#and i probably won't be able to watch most of the vods very well

[sunshinesdaydream]

After The Ball

So in the effort to start posting ANYTHING I have of my WIPs, here have a piece out of the early middle of my Cultural Advisor OC fic.

Amea Allosun-Link to Character Description

Warnings: None. Fluff, a bit of angst. Middle of the fic sorry if it doesn't make sense.

Fox recognized the figure in the purple gown walking away from the carpeted walk that led to the queue of speeders awaiting their passengers. Off to the series of walks and courtyards that led to her apartment.

“Wait!” Fox called, following her.

Amea paused, half turning towards him. “Yes?” she answered.

“Don't you have a speeder picking you up?” he asked.

“That would be ridiculous,” she shook her head. “You know I live four blocks from here. I look the part, but I don't live the life. In the end I'm just a scholar,”

“Kriff,” he swore.

A smirk twitched at the corners of her lips, “You didn't turn your com off,” she pointed out.

He sighed, “It's late and dangerous,”

“To get an appropriate speeder to wait the line to pick me up from an event like this would cost five times what the gown would have cost if I hadn't made it myself,” she told him. “And no other speeders are allowed in a five block radius, and certainly not by the barracks building,”

“Thire,” Fox had switched to his interior com. “Do we have anyone spare for an escort?”

“Yeah,” Thire answered, “You,”

“I am not spare, someone has to organize this mess,” he griped.

“I got it,” Thire responded. “You'd be surprised how well we can manage for a few hours without you.”

“Believe it when I see it,” Fox told him.

“Need the opportunity first, and speaking of opportunities,”Thire said, “you better take this opportunity to walk that beautiful woman home and at the very least kiss her goodnight,”

“Vod, that's out of the question,” Fox growled. “I'll stay, you can walk her home,”

“Have you even talked to her about it?” Thire asked. “No, you're going to go off making the decision for both of you with only half of the story,”

“It's all the story I need,” Fox responded.

“You playing the martyr is hurting her,” Thire told him. “If I walk her home I'm telling her everything. You also probably look like an idiot having stood there arguing with me and not acknowledging her.”

Fox's attention went immediately back to Amea, who was looking up at him expectantly. Still wearing the lace mask that drew his attention even more to her eyes.

“Will you allow me to walk you home?” he asked.

“Are you sure they won't need you?” she asked.

“Call it a test,” he answered, making sure his com was on too. “that I won't walk back to a disaster,”

“Better not see you before nine tomorrow, Fox,” Thire said.

Fox didn't bother answering. He pulled his helmet off, tucking it under one arm and offering the other to her, “Shall we?” he asked.

She twined her gloved arm in his, “If you are sure,” she answered, looking up at him.

“Very,”he told her as they began to walk.

“Thank you,” she murmured.

They walked a few steps in silence.

“You didn't dance very much tonight,” he pointed out, “You said you loved to dance,”

“Depends on the partner,” Amea answered. She didn't miss the more casual tone he had with her once they were away from the senators and their staff. “There wasn't many there that I would call fun dance partners. And out of them not many willing or able to dance with me,”

“Not willing?” he asked.

She answered, “Dancing and talking to me would not have been a productive use of time. I'm not important,”

“Important enough for Senator Organa,” Fox commented.

“He's been very kind since I came to the Senate as an advisor, but I am sure it's in part because he represents my home planet,” she answered. “And because I was technically a ward of the crown for most of my childhood,”

“He's a good man, he watches out for most,” He responded. “Unfortunately the minority in the senate,”

Amea nodded, keeping to herself that enforcing her appearance in Organa's circle kept her shielded from certain members who would decide that since she wasn't able to be used for political gain she must be there for their pleasure. Fox definitely knew that as well as she did, there was no reason to raise that topic.

“You would be an interesting dance partner,” she said.

He laughed, “It would never be allowed, even if it were I don't know how,”

She set her other hand on his forearm and said, “I did say not able to. I'm sure we could find somewhere,”

He was quiet for a moment as he could, for a split second see a beautiful ball like the one he just observed but full of his brothers, beautiful partners dancing with all of them and he understood what Amea had said earlier in the evening about this one lacking joy.

He realized he must have been quiet for too long because she stopped walking in the courtyard.

“I know more than most, I understand more than most,” she said, looking up at him, “Probably second only to you guys. But you act like I don't,”

“You shouldn't have to,” he answered.

“But I do, and I love too many of you to walk away,” she answered.

He remembered watching her face light up when Rex's boys joined her that night at 79's. But he also remembered the happiness in the voices of those guys when they sighted her and called out to her as they approached the table.

His own men, more than happy to make sure their friend got home safely each night. Calling greetings to her as she walked to or from her office.

