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The cast of the CBS television series The Leslie Uggams Show go to watch Ike & Tina Turner perform at the Baby Grand West in Los Angeles, 1969.

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Trap will be released on 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray, and DVD on November 5 via Warner Bros. The 2024 psychological thriller will first be available on PVOD on August 30.

M. Night Shyamalan writes and directs. Josh Hartnett, Ariel Donoghue, Saleka Shyamalan, Hayley Mills, and Alison Pill star.

Special features are listed below.

Special features:

Setting the Trap: A New M. Night Shayamalan Experience

Saleka as Lady Raven

3 Deleted Scenes

Extended Concert Scene: Where Did She Go

A father and teen daughter attend a pop concert, where they realize they’re at the center of a dark and sinister event.

Pre-order Trap.

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If I had a penny for every show I watched with a person from the 1700s who has family troubles, ends up in the modern era by supernatural circumstances and befriends a young woman while in modern times, I'd have three pennies.

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And Henry Said...

"Say cheese!"

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(New Young Adult Releases Coming Out Today! (June 18th, 2024)

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Have I missed any new Young Adult releases? Have you added any of these books to your TBR? Let me know!

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New Standalones/First in a Series:

Of Jade & Dragons by Amber Chen

Bad Graces by Kyrie McCauley

Where Wolves Don't Die by Anton Treuer

The Calculation of You & Me by Serena Kaylor

With Love, Miss Americanah by Jane Igharo

All Roads Lead to Rome by Sabrina Fedel

Rules for Camouflage by Kirstin Cronn-Mills

A Game Most Foul by Alison Gervais

Old Palmetto Drive by S.E. Reed

New Sequels:

Hearts that Cut (Threads That Bind #2) by Kika Hatzopoulou

Masquerade of the Heart (Garden of the Cursed #2) by Katy Rose Pool

Poison in their Hearts (Castles in Their Bones #3) by Laura Sebastian

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Happy reading!

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Tiny Review: Trap 2024. Twisty M Night.

Always a treat to see M Night cameos in his own movies 😂 And this movie stars his daughter as well.

The thrills are good, so I suspend my disbelief at the plot conveniences. My only gripe is the ending scene should have been cut early at the flashback to the bicycle, without the explanation scene after. To let our imagination go wild.

Trap is a 2024 American psychological thriller film written, directed, and produced by M. Night Shyamalan. Starring Josh Hartnett, Ariel Donoghue, Saleka Night Shyamalan, Hayley Mills, and Alison Pill.

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Tetris (Jon S. Baird, 2023).

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Trap (2024) review

M. Night Shyamalan seems like a nice dad.

Plot: In M. Night Shyamalan's latest outing, everyone in a large city is in a frenzy. Why? That's because they're up and ready to watch a concert performed by famous pop star Lady Raven. Two of her fans, a man named Cooper and his daughter Riley, attend the concert with high spirits, but things slowly begin to change their tune. Amongst the screams of adoration and sounds of applause, the concert itself has a hidden identity: a front to fish out an infamous serial killer known as The Butcher. With security cameras rigged, armies of policemen with weapons at the ready, and police vehicles surrounding the venue, will anyone survive their concert experience or is there more to The Butcher than meets the eye?

I bloody love M. Night Shyamalan! As a director that is, not as a person as I’ve never met the guy. He could be a real stuck snob for all I know. But as a creative voice in the movie industry I absolutely adore him, as this is someone who to this day has not let the Hollywood machine change or mould him and has stayed true to himself and his style of art form. Granted he does make a lot of crap, from the fascinating beach-that-turns-you-old concept stuck in a goofy and stupidly executed Old to The Happening where he somehow managed to make a tree be the ominous bad guy. And even then I cannot hate the guy as he’s evidently so batshit crazy that I have no choice but to love it. As even at his worst he still manages to come with such unique and outrageous concepts, and of course is also well known for his ridiculous third act plot twists, so even his worst film can still offer some level of entertainment. Except for After Earth. F*** that movie and also f*** Jaeden Smith ya tosser!! Mind you, I’ve never seen After Earth.

