The Muppet Movie is a musical road comedy film and the first theatrical film featuring the Muppets. Along the way, he encounters several of the Muppets—who all share the same ambition of finding success in professional show business—while being pursued by Doc Hopper, an evil restaurateur with intentions of employing Kermit as a spokesperson for his frog legs business. Notable for its surreal humourmeta-references and prolific use of cameosThe Muppet Movie was released in the United Kingdom on May 31,and in the United States on June 22,and it received critical praise, including two Academy Award nominations for Paul Williams and Kenneth Ascher 's musical score and their song, " Rainbow Connection ".
Inthe film was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. The film begins with the Muppets sitting down at a private screening to watch a movie that tells the story of how they all met.
Kermit the Frog lives a simple life in a Florida swamp. One day, he enjoys an afternoon playing his banjo and singing " Rainbow Connection " when he is approached by Bernie, a talent agent who encourages Kermit to pursue a career in show business.
Inspired by the idea of "making millions of people happy", Kermit sets off on a cross-country trip to L. Unwilling to accept Kermit's refusal, Hopper resorts to increasingly forceful means of persuasion.
Kermit meets Fozzie Bearwho is working as a hapless stand-up comedian, and Kermit invites Fozzie on his journey. The two set out in Fozzie's Studebaker. In an old church, they meet the rock band Dr.
Teeth and The Electric Mayhemand the band's manager Scooterand they give a copy of the film's script to the band. Driving on, they meet and are joined by Gonzo and his girlfriend Camilla the Chicken. They trade in their failing vehicle at a used car lot, where they meet Sweetums. They invite Sweetums to come with them, but he runs away. Thinking he does not want to come, the others drive away, only for Sweetums to emerge and reveal that he had only run away to pack his things.
The group meets Miss Piggy at a county fair, and she immediately becomes love-stricken with Kermit. When Kermit arrives at the designated location, mad scientist Professor Krassman tries to brainwash Kermit into performing in Hopper's advertisements, but an enraged Miss Piggy knocks out Hopper's henchmen and causes Krassman to be brainwashed by his own device.
However, immediately after the fight, Miss Piggy receives a job offer and promptly abandons a devastated Kermit. Joined later by Rowlf the Dog and reunited with Miss Piggy, the Muppets continue their journey to Hollywood, but their car breaks down in the desert. Sitting at a campfire, the group sadly realizes that they will likely miss the audition the next day. Kermit wanders off, ashamed for bringing his friends on a fruitless journey, but some personal reflection restores his commitment.
He returns to camp, where he discovers the Electric Mayhem have come to their rescue, having learned of their plight by reading ahead in the script. The Mayhem offer to drive the entire group the rest of the way in their bus.
Kermit decides to face his aggressor and proposes a Western-style showdown in a nearby ghost town. There, they find inventor Bunsen Honeydew and his assistant Beaker.Lyrics for the songs are displayed on-screen with the Mickey Mouse icon as a "bouncing ball".
Early releases opened with a theme song introduction containing footage featuring Professor Owl and his class, seen originally in in two Disney shorts Melody and Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom as well as exclusive footage for the sing alongs.
Professor Owl here voiced by Corey Burton hosts the viewers with his class as his assistants in some of the videos, while either Ludwig Von Drake also voiced by Corey Burton or Jiminy Cricket voiced by Eddie Carroll host others, and later volumes had no host at all.
The footage of Von Drake and Jiminy Cricket were taken from several television programs including the Walt Disney anthology television series featuring the characters in the s'60sand '80s.
Issued beginning inthere have been four distinct series. The second series began appearing in August with Under the Sea and Disneyland Funfeaturing a new design and reissued volumes labeled One 1 through Twelve 12 in North America worldwide, volume numbers differed with Australia continuing to number volumes while other countries discontinued the numbering.
The third series, beginning in December with Circle of Lifesaw another new package design and the re-release of all previous volumes excluding Fun With Musicrepackaged as Notes of Fun for the non-North American market. Spanish language editions of some volumes were released as " Disney Canta Con Nosotros. On March 2, 14 of the videos were reprinted by Disney, and the final release in this format was Flik's Musical Adventure at Disney's Animal Kingdom on June 8 This series abandoned any new volume numbers, included only sporadically on third series volumes.
There have been over 30 titles released to home video. Newly remastered editions began appearing in November on Disney DVD, beginning with Very Merry Christmas Songsfeaturing a new package design, bonus features, and some new songs.
Some Disney DVD feature releases include individual songs as bonus features. All VHS volumes are technically out of print, but most are available new or second-hand wherever videos are sold. Fandom may earn an affiliate commission on sales made from links on this page. Sign In Don't have an account? Start a Wiki. Contents [ show ]. Onscreen lyrics 7 messages. Someone painstakingly typed all the onscreen lyrics and superimposed them onto the films, and later synchronized the Mickey bouncing ball or Just follow the words on the screen.
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Sign In Don't have an account? Start a Wiki. Categories :. Stream the best stories. Start Your Free Trial. Try Now. Sesame Street. Big Bird tries to help Luis and his arm. Air date. Written by. Big Bird wants to spend the day helping Luisstill with a broken arm.
However, he finds Bob has already been helping, and Maria has separately prepared breakfast for him. Left alone, Big Bird sulks, when Snuffy arrives and inquires about Luis' arm. He recalls when he was young, his mommy outfitted his snuffle-coop with snufflepadding, thus preventing any injury.
This gives Big Bird an idea Two kids argue over whose chair it is, until the dog suggests they share the chair. First : Episode Sherlock Hemlock helps Ernie discover how a window got broken. Comparing a boy's skin to animals' fur, feathers, skin, and other coverings.
Music: Joe Raposo First : Episode As Snuffy heads home, Luis arrives and sees what's been done. He assures Big Bird that he won't fall again and doesn't need all the padding. Big Bird is glad he has something to do to help out after all - removing the snufflepadding from the store. Artist: Paul Fierlinger First : Episode Herry then asks David to tie the laces on all the shoes in his shoe collection. Super 2 solves problems by doubling things.
A black cat chases after a white one, until a white lion steps in. Artists: The Hubleys First : Episode Do you read me?
H for hair First : Episode Maria and David imagine themselves as the Two-Headed Monster.Bobo as Rentro and Jeffrey Tambor as K. Edgar Singer. Muppets from Space is the Muppets ' sixth feature film, released in Gonzo has previously been classified as a "whatever," but after he begins to have disturbing dreams of abandonment, he begins to realize just how alone he is in the world.
After an alien race appears to be trying to send him a message through his bowl of Kap'n Alphabet CerealGonzo realizes that he may not be so alone after all and climbs to the rooftop to start watching the sky.
His dreams are realized when he's hit by a bolt of lightning that serves as a conduit that allows him to communicate with a pair of Cosmic Fishrevealing to him that he is, in fact, an alien from outer space.
While Kermit and his friends refuse to believe his wild ravings, Gonzo is lured into the clutches of K. Edgar Singer Jeffrey Tambora government agent who has also taken note of the aliens' attempts at communication and believes that Gonzo is his key to convincing his superiors that aliens do in fact exist. Kermit and the gang spring into action to rescue Gonzo, with the help of some handy inventions courtesy of Dr.
Bunsen Honeydew and Beaker. After a talking sandwich reveals to Gonzo the location of the eventual alien landing site, the Muppets along with a crowd of alien-happy spectators await their arrival.Muppets from space (1999) - Brick House
The ship comes to Earth and the aliens, who all look suspiciously like Gonzo, apologize for abandoning him but welcome him back to the fold. At first, Gonzo considers going with them, until he realizes his true home is on Earth with his surrogate family and friends. The Muppets' other feature films have been musical comedies.
Following a different path, Muppets from Space uses a soundtrack of funk songs from the late 60s and 70s.
One song is performed on-screen by the Alien Gonzosand the Muppets sing a line of the opening song; otherwise, the songs function as a typical movie soundtrack. Fandom may earn an affiliate commission on sales made from links on this page.
Sign In Don't have an account? Start a Wiki. Contents [ show ]. Categories :. Stream the best stories. Start Your Free Trial. Try Now. Written by.The sixth feature film to star the Muppetsit is the first film since the death of Muppets creator Jim Henson to have an original Muppet-focused plot, and is a deviation of other Muppet films as it is the only non- musical film to date. In the film, Gonzo attempts to discover his origins after having nightmares. After he and Rizzo the Rat are captured by government officials during his search, Kermit the Frog and the rest of the Muppet gang must save them.
The film was released on July 14, by Sony Pictures Releasing. Alongside The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchlandit is the last Muppet feature film to have the involvement of Oz prior to his retirement from Muppet performing the following year  and Jerry Nelson prior to his own retirement bar an uncredited vocal cameo in The Muppets serving as his final role before his death in August as well as the last Muppet film written by Juhl prior to his death in It was also the last Muppets film to be released theatrically until The Muppets in Gonzo has always been identified as a "whatever"; but, after having disturbing dreams of abandonment and rejection, including him being denied entry to Noah's Arkhe begins to realize just how alone he is in the world.
One day, Gonzo tells Kermit that he is getting tired of being referred to as a "whatever. Suddenly, he is struck by a bolt of lightningwhich allows him to communicate with a pair of cosmic knowledge fish, who reveal his origins as an alien from outer space.
Unable to convince Kermit and his friends of the aliens' existence, Gonzo is lured by Agent Barker into the clutches of K.
Edgar Singer of C. Singer is aware of the aliens' attempts to communicate and thinks that Gonzo is the key to convincing his superiors that aliens do exist.
Gonzo and Rizzo are taken to C. Rizzo's antics cause himself to be flushed down a tube by wrestling legend Hulk Hogan and ends up having to go through C. Tucker, alongside other Muppet rats. An alien channeling his voice through a sandwich asks Gonzo where the alien ship can land, and Gonzo suggests a beach known by the name of Cape Doom, unaware that Singer's assistant Agent Rentro Bobo the Bear is listening.
The gang arrives at the military base to rescue Gonzo and Rizzo. They use the invisibility spray to enter but when Fozzie washes his hands upon exiting a restroom it wears off, attracting the attention of a female guard who Animal chases away.
Meanwhile, Rizzo frees Gonzo from the dissection table while the other rats attack Dr. Luft feels that his time has been wasted and leaves angry. Rentro tells Singer that his car has been impounded because of unpaid parking tickets; they use the company car—a cement truck. The Muppets rescue Gonzo then go to Cape Doom where a crowd of alien-happy spectators await their arrival. After an hour-long wait, the ship comes to Earth and the aliens, who all resemble Gonzo, explain that many years ago they lost him but now welcome him back into the fold.
Singer shows up and tries to kill the aliens, ultimately failing to do so Rentro removed the Subatomic Neutro-Destabilizer's battery and is laughed at. Gonzo considers going into space with his long-lost family but chooses to stay with his fellow Muppet Show cast-mates. Singer is invited by the aliens to go with them and leaves as Earth's ambassador. As the Muppets are watching the stars from the roof, Gonzo tells Kermit he wonders why his family asked him to build a Jacuzzi.
Pepe chuckles, because he and Rizzo had pretended to be them and asked him to do it. For the second time since Muppet Treasure IslandFrank Oz was not available for most of the film's production. As a result, his characters were performed on set by other Muppet performers, with Oz later looping his voice in post-production. Kennedy and Linz's voices can be heard in some scenes used in the film's theatrical trailer. The film's visual effects were provided by Illusion Arts.
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An earlier draft of the story was written by Kirk Thatcher called Muppets in Space. In the screenplay, aliens abducted Kermit because they believed him to be their leader, leading the other Muppets to attempt to save him. A set of Welch's Jelly Glasses were produced based around this theme.In the second Sesame Street theatrical film, fourteen years after Follow That BirdElmo spends time with his favorite blanket.
When Zoe wants to play with it, Elmo doesn't want to share it, resulting in a tug-of-war. Telly Monster accidentally pulls it away from them both while rollerskating uncontrollably. Oscar the Grouch ends up catching it, sneezes on it, and throws it into his trash can.
Since Oscar isn't in his trash can when Elmo finds out, he goes into the trash can, where he finds his blanket, but Elmo and his blanket soon fall through a tunnel Oscar sees this and only says, "Have a nice trip! Heh heh!! The evil Huxley then arrives to take the various belongings, and takes Elmo's blanket as well. Elmo meets a Grouch girl named Grizzywho shows Elmo where Huxley's castle is, and Elmo sets off to get back his blanket.
Meanwhile, Oscar tells the gang that Elmo went into Grouchland, and they all go in search of Elmo. Once in Grouchland, however, they get arrested and thrown in jail since it's against the law to ask a policeman for help in Grouchland.
Huxley is aware that Elmo is in search of his blanket, and has his henchmen, Bug and the Pestiesstop Elmo from getting back his blanket. They trick Elmo into going into a shortcut, which leads to the palace of The Queen of Trash. There, when she learns that he's going to Huxley's castle and is believed to be one of Huxley's spies, she has Elmo take the ultimate challenge: blow her raspberries in 30 seconds, which Elmo succeeds with help from the audience.
When Elmo gets closer, Huxley gets a humongous chicken to stop Elmo. The chicken thinks that Elmo is a worm, but Elmo convinces the chicken otherwise. However, once convinced, the chicken tosses Elmo away. Elmo is about to give up, until a caterpillar encourages him to keep trying. Back at the jail, Grizzy sneaks in to tell Elmo's friends that Elmo is on his way to Huxley's castle. Oscar, admitting that Elmo is his friend, decides to yell out to the Grouches outside that, although Grouches hate working together, they must take a stand.
The other Grouches agree, and they get let out of jail to team up and stop Huxley from stealing any more of their stuff. Elmo and the others soon show up and confront Huxley, but Huxley decides to take Elmo's blanket away. Bug soon gets hold of the blanket, and tells Huxley that he's going to give it to Elmo, breaking off his friendship with Huxley.
Back at Sesame StreetElmo decides to share his blanket with Zoe.Chuck E. Cheese's has used various puppets over the years. The puppets only appear on screens during showtapes. With the newer stages such as Studio C and Circles of Lightthey are used in place of the more expensive animatronics. These puppets were only used for the January showtape. Some of these puppets could be considered prototypes. These puppets were used in shows and intermissions during the classic Munch's Make Believe Band era.
Chuck wears his tuxedo, and Helen has her black and white hair.
These puppets were from Studio C, and look more like the plastic animatronics. Helen has her yellow hair and cheerleader outfit which was originally green but then was changed to purple, and Chuck is rarely seen. Munch looks like the previous version.
The five puppets were used in New Studio C version, now used including Chuck in the "act" format. They are the ones used currently in showtapes and YouTube videos. They have been updated many times with the exception of Chuck E. Sign In Don't have an account? Start a Wiki. Contents [ show ]. The new Jasper puppet introduced in Updated Birthday Show 2 The new redesigned Chuck E. Cheese puppet introduced in the Holiday Show.