Fox realized he had been on the defensive concerning himself and his brothers, but maybe now was the time to change that.

He didn't realize that he had stopped walking, turned towards her and was now holding her hand with his fingers entwined with hers. She was looking up at him expectantly just as she had before they started this journey. A quiet waiting for him to process whatever he needed to.

“Amea, you deserve so much more than I'm allowed to give,” he told her.

“You deserve more,”she answered, “But the question is do you let that stop us from having what we can?”

“No, but it isn't going to stop me from fighting for more,”he told her before he allowed his lips to gently brush against hers.

“Wooohoo commander!” some poor, stupid soul decided to shout.

Fox immediately pulled back, his features automatically rearranging into a more stern expression.

Amea was shaking with repressed laughter.

“Someone wants refresher duty for a week,” Fox called back to the poor trooper.

“No, sir, sorry, sir,” came the answer before the sound of boots hurrying into the building.

“Come on,” Amea tugged his hand, still trying not to laugh.

When they rounded the corner to the next block she lost the battle against her laughter. She glanced over at Fox, who was slightly flushed.

“Come on, he was just happy for you,” she giggled.

He raised an eyebrow, looking down at her, “You know who that was,”

Amea shrugged, “I know a lot of troopers, she answered, still laughing.

“Yes, but you know that one,” he said with a half smile.

“I do,” she agreed.

“You aren't going to tell me,” he continued.

“You think I'd be friends with Fives and Echo if I did things like that?” she asked.

Fox laughed, “I suppose not,”

“They like to celebrate victories even in little ones,” she said as they arrived in front of her building, She turned to face him.“There aren't many victories here,”

As he leaned in to kiss her again he said, “You're right, we do like to celebrate victories,”

Thank you for giving it a chance!

#Commander Fox/OC #star wars oc #commander fox #star wars #the clone wars #Amea Allosun #After the ball #Sunshine writes fanfiction

[numetalpuppygirl]

what i'm listening to 5/5/2023 (song notes under cut)

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Laura Les - Haunted: haunted. by laura les.

Machine Girl - Dumbass!!: i was listening to a whole bunch of machine girl in the lead-up to the gecs n girl show and i feel like it made me a bigger fan than i had been previously. i honestly still am not like the most familiar with their individual songs but this is one of the ones that sticks with me. NO SUCH THING AS THE BOOGEYMAN!!!!

Cracked Out - If You Leave Me I'll Kill Myself: pretty tasteless but as soon as i came across this post and listened to it i was immediately hooked on this song. it reminds me of the dumb edgy comedy bullshit i would have listened to as a tween, but like, the better side of that stuff. it was basically impossible to find much of anything about this group, so the spotify track is a local file that you guys won't be able to play, and it wasn't on youtube so i actually uploaded it myself this morning just to put it in the playlist lol

Sum 41 - In Too Deep: i feel like sum 41 tends to kinda get dismissed as part of the obnoxious skate punk scene of the 90s-00s, and to a large extent that's fair, but man did they have some good hits. i feel like edgy teen songs like these really can work by being simple as long as they just hit the premise with everything they've got, and this would be an example

Tyler, The Creator - DOGTOOTH: i was very pleased when this reached the top 40, brief though its stint was. i've been getting more into tyler recently bc i feel like i've been missing out, he's really such an interesting artist and he balances a lot of different traits super well while still delivering the goods in terms of good beats, good lines, etc. seriously, "not sure what you overheard but it's probably what I said" is such a good fucking line

Nick Lutsko - A Ghost Story: would STRONGLY recommend checking out the video for this one, either in the youtube playlist or on tumblr here actually never mind i can't find it. watch it on youtube it's fun. i followed nick lutsko on youtube for a while before whatever network it was that he was producing for went under. probably machinima. i mainly knew him because of his limp bizkit parody which is funny bc i wasn't even listening to actual limp bizkit at the time. anyway i really like his voice and i'm actually glad that he's still finding success these days

Naughty By Nature - O.P.P.: as i've referenced, i've been rewatching robbydude's paper mario vods, which are very good, and in one of the early ones robby references this song and it made me look it up. and then i made this post and it was underrated. i don't really have anything else to say it's just a good classic rap song

Slipknot - Left Behind: putting this here as more of a landmark to represent that i've been listening to iowa (the album this is from) a lot in general. i've had slipknot on the brain recently more than usual (not for any reason of course. winks) and reminded myself of why everyone loves iowa so much. it's so fucking brutal and biting... nu metal <3

Busta Rhymes - Woo Hah!!: honestly another one where it's like yeah idk this is just a classic what do you want me to say. busta's a legend and this song is legendary and he tears it up and it's good

