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Happy Birthday filmmaker Gillian Berrie, born on September 8th 1967 in Glasgow.

In 1996 Gillian co-founded Sigma Films with director David Mackenzie, writing and producing serial award-winning shorts, 'California Sunshine' and 'Somersault'.

Alongside, Gillian gained experience in numerous film and television roles, ie Casting Director on Ken Loach's 'My Name is Joe' (for which Peter Mullan won the Palme D'or in Cannes) and Lynne Ramsay's legendary 'Ratcatcher'.

Casting experience on the aforementioned led Gillian to create the charity, 'Starfish' which then became 'Jumpcut', which morphed into 'Short Circuit', and 'Big Fish Casting' which segued into Kahleen Crawford Casting

Gillian then produced many of David Mackenzie's films including: Last Great Wilderness, Hallam Foe, Young Adam, You Instead (aka Tonight You're Mine), Perfect Sense, Starred Up and the biggest film ever to be make in Scotland, Outlaw King. She was also heavily involved in the post-production, festival, UK/US theatrical release and Oscar campaign for Academy Award Nominee 'Hell or High Water'.

Sigma's films regularly premiere at A-List festivals and have received over 150 awards internationally, including the Prix de Jury in Cannes for Red Road, and the Silver Bear in Berlin for Hallam Foe, as well as numerous BIFA and BAFTA nominations and awards.

At the Scottish BAFTA New Talent Awards in 2002 Gillian won the BAFTA for Outstanding Achievement.

In order to create a vibrant hub for the film community in Scotland, Gillian founded the 65,000 square ft state of the art, Film City Glasgow in 2004. Since then it has been a full house of productions and film-makers.

In 2012 she founded 'Jumpcut', the UK's one and only, intensive, mentor-led Summer School to provide a fast-track for youngsters into working in the film industry. This project was a runaway success. Over 75% of the participants went onto working in the industry. It ran for two years and won several awards.

She also co-produced the multi-prize winner 'Dear Frankie' and Jonathan's Glazer's 'Under the Skin' (which won 23 awards and received 110 nominations).

Gillian also produced several features for first time feature film directors, including David Mackenzie, Colin Kennedy, Andrea Arnold, Morag MacKinnon and Ciaran Foy, as well as numerous additional shorts including the lauded I Love Luci.

Gillian continues to contribute to the next generation of Scottish film-makers through Short Circuit, which is in its 3rd year and has so far given the first opportunities in film-making to hundreds of new-comers and produced dozens of short films and is developing a number of feature films.

Short Circuit is Scotland's hub for filmmaking talent, supporting the creative and professional development of new and emerging writers, directors, and producers.

Over three years, Short Circuit's film commissioning strand ‘Sharp Shorts’ will award over £400,000 in funding across 27 filmmaking teams, creating opportunities for Scotland's most exciting emerging new screen talent.

‘Sharp Shorts’ has become one of Scotland's most diverse creative initiatives, with an overwhelming majority of female filmmakers as well as significant representation across the LGBTQ+, non-white and disabled communities.

The first batch of short films are screening internationally at festivals such as SXSW, BFI Flare, EIFF, Dinard, LSFF, Berlin, with multiple awards. In particular, Sean Lionadh's short Too Rough has won 11 awards to date.

The ‘First Features’ strand, with a fund of over £300,000, will support 30 new writers, directors, and producers, enabling Scotland-based filmmakers to take a career-defining step towards making their debut feature.

In 2022, Berrie exec-produced the critically acclaimed Pilot and 2nd episode of the Disney/ FX series Under the Banner of Heaven for which Andrew Garfield was nominated for an Emmy .She also produced Taron Egerton's feature, Tetris, which I was impressed with.

Relay, about a broker of lucrative payoffs between corrupt corporations and the individuals who threaten them breaks his own rules when a new client seeks his protection to stay alive. is the latest film she has produced, it actually premieres today at the Toronto International Film Festival. Next up is a thrilled called Fuze where construction workers in London unearth an unexploded WWII bomb, forcing evacuation. Opportunistic thieves use the chaos as cover for an elaborate heist.

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Star Trek Magazine Issue #113 (2004)

TRUE BRIT

It's not often you see Brits playing action heroes on US TV, but Englishman Dominic Keating not only gets to wave the Union Jack in Star Trek: Enterprise ,but he also gets to kick alien backside as the show's heroic tactical officer, Malcolm Reed. And with the current season featuring even more action and adventure, the actor reveals to Ian Spelling whether he's enjoying putting the right royal boot into the Xindi...