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You could be one of the first to see this new film on 22nd of September. Prepare yourselves for an emotional roller-coaster of romance, heartbreak and tango.
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Tickets to the screening at Curzon Bloomsbury are valid for the show at 8.40 on Friday 22nd September.
OUR LAST TANGO is directed by German Kral and executive produced by Wim Wenders (Buena Vista Social Club, Pina) and tells the true story of the Argentine dancers who made the tango famous. Maria Nieves Rego and Juan Carlos Copes met as teenagers and danced together for nearly fifty years, becoming international stars and making the Argentine tango famous around the world before a painful separation tore them apart.
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What was the last movie you watched, write about it.
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I recently watched the movie V/H/S, a horror film with somewhat of a main storyline and 5 other shorts. A group of men are hired to break in to a house to steal a tape, and there they find a series of other vhs tapes with gruesome happenings recorded on them. Overall i would rate this movie a 7/10. The movie as whole was horrendous. The transitions were sloppy. The opening, the entire first short, and the story line ending were completely unnecessary. However, the other shorts (although wicked, and sickening at times) were brilliantly done with lots of twists, that I honestly didn’t see coming. After every one, all I could bring myself to say was “what the hell happened.” The film left you with A LOT of questions, but oddly enough, i was okay with that.


For reasons unknown I did not see Saturday Night Fever upon its first release in December of 1977. However, I made up for that missed opportunity in early 1993 when the fabulous Bloor Cinema here in Toronto fulfilled its role as a top repertory movie house. In 1992 alone I saw about 150 movies there. What was playing was not an issue at all to this movie fan: I would pop out of the subway -- "Bathurst" station -- on my way home from work and pop into the royal movie place. (Once I double-dipped without realizing it. "I've seen this; when it came out.")
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Anheuser-Busch has asked Paramount Pictures to remove (or obscure) images of its Budweiser® brand beer from the film “Flight,” starring Denzel Washington as a hero pilot accused of imbibing in excess before a plane crash.
In a written statement, Robert McCarthy, Budweiser’s Vice President said, “We would never condone the misuse of our products, and have a long history of promoting responsible drinking and preventing drunk driving. It is disappointing that Image Movers, the production company, and Paramount chose to use one of our brands in this manner.”
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Light and Shadow with Childhood 2019 China International Children's Film Exhibition opens in Guangzhou
Xinhua News Agency, Guangzhou, 15 Nov (Reporter Deng Ruixuan) in recent years, with the continuous publication of a number of outstanding films, such as "the return of the Great Sage,"the birth of the Devil Boy of Naga," and so on, children's films have also become a topic of increasing concern. On the 14th, the 2019 China International Children's Film Festival opened in Guangzhou with the theme of "childlike innocence looking at the world, light and shadow with childhood-- the same dream with the country, and the shadow child walk".
The film festival lasts for five days. Will hold Chinese and foreign children's film exhibition, China International Children's Film Forum, children's film project venture capital, children's film new film fair, children's film copyright fair, The fourth excellent children's film (including animation) screenplay solicitation activities and primary and secondary school students micro-film exhibition and other activities.
The festival collected 146 outstanding Chinese and foreign children's films from nearly 30 countries and regions, and finally entered the exhibition of 68 works covering feature films, cartoons, documentaries and other films. Related to parent-child family relationship, growth, sports, natural environmental protection and other topics.
Outstanding Chinese and foreign films, such as "Owl Forest,"Romi's Barber Shop,"Crossing Zhaoguan,"making trouble at Heavenly Palace," and other outstanding films will be shown in many cinemas, primary and secondary schools, communities, and children's palaces in Guangzhou, and the film creation team will also meet and communicate with the audience. For special groups of children, the festival also features "ears'to see 'movies" public welfare shows.
Organizers expressed the hope that through film exhibition, the vast number of young children can not only enjoy excellent Chinese and foreign children's films, but also learn about the history and culture of different countries and regions of the world, increase their knowledge, and build up national self-confidence.
The opening film "Dot Xingguang" is adapted from a real person and tells the story of an ordinary rural primary school in Guangzhou. By chance, the teacher tied the knot with the students and skipped rope, and went through twists and turns. The end result is the story of more than 20 world champions and breaking more than a dozen world records in rope skipping. "We want to focus on small potatoes to reflect the big times, let children see hope in the movies, maintain childlike innocence, stick to their dreams." Director and screenwriter Xie Deju said.
As an international children's film culture event, after 30 years of accumulation, China International Children's Film Exhibition has become a platform for the country to promote film and television education activities for primary and middle school students and exchange between Chinese and foreign children's films.


