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queer-ragnelle · 5 months

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do you have any arthur/guinevere/lancelot recommendations? if not, just stories where their characters were done justice and their friendship is explored and the love triangle comes to some satisfying solution.

i sure do! as always, with caveats. this list has two parts: films first and then books as i have suggestions for both! all of these movies can be watched here and the books read here.

TL;DR movies: Excalibur (1981), Camelot (1967), Knights of The Round Table (1953), Merlin and The Sword (1985), Sword of Lancelot (1963)

TL;DR books: The Birth of Galahad by Richard Hovey, Arthur Rex by Thomas Berger, Guinevere Trilogy by Persia Woolley, Guinevere by Lavinia Collins, Spear by Nicola Griffith, honorable mention to Arthurian Saga by Mary Stewart

MOVIES:

Excalibur (1981): for me it has everything. we get to see young stupid arthur and clever curious guinevere fall in love, their wedding is gorgeous, then nicholas clay my beloved lancelot throws a wrench in it as he loves and respects them both so much, and they love him. he gets to be crazy about it too like running off to the woods to beg god to take these feelings away, dreams he's fighting himself and ends up impaled<3 meanwhile arthur/guinevere leave a cup out for him even when he isn't there. the crux of it comes when guinevere is accused of cheating (which she hadn't even at this point) and arthur won't champion her because his kingship comes before husbandly duties, so lancelot fights for her honor instead. at the end, after guinevere has gone away to a convent (lancelot is a wildman with a full beard lost to them all) arthur comes to retrieve excalibur from her and his speech is so romantic about finding her in the next life. i die every time. here is my review of that movie.

Camelot (1967): i adoooore this guinevere. jenny<3 she does whatever she wants and i love that for her. the whole may day queen aspect of her is muah chef's kiss. small wonder arthur loved her immediately. this arthur gets to wear eyeliner which is a plus. lancelot almost kills arthur on meeting him and then falls at his feet on realizing it, only for guinevere to be really cold to him at first, trying to get other knights to defeat him, but ends up falling in love with him. which arthur totally knows and turns a blind eye to btw. even when pellinore brings it up in as gently as possible, arthur bites his head off, knowing he cant even entertain the rumor or else the kingdom is in danger, and he just wants his two favorite people to be happy....cries forever.

Knights of The Round Table (1953): the biggest downside to this one is that lancelot has a horrible insufferable american accent. however his celebrity worship/instant friendship with arthur is soooo good. he breaks his own sword for threatening the king and then arthur gives him his own....is that even allowed to be so adorable? anyway so lancelot had met guinevere before they were arthur's friend and wife, essentially had a charming meet cute, and went their separate ways, only to formally meet at the wedding in front of everyone....god, the eye contact could turn someone to stone. arthur is extremely sympathetic and compassionate, to the point that when he catches guinevere sulking alone on the roof with a gift from lancelot, he says "i miss him too..." bruh???? my heart?? all around delicious food.

Merlin and The Sword (1985): huge disclaimer...this movie is ugly as sin lol the only version available is ripped from a vhs tape so it might as well be a crunchy gif at this point. it was also cut down from the 3 hour tv version to 1.5 hours which is a tragedy. (i've tried emailing the studio for a rerelease to no avail...) however it has the most insane arthur/guinevere/lancelot ever i'll never be the same. arthur is played by malcom mcdowell who always brings his a game to roles. he's a bit older than guinevere, but she apparently taught him to read? he dotes on her but he's somewhat emotionally stunted which gets in the way. this guinevere is gorgeous i'm obsessed with her she has this deep sultry voice and a simple elegance that completely shatters lancelot's resolve. i get it, it would work on me. lancelot meanwhile is this incredibly lanky sometimes mute shy guy who is besties with gawain and his meet cute with guinevere involves the mingling of their blood after they are both cut on some rose thorns? hello???? they're freaks just like chrétien intended. the blood. they share bath water and fuck in a dungeon. then after guinevere is rescued from meleagant, arthur asks merlin for some sort of potion to help guinevere recover emotionally instead of like.....talking to her? he's trying but so so bad at it<3 he then takes her to bed to "treat her like a queen." IT'S ALL GREAT IT MAKES ME FERAL ARGH

Sword of Lancelot (1963): this one is fun because cornel wilde wrote it, directed it, and starred as lancelot himself!! the other fun factoid is the woman who plays guinevere is his real life wife. how stinking cute is that? so obviously their chemistry is ridiculous. but arthur is a cutie too. he's older and tends to talk down to guinevere a bit, which makes sense why she befriends lancelot in her loneliness. lancelot gets a lot of development, taking young tor under his wing, besties with gawain and lamorak and gareth. being irl married to guinevere also makes their disagreements feel very real. arthur is counseled by a ton of characters, bedievere, merlin, even mordred is here giving his two cents. so you really feel that tug of war pulling the throuple apart. it hurts.

BOOKS:

The Birth of Galahad by Richard Hovey: this play is wiiiiiild but the take away here is that guinevere is the mother of galahad. like what a twist. meanwhile all the men are away fighting rome so you get this tragic back and forth switching of perspective between lancelot and arthur missing guinevere (plus galehaut is here as counsel which really kicks this up a notch) then it cuts to guinevere with a new baby and tormented by the prospect of whether to write to rome with the news but afraid it will cause an upset where she cant be.....hovey you mad lad you've done it again.

Arthur Rex by Thomas Berger: i hate i keep having to recommend this bigoted book but damn it this arthur/guinevere/lancelot are so good. why are they sooo goood???? this arthur is compelling since he loses his virginity to morgause and is forever messed up after that, so he struggles to connect with guinevere in the way she needs, not really understanding her even though he bends over backwards to please her. meanwhile there isnt a word for what she and lancelot have here they need to be studied under a microscope so history doesn't repeat itself they're so twisted it's wild i can't look away. and the friendship between arthur and lancelot is so powerful and enduring that even at the end while joyous garde is under siege, arthur sends in kay with food the moment he hears their stores are low, and has him serve them like old times. he doesnt want it to be the way it is....sick and twisted narrative choices.

