#mike gioulakis

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The Eyes of Tammy Faye (2021)

dir. Michael Showalter

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The Piano Lesson (2024) dir. Malcolm Washington cine. Mike Gioulakis

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SPLIT (2016)

Director: M. Night Shyamalan Cinematography: Mike Gioulakis

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Us (2019)

Director: Jordan Peele DOP: Mike Gioulakis Production Design: Ruth De Jong Art Direction: Cara Brower

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Glass (2019) by M. Night Shyamalan

Cinematography by Mike Gioulakis

Production design by Chris Trujillo & Alan Lampert

Set Decoration by Olivia Peebles

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Reptile Movie (Review) and Film Summary

Benicio Del Toro slinks and weaves through Grant Singer’s debut thriller “Reptile,” but the film struggles to develop a confident personality around him, ultimately coming apart at the seams. Clearly inspired by David Fincher’s meticulousness—Singer too is a music video vet and has worked with The Weeknd, Skrillex, Sam Smith, and many more—“Reptile” is overly mannered and precious with its details, but its biggest misstep is its failure to understand that procedurals need to get narratively tighter and not just more convoluted. Del Toro always brings it, and this is actually one of his more intriguing performances in a long time, but one consistently wishes that it was in a movie that knew what to do with it.

Will Grady (Justin Timberlake) is a Scarborough real estate mogul dating an agent named Summer (Matilda Lutz). They flip foreclosures on expensive homes in the area under the watchful eye of Will’s mom, Camille (Frances Fisher), and there seems to be some brewing tension in the relationship. One day, Will meets Summer at a house she’s showing and finds her brutally murdered.

The suspects line up quickly for Detective Tom Nichols (Del Toro) and his partner Dan Cleary (Ato Essandoh). First, Grady couldn’t be creepier—Timberlake leans way too hard into the slimy silver spoon kid background of the kind of dude who lines up a new girlfriend who looks a lot like his dead one almost immediately. Will is clearly into some shady shit, but he found the body, right? Or did he? Could it be Summer’s soon-to-be ex-husband Sam (Karl Glusman)? He, too, is sketched as a few cards short of a full deck, introduced on CCTV footage cutting a stranger’s hair so he can turn it into art. Yeah, he’s weird. That’s not it! The cavalcade of creeps on the suspect list also includes Eli Phillips (Michael Pitt), a guy whose dad got screwed on a Grady deal. Did he kill Summer to get revenge?

As if that trio of potential murderers isn’t enough, the script by Singer, Benjamin Brewer, and Del Toro himself fills out a massive cast with the people in Tom’s orbit, including his wife Judy (an effective Alicia Silverstone), who helps him work angles on the case in some of the film’s best scenes. She’s fearless and intellectually engaged in discussing the mystery. She knows and loves Captain Robert Allen (Eric Bogosian), Tom’s boss, who is introduced receiving an MS diagnosis. Yes, this is one of those scripts where everyone has an instantly identifiable trait that tries to take a traditional character just a bit left of center. It's all over-written, exaggerated stuff that only reminds you that you’re in a movie.

Of course, it’s perfectly fine to be aware of a writer's voice and director’s eye—no one would say someone like Fincher quietly observes—but the problems of “Reptile” comes down to style vs. vision. There’s plenty of style here, but it never feels like anything coheres into an actual vision. The great Mike Gioulakis (“It Follows,” “Split”) slides his camera through these imposing spaces, but to what end? Does it mean anything? The abundant style of “Reptile” is increasingly hollow as its overlong 134 minutes unfold. "Reptile" tries to hold onto too many things at once and lands none of them, leaving subplots unresolved and characters inconsistent.

And yet, there’s that performance in the center. Del Toro is so good here, capturing a man who has seen it all and just wants a peace that won’t come. He doesn’t overplay trauma or experience; he just allows those elements to influence his body language and the stares from those unforgettable eyes. It’s also a playful performance at times as Tom uses elements of his journey into real estate to influence his home remodel. There are some decent turns in the ensemble—Silverstone, Bogosian, Pitt—but Del Toro is on another level, existing in his own space. A space that belongs in a much better movie.

