TL;DR – It plays with some interesting concepts and an ocean of blood but does not quite stick the landing.
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Rating: 2.5 out of 5.
Post-Credit Scene – There is no post-credit scene.Disclosure – I was sent a screener of this film.Warning – This film depicts scenes of abuse.
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Having recently lost his wife, Pastor Bishop tries hard to keep his two school age daughters safe with an oversight thumb, but when his oldest daughter, Sarah, begs him for the car, God himself knows that the Pastor’s children can’t stay children forever. Bishop fears come reality when Sarah is…
The Retaliators (featuring Mötley Crue and Papa Roach) is coming to Bluray!
Horror-thriller feature The Retaliators, from Better Noise Films, co-producers of The Dirt, has announced the North American Blu-ray release of their brutal horror-thriller. The acclaimed revenge odyssey inspired by a true story of one woman’s battle for survival, will be available at all major retailers on February 21, 2023. The Retaliators is now available for preorder at Best…
La batalla de Chile I: La lucha de un pueblo sin armas - Primera parte: La insurrección de la burguesía (por Patricio Guzmán, 1975)
Parte II El golpe de Estado (1976)
Parte III El poder popular (1979)
La batalla de Chile es el título de una trilogía de documentales concluidos entre los años 1975 y 1979, con guión y dirección de Patricio Guzmán. La serie constituye un testimonio fílmico de la efervescencia política y social que se vivió en Chile durante el gobierno de la Unidad Popular encabezado entre 1970 y 1973 por Salvador Allende.
La batalla de Chile I-II-III fue una película gestada entre la ebullición de las calles de Santiago y el sigilo de una sala de edición en Cuba. Guzmán realizó el filme junto a un equipo reducido de colaboradores, compuesto por el camarógrafo Jorge Müller, el sonidista Bernardo Menz, el ayudante de dirección José Bartolomé, el productor Federico Elton y el montajista Pedro Chaskel. Tras el golpe militar, Guzmán, Elton y Bartolomé debieron salir del país. Más tarde lo hicieron también Menz y Chaskel, no sin antes asegurarse de salvaguardar el material fílmico: gracias a la colaboración directa del embajador de Suecia, Harald Edelstam, este fue enviado por barco a Estocolmo y, desde ahí, a Cuba. Un año más tarde, el camarógrafo Jorge Müller fue secuestrado por la DINA en Santiago y es hasta hoy una de las 1.200 personas desaparecidas que dejó el régimen militar en Chile.
Las distintas partes de la trilogía fueron estrenadas a medida que eran terminadas en una pequeña sala de montaje del Instituto Cubano de Artes e Industria Cinematográfico (ICAIC). Cada capítulo se refiere a un tema específico: La insurrección de la burguesía, El golpe de Estado y El poder popular. Todas recibieron numerosos premios en los Festivales de Grenoble, Bruselas, Benalmádena, La Habana y Leipzig, y fueron estrenadas en las salas de 35 países de Europa, América, Asia y Australia. En efecto, es la obra documental de América Latina más difundida en el mundo.
Como película, La batalla de Chile I-II-III es el producto de la maduración de dos trabajos precedentes que Guzmán realizó durante la Unidad Popular: El primer año (1972) y La respuesta de Octubre (1973). La batalla de Chile incluye algunas imágenes de estas películas, pero articuladas de manera distinta y, por tanto, insertas en otro relato. La relevancia particular de El primer año es que llamó la atención del cineasta francés Chris Marker, quien entregó un apoyo fundamental a Patricio Guzmán para la producción y finalización de La batalla de Chile.
La recepción internacional de la crítica fue entusiasta: desde la revista The New Yorker, la influyente Pauline Kael dijo que era "un filme mayor, espectacular, filmado con sensibilidad" y Vincent Canby, desde el diario The New York Times, la saludó como "un film épico".