Guinevere Trilogy by Persia Woolley: i admit this isn't my favorite guinevere, but credit where it's due, she's a complex and fully realized character. through her we come to understand both arthur and lancelot as deeply damaged men, who had their emotional states devastated by the fall out of sexual abuse, and how that impacts their relationship with her (and their sons, mordred and galahad, who likewise suffer as a result of their fathers' emotional states). as a celtic queen, guinevere has every right to take a lover if she so desires, and arthur is not ignorant of his own failings as a husband, but the tragedy plays out anyway as the orkney brothers are there to wreak havoc on the place as usual. (you might find that this has a movie adaptation Guinevere (1994) don't watch it, trust me, it's not even fun bad, just cursed.)

Guinevere by Lavinia Collins: this is technically part of a series so you'll also get a lot of arthur and lancelot in the other three (Igraine, Morgawse, Morgan) but for the sake of this list, the guinevere one will suffice. anyway what i like about this is the strong contrast in relationships with both men. lancelot is bisexual and guinevere is the first woman he ever sleeps with (but not the last...) so theyre very tender and sweet together meanwhile arthur sired mordred before marrying her he's overall more adventurous while keeping entirely faithful to her for the rest of his life......there is a threesome in this but ironically its lancelot/guinevere/kay and not arthur but you know what? he deserves a win. this still goes on the list.

Spear by Nicola Griffith: this is perceval pov so the focus on arthur/guinevere/lancelot is minimal, but its delicious. arthur is kinda cold and mean here (falling back on the celtic "bear" thing, same as woolley does) but its revealed that he, lancelot, and guinevere are in a throuple, the characterization of lancelot's shy explanation of this was so good, and he goes on the grail quest to try and heal guinevere's womb so she can have their children, as it's a point of tension that mordred and galahad both exist, but guinevere wants to have children with arthur and lancelot. there's literally a part she faints and they both carry her off to bed like....they dont even pretend its any other way. no homophobia or slut shaming or anything like that in this book which is a huge plus. palate cleanser after arthur rex lol

Arthurian Saga by Mary Stewart: this is more of an honorable mention, as the first three books are merlin pov and the fourth is mordred. but book two (the hollow hills) has arthur raised alongside bedwyr (who is lancelot in all but name, son of ban, eventual lover of guinevere etc) they are the best of friends its adorable, bedwyr gave him his dog cabal, which is cute on its own, then fast forward to mordred pov (the wicked day) decades later and arthur is picking out a new puppy and names that one cabal too, its like this long homoromantic ritual that every dog descended from the first calls back to his original gift....im pulling my hair out. guinevere here is underdeveloped at best, as merlin doesnt really know her well and mordred's perspective on her is that shes (respectfully) hot lmao but worth mentioning as mary stewart is the goat, highly recommend her books.

and that's the list. hope that gives you some stuff to chew over!

#arthurian legend #arthurian legends #arthuriana #arthurian mythology #king arthur #queen guinevere #sir lancelot #ask #anonymous

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eemcintyre · 19 days

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My current progress going through my other past/current/occasional male hyperfixations' filmographies:

I made this post for Tom Cruise way back when I was young in my Tumblr career and realized today that I would like to keep track of my viewing progress for several other dad actors' filmographies

The difference here will just be that each list will be shorter because, unlike with my main man Tom, I don't have the desire to see every single solitary film each of these boys have been in, so I'll only be including the ones I've already seen or want to actually watch at some point

Thomas Ian Griffith

Seen:

The Karate Kid Part III

Ulterior Motives

Excessive Force

Crackerjack

Beyond Forgiveness/Blood of the Innocent

Hollow Point

Behind Enemy Lines

John Carpenter's Vampires

Black Point

Timecop 2: The Berlin Decision

Seawolf

The Kidnapping/Black Friday

Not seen:

A Place to Hide

Rock Hudson

The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax

High Adventure

Avalanche

The Secret of Giving

A Vision of Murder

Sam Rockwell

Seen:

The Green Mile

Lawn Dogs

Charlie’s Angels

Galaxy Quest

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

G-Force

The Way, Way Back

Laggies

Mr. Right

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Argylle

Not seen:

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind

Matchstick Men

Piccadilly Jim

Joshua

Snow Angels

The Winning Season

Seven Psychopaths

Jojo Rabbit

Richard Jewell

See How They Run

Patrick Wilson

Seen:

The Phantom of the Opera

Hard Candy

Passengers

Insidious

Morning Glory

The Conjuring

Insidious: Chapter 2

Stretch

Zipper

A Kind of Murder

The Conjuring 2

The Commuter

Annabelle Comes Home

In the Tall Grass

Midway

The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It

Moonfall

Insidious: The Red Door

Not seen:

Little Children

Watchmen

Barry Munday

Space Station 76

Big Stone Gap

Bone Tomahawk

The Hollow Point

Aquaman

#thomas ian griffith #patrick wilson #sam rockwell #older men do it better #dilfism #movies to watch #watchlist #cinema

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Juleeees, how are you? I'll go with 4, 10, 11, 21 and 28 for the "not from the US" ask set

jess! hello!! i'm not too bad, thanks! just got back from braving the rain to buy christmas jumpers (it's christmas jumper weekend at work on friday so had to go searching), how about you?

4. favourite dish specific for your country?

probably glamorgan sausage, which isn't made of actual sausage. it's made of cheese, but it's a vegetarian alternative to normal sausage. but yeah, usually made with cheese and leek.

i do also love a slice of bara brith, but specifically the one served in the restaurant at my workplace!

if we wanna be really basic then welshcakes are always a good shout and i have one every friday with a cup of tea in work!

crempogs are soo very good also!!