Dominic Keating was not a major proponent of making changes to Star Trek: Enterprise. He believed that the show was warping along just fine and didn't need the MACOs, the Delphic Expanse, a sexed-up T'Pol (Jolene Blalock) or a name change. He said as much, on the record, while the changes were still in the rumour phase, and again when they were first implemented at the beginning of Season Three. Even now, despite the fact that he appreciates some of the tinkering, he still sounds fairly unconvinced about the necessity to meddle.

"I didn't think we were turning out a bad product," Keating says. "I've watched all of the episodes we've done religiously and I thought that given the constrictions of episodic television, we were turning out a pretty good show. I thought the show was entertaining, well crafted and well acted. And it looked good. Having said that, I can't argue about the last nine or 10 episodes, through the first half of the third season, haven't been better. They have been - perhaps better than the [previous] good ones. So they've really raised the bar from what I felt was a pretty elevated bar already.

I'm not sure what the fan reaction to the changes has really been. My contact with the fans, other than meeting them at conventions, is pretty limited. I do know that the episodes we did a few weeks ago, Similitude , was our highest rated episode since last year. It got a 3.0 national and a 5.0 perfect score, which is pretty big. Millions of people watched that show, and that's a good sign. We only ever get a 2.0, so it tells us that people right in the heart of America liked that show. That's a considerable uptick."

The changes have certainly impacted on Keating directly, with his character, Malcolm Reed, having a lot more to do in the conflict with the Xindi. There's also a nice bit of tension building between Reed and the military force, the MACOs, based on the ship. They usurp his power as the Enterprise NX-01's tactical officer, and trouble seems to be brewing between Reed and the MACO leader, Major Hayes (Steven Culp).

"I'm getting to run around a lot more since we got started in the changes," Keating says. "I've got to jump and duck considerably more. There's a lot more action for me. And I guess that I'm in the show more than I was during the first season and most of the second season. The thing I liked about the first two seasons, in retrospect, was that I got a bone thrown at me at least once or twice a year, with a good solid episode that was just Reed, or with Reed as the A-story. That hasn't happened yet this year and I don't know if it will. I'm not ruling it out, but it seems that the accent is much more on this arc apropos the Xindi, and the race to get them before they get to Earth. And I don't know if there's particularly time in the timeline for a character-driven Reed episode. We'll see. You never know.

"But just from watching the show, I do like the MACOs," he continues. "I think they are a good addition. I was not sure about it initially, to be honest. I thought it could be a bit hackneyed, but I think they've been well introduced and assimilated in to the show. I think when they are brought online, they add a really good dose of salt and pepper to the action sequences. Where I can look quite athletic and jump and run, I'm not about to break my neck in the process. Most of the MACO guys are our stuntmen, and they'll happily do somersaults over railings all day long. God bless them.

"I can't give too much away, but we're shooting an episode right now with [director] David Livingston at the helm again, and the episode brings to the fore the friction that was first alluded to between Reed and Major Hayes. We'd dropped that conflict for a while, because Reed seemed to be accepting the need for MACOs and the [show's] powers-that-be wanted the characters on the same page. But in this episode, finally the bubble bursts and all hell breaks loose, and Reed and Hayes have a massive fight. It's good stuff."

Shooting not just that fight, but other interactions between Reed and Major Hayes has meant that Keating has spent a good deal of time in the company of Culp. And to hear Keating tell it, he's got no complaints about doing so. "Steven is great," the actor notes. "I actually met Steven while doing a radio play for KCRW about four years ago, think it was. Richard Dreyfus was in it as well. It was a play about one of the generals during the American Civil War, and Steven and I met doing it. And we kept in touch. We also happen to go to the same gym together. So we sort of saw each other over the years and then it was just terrific that he was brought on board to play Hayes on the show. He's great on the show. He's just a very, very hard working actor. He's just come fresh off The West Wing and he was going on to do ER . He'd done a couple of episodes of Lyon's Den, the Rob Lowe show, and he's just a very happening actor around town at the moment.

Not to dwell on the negative, but Keating acknowledges that the Enterprise set was a bit of a gloomy place mid-way through Season Two. The ratings were down. Various magazines were devoting cover stories about ways in which the show could be saved. And several of the actors, Keating among them, worried about their job status.

There were a few weeks, I have to say, where there was the spectre that Star Trek may be in the grasp...in the vagaries of episodic telly, and that we might get cancelled or at least not renewed, just like any other show," he notes. "Scott [Bakula] shook all of our hands the other night and said '66'. I wasn't sure what he meant. I was thinking bingo. He said, 'Episode 66, pal in he can. That's something to be proud of, especially I this day and age, when most shows don't last three days.'

