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Simon Pegg as Nandor Fodor in Nandor Fodor And The Talking Mongoose (2023)

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Absolutely incredible Nandor Fodor fan art from @mistersamshearon! Nandor Fodor and The Talking Mongoose arrives in limited cinemas in the US Sept 1! #simonpegg

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Nandor Fodor and the Talking Mongoose

directed by Adam Sigal, 2023

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Trailer for "Nandor Fodor and the Talking Mongoose" just dropped!!

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Nandor Fodor and the Talking Mongoose (2023) Review

And the weirdest film title of the year goes too...

Plot: When famed paranormal psychologist Dr Nandor Fodor investigates a family's claim that a talking mongoose lives in their barn, he uncovers a mysterious web of hidden motives. Soon, everyone becomes a suspect in his relentless pursuit of the truth.

The most fascinating fact about Nandor Fodor and the Talking Mongoose aside from its title is that it is based on a true story. Gef was an allegedly talking mongoose that was claimed to inhabit a farmhouse owned by the Irving family. The Irvings' farm was located at Cashen's Gap near the hamlet of Dalby on the Isle of Man. The tabloid press in Britain gave the story extensive coverage in the early 1930s. The Irvings' claims gained the attention of parapsychologists and ghost hunters, such as Harry Price, Hereward Carrington, and Nandor Fodor. Some investigators of the era and contemporary critics have concluded that the phenomenon was a hoax that the Irving family perpetuated by using ventriloquism. Amusingly enough the Irving family in the film are very open about the fact that the daughter is a talented ventriloquist.

The film itself comes off as strangely peculiar. Director Adam Sigal is evidently trying to create a tone of eeriness and mystery, and though there is that constant question throughout if the talking mongoose is real or a fraudulent manifestation, there's almost that sense of why should we care. The dialogue is heavily clunky, aside from the very delightful few scenes in the pub between Simon Pegg (trying his best at a Hungarian accent to questionable results) and Christopher Lloyd, with them talking about the mongoose, spirituality, fraud and at one point Harry Houdini. I found it strangely comforting seeing Lloyd still on top of his game at his age, and Pegg too is enjoyable when allowed to simply go with the flow. However aside from those moments, the script is poor, and as this is very much a talker of a film, there are so many interminably dull stretches of dialogue and conversation. The comedy also hardly lands, with again the key word being peculiar, with the movie attempting humor through strange happenstances, yet aside from the primary Rikki-tikki-tavi (voiced by Neil Gaiman of all folks), those shenanigans are not that interesting nor amusing. Shame, as the cast seems to be really trying, yet the plot seems more befitting for a short film or possibly a little documentary or TV special rather than a full feature length.

The entire movie is in this constant state of meandering as if its characters are stuck in this constant loop of doing nothing. Maybe that is it - the film is saying that life is so boring that people end up finding fascination and obsession over the smallest and silliest of things, like a myth about a mongoose that is able to talk. If so, then that's just sad, and now I am sad. So thank you Nandor Fodor for making me sad. That is exactly what I need when I come back from a long day at work and want to watch a casual movie on Prime. Silly mongoose.

Overall score: 4/10

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The Great North Season 4 Episode 17: Welcome to Miami Adventure

Written by Gabe Delahaye

Directed by Karen Hydendahl

Storyboard by Alice Hsieh, Forrest E. Norris III, Barbara Kalustian, Robert Parker, Sean Lee, Michaela Wadzinski, Ben Adams, Rachel Sigal & Rachel Napierkowski

Prop design by David Brueggeman

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#BellaThorne y #JackKilmer protagonizaran drama de fantasía #TheTower √

Bella Thorne (Divinity) y Jack Kilmer (Palo Alto) se han fijado para encabezar The Tower, uno de los 102 proyectos a los que se les otorgó un Acuerdo Interino SAG-AFTRA luego del lanzamiento de la huelga de actores.  Bella Thorne / Imagen cortesía Getty Images También en el escenario del drama fantástico, del cineasta Adam Sigal (Nandor Fodor y The Talking Mangosta), están Cam Gigandet (Violent…

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Nandor Fodor and the Talking Mongoose

[3 stars] History is full of weird and wonderful stories to plunder for plots. Adam Sigal found a rather funny and fascinating one in this 1930s tale of a famous (at the time) parapsychologist who debunks claims while still hoping to find the real thing. And that is the beauty of this film, it is really more about hope and joy in life than it is about truth. We know this from the opening scene…

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Rory Culkin and Paris Jackson to lead director Adam Sigal's 1990s softcore porn comedy Skinemax

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Mayor Adams, who has said that Monday’s fatal stabbing spree was a failure of government, said Tuesday he wants to expand involuntary hospitalization policies to make it easier for cops and outreach workers to get mentally ill people off the streets.

Following a bloody stabbing spree that left three dead Monday, the mayor made a push for legislation that would broaden the grounds for involuntary removal at his weekly press briefing on Tuesday.

“We do need Albany to pass a supportive intervention act. It clearly clarifies the standards for holding a person for care in a hospital, because clarity allows people not to feel reluctant to make the decision,” the mayor said. “And that clarity is not there.”

The bill, the Supportive Intervention Act, was introduced in 2023 but never passed committee. It would broaden the grounds for involuntary hospitalization.

Adams also advocated for the bill after the death of Jordan Neely in May 2023. Daniel Penny, who put Neely in a chokehold, is currently on trial for manslaughter. 

Suspect Ramon Rivera was charged with three counts of murder for the deaths of three victims on Tuesday. He was held without bail.

Rivera, 51, is a repeat offender who has been in and out of jail for decades in Florida, Ohio, and New York and arrested twice in New Jersey. He’s been in New York City for only around a year — but has been arrested multiple times and hospitalized at least twice, officials previously told the Daily News. 

Speaking from City Hall, Adams acknowledged other issues like a psychiatric bed shortage contribute to the city’s mental health crisis. He said that he was willing to “confront” the issue by getting people care, “even if it means involuntary removals.”

“The system has been failing for a long time,” the mayor said. “Administration after administration, I can recall stories and reading about people with severe mental health illness harming themselves and harming others.”

The Adams administration rolled out the directive for NYPD offices and outreach teams to take in and hospitalize individuals appearing to be a danger to themselves or others in November 2022. 

Since its inception, the policy has been very controversial among advocates and some elected officials.

Later on Tuesday, state Sen. Brad Hoylman-Sigal and Assemblyman-elect Micah Lasher, announced new proposed legislation called the H.E.L.P. Act, which would give nurses, psychologists and clinical social workers the authority to perform clinical evaluations of a person’s need for involuntary hospitalization.

“Yesterday’s stabbings were just the latest devastating example of the need to reform New York State’s mental hygiene law to address the continued fallout from the closure of thousands of mental health beds across the state over the last several decades, which has caused individuals struggling with mental illness to languish on the streets and in the subways,” Hoylman-Sigal said in a statement.

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The Great North Season 4 Episode 12: Any Court in a Storm Adventure

Written by Laura Hooper Beck

Directed by Michael Baylis

Storyboard by Ben Adams, Sean Lee, Alyx Jolivet, Michaela Wadzinski, Paul Lee & Rachel Sigal

Prop design by David Brueggeman