Use a tripod
The best advice I can give is to use a tripod whenever possible if you are shooting video footage intended for online delivery. The compressed movie will have a much smaller file size and therefore a lower datarate (faster download) than a similar movie which uses footage shot with a hand-held camera.
Why is this? Codecs (compression/decompression formats) compare adjacent frames in your movie and the less difference there is between frames the more effective will be the compression. Footage shot using a tripod will have objects which remain in the same place and retain their colour information (barring extreme changes in light conditions) and the background will remain pretty much the same across the frames. The codec will use occasional key frames to take care of these similarities and for the frames in between will only have to compress the differences – the objects that move or change. With footage shot from a hand-held camera practically every pixel of every single frame will be different due to camera movement and this will result in a higher datarate.
If you are using a tripod you might also consider moving the camera/tripod well away from the scene you are shooting and using optical zoom. Once you've established your point of view, zoom right in on the main object of the shot and manually focus on it. Then zoom out slightly to your desired frame composition and you should notice that objects behind and in front of your focus of attention are slightly blurred. If you like this effect then you have the added bonus of shooting footage which will compress even better.
Most movies are of course a combination of hand-held and tripod-mounted shots, and there are times when a hand-held video camera is the only option. You can reduce unwanted camera movement by zooming right out. Zooming in will only exaggerate camera movement so you should instead move towards the action you are shooting and leave the zoom out altogether. In a well lit scene practically everything should be in focus. My wife Genie followed this advice when shooting her first movie which you will find below.


The true to life venture from its beginning to the current day is a story of mechanical development and changing crowd assumptions. This development has taken us from the quiet, highly contrasting movies of the late nineteenth 100 years to the vivid augmented simulation encounters of today. En route, film has constantly adjusted, reflecting cultural movements and innovative headways, keeping up with its place as a foundation of social articulation.
1. The Quiet Period
The introduction of film is set apart by the quiet time, a period when movies were without synchronized soundtracks. Notwithstanding the absence of exchange, these movies passed feeling and story on through expressive exhibitions, intertitles, and melodic backups played during screenings. Symbols like Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton arose during this time, excelling at visual narrating and leaving an enduring effect on the entertainment world.
2. The Presentation of Sound
The last part of the 1920s saw a noteworthy development with The Jazz Vocalist (1927), the principal full length film with synchronized exchange. This undeniable the start of the talkies period, reforming film by adding another aspect to narrating. Sound movies prompted the advancement of new types, including musicals and talk-based comedies, and required the production of new innovations for sound recording and playback.
3. The Variety Transformation
While early movies were either highly contrasting or hand-painted, the approach of Technicolor during the 1930s carried dynamic tone to the cinema. This development upgraded the authenticity and tasteful allure of movies, taking into account more expressive narrating. Works of art like The Wizard of Oz (1939) and Gone with the Breeze (1939) exhibited the capability of variety film, setting another norm for realistic creation.
4. The Advanced Age
The late twentieth and mid 21st hundreds of years denoted the change to the advanced age, with computerized shooting and projection turning into the standard. This shift considered more noteworthy adaptability in altering and enhancements, upsetting how movies were made and seen. Sites like HDHub4u and Mkv Cinemas started offering advanced duplicates of movies, mirroring the changing scene of film dispersion and utilization. Be that as it may, these stages additionally featured the difficulties of copyright encroachment and the requirement for lawful systems to adjust to computerized content sharing.
5. The Period of CGI and Embellishments
The presentation of PC produced symbolism (CGI) and high level enhancements opened new domains of opportunities for movie producers, empowering the making of outwardly shocking and creative universes. Blockbusters like Jurassic Park (1993) and the Symbol (2009) showed the force of CGI to enthrall crowds, obscuring the line among the real world and dream in artistic narrating.
6. Augmented Reality and Intuitive Film
Today, computer generated reality (VR) and intelligent film address the boondocks of film innovation, offering crowds a review insight as well as a vivid support in the story. VR film permits watchers to step into the story, investigating the climate and possibly affecting the plot. This development from latent viewership to dynamic commitment implies a significant change in the connection among films and their crowds.
The development of film from quiet movies to computer generated reality is a demonstration of human inventiveness and mechanical progression. At each stage, movie producers have embraced new advances to recount stories in imaginative and drawing in ways. While stages like HDHub4u and Mkv Cinemas show the difficulties of adjusting to computerized dissemination, they additionally mirror film’s getting through capacity to advance. As we plan ahead, the continuous change of film vows to carry much more significant changes to how we experience stories, obscuring the lines between the watcher and the story, the genuine and the envisioned.
1. How did quiet movies convey feeling and account without sound?
Quiet movies depended on expressive exhibitions, misrepresented non-verbal communication, and looks of the entertainers, alongside intertitles (message plates) to pass on discourse or story data. Melodic backups, played live in theaters, likewise assumed a vital part in setting the temperament and improving the narrating.
2. What effect did the presentation of variety have on film?
The variety of presentations changed the film by adding another layer of authenticity and visual allure. It permitted movie producers to use variety as a narrating device, conveying feelings and subjects all the more successfully. Variety films immediately became the norm, essentially influencing crowd assumptions and the realistic scene.
3. How does computer-generated reality film work?
Computer-generated reality films use VR headsets to immerse viewers in a 360-degree environment, permitting them to cooperate with and investigate the film’s setting. This innovation can offer a more customized and connected experience, as viewers can pick where to look and, in a few intelligent movies, impact the story’s outcome.


Annotation: On the mysterious and remote island of Neverland, a faerie named Tink observes as Tiger Lily, a strong but misunderstood member of a tribe of Sky Eaters, falls in love with Peter Pan, the leader of the Lost Boys.
Personal thoughts: When I was a kid, the release of the movie Hook was a big deal, so I have been a fan of Peter Pan and the rest of inhabitants of Neverland for a long time. When I heard about this book, I was immediately intrigued because Tiger Lily has always been one of the more sub-characters in the story with Wendy getting far more screentime. I think the author feels the same way as me (that Wendy is kind of irritating), so I’m glad she wrote this story that turns Tiger Lily into a Xena Warrior Princess type character. It was interesting to see Tiger Lily in this light, and I really enjoyed that the novel was narrated by Tink. The story is far from light-hearted, but I enjoyed reading it and hope that the author comes up with more classic reboots in the future.
Plot summary: On the mysterious and remote island of Neverland, creatures like faeries and mermaids are common. Inhabitants of Neverland only age to a certain point, and the island is divided amongst various tribes, a fierce band of pirates, and a group of Lost Boys rumored to be lead by a monster named Peter Pan. One faerie named Tink finds herself following Tiger Lily, a girl who is well over eighty years old but with the appearance of a fifteen-year-old. Tiger Lily has never really fit into her tribe known as the Sky Eaters. Both brave and strong, her tribe has always feared her, believing her to be under the protection of the crows. After being promised to a cruel and oafish man in her tribe, Tiger Lily meets Peter Pan and discovers that, not only is he not a monster, he is a charismatic and bewitching boy her own age who protects his group of Lost Boys from the pirates. Initially unsure of their relationship, Tiger Lily and Peter soon find themselves falling in love with one another, all under the watchful eye of Tink. The arrival of an English ship to Neverland and, in particular, a beautiful girl named Wendy, however, will change everything forever.
Review: Everyone knows the tale of Peter Pan, Wendy, Neverland, Captain Hook and the Lost Boys. A character who doesn’t always figure into the story in a positive light is the beautiful but wild girl named Tiger Lily. In veteran author Jodi Lynn Anderson’s Tiger Lily, however, the reader gets a new take on this mysterious girl and her relationship with Peter Pan, all from the perspective of a tiny faerie named Tink. A more gritty interpretation of J.M. Barrie’s mythical world of Neverland, the novel focuses primarily on Tiger Lily herself: who she is, her place among her people, and why she allows herself to fall for the unpredictable Peter Pan. The Disney version of the characters is completely absent from Tiger Lily. Captain Hook is a decrepit alcoholic who is obsessed with killing the person he views responsible for kidnapping his young cabin boys. His right-hand man Smee is a murderer and the pirates are dirty and constantly in a drunken stupor. Peter Pan himself is charismatic and charming, but slightly unhinged, leading his band of dirty Lost Boys in a constant effort to hide from the pirates. Tink is a quirky narrator who, incapable of actually speaking with Peter or Tiger Lily herself, observes their actions, giving the reader her interpretations and feelings on their relationship, particularly after the arrival of the spoiled and slightly bratty Wendy. Fans of the original Peter Pan story and its many iterations will enjoy this new look at the classic tale. For those who aren’t as interested in the characters themselves, however, the story might not satisfy as much, offering nothing that would entice teens who don’t want to read the novel simply based on it being a Peter Pan re-boot. Overall, an excellent story for teens and adults for like re-told classics, but not really for those whose tastes lie elsewhere.
Reading level: Grade 7+
Similar titles: The Circle Cast: The Lost Years of Morgan Le Fay by Alex Epstein, Little Women and Me by Lauren Barazt-Logsted.
Themes: Neverland, Peter Pan, Tiger Lily, Captain Hook, romance, acceptance, revenge, fairies, love.
Awards/Reviews: Starred review from Publishers Weekly, Kirkus and Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books, positive reviews from VOYA and Booklist.
Series Information: N/A
- How did you feel about the character of Tiger Lily before reading the novel? Did your perspective of her change after? How did your perspectives of the other characters in Peter Pan change?
- Why do you think the Sky Eaters feared Tiger Lily?
- Why did Tik Tok dress like a woman? Why did the villagers attitudes towards this change after the arrival of Phillip?
- Did you like Tink as the narrator of the novel? What role did she play in the story?
- Why do you think Smee was obsessed with Tiger Lily?
- Did you like Wendy? Why or why not?
- How did you feel about the ending of the novel? Did you like it? Dislike it? Why?