"And it's true," Keating nods. "He's right. I noticed they dropped Tarzan after, what, maybe five episodes? And I know that Skin was cancelled after just three episodes. Skin was a good TV show. It was a modern-day reworking of the Romeo and Juliet story and it was well done. They had some good actors in there, starting with Ron Silver, And it's terrible that nobody is giving anything a chance."

Keating cracks up when asked if Bakula is more often than not the cheerleader on the Enterprise set, the guy who lifts everyone's spirits when they require lifting. "It certainly isn't John Billingsley!" he jokes. "No, I'm kidding. I'm the worrywart. I'm the one who rings up on Thursday morning to see what the ratings were like the night before. I don't know if everyone realises that, but they must because I'm always the one taking command of the fax. "I guess I'm also the cheerleader. I like our show, I really do. I like what we're doing. Scott's much more of the mind that, 'We can only do what we do, and leave it at that.' Connor [Trinneer] is kind of that way, too. I don't know if it's a good thing, but I guess I am [the cheerleader]. You want some sort of stability inside this very dodgy framework, in this business. It's not easy to hold on to. There's just not a lot of time to celebrate the good news. After the ratings came out for Similitude , I went up to Scott and said, 'Great job.' I rang Connor and said, 'Fantastic show, mate. You didn't miss a beat. Really great job.' I don't know that everyone else does that kind of thing. [Director of photography] Marvin Rush tends to come up to you and say, ' I saw yesterday's dailies. That scene with you and Connor is fantastic. You're going to love it.' Marvin watches the show religiously. He sees the dailies and he TiVos the episodes."

Getting into the specifics of Season Three, Keating reiterates his earlier point that while it's true that there's not been a Reed-centric episode per se, Reed's been an active force in several shows. "I've quite enjoyed most of what I've gotten to do this season," he notes. "As I say, I haven't had the big bone thrown at me. But I've been a very good supporting actor this year, if I can say that myself, when I've been called upon to support scenes or do B-lines. I've done a lot of B-lines this season. And I'm happy to be in that place.

"I've been working more hours than the first couple of seasons, but I still get a bit of time out and can do the shopping and get the laundry done and so on. God knows, I think about the rest of the cast and crew, and unless you're married I don't know how you run your life. I really don't. They work 70 to 80 hours a week and the weekend has got to be spent doing laundry, going shopping, then sleeping on Sunday, and it's back to work on Monday. It's pretty gruelling for 10 months a year.

"People who do sitcoms, they have the easiest job in town, mate," Keating laughs. "Once you get down to doing a show in front of a live audience, that's pretty fun. Once you've done it two or three times, then you don't mind the audience. I did a sitcom in England. I did five or six years of sitcom. I'd been in front of a couple of cameras before, but when you're in front of five cameras and 500 people...I was sweating bullets that first time. But once you've done it a few times, it's actually quite enjoyable. Hour-long episodes, that's hard. Matthew Perry just did The West Wing and he said it was quite an awakening for him after having done Friends for so long."

But back to Reed and this season of Enterprise. Keating agrees to offer up some more detail about the episode that finds him butting heads and going mano to mano with Major Hayes. "I think it's going to be called Harbinger ,' " the actor says. "It's going to be for the February sweeps. [Co-executive producer] Manny Coto wrote it. He also wrote Similitude , and I think this one is going to be just as good. He's a really, really welcome addition to the team. I can tell he just loves writing Star Trek . He throws so many balls into the air and then deftly flourishes it into a big ball, with a bow at the end.

"In Harbinger, the Captain suggests that the MACOs give us the benefit of their advanced combat training, and that really gets up my nose. I'm pressed-ganged by the Captain into accepting the Major's proposal, which Hayes had gone behind my back to Archer with, and when the Major tries to figure out the logistics of this training and how it's going to be conducted, I really let him have it.

"Beyond that episode, I have no idea what's coming up. I get asked 'What's coming up?' a lot and I wish I could answer it whenever somebody asks it. We haven't got a clue. I have no idea. I would imagine that we are going to fight the Xindi for the rest of this season. Whether they decide to take the storyline through to the next season, I don't know. But I have a feeling that the mission is quite important. I think a sense of purpose has got to be introduced. You either stick with the Xindi or you introduce a new mission next season and we go on that arc."

"However, I think just reverting back to episodic, one-hour complete stories won't work at this juncture," he continues. "When I look around at shows like Alias and 24 ,these big shows that seem to be garnering so much attention, they're episodic and you could watch one episode, but its much, much more fun and more meaningful if you're following the story. That seems to be what audiences like at the moment.

