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Playback (1996)

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‘The Price’ is such a fantastic episode. Not only is it impressive writing in what it tries to portray about the theme of war but its direction is also second to none. The way they frame it. They have Xena and Gabrielle separated through most of it yet again, but there’s so much significance in that because they’re doing what they do best. They play them to their strengths alone and they only have them interact on their weaknesses until an emotional connection and consciousness breakthrough happens from it. It’s so brilliantly written and directed to illustrate that these characters see the world majorly differently between them when it comes to war, but at the same time, because they do, they’re able to teach each other so much and grow closer for it.

They just do not do character representation this well anymore where they actually involve themes and assign a specific thematic narrative to the characters to make the entire experience of watching them so moving. And when you have characters that are so oppositional from each other but yet work so well together because of it… absolute fucking magic happens when playing to that.

They knew how to use these characters really well. Xena and Gabrielle I mean. They knew exactly what to do with them so that every interaction - which is many in this show - is so full of substance and purpose so that you actually love the episodes much more because of it.

Of course you can separate them in the screen-time they usually share, but you have to have that separation mean something. Through it, you ultimately have to show why and how they have such a profound dynamic because of how much they are their own people in it.

And the creators in this show just fucking NAILED IT. ‘The Price’ is a great example of this. Probably the best actually in terms of what it can show us about how their oppositional worldviews evolve their ever growing love for each other. I mean this episode is the first time that we ever hear Xena ALMOST tell Gabrielle that she loves her and the only reason why she changes her sentence is because she feels guilt in expressing loving feelings for her when she’s just treated her contemptuously not moments beforehand because she’s was so afraid of allowing her softer side (that Gabrielle naturally brings out in her) to show if it meant putting her life in danger.

You can absolutely see the conflict in her heart in those moments because Lucy plays those difficult to watch scenes between them so sternly but cautiously - as if she fears that if she lets her guard down for one second, Gabrielle would pay the price for her inability to hold her stern composure with her when around the men she’s in charge of. But when alone she’d be kicking herself for it because this woman holds power over her no man ever could. Power that instantly makes her bend to her will and make her out to be the submissive one in the role.

It’s just fucking excellent characterization writing and directing. Very organic. Very honest. Very intentional.

I love this episode so much because it so effectively demonstrates that relationships are a compromise - they’re about understanding the oppositional view without sacrificing on your autonomy in the process.

Steven L. Sears and Oley Sassone are quite the team. They knew exactly what to do with these characters.

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Title: The Fantastic Four

Rating: PG

Director: Oley Sassone

Cast: Alex Hyde-White, Jay Underwood, Rebecca Staab, Michael Bailey Smith, Ian Trigger, Joseph Culp, George Gaynes, Kat Green, Carl Ciarfalio, Chuck Butto, Annie Gagen, Howard Shangraw, David Keith Miller, Robert Alan Beuth, Patrick Richwood, Ricky Dean Logan

Release year: 1994

Genres: science fiction, action, adventure

Blurb: When dosed with cosmic rays, four intrepid astronauts are given incredible powers. They decide to form a superhero group called the Fantastic Four to fight their archenemy, Doctor Doom.

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The Original Doctor Doom: Interview with Joseph Culp

The original Dr. Doom, Joseph Culp, joins us to discuss his acting process and extensive comic research for the role of Marvel's great supervillain. Stay tuned for Joseph reprising his role for us and performing the "Doomworld" monologue by Jonathan Maberry.

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Horror Movie Review: Future Shock (1994)

A psychiatrist's use of virtual reality as therapy nets deadly results for three unsuspecting patients.

Future Shock is a 1993 Sci fi horror, directed by Eric Parkinson. Future Shock is an anthology about a psychiatrist who uses virtual reality to probe the minds of three unsuspecting patients. Each of the stories revolve around a different patient. A wealthy woman Jenny (Vivian Schilling) faces her fear of being home alone and the terror of the evening news. A shy and easily intimidated morgue…

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Doctor Doom gets ruined AND WHITEWASHED AGAIN!

4 attempts to get Doctor Doom right

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And we STILL can’t get this right

A master of magic and science. A man who rivals Doctor Strange and Reed Richards as the most powerful sorcerer and the smartest man alive. He rules an entire country with an army of Doombots. Considered to be one of the greatest Marvel villains. And they still can't get him right. They have to make him a fucking Tony Stark variant. Tony Stark is not Victor Von Doom and Doom is above Tony Stark.

Victor wearing the mask always is integral to his appeal and aura like Vader's mask. It not only hides his vain scars he caused due to his failures, but it closes him off from humanity and makes him believe he’s beyond it.