Running a marathon, or just simply jogging, can be a pretty challenging activity for most people. However, for avid runners, the longer the distance, the better as it means a chance to push yourself.
With countless inspiring running movies available on the market right now, giving yourself the opportunity to watch and get to know the motivational stories behind these is definitely enough to keep your heart full.
Whether it is running on hometown roads or on Olympic fields, these running movies will certainly give you all the feels. You get to see motivation, d perseverance grit in all its finest.
Here Are the Top Eight Running Movies of all Time
Chariots of Fire
Based on a true story, Chariots of Fire tells the story of Harold Abrahams and Eric Liddell. Coming from two different religious backgrounds, this film sheds light on the differences between training, culture, and lifestyle.
“This is strange. I have no interest in running and am not a partisan in the British class system. Then why should I have been so deeply moved by “Chariots of Fire,” a British film that has running and class as its subjects?” wrote legendary film critic Roger Ebert.
It shows us this through two characters as they represented Britain in the 1924 Olympics. Fitted with a deeply touching musical score and filmed with depth and rawness, Chariots of Fire is one for the books.
Besides the fact-filled movie, stay for all the details about culture and tradition that make the difference between d winning losing.
Starring no other than Tom Hanks, Forrest Gump remains one of the more iconic running movies of all time and for good reason.
Spanning over the course of three years, the titular character makes an impressive run for his life across thousands of miles.
This film is worth a watch because of its brings to light the beauty of running and its ability to bring catharsis. It also provides beautiful life lessons for leaving behind the past and making peace with it.
A story of underdogs through and through, you will surely find yourself rooting for the boys and their journey to cross-country running. As the boys from the Latino town in Idaho set their sights on a state championship, you’ll understand why their coach exercises a tough-love approach.
Based on the true story of Jesse Owens, Race tackles more than just the running landscape. More than Owens’ journey, this film centers on the glaring discrimination he had to overcome as he competed in the 1936 Olympics.
Held in Nazi Germany, this film shows how one man broke records in every sense of the word. Watch how Owens persisted in the face of adversity and how he succeeded despite every challenge that came his way.
I Am Bolt
A documentary movie, I am Bolt shows the journey of Usain Bolt’s bid to win nine gold medals in the Olympics.
Touted as the fastest man alive, watch how this movie chronicles Bolt’s rise in the field and the challenges he faced along the way.
Get to know running star Steve Prefontaine in this biopic. Considered a legendary short distance runner, this film centers on the Pre’s bid to win the gold medal at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich.
Besides shedding light on the glitz and glamor of the sport, this also showed the somewhat erratic tactics of Pre, as well as the car crash he encountered at such a young age.
This also dealt with the rise of sportswear giant Nike through Pre’s running coach.
Run Fatboy Run
A story about love, messy relationships, and of course, running, this film focuses on a man named Dennis who sets a goal to successfully run a marathon in the hopes of winning back his ex-fiancee.
A feel-good movie, watch how a man who struggles with weight overcome his shortcomings and prove his capacity – blisters and all.
Brittany Runs a Marathon
Another one of the feel-good and comedic films, Brittany Runs a Marathon is about a woman who aims to take charge of her life, lose weight, and ultimately live life to the fullest.
Inspired by a true story, this shows the ups and downs of running and a woman in her bid to run the New York City marathon.
It is the story of changing one’s life and living for the better, making it one of the best running movies that will inspire you to get on your feet ASAP.
The Bottom Line
Let these running movies inspire you with their groundbreaking storylines and even more cinematic deliveries. Who knows, you may just be motivated to become a runner too.


Sierra went through a huge period of being a major Star Wars fan which started with this Super Bowl commercial.
She still loves watching all the Star Wars movies.
One year she dressed up as Darth Vader for Halloween.
She loved tracking down at the Star Wars characters at Hollywood Studios
She tried to use the force on Darth Vader...
This post from the Kids Activity Blog has a great round up of activities that look like a lot of fun!
However my all time favourite idea wasn't listed...these embroidery ideas are too sweet to not mention.
Needing some ideas to help celebrate May 4th? Here's a great list.
Do you have a Star Wars fan in your house? Perhaps you'd like to join the Star Wars Kidcast group on Facebook.


Dunedin’s Head of Psychiatry thought he was clever enough to commit the perfect murder…and he almost got away with it.
In the television thriller of the year Screentime and TVNZ reveal the true story of one of the most evil crimes in New Zealand history.
In November 1999, emanent Head of Psychiatry at Otago Hospital Dr Colin Bouwer, put a murderous plan into action. He wanted his wife out of the way and over three months he poisoned her with prescription medication, causing a slow and painful death monitored by the man she loved. It was going to be the perfect crime.
Andrew Bowers, a young consultant physician, never expected that he would stumble upon a murder in process. Following on a gut instinct, he determinedly pursued the truth. Putting his career on the line and his reputation in question, he refused to back down even under pressure from his colleagues.
It was down to Bowers and Detective Brett Roberts dogged pursuit of the truth that eventually uncovered Annette Bouwer’s cold-blooded murder by her husband, an evil man with a Mensa IQ who thought he was smarter than anyone else in New Zealand.
Starring Mark Mitchinson, Nathalie Boltt, Craig Hall.
Dir: Peter Burger
Writing Credits: Paula Boock & Donna Malane
Sarah Valentine portrayed a Psych Nurse.
New Zealand Film and TV Awards 2011
Best Performance by a Supporting Actor: Craig Hall


Amber can currently be seen in Sony's "The Grudge 2," which opened the
boxoffice at number one. Her most recent film "Stephanie Daley"
premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival to rave reviews and was just picked
up by Regent Films for release in February 2007. Starring in the title
role, opposite Tilda Swinton, "Stephanie Daley" is the story of a
teenager charged with murdering her infant. She recently finished filming
New Line Cinema's "Normal Adolescent Behavior," a dark and funny look
at sexual politics among snobby, rich teenagers. She has also completed
filming the Warner Bros. comedy "Spring Breakdown," about a trio of
women who venture to a college vacation spot to escape the monotony of working
life. The film opens next year. She has just signed on for the independent
thriller "Blackout," about a eclectic group of people trapped with a
killer in a stalled elevator.
Last fall, she added author to her
list of credits, when her book of poetry Free Stallion was released
through Simon & Schuster.
best known for two unforgettable seasons as "Joan of Arcadia," the
highly lauded CBS family drama that earned her a 2004 Emmy nomination for
"Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series" as well an
"Outstanding Drama Series" nomination for the show. The series'
first season earned Amber a 2003 Golden Globe nomination for "Best Dramatic
Actress in a Drama Series" and picked up the 2003 People's Choice Award for
"Best New Series."
summer, Amber starred in the Warner Bros. summer hit "The Sisterhood of the
Traveling Pants" by writer-director Ken Kwapis. Amber also appeared
in the Dream Works smash pic "The Ring," directed by Gore Verbinski.
She opens the film with a chilling sequence in which her character is murdered
by the ghost of an evil girl. She gained the most notoriety on the small
screen with her portrayal of Emily Quartermaine on ABC's "
credits her father, veteran actor Russ Tamblyn, as the guiding light for her
continuing success. She currently resides in
For more information about Amber, please visit her official website, www.amtam.com.