Sweet Trip - Tekka: probably the most direct of the violet finds from this month (hi violet :3) i had never listened to sweet trip before but tekka instantly grabbed me... it's all crunchy and stuttery and has yummy synths. i especially love how it just fucking breaks down in the second half it's like that machine that's breaking down and sweating and sputtering it's almost sexual. you know

Ike & Tina Turner - I'll Never Need More Than This: so i've been on my phil spector bullshit, as you might have guessed, so i was revisiting some of his tracks to just kinda take it all in. as always, it. well it sounds really fucking good, and tina turner turned in a killer performance as always. i love. sound :)

Rowdy Rebel - Computers (feat. Bobby Shmurda): I'M SLIDIN OVER CARS WHILE I SHOOT

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THEY THINK THAT I'M TOM CRUISE

Machine Girl - Scroll of Sorrow: it's really rather exciting. see for those in the know (which is all of you bc there's only two or three people reading this), you're aware that my mutual (hi again :3) had posted about how, at the live show, the vocalist of machine girl got up real near the crowd (including said mutual) during scroll of sorrow. as such, i was listening out for the song at my own show and well chat i'll tell you i was not able to recognize it :-) but there was one point where they got up on the railing above the pit and were singing from up there, and while it wasn't like exceptionally close to where we were at, it was still cool bc it was like hey! that's like the thing! that i heard about! :) amd anyway i like the song

Sonic The Hedgehog - His World: itsa banger... i actually heard the penny parker cover of this song from the sonic fandub way before ever hearing the original so even now i still mix up the lyrics but it's fine. i've actually never played a mainline sonic game or any video game or any media at all but i like the music

Strapping Young Lad - Oh My Fucking God: i straight up didn't know that strapping young lad was a devin townsend thing, not that i've listened to any of his other stuff. this song's weird and loud and stupid and i like it

Rae Sremmurd - No Flex Zone: okay now. based on this one and the previous song, can anyone guess what semi-popular artist playlist i was listening to this month? i tried to listen to a lot more rap this month, because i wish to learn more about this beautiful world. no flex zone has been my first exposure to rae sremmurd and it was a good one, although i like one of the guys way better than the other one. slim jxmmi i like him better

glass beach - classic j dies and goes to hell part 1: i didn't really "get" glass beach for a while, i thought they were alright, but this month they started to click (once again with some help - check out this post teehee). they're cute, earnest, and high-energy; i have to kinda be in the mood but i can get into it 👍 i've also seen the band described as sort of a modern emo type deal and while i don't yet know if i agree or disagree with that it compels me

NLE Choppa - Final Warning: straight up this dude is weird and has a weird hit on the charts rn but bc of that i was like "ok let's see what he was like before his big image change" and ended up liking some of that stuff. he's so energetic and it really gets you pumped up, which is def what i'm looking for in this type of thing. he's got some interesting lines, too. it almost makes me wish he hadn't changed at all - i feel like i missed out lol

Vanilla Ice - Prozac: okay look i try not to vanillapost too much but like i'm a little bit insane about vanilla ice. i'm obsessed with his career path and it is not uncommon for me to just sit and think about it for an hour or more. i really enjoy his nu metal stuff, at least the earlier portions of it, and this is a top-tier track from that era. real headbanger. FUNKY RHYME KILLER, THE DOPE SONG DEALER

#*char noises* #talking pop

[redwinterroses]

I'm gonna ramble a bit under the cut -- mainly just to get my own brain emptied out so I can go to bed. :) Have a good night, all.

I have really... messy, complicated emotions going on right now. Like, on the one hand: I've only in the last couple of weeks even regularly started watching Techno's vids/vods. Obviously I've been aware of him longer than that, and I've watched some old stuff, but I never watched a stream live, and most of my knowledge comes second or third hand. My biggest "ah yes, I like Techno" feelings come from fics. So like, not even the real guy. Just a fictional version of him.

So I feel... ya know, I feel as though I don't really have the right to grieve? Like... I almost feel guilty over it. Like walking into a room and going "Oh, I am not supposed to be here." And before anyone messages or replies: I know that's silly. I'm aware. Emotions are never logical. Knowing that it's a ridiculous guilt to have doesn't make it go away.

But on the other hand... Man. He's the same age as my baby sister. I can't... I can't imagine losing someone that young. Actually, no, that's a lie. I have a very good imagination. I can imagine it. And even just the imagining is nearly unbearable. What his family has to be going through, what his friends have to be going through... my heart hurts for them.