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A young woman joins the military to be part of something bigger than herself and her small-town roots. Instead, she ends up as a new guard at Guantanamo Bay, where her mission is far from black and white. Surrounded by hostile jihadists and aggressive squadmates, she strikes up an unusual friendship with one of the detainees. Credits: TheMovieDb. Film Cast: Amy Cole: Kristen Stewart Ali: Payman Maadi Randy: Lane Garrison Rico: J. J. Soria Col. Drummond: John Carroll Lynch Betty: Julia Duffy Bergen: Cory Michael Smith Newscaster: Nawal Bengholam Mary: Tara Holt Ehan: Yousuf Azami Mahmoud: Marco Khan Detainee #3: Robert Tarpinian Night Shift C.O.: Kyle Bornheimer Army Private (uncredited): Holli Dean Waitress (uncredited): Jennae Hoving IRF #1: Ladell Preston IRF #2: Daniel Leavitt Film Crew: Producer: Gina Kwon Casting: Richard Hicks Second Unit Director of Photography: Adam Stone Gaffer: Mike Gioulakis Director of Photography: James Laxton Editor: Geraud Brisson Art Direction: Joshua Locy Set Decoration: Adam Willis Steadicam Operator: Michael J. Wilson Production Design: Richard A. Wright Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Michael Perricone Director: Peter Sattler Original Music Composer: Jess Stroup Sound Effects Editor: Jeffrey A. Pitts Script Supervisor: Cristina Fanti Visual Effects Supervisor: Tim Carras Visual Effects Producer: Joshua D. Comen Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Will Files Foley: Dave DeCoster Foley: Sanaa Kelley Gaffer: Cooper Donaldson Camera Operator: Alex Kornreich Costume Design: Christie Wittenborn Dialogue Editor: James Gallivan Hair Department Head: Jessica Lou Allen Key Hair Stylist: Henry Sanchez Makeup Department Head: Lorraine Martin Makeup Artist: Jeremy Bramer Assistant Art Director: Tom Obed Camera Operator: Eric W. Smith Still Photographer: Beth Dubber Still Photographer: Prashant Gupta Movie Reviews: Reno: > Right from the beginning events of the scenes are poorly intensified. It was a one sided narration, that is really a very bad for this kind of sensitive theme. But the prime intention was to bring the Guantanamo Bay detention camp’s atrocity on the detainees by the US military. Well, it actually avoids those strong cruelties, and focuses the unusual relationship between a detainee and a woman guard. Limited cast, shot mostly in a single location with the budget of just one million USD, and an ordinary opening, but ended strong. I assumed a lot of things likely to happen while I was watching. Like Amy Cole (Kristen Stewart) was in undercover, to make detainees talk and collect the information. Because she was the only woman around, but as usual like most of the time I was wrong. It was so plain and filled with human emotions. I was strong and confident that they were just torturing the terrorists who deserved it. If you see it from the human perspective that was slightly a over-limit, only if you exclude their crimes. I just felt it was a propaganda to show US in a bad light. That is the reason it will not show terror strikes in the movie that committed by any of the detainee characters, but only the consequences they face. A Hollywood movie specially made to make feel good for the terrorists and those who support it. Okay, I agree, some were innocents. While fishing, a few other marine animals also gets trapped in the net as well, for that I feel sorry what happened to them. But 95% of them were heartless monsters. Everyone will have their own opinion on this film based on their religion, nationality or sympathetic for simply being a human, and everything are fair. 6/10

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CALIFICACIÓN PERSONAL: 7.5 / 10

Título Original: Reptile

Año: 2023

Duración: 134 min

País: Estados Unidos

Dirección: Grant Singer

Guion: Benjamin Brewer, Grant Singer, Benicio del Toro

Música: Yair Elazar Glotman

Fotografía: Mike Gioulakis

Reparto: Benicio del Toro, Justin Timberlake, Alicia Silverstone, Michael Pitt, Ato Essandoh, Domenick Lombardozzi, Karl Glusman, Matilda Anna Ingrid Lutz, Mike Pniewski, Thad Luckinbill

Productora: Black Label Media. Distribuidora: Netflix

Género: Drama; Crime; Thriller; Mystery

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The Eyes of Tammy Faye (2021)

Directed by Michael Showalter

Cinematography by Mike Gioulakis

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3 brilliant moments of horror in It Follows

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Us (2019)

Directed by Jordan Peele Cinematography by Mike Gioulakis

“If you wanna get crazy, we can get crazy!”

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There's something wrong with this beach!

Old, M. Night Shyamalan (2021)

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GLASS (2019)

Director: M. Night Shyamalan Cinematography: Mike Gioulakis

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Us (2019)

Director: Jordan Peele DOP: Mike Gioulakis Production Design: Ruth De Jong Art Direction: Cara Brower

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