I finally got around to watching the comedy-drama Silver Linings Playbook the other night. The film’s hero, Patrick Solitano, is a sufferer of bipolar whose problems stem from his initial refusal to take medication. I’m not exactly the first person to watch it through the lens of mental illness, and to be judging it poorly on its portrayal. Yet it’s been critically acclaimed and has received a huge number of accolades, won Jennifer Lawrence an Oscar for Best Actress and and has a 92 per cent critics rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
Actually, the parts of the film that did deal with mental illness weren’t uniformly terrible. If the humour is done in the right way (ie laughing with, not laughing at) the travails of trying different drugs and putting up with the side effects until the right drug is found can have a funny side. The ability to laugh at difficulties is an essential tool for getting through any chronic illness, and also a way of educating non-sufferers.
However, while Patrick and his potential romantic partner, Tiffany, initially toss drug names and their side effects at each other in a humorous way, once Patrick is resigned to taking his meds the film as a whole simply forgets that both of them are on drugs. There are no more side effects, no having to get off one drug and try another, just two people trying to be human. Which is fair enough, but the loss of drugs from the narrative, which implied that both characters were on stable regimes that enabled them to enjoy complete sanity, made me wonder whether the film had been funded by a drug company.
But I don’t want to give the impression that this was the sole thing wrong with Silver Linings. I wish. No, it was the script and the characters. There is a certain kind of Hollywood humour that consists of people starting off on a high register of emotional conflict, and staying there. Part of the humour in these films consists of people being rude and abusive to each other. This is the style of Judd Apatow, who directed and cowrote films like The 40-Year-Old Virgin and Knocked Up. It has been hugely successful, so much so that other writers have adopted it (traces of this style can also be found in The United States of Tara).
This, sadly, is the style that dominates Silver Linings Playbook, courtesy of writer-director David O. Russell. Robbie Collin of the Daily Telegraph said there was ‘a tiring fruitlessness to the mayhem’ of the film, and I couldn’t agree more.
I didn’t entirely dislike the characters – there is something brooding and interesting behind Jennifer Lawrence’s Tiffany and she’s such a good actress she gives every character resonance – but the script makes her a lonely bad girl in a way that is cliched and boring.
But no movie experience is a complete waste of time. It was actually quite timely – well, spookily timely – sitting there and watching the hero deny his need for meds. I have just been going through the same thing – coming off Luvox because it had stopped working, trying to exercise to compensate. Then my back gave in on me and my mean sister told me that she had noticed I wouldn’t look at her.
So I did some googling and found an SSRI called Lexapro that seems to have fewer side effects than other SSRIs. I am seeing my doctor and hopefully getting a prescription when the surgery gets back from holidays next week. (Art imitates life, or is it the other way around?) I wish I could be confident of ending up as functional as Patrick is by the end of the film, but I fear that my experience with Luvox will be repeated with Lexapro and I’ll have to switch again. Watch this space ...


“The Hills,” a new comedy from the creators of “The Good Place,” is getting a huge payday thanks to the “Garden Obgyn” title.
The comedy, which stars Amy Poehler, is scheduled to open in limited release on June 12.
It is a limited release, which means it will only have a limited number of theaters.
“The Obgyn,” the name of the title character, was inspired by the real-life family physician Dr. Tom Ogle, who in 2011 died after being hit by a vehicle while performing emergency surgery.
The film, which is being directed by Mark Wahlberg, stars Poehler and Will Ferrell.
It has a production budget of $2.2 million, and is being produced by Warner Bros. and Lionsgate, who produced “The Mummy.”
“The Mall” was also directed by Wahlburgers, with a production cost of $1 million.
“Mall,” by Wills partner Aaron Sorkin, was produced by Sony Pictures Classics and Sony Pictures Animation, which also produced “Gloria.”
“The Hills” is about the lives of four characters who, while working at a New York City health clinic, meet a woman named Susan (Amy Poehler), a former beauty queen who is now the proprietor of the “Obgyn” spa and who has been transformed into the “Platinum Glamour.”
The film also stars Adam Driver, Robert De Niro, Chris Evans, Jennifer Garner, and Mark Wohlfarth.
The cast also includes Mark Wiegert, Robert Knepper, and Jason Segel.
The movie is based on the 2013 novel “The Glamorous Housewife” by Amy Poehn and is based off a short story by Michael K. Williams.
It was written by Williams, who also wrote “The Princess Diaries.”
The film opens in theaters on June 10.


Following on from 2020’s 80s Movie Challenge World Geekly News decided to run another year-long movie challenge for 2021, and surprising absolutely nobody, this time we chose to focus on the 1990s. However, while our list last year was taken from the book Ultimate 80s Movies by Empire Magazine’s Helen O’Hara, for The Great Year Long 90s Movie Challenge we worked out a list of the 50 Ultimate 90s Movies ourselves. It was hard work, and a LOT of difficult decisions had to be made, but in the end, I think we came up with a good mix of the high profile and cult movies that define the decade.
This time, due to several other writing commitments, I’ve been unable to take on as many films as I did last year. You can view all the team’s 90s articles to date here and the ones I have written myself are listed below:


Saturday, December 17, 2005
No idea about gauge. I didn't think it was too small, since there is 1 scene where you can make out the knit stitches on one of the Gryffindor scarves, and they seem decent sized to me. I don't know that we'll be able to see it again in the theater any time soon to make that out, though. You could very well be right, and I wasn't taking into account the fact that I was watching it on a large screen.


Pete the Barncat isn't known for his reliable story-telling, but when his report about a strange, tree-devouring creature is corroborated by another source namely J.T. Cluck, the ranch's head rooster Hank decides to investigate. However, just as the plot begins to thicken, Pete claims that it was all a joke and that the creature, a Three-Toed Tree Sloth, was really just a porcupine! Fortunately, Hank realizes that that's just what a sneaky cat would say to throw him off the trail, and his continued investigation soon leads him to a strange, bumbling little creature the Tree Sloth at last!
With the finely-tuned instincts of a Head of Ranch Security, Hank realizes that he must arrest this intruder! However, things don't turn out quite like he'd planned, and Hank soon has a very serious problem on his hands...


Original Concept, Script and Direction: Tupac Martir.
Choreographer: Fernando Hernando Magadan.
Music by: Austin TV, NSM PSM, Nicole Robson. Costume Designer: Gabriela Gower. Produced by Satore Studio.
Nierka, it's a new fully-staged multidisciplinary work, created by visual designer
Tupac Martir and choreographed by Fernando Hernando Magadan.
Premiered at the Peacock Theatre in London on January 14th 2012.
It combines music (electronic, orchestra, post-rock and opera), contemporary dance,
puppetry, video, lighting, old and new technologies.
The script is written by Tupac Martir with music composed and performed by Austin
TV and NSM PSM, the choreography is by NDT Choreographer Fernando Hernando Magadan.
The performance consists of three acts depicting the rite of passage of a human being.
The play develops in the imagination of the protagonist, a dialogue between his conscious
and his subconscious, allowing the imagery within it to portray his emotions.
... 'Nierka' is a highly extraordinary piece that transcends most of the common theatrical boundaries,
bringing a myriad of different arts together to create a more substantial, a more impressive, a more emotional whole.
... A stunning display of dance, and physical theatre supported by spectacularly versatile display of light,
sound and technological artistry.
An exquisite blend of contemporary dance, music, and visual arts, Nierka, depicts the tale of human self-discovery.
The director leads us through the human right of passage effortlessly blurring the boundaries between movement, light,
imagery, sound and theatre.


Whew! This movie takes you for a ride. I missed it at the movie theater and couldn’t wait for it to come out on video. It started out a bit slow and typical, but about half way through it starts to take turns that are as eqaully shocking as they are shameful. Just when I thought I had it figured out it would take yet another turn.
The backdrop of the movie was scarily authentic. The home of the characters were as nasty and dirty as a crack house.
This movie was directed by Ben Afleck and starred his younger brother Casey. With Ben’s most recent acting roles one would be hesitant to trust his ability to bring true grit and drama. Fear not – this movis is excellent!
This movie gets 4 out of 5 kisses!


Musical Theatre Reading/Live Performance
BFA Musical Theatre University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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- Performance Venue
I graduated with a BFA in Musical Theatre from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, one of the best MT schools in the country. I've performed in The Fantasticks Off-Broadway, in the Broadway National Tour of Hair, and in Tokyo, Japan. I have also done professional readings for the Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program in New York City. We would rehearse for only 3 days and then perform their composed musicals professionally for other students, staff, and select invited guests so they can see their work live. I've recorded Musical Theatre songs and give the same quality and professionalism to live stage work.