"I've got ideas, but I don't want to bug [executive producer] Brannon Braga too much, to be honest." Keating adds as the conversation comes to an end. "He's got enough on his plate without actors ringing up and going, 'What about my character?' So we'll just see. But if I were going to ring Brannon, the only thing I would say was, 'You might flesh him out a bit.' I just don't know if there's time, as I say, in this timeline the show is on right now. I don't know that Reed having a love interest of whatever description or an episode that got into his backstory and added some emotional depth, can happen at the moment. I don't know that there's time. They want to do that story with Trip, and they're really pushing the Trip-T'Pol storyline.

I have to think privately, to myself, ' I'm an English actor on an American TV show and I ain't done too badly,' I'm an English actor not playing the captain on an American TV show, so I'm quite happy with what they give me. You've got to come back down to basics in the end, and that's one of the basics, that I'm a British actor on an American show. And the cheques clear!"

DIRECT CONTROL

Dominic Keating will direct Star Trek: Enterprise one of these days. That's been a goal of his from the get-go. He took a course at the Los Angeles film school and he's been shadowing director's on the Enterprise set. Unfortunately, his plan has taken a little bit of a back seat this season.

"That's only because I've had so many more hours spent in front of the camera rather than time out to look behind the camera," says Keating, who hopes to write and direct a short film based on a story Scott Bakula told him about his son, Will. "I had some time out. I had a week at one point, but I was sick. I wanted to shadow Robbie McNeill and spend some time in the edit suite, but I got the damn flu and I spent five days banged up here in bed. It was the worst flu I've had in....forever. But directing is still a plan of action, and whenever I'm even just working on set I'm always earwigging the conversations between the director and Marvin Rush and watching the compilation of a shot. Then when I look at the shows themselves, part of me is watching the show and watching performance, but 65-70 per cent of me is watching how it's framed, how it's cut and how it's jig-sawed together.

"I actually did do an episode of a local [Los Angeles public access] show called The Heartbreak Kid ,and it was pretty damn good. Given the strictures of amateur production, it was actually not bad at all. I would do it again in a heartbeat. And I do hope to direct Enterprise eventually."

Source: www.dominickeating.com

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Somersault, Cate Shortland, 2004

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Wait, spicy Sam video? What did I miss? Which movie could you only find in Italian? I'm confused.

Somersault, a movie Sam did in 2004. I uploaded a spicy scene.

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Rottenbeard (prod 119)

Original airdate: October 4, 2004

Story by Magnus Scheving

Written by Noah Zachary, Cole Louie, Ken Pontac, Magnus Scheving

Directed by Magnus Scheving, Raymond P. Le Gue

Executive producers - Magnus Scheving, Ragnheidur Melsted, Raymond P. Le Gue, Mark Read, Brown Johnson, Kay Wilson Stallings

Starring Magnus Scheving, Stefan Karl Steffanson, Julianna Rose Mauriello

Puppeteers - Ronald Binion, Gudmondor Thor Karason, Jodi Eichelberger, David Matthew Feldman, Julie Westwood, Sarah Burgess

YOU ARE A PIRATE! The famous song featured in today's episode of LazyTown, but is it good enough to get me to pirate it?

The episode begins with Sportacus eating his 'Sportacus Club Special' which is just a regular boring ass lettuce and tomato sandwich. Come on bruh. Put some meat on that thing.

While this opening sequence reminds me that this show never talks about meat other then Let's Go, LazyTown! (1997), it does at least technically put eating wheat based foods in a positive light.

It's a beautiful perfect sunny day in LazyTown, and Sportacus decides to take a look at what the kids are doing. Stephanie is in a pirate costume and yelling for help.

Sportacus thinks she is in trouble (why didn't the crystal beep.. hmm??) and goes to town to save her. He cartwheels over those weird yellow walls and jumps over signs to save her. But Ziggy tells him he is in the water and he has stepped on Stingy's fish.

Trixie then tells him that they are playing pirates and Steph is walking off the plank. Cue a hilarious argument between Stingy and Trixie about who's captain. Stingy wants to elect himself because he has the piggy-parrot, but Trixie has promoted herself because she has a hook. There's no challenge here. Sportacus says goodbye and runs back to the ship (nobody's gonna steal it man), then Stephanie walks the plank. Meanwhile, Robbie is in the lair talking about those 'rotten kids' and how they do nothing but make noise. Remind you of someone? Robbie then grabs his largest pair of noise cancelling headphones but he can still hear them. LOL. Now Ziggy has a sword.