10. most enjoyable swear word in your native language?

ooh okay so i don't know if it would necessarily be the most enjoyable but it's the one my friends and i used most whilst growing up and that's "cachau bant" which is a way of saying "fuck off" but if you translate it literally it's "shit away".. and then i can't not include "cont" which i imagine you can guess the translation of (we use it affectionately here though, so it's more like "alright, cont?" or "shwmae cont" when you greet your friend)

11. favourite native writer/poet?

okay, it's probably very predictable to choose dylan thomas but i do love his poems and his poetry is loved for good reason! he didn't write in cymraeg, only saesneg, but he's welsh and wrote about wales and life here, and i think the fact that he wrote in english and not welsh speaks a lot about the journey our language unfortunately went on

also r.s thomas' poems about wales are always interesting to study, in particular welsh history, which has the ending lines:

when we have finished quarrelling for crumbs under the table, or gnawing the bones of a dead culture, we will arise and greet each other in a new dawn

his other poems a welsh testament, welsh landscape, the village and sorry are all really interesting as well!

niall griffiths is a great welsh author too. his books set in aberystwyth are really really good!

oh and richard king!! both his books about music and his oral histories of wales book are 11/10!!

menna gallie's work is awesome as well, i loved 'the small mine' which explores how a fictional welsh village comes together after a mining tragedy. it focuses a lot on how women in the community deal with the loss. her other books are great too and she has a really witty writing style that i enjoy a lot

a few others: owen sheers, gillian clarke and sarah waters!

not quite relevant, but still worth a mention, is the story of the soldier-poet known as hedd wyn and the eisteddfodd of 1917!

21. if you could send two things from your country into space, what would they be?

ohhhh this is really hard.. does it have to be an object or can it be like just a welsh tradition or?? oH WAIT I KNOW i'd send mari lwyd up there!!! to maybe freak out all the aliens. it's one of my favourite welsh customs and traditions for christmas! this is what it looks like:

28. does your country have a lot of lakes, mountains, rivers? do you have favourites?

oh boy! it does indeed... if you wanna know how many mountains wales has, it's better to just look at this topography map

there aren't any genuinely flat areas of wales. my high school was near the top of a mountain, and my house growing up was halfway up the same one. we hated having to walk up it every morning, and yet, we still went down to the village on our lunch hour. maybe that's why we were all fucking tiny bc we trekked up a mountain twice a day.

here's one of our rivers, which we similarly have a fuck ton of

so yeah. a shit ton of rivers and a shit ton of mountains. my favourite mountains are the brecon beacons bc we used to go there so much when i was growing up. it's like a tradition for welsh people to climb there and hike there as soon as the weather gets milder!

oh wow, sorry this was SOOOO long but it was fun to talk about these things so thank you for asking!!

for this ask game!

#julian's inbox #julian's ask games #cymraeg ask game!!

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johndpg · 7 months

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SPANKING ON TV #4

Private Peaceful (2012) d. Pat O’Connor

This film recounts the war-time experiences of two brothers, Thomas “Tommo” Peaceful and his older brother Charlie in the First World War. Their upbringing in rural Devon in the early 1900s is told in flashbacks and Charlie often looks out for Tommo. In this clip, Charlie ends up fighting another boy called Jimmy Parsons in the school playground after Jimmy has been bullying Tommo. The school master breaks up the fight and (literally) drags the boys back to his classroom where he canes them both.

The film is based on the 2003 novel of the same name by Michael Morpurgo. Like his earlier book War Horse (1982), it presents a strong anti-war message and it helped further the campaign to pardon those soldiers who were executed for cowardice, desertion and other similar crimes.

The boys bend over a desk to present their backside for caning, and for once the audio of the cane in action is somewhat realistic. The school master holds them in place with a hand on their left shoulder, although neither looks like he’s about to make an escape attempt. Indeed, they’re both remarkably stoic throughout (although Jimmy is somewhat vocal); I used to jump as each stroke landed.

Both boys get at least four strokes although the impression is that they receive more, which seems a tad excessive for a schoolyard scrap. Only Jimmy’s caning is shown; Charlie is featured in close-up (plus there’s a chair in the way).

Jimmy is clearly not popular with the other children whereas Charlie gets a loud cheer for standing up to him.

The adult versions of Tommo and Charlie are played by George MacKay (1917) and Jack O’Connell (Skins, Tower Block, ’71). Young Charlie is played by Hero Fiennes Tiffin (yes, that Fiennes—Ralph and Joseph are his uncles). He was 14 when he filmed this. All three are still acting.

George won a BAFTA Scotland award for For Those in Peril (2013) and was also nominated for the BAFTA Rising Star Award. Private Peaceful marks the last on-screen appearance of Richard Griffiths before his death.

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thecrimecrypt · 1 year

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Crimes That Shook Britain (Yorkshire)

The Crossbow Cannibal Between June 2009 and May 2010, Stephen Griffiths murdered three sex workers in Bradford, West Yorkshire.

His final attack was captured on CCTV and led to his arrest. He shot his last victim - Suzanne Blamires - with a crossbow as she tried to escape his flat, before stabbing her in the head with a knife.

In custody, he boasted to officers of West Yorkshire Police, ‘I’ve killed loads,’ and also claimed to have eaten body parts of his victims. It’s thought his other known victims - Shelley Armitage and Susan Rushworth - also suffered this fate. Griffiths, who called himself the Crossbow Cannibal, was jailed for life and will die in prison.

The Murder of Jo Cox Jo Cox, 41, was MP for Batley and Spen, West Yorkshire - the constituency where she was born - and was married with two small children, aged 5 and 3.

On 16 June 2016, she was killed outside the library where she was to hold a constituency meeting. She was shot in the head and chest with a sawn-off hunting rifle and stabbed 15 times. Jo’s killer Thomas Mair - a far-right extremist - was convicted of murder on 23 November 2016 and was given a whole-life term.

The Yorkshire Ripper Known as the Yorkshire Ripper, serial killer Peter Sutcliffe, from Bingley, in Bradford, West Yorkshire, was serving 20 consecutive life sentences after he was found guilty of 13 murders and seven attempted murders in 1981.

Over five years, he attacked women across West Yorkshire and Manchester, picking victims he believed to be prostitutes, though not all were.

Once arrested, he attempted to plead guilty to manslaughter, claiming diminished responsibility and saying God told him to kill prostitutes. Sutcliffe served most of his sentence in Broadmoor Hospital, a high-security psychiatric facility, but was judged sane enough to be moved to HMP Frankland in 2016.

