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The Invitation (2015)

Dir. Karyn Kusama

While attending a dinner party at his former house, a man (Logan Marshall-Green) starts to believe that his ex-wife (Tammy Blanchard) and her new husband (Michiel Huisman) have sinister plans for the guests.

#The Invitation #Karyn Kusama #Phil Hay #Matt Manfredi #Logan Marshall-Green #Tammy Blanchard #Michiel Huisman #movies #drama #horror #mystery #thriller

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wornoutspines · 1 month

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R.I.P.D. (Movie Review) | Still as good but in need of a Blumhouse-esque Reboot

#RIPD (2013) | Still as good but in need of a blumhouse-esq reboot #RyanReynolds #JeffBridge #moviereview #MaryLouiseParker #KevinBacon #Throwback #ThrowbackThursday

Based on the comic book created by Peter M. Lenkov and Lucas Marangon, this movie was written by Matt Manfredi (The Boys) and Phil Hay. Robert Schwentke and stars Ryan Reynolds (Deadpool), Jeff Bridges (The Giver), Mary-Louise Parker (Red Sparrow, Mr. Mercedes), and Kevin Bacon (Blackmass, X: First Class). Premise: A recently slain cop joins a team of undead police officers working for the Rest…

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the-cursed-wife · 1 year

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Dark & Twisty Michiel 😈

David, The Invitation, 2015

Directed by Karyn Kusama; writers Phil Hay and Matt Manfredi

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A Perilous Journey, The Mysterious Benedict Society, 2.01

James Bobin (D), Matt Manfredi & Phil Hay (S), 25/10/22

#maameyaa boafo #kristen schaal #emmy deoliveira #marta timofeeva #the mysterious benedict society #fantasy #saison 2 #made in usa

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brokehorrorfan · 2 years

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R.I.P.D. will be released on 4K Ultra HD (with Blu-ray and Digital) on December 6 via Universal. The 2013 supernatural action comedy is based on the 1999 comic book by Peter M. Lenkov and Lucas Marangon.

Robert Schwentke (Red, The Divergent Series: Insurgent) directs from a script by Phil Hay & Matt Manfredi (Clash of the Titans, The Invitation). Jeff Bridges and Ryan Reynolds star with Kevin Bacon, Mary-Louise Parker, Stéphanie Szostak, James Hong, and Marisa Miller.

R.I.P.D. is presented in 4K with HDR and DTS-X audio. Special features are listed below.

Special features:

Transferring R.I.P.D. - Making of featurette

R.I.P.D. Motion Comics: Bringing the Avatars to Life

Nick's New Avatars

Filming the Other Side

Walking Among Us: Deados & Avatars

Anatomy of a Shootout

Alternate opening #1

Alternate opening #2

Deleted/alternate scenes

Gag reel

Jeff Bridges and Ryan Reynolds headline this supernatural action-adventure as two cops dispatched by the Rest In Peace Department (R.I.P.D.) to protect and serve the living from increasingly destructive spirits hiding among the unsuspecting on Earth. When they uncover a plot that could end life as we know it, the new partners have to turn grudging respect into top-notch teamwork to restore the cosmic balance...or watch the tunnel to the afterlife begin sending angry souls the very wrong way.

Pre-order R.I.P.D.

#ripd #r.i.p.d.#jeff bridges #ryan reynolds #kevin bacon #mary louise parker #stephanie szostak #dvd #gift #dark horse comics #comic book movies #4k uhd #4k ultra hd #james hong #marisa miller

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jmovielover · 1 month

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Disney+ Originals (Part 6)

• Luca (June 18 2021) "Set in a beautiful seaside town on the Italian Riviera, the original animated feature is a coming-of-age story about one young boy experiencing an unforgettable summer filled with gelato, pasta and endless scooter rides. Luca shares these adventures with his newfound best friend, but all the fun is threatened by a deeply held secret: he is a sea monster from another world just below the water's surface." (Directed by Enrico Casarosa)

• The Mysterious Benedict Society (June 25 2021-December 7 2022; 2 Seasons) "Four gifted orphans are recruited by an eccentric benefactor to go on a secret mission; placed undercover at a boarding school known as The Institute, they must foil a nefarious plot with global ramifications." (Developed by Phil Hay & Matt Manfredi)

• Monsters At Work (July 7 2021-May 5 2024; 2 Seasons) "Mechanic Tylor Tuskmon has big dreams of working his way up the ranks to the Laugh Floor at Monsters Inc." (Developed by Bobs Gannaway)