As far as I'm concerned Marvel Ultimate Alliance and EMH are the only good adaptations of Doom

Doctor Doom being a romani man with a background CENTERING his family's racial persecution. with his ethnicity at the forefront of his motivations and his tragedy. and they really just brought back Robert Downey Jr.

Being romani is INTEGRAL to doom’s character and without that he’s not doom. he NEEDS to be romani and played by a romani character. full stop, don't believe me? Read Book Of Dooms.

Since 1964 Victor von Doom has been established as a Romani character. His childhood was filled with antiziganism and his parents deaths were caused by it. This later led him to become Doctor Doom and overthrow the Latverian government to protect his people

I am so fucking sick and tired of this whitewashing bullshit and the ethnoerasure of Marvel characters.

The Maximoff Twins, The Ancient One, Moon Knight and now fucking Doom.

God fucking forbid an actual Romani actor PLAYS A ROMANI CHARACTER.

But no they pulled another fucking multiverse shit all so RDJ could return and it all feels like blackface from Tropic Thunder

I DON'T GIVE A FUCKING SHIT ABOUT ANTHONY STARK FROM EARTH-11029 OR INFAMOUS IRON MAN

If you wanted evil Iron Man so fucking bad, why didn't you just do Superior Iron Man?

The LAZIEST, DUMBEST, most CONTRIVED BULLSHIT casting ever, Marvel continues to not beat the whitewashing allegations. Doctor Doom deserved better.

Romani actor Charlie Clapman was right fucking there AND HE ENDORSED IT!

I'd even suggest Romani actor Óscar Jaenada as Doom. Again another Roma actor who's actively interested in playing Doom

And you know what? As bad as the 1994 movie was, Joseph Culp the first actor to play Doom in the Fantastic Four (1994) movie by Oley Sassone & Richard Corman. Culp was also white but he very clearly cared for the comics background of Victor von Doom

and you also know damn well they're going to erase everything about Magneto too that makes him who he is… which is his entire fucking background. how horrible of a person do you have to be to repeatedly disrespect the minorities who created these stories?

Doctor Doom is Roma Romani. He is not white. The MCU loves to whitewash its Roma and Jewish characters and it’s time we called them out for it. Dr Doom is not a white man, he is Roma!

They will never nail down the complexity of Victor Von Doom

Every year Doom goes to hell to fight Mephisto to rescue the soul of his mother. He finally won her soul with the help of Doctor Strange only for her to reject him.

No evil Stark replicant will ever fucking match the complexity of Victor Von Doom.

I don't care if this is a one time thing for RDJ. They specifically chose to do this when the fans were begging for a fucking Romani actor. It also doesn't fucking help that Marvel has erased nearly EVERY fucking ethnic character has been whitewashed.

Scarlet Witch & Quicksilver: Erased Romani heritage and whitewashed. Moon Knight & Wiccan: Casted non-Jewish actors. Sabra: Featured in anything at all, and actress is an IDF soldier to make matters worse.

The MCU is full of ethnic erasure, military propaganda & racism. it’s disgusting this is continuing with Dr Doom’s casting. remember to continue to boycott marvel, because of the genocide they support by casting an iof solider to play a character from the zionist terrorist occupation

Dr Doom is one of those villains that it should be IMPOSSIBLE to fuck up but wasting him on a cheap Iron Man nostalgia casting pop might be the way

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✧ CHRIS EVANS as JOHNNY STORM (Human Torch) The Fantastic Four (2005) | dir. Marty Langford, Oley Sassone & Tim Story

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Fast Getaway II (Oley Sassone, 1994)

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Playback (1996)

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Movie Review: Madame Web is the clear example of what NOT to do

It is well known by everyone and everyone that the MCU has gone through big problems in recent years, productions that have not had a good reception, productions that have been more about fulfilling and filling a space than about having good quality. We have examples like this on the big screen and on the platform to which they belong, we recently saw it with the enormous failure of Marvel, and Sony Pictures has done the same with productions such as Venom (2018), Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021 ), Morbius (2022), Kraven the Hunter soon to be released in 2024 and very recently Madame Web. The idea of these studios to create and be part of a Spider-Verse without Spider-Man has not been entirely good, they have presented villainous characters who try to have their personality in the movies and then be part of something bigger, although The latter does not at all meet the expectations not only of the studios but of the general public. Madame Web is the new thing coming to the big screens from director S. J. Clarkson and aims to tell an origin story that is closely related to the origin of the friendly spider neighbor.

What is the movie about?