Sutcliffe died at University Hospital of North Durham aged 74 on 13 November 2020, having been sent there with COVID-19. He had a number of underlying health problems including, obesity and diabetes. He reportedly refused treatment.

The Kidnapping of Shannon Matthews In February 2009, Karen Matthews, from Dewsbury, called the police when her daughter Shannon, 9, didn’t come home from school. What followed was the biggest investigation by West Yorkshire Police since the hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper.

Every newspaper in the country reported on the case, with one offering a £50,000 reward for information leading to Shannon’s safe return.

Three weeks after she’d gone missing, Shannon was found alive at a flat less than a mile from her home. The flat belonged to Michael Donovan - the uncle of Karen’s boyfriend - Donovan was arrested and, soon after, so was Karen Matthews.

In November 2008, both denied charges of kidnapping, false imprisonment and perverting the course of justice. Leeds Crown Court heard Karen had engineered Shannon’s kidnap with Donovan to claim the reward. Shannon had been drugged, tethered, and hidden inside a divan bed during her captivity.

Matthews and Donovan were found guilty of all charges and jailed for eight years. Both have now served their sentences.

The Fox Killings Arthur Hutchinson, also known as The Fox, was wanted by police for rape. Then, on 23 October 1983, he broke into the Sheffield home of Basil and April Laitner.

Also there were their children Richard, 26, and Nicola, 18. Hutchinson killed Richard, Basil, and April, then raped Nicola at knife point before fleeing. He’d already spent five years in prison for attempting to murder his brother-in-law.

After a 39-day manhunt, The Fox was captured and serving life. He will never be released.

The Murder of Sharon Beshenivsky Sharon Beshenivsky had been an officer with West Yorkshire Police for nine months in November 2005. On the day she was killed, the mum of five and her colleague went to an emergency call at Bradford travel agency.

There, they were fired on by armed robbers and Sharon was fatally wounded, her colleague seriously injured. Three men were convicted of her murder and got life. Three others were also jailed in connection to the killing.

#murder #truecrime #tc community #tcc family #serialkillers #killing #true crime community #serialkiller #blog #the crime crypt #crimes that shook britain #england #jo cox #yorkshire ripper #peter sutcliffe

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pollicinor · 1 year

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Psyco (1960) Alfred Hitchcock Il mago di Oz (1939) Victor Fleming Il padrino (1972) Francis Ford Coppola Quarto potere (1941) Orson Welles Pulp Fiction (1994) Quentin Tarantino I sette samurai (1954) Akira Kurosawa 2001: Odissea nello spazio (1968) Stanley Kubrick La vita è meravigliosa (1946) Frank Capra Eva contro Eva (1951) Joseph L. Mankiewicz Salvate il soldato Ryan (1998) Steven Spielberg Cantando sotto la pioggia (1952) Stanley Donen e Gene Kelly Quei bravi ragazzi (1990) Martin Scorsese La regola del gioco (1939) Jean Renoir Fa' la cosa giusta (1989) Spike Lee Aurora (1927) Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Casablanca (1942) Michael Curtiz Nashville (1975) Robert Altman Persona (1966) Ingmar Bergman Il padrino - Parte II (1974) Francis Ford Coppola Velluto Blu (1986) David Lynch Via col vento (1939) Victor Fleming Chinatown (1974) Roman Polanski L'appartamento (1960) Billy Wilder Tokyo Story (1953) Yasujirō Ozu Susanna! (1938) Howard Hawks I 400 colpi (1959) François Truffaut Gangster Story (1967) Arthur Penn Luci della città (1931) Charlie Chaplin La fiamma del peccato (1944) Billy Wilder L'impero colpisce ancora (1980) Irvin Kershner Quinto potere (1976) Sidney Lumet La donna che visse due volte (1958) Alfred Hitchcock 8 1/2 (1963) Federico Fellini Ombre rosse (1939) John Ford Il silenzio degli innocenti (1991) Jonathan Demme Fronte del porto (1954) Elia Kazan Io e Annie (1977) Woody Allen Lawrence d'Arabia (1962) David Lean A qualcuno piace caldo (1959) Billy Wilder Fargo (1996) Joel e Ethan Coen Il mucchio selvaggio (1969) Sam Peckinpah Moonlight (2016) Barry Jenkins Shoah (1985) Claude Lanzmann L’avventura (1960) Michelangelo Antonioni Titanic (1997) James Cameron Notorious - L'amante perduta (1946) Alfred Hitchcock Mean Streets (1973) Martin Scorsese Lezioni di Piano (1993) Jane Campion Non aprite quella porta (1974) Tobe Hooper Fino all'ultimo respiro (1960) Jean-Luc Godard Apocalypse Now (1979) Francis Ford Coppola Come vinsi la guerra (1926) Buster Keaton In the Mood for Love (2000) Wong Kar-wai Interceptor - Il guerriero della strada (1981) George Miller Il lamento sul sentiero (1955) Satyajit Ray Rosemary's Baby (1968) Roman Polanski I segreti di Brokeback Mountain (2005) Ang Lee E.T. - L'extraterrestre (1982) Steven Spielberg Senza tetto né legge (1985) Agnès Varda Moulin Rouge! (2001) Buz Luhrmann La passione di Giovanna D'Arco (1928) Carl Theodor Dreyer La vita è un sogno (1993) Richard Linklater Bambi (1942) David Hand Carrie - Lo sguardo di Satana (1976) Brian De Palma Un condannato a morte è fuggito (1956) Robert Bresson Parigi brucia (1990) Jennie Livingston Ladri di biciclette (1948) Vittorio De Sica King Kong (1933) Merian C. Cooper e Ernest B. Schoedsack Beau Travail (1999) Claire Denis 12 anni schiavo (2013) Steve McQueen Il matrimonio del mio migliore amico (1997) P. J. Hogan Le onde del destino (1996) Lars von Trier Intolerance (1916) D.W. Griffith Il mio vicino Totoro (1988) Hayao Miyazaki Boogie Nights (1997) Paul Thomas Anderson The Tree of Life (2011) Terrence Malick Agente 007 - Missione Goldfinger (1964) Guy Hamilton Jeanne Dielman (1975) Chantal Akerman Sognando Broadway (1966) Christopher Guest Pixote - La legge del più debole (1981) Héctor Babenco Il cavaliere oscuro (2008) Christopher Nolan Parasite (2019) Bong Joon-ho Kramer contro Kramer (1979) Robert Benton Il labirinto del fauno (2006) Guillermo del Toro Assassini nati - Natural Born Killers (1994) Oliver Stone Close Up (1990) Abbas Kiarostami Tutti insieme appassionatamente (1965) Robert Wise Malcolm X (1992) Spike Lee Bella di giorno (1967) Luis Buñuel The Shining (1980) Stanley Kubrick Scene da un matrimonio (1974) Ingmar Bergman Pink Flamingos (1972) John Waters Frank Costello faccia d'angelo (1967) Jean-Pierre Melville Le amiche della sposa (2011) Paul Feig Toy Story (1995) John Lasseter Tutti per uno (1964) Richard Lester Alien (1979) Ridley Scott Donne sull'orlo di una crisi di nervi (1988) Pedro Almodóvar La parola ai giurati (1957) Sidney Lumet Il laureato (1967) Mike Nichols