A pesar de este reconocimiento internacional, Patricio Guzmán se ha lamentado muchas veces de la insólita situación que viven sus películas en Chile, donde ninguna de ellas ha sido exhibida por los canales de la televisión abierta. (via Memoria Chilena)
La pieza ha sido también emitida en televisión abierta en varios países, excepto en Chile. En su primera emisión por televisión chilena abierta fue a través del canal La Red los días 10, 11 y 12 de septiembre de 2021.
The Battle of Chile (ES, EN subtitles)
Documentary film in three parts: The Insurrection of the Bourgeoisie (1975), The Coup d'état (1976), Popular Power (1979). It is a chronicle of the political tension in Chile in 1973 and of the violent counter revolution against the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende. It won the Grand Prix in 1975 and 1976 at the Grenoble International Film Festival. In 1996, Chile, Obstinate Memory was released and followed Guzmán back to Chile as he screened the 3-part documentary to Chileans who had never seen it before.
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Quillon’s Covert by Joseph Lance Tonlet & Louis Stevens
Martin is a guy’s guy, one who enjoys the simple things in life: baseball games with his son, family days, barbecues, and date nights with his lovely wife.Once a year for two weeks, Martin takes his son, Marty, to Quillon’s Covert, a rustic family cabin secluded in the beautiful California mountains. Since before those long days of learning to play ball, Marty has loved his dad, but as Marty matures, Martin starts to see something else settle in his son’s uncertain gaze. What’s there lingers a little more than it should, and it seems far more appraising than it once was.As Marty shows every sign of taking the lead, Martin is faced with the tough choices most parents never see: lose his son by being a father, or try to balance what’s best for their relationship by being something… more.But with another trip to Quillon’s Covert on the horizon, has the point of no return already begun?
Shame by Gianni X
He’s a famous football star used to getting what he wants. And what Eric wants is his father standing in the crowd at his games chanting his name. Not just because he’s Eric’s father but also his lover. It would be their own dirty little secret.
Eric grew up with a single-parent father who worked his ass off to give Eric the life he never had. Father and son were close until Eric did the unthinkable. Now ten years later, drunk on fame and used to getting his way, Eric has gone back to where it all started. One night. Money exchanged. Secrets revealed. Shame settled. Shame is a novella of a broken bond between a father and son and the repairs needed to bring them back together.
Let your Heart Decide By Lily G Blunt
New house, new job. A new start with his brother….Two out of three isn’t bad, right?Rhys returns to his hometown and must face the brother he’s been avoiding for two years. In his heart, Rhys still hopes to recapture the bond they once shared.Jake willingly offers him the hand of friendship, but Rhys is reluctant to confront their past, fearing it will only rip them apart again.When Rhys sees ghostly figures in the grounds of a local historic house, it leads him to investigate their shocking past—and to face his heart’s true desire.
His Brother’s Brat by T.M Chris
Simon hasn’t seen his nephew, Kael, in ten years, but when Kael needs a place to live and someone to take him in hand, Simon steps up. He’s determined to teach Kael how to be a responsible adult and an out gay man, but Kael’s looking for more hands-on lessons. He’s always worshipped his uncle. Maybe a little too much.
Never Mind the Genetics by Mel Thorn
Since breaking up with his high school girlfriend seventeen years ago, Kevin had no idea that he had left something precious behind with her. Now at age thirty-five, his success has brought him everything in life that he might need– all except companionship.Since his birth seventeen years ago, Andrew and his mother haven’t had a very peaceful relationship. Born into a family that couldn’t afford him, and haunted him with threats of violence, he hoped and wished for a better life– a life with the father he had never met.After years of bickering and bitterness, Andrew’s mother takes him not only to meet, but live with his long, lost parent. What Andrew expects is a cold shoulder, but what he gets instead is a warm welcome.Kevin’s gentle demeanor and sweet words are all it takes for Andrew to understand the true meaning of what it is to be loved, but something else– something bright and unexpected– blossoms from their growing friendship: a very different kind of love.
