Featuring, D'Arcy Carden, Jocelyn DeBoer, Marcy Jarreau, Mano Agapion, Dan Lippert, Paul B Welsh.
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One unedited photo from the Big Grande show this past Monday (11/7/22) during the NYC Comedy Festival
This was my first time seeing these guys in person and I was not disappointed. They did not reference the Teachers Lounge or Man Dog Pod, but their performance was great because they have such good chemistry while doing scenes together, and it's fun to watch.
I didn't have really strong feelings about PARANORMAL ACTIVITY: NEXT OF KIN, I guess I probably enjoyed it more than most of that series just for novelty's sake. The scariest part of the movie for me was when the guy delivering my food called me, which I assumed meant he was outside, so I ran out the door without pausing the movie, only to find the street empty. I waited for him so long that I kinda forgot what I had been doing, so when I eventually headed back upstairs, I was surprised to hear a couple talking; I almost never hear any of my neighbors, so I kept trying to guess which unit the people were in...until I got to my own door and in a panic I thought OMFG WHO IS IN MY APARTMENT?! But anyway there's a part of the movie where, while the main girl is meeting her biological family for the first time and trying to learn what happened to her mother, Dan Lippert (the best thing in this) casually mentions that he sleeps on the floor in a one-room place with his infirm mother, so she can have the bed. It's like, wait, what's going on there? Sure we're supposed to be following the heroine's adoption mystery, but meanwhile Dan Lippert is in some situation of extreme deprivation or extreme devotion or both, and it just gets played off like a bad joke! Anyway, this is sort of spoilery although I think it's pretty obvious--but when the creepy luddite religious cult was plotting to lure the girl out to their enclave, do you think they freaked out when they realized she was a documentary filmmaker? Like, "Holy shit, well we're a documentarist's dream, this is gonna be a cinch!"
Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin (2021) Movie Review
Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin – Movie Review
Director: William Eubank
Writer: Christopher Landon, Oren Peli (Screenplay)
Cast
Emily Bader (Fresh Kills)
Roland Buck III (The Week Of)
Dan Lippert (Brooklyn Nine-Nine)
Jaye Ayres-Brown (Last Ferry)
Tom Nowicki (Remember the Titans)
Plot: Margot, a young woman who was abandoned by her mother as a baby, travels to a secluded Amish…
The Last Man on Earth is a 1964 post-apocalyptic science fiction horror film based on the 1954 novel I Am Legend by Richard Matheson. The film was produced by Robert L. Lippert and directed by Ubaldo Ragona and Sidney Salkow, and stars Vincent Price and Franca Bettoia. The screenplay was written in part by Matheson, but he was dissatisfied with the result and chose to be credited as "Logan Swanson". William Leicester, Furio M. Monetti, and Ubaldo Ragona finished the script. The Last Man on Earth was filmed in Rome, with scenes being completed at Esposizione Universale Roma. It was released in the United States by American International Pictures. In the 1980s, the film entered the public domain. MGM Home Video, the current owners of the AIP film catalog, released a digitally remastered widescreen version of the film on DVD in September 2005.
I Am Legend (2007)
I Am Legend is a 2007 American post-apocalyptic action thriller film loosely based on the 1954 novel of the same name by Richard Matheson. Directed by Francis Lawrence from a screenplay by Akiva Goldsman and Mark Protosevich, the film stars Will Smith as US Army virologist Robert Neville. It is set in New York City after a virus, which was originally created to cure cancer, has wiped out most of mankind, leaving Neville as the last human in New York, other than nocturnal mutants. Neville is immune to the virus, and he works to develop a cure while defending himself against the hostile mutants. It is the third feature-film adaptation of Matheson's novel following 1964's The Last Man on Earth and 1971's The Omega Man.
Opening Credits; Introduction (.37); Background History (29.11); The Last Man On Earth (1964) Film Trailer (30.43); The Original (33.43); Let's Rate (55.39); Introducing the Double Feature (1:27.22); I Am Legend (2007) Film Trailer (1:30.10); The Attraction (1:32.44); How Many Stars (2:14.10); End Credits (2:322.03); Closing Credits (2:32.41)
Opening Credits– Epidemic Sound – copyright 2021. All rights reserved
Closing Credits: Mr Lonely by Bobby Vinton. Taken from the album Roses are Red. Copyright 1962 Epic Records.
Original Music copyrighted 2020 Dan Hughes Music and the Literary License Podcast.
Featuring, D'Arcy Carden, Jocelyn DeBoer, Marcy Jarreau, Mano Agapion, Dan Lippert, Paul B Welsh.
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i couldn’t give less of a shit about moviepass making a comeback. what i do care about is dan lippert getting to do the seth berkowitz (no relation) character again
Reflections on: Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin (2021)
Full disclosure: this review is totally biased because I am a fan of one of the actors, Dan Lippert. He’s a talented improv comedian and is one quarter of the hilarious group Big Grande. I’m also a fan of his excellent podcasts The Teacher’s Lounge and Man Dog Pod. I’m not sure I would have liked the movie as much as I did without consuming all of that previous content.
It feels like Dan Lippert improvised most of his lines. There are familiar themes from his comedy such as: bad MJ impressions and cannibalism.
This is the 7th film in the Paranormal Activity franchise. I haven’t seen any of the previous instalments. This is technically a “found footage” movie like the others, yet instead of using security cameras footage, this looks professional due to the fact that the main character has hired a crew to help her make a documentary.
It was strange to watch a movie that took place in a COVID-19 world. It’s only briefly addressed in the beginning when Dan Lippert’s character awkwardly forgets to put on his mask at an airport and then offhandedly remarks, “I got COVID like 5 times.”
Dan Lippert steals every scene he’s in - which is most of them. He casually does yoga in the background, refers to his camouflage pyjamas as his “cammies”, offers a translation of “so weit nicht weiter” as “Sweet, nice wiener”, and gets an Amish makeover complete with a bob and bangs. A 6′7″ man with a cute bob is a sight to behold!
Despite being the main source of comedy in the story he’s also the most sensible character who figures out what’s going on before the compulsively confident and pathologically nosy protagonist.
The story has a lot of parallels with Midsommar (2019), but also has some similarities to Rosemary’s Baby (1968) and Children of the Corn (1984).
I won’t spoil the ridiculous ending but it does finish with a beautiful symphony of harmonious moos.
This was way more enjoyable than I expected! I loved it and would watch it again. Maybe you might not feel the same way if you’re not an Old Slob like me :)