My heart hurts for his fans -- not me, but his real fans, the ones who are just reeling right now. So many of his fans are literally children, and this may be their first brush with death. There are so many hurting kids tonight, and I just want to bundle them all up in a blanket, hand them a tissue and wrap my arm around their shoulder and tell them, "It gets better. I swear. It feels like there's a hole in your gut right now, and maybe you're angry, or maybe you're crying, or maybe you're numb because your emotions don't know what to do so they're protecting you by doing nothing. Any and all of that is okay. But I promise that it won't hurt like this forever, and someday -- probably a lot sooner than you think -- memories and stories will give you more nostalgic joy than grief. It's okay to hurt, and it's okay to know that as big as this feels in the moment, you'll grow to contain it."

Grief never really gets smaller. But you grow around it. People that I've lost -- Mr Tony, who gave me peppermints from his pocket every Sunday, or Mr Hank, who had a beautiful singing voice and called me Sister, or Ms Becky, who had such a joy of teaching and introduced me to fried green beans... Them being gone still... I wouldn't say hurts. It itches, somewhere deep down. But I smiled just now when I was typing about them, because thinking of those memories is a happy thing.

I don't know how to process Techno's passing. I'll be honest. There's a big piece of me that just wants to despair about it. Cancer and the death of young people and death in general are such rotting and corrupted parts of our world. It sucks. It sucks that he was so young. It sucks that cancer exists. It sucks that thousands of kids are hurting and feeling lost tonight. It sucks that I don't know how to process my own emotions about this. It sucks that I'm probably not going to be able to sleep well tonight. It sucks that Techno's family and friends are going to be dealing with this hole in their lives for a long time. Just generally... it sucks.

And I'm a Christian. It's not something I talk about very often, but I don't make a secret about it either -- I believe there is hope and life after death. I believe that the world will one day be restored to a state that doesn't have cancer, that doesn't have death, that doesn't have people losing their sons and their friends. But even though I truly believe that with all my heart... that doesn't make the sadness or the bewildering emotions any easier to deal with in the moment.

I dunno, man. This whole thing hit me like a punch in the gut, and on some level I don't know how to process it. It's like I'm... intruding on something that's not mine to feel. I admire Techno. I think he was a kind guy with a wicked sense of humor and a fantastic voice. I think his fans have created some of the best mcyt fan-content I've seen. I think that if any of those fans need an inbox to talk to or a digital shoulder to cry on, I can try to be that for them. I think I'm going to have to go back and watch a bunch of old videos because I want to get to know Techno's legacy better.

And... I think that for tonight, that's going to have to be enough.

#personal #tw death #redwintertalks #first time using the new ''no one can reblog'' function yeehaw. #ignore all of this guys. i'm just processing.

[ethwastaken]

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#aaaaa i hate this #i'm going away on thursday for like almost a week #and the internet's probably gonna be fucking shit #which means that i'll most likely miss q's stream #what ever dream has planned #streams from like tommy etc #ranboo's shit too #and i probably won't be able to watch most of the vods very well #which also mean i have to stay off social media a bit more to avoid spoilers #which sucks because i wanna interact with my friends and stuff #originally i thought we were gone till like sunday #but it's probably gonna be till tuesday #and i'm shit at watching vods because i just #forget most of the time #i hate it here

[weekendwarriorblog]

The Weekend Warrior 10/1/21: VENOM: LET THERE BE CARNAGE, THE ADDAMS FAMILY II, THE MANY SAINTS OF NEWARK, TITANE, MAYDAY, THE JESUS MUSIC

Yeah, so I haven’t had the time over the past couple weeks to write a column, and I kind of hate that fact, especially since I’m coming up on a pretty major milestone for me writing a weekly box office column and reviewing movies. In fact, that milestone comes next week! And once again, I’m struggling to get through the movies I was hoping to watch and write about this week, because I’ve been out of town and once again, very busy over the weekend. Let’s see how far I get...

Before we get to this week’s wide releases, I’m excited to say that my local arthouse movie theater, The Metrograph, is finally reopening for in-person screenings, and they’re kicking things off with a 4k restoration of Andrez Zulawski’s 1981 thriller, Possession, starring Sam Neill and Isabell Adjani, who won a Best Actress prize at Cannes for her performance in the film. I actually saw this at the Metrograph a few years back, and Metrograph Pictures, the distribution arm of the company is now distributing the 4k restoration. There’s a lot of exciting things ahead at Metrograph, including an upcoming four-film Clint Eastwood retrospective, including White Hunter, Black Heart (1990) and A Perfect World (1991) this Friday. Also, Lingua Franca director Isabel Sandoval will be showing her fantastic film from 2020 (a rare chance to see it in a theater and I’ll be there!) as well as program a number of other favorites of hers. Sunday will have screenings of Ingmar Berman’s Scenes from a Marriage (1973) in its full four plus hour glory, Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park (1993) and John Carpenter’s In the Mouth of Madness (1994).. In other words, the Metrograph is back!

