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"I ruined your life, didn't I?" Alex Neustaedter as Jack Raeburn Josie & Jack (2019), dir. Sarah Lancaster

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Things Heard & Seen (2021)

"You know what they say about temptation. Easiest way to kill it is to just give in."

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Season finale: American Rust (created by Dan Futterman, 2021-)

Long months after trying to watch American Rust for the first time, I got back to it, and it's finally grown on me. I still don't care about the central plot's crime or, more broadly, about anything that involves Daniels's and Neustaedter's characters. But since it's a series, there's time for what otherwise could be lost in the peripheries. Tierney's character gets more screen time, most of which revolves around her increasingly resolute determination to talk her workmates into unionizing. There are several scenes of women talking, still underdeveloped, yet already interesting and potent. Tierney is the most subtly expressive, empathetic, and present actor on the show, as, likely, is painfully underutilized Zenzi Williams, who's her great partner in the few moments they share. There's also Alvarez, whose runaway plot meanders at first (though he's partnered for one-two episodes with scene-stealing Nicole Chanel Williams), but then he has this sweet sex-working moment with an older guy, when he is caught by experiencing pleasure, which he grasps with an unexpectedly beautiful face expression. There's nothing special about what the series looks or sounds like, but there's also nothing that doesn't work. I'm looking forward to the second season, I'm happy it'll happen.

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THINGS HEARD & SEEN (2021) ★★✮☆☆

THINGS HEARD & SEEN (2021) ★★✮☆☆

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Alex Neustaedter as Billy Poe. American Rust S2E7.

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LOW TIDE (2019) Grade: C+

Clever plot and good production value. Could have had more mystery surrounding it. Some characters don't get flushed out enough. Ending was a let down. Still a good indie film.

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RECEFLASH | American Rust - stagione 1

Da oggi su Amazon Prime Video ritorna American Rust con la seconda stagione. Se volete rinfrescarvi la memoria, eccovi il nostro parere sul primo ciclo di episodi.

RECEFLASH STAGIONE 1

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Things Heard and Seen (Movie Review) | One Genre Masquerading as Another

#ThingsHeardandSeen is one Genre Masquerading as Another, I did not expect to be as into it as I was. #MovieReview #AmandaSeyfried #JamesNorton #netflix

Going in I was like “I am not a horror fan, I get scared too easily and I have enough stress in my life” but I watched Things Heard and Seen because it was Amanda Seyfried (Les Misérables, Dear John); James Norton (Little Women, McMafia) helped too. Adapted and directed by Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini (10,000 Saints, The Nanny Diaries) this movie is based on Elizabeth Brundage‘s…

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A.X.L. (2018)

While I didn't enjoy this film, that doesn't mean you won't. No matter what I say, the people involved in this project did it: they actually made a movie. That's something to be applauded. With that established...

I wouldn’t be as harsh on A.X.L. if it weren’t so derivative of other works. The film keeps reminding you of E.T., The Irony Giant, Transformers, Short Circuit and countless other, superior productions. Even without the comparisons, there’s no depth to any of the characters, their relationships or the plot.

A-X-L (Attack, Exploration & Logistics) is the code name given to a highly advanced robotic dog designed to accompany soldiers into battle. After an experiment goes wrong, the advanced prototype escapes and befriends Miles Hill (Alex Neustaedter), an amateur motocross rider. Miles and his friend Sara (Becky G) do their best to keep A-X-L a secret while the people who built it begin closing in.

You’ve seen this movie before. If you haven’t, I still couldn’t recommend A.X.L. to you; there are simply too many alternatives. I'm not saying no one should tell the story of a lonely boy (or girl) who befriends a misfit creature and has to hide them while authorities begin their search but if you’re going to, give it some kind of new angle. Director Oliver Daly (who also wrote the screenplay, based on his short film Miles) makes the creature a robotic dog. That’s it. The romance which develops between Miles and Sara is obvious and shallow. You don’t feel as though they’re really becoming close while taking care of the cybo-pooch, only that because it plays a couple of romantic pop songs and puts on a light show they can dance to, they’re obligated to eventually kiss. Because you’re not interested in them or their love plot, all you can do is start noticing inconsistencies in the story to keep yourself amused.

