bad thing!
My hot take is that this was wholly better than Your Name; the supernatural elements were more interesting, the romance was sweeter, and the auxiliary characters more vivid and profound.
1935-era production is rough, mechanically speaking, but the core plot is fun and the climax is Peak Welles.
Delightful! Felt like a spiritual predecessor to Knives Out. (The age difference between Grant and Hepburn did not age well.)
A perfect movie about warmth and innocence and what it means to be childlike (and what it means to be adult).
Watched in honor of the late Fred Willard. Pleasant and funny but never quite as, uh, ROFL-tier as I hoped.
Great acting by Robbie and Ronan; inconsistent tonal bits and a lack of cinematic urgency; I can’t hold it against the film, but boy does Queen Mary frustrate me.
Noticeably worse in every way than its predecessor save a delightful Jimmy Stewart against-type performance.
inspired by my recent acquisition of nick and nora glasses: this was just….delightful? a noir with the sensibility of a light-hearted soderbergh movie and i will be appropriately binging all of the non-dashiell hammett sequels
this was so fun. i am reminded of walter scott’s description of austen as a flemish painter: “[the] subjects are not often elegant and certainly never grand; but they are finished up to nature, and with a precision which delights the reader”
wonderful, wistful depiction of the conversations we have with our former selves (and beautifully animated.) unfortunately, though, ridley and patel are very bad voice actors
Haunting Welles performance, incredible lighting & camerawork, and a perfect ending scene. I can’t think of a single flaw.
It is a very cute bear, Hugh Grant was terrific, and the scene of the cute bear showing his old bear aunt a pop-up version of London pulled me to tears.
Lead performance was bad; everything else (in particular the cinematography of a very different side of China) was great.
Worth the hype.
Great and honest performances that honor a great and honest script.
You could find me in the 2012 A.V. Club comment section, vigorously debating the finer points of Mad Men. ↩
Though at the time of writing this, he has only reviewed one movie. Come on, Oliver! ↩
This isn’t meant to denigrate Letterboxd, which frankly strikes me as the best “content cataloging” service that I’ve ever seen. I just don’t want yet another account inevitably designed to the dustbin of history. ↩