Dall’articolo "I 100 migliori film della Storia del Cinema secondo Variety: 1° Psyco, 5° Pulp Fiction, 33° 8 1/2, 45° Titanic" di Antonio Bracco

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Pennywise: The Story of IT will be released on Blu-ray on November 22 via Cinedigm as the first title in the Screambox collection. The 2021 documentary is currently streaming exclusively on Screambox.

Directed by John Campopiano (Unearthed & Untold: The Path to Pet Sematary) and Christopher Griffiths (Leviathan: The Story of Hellraiser), the film offers an in-depth look at the 1990 horror miniseries based on Stephen King’s IT.

Interview subjects include Pennywise himself, Tim Curry, cast members Richard Thomas, Seth Green, Tim Reid, and Emily Perkins, director Tommy Lee Wallace, writer Lawrence D. Cohen, special effects makeup artist Bart Mixon, and more. It also includes rare archival materials and never-before-seen footage.

Zachary Jackson Brown designed the slipcover art, while Doug Saquic created the cover art. Special features are listed below, where you can also watch the trailer.

Special features:

The Book Cover - A look at the original IT manuscript and cover design with artist Bob Giusti

A Deeper Look at the Music - Extended interview with composer Richard Bellis

Childhood Phobias - Cast & crew discuss their childhood fears

The Extras of IT - Interviews with background actors and additional crew

The Legacy Continues - Extended interviews about the miniseries’ legacy

Georgie: A Short Film - 2019 short film featuring Tony Dakota and Ben Heller

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More than three decades after its release, the IT miniseries and its iconic villain live on in the minds of horror fans around the world. Pennywise: The Story of IT captures not only the spark the IT saga created upon release but also the lasting impact it has had on an entire generation and the horror genre at large.

Pre-order Pennywise: The Story of IT.

#pennywise: the story of it #pennywise #it #stephen king #tim curry #horror #screambox #dvd #gift #tommy lee wallace #richard thomas #seth green #emily perkins #zachary jackson brown #doug saquic

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justforbooks · 2 years

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Leslie Phillips, who has died aged 98, was a light comedian of the old school, closely associated with a roster of smooth-talking cads and lady-killers in the series of Carry On and Doctor films he graced from the late 1950s onwards.

He first coined his trademark phrase “I say, ding dong!” as the lubricious Jack Bell in Carry On Nurse (1958) and made the simple greeting “hello” sound like a frolicsome, impure invitation, earning him the nickname “King Leer” and lending itself to the one-word title of his immensely entertaining autobiography (2006).

He became a national Sunday lunchtime institution on BBC Radio’s The Navy Lark, in which he appeared as a hopeless lieutenant on HMS Troutbridge – alongside Stephen Murray, Jon Pertwee, Tenniel Evans, Heather Chasen and Ronnie Barker – between 1959 and 1977. It was never clear – deliberately so – whether he was a simpleton or a crook in this company of Royal Navy undesirables on the recommissioned frigate stationed off Portsmouth.

Despite his louche and carefree acting persona, Phillips was an ambitious and hard-working artist who in the late 60s toured the world in his own West End hit, The Man Most Likely To... – he rewrote Joyce Rayburn’s play, took the lead, produced and directed it.

He joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in his mid-70s and featured in several major films, including George Cukor’s Les Girls (1957), with Gene Kelly and Kay Kendall, Sydney Pollack’s Out of Africa (1985), Steven Spielberg’s Empire of the Sun (1987) and Roger Michell’s Venus (2007), playing an old thespian alongside Peter O’Toole and Richard Griffiths.

His prodigious work-rate derived from his impoverished background in Tottenham, north London, where from an early age he was the family breadwinner. His suave and polished persona was as much a creation as that of Terry-Thomas or Rex Harrison, and it gave his acting an edge of seditious malice, an air of unofficial naughtiness.

With the confidence that came from being told frequently he was a good-looking lad he developed a taste for fast cars, high living and beautiful women when the money rolled in. For a time he was the highest earning actor on the West End stage, and joined the Ibiza crowd in the 70s, keeping a house there in a colony of artists and writers that included his great friend Denholm Elliott.

He was married three times and had a long relationship (between the first and second marriages) with Caroline Mortimer, the daughter of Penelope Mortimer and step-daughter of John Mortimer, both writers.

This was all a far cry from his humble beginnings as the third child of Cecelia (nee Newlove) and Frederick Phillips, a maker of cookers at Glover & Main in Edmonton. The family moved from Tottenham to Chingford, by the river Lea and on the fringes of Epping Forest, in an attempt to improve Frederick’s health, but he died of a chest illness in 1935, and Cecelia, spotting an advert in a newspaper, packed her son off to the Italia Conti school to train as an actor.

Phillips had shown talent in plays at Chingford school and soon supplemented his income from delivering papers and singing at weddings and funerals in All Saints Church, Chingford, by playing a wolf – his stage debut, in 1937, aged 13 – in Peter Pan, starring Anna Neagle, at the London Palladium.

