#Gabriel Rush

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LINOLEUM (2022) Directed by Colin West

[adamwatchesmovies]

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019)

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark is an odd adaptation. Technically, it’s based on several of the short stories written by Alvin Schwartz. Ask anyone who's read the book, however, and they'll tell you what makes it worth your time are the illustrations by Stephen Gammell. Without them, these stories are perfectly fine around the campfire but worth turning into a full-length picture? probably not. As such, the 2019 adaptation integrates the tales in a larger narrative that connects the stories while capturing the FEEL of the book. At this, it succeeds. I foresee this one becoming a Halloween staple for older children who like to be scared.

On Halloween night, 1968, best friends Stella (Zoe Colletti), Auggie (Gabriel Rush) and Chuck (Austin Zajur) prank school bully Tommy Milner (Austin Abrams) and barely evade his retribution thanks to Ramón (Michael Garza). They continue the night’s festivities by exploring the home of the long-deceased Sarah Bellows. Urban legends say she told scary stories to children before poisoning them. When Stella discovers Bellows’ book, she's horrified when she reads their names within her stories.

Directed by André Øvredal, the movie adapts or takes cues from The Big Toe, Me Tie Dough-ty Walker!, “Harold, The Dream, The Haunted House and the illustrations that accompany them (or in some cases, memorable drawings from other stories in the book). The nightmarish charcoal and ink illustrations by Stephen Gammell have been successfully adapted to the screen, which makes the film reasonably frightening. Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark is aimed at a specific audience. Young children, even those who might be brave enough to watch Goosebumps will be terrified. Instead, it’s more for the 12+ crowd and their parents. That’s terrific. There is no shortage of spooky-themed movies for the little ones. Adults have a plethora of titles to choose from. What about the teens and pre-teens who aren’t quite ready to watch something PG-13 on their own? They haven’t had a lot to choose from, which I think destines this film to be a recurring watch around the end of October.

Also helping this movie are three things: the suspense, likable characters and real scares. These three are all tied together. You sweat and want to hide under the covers because you care about the group of friends. Not about the despicable Tommy Milner but his fate is so strange and unsettling it’s hard to shake so it works anyway. So many horror movies pretend to be for adults but treat the audience like little kids. They make the characters unlikeable or have them do something “wrong” so the audience doesn’t have to feel bad when something horrible happens to them. When Stella, Ramón, Auggie, Chuck or his sister, Ruth (Natalie Ganzhorn) see their names appear in Sarah Bellows’ book, you’re worried. You hope they can find a way to avoid the fate that awaits them, which makes the mystery of the book’s owner that much more interesting.

Like its source material, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark isn’t breaking any new ground, which is why I’m firmly advertising it to the older kids and their parents. If you’ve seen your fair share of horror, you’ll recognize these tales for what they are: well-directed, well-made campfire stories. They effortlessly move from the realm of silly to scary. The cool monsters that populate them add a little something special to the mix but ultimately, it’s a lot of tried-and-true elements we’ve seen before. That's not a flaw, not for the audience this film is aimed towards. Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark is a gateway to true horror that touches on a couple of young adult themes and has one foot planted in juvenile fiction. It’s a transitionary film but I suspect that those who grow up with it will find that it ages surprisingly well, particularly if we get the sequel it promises right before the credits. (January 7, 2022)

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[rhettakins]

“Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark” (2019)

Dir. André Øvredal

The shadow of the Bellows family has loomed large in the small town of Mill Valley for generations. It's in a mansion that young Sarah Bellows turns her tortured life and horrible secrets into a series of scary stories. These terrifying tales soon have a way of becoming all too real for a group of unsuspecting teens who stumble upon Sarah's spooky home.

[rookie-critic]

Linoleum (2023, dir. Colin West) - review by Rookie-Critic

I love it when a movie surprises me. Some of my favorite moviegoing experiences from the last few years have been going into something relatively blind, and coming out with something I will absolutely never forget. It gave me C'mon C'mon, my top film from 2021, it gave me The Worst Person in the World, my #3 film 2021, and it has now given me Linoleum. The film follows Jim Gaffigan's Cameron Edwin, an astronomer who hosts a declining children's science show à la Bill Nye the Science Guy who, due to the said decline of his show as well as his marriage, which is on the brink of divorce, is in the middle of a well-earned mid-life crisis. Also, a car with an award-winning astronaut in it falls from the sky next to his mailbox and he is the only person who witnesses the "accident," and nobody believes it really happened. The film invokes a lot of magical realism and, from the opening scene, evokes a Gondry-esque dream-like quality not too far removed from the French director's films Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and The Science of Sleep.

