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[gbhbl]

Horror Movie Review: Black Friday (2021)

Black Friday is a horror comedy starring Devon Sawa, Michael Jai White, and Bruce Campbell,

Black Friday is a horror comedy film that was written by Andy Greskoviak and directed by Casey Tebo. It stars Devon Sawa, Ivana Baquero, Ryan Lee, Stephen Peck, Michael Jai White, and Bruce Campbell, releasing in 2021. Ahhh Black Friday, the time of year when big corporations entice us all with huge sales and discounts on items. When they knock those prices down to the same ones that they were 3…

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#Andy Greskoviak #Black Friday #Bruce Campbell #Casey Tebo #Devon Sawa #Ivana Baquero #MFW Manufacturing #Michael Jai White #Patrick Stump #Ryan Lee #Screen Media Films #The Warner Davis Company

[gebo4482]

The Accursed - Official Trailer

Dir: Kevin Lewis Star: Sarah Grey / Sarah Dumont / Mena Suvari / Meg Foster

#the accursed #the accursed (2022) #kevin lewis #horror movies #trailer #screen media films

[movies-tv-more]

Jeepers Creepers: Reborn Official Trailer

The fourth installment to the Jeepers Creepers franchise hits the reset button, taking the saga in a new direction with the first of a planned trilogy. It will be hitting theaters September 19th.

#jeepers creepers #jeepers creepers reborn #movie trailer #2022 movies #horror #timo vuorensola #sydney craven #imran adams #jarreau benjamin #dee wallace #gary graham #screen media films

[pariaritzia]

Ranveer Singh and Tota Roy Choudhury performing kathak, an Indian classical dance form typically performed by women, in ROCKY AUR RANI KII PREM KAHAANI (2023)

#bollywood #rocky aur rani kii prem kahaani #ranveer singh #tota roy choudhury #adventures in gifmaking #gonna have to add another installment to my queerness in indian media series #tho I won't be returning to that for a while bc as I said before....it's kind of exhausting lol #but anyway seeing this in the theatre. transcendent. delightful. euphoric. breathtaking. marvelous. #audience cheering and clapping and so happy #and the fact it's ranveer singh....and karan johar directing....feels good #saw in a film companion interview that this was inspired from karan johar's own life bc he said he was 'effeminate' and- #-danced to the women's parts of bollywood songs as a child #glad he got to display this on the big screen in a big budget mainstream hindi movie! and it is positive! and the audience took it well! #long post

[bmoharrisbankofficial]

am still obsessed with the bit from nope (2022) where em goes "so i was talking to my therapist about how dad made me feel unworthy and less than and--" and oj goes "you see a therapist??" and then em pauses and goes "i fuck one occasionally! anyways i was telling her--"

#nope 2022 #emerald haywood #oj haywood #em haywood #for the people who say they wish theaters had subtitles: they do! not every screening obvs but look up your local theater and type in #'on screen captions [movie name]' and it will give you a list of showings with subtitles #usually there are 2 to 3 during a movie's run; i'm going again on wednesday bc there's a screening with the captions #nope 2022 spoilers #nope spoilers #i am so in love with these siblings they are so good #also i love when black lesbians survive films holy shit #i was so worried she was going to die based on (waves at the past several decades of media and how it treats black women and sapphics #let alone characters who are both) #i love and cherish my little lesbian so much

[cyberdragoninfinity]

[spoilers for nope (2022) ahead]

it’s been a couple days since we saw Nope and Oh My God I Cannot Stop Thinking About Jean Jacket. it’s a ufo. it’s an alien. it’s a force of nature. it’s an animal. a wild animal. a hungry, territorial, untameable predator. it’s a spectacle. an object of attention, obsession. an exploited show pony. a must-see event. with its gigantic screen-shaped eye it in itself IS a horror movie, a theater of billowing, constricting curtains and played back screams. it’s the viewed. it’s the Viewers. it’s the lens of the camera watching, capturing the image, of a black man on a horse. it’s an eye. it’s a mouth. it’s both, good god, it’s both. it ravenously consumes all who looks upon it and all it looks upon in return. it’s the perfect kind of movie monster that we as an audience are so horrified to look at, but the monster, in so many ways, is also us. it’s just us. we’re looking at a reflection, and it startles us, scares us. just like lucky at the beginning of the movie.

and it’s just fantastic.