Pirate Ziggy is talking about how you should give him your loot, and by loot he means caanddyy. AAAHRGH! LOOK AT THAT BALLOON SWORD! TAKE ALL MY FUIT GUMIES!!1!1!!! Anyways, Ziggy dives to the floor once he sees Mayor Milford and sneak attacks, 'ballooning' his face.

Milford politely asks him to stop it and Ziggy tells them they're playing pirates. Then he takes the kids to his office to tell them all about LazyTown's very own real pirate named Rottenbeard who spread his meanness all across the town and took everything he wanted. Stingy is excited mainly at the word 'took'.

Rottenbeard took a lot of things, except the famous 'LazyTown stone', which is the secret to living in LazyTown. I think the secret is 'balance', guessing that's what the whole show is about. Anyways, they all walk outside to find it, and the stone says 'LAZyToWN SHOULD ALWAyS BE'.

Now everyone is kerfuffled (it's so simple, the secret to living in LazyTown is ) about what the secret is, and Milford says Rottenstein broke it and stole a piece.

Robbie is watching and he has another amazing idea - to make a fake stone, knowing that they'll have to do whatever it says on it. He quickly crafts a new stone (HOW DOES HE DO IT!!!!???) and tries to replicate the broken piece. He carries the stone, but it is deemed too heavy for him and he falls down. Then he gets an EXACT REPLICA of the broken piece in his hand. HOW????

Meanwhile, Milford is reading the kids a chapter about a hero who stopped Rottenbeard's Lazyways. Does this remind you of anyone..? No.. okay. He jumped off a wall and landed on the ground, somersaulted behind Rottenbeard, crawled between his legs, and defeated him.

Rottenbeard promised to himself one day he will return (a new generation of him will). The kids decide to dig for buried treasure chests, and while they're having fun to pretend being pirates, a new friend joins them - Robbie Rotten in his newest disguise as Rottenbeard.

He's talking to them about a buncha stuff about pirate business, I don't know, it was about 30 seconds, I skipped it. So, Rottenbeard gives Stephanie a piece of paper and it reads Robbie's grocery list. LOL! He takes it back and gives her a map of where to find the 'precious booty'.

Then they all get on his boat and perform 'You are a Pirate', which I didn't really care for excluding Stephanie's verses. Meanwhile, the kids have been digging for what seems like forever, and Ziggy is right in front of the X. Robbie tries hinting to dig down by saying 'you have to look under your nose sometimes, look down' and he doesn't get the hint.. gosh. Then Ziggy finally sees the X (Are we talking about THOSE films or the letter..?) and Trixie gives Stephanie a toy shovel to dig with.

She finally finds the treasure chest and opens it. It is the fake missing piece Rottenbeard has made. Nobody has noticed what it says though (the characters in this show have some very strange brain capacity), but Stephanie so happy she sends some mail to Sportacus.

The letter reads 'We found the LazyTown stone. -Stephanie' and Sportacus instantly knows what she is talking about. He takes two tennis rackets and rides to town. Milford deems this a historical day in history (no, I didn't stuff that sentence up, LOL!!). Sportacus blows the dust off the missing piece, and it now reads 'LAZyToWN SHOULD ALWAyS BE LAZy'. Everyone is pretty disappointed and sad that they have to lie around and do nothing now. But, this is exactly how they were like years.. before Stephanie came

Trixie is flipping through the 'History of LazyTown' while Stephanie is over at the stone, sulking about how she has to spend her summer doing nothing 'all because of some stupid st-', just when she leans on it and the desk it is on falls over. Then she finds another treasure map and shows the kids.

So, while Ziggy and Stephanie are the only ones digging, Trixie is reminicising how she is the captain because she has a hook AND the map, and Stingy is singing Wonders on the Sea.

Robbie hears their racket and goes back to stop them from finding the real piece. For the laziest guy in town, he puts on his disguise pretty fast. But it's too late, they've already found the treasure chest.

Rottenbeard says it's impossible to find treasure when you're tied to a tree.. then he ties them to a tree. LOL!! Sportacus does an astonishing frontflip onto the treasure chest. Oh, boy, get ready for this awesome G-rated fight scene directed by amazing action movie legend, Magnus Scheving!!

Rottenbeard steals Stephanie's sword and he swings it over his legs, but Sportacus dodges the attack with a jump. Reminds me of when Bruce Lee did the same move in 'Fist of Fury'. Robbie swings again, but he flips onto the ground. Rottenbeard swings forward and Sportacus rotates his leg. Sportacus retalliates by.. throwing the treasure chests in Rottenbeard's hands..? It works, because he falls to the ground. LOL!!