'October Sky' Soars at The Old Globe
The musical adaptation of the 1999 film surpasses the original in spectacular fashion
The cast of the West Coast premiere of October Sky at the Old Globe. | Photo: Jim Cox.
October Sky isn’t the most obvious choice for a musical adaptation. The 1999 film is the real-life story of Homer Hickam Jr., a high school student in 1957 small-town West Virginia who, along with three friends, escapes a future as a coal miner by teaching himself rocketry. The “rural kid following their dreams despite their parents’ wishes” story has seen a lot of mileage in Americana, especially when it’s a disapproving father and a starry-eyed son, and especially when they’re Southern. Homer (Kyle Selig), who with those baby blue eyes, cherubic face, and outstanding pipes could be Billie Joe Armstrong’s more talented younger brother, channels the daydreaming, unabashed yearning of every kid who grew up reading science fiction comics instead of playing sports, catalyzing it and sending it skyward in big-hopes solo “Look to the Stars” and I-gotta-be-my-own-man father-son duet “I Want to Know.” These themes are eminently familiar to anyone who’s watched a single Oscar-season movie trailer, and the stage adaptation deftly wrings all the tears it can from them in all the expected places.
I had my doubts, though. For one, the film hitches these emotional stakes along a parallel trajectory with the literal vehicle for Homer’s success: The visual spectacle of his rockets. Seeing the early misfires, explosions, and wild kamikaze failures gradually improve into missiles that shake the earth for miles amplifies what might otherwise be a pat character arc. At least, they constituted a major reason why the film was so dear to my heart when I fell in love with it in middle school. And reexamining the story as an adult in 2016, it’s painfully obvious that there are zero roles for people of color, and that the few female characters function almost entirely as helpers to the more-important men. So I came into this show with some pretty high expectations—but I’m happy to share that they were exceeded.
Where this story stands out against many cut from similar cloth is the equity with which it treats the hometown industry our hero is trying to escape from. Real-life Homer Hickam loved the people of Coalwood dearly, and though the visual metaphor of him donning a hard hat and sinking beneath the earth still conveys a powerful despair, the miners’ concerns and well-being are treated with deserving respect, as well. Notedly, the miners’ union leader, Ken (Kevyn Morrow), is given a much more prominent role here and is played by a black man—which is remarked upon briefly but realistically considering the 1950s setting, and lends additional tension to his negotiations with the company foreman: Homer’s father, John (Ron Bohmer). The two were once fellow miners, before the latter was promoted to leadership, and the fact that John intends to appoint Homer as his successor leads Ken to accuse him (rightly) of nepotism.
This conflict elevates the story’s labor struggle from backdrop to genuine B-plot, and creates further depth for John, who is one of this play’s standout roles. Where Chris Cooper’s take in the film was almost relentlessly cantankerous and sour, Bohmer shows that the man has much of Homer’s earnestness in him, though it be restrained by responsibility and smothered by the mine. Without changing the letter of John’s spoken browbeating, the strain in his features and posture communicates infinitely more of the character’s internal turmoil and worry over his family’s future. Likewise, his wife, Elsie (Kerry O’Malley), is given more agency than her film counterpart—without spoiling anything, some true-to-history details of her independence and financial acumen were retained from Homer’s memoir that the film had omitted. The song the couple shares, “The Man I Met,” paints a welcome picture of them as complete people with a story of their own that began long before their son’s.
This show does well by its women; as well as it possibly could have, given the source material. It’s a credit to writers Brian Hill and Aaron Thielen, and composer and lyricist Michael Mahler, that they found a way to open the second act putting all three of the play’s female characters together, in a musical space if not a physical one. For my money, “The Last Kiss Goodbye” is hands-down the show’s best number. Without rewriting or significantly expanding the roles of Elsie, teacher Miss Riley (Sandra DeNise), or love interest Dorothy (Eliza Palasz), the song finds the common fears and hopes they share, striking at the heart of how it feels to be a woman in a place where most men face the prospect of injury or death every day they go to work.
This is one of the great joys of musicals: that everyone, no matter how secondary the character, gets a turn to sing their story—even Mr. Bykovski (Joel Blum), the machinist who builds Homer’s first rockets. His “Return to the Earth” is a humble refrain that borrows part of its melody from the Russian folk song “Kalinka,” and in another nice touch handled with the same wise lightness as Ken’s race, at one point Bykovski responds to Homer’s unrest with “There are worse places in the world than Coalwood.”
The film includes a throwaway gag in which the boys, searching for 100-percent pure alcohol for rocket fuel, get drunk at a backwoods distillery, and in a surprisingly brilliant move, the adaptation expands this into a rollicking bluegrass hoedown. “Moonshine” gives some of the musicians and ensemble players their turn in the spotlight and is easily one of the best numbers in the show.
The special effects used for the rocket launches are impressive, even given the limitations of the format—my heart goes out to the stagehands hidden in the rafters (I assume) whose job it is to catch them every night. But it turns out that my skepticism about those rockets being the story’s chief emotional linchpins was unfounded: I should’ve known, as director and choreographer Rachel Rockwell surely did, the great Spielbergian truth that audiences rely less on the actual visual spectacle for their own catharsis than on how the characters are reacting to it. We don’t need to be impressed by the physical reality of Homer’s rockets soaring miles into the sky when we can experience that same exhilaration in the awestruck faces of everyone on stage, especially once we’ve become invested in how much those rockets mean to them. The Old Globe’s October Sky ultimately soars as a masterful adaptation that does better by nearly all of its characters than the film; a deftly and powerfully realized story that will leave your heart, as it did mine, uplifted right along with everyone in Coalwood.
October Sky at The Old Globe theater, through October 23


Queens of the Stone Age’s Josh Homme Creates Score for Revenge Film ’In the Fade’
While much of the attention on Josh Homme these days concerns the next Queens of the Stone Age album, quietly the singer/guitarist put his talents to work through another musical outlet. He helped to create the score for the new film In the Fade that recently screened at the Cannes Film Festival.
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Elba appeared in Ridley Scott's American Gangster (2007), Takers (2010), Thor (2011), and its sequels Thor: The Dark World (2013) and Thor: Ragnarok (2017).
He credits The Stage with giving him his first big break; having seen an advertisement for a play in a newspaper, Elba auditioned and met his first agent while performing in the role.
His first acting role was in Crimewatch murder reconstructions.
In 2001, Elba played Achilles in a stage production of Troilus and Cressida in New York City.
After a supporting turn on a 2001 episode of Law & Order, Elba landed a starring role on the 2002 HBO drama series The Wire.
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From 2002 to 2004, Elba portrayed Russell "Stringer" Bell in the series, perhaps his best-known role in the United States.


If you’re a fan of movies and TV shows, you might have wondered what it would be like to visit some of the places you’ve seen on screen. Well, you’re in luck, because some of these restaurants are real and open for business! Here are 10 restaurants you can visit that have been featured in famous TV shows or movies…
Bar Vitelli: The Godfather
Bar Vitelli in Savoca, Sicily is the rustic bar where Michael Corleone met his first wife Apollonia in The Godfather. You can admire the antique decor, drink some lemon granita, and maybe even make an offer they can’t refuse.
This bar is where everybody knows your name, in the classic sitcom that ran from 1982 to 1993. The real Cheers is located in Boston, USA, and was originally called the Bull & Finch Pub. It was used as the exterior shot for the show, but the interior was recreated on a soundstage in Hollywood. You can still visit the original pub or the replica bar at Faneuil Hall Marketplace and enjoy some beer, wine and pub food.
The Central Perk: Friends
This coffee shop is where Rachel, Monica, Phoebe, Joey, Chandler and Ross hung out for 10 seasons of the popular sitcom. The real Central Perk is a replica of the set that was created for a pop-up event in New York City in 2014 to celebrate the show’s 20th anniversary. It’s now a permanent attraction at Warner Bros. Studio Tour Hollywood in Burbank, California. You can sit on the famous orange couch, take photos with props and costumes, and enjoy some coffee and snacks.
The Garrison: Peaky Blinders.
This historic pub in Birmingham is one of the main locations for the crime drama Peaky Blinders, which follows the exploits of a gangster family in the early 20th century. You can see the pub in many scenes where the characters plot, scheme, or celebrate their victories. The original pub is now derelict and has had all its signage removed, but the historic “The Bulls Head” pub was turned into the “Garrison Tavern” for the premiere of Series 4 of the series.
The Ivy: Notting Hill
This famous restaurant in London is known for its celebrity clientele and its appearance in the 1999 romantic comedy Notting Hill, starring Hugh Grant and Julia Roberts. You can spot the restaurant in the scene where Grant’s character bumps into Roberts’ character after their first date. You can also enjoy modern British dishes like shepherd’s pie, fish cakes, and apple tart, as well as a variety of drinks and desserts.
Rules: Downton Abbey
This elegant restaurant in London is the oldest in the city, dating back to 1798. It has been featured in several episodes of Downton Abbey, as well as other films and shows like James Bond, Sherlock Holmes, and Bridget Jones’s Diary. You can enjoy classic British cuisine like roast beef, game pie, and sticky toffee pudding, as well as a selection of fine wines and cocktails.
Pizza Express: Shaun of the Dead
Pizza Express is a popular chain of pizza restaurants in the UK. It was featured in the 2004 zombie comedy Shaun of the Dead, starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost as two friends who try to survive a zombie apocalypse. In the movie, Pegg’s character Shaun suggests going to Pizza Express for dinner with his girlfriend Liz, but she breaks up with him because he’s too boring and predictable.
You can also spot Pizza Express in the 2004 romantic comedy Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason as well as episodes of Sherlock, Spooks, and The Inbetweeners.
The Wolseley: James Bond – Skyfall
The Wolseley is a grand café-restaurant in London, serving European dishes in an elegant setting. It was originally built as a car showroom in 1921 but was converted into a restaurant in 2003. It has also been featured in several James Bond movies, such as Skyfall and Spectre, where it was used as the location for Bond’s meetings with M and Q. The Wolseley is a great place to enjoy a sophisticated meal or afternoon tea, and maybe spot some spies along the way.
Los Pollos Hermanos: Breaking Bad/Better Call Saul
Los Pollos Hermanos is the fried chicken chain that served as a front for Gus Fring’s drug empire in Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul. While the chain doesn’t exist in real life, you can visit one of the locations that was used for filming in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The restaurant is actually called Twisters and it serves Mexican food and burgers. You can see the Los Pollos Hermanos logo on the wall and some Breaking Bad memorabilia inside.
Monk’s Café: Seinfeld
Monks Cafe is actually called Tom’s Restaurant and it’s been around since the 1940s and is still there today. The exterior of the restaurant was used in Seinfeld, but the interior scenes were filmed on a set in Los Angeles. Tom’s Restaurant does have some Seinfeld memorabilia inside, such as photos of the cast and a sign that says “Soup for you!” You can also order some of the dishes that were mentioned on the show, such as the big salad, the tuna on toast, or the chocolate babka. Tom’s was also the inspiration for the song “Tom’s Diner” by Suzanne Vega who used to visit as a student.