• Turner & Hooch (July 21 2021-October 6 2021; 1 Season) "A buttoned-up U.S. Marshall inherits a drooling junkyard dog and soon realizes the pet he didn't want is the partner he needs." (Developed by Matt Nix)

• What If? (August 11 2021-?; 2 Seasons with a 3rd on the way) "Reimagining noteworthy events in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and creating a multiverse of infinite possibilities." (Developed by A.C. Bradley)

#disney+ originals

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disney15ish · 3 years

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The Mysterious Benedict Society Show: Phil Hay & Matt Manfredi interviews

Whenever I watch any show, I’m always interested in interviews with the creators/showrunners and The Mysterious Benedict Society is no different.

The show was devloped by a writing duo, Phil Hay & Matt Manfredi, who have never written for TV before. I’ve collected some interviews that I think are pretty interesting reads even for book fans because they share what they got from the books and what they hope they brought from the book to the show:

This 1st one from Final Draft is a shorter one about their writing process in general: https://blog.finaldraft.com/the-mysterious-benedict-society-finding-the-moments-of-truth-in-middle-grade-fiction

This one from The Credits focuses on why they were drawn to the books, never looking at it as a “kids” show, switching the streaming home it would be on mid production, the reasoning for casting Hale despite Benedict being older in the books, and having to work on production away from set: https://www.motionpictures.org/2021/06/creating-the-wonderful-world-of-disneys-the-mysterious-benedict-society/

This website "Showbiz Cheat Sheet” has gotten a couple articles out of the show: 1 about what they changed (confirming Curtain is the character they took the most liberty with because “He’s the most different in terms of how we portray him just because we found something about him very specific that we felt a guru type educational free thinker kind of clicked with the scenes and clicked in a slightly different presentation of this amazing character from the book.”) and another interview going more into what age group the show is for: https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/mysterious-benedict-society-disney-series-change.html/ and https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/mysterious-benedict-society-what-age-disney-series.html/

and one final one from “The Wrap” that talks about a lot of interesting things in my opinion: https://www.thewrap.com/mysterious-benedict-society-showrunners-say-future-seasons-may-not-follow-the-books/amp/

One thing that stuck out to me in a couple of these interviews are them saying that if the show gets picked up for future seasons, it’s likely they’re going to mix and match elements from the future books (including the prequel) unlike this first season which stuck to the first book only. The first interview from “Showbiz” ends with Phil Hay saying “The first book really truly lent itself almost perfectly in scope and dynamic to a season that was contained. But the subsequent books, we’ll see if we’re lucky enough to get another season, I think there’ll be a lot of harvesting to do from different areas of those books but we haven’t figured it out yet. There’s some incredible stuff from the second book. We still haven’t conceptualized it completely. The first book is very much portrayed in terms of the story in this season. It makes for a very proper season I think.”

Then, stil by Phil Hay, gets more into it in the interview by “The Wrap”: “The subsequent books are all wonderful, and they’re very different, too, So if we were lucky enough to continue and get another season, I think it would likely draw from a lot of them in different ways, as opposed to being very, very specific. “We don’t know yet because we haven’t broken it down. But my feeling is, in a series of books, kids don’t age quite as quickly as they do in real life. So I think as we moved on, we want to be true to who the actors are as they grow so that the tone and style and stories we tell are tonally congruent with that.”

Also in the other way, Trenton Lee Stewart had a small appearance on an Arkansas news show where he got to share a tiny bit about his opinion on the show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PHPVmaLR1w "They've really done a good job capturing the spirit of the story and the characters," and “I think they've striking the balance that I tried to strike in the books where things were light hearted and fun a lot of the times, but you could really still feel the vulnerability of these kids”

#the mysterous benedict society #mysterious benedict society #mbs disney #phil hay #matt manfredi #Trenton Lee Stewart

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geekcavepodcast · 4 years

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“Dracula” Film in Development

Blumhouse Productions is developing a currently untitled Dracula film. Karyn Kusama is set to direct the film and Matt Manfredi and Phil Hay are writing the script.

While the project does not yet have a studio attached, Blumhouse does have a first-look deal with Universal. The two recently enjoyed great success with The Invisible Man, so we can probably expect Universal to jump at the chance for another project featuring a classic horror monster.

The Hollywood Reporter broke the news.

