#mant

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[texasthrillbilly]

[thegloob]

she is such a bad bitch though

[a-book-of-creatures]

The trailer for Mant, the film-within-a-film in Matinee (1993) and an affectionate spoof of B-movie trailers. How many clichés can you spot?

[whydoweownthisdvd]

Coming soon to the podcast!

MATINEE (1993) Directed by Joe Dante

[cantsayidont]

There may not be a dance soiree, but there is hateration and holleration:

THE JETTY (2024): Exasperating new BBC miniseries, created by Cat Jones and directed by Marialy Rivas, about a detective constable named Ember Manning (Jenna Coleman), raising her teenage daughter Hannah (Ruby Stokes) in the small Lancashire town where she grew up, where everyone knows her and no one takes her very seriously. When Ember realizes that a recent arson might be connected to the past disappearance of a girl named Amy (Bo Bragason), who went missing when she and Ember were teenagers, Ember tries to reopen the case, and butts heads with a crusading true crime podcaster (Weruche Opia), who's also interested in the story and has information about it that she won't share. Ember also realizes Amy's disappearance may have something to do with her daughter's now-dead father, who got Ember pregnant when she was only 17. The story alternates between engaging if uncomfortable drama (like an ongoing flashback sequence about Amy's manipulative flirtation with her friend Kitty (Laura Marcus), who was shyly in love with her despite Amy using her as cover for her secret affair with a shitty older man) and a boatload of stupid pseudo-true-crime white libfem copaganda. It's hampered at every turn by Coleman, who's not nearly as good an actor as some of her costars and seems completely out of her depth playing a cop in what wants to be a socially conscious procedural. CONTAINS LESBIANS? Yes, and if the story had focused more on Amy and Kitty, it might have made its points without all the copaganda horseshit. VERDICT: Some of the segments not centering Coleman are compelling, but Coleman is awful, and the script's fundamentally reactionary mindset and its preoccupation with imputing carceral solutions to misogyny are both clumsy and distasteful (not least because Jones uses one of the story's only Black characters as a rhetorical prop). CWs apply for grooming and sexual violence.

THE LITTLE GIANT (1933): Edward G. Robinson branched out into gangster comedy with this comedy of manners about a notorious Chicago bootlegger, one Jim "Bugs" Ahearn, who decides to retire to Palm Springs with his most loyal stooge (Russell Hopton), where he crashes polite society and falls for ostensibly respectable society dame Polly Cass (Helen Vinson). Meanwhile, Bugs' new housekeeper/girl Friday Ruth Wayburn (Mary Astor), a bankrupt heiress whose family home Bugs has just bought, plays Cyrano de Bergerac while trying to bite her tongue about Polly, whose family is nearly as crooked as Bugs. Not nearly as silly or chaotic as Robinson's later turn in the conceptually similar A SLIGHT CASE OF MURDER, and its pre-Code indulgences are pretty modest, but it's an enjoyable romp with some amusing social satire. I ended up wishing the script had made more of the relationship between Bugs and Ruth, although Astor is great as always and her rapport with Robinson is one of the film's best features. CONTAINS LESBIANS? No, although Robinson does use the f-slur at one point. VERDICT: Enjoyable, but not as essential as the sillier A SLIGHT CASE OF MURDER.

MATINEE (1993): Delightful comedy about a shlock movie impresario named Lawrence Woolsey (John Goodman) — an obvious pastiche of real-life producer/promoter William Castle — who pulls out all the stops for the premiere of his new Grade-Z sci-fi/horror epic, MANT, at a movie theater in Key West, Florida, during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, setting into motion all manner of chaos. As with the tonally similar A CHRISTMAS STORY, MATINEE is sort of notionally a kids' movie, about two friends (Simon Fenton and Omri Katz) who have each managed to score a date with a cute classmate: horny good girl Sherry (Kellie Martin, who at this age could have plausibly played Sara Michelle Gellar's younger sister) and budding leftist Sandra (Lisa Jakub), who begins to movie by getting herself suspended for protesting that bomb drills would be useless in an actual atomic attack. However, the movie is really aimed as much as adults who nostalgically remember that age (and/or era), and it's an affectionate, in-joke-laden homage to a now mostly vanished genre of cheesy cinematic nonsense (embodied in the clips we see from the MANT film-within-a-film, which are very funny). Goodman is wonderful, as is Cathy Moriarty as his weary girlfriend/star. Robert Picardo pops up in a supporting role as the hysterical theater owner, who's built a bomb shelter in the basement because he's convinced the world is about to end. CONTAINS LESBIANS? Nah. VERDICT: Great fun.

[primepaginequotidiani]

PRIMA PAGINA Marca di Oggi domenica, 11 maggio 2025

[scrivnomancer]

Goodnight out there, whatever you are.

[audelia-mackerr-1986]

And Thank You For a House Full of People I Love- Family Sign- Love Sign- Living Room Sign- Mantle De #HouseDecoration #livingroomdesigns

[pinazee]

Let me tell you something, never has a show made me love all the interpersonal dynamics like Leverage.

The flirty will they/ can they of parker/hardison- oh i am down bad for that.

The unlikely older brother-little brotherhood of hardison/elliot- im cuddled up next to it with a bowl of popcorn.

The grieving king protective knight that is Elliot/nate- you have my sword.

The classic enemies-who-want-to-bang to lovers-who-do-bang that is nate/sophie- its a classic for a reason.

The aunt who has no idea what their nephew does but is proud and supportive anyways and the exasperated nephew who’s trying his best to explain it for the fifth time that is sophie/hardison- rare and under appreciated but not by me

The father figure pushing the child he cares for to be his very best and prove how incredibly brilliant they actually are that is hardison/nate- so freaking sweet.

The protective dad neurodivergent child that is nate/parker-in tears.

The older sister teaching the younger sister how to interact with the world that is parker/sophie-i think a hole in my heart healed.

The growth of a genuine deep friendship between sophie/elliot- im eating it like a five course meal

The exasperated, yet, super protective eldest sibling and rascally poking-you-with-a-stick-for-fun younger sibling that is elliot/parker- i need that stored for rainy days

[girldriveroscar]

feel like not enough ppl r aware of 19 yr old renault oscar randomly getting juiced with insane charisma

[deletingmyself]

(by Markos Mant)| Innsbruck, Austria

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[starscape724]

felt like drawing them (as I always do)

[chimichangacongaline]

had a vision to change Dia's hair again into bantu knots with baby hairs and rhinestones scattered through them

partial yarn re-root

[tinyriver-neonlights]

Just watched Devil May Cry (Netflix)

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MY SHIP!

MY SHIP IS SINKING!

HELP! WHY COULDN'T THEY BE CANON! 😭

At least I hope they be together on the 2nd season

[audelia-mackerr-1986]

And Thank You For a House Full of People I Love- Family Sign- Love Sign- Living Room Sign- Mantle De #HouseDecoration