After a spell as a cherub in a stained glass window in Dorothy L Sayers’s The Zeal of Thy House at the Garrick, he returned to the Palladium for the 1938 production of Peter Pan, now playing John Darling in a cast led by Seymour Hicks (“vile”, according to Phillips) as Captain Hook and Jean Forbes-Robertson (“lovely”) as Peter.

By the time he was called up in 1942, he had sung in the children’s chorus at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and acted with John Gielgud and Marie Tempest in Dodie Smith’s Dear Octopus at the Queen’s – the start of a long association with the producers Binkie Beaumont and HM Tennent – and Vivien Leigh and Cyril Cusack in Shaw’s The Doctor’s Dilemma at the Haymarket.

Everyone in the business liked him, and this would stand him in good stead after the second world war. He sounded posh enough to gain a commission as second lieutenant in the Royal Artillery, transferring to the Durham Light Infantry, where he was put in charge of the Suffolk transit camp at Chadacre Hall, before being invalided out in 1944.

His first post-demob job was in the box office at the Lyric, Hammersmith. He played Guildenstern in Hamlet at Dundee rep, and discovered his talent for light comedy in a stint at the York rep. His first major West End role was in a sentimental comedy, Daddy Long Legs (1946), at the Comedy (now the Harold Pinter).

The first of more than 100 film appearances came in Lassie for Lancashire (1938). The Hollywood adventure of Les Girls could have led to a latter-day C Aubrey Smith-style career in California, but he preferred London and Pinewood Studios – he was the last living actor to have worked there when they opened. He was also in the cast of the first live BBC broadcast from Alexandra Palace in 1948 – Morning Departure, set on a wartime submarine with Michael Hordern – and played his first BBC television lead in 1952 in My Wife Jacqueline (opposite Joy Shelton), a pioneering but mediocre (he said) sitcom about married life, broadcast live from Lime Grove in six 30-minute episodes.

Over the next 10 years he established himself in the Doctor films as the philandering consultant, Dr Tony Burke, and in the Carry Ons, usually stuck on Joan Sims. He followed the huge stage success of the superb farce Boeing-Boeing (taking over from David Tomlinson in 1963) with the first series of Our Man at St Mark’s on television, in which he played an eccentric new village vicar. When his affair, while still married, with Caroline Mortimer became public, he was no longer deemed suitable as a clergyman, and was succeeded in later series by Donald Sinden.

Opening at the Vaudeville in 1968, he played 655 performances as the upper-class lounge lizard Victor Cadwallader in The Man Most Likely To… and later toured to Australia (where one audience member in Adelaide was reported to have literally died laughing), New Zealand and South Africa, defying the cultural boycott and working in the townships as well as the commercial theatres.

He played in another “saucy” comedy, Sextet, at the Criterion in 1977 (Julian Fellowes was also in the cast), and then led a hugely successful revival of Ray Cooney and John Chapman’s Not Now, Darling at the Savoy in 1979, followed by another world tour.

Phillips said that he at last broke his own mould when cast by Lindsay Anderson as a dithering, weak-willed Gayev in The Cherry Orchard at the Haymarket in 1983 (Joan Plowright played his sister), and he went even further in a brilliant revival by Mike Ockrent of Peter Nichols’s lacerating comedy Passion Play at the Leicester Haymarket, and then Wyndham’s in the West End, in 1984. In 1990, he popped up unexpectedly in The Comic Strip and, also on television, in Chancer, which launched Clive Owen, playing Owen’s scheming boss.

There was now no pattern or predictability as he entered the last phase of an astonishing career. He played the professor in another Chekhov, Julian Mitchell’s rewrite of Uncle Vanya, August, with Anthony Hopkins at Theatr Clwyd, Mold (1994), and then joined the RSC to play a fruity saloon bar roué of a Falstaff in Ian Judge’s The Merry Wives of Windsor (1996) on the main Stratford-upon-Avon stage and, in the Swan, a cynical hotelier in Steven Pimlott’s discovery of Tennessee Williams’s “lost” fantasia, Camino Real. Also in 1996, he played a frisky old Sir Sampson Legend in Love for Love by William Congreve at the Chichester Festival theatre.

On the Whole, It’s Been Jolly Good was the appropriate title of a Peter Tinniswood one-man play he took to the Edinburgh Fringe in 1999, reverting to more raffish type as Sir Plympton Makepeace, a bitterly “dumped” Tory MP from the Shires with no good to say of anyone: “That woman with the loud voice … I think she was the PM but to me she looked like a power-mad swimming baths attendant.” His last stage appearance came as an ageing judge with a back problem in John Mortimer’s Naked Justice at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in 2001.

In the new millennium he had good TV roles in Monarch of the Glen and Miss Marple. An excellent television version of Evelyn Waugh’s Sword of Honour trilogy, adapted by William Boyd (2002), had him in the role of Gervase Crouchback, father of Daniel Craig’s anti-heroic Guy, and he regained his dog collar in Nigel Cole’s charming movie Saving Grace (2000), starring Blenda Blethyn. For the Harry Potter films he voiced the Sorting Hat at Hogwarts.

In 1997 he received a lifetime achievement award from the Evening Standard, and 10 years later another from the Critics’ Circle. In 1998 he was appointed OBE, and in 2008 CBE.

Phillips married the actor Penelope Bartley in 1948, and they had two sons and two daughters. They divorced in 1965, and in 1982 he married the actor Angela Scoular; she took her own life in 2011. Two years later he married Zara Carr, and she survives him, along with his children.

🔔 Leslie Samuel Phillips, actor, born 20 April 1924; died 7 November 2022

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Lillian Gish and Richard Barthelmess in Broken Blossoms (D.W. Griffith, 1919)

Cast: Lillian Gish, Richard Barthelmess, Donald Crisp, Arthur Howard, Edward Peil Sr., George Berenger, Nathan Selby. Screenplay: D.W. Griffith, based on a story by Thomas Burke. Cinematography: G.W. Bitzer. Film editing: James Smith.