Stephanie manages to read the books with her leg, and Trixie tells Sportacus to grab a sword. He grabs his tennis rackets and whacks him straight on the butt. LOL!! Then he steals Trixie's sword. The two circle each other and Sportacus twirls his tennis rackets. Rottenbeard twirls his balloon swords, but they decrease in size all times (LOL!!) until he gets it juuuusssstttt riiiiiigggghhhhhttttt..

Sportacus jumps on the wall like the hero in the book did (who strangly looks like the "Robbie Rotten Comes to LazyTown" (1999) counterpart of Sportacus) and Robbie nearly falls into the hole the kids dug. Then he charges at Sportacus, and Sportacus steps to the side. Then he falls over the wall.

Sportacus flips over Rottenbeard and whacks him on the butt again! Then he slides over his legs, reluctantly "gives him a little push" (softly kicks him), and Rottenbeard has fell into the kids' dug hole. Jacky Chan who? This is the epitome of foreign fight scenes. Then Robbie's disguise is revealed and he has a bunch of dirt in his mouth (haha!).

Sportacus unties the kids and he takes the treasure chest over to the rest of the LazyTown stone. He blows the dust off the REAL missing piece and it says.. "LAZyToWN SHOULD ALWAys BE.. FOLLOWING THE LAZyRANTS TUMBLR ACCOUNT".. nah, just kidding. It actually says that 'LAZyToWN SHOULD ALWAyS BE HAPPy'.

And everyone is supper happy about that! Milford says it'll be especially easy because they just have to smile. Then they perform Bing Bang.

Meanwhile, Robbie is in his lair, trying to take Milford's advice to smile, but the mirror breaks. A little bit harsh, but kinda funny.

THE END.

10/10 episode if I must say. Stephanie's verse is pretty cool in the featured song, and it also features the closest thing we'll ever get to a LazyTown fight scene.

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Mario vs Donkey Kong Review

The Change remake of Mario vs Donkey Kong demonstrates that the puzzle-platforming formulation from the 2004 unique hasn’t fairly misplaced its spark. Somersaulting throughout puzzle rooms to rescue the Mini-Marios was enjoyable then and is much more enjoyable now. The newly recorded audio and enhanced HD graphics current Mario vs Donkey Kong to a contemporary viewers whereas including new content material for returning gamers. However is the added polish sufficient to attract in these outdoors the puzzle-platforming style? Whereas it might be laborious to suggest Mario vs Donkey Kong to these averse to puzzles and platforming, these even barely within the style will discover lots of enjoyment right here. Picture Supply: Nintendo by way of Twinfinite The core gameplay loop of Mario vs Donkey Kong hasn’t modified since its 2004 GBA days. The fundamental premise of fixing pocket-sized puzzle rooms to take again the stolen Mini-Mario toys from DK stays the identical. Just about all of the content material from the 2004 unique is included right here with a contemporary coat of HD paint. The one side of the unique that might be missed is a piece of charming voice traces from the GBA model, however extra on that in a minute. All in all, the Mario vs Donkey Kong remake manages so as to add way more than it takes away from the compressed GBA unique. Maybe probably the most important addition is Mario vs Donkey Kong ’s new co-op mode. Two gamers can now resolve puzzles collectively concurrently on any of the levels. Better of all, the second participant controls Toad, a brand-new playable character with distinctive voice traces and animations. However even in case you don’t have anybody to play with, there are nonetheless loads of different additions added to this remake. For instance, there are two new Worlds to play via, every with their very own Plus ranges. There’s additionally a brand new Time Assault mode with set occasions to clear on every stage.

Picture Supply: Nintendo by way of Twinfinite Lastly, the remake introduces a Informal Mode which removes the restrictive time restrict, provides checkpoints for every stage, and will increase the variety of occasions you will get hit. These are strong additions that inject new content material and trendy comfort to the 2004 GBA traditional. However that doesn’t imply nothing has been misplaced from the unique on GBA. The extremely compressed sound and voicework from the GBA haven’t made it unscathed within the remake. Charles Martinet did a bang-up job voicing Mario within the unique, however he solely does a fraction of the voicework for this remake, with lots of the extra memorable traces being excluded totally. Shy Man and Donkey Kong have been utterly recast, however no less than Martinet nonetheless voices Mario for this remake, even when there are fewer memorable traces this time round. My favourite enhancement must be the reworked soundtrack in Mario vs Donkey Kong. The jazzy music from the unique has been spruced up with actual devices and dwell performances. The preparations are all exceptionally nicely finished, making it sound like there’s a top-tier jazz band groovin’ out within the background of the levels. In the event you’re not keen on jazz music, there are some ambient tracks and laid-back piano to calm down to, akin to these accompanying the brand new Slippery Summit World.