Moving over to the weekend’s three wide releases, the first one up being Sony’s VENOM: LET THERE BE CARNAGE (Sony Pictures) with Tom Hardy returning as Eddie Brock aka Venom, joined by Woody Harrelson as the psychotic symbiote, Carnage. Taking over the directing reins is Andy Serkis, who has only directed two other movies, Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle and Breathe, but as an actor, he’s been heavily involved with the CG VFX (and performance capture) needed to bring the characters in this Marvel anti-hero movie to life.

Venom has been one of Spider-Man’s most popular villains and sometimes allies for quite a few decades now, starting out life as a cool black costume Spider-Man found on a strange planet during the first “Secret Wars,” which turned out to be an alien symbiote that had malicious intentions. Spider-Man got the costume off of him but it then linked up with Eddie Brock, a sad-sack journalist whose emotions drove the alien symbiote to become the Venom we known and (mostly) love, thanks to one Todd McFarlane. Venom continued to play a large part in the Spider-Man books before getting his own comics, and not before a super-villain was created for him in Cletus Kasady, a vicious serial killer whose infection by the symbiote turns him into Carnage. And that’s who Harrelson is playing.

Being a sequel, we do have some basis to go on, although the original Venom movie, released in early October 2018, also arrived at a time when it was only the second time the character of Venom was brought to the big screen -- the first time being Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man 3, in which the character was received without much love as Ryan Reynold’s Deadpool in X-Men Origins: Wolverine. And yet, Venom did great, opening with $80.2 million and grossing $213 million domestically, which is more than enough to greenlight a sequel. (It made over double that amount overseas, too.) For comparison, the Wolverine prequel opened with $85 million but at the beginning of summer, so it quickly tailed away with other movies coming out after it. Venom: Let There Be Carnage has to worry about the new James Bond opening a week later, so it very likely could be a one-and-done, opening decently but quickly dropping down as other big movies are released in October (basically one a week).

I’ve already seen the movie, and by the time you read this, reviews will already be up --including my own at Below the Line. Social media reactions seem to not be so bad though, so maybe it’ll get better reviews than its predecessor, which was trashed by critics, receiving only a 30% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. But if you look at the fan ratings, they’re higher with 81%, although it’s hard not to be

I’m thinking that bearing COVID in mind and the law of depreciation since the previous movie, Venom: Let There Be Carnage will probably be good for around $50 million this weekend, maybe a little more, but however it’s received, I expect it to drop significantly next week, though a total domestic gross of $135 to 140 million seems reasonable.

Another strong sequel to kick off October is the animated THE ADDAMS FAMILY II (MGM), which is following up the 2019 hit for MGM/UA Releasing with most of the voice cast returning, including Oscar Isaac, Charlize Theron, Chloe Grace Moretz, and Finn Wolfhard, as well as Nick Kroll, Snoop Dogg, Martin Short, Catherine O’Hara, and Bette Midler voicing the popular characters from the New Yorker cartoons, a popular ‘60s TV series, and two Barry Sonnenfeld movies from the ‘90s.

The 2019 animated film was a pretty solid hit for the newly-launched UA Releasing, grossing $100 million domestic after a $30.3 million opening, making it one of MGM’s biggest hits since it was restructured under UA and became its own distributor again. Who knows what’s going to happen with Amazon’s plans on buying MGM and whether the latter will remain a distribution wing, but MGM still has a number of movies out this year that likely will be awards contenders. But that doesn’t mean much for The Addams Family II, which will try to get some of those people who paid to see the original movie in theaters back to see the sequel… and if they’re not going to theaters, MGM is once again offering the movie day-and-date on VOD much like they did with last year’s Bill and Ted Face the Music, which opened much earlier in the pandemic (late august, 2020), so it far fewer options to see it in theaters compared to this animated sequel.

It’s highly doubtful that The Addams Family II was going to open anywhere near to $30 million even if there wasn’t a pandemic, and it wasn’t on VOD just because MGM just doesn’t seem to be marketing the movie as well as its predecessor. You can blame COVID if you want, but it’s also the fact they’re distributing the company’s first James Bond movie in six years, No Time To Die, on their own vs. through another distributor, ala the last few Daniel Craig Bonds. But we’ll talk more about that next week, since that’s going to be an important movie to help cover MGM’s expenses for the rest of 2021. (I haven’t had a chance to see this yet, but it’s embargoed until Friday, so wouldn’t be able to get a review into the column regardless.)

We’ve seen quite a few family hits over the past few months even when the movies were already on streaming/VOD, but parents are probably being a bit more careful with kids back in school, many younger kids still not vaccinated, and the Delta variant still not quite under control. Because of those factors, I think The Addams Family II is more likely to do somewhere between $15 and 18 million its opening weekend, maybe more on the lower side.