The raw pathos of Broken Blossoms has probably never been equaled on film, thanks to three extraordinary performers. Lillian Gish is a known quantity, of course, but it's startling to see Donald Crisp as one of the most odious villains in film history. Crisp, whose film-acting career spanned more than fifty years, from the earliest silent shorts through his final performance in Spencer's Mountain (Delmer Daves, 1963), is best known today for fatherly and grandfatherly roles in How Green Was My Valley (John Ford, 1941), Lassie Come Home (Fred M. Wilcox, 1943), and National Velvet (Clarence Brown, 1944), but his performance as Battling Burrows is simply terrifying. As the cockney fighter, he displays a macho strut that might have influenced James Cagney. Richard Barthelmess is no less impressive as Cheng Huan, known in the film mostly as The Yellow Man. We have to make allowances for the stereotyping and the "yellowface" performance today, but Barthelmess (and Griffith) deserve some credit for ennobling the character, running counter to the widespread anti-Asian sentiments and fear of miscegenation in the era. Barthelmess, who became a matinee idol, makes The Yellow Man simultaneously creepy and sympathetic. And then there's Gish, who as usual throws herself (almost literally) into the role of the waif, Lucy. It's an astonishing performance that virtually defined film acting for at least the next decade, until sound came in and actors could rely on something other than their faces and bodies to communicate. True, some of her gestures lent themselves to parody, as when Buster Keaton steals Lucy's trick of pushing up the corners of her mouth to force a smile in Go West (1925), but parody is often the sincerest form of flattery.

#Broken Blossoms #D.W. Griffith #Lillian Gish #Richard Barthelmess

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Another day, another movie. Tonight we've got Golden Gate from 1981. Cast (with many familiar faces): Perry King - Jordan Kingsley Jean Simmons - Jane Kingsley Richard Kiley - Thomas J. Kingsley Robyn Douglass - Candy Martin Mary Crosby - Natalie Kingsley John Saxon - Monty Sager Melanie Griffith - Karen Peter Donat - Richard Bryne and many more

Story: A prodigal son comes finally home after a distressed call from his mother. However, eight years have changed a boy into a man and father. Jordan returns in the arms of his Mom and sister with his young son, only to find out that the newspaper run by his family is about to take over by a man named Sager. Even his own father is not happy to see him, not letting go of the past when the son walked out from San Francisco to go to New York. Thomas J. uses anyone to get his son committed. After some trouble with his wife who left him, he comes back and tries his best to please everyone. The only help he has is his old love Candy who is about to marry, and a young lady named Claire. Finding a good story about natural fuel and Sager's involvement here, the family disput grows and Sager does everything to get Natalie in his core but she remains loyal to her brother. At the last board meeting, father and son are ready to disput when the mother Jane uses her power to get all to her son. Now the father walks out.

There’s a trailer on Youtube from my source (truetvmovies.net). The movie is not bad and well, the main reason can be seen!

#Golden Gate 1981 #tv movie #perry king #jean simmons #richard kiley #robyn douglass #mary crosby #john saxon #melanie griffith #peter donat #newspaper #family business #father-son conflict #san francisco

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PENNYWISE: THE STORY OF IT Documentary Floats On Screambox

Screambox original documentary Pennywise: The Story of IT, an in-depth look at the 1990 horror miniseries based on Stephen King's classic novel, is available today on Screambox and VOD platforms.

The film boasts exclusive interviews with many of the miniseries' key players, including Pennywise himself, Tim Curry, cast members Richard Thomas, Seth Green, Tim Reid, and Emily Perkins, director Tommy Lee Wallace, writer Lawrence D. Cohen, special effects makeup artist Bart Mixon, and more.

Several years in the making, co-directors John Campopiano (Unearthed & Untold: The Path to Pet Sematary) and Christopher Griffiths (Leviathan: The Story of Hellraiser) uncovered a wealth of insight on the production, including rare archival materials and never-before-seen footage.

Enjoy Pennywise: The Story of IT with a 30-day free trial of Screambox, available on iOS, Android, Prime Video, YouTube TV, Comcast, and Screambox.com.

#pennywise: the story of it #screambox #pennywise #it #tim curry

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Filmes Baseados Em Livros 2

As adaptações de livros para os cinemas fazem sucesso com o público. É possível experimentar aventuras, e emoções por meio dos filmes sem perder a magia do cinema são filmes recentes e filmes clássicos, , para todos os públicos. Confira os filmes em Destaque:

A Menina que Roubava

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2014 Drama

Durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial, uma mulher de nome Liesel Meminger (Sophie Nélisse) sobrevive fora de Munique através dos livros que ela rouba. Auxiliada por seu pai adotivo (Geoffrey Rush), ela aprende a ler e compartilhar livros com seus amigos, incluindo um homem judeu (Ben Schnetzer) que vive na clandestinidade em sua casa. Enquanto não está lendo ou estudando, ela realiza algumas tarefas para a mãe (Emily Watson) e brinca com a amiga Rudy (Nico Liersch).

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Os Smurfs 2

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2013 Comédia

Depois de fracassar na caça dos Smurfs em Nova York, Gargamel (Hank Azaria) partiu para Paris e lá se tornou um sucesso, sendo considerado o maior mágico do mundo. Entretanto, por trás dos shows lotados que faz na Opera está um plano para capturar os Smurf. Para tanto o bruxo cria dois danadinhos, Vexy (Christina Ricci) e Hackus (J.B. Smoove), que o auxilia para a aldeia dos Smurfs, para onde Vexy (Christina Ricci) viaja e sequestra Smurfette (Katy Perry). A ideia é que ela revele o segredo da fórmula mágica que fez com que deixasse de ser uma danadinha para se tornar uma smurf, algo que apenas ela e o Papai Smurf (Jonathan Winters) têm conhecimento. Não demora muito para que o Papai Smurf (Jonathan Winters) organize uma nova expedição rumo ao mundo real, com o objetivo de resgatar a Smurfette (Katy Perry) das garras de Gargamel (Hank Azaria)

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Diário de um Banana 3: Dias de Cãoetalhe

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2012 Infantil / Comédia

Diário de um Banana - Dias de Cão, Greg (Zachary Gordon) está prestes a ter o pior verão de sua vida. Os problemas começam de depois de ser expulso de um clube, o qual costumava ir com frequência com seu melhor amigo, Rowley (Robert Capron). A saída para se refrescar seria ir àGreg (Zachary Gordon) e Rowley (Robert Capron) não tem outra alternativa a não ser usar a piscina pública de sua cidade, com seus chuveiros abertos ao público que os enchem de vergonha. Além disso, os amigos enfrentam problemas após assistir um filme de terror roubado do quarto de Rodrick (Devon Bostick). Como no fim uma mão lamacenta aparece indo em direção à tela, Greg (Zachary Gordon) e Rowley (Robert Capron) acreditam que ela possa pegá-los a qualquer momento.