#nope #nope movie #nope 2022 #it's very late and i need to go to bed but i also needed to ramble about JJ because im just entranced by it. the whole movie tbh #the way peele does nothing undeliberately. the way jupe calls JJ 'the viewers.' the way it's a fucking screen!!!!! #it's something we watch but also something watching us. the film and the camera. a window and a mirror #but at the same time it's something Perfectly Knowable. it's an animal! with animal instincts! #just the sheer amount of layers and themes and meanings flying around in this movie are going to make me crazy. i love it so much!! #i love media with many different themes at play!!! i love a good monster movie!!!! NOPE MAN FUCKING NOPE!!!!!! #GO SEE IT!!!!!

[omg-whathaveidone]

Gather is an intimate portrait of the growing movement amongst Native Americans to reclaim their spiritual, political and cultural identities through food sovereignty, while battling the trauma of centuries of genocide.

Gather follows Nephi Craig, a chef from the White Mountain Apache Nation (Arizona), opening an indigenous café as a nutritional recovery clinic; Elsie Dubray, a young scientist from the Cheyenne River Sioux Nation (South Dakota), conducting landmark studies on bison; and the Ancestral Guard, a group of environmental activists from the Yurok Nation (Northern California), trying to save the Klamath river.

Please share!!

#please share #indigenous lives matter #indigenous #food sovereignty #activism #food #environmental justice #share share share #share #indigenous activism #nativeamericans #native plants #native women #repost this #film #documentary #films to watch #netflix #streaming now #thank you to the Allied Media Group in Detroit for hosting a screening #blaze it

[thedreadvampy]

every so often I discover new things I'm unhappy with about the Sandman adaptation and each one is pettier than the last

what do you MEAN the word battle is between Dream and Lucifer? no it's NOT. it's between Dream and Choronzon who's acting on Beelzebub's behalf it's about the petty politics of Hell which is in large part what Lucifer finds so tiresome.

also why does Dream have human eyes give that bitch some contacts or Something

#red said #i need to block the sandman tag i just have such a hateon for this show #that i have not and will not watch #even for understandable adaptional decisions! #like it's a LOT of story and not all of it is intuitive and i understand the need to simplify it and pare down the cast #it's entirely fair to say whittle out the triumvirate which frankly doesn't play THAT much part in the story #but also if you're not introducing Choronzon and Beelzebub here it does require shifting a big chunk of the endgame story of Seasons of Mist #cause who. is he bargaining with from hell who has a grudge against him. if the person he's clashed with in hell is Lucifer #who's the one giving up the key and initiating the plot #see this is why. you shouldn't adapt the story you should leave it alone :( #it's a story that is DESIGNED for the language and reading style of comics!!!!!!!!!!! #the visuals don't work onscreen cause the imagery is about panel to panel juxtaposition!!!!! #the plot doesn't work onscreen because the comic is reliant on the reader's expectation that they're reading part of an established world #cause it's marketed to superhero comics fans! so it can make broad gestures towards how the world works and expect you to extrapolate! #but tv and film don't work like that! we expect to have things much more fully explained in screen media! #even now that extended universe screen media is popular it still isn't the norm #it's not the foundation of the narrative language of film and tv the way it is with comics #tv already has less space than comics to tell the same story because it's timebound in a way comics are #it can't montage through scenes as fast or make as many jumps shot to shot as comics cause that would be overwhelming and confusing #and then WITHIN that if you have to stop and explain who people are you HAVE to shrink the cast #TV stories just don't have space for the kinds of huge-cast complex-interwoven-plot storytelling that comics do #especially if they want to have ANY time at ALL for slower character moments #so you gotta cut stuff down #like yeah your average floppy is what. 32 pages including covers and ads? #and your average episode of TV is 30-60 minutes #but a) that script is probably not much longer than the finished comic #and b) it needs to be way more focused because as i say comics language let's you jump around #in a way that screen language doesn't #you can't do the two important lines from a conversation then move onto the next thing #it feels jarring and rushed in film

[apoptoses]

I was reading your latest replies and I couldn’t help but wonder… thoughts on Saltburn? 💭 🛀

It was fun but tbh I think it was not perverse enough!!

Like I saw so many shocked reactions to it and went in expecting something that would give even *me* uncomfortable feelings. But watching it I felt like the production team was being conservative, like they were worried about being so shocking that it would be offensive and like- good art should lean into being potentially offensive. If you’re going to make your audience squirm don’t make them squirm just a little, make them viscerally recoil. If you’re going to do something that rides the line between horny and horrific, really lean hard into the horrific.