Third up is THE MANY SAINTS OF NEWARK (New Line/WB), David Chase’s prequel to his hit HBO series, The Sopranos, which went off the air in 2004 but still finds fans on the new HBO Max streamer. Ironically, this prequel will air on the streamer at the same time as it's getting a theatrical release, which probably won't be a very tough choice for fans.

Chase has reunited with director Alan Taylor, who won a Primetime Emmy for his work on the show in 2007 before moving onto other popular shows like HBO's Game of Thrones. Taylor has had a bit of a rough career in film, though, having directed Marvel Studios’ sequel, Thor: The Dark World, a movie that wasn't received very well although there were rumors that Taylor butted heads with the producers and maybe didn't even finish the movie. He went on to direct Terminator Genesys, which honestly, I can't remember if it was the worst Terminator movie, but it was pretty bad.

What's interesting is that because this is a prequel set in the '70s and '80s, none of the actors from the show appear on it, but it does star Alessandro Nivola, a great actor in one of his meatiest roles for a studio movie. It also introduces Michael Gandolfini, son of the late James Gandolfini (who played Tony Soprano, if you didn't know), playing the teenage Tony, plus it has great roles for the likes of Jon Bernthal (as Tony's father), Vera Farmiga (playing Tony's mother), Corey Stoll (playing the younger "Junior” Soprano), and Lesile Odom Jr, as the Sopranos key adversary, even though he ends up coming across like the good guy of the movie. It also stars Billy Magnussen, who oddly, also has a key role in next week's No Time to Die.

I'm sure there's quite a bit of interest in seeing where Tony came from and to learn more about his family, many who were dead long before the events of the HBO show, but will that be enough to get them into theaters when they already have HBO? I already reviewed the movie for Below the Line, and reviews are generally positive, which might get people more interested in this prequel.

As with most of Warner Bros’ movies this year, Many Saints will also debut on HBO Max and unlike some of the studio’s other 2021 offerings, it will actually make more sense to watch this one on the streamer since that’s how most people watched The Sopranos. That seems like a killer for Many Saints, and it’s likely to keep it opening under $10 million, where it might have done better on a different weekend (like sometime over the last two weeks).

This is what I have this weekend’s top 10 looking like:

1. Venom: Let There Be Carnage (Sony) - $50.4 million N/A

2. The Addams Family II (MGM/UA Releasing) - $16.5 million N/A

3. The Many Saints of Newark (New Line/WB) - $9 million N/A

4. Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (Marvel/Disney) - $7.5 million -44%

5. Dear Evan Hansen (Universal) - $4.1 million -45%

6. Free Guy (20th Century/Disney) - $3.3 million -30%

7. Jungle Cruise (Disney) - $1.1 million -35%

8. Candyman (Universal) - $1.3 million -48%

9. Cry Macho (Warner Bros.) - $1 million -52%

10. Malignant (Warner Bros.) - .7 million -53%

Opening in select cities is French filmmaker Julia (Raw) Ducournau’s TITANE (Neon), the genre thriller that won this year’s coveted Palme D’Or at the Cannes Film Festival. It stars Agathe Rouselle as a young woman who has an interesting relationship with automobiles, but she also has psychotic tendencies that leaves a trail of bodies behind her. On the run, she decides to pretend she’s the missing son of a fireman (Vincent Lindon), who has been missing for 10 years, and things just get weirder from there.

I honestly wasen’t sure what to expect from this although I do remember walking out of Ducournau’s cannibal movie, Raw, just because it was so gross, even though so many of my colleagues and friends swear by the movie, and this one, for that matter. Sure, there’s a certain “prove it” factor to me watching a movie that wins the Palme D’Or, because it’s very rare that I like the movies that do win that benchmark cinema award.

After a flashback to Agathe’s character Alexia when she was an obstinate young girl kicking the back seat of her father as he’s driving. They crash and she’s forced to get surgery that puts an odd looking piece of metal in her head. Decades later, she seems to be a pseudo-stripper at weird punk rock car show -- I guess they do those things different in France -- and hooking up with a fellow “model” afterwards. Agathe is actually a very popular model/dancer but when one fan gets too grabby, she pulls a knitting needle out of her hair and stabs it through his ear, killing him. Oh, yeah, she then has sex with a car and seemingly gets pregnant, but that only happens later. First, she goes on a bit of a killing spree and then goes on a run and decides that by strapping up her breasts and breaking her nose, she can pass off this fire captain’s son… and it works!

So the second half deals with acting great Vincent Lindon’s absolutely bonkers steroid-addicted man who seems to be sexually attracted to his own son, and most of his fellow firefighters knows that he’s gay but in the closet, but I’m honestly not sure what that matters. He’s a pretty disgusting character whose 70-year-old ass we see way too much of, and even those who might find Rouselle to be quite fetching, there’s a certain point where her nudity is not alluring but quite horrifying.