One cure for the mid-winter blues is to make some popcorn, curl up on the couch and check out one of these ultra fun beach movies.
1. Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Face it, Sean Penn as Jeff Spicoli, a semi-savant, airhead, lamebrain is the best film portrayal of a surfer ever (with the exception of Jay Adams as himself in Dogtown.) Directed by Amy Heckerling (who went on to even better stuff in Clueless) and penned by San Diego’s own Cameron Crowe, Fast Times nails late ’70s early ’80s SoCal teen culture, before John Hughes moved the nexus of teen lollapalooza to the Midwest with movies like The Breakfast Club and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.
The best thing about Fast Times is its crazy good cast including Judge Reinhold, Phoebe Cates (so babalicious!), Forest Whitaker, Eric Stolz (who Quentin Tarantino would later allow to update his role as a drug dealer in Pulp Fiction), Anthony Edwards, Nicolas Cage, rocker goddess Nancy Wilson (who Crowe later married), and Ray Walston as Mr. Hand, the high school teacher we all remember hating. With lots of nudity, sex, drinking and drugs, you probably don’t want yo
ur teens to watch this, but more than likely they already have.
2. Valley Girl
Nicolas Cage wins over valley-beach princess Julie played by Deborah Freedman in this underrated ’80s teen flick. With lots of screen time for LA power pop indie gods The Plimsouls, in Valley Girl, like in all great teen pics, the key romancing takes place at the beach. Cage updates the stereotypical “greaser” role into that of a a Hollywood punker and woos his dream girl on the sands of Santa Monica.
Valley Girl was helmed by Martha Coolidge, who went on to discover and direct Val Kilmer in the 80s classic Real Genius. Valley Girl is a companion piece to Moon Zappa’s horrible and ultra-ironic Valley Girl, arguably the best-worst white girl rap song ever.
3. Malibu Beach/Van Nuys Boulevard
The best thing about this absolutely lame but lovable twofer from the exploitation kings at Crown International Pictures was the appearance of James Daughton as Bobby in Malibu Beach. Daughton later went on to fame as fascist frat boy Greg Marmalard in Animal House (the best college movie ever). These no-plot teen flicks were drive-in staples during the late ’70s (although I caught them at the now defunct Palm Theater in Imperial Beach) and feature characters such as Dugie (a Speedo wearing greased up bodybuilder) and Chooch (a porn-mustached hot rod racer) who channels Harrison Ford’s Bob Falfa from American Graffiti while ripping off Henry Winkler’s Fonz.
Malibu Beach features an endless parade of airhead bimbo and mimbos driving the oak-lined streets of Malibu while drunk or stoned on their way to the beach to have sex. The likewise plotless Van Nuys Boulevard, a sub-grade rip-off of George Lucas’s American Graffiti, features even dumber teens who cruise around in custom vans while drunk or stoned on their way to have sex at the drive-up burger shack (which is like totally awesome). The best thing about these films is that Richard Linklater used them as templates for his super cool Dazed and Confused, which is the best teen film of all time. For some reason, both Malibu Beach and Van Nuys Boulevard appeared recently on Netflix streaming and then disappeared. Hopefully you can catch them again very, very soon.
4.The Sure Thing
The film that introduced us to the awkward John Cusack that we came to know and love in Say Anything, Grosse Pointe Blank and High Fidelity among others, this romantic flick directed by Rob Reiner is a gem. Cusack teamed up with Daphne Zuniga (Melrose Place) and super dude Anthony Edwards on this road trip to Malibu, CA, along with The Sure Thing, played by ultra hottie Nicolette Sheridan. This is a homage to Frank Capra’s Oscar winning, It Happened One Night (sort of), although with no redeeming social value, except for the fact that it is still really, really charming.
5. Weekend at Bernie’s
An annoying but fun teen exploitation flick starring Jonathan Silverman and Andrew McCarthy a few years after he wooed Molly Ringwald in Pretty in Pink and decades before he morphed into a perceptive travel writer. Weekend takes place at an East Coast beach mansion which explains why all the bad gu
ys are all neon-suit wearing mobsters with bad haircuts. Ted Kiser plays Bernie, the dead guy, who at one point is taken water-skiing by McCarthy and Silverman while he’s dead. This is one of the those films that doesn’t stand the test of time, but with characters named Paulie, Vito, Tina, and Tawny, how can you resist? Plus your kids will love it.
Unfortunately Baywatch was a television series so I couldn’t include it my top five list, although nothing else even comes close to being the single best beach filmed entertainment of all time that we hate to love. I mean with David “German God” Hasselhoff, Pamela Anderson, Parker Stevenson (the totally cool star of my favorite ’70s TV series The Hardy Boys) and Kelly Slater (!!!!!), Baywatch is like a graduate seminar in Southern California beach culture. And the people of the world, to their credit, ate it up.
Other honorable mentions include the lovable Lifeguard (Sam Elliot as cool as ever), Blue Hawaii and Mama Mia because, Elvis+Abba=Nirvana. I didn’t include The Beach because it isn’t that fun and Cast Away is long and kind of a drag. Some Like it Hot didn’t make my list because this classic and brilliant Billy Wilder comedy (as in one of the best comedies ever) starring Tony Curtis and Marilyn Monroe that was filmed on the beach in Coronado, will forever be a beach picture that we love to love.


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The mission of History Theatre is to engage and empower Savannah, Georgia's adults, teenagers and children in the production of historical dramas and musicals about Savannah for local and visitor audiences. We are a tax-exempt, nonprofit community theatre with a professional temperament.
Artistic Director Lorrie Rumpel and her husband Fritz, the organization's executive director, founded the original History Theatre in 2007, and created and produced "Let My people go."
This groundbreaking play highlights old times about Savannah that had been forgotten, such as: the persecution of Reverend Andrew Bryan in 1786; "The Weeping Time," one of the largest auction of enslaved people in American history, held in 1859; and the "Cornerstone of the Confederacy" speech delivered by Confederate Vice President Alexander H. Stephens in 1861. The production was praised by such media as Georgia Public Broadcasting and the Savannah Herald:
In 2015 the Rumpels created and produced Forty Acres and a Mule, a docudrama that provides the definitive account of the historic meeting in Savannah in 1865 that gave birth to the idea of how to achieve racial equity in America: "We want to be placed on land until we can buy it and make it our own."
This landmark production premiered at the 2015 National Black Theatre Festival Filmfest in Winston-Salem, North Carolina to a standing-room-only audience.
And in 2022 History Theatre embarked on its most ambitious undertaking yet: Susie King Taylor: "What a Wonderful Revolution!", an epic play based on this trailblazer's acclaimed Civil War memoir, the only one written by a Black woman. (You can read her remarkable story at https://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/taylorsu/taylorsu.html .)The scope of the show is so broad that four actors portray Taylor during different stages of her life, which is spread over 21 scenes in two acts. The cast includes 25 actors portraying over 50 characters.
A major production like this demands quite a few resources, including, of course, financial investment. That is why History Theatre is asking you to please contribute to this cause and ensure that the story of Susie King Taylor is one "old time" that will be remembered by making your tax-deductible donation. Thank you!
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I’ve been watching a lot of TV. Maybe too much? But it’s ok, cause I also read books to unrot my brain. Like how I eat a salad before eating an entire bag of Haribo Sour S’ghetti, and it cancels each other out.
Anyways, the highlights of our recent tv/movie seshes –
- A Christmas Prince (Netflix) – A live-action Disney movie, complete with makeovers and animals. It’s ok, you can still watch it even though Christmas is over.
- Black Mirror, season 4 (Netflix) – Hang the DJ and Black Museum are especially good.
- Great Wall – I hated on it so hard when it was first coming out. But it turned out to be really entertaining with a great lesson/moral, and a strong woman lead. The style is similar to the Chinese/Taiwanese tv shows and movies I grew up watching with my parents, but with Matt Damon to bring it into the US market.
- Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (Netflix) – A light comedy tv show with singing! A MUSICAL TV SHOW.
- The Marvelous Mrs Maisel (Amazon Prime) – Written by the writer/creator of Gilmore Girls, and it’s rated M cause of the language because the storyline, the dialogue, and the costumes are freaking fantastic. GIRL POWER.
- Bright (Netflix) – It has Will Smith in it. Welcome back Will Smith! It’s a hardcore modern-day cop movie, but with LORD OF THE RINGS characters and references. Amazing.