Cassandra Webb (Dakota Johnson) is a Manhattan paramedic who has the ability of clairvoyance and is forced to face revelations from her past to understand her present and be able to prevent the future. To face this she will meet three young women destined to have powerful futures if they can survive a relentless and unpredictable enemy. The idea of bringing these characters to the big screen is not entirely bad, the problem is that Sony Pictures as a studio has been extremely ambitious in trying to compete with Marvel Studios to try to expand the Spider-Man universe and keep it current and that can interact in future projects, thus creating an alternate line in this vast multiverse. It is a problem and a waste of time and money that these productions pretend that they are good and that they will be a success mainly among the fans. Another problem that has arisen with this has been the terrible scripts based on meaningless stories that have no meaning. clear where they want to go, this has caused delays, script rewrites, and refilming, not to mention that the actors involved are told one thing and end up doing something completely different. This may be an effect like the one that Marvel's The Fantastic Four Movie (1994) by director Oley Sassone had, which was destined to fail and be canned never to be released and which at some point was leaked and pirated copies went on sale in VHS format. and which has now become a cult classic not for being good but for maintaining the rights of characters who later and to this day continue to have problems with their film adaptations.

If we have the clear idea that all this is a joke or a joke on itself then the concept and the context change and becomes more enjoyable and entertaining, when the opposite happens and they pretend that this is serious and make us believe that this It is important to understand everything that is coming that is also poorly planned and structured. We have a big problem because then the only thing they are doing is playing and deceiving a captive audience and burning characters that could very well have a different treatment and be at the level of what Black Panther or Dr. Strange among others. This is an origin story of a character created by Denny O'Neil and artist John Romita Jr. appearing for the first time in The Amazing Spider-Man No. 210 in November 1980, Madame Web in the panels is a mutant who helps Spider-Man to find a kidnapping victim, from this issue onwards the character gained popularity and recognition in the publishing house to this day. The film is evoked in more modern moments giving a different origin based on the original in which we see that these abilities of clairvoyance and precognitivity are inherited from his mother when searching for a strange spider in Peru that is said to be able to cure any disease. As expected, some also seek it for other purposes that are not entirely good and that can endanger humanity. It must be recognized that this work respects the rules of the genre and proposes its own and it is like watching one of those old movies about Marvel characters that were made in the 80s with Lou Ferrigno's Hulk as the protagonist where these characters had an independent story and an aesthetic very different from what we know of them today but that fulfilled the purpose of entertaining and in a certain way seeing what the vignettes do in live action. In the case of Madame Web, this begins like this, a flashback places us in the Peruvian jungle in 1973 where Constance (Kerry Bishé) is pregnant and in search of a rare species of spider known for its healing properties, from there, we jump to the year 2003 and Cassie, the girl that Constance gave birth to, is now an adult and a paramedic in New York, specifically in the Queens neighborhood that years later would also be the home of Peter Parker, during a rescue together with her partner Ben (Adam Scott). He ends up falling into the river, which reveals his strange ability that had remained dormant until that moment. Without understanding how it works, his mind now has confusing visions of strange events and discovers that he can see a near but limited future, in a moment that is intended to be shocking. He has the revelation of someone's death but does not know how to prevent it. In the sequence in which Cassie begins to understand and understand her unwanted abilities realizes that she must use them to do good and help others beginning with saving three teenagers from being attacked and murdered in the city subway, Here we already know the antagonist of this story, the millionaire and obsessed Ezekiel Sims (Tahar Rahim), who can also see the future and knows that these three seemingly harmless girls will kill him when they grow up, so he decides to look for them and stop them before that happens without knowing that he will have the help of Cassie, the daughter of the pregnant woman he attacked in Peru years ago and removed the strange spider. Continuing with this adventure Cassie must become the protector of these unlovable teenagers, we have the demure Julia (Sydney Sweeney), the studious and intelligent Anya (Isabela Merced), and of course the rebellious Mattie (Celeste O'Connor) not missing. who, being in danger, have to put aside their differences and form a team to protect each other and defeat an enemy they do not know and who wants to stay alive at the expense of theirs, which causes each one to learn from others and herself to survive.