(Image - Cover of Bram Stoker’s Dracula)

#dracula #blumhouse #karyn kusama #matt manfredi #phil hay #bram stoker #TGCLiz

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#553 #Destroyer

#Destroyer #Karyn Kusama #Phil Hay #Matt Manfredi #Nicole Kidman #Toby Kebbell #Tatiana Maslany #Sebastian Stan #Scoot McNairy #Bradley Whitford

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oftwodarkmoons · 5 years

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Don’t make excuses for what you want. It’s weak.

Destroyer, 2018 film

#Quotes #Destroyer #Karyn Kusama #Phil Hay #Matt Manfredi #Film 2019

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adamwatchesmovies · 5 years

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Destroyer (2018)

At its center, Destroyer features a jaw-dropping performance by Nicole Kidman, whose character looks like she’s been chewed up and spit out a dozen times. She makes the film, though its narrative contains a number of surprising and shocking moments that overcome the small stretches which feel a little slow.

Years ago, LAPD detectives Erin (Kidman) and Chris (Sebastian Stan) went undercover to bust a gang of bank robbers led by Silas (Toby Kebbell). Something went wrong, people got hurt, Silas got away. 16 years later, Erin receives a $100 bill stained with a dye pack in an unmarked envelope.

Erin Bell must be one of the worst police officers in memory. Her past has already twisted her into a person who is virtually unable to make anything good last and now it’s killing the valuable scraps she’s managed to hold above her head while wading neck-deep in filth all these years. Divorced, she even struggles to connect with her teenaged daughter, Shelby (Jade Pettyjohn). You can hardly see the good intentions beneath the drinking and penchant for violence. She’s determined - against all reason - to get to Silas. Assaulting witnesses, getting beaten up herself, harassing former contacts - and that’s just the beginning - you figure she’s either headed for unemployment or the grave by the time this story is over. Hopefully she manages to get her man before then. She deserves everything coming her way but someone this desperate kinda deserves a break.

Throughout, we get flashbacks to the case which set off the plot. These scenes add much intrigue. The drip of information is enough to kinda figure out what happened, but not until director Karyn Kusama wants you to know so you better be paying attention. We see just how dirty it got between Silas, his gang, Chris and Erin and this cranks up the tension. Rather than allow you to predict how things’ll go, every reveal makes you doubt. Can there be redemption for a person like her? It's doubly effective, as the flashbacks let us see just how far Erin has fallen both morally, and physically.

Destroyer is a dirty, unflinching film. It's the sound of an old boot crunching on broken glass. When people get shot, there’s no glory in it. The excitement you would feel in another film is transformed into sweat and trembles. When people get punched or kicked, the quick glimpse of their face as they grimace in pain feels like a peek at Hell itself. There are a couple of pacing issues but considering how it wraps up, you won't mind. Actually, it compels you to watch it again. The flashback sequences, combined with the main character and her relationship with everyone else makes for an interesting journey that’s fun to examine as it’s going along, and in hindsight as well. (Theatrical version on the big screen, February 3, 2019)

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Books Read in February 2019

There There by Tommy Orange

I read one of the hottest new Lit books in a timely fashion? How shocking! I liked but did not love this. Less a novel then a story cycle it has 12 pov characters, all Native Americans, that are loosely related by blood or circumstance all living in and around Oakland who gather together during a pow wow with some disastrous consequences. The good was the writing which was engaging. I didn’t mind the loose structure but it also disappointed me a little bit. If you’re going to have 12 pov characters you better make them damn distinct and unfortunately they started to bleed together a little too much. I had to keep flipping back through the pages to try and remember who certain characters were and I read this pretty quickly, I can’t imagine how difficult it would be to remember if I was a slower reader. If Orange had focused on fewer characters and fleshed them out a little more I might have liked the book better. It was still a very good solid read, mostly lived up to the hype!

Animals by Emma Jane Unsworth

Another book I liked but didn’t love! Honestly a pretty good solid read. I am a sucker for friendship books and this book is about a 32 year old codependent alcoholic on the verge of growing up and getting married who is still pretty much married to her hard drinking and the best friend who enables her. It’s set in Manchester and honestly the writing was a little... dense for me to get through including some Britishims that I’m not quite sure I understood. Really good and solid though. Also despite this being a really classic tale (woman has bestie, bestie falls in love with a guy, friendship gets fucked up) this had a really good and honest ending which felt perfect. Good read, would recommend.