Before the current slate of Marvel movies, before the Dark Knight trilogy, there was a time (and still can be) when the superhero movie was synonymous with disaster. There was a time when the dashing of fanboy expectations was a given whenever the spandex set were represented on the silver screen. The Part-Time Fanboy crew sit down to discuss some of the worst of the worst superhero movie adaptations ever made! It turns out that there were so many to choose from that we couldn’t cover them in one hour! We had to split it into two parts!!! So without further ado…here is part one of our discussion of The Worst Superhero Movies Ever!!!
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Celebration | “Big Idea Night pARTy: Under the Influence”
The latest programming theme at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts — “Under the Influence” — focuses on the many influences on our lives and is the inspiration for a free, late-night party. Visitors are invited to explore the galleries, which includes the exhibitions “Renée Green: Endless Dreams and Time-Based Streams” and “PAUSE: Death’s Boutique;” take to the dance floor with music provided by D.J.s from the Oakland-based thePeople collective; and sample live painting, food and videography. 9 p.m. Saturday at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 701 Mission Street, San Francisco.
Theater | “…and Jesus Moonwalks the Mississippi”
The Cutting Ball theater company presents a new play by Marcus Gardley (“Love is a Dream House in Lorin,” “This World in a Woman’s Hands”). Taking its inspiration from the classical myth of Demeter and Persephone and set in the Deep South during the Civil War, the lyrical, Gospel-music-infused tale follows a mother’s search for her daughter who was taken from her and sold as a slave. Through April 25; 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 5 p.m. Sundays at the Exit on Taylor, 277 Taylor Street, San Francisco.
Tribute | Lalo Schifrin
The Castro movie theater’s occasional tributes to film soundtrack composers continues with a celebration of the life and work of Lalo Schifrin, the six-time Academy Award-winning composer. Born in Argentina in 1932, the classically trained composer and jazz aficionado forged a long partnership with Clint Eastwood and wrote the scores for the “Dirty Harry” movies and “The Beguiled.” Mr. Schifrin’s other prominent film credits include “THX 1138,” “Enter the Dragon,” “Bullitt,” “Cool Hand Luke” and “Cincinnati Kid.” The theater will screen some of these movies through April 8. 7 p.m. and 8:45 p.m. Friday; 2:35 p.m., 4:30 p.m., 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. on Saturday; and 2:05 p.m., 4:30 p.m., 6:35 p.m. and 9 p.m. on Sunday at The Castro Theater, 429 Castro Street, San Francisco.
Documentary | “Breath Made Visible”
Anna Halprin, the influential Bay Area-based dancer and choreographer, is the subject of a new biographical documentary by Ruedi Gerber, the filmmaker. The film charts the course of Ms. Halprin’s career, including her seminal performances amid the Californian redwood trees, her founding of the first interracial dance company and her relationship with her husband, the architect Lawrence Halprin. Ms. Halprin and Mr. Gerber will appear at the Friday screenings to answer questions about the movie. Through April 8; 6:45 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. Friday and at 2:45 p.m., 4:45 p.m., 6:45 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday, at the Roxie Theater, 3117 16th Street, San Francisco.
Exhibition | “Extreme Mammals: The Biggest, Smallest and Most Amazing Mammals of All Time”
Starting this Saturday, the California Academy of Sciences brings some of our closest animal cousins to life with a new exhibition that explores the world of extinct and living mammals. Organized in nine parts, the exhibition includes touchable fossils, taxidermy specimens and live tree shrews. Through Sept. 12; opening weekend hours are from 9:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. on Saturday and from 11 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. on Sunday, at the California Academy of Sciences, 55 Music Concourse Drive, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco.
An earlier version of this post misspelled Cincinnati as Cincinatti in the name of the film “Cincinnati Kid.”


Sign Dub Demo
The Jesus Film Project originally produced in 1979 by Campus Crusade for Christ has been “audio-dubbed” into at least 1,700 different spoken languages. Deaf Missions’ vision is to produce an original Jesus movie in American Sign Language and film this in a way that it can be “sign-dubbed” into different sign languages worldwide. For a demo of what sign dubbing may look like, click this video below.
Track A – Our original Jesus movie and film the track B/C for international purpose.
Track B – We can replace signers only while keeping background actors. This would work for some countries where people have similar look to the background talents (i.e. Europe)
Track C – With backgrounds only, other countries can replace the entire cast with their own (i.e. African countries)


As I was born in a village close to the sea, I like ivory seashells.
The texture in this drawing didn't turn out very well (I made it just on a hard cardboard, that's why). But I do like the reddish, warm, atmosphere. Maybe even a little more of close-up would had been just fine to highlight the intimacy of the scene, wouldn't it?
I took the reference image from a film's frame I found on the Internet, but I don't even know its name, what I do know is that the leading actress in that film was Gong Li.


Playmobil: The Movie Trailer Brings The Iconic Toys to Animated Life
Playmobil: The Movie trailer has finally arrived along with an amazing voice cast.
DiSalvo was the head of animation on Frozen, which just happens to be the highest-grossing animated movie of all time. So, there’s definitely some muscle going on behind-the-scenes to get the movie off of the ground.
Sometimes Queen singer Adam Lambert plays the villainous Emperor Maximus.
Production did not start on the movie until June of this year, with the voice cast announcement arriving in October. In addition to lending their voices to the movie, Adam Lambert and Meghan Trainor wrote original songs for the soundtrack.


We can all agree that dogs are one of the most precious animals. They are not afraid to risk their own lives in order to save a human life. That’s why they are the go to animal on rescue missions.
Recently, an actor got to feel just how caring these animals can be. Actor Numan Ertuğrul Uzunsoy was performing outside when both the actors and the viewers witnessed something heartwarming.
“The character I played was injured and in great pain,” he told The Dodo. “He’d fallen off a horse, and was breathing hard.”
And that’s when a stray jumped into action. The pup thought the man was injured, so it stepped in to help and immediately started licking the actor’s face! How cute and incredibly amazing is that?
“I was very happy when I felt the dog’s kisses,” Numan said. “I was very touched. He was like an angel who wanted to help me. It was a very emotional moment for me. I was not expecting it.”
The audience loved the touching moment and the actors were amazed by the dog’s sefless reaction. However, the play had to continue, so they helped the pup to be on its way. Thinking it did a good job, the lovely animal wandered off.
Meanwhile, Numan says he’s going to try and help the dog if he can find him.
“The next day I went to the same place, looking for him. People told me he usually hangs out there. I went again today,” Numan told The Dodo.
“I’ll look for him until I find him. I’ve always loved animals.”


That’s a tough one. I think that so far, my favourite is the season six finale, Help Me that aired May 17th, 2010. Overall the episode was very different from many of the cookie cutter plots of the series, focusing a lot on House wrestling with his personal demons and coming to terms with his disability. I think the episode worked on a very personal level exploring a very vulnerable House. It is also one of the few occasions where House is powerless to help his patient despite his best efforts. It all makes for unique drama.
On the technical note, the episode also looked quite different from others, based on their use of a new DSLR camera with a shallow depth of field, making it look visually interesting as well.


Jackie Herbach is a NYC actress & New York native. NYC productions include: Gertrude in "Hamlet" at (Shakespeare in the Parking Lot); Natasha in "Three Sisters" (Sanford Meisner Theatre); "The Sheik" as Joanne (New York Times Reviewed); and has worked with New Orleans playwright Lisa D'Amour and director Katie Pearl in the original theatre production of "How to Build a Forest" (The Kitchen). She also has performed principal roles in short films and is a member of Say What? NYC Comedy Improv.
She played the mother, a principal role in the soon to be released "Homicide for the Holidays" airing this December (2016) on cable network. She is featured as Dr. Elaine Willis in the feature film "Lost & Found: The True Story of Silver Screen Cinema International" a comedy mocumentary on the 'B' movies of the 1970's and 80's due for release in 2017. Principal in a NYFA music video (June 2016), "Just Off The Breeze." Performs monthly in NYC as part of Say What? NYC Comedy Improv. Joan in "Just Off the Pike" (Hudson Guild Theatre / The 2015 Strawberry Festival); "Tainted Love" - A comedic short film (Good Brownie Productions / June 2014) in which she plays the psychotherapist, Gail, who is left at the altar on her wedding day; "Empty Window" NYU Thesis, selected & supervised by Susan Seidelman. Jackie has performed stand up at Gotham Comedy Club in NYC.