To the film’s credit, it looks really good. A.X.L. was made with a $10 million budget and you can't tell. Once the novelty of seeing that mechanical canine run around wears off, however, you begin asking questions. Questions like “why a robotic dog”? A-X-L walks on all fours and behaves like a pet… but it’s a $70 million dollar machine. Why can't it speak (and I mean speak for real, not just replay soundbites of what it hears)? Why does it run on gasoline? Come to think of it, for such an expensive machine, it kind of sucks. The thing struggles to catch Miles the first time they meet and later on gets easily incapacitated by a group of “way too old to be doing this” bullies. They’re not the only ones whose age raises eyebrows. Miles is way too old to be doing this. I get that the robot is hurt and that he recognizes the shape of an animal so he sympathizes with it (though he never shows concern for any other animals at any point in the story) but when Miles realizes how expensive and how dangerous this thing is, he continues treating it like a pet. He comes off as dumb. If he were a kid, you’d buy it but he’s got to be at least 20. There’s no excuse.

The screenplay just isn’t very well written. Several character threads go nowhere, like Miles being a motocross rider. He wins the only race we see him enter… so where does he go from there? Sara is afraid to stand up to bully Sam (Alex MacNicoll) because his family employs her mom as a maid… but that's never resolved. They go off on their own for days with their parents only showing the mildest bit of concern. That's not the only questionable behavior. The worst offender is easily Dominic Raines’ Andric, the scientist responsible for creating A-X-L. The mechanical mutt is running around, threatening itself and civilians alike but over and over, he refuses to listen to his co-worker and just sits back to watch the chaos unfold. You know it’s only a matter of scenes before he goes full-on mad scientist and of course, he does eventually. At least the actor shows enthusiasm for his part, which makes him fun to watch.

A.X.L. is a bad film that I can picture younger viewers enjoying - mostly because they haven’t seen the alternatives. There is a certain element of fun to it, though not enough for me to recommend the picture. Even those who have a good time watching A.X.L. will eventually forget it or move on to better movies. (August 21, 2020)

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Maybe you're just paranoid. Low Tide (2019) dir. Kevin McMullin

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🗞️📖 Bookish News - January Edition 📖🗞️

🦇 Extra, extra. Read all about it! 📖 Good morning, bookish bats! A lot happened in the publishing industry last month, but here are a few highlights you may have missed!

Adaptations: 📖 Andrew Garfield and Cynthia Erivo will lead Audible audio adaptation of George Orwell's 1984 (April) 🗞️ The Ranger's Apprentice by John Flanagan may get a live-action film (and franchise) 📖 American Born Chinese was canceled at Disney+ after only one season 🗞️ Andrew Garfield left the Frankenstein adaptation due to scheduling conflicts. Jacob Elordi will play Frankenstein's monster 📖 14-episode series adaptation of One Day by David Nicholls (February 8) 🗞️ R. L. Stine's Prom Queen is being adapted into a film 📖 Isabela Ferrer and Alex Neustaedter cast to play young Lily and Atlas in the It Ends With Us adaptation (June 21) 🗞️ Anthony Kiedis (Red Hot Chili Peppers) wrote a memoir, Scar Tissue, that was optioned for a big-screen adaptation 📖 Ripley (based on Patricia Highsmith's novels) has a trailer (April)

Cover Reveals: 📖 Little Rot by Akwaeke Emezi (June 18) 🗞️ Navola by Paolo Bacigalupi (July 9) 📖 Their Divine Fires by Wendy Chen (May 7 - Debut) 🗞️ Together We Burn (Paperback) and Where the Library Hides (November 12) by Isabel Ibañez 📖 The Hunter's Gambit by Ciel Pierlot (June 25) 🗞️ Look What You Made Me Do by Kat McKenna (May 9) 📖 The Pairing by Casey McQuiston (August 6) 🗞️ A Song to Drown Rivers by Ann Liang (October)

Upcoming Releases: 📖 Rebel Wilson is writing her memoir Rebel Rising (April 2) 🗞️ The final book of Tomi Adeyemi's YA fantasy, Child of Anguish and Anarchy, comes out June 25 📖 Rainbow Rowell's first adult novel since Landline, Slow Dance (July 2024) 🗞️ A child's book version of Alien, A is for Alien: An ABC Book (July 9) 📖 Keanu Reeves wrote a sci-fi novel with China Miéville, The Book of Elsewhere (July) 🗞️ Lisa Marie Presley's posthumous memoir (October) 📖 Bill Maher's What This Comedian Said Will Shock You (June) 🗞️ An illustrated version of the Hunger Games (why?) 📖 Let It Glow by Marissa Meyer and Joanne Levy (October 29)

Other News: 🗞️ The finalists for the Cybils awards have been announced 📖 New York Public Library announced it's second title for their "Books for All" program 🗞️ Winners of the Walt Awards were announced

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While we're here Alex neustaedter simply NEEDS to be a campy horror flick