An American Marriage by Tayari Jones

A fantastic book! I read this all in one go because it grabbed me from the beginning and never let go. The book covers about 7 years in the courtship of one couple, an African-American couple from Atlanta who, shortly after their first year of marriage, are separated when the husband of the couple is arrested for rape. The book makes it clear that he didn’t do it, but because of his skin colour he winds up becoming a victim of America’s prison industrial complex and their marriage suffers as a result. It’s a heart breaking read and there are three pov characters and Jones does an excellent job balancing between them and making it clear what their intentions are so that even when they’re hurting each other we see they’re not wrong exactly.

The crazy and sad thing to me is that I read an interview with Jones after reading the book and she said the entire thing was originally told from the woman’s perspective but everyone hated her so much and found her so unsympathetic she added in the male perspectives. Now the book doesn’t suffer at all as a result but at the same time it made me really sad. I would have loved to read this book as told entirely from the woman’s pov and it sucks that black women are still judged so harshly and held to such brutal standards (she said people still find her female character unsympathetic to which I say “Get a grip”). Anyway this was brilliant and I was happy to see that Jones has written other books which I will definitely be digging into.

Childhood by André Alexis

What can I say? I’ve loved Alexis’s writing since I first read the book that broke him into the big leagues, Fifteen Dogs. Childhood is his first book published in 1998 and is a really weird novel, so closed off and in some ways pedantic and self indulgent that I understand why it got very little notice when it was first published. The book takes the form of a love letter written to the main character’s paramour and which he claims is about his mother and her love affair with a man called Henry who was like a father figure to him. At least half of it is about his actual childhood and anyway what it’s actually about is this repressed abused man finally opening up because he doesn’t want to live the life of missed opportunities like his parental figures. Incredible writing completely carries this through. I really enjoyed it though I don’t know if others would. For Canadian lit snobs only I guess.

Erratic Facts by Kay Ryan

I don’t know, I don’t feel like a good poetry reader and I seldom read poetry so I don’t even know how to review this. Ryan is someone whose poems I admire every time I see one so I decided to give these a shot. They’re all quite short and quite beautiful. Only a couple really stuck with me. Still a good, short read.

Amsterdam by Ian McEwan

I’ve read 8 books by McEwan and I’ve loved 7 of them. That 7 now includes Amsterdam which is a quite brilliant and quite darkly amusing short morality novel. It regards two friends, a journalist and a composer, both former lovers of a wonderful woman who dies of a degenerative disease who make a pact to euthanize the other should circumstances ever require it. Fun, surprising, witty. Loved it. As I side not my choices this month were wonderful! not a bad book in the bunch!

I also read two scripts:

Destroyer by Phil Hay & Matt Manfredi

I was actually REALLY looking forward to this movie and when I watched it I was incredibly disappointed. I did something I almost never do after I’ve finished watching the movie and read the script. Sometimes screenplays work better as screenplays and don’t pop when they’re filmed off the page. I didn’t think this one popped per se, but I did think the screenplay didn’t show off the faults and plot holes as much as the movie did. It’s too bad because I liked the story, the twist ending and the lead character but this was a draft or two short of really working.

Eighth Grade by Bo Burnham

Like almost everyone else I was totally traumatized by living through grade 8. I decided there was no way in hell I hated myself enough to watch this movie so I decided to read the script instead. This one popped immediately. Funny, brutal, sharp, hilarious. I’m glad Burnham one some awards for this. Well deserved.

#currently reading #Amsterdam #Ian McEwan #Erratic Facts #Kay Ryan #Childhood #André Alexis #An American Marriage #Tayari Jones #Animals #Emma Jane Unsworth #There There #Tommy Orange #Eighth Grade #Bo Burnham #Destroyer #Phil Hay #Matt Manfredi

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We Can't Be Found by Algiers from the album There is No Year - Director: Ian Cone

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bob-the-movie-man-film-reviews · 5 years

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One Mann's Movies DVD Review: Destroyer (2019).

One Mann's Movies DVD Review: Destroyer (2019). Nichole Kidman in fantastic form in a familiar thriller that is expertly delivered. FFFFf.

A career best from Kidman.

“Destroyer” seems to have had mixed reviews, but it is really one of the most gripping watches I’ve seen in 2019.

The plot.

The plot is both familiar (think “The Departed” mixed with “Hell or High Water”) but at the same time intricate. Nicole Kidmanplays police detective Erin Bell who’s in a bad place. She looks to be on her last legs through drink and…

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bylaw · 7 years

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A PERFECT thriller... One of the best you will ever see.

#The Invitation #Karyn Kusama #Phil Hay #Matt Manfredi #Logan Marshall-Green #Emayatzy Corinealdi #Michiel Huisman #Tammy Blanchard

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