Oh, and at this time, Alexia (or Adrien, as she’s now going) has also gotten significantly pregnant, but it’s not a normal pregnancy because what should be milk from her breasts seems to some sort of motor oil. That’s because she FUCKED A CAR earlier in the movie!!! What do you expect when you fuck a car and don’t use protection, girlie? The fact Alexia/Adrien is trying to hide the fact she’s a pregnant woman from a station full of men isn’t even particularly disturbing. The part that really got me was when she broke her own nose to pass off as this guy’s son -- I actually had to look away for that part.

Listen I’m no prude, and I think I can handle most things in terms of horror and gore, but Titane just annoyed me, because it felt like Ms Ducournau was doing a lot of what we see more for shock value than to actually drive the story forward. There just doesn’t seem to be much point to any of it, and once the movie gets to the firehouse, and we see her interaction (as a young man) with her “father” and his colleagues, it just gets more grueling.

It’s as if Ducournau had watched a lot of movies by the likes of Cronenberg or David Lynch, or more likely Nicolas Refn or Lars von Trier, and thought, “I could be just as strange and horrific as those men… let’s see what people think of this.” And way too many people fell for it, including the Cannes jury. While I normally would approve of any good body horror movie, especially one with cinematography, score and musical selections as good as this one, I doubt I’d ever want to watch this movie again. And therefore, I don’t think I can recommend this movie to anyone either, at least no one I want to remain my friend.

As far as the movie’s box office, NEON is opening the movie in 562 theaters to build on buzz from various film festivals, including the New York Film Festival earlier this week. I think it should be good for half a million this weekend, although maybe it'll surprise me like NEON's release of Parasite a few years back. I just don't see this getting into the top 10 but maybe just outside it.

And then we have a few more movies that I got screeners for but just couldn’t find the time to watch, but might do so once I finish this verdammt column.

The faith-based doc THE JESUS MUSIC (Lionsgate) by the Erwin Brothers (I Can Only Imagine, I Still Believe) takes a look at the rise of Christian Contemporary Music through artists like Amy Grant and Stryper and everything in between, featuring lots of interviews of the artists’ trials and triumphs. Even though there isn’t much CCM I ever listen to, I’m still kind of curious about this one, since I generally like music docs and this is guaranteed not to be the sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll of most of them. I have no idea how wide Lionsgate intends to release this but it certainly can be fairly wide, because the Erwins have delivered at least one giant hit for Lionsgate, and I Still Believe may have been another one if not for the pandemic. It actually opened on March 13, just days before movie theaters shut down across the country, so it's little surprise it only made $7 million domestic. That said, the acts in this one have a lot of fans, and if Lionsgate does release The Jesus Music into 1,000 theaters or so (which is very doable), then I would expect it would make between $1 and 2 million, which would be enough to break into the Top 10.

I haven't seen any of the movies based on Anna Todd's YA romance novels but the third of them, AFTER WE FELL, will play in about 1,311 theaters on Thursday i.e. tonight through Fathom Events, and may or may not continue through the weekend. These movies just kind of show up, and again, having not seen any of them, I'm not sure what kind of audience they have, but this one stars Josephine Langford and Hero Fiennes, as well as Stephen Moyer, Mira Sorvino and Arielle Kebbel with Castille Landon directing.

Grace Van Patten (Under the Silver Lake) stars in Karen Cinorre’s action-fantasy film MAYDAY (Magnolia), playing Ana, a young woman who is transported to a “dreamlike and dangerous” coastline where she joins a female army in a never-ending war where women lure men to their deaths. It also stars Mia Goth, Havana Rose Liu, Soko, Théodore Pellerin and Juliette Lewis. It will be in theaters and On Demand this Friday.

The great Tim Blake Nelson stars in Potsy Ponciroli’s action-Western OLD HENRY (Shout! Studios/Hideout) about a widowed farmer and son who take in an injured man with a satchel full of cash only to have to fend off a posse who come after the man, claiming to be the law. Not sure who to trust, the farmer has to use his gun skills to defend his home and the stranger.

The romantic-comedy FALLING FOR FIGARO (IFC Films) is the new movie from Australian filmmaker Ben Lewin (The Sessions), who I’ve interviewed a few times, and he’s a really nice chap. This one stars Danielle Macdonald, Hugh Skinner, and Joanna Lumley, and it will be in theaters and On Demand this Friday. This rom-com is set in the world of opera singing competitions with Macdonald playing Millie, a brilliant young fund manager who decides to chase her dream of being an opera singer in the Scottish Highlands. She begins vocal training lessons with a former opera diva, played by Lumley, where she meets Max, a young man also training for that competition. Could love blossom? This actually sounds like my kind of movie, so I’ll definitely try to watch soon.