The film is mean to it's protagonist, but not in a malicious way: his daughter Nora (portrayed by Katelyn Nacon in a fantastic performance) is disrespectful to him in a way that teenagers often are, but clearly has a love for him as she watches and seems to genuinely enjoy his children's show, his wife (portrayed by a fresh-off Better Call Saul Rhea Seehorn in an equally fantastic performance), who is in the process of falling out of love with him, still shows the hallmark signs of lingering care for this person she'd built a life with. Everything feels very domestic and real in it's dreaminess, but still, something about the full picture isn't quite right. That is, until the third act, when the film slams all of its individual, seemingly disjointed and mysterious pieces together to form a complete 1,000-piece jigsaw puzzle of a moving and incredible story about how we live our lives and how, looking back, it is a beautiful and wondrous miracle that we all get to spend any amount of time on this small, blue rock we call planet Earth with one another. It shows us that, between despair and hope, between love and hate, that ultimately, hope prevails, love wins, and our intrinsic curiosity about the universe drives us forward towards something fantastic. What that is will be different for everyone, but there is beauty in that unknown, and we should all strive to close our eyes and let the universe form that fantastic something around us and guide us through it.

Normally, I'd take a handful of sentences here to talk about things I didn't like about the film. I could say that the film's final act takes big, artistic swings that will most likely not please all viewers. I could say that elements of the story don't mesh well with the answers to the film's mysteries. These are things that I can see people complaining about with Linoleum, but I would urge those people to watch it again, and really open your mind up to what the film is doing with that third act. Don't be the person telling Cameron to be more practical and that the answer is "not that simple," because the truth is, much like we're told in the film, it probably is. I used to not cry at films at all, and I would tell people that something would have to be truly, uniquely moving to draw tears out of me. Over the past few years I've realized that is no longer the case (maybe it never was), and I openly and proudly cry frequently during movies and shows. I genuinely believe that, had I seen this back when I didn't shed the frequent tear, that I would still have done so while watching Linoleum. It ticked all the right boxes and did all the right things to make it an instant classic in my eyes, and I can't recommend it highly enough.

Score: 10/10

Only in theaters as a limited release. Check your local listing to see if it's playing in a theater near you.

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Now showing on DuranDuranTulsa's Horror Show...Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark (2019) on Hulu #movie #movies #horror #scarystoriestotellinthedark #ZoeColletti #AustinAbrams #MichaelGarza #austinzajur #gabrielrush #GilBellows #kylelabine #2010s #hulu

[bigfatbreak]

What does Tom think of Emilie after meeting her?

the only Agreste he's not massively disappointed with is Adrien himself. It's a good thing that's the only one he plans on sparing.

[watchingalotofmovies]

Linoleum

Linoleum    [trailer]

When the host of a failing children's science show tries to fulfill his childhood dream of becoming an astronaut by building a rocket ship in his garage, a series of bizarre events occur that cause him to question his own reality.

Even though there are some hard to explain things going on, the movie kind of lulls you in, it's almost a little boring.

But towards the end it becomes clear that the story is indeed not that simple. It unexpectedly gets a little surreal, and you have to pay attention in order to follow what's going on.

Overall, a charming and good-natured little film, that turns out to be more ambitious than it first seems.

[kanonwithak]

happy (late) 4th late anniverse ultrakrill . may statue gabriel be upon thee

[4natri]

Not an ideal date but works

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gaberiel

[chocostrwberry]

You know I’ve been thinking about how Gabriel grew up poor and I have so many headcanons for him.

Like if Adrien told Emelie she was cold, she would coddle him and demand that someone bring him a jacket. She grew up wealthy, she is use to people doing things to accustom to her own needs immediately instead of tending to it herself.

But if Adrien told his father he was cold, then Gabriel would have given him his jacket. A simple gesture, not as flamboyant and it might seem dismissive, but when Gabriel was cold as a child that’s what his parents would do for him. His father or mother would simply give him what they had as a sign of their love.

[junkscraps]

i came all the way from twitter just for this, hi!! :D

[alic0rez]

Hi

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text from thirteen by @anna-scribbles

art by me :)

read thirteen read thirteen it’s everything read thirteen read thirteen read thirteen read thirteen<3 happy thirteen day. have you read thirteen yet. read it again if you have. prepare for your life to be changed if you haven’t.

[sailemo]

same va