Brother by Marina Vivancos
Nathan had always loved his twin brother. How could he not? They had been inseparable since before birth. They’d shaped each other. Were each other’s homes.But even love, Nathan knew, could go too far. Too deep. So he had tried to keep his distance—had gone to a different college, tried to make a life without his brother.Now that they’re both back home for summer, though, Nathan doesn’t know how to escape the way he feels…or the way his brother might feel in return.
Sinfully Mine by Nicky James
Four years ago, mistakes were made, lines were crossed, rules were broken.It was wrong, and it never should have happened.But, the past refuses to stay buried, wrongs start feeling right, and lines begin to blur.Sometimes, the heart wants what the heart wants, and nothing will stand in its way.Consequences be damned. Rules be damned.Sometimes, secrets are sinfully delicious.
Blood Bound by Odessa Hywell
Marcus Malnar—head asshole of the Malnar Family—has spent a lifetime stepping over the bloody remains of his enemies. Fulfilling his purpose is the only thing that matters; nothing can stand between him and his goals. Except his nephew.Despite what everyone says, Holden Malnar isn’t spoiled. If you ask him. He’s a pint-sized bundle of insanity with a pain kink, barely held together by a straitjacket, and he owes everything to his uncle. There’s no limit to what he’s willing to do for the man. No. Limit.Loyalty means everything. Betrayal is a bitter pill to swallow. When Marcus and Holden have to rely on one another to weed out the traitor attempting to destroy their Family, there is no fighting the inevitable.
My Brother’s Love by Chara Croft
I’ve been good. I’ve stayed away. But now I have no choice but to go back home… and God help me, once I do, I don’t know if I’ll be able to make myself walk away from him again.JONAH: From the moment my parents first laid my baby brother in my arms, I was smitten. Caleb and I were inseparable all the way up until I left for college, and for the first couple of years I was away, I lived for the breaks when I could go home and see him again. But last year, everything changed. We got too close, and it was all my fault.I’ve always taken care of him, protected him, but now the only way I know how to do that is to stay away… because the one I have to protect him from is myself.I tried to be good. I always followed his lead. But last year, I got too needy. I got greedy. I asked for too much… and it pushed him away.CALEB: When my parents tell me they don’t trust me to stay home alone for the holidays, I’m not sure what they think I’ll get up to, but I’m not that surprised. After all, it’s not like they really know me. A point they only prove when they tell me that my big brother is finally coming home and that he’ll be in charge, and they say it sternly, like they actually think I might argue.They don’t realize that it’s all I’ve ever wanted. Both to see Jonah again, and yes–God yes–to have him be in charge. I’ll be so good this time. I promise. Because I don’t think I can stand it if he leaves me again.
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In the late 1970s, Bo Goldman was researching a script about Melvin Dummar, the unassuming Utah factory worker, gas station owner and former “Milkman of the Month” who was named as a $156m beneficiary in a will supposedly written by Howard Hughes but later successfully contested in court. Slowly, a realisation dawned on the screenwriter: “This man is a failure just like I am.”
It seemed an unusual conclusion to reach. After all, Goldman had written the book and lyrics for a Broadway musical, First Impressions, based on Pride and Prejudice, before he was 30, and won his first best screenplay Oscar (shared with Lawrence Hauben) for adapting One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975), Ken Kesey’s novel set in a psychiatric institution, by the time he was 45.
A second Oscar later came his way for Melvin and Howard (1980), his humane and warmly funny script about Dummar, lovingly directed by Jonathan Demme.
But Goldman, who has died aged 90, was haunted at the time by his inability to sell one of his earliest scripts, Shoot the Moon, or to follow up that 1959 Broadway debut, and by the years he spent in poverty and debt, struggling to provide for his wife and their six children. “I can’t tell you what it does to a man,” he said in 1982. “You feel awful. I respected my wife so much, but felt lousy about myself.”
Hollywood was impressed by Shoot the Moon, the story of a brutal marital break-up that he wrote in the early 1970s, but no one wanted to make it. The writing was strong enough to earn him an $8,000 commission from the director Miloš Forman to re-write Hauben’s script for One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. One of Goldman’s first suggestions – that the iconoclastic patient McMurphy, played by Jack Nicholson, should kiss his admitting officers at the hospital – helped win him the job.