So I felt like some of the scenes that were shot in very low light to keep them ‘safe’ enough to keep the audience present (the ‘vampire’ scene) or where the details were obscured a little and make the audience put together what was going on (with the bathtub)- as a viewer I felt like in keeping things ‘safe’ they missed their true potential. I wanted to be horrified by them but honestly I’ve read much wilder stuff in published novels lol By playing it safe the movie avoided the most harsh criticism and outrage but also ensured it will never get taken seriously either.

And the end was kind of weak to me? Idk there felt like little purpose behind the things Oliver did even after he explained himself.

But overall!! Fun!! Like putting The Talented Mister Riley and early episodes of Skins into a blender and having some weirdo horny freak stuff come out. Absolutely worth the $10 in tickets, 10/10 movie to go to with a fellow fandom pervert.

#listen I have a lot of feelings about sexuality horror and media response lately #after reading a big section of a book dedicated to cult films and media response to sexuality on screen #it was so close to being an absolute banger but missed the mark slightly #and thus wasn’t extremely memorable #but was fun in the moment and so I don’t regret going to see it!! #anyways got the urge to have Armand make Daniel lick up his own mess from the shower now #apoptoses answers

[lost-wits]

Terminal Dream (III) by Tim White-Sobieski. LED video tube wall installation, three channels, 2003.

#experimental video #experimental film #art #art history #contemporary art #art film #cult film #film #film stills #cinematography #cinema studies #digital media #video art #art installation #screens

[haute-lifestyle-com]

Bad Hombres, from Screen Media Chicken Soup for the Soul, brings to the screen an attention grabbing, electrifying, cartel drama as two illegals take a job only to find out their employer is burying dead bodies

#Janet Walker #Haute-Lifestyle.com #The-Entertainment-Zone.com #Bad Hombres #Chicken Soup for The Soul #Screen Media #luke hemsworth #Thomas Jane #nick cassavetes #tyrese gibson #diego tinoco #Hemky Madera #Paul Johansson #kevin carrigan #movie to watch #Film Review

[gentaroukisaragi]

Ultra Q starting off strong by going 'hey what if we just pit these two kaiju against each other to solve our problems?'

#its not technically an ultra but id consider it #an ultra debut #Litra is technically a kaiju right? It looked kinda small but they kept using the camera trick #'make sure the actors and the monster are never on screen at the same time' trick so i kinda struggled to tell #and i know the technology exists to upgrade film material but it is just shocking to see how fucking clear and high definition camera #footage from 1966 is. im so used to old tamil movies from the 70s (and even newer stuff tbh) being in such shitty quality. just goes to sho #the power of media preservation. anywho i should go to sleep

[rollercoasterwords]

Hello there. This is me asking you to talk about the glass onion thing, I wanna know 😌

ok i just spent. an hour. writing a whole essay. and then accidentally deleted it. so!!!! i don't think i have the energy to rewrite the whole thing but the condensed version of the glass onion thoughts:

the movie itself was fun and i don't think there's anything wrong with enjoying it, but what bothers me is seeing so many responses praising the movie as though it was this groundbreaking anticapitalist critique when in reality the actual message of the movie was neither groundbreaking nor particularly anticapitalist and the movie itself is very much invested in capitalism; it's a film made by a multi-billion corporation whose primary purpose is to make rich people richer.

and i think a lot of this uncritically positive praise that treats the movie as though it's making some important political statement is falling into the trap of asking "does this media say something good or bad" rather than asking "is this media a lecture or a conversation." because sure, glass onion seems to be saying "eat the rich!", but that message is very carefully outlined in bite-sized chunks that are then spoonfed to the audience. like, it's very clear who's good and who's bad, and it's very clear why those people are good and bad, to the point that the viewer isn't really encouraged to question those assumptions and is supposed to just sit back and agree with the points the movie is making. and if more people were approaching media critique with the starting point of "is this a lecture or a conversation," i think fewer people would fall into this trap of just going "oh, this movie is saying something i agree with!" and instead pause and ask "why isn't this movie encouraging me to draw my own conclusions?" because in the case of glass onion, i think the answer to that question is that the movie is not really making any groundbreaking critique and is rather a perfect example of "anti-capitalist" capitalist media that works to keep people complacent by making them feel as though there's some important challenge being made when there's not.