Trap is so silly. Like on every level, from each scene featuring a thousands plot-holes, characters talking like unreal people as if they are in some alien reality, random crap occurring for the sake of it…. It’s all absolutely absurd. Josh Hartnett is the glue that holds it all together, as his unhinged performance of a psychopath trying his best to act like a happy fun loving guy only to seem even more like a serial killer was truly hilarious. Also, I found myself kind of rooting for the serial killer? Like what kind of weird Dexter crap is this, Shyamalamadingdong?? I’ve been Stockholm syndromed into liking the bad guy! But anyway, Hartnett is a hoot and honestly he needs to be in more films! Saleka as the pop singer is alright. Her songs aren’t that great nor is her acting, though I do find it super endearing that Shyamalan made this entire film just to give his daughter her big ‘Eras Tour’ concert moment break and to boost her music career. What a sweet papa.

This movie very much is reliant on how willing you are to suspend your sense of disbelief, and on what level are you able to stick with Shyamalan’s shenanigans. This isn’t a particularly good movie, nor is it a bad one, but it’s extremely entertaining from beginning to end, even if the ending does get a little too off the rails. That being said one aspect that was actually phenomenal was the cinematography by Sayombhu Mukdeeprom, who’s a frequent collaborator of Luca Guadagnino’s. There are so many ludicrously delicious frames here, and I admired how each conversation was shot, as tight and intimate as possible while capturing every foolish and panic-induced character response.

Also shout out to Kid Cudi who rocks up for less than 5 minutes of screen time to drop the mic, eye-fuck Josh Hartnett for no other reason other than it’s Josh Hartnett and then drop the best line of the whole damn movie - “I specifically said I wanted honeysuckle sour kombucha, bitch!!”

Overall score: 6/10

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Trap (2024)

This is a Movie Health Community evaluation. It is intended to inform people of potential health hazards in movies and does not reflect the quality of the film itself. The information presented here has not been reviewed by any medical professionals.

Trap has scenes of police car strobe lights during a large portion of the third act of the film. There is some strobe lighting that illuminates a concert audience briefly. During one number at this concert, a digital background shows some clouds filled with lightning.

There is some infrequent use of handheld and shaking camera work.

Flashing Lights: 7/10. Motion Sickness: 4/10.

TRIGGER WARNING: This film explores the psychology of a serial killer. There is some kidnapping, and there are some graphic descriptions of horrific acts of violence. One person briefly muses about a potential murder-suicide plan.

Video ID: Admin Brandon's review and evaluation of Trap

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Trap, M. Night Shyamalan (2024)

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Trap (2024) Review

A father, Cooper and his teenage daughter Riley attend a pop concert of Lady Raven only all is not as it seems when a trap had been set to find a most wanted serial killer. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Continue reading Trap (2024) Review

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This thought just randomly came to me- season 7.

So are we never going to address the fact that Regina went GRAVE-DIGGING in season 7? Belfrey had the storybook buried with her after she died, and Regina told Lucy she would get it back.

‘gina dug up a corpse, y’all!

(she’s still my girl tho. could never make me hate her)

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There's no escape in Trap. The new M. Night Shyamalan experience opens in theaters on August 2 via Warner Bros. Broke Horror Fan is celebrating with a giveaway.

Five winners will each receive a pair of Fandango tickets to see Trap on the big screen. Fill out this form to enter. Winners will be drawn and alerted on August 1. One entry permitted per person, US residents only.

Written, directed, and produced by Shyamalan, the psychological thriller stars Josh Hartnett, Ariel Donoghue, Saleka Shyamalan, Hayley Mills, and Alison Pill.

Trap pits a not-so-ordinary father named Cooper against a full FBI operation to apprehend the serial killer known as The Butcher. In a sold-out arena with his daughter in tow, Cooper finds himself taking increasingly desperate and shocking steps to escape the night with his secret intact. How do you remain in the shadows when you find yourself suddenly in the spotlight?

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When did this happen? 😭😭 Where has the time gone?

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