He also scripted the Bette Midler vehicle The Rose (1979), inspired by the life of Janis Joplin, but turned down offers to write Kramer vs Kramer and Ordinary People, both future best picture Oscar winners, because the terrain felt too similar to his unproduced script, which he still hoped would be filmed eventually.
It finally was. The British filmmaker Alan Parker directed Shoot the Moon in 1982, coaxing powerful work from Albert Finney and Diane Keaton as the warring couple, and touchingly natural performances from the four children cast as their daughters.
The critical response was positive. Even Pauline Kael, no fan of Parker’s, said she was “a little afraid to say how good I think [the film] is” and praised the script’s “theatrical richness.” Goldman was disappointed nevertheless by its box-office failure.
After his third Oscar nomination, for Scent of a Woman (1992), he said: “I’m always surprised when anything good happens to me.” That film starred Al Pacino as a blind, cantankerous ex-army officer who cuts loose when he is assigned a prep-school student (Chris O’Donnell) as his companion for Thanksgiving weekend.
Goldman based Pacino’s character on a combination of his father, one of his brothers and a sergeant under whom he had served. Pacino won an Oscar; on that occasion, the writer did not.
He was born Robert Spencer Goldman in New York City. It was at Princeton that he changed his name to “Bo”; the college newspaper, The Daily Princetonian, misprinted his byline, and it stuck.
His mother was Lillian Levy, a millinery model, his father, Julian Goodman, a sometime Broadway producer and the owner of a chain of more than 70 department stores, which went into receivership during the Depression shortly before Bo was born. That dramatic fall informed and even overshadowed the rest of Bo’s life, with its occasionally incongruous juxtapositions. He grew up, for instance, in a spacious, rent-controlled Park Avenue apartment yet the family was usually penniless. His father would leaf through scrapbooks from his glory days, even making annual visits to the stables in Chantilly where he kept his prize-winning race-horses.
Though this precarious economic situation was known to Bo throughout his youth, it was not until much later that he discovered his father had another estranged family, and that his parents had never married.
He was educated at the Dalton school and Phillips Exeter academy prior to Princeton. There he wrote lyrics for the college’s Triangle Show and developed an enthusiasm for writing for the stage. He was in the US army for several years, then made inroads into the television industry, starting in the CBS postroom before progressing to script editing and producing on shows such as Playhouse 90.
Though First Impressions, which starred Farley Granger, was poorly received, he devoted most of the 1960s to writing a civil war musical, Hurrah Boys, Hurrah, which was never staged. He took odds and ends of TV work, but was plagued by thoughts of his father’s ignominies, and bruised by his own. “The only thing which kept me going was my wife and the kids who never cared about my success or lack of it,” he said. “They only cared because it was causing me pain.”
Around the time Shoot the Moon was released, his wife, Mab (nee Ashforth), whom he had met at Princeton and married in 1954, and who supported the family financially through endeavours such as her fish and bread shop, Loaves and Fishes, reflected on the disparity between the bad times and the good: “People were so contemptuous of us … it’s remarkable how success has transformed us into acceptable people.”
Goldman became a sought-after script doctor, working uncredited on Forman’s Ragtime (1981), Demme’s Swing Shift, the coming-of-age comedy The Flamingo Kid (both 1984), Warren Beatty’s Dick Tracy (1990) and the Arthurian adventure First Knight (1995).
Credited screenplays include Little Nikita (1988), an espionage thriller with River Phoenix and Sidney Poitier, and Meet Joe Black (1998), starring Brad Pitt as the pretty personification of death. Goldman also shared a story credit with Beatty on the period comedy-drama Rules Don’t Apply (2016). This was another Howard Hughes-related project, with Beatty playing the reclusive billionaire.
Though Goldman came close several times, his enduring dream of directing was never realised. “I think of myself as a filmmaker,” he said. “I’m a writer only because that is what they pay me to do.”