#genuinely saw red when i accidentally deleted my essay #the absolute most frustrating thing in the world #had to scream into my pillow for a good ten seconds then stare blankly at my screen for two minutes #but!!! here u go. the spark notes version of the glass onion thoughts #i also just watched the menu a few days ago and i think that film is another perfect example of this issue #at the end of the day i just think we should be wary of any media that is presenting us with a moral guideline and telling us to swallow it #even if that moral guideline seems like it would align with our own morals #because none of this stuff is being created in a vaccuum and anything that is telling you not to think too hard is probably not ur friend #ask #ranting and raving

[clarabow-mp3]

this is so dumb but i see a lot of tiktokers doing 'make-up throughout the decades' videos and they're cute but i do get confused because a lot of them are my age but don't seem to remember that contour for everyday use was not a thing before the mid-2010s. it was certainly not a thing in the 1940s those women were at war they were not concerned about highlighter.

#and i've looked this up by the way i am right about this #like?? google is right there idk it just annoys me #i think it's also an interesting commentary on societal and cultural changes bc it shows the influence of social media yk #in previous decades contouring would be stage or screen makeup but now we're wearing film makeup all the time #we're so used to being on camera that we are literally always doing our makeup as if we're on a film set. crazy

[cryptidspaz]

behold my full late 90s / early 2000s media set up Bitches. Fuck the shitty quality streaming of shows & movies you can never own & fuck compressed audio through shitty bluetooth speakers.

#women want me streaming services fear me. #i do have . hulu though for my living room tv mostly for solar opposites & always sunny LMFAO #personal #not pictured my very expansive vhs tape collection in the cabinet & stacked drawers #also not pictured my huge ass dvd collection in the living room #'but dione vhs tapes & crt tvs are shitty quality- the picture is always blurry & grainy' #YOU FOOL. no appreciation for the Beauty of physical media #vhs tapes & crt tvs are made for one another .. the magnetic film is made to account for the 'fuzziness' of the actual light tubing- #that runs behind the screen of the crt #they are In Love #also i think its tragically gorgeous how rewatching ur favorite tapes & rewinding favorite scenes over & over can wear on the film #marking it as a unique piece tailored to you #the natural decay of something so close to you #THIS IS HOW GOD INTENDED US TO WATCH MOVIES. #not to mention the cult classics & lost media i have collected that can only be found on vhs #I HAVE A TOYS R US IN STORE PROMO RELEASE OF BANJO KAZOOIE GAMEPLAY ON VHS

[loki-zen]

tere are lots of mysteries where the audience knows ewho did it from the beginning. most columbo episodes worjk this way

so i have literally written whole paragraphs at this point about how:

a) discussions of genre will often use words in a very specific way, but not everyone will adhere to this usage.

b) genre itself is a fiddly thing - in my last post or two I've been discussing the formation and formalisation of the Detective Mystery in the 20th century as a format for written fiction.

It shouldn't be surprising if, over 50 years later, modern examples of/homages to the genre are innovating and drawing from other (sub)genres (in this case, imo, Noir).

You would expect that, but it doesn't change that (i) the archetypical Cosy Detective Story is something you can point to, that has a given structure, or that (ii) in discussion of Crime subgenres, 'Mystery' often specifically refers to stories that have a specific structure. I've outlined this usage in detail by now I think. It's a 'Mystery' because you are supposed to be trying to figure out the answer. In this context, it doesn't make sense to say "ah, but Columbo is a Mystery, and it doesn't have that format!" because what you are saying, tautologically, is that (that episode of) Columbo is not a Mystery.

Some people might describe Columbo as a "mystery" because (as I understand it; I don't watch it myself) it shares a lot of thematic ground with Detective Mystery/Murder Mystery/Cosy crime fiction. Sharing a lot of thematic ground with and appealing to fans of Cosy detective stories while not precisely replicating the Detective Mystery format in every single episode is a pretty common way to be for a crime procedural. My understanding via osmosis of Columbo suggests that 'crime procedural' is the correct classification of Columbo.

#the most popular crime procedurals have tended to structurally and aesthetically draw on noir and hardboiled #while ultimately having the same philosophical underpinnings and thematic shape as Cosies #typically episode-by-episode it will vary up the suspense structure #sometimes using the Mystery structure with varying degrees of fair play #and sometimes using other structures derived from the structurally innovative Noir fiction subgenre #(please note that 'Noir fiction' is a text media term; 'Film Noir' is an umbrella term #encompassing screen productions of both noir and hardboiled detective fiction)