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Harry Potter e a Pedra Filosofal

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2001 Ação

Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) é uma criança órfão de 10 ( Dez ) anos que vive infeliz com seus tios, os Dursley. Até que, repentinamente, ele recebe uma carta contendo um convite para ingressar em Hogwarts, uma famosa escola especializada em formar jovens bruxos. Inicialmente Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) é impedido de ler a carta por seu tio Válter (Richard Griffiths), mas logo ele recebe a visita de Hagrid (Robbie Coltrane), o guarda-caça de Hogwarts, que chega em sua casa para levá-lo até a escola. A partir de então Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) passa a conhecer um mundo mágico que jamais imaginara, vivendo as mais diversas aventuras com seus mais novos amigos, Rony Weasley (Rupert Grint) e Hermione Granger (Emma Watson).

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O Sétimo Filho

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2014 ‧ Fantasia / Aventura

John Gregory (Jeff Bridges) é o sétimo filho do sétimo filho e mantém uma cidade do século XVIII relativamente bem e longe dos maus espíritos. No entanto, ele não é mais jovem e suas tentativas de treinar um sucessor foram todas deram ruim. Sua última esperança é uma criança chamado Thomas Ward (Ben Barnes), filho de um fazendeiro. Seu primeiro desafio será grande: Ele terá que enfrentar a Mãe Malkin (Julianne Moore), uma terrível e poderosa bruxa, que escapou do seu confinamento quando o grande mestre Gregory estava afastado da cidade.

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Alice Através do Espelho

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2016 Fantasia / Aventura

Alice (Mia Wasikowska) volta depois de uma viagem pelo mundo, e reencontra a mãe. No casarão de uma grande festa, ela percebe a presença de um espelho mágico. Alice (Mia Wasikowskapassa pe espelho e volta ao País das Maravilhas, onde descobre que o Chapeleiro Maluco (Johnny Depp) corre risco de morte de pois de fazer uma descoberta sobre seu passado. Para salvar o amigo Chapeleiro Maluco (Johnny Depp) , Alice (Mia Wasikowska) deve conversar com o Tempo (Sacha Baron Cohen) para voltar às vésperas de um evento traumático e mudar o destino do Chapeleiro Maluco (Johnny Depp) . Nesta aventura, também descobre um trauma que separou as irmãs Rainha Branca (Anne Hathaway) e Rainha Vermelha (Helena Bonham Carter).

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O Lorax: Em Busca da Trúfula Perdida

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2012 Aventura

A criança Ted (Zac Efron) descobriu que o sonho de sua paixão, a bela Audrey (Taylor Swift), é ver uma árvore de verdade, algo em extinção. Disposto a realizar este desejo, ele embarca numa aventura por uma terra desconhecida, cheia de cor, natureza e árvores. É lá que conhece também o simpático e ao mesmo tempo rabugento Lorax (Danny DeVito), uma criatura curiosa preocupada com o futuro de seu próprio mundo.

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Drácula: A História Nunca Contada

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2014 Ação

Drácula - A História Nunca Contada, os habitantes da Transilvânia sempre foram inimigos dos turcos, com quem tiveram batalhas épicas. Para evitar que sua população fosse massacrada, o rei aceitou entregar aos turcos várias crianças. Entre elas estava seu filho, Vlad Tepes (Luke Evans), que aprendeu com os turcos a arte de guerrear. Vlad Tepes (Luke Evans) ganhou fama pela ferocidade nas batalhas e também por empalar os derrotados. De volta à Transilvânia, onde é nomeado príncipe, ele governa em paz por 10 ( dez ) anos. Só que o rei Mehmed (Dominic Cooper) mais uma vez exige que 100 crianças sejam entregues aos turco Vlad Tepes (Luke Evans) se recusa e, com isso, inicia uma nova guerra. Para vencê-la, ele recorre a um ser das trevas (Charles Dance) que vive pela região. depois de beber o sangue dele, Vlad Tepes (Luke Evans se torna um vampiro e ganha poderes sobrehumanos.

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Os Caras Malvados

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2022 Infantil / Comédia

Baseado nos quadrinhos de Aaron Blabey, Os Caras Malvados segue uma equipe de ladrões . Sr. Lobo, Srta. Tarântula, Sr. Tubarão, Sr. Piranha e Sr. Cobra sempre foram vistos como maus, desajustados e que assustam todo mundo que os vê. Eles têm um histórico de crimes, e roubando tudo o que eles querem e como eles querem. Em um de seus planos de assalto em um evento de gala, Sr. Lobo percebe que eles podem ser bons, ou melhor, que pessoas podem ver eles como bons animais. Sendo pegos pela polícia depois de um plano que deu ruim, a equipe de de ladrões decidem se passarem de bonzinhos para que a polícia não fique na cola deles e para não serem mandados para a cadeia para auxilia-lo a recuperar porquinhos-da-índia que estão sendo usados para testes em uma empresa. Será que a mentira da equipe se manterá? Ou eles vão finalmente ser os bonzinhos da história?

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O Poderoso Chefinho 2: Negócios da Família

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2021 Infantil / Comédia

O Poderoso Chefinho 2 - Negócios da Família mostra os irmãos Tim e Ted, agora adultos e vivendo vidas separadas. Enquanto Tim construiu uma vida calma no subúrbio com sua esposa, Carol, e as filhas, Tabitha e Tina, Ted se transformou em um mega empresário que resolve todos os problemas com dinheiro. Mas quando Tim descobre que sua filha caçula também é agente do BabyCorp, ele precisará do auxilio do irmão mais novo para lidar com a situação.

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