Picture Supply: Nintendo by way of Twinfinite However music and sound aren’t the one issues to get a contemporary coat of paint, graphics are as much as trendy requirements on this Change remake. Each Shy Man, Piranha Plant, and Barrel is touched up with new HD fashions. Animations are additionally improved throughout the board. Now let’s briefly go over the side that hasn’t modified all these years. Mario vs Donkey Kong’s core gameplay loop consists of puzzles first and platforming second. You may carry out handstands and the traditional Mario 64 somersault, however these strikes actually solely serve to accommodate fixing the puzzles. Every World has its personal distinctive gimmicks, such because the wind petals of Merry Mini-Land or the Shy Man ghosts within the Spooky Home World. The Mini-Mario escort levels are a singular deal with that adjustments up the same old formulation properly and will get you pondering in novel methods. And sure, there are boss fights awaiting you on the finish of every world. These DK battle levels are enjoyable and have attention-grabbing mechanics, additional switching up the purely puzzle-oriented gameplay. I admire the graceful problem stability as every World’s puzzles ramp up in complexity. This remake’s two new Worlds nearly appear to be minimize content material from the 2004 unique; that’s how natural and seamlessly they mesh with the opposite levels. These two new Worlds add distinctive gimmicks akin to wind currents and ice platforms, in order that they’re not simply repeating content material from the unique, which is sweet.

Picture Supply: Nintendo by way of Twinfinite I significantly benefit from the Knowledgeable ranges that get unlocked after finishing the sport and gathering over 100 Stars. The remake provides extra Plus and Knowledgeable levels to the unique, with a stage rely of over 130 this time round. Even with so many levels, each acquainted and new, I by no means bought uninterested in fixing the puzzles and guiding Mini-Marios via hazard. Nevertheless, whereas I by no means bought bored or fatigued by the fixed puzzle-solving, I did get annoyed sometimes. The motion on this devoted remake is strong, although understandably much less snappy and fluid than conventional Mario video games. The sluggish methodical pacing of fixing the puzzle rooms fits the extra stop-and-go motion nicely sufficient, but it surely isn’t excellent. One gripe I've is the hit detection when leaping on or avoiding enemies. For instance, Shy Guys and Thwomps kill you in case you don’t do a pixel-perfect leap on the tip of their propeller or keep away from their massive hitbox. There have been moments after I ought to have landed safely on a platform, but the sport acknowledged me hitting a spike adjoining to it as a substitute; these hit detection issues are usually by no means a difficulty in trendy Mario video games.

Picture Supply: Nintendo by way of Twinfinite One other slight criticism I've is menu navigation. The stage choice menu is cumbersome to navigate between worlds, particularly once you begin unlocking the plus and further worlds and have a dozen tags to manually comb via. Likewise, the cursor for stage choice is just not distinct and my colorblindness made it very troublesome to inform what I used to be choosing within the menu. Apart from some occasional hit detection points and menu gripes, Mario VS Donkey Kong gives a brilliant strong and enjoyable puzzle-platforming expertise with little or no to complain about. With the remake’s added Worlds and new Time Assault mode, there’s a shocking quantity of content material right here for the puzzle-platformer fanatic to be satiated for a while. And whilst you don’t have to be a diehard fan of the style to get pleasure from what Mario vs Donkey Kong has to supply, you do want to like puzzles to proceed enjoying the wealth of Plus and Knowledgeable ranges. It is a recreation targeted on puzzles, with platforming taking extra of a supporting function. So in case you’re simply after a platforming recreation, this may not scratch that itch.

Picture Supply: Nintendo by way of Twinfinite Somersaulting via bite-sized puzzle rooms seeking Mini-Marios is much more of a deal with than it was again on the GBA. Whereas I’ll miss the dialogue that didn’t make it into the remake, I absolutely welcome the added levels and reworked music. I loved my HD revisit of Mario vs Donkey Kong fairly a bit, even to the purpose of incomes each Star within the recreation. Whereas there’s not lots right here that may attraction to those that weren’t attracted by the unique recreation, it’s nonetheless a strong remake that provides enjoyable new levels and HD polish. Mario vs Donkey Kong Reviewer: Matthew Carmosino Award: Editor’s Selection Professionals Properly-crafted puzzles that proceed to entertain and problem even after the credit roll. Enjoyable Mini-Mario levels and DK boss battles. Good replayability as a result of new Time Assault mode and co-op performance. The brand new music preparations and graphical enhancements are strong. Cons Hit detection is questionable on uncommon events and navigating the rows of menu tabs isn’t handy. A lot of the charming voicework from the unique didn’t make it for the remake. Read the full article

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sedef2113 · 5 months

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#somersault (2004)#SoundCloud

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whitepolaris · 8 months

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Bigfoot and the Spottsville Monster

Where there's dense wilderness in America, you'll usually find Bigfoot sightings. Kentucky is no exception to this rule. There's actually more logic to the idea of a primitive humanoid surviving in Kentucky than in a lot of other states, because the terrain here is so pockmarked with caves that lead to thousands of miles of underground caverns that are still mostly unexplored to this day. If Bigfoot exists, he might well be a Kentucky cave dweller.