Since everything here happens by chance, they meet Cassie, who at every opportunity must explain to them and us as the audience the strange things that are happening to her, which seems trite, tired, boring, and extremely stupid, we could spend the whole day mentioning the big flaws. which has the script written by Matt Sazama, Burk Sharpless, Claire Parker, and Clarkson herself where the holes go from one nonsense to another, dialogues that are out of context and do not contribute anything to the central plot or the subs. plots, the latter are present only to fill time on screen, without taking into account that many scenes were left the same in the refilming and that they completely lose the order of events. The narrative tries to be agile in its action sequences that are poorly filmed and that come from nowhere and by chance to try to stop a villain who has spider powers and who could very well be confused with a poorly made Spider-Man from another universe. who comes to this to try to stop 3 teenagers with poorly made spider powers who intend to be heroines shortly and who will be the guardians of the city as Peter Parker grows up and becomes what we all already know. The references to the Spider. Man universe feels more than forced with unfunny jokes that range from mentioning that the boy will be called Peter to that he will be the pride of his parents who we clearly know will die, none of the above makes sense if we don't have That dose of action and adventure that Marvel proposed from the beginning of its successful MCU, this remains as something forced with a mechanical script that shines for its lack of imagination and originality lacking in emotion and suspense. Madame Web as a film strives to emulate the teenage girls of the 2000s who behave like superficial snobs who in the end will have a lesson learned about themselves and what it is like to team up with others, leaving aside any differences they have, We have seen this confusing moral message about femininity and the power of friendship and teamwork better presented in other types of works in other genres that exalt women in extreme situations and not, as in this case, remain as a joke and a mockery that women can do everything when they are not capable of having basic chemistry between them. Director S. J. Clarkson, who here makes her debut on the big screen, has previously directed some episodes of television series such as Heroes, House, Dexter, and Succession. She does not understand what the cinematographic dynamics and the integration and interaction of these characters are like; she does not understand that the treatment that they must have their own rules and that from their aesthetics to their history that comes from years in comics, they must look and feel more real and spectacular within their fantastic world, being the protagonists of a story that leaves us wanting to know. and want to know more or how this will connect with everything else and form a meta story. We are in a very complex cinematographic moment, the audience, whether they are fans or not, has become very demanding with the entertainment products we consume, this work is ultimately something that should not have reached movie theaters and that could occupy an undistinguished place in a streaming platform or perhaps it is that this format does not fully benefit a good idea with a terrible execution, this makes movies like Morbius seem well made and Madame Web manages to be even more stupid, more incompetent and written with the laziness of not wanting to tell something important, however, despite its great and very marked defects from its trailer without intending it and inadvertently it becomes a fun film more than because of its plot because of its terrible production. We cannot deny that the costumes desperately tried to save its illogical plot and yet it falls far short of the expectations we are used to seeing in films of this genre. One more mistake among so many failures is having presented a scene in the trailer. in which the three of them wear those colorful costumes that we all wanted to see in action and that here only happens for a couple of seconds, and I emphasize, a couple of seconds, is that this is a blatant mockery of the genre it occupies and that It leaves us with the feeling that they have seen our faces and that we have paid to see something that is not what even the studio itself expected. The cast is made up of Dakota Johnson, Sydney Sweeney, Isabela Merced, Celeste O'Connor, Tahar Rahim, Mike Epps, Emma Roberts, and Adam Scott who look and feel extremely uncomfortable having to interact with others, performances that are lazy and minimal that do not express at all how great and spectacular these characters can be in a universe that, although it has had its flaws, is still spectacular. The music by the Swedish composer Johan Söderqvist, who has done good work, also feels simpler and only to be fulfilled, it fails to have a striking personality with a theme that reminds us of this film, a job that remains more to be fulfilled than to transcend. In conclusion, Madame Web as a final product leaves a lot to be desired, it promises something that they never had the intention of fulfilling but we cannot blame it entirely, the studios are the ones that have indiscriminately wanted to present little-known characters when trying to create a universe that It has not worked nor will it work if it does not have its main element, it is a shame that productions like these get the green light for their production just to fill a space and to try to please an audience that is becoming increasingly more demanding, a clear example of what NOT to do and that despite this they have not understood that it is not enough to just entertain. Madame Web is now available in movie theaters nationwide and we DO NOT recommend it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_76M4c4LTo Read the full article

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I seem to have stumbled upon a Limozeen song from the real world.

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The Romantics "One In A Million" (1983)

director: Oley Sassone

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2021 London International Filmmaker Festival Review: 'Garden District'

2021 London International Filmmaker Festival Review: ‘Garden District’

‘Garden District,’ directed by Oley Sassone, written by Rosary O’Neill, 2021 London International Filmmaker Festival (courtesy of the film) The charm and loveliness of old world New Orleans upended by new world vitality and determination characterizes the the short film Garden District, screening in competition at the2021 London International Filmmaker Festival. Money isn’t funny and the…

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Behind the scenes interviews with director Oley Sassone talking about the water dungeon scene between Xena and Gabrielle in The Debt II. One of the most striking scenes in the entire show for me.

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Broken Wings by Mr. Mister from the album Welcome to the Real World - Director: Oley Sassone

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The Fantastic Four (1994)

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