Mab died in 2017. He is survived by five of his children, Mia, Amy, Diana, Serena and Justin. A sixth child, Jesse, died in 1981.
🔔 Bo (Robert Spencer) Goldman, screenwriter, born 10 September 1932; died 25 July 2023
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Invincible Iron Man #16 Preview: D-Day is here and there is absolutely a main event: Iron Man vs. Feilong! Get ready for the biggest clash of armor you’ve ever seen! Plus: Tony gets some new suits!
GERRY DUGGAN • Juan Frigeri (A) • Cover by KAEL NGU
STORMBREAKERS VARIANT COVER BY CHRIS ALLEN • VARIANT COVER BY John Giang
HEADSHOT VARIANT COVER BY MARK BROOKS
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Pokémon Players that I interacted with in Pokémon Sword/Shield in the Wild Area, Isle of Armor, and Crown Tundra on February 24, 2024!
I will be putting the name shown to me in game, and only put names in English so I apologize to any foreign Trainers I had to leave out due to unable to write your name in your language, but I love you all the same! Names have been wrote down EXACTLY as I saw them in game, so yes, these are what people names themselves. Enjoy! ✨
poketips
PikaSus
shadow
k3ltrick
Matt
mr you
patrickstar
JageDsKitana
ALFIE;)
Milo
chungus
ADHARA
Yuuri
POKEMONRUNT
Snow
Saint
Adrian
Clément
Tiggs
Emma/Jana
Laura
carlitos
Noah
sessa
Maggie
Lucke
BaoDD
pany2486
miguel
Jay
Sonic13
Tommy
tomi y vicho
Lauriane
brit
darr
sui
8 Bit King
KO
Solid
Darky
Nemo
Kael
ash ketchup
Rlt
bub
luke
Tad
Damian 3.o
Panda
Ninja
Asche
Fish
Woz
Dylan
ORORO
Lukala
jeremiah
Devin
Kingswim
Mikan
KingCosmos
Iris
Aiden
Chris
Akito
Tannar
Kylee
Jesús
Colin
Auriel
Hunter
Emmalynn
John
dazzle
Brittany
brodster
Nader
nate
Alijan
Dominik767
Peaches
Baby Yoshi
Kyle
Mashedbeans
Steven2
truth
Jason
SavDrax
lucas
lGawnl
Rajiv
Colorwarm
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Henry
Please don't forget the people in Palestine, Sudan, and Congo who are persecuted for being alive and believing certain ways in their homes. Don't forget the Hawaiian natives who have no say in their own land and homes, and that they also deserve their independence from the forced colonization they are under. We will never stop bringing awareness and hope you keep them in mind and support them all one day being Happy, Safe, and Healthy. 💖
omg chris i have a cold too!! come hang out with me, my room is a really good temperature and i have snacks and tea and warm salty water and fizzy! i've spent the past two days napping, watching youtube, and playing with fidgets. im such a wimp when im sick but that's because i put up with a lot when im well, so being sick tips me over the threshold. i am sending you so much love and support and i am proud of you for expressing how you're feeling! 💙
kael 🥺 im heading over, im bringing over all my stuffed animals and pillows for us to share so we can extra comfy. im sorry ur sick and i hope the sleep + youtube is doing its job in making u feel better, thats absolutely the move when ur not feeling well. i love u, thank u for ur sweet message and for being the Best, we are having snacks rn ok??
GERRY DUGGAN (W) • JUAN FRIGERI (A) • Cover by KAEL NGU
Stormbreakers Variant Cover by CHRIS ALLEN
Connecting Variant Cover by BOB LAYTON
DEMONIZED VARIANT COVER BY DAVID NAKAYAMA
Variant Cover by PEACH MOMOKO
Classic Homage Variant Cover by ESAD RIBIC
IRON MAN VS. IRONHEART!
The assassination attempts on Tony’s life continue as a familiar foe returns to take him down. It’ll be up to Iron Man and Ironheart to stop him…but what secret is Riri Williams harboring from Tony? And will this change their relationship forever?