The area surrounding Uniontown has long been a hot spot for Bigfoot sightings. Folklore legends of all bipedal cavemen, ape-men, or gorillas roaming these woods have been common among locals for years and actually predate the Bigfoot concept, which began in 1958.

In 1988, two deer hunters from Indiana were chased away by a classic Bigfoot-type creature at the Higgins & Henry Wildlife Area outside Morganfield. In November 1996, a woman had a close brush with a ten-foot-tall Bigfoot and watched it walk away slowly and meanderingly, directly in front of her, heading toward the Ohio River.

In 2004, two campers were four-wheeling on trails in the Land Between the Lakes area and encountered a seven-foot-tall creatures with glowing red eyes and a peculiar snot. Although the beast quickly disappeared and there was no confrontation, one of the campers was gripped with an "overwhelming feeling of dread" after returning to camp and decided to pack up and get out.

In September 2006, a Trigg County woman was surprised to find a Bigfoot-type ape-man on her rooftop in broad daylight. Not being a believer in Bigfoot, she assumed it had to be some crazy person in an ape suit and attempted to talk to it by yelling things like "Okay, you're funny, joke's over, now who the hell are you?" with elicited no response. "It was like something out of a bad old movie," she said. "It didn't look real at all. It totally looked like a man in a really fake gorilla suit, and didn't think he was doing a very good job of acting like a gorilla either." But as she was rummaging through her purse for her cell phone so she could call a neighbor for help, the ape-man rolled backward, did a sort of a somersault, leaped an incredible distance off the corner of the roof to a utility pole-something no human could have done-and deftly swung from the pole to the tops of nearby trees with great speed. It was out of sight in seconds. Good work for a guy who likes to put on an ape suit and scare people.

Henderson County is another extremely active area. Kentucky cryptozoology expert Bart Nunnelly tells of a Bigfoot sighting at a specific spot on Collins Road in Reeds in 1968, and again in the same place in 1971. Nunnelly's family had many close encounters of their own in 1975 at their farm in Spottsville. In fact, Bigfoot sightings on their property became such a regular occurrence that the local police stopped answering calls regarding them, even though people in Hebbardsville and other adjoining areas along the Ohio River were also seeing the creatures. The Henderson Gleaner dubbed it the Spottsville Monster, and this term is sometimes still applied to local Bigfoot sightings.

In 1999, a pair of Bigfoots were seen in a field close to Highway 60 in Baskett. This incident illustrates well the "hidden in plain sight" axiom that applies to all paranormal phenomena. The person who reported the creatures noted that traffic was heavy that day, with lots of cars in front of him and behind him, and yet no one else bothered reporting the sighting. In 2004, two witnesses in Hebbardsville saw a similar pair of creatures eating cornstalks near a church, and in 2006 a Hebbardsville man found an anomalous tooth that he believes to be from a Bigfoot. It has characteristics resembling a human tooth more than one from any other animal and yet is far too large for any human mouth.

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i-love-movie-posters · 11 months

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Somersault

2004 directed by Cate Shortland

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scotianostra · 1 year

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Happy Birthday filmmaker Gillian Berrie, born on September 8th 1967 in Glasgow.

In 1996 Gillian co-founded Sigma Films with director David Mackenzie, writing and producing serial award-winning shorts, 'California Sunshine' and 'Somersault'.

At the Scottish BAFTA New Talent Awards in 2002 Gillian won the BAFTA for Outstanding Achievement.

She also co-produced the multi-prize winner 'Dear Frankie' and Jonathan's Glazer's 'Under the Skin' (which won 23 awards and received 110 nominations).

Short Circuit is Scotland's hub for filmmaking talent, supporting the creative and professional development of new and emerging writers, directors, and producers.

Most recently, Berrie exec-produced the critically acclaimed Pilot and 2nd episode of the Disney/ FX series Under the Banner of Heaven for which Andrew Garfield was nominated for an Emmy (2022). She also produced Taron Egerton's feature, Tetris, which I watched a few weeks ago and was impressed with .

#scotland #scottish #happy birthday #filmaker #director #glasgow

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