The second season of “Welcome to Blumhouse” the horror movie anthology kicks off on Amazon Prime Video on Friday with the first two movies, Maritte Lee Go’s Black as Night (which I’ve seen) and Gigi Saul Guerrero’s Bingo Night (which I haven’t), and actually I’ll have an interview with Ms. Go over at Below the Line possibly later this week. The former stars Ashja Cooper as a teen girl living in Louisiana who has a bad experience with homeless vampires, along with her best friend (Fabrizio Guido).

Also, Antoine Fuqua and Jake Gyllenhaal’s remake of the Danish film THE GUILTY will begin streaming on Netflix starting Friday after premiering at TIFF a few weeks back. I never got around to reviewing it, but it’s pretty good, maybe a little better than the original movie but essentially the same. I’d definitely recommend it if you like Jake, because he’s definitely terrific in it.

Also hitting Netflix this week is Juana Macias' SOUNDS LIKE LOVE (Netflix), a Spanish language romance movie that (guess) I haven't seen!

A few other movies I didn’t get to this week, include:

STOP AND GO (Decal) VAL (Dread) BLUSH (UA Releasing) RUNT (1091 Pictures)

Next week, it’s not time for James Bond, it’s time for James Bond to die… no, wait… there is NO TIME TO DIE! Also, a very, very special anniversary for the Weekend Warrior….

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About thirteen years ago, if someone said that there would one day be an Eternals movie, they probably would have been laughed at. And not just because most people had no idea who the Eternals are. Now not only is this movie actually happening but it's also got a cast that reads like a who's who of the industry.

Eternals is part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe's Phase 4 and has been directed by multiple Academy Award-winner Chloe Zhao and stars Gemma Chan, Richard Madden, Kumail Nanjiani, Lia McHugh, Brian Tyree Henry, Lauren Ridloff, Barry Keoghan, Don Lee, Kit Harington, Salma Hayek, and Angelina Jolie in key roles. It also features the first love scene and the first LGBTQ relationship in the MCU. Seriously, pinch me, I still can't believe I'm not dreaming this up.

The movie is about an immortal race of beings known as the Eternals who have lived on Earth for 7,000 years. Created by all-powerful space gods called the Celestials, the Eternals defend humanity from their villainous counterparts, the Deviants. It's good vs evil on a scale like you've never seen before on the silver screen (or any other screen for that matter).

Now to be fair, Eternals hasn't exactly had the best reviews but it's still something that Marvel fans have been hoping to see for a very long time. So we've put together this quick guide that answers every question you might have about where to watch the movie, when it's coming to streaming, and more.

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Related:Richard Madden and Gemma Chan on ‘Eternals,’ Their Powers, and Filming the First MCU Love Scene

Is Eternals Streaming Online?

Well, not right away. Eternals will have an exclusive 45-day theatrical window when it releases. So for at least 45 days from the premiere, the only place you'll be able to watch the movie is in theaters. After that, it will probably be added to Disney+ just like all the other MCU films and shows.

Marvel took a similar approach with Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, which is the last MCU film to be released before Eternals. However, Shang-Chi's Disney+ premiere is set for November 12 despite releasing in US theatres on September 3. That's a 70-day gap but it was mostly so that the movie could be added to the service as part of their Disney+ Day celebrations. It seems unlikely that the same will happen with Eternals but we'll have to wait and see.

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If the current schedule holds true, Eternals should be arriving on Disney+ on December 20, just in time for the holidays.

Is Eternals available with Disney+ Premier Access?

Whenever Eternals does get released on Disney+, the movie will likely be available with your existing subscription. So even though you might have to wait over a month to catch the film on streaming, at least you won't have to pay extra to watch it.

The Premier Access feature is primarily meant for movies that release simultaneously in theaters and on Disney+, which was the case with Black Widow. But since Shang-Chi and Eternals are going to have theatrical windows, this doesn't really apply to them.

When will Eternals arrive on Digital or VOD?

At the moment, there has been no official word on when Eternals will have its Digital or VOD release. It definitely won't happen until the theatrical window has closed but that's pretty much the only thing we know for sure about the movie's digital release schedule. Additionally, Chloe Zhao has revealed that the movie's Blu-ray release will include four deleted scenes so that's something to look forward to.

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Shang-Chi is set to have its digital release on the same day as its Disney+ premiere, with DVD and Blu-ray releases set for November 30, 18 days later. Eternals could have a similar schedule but the fact remains that if you want to watch the movie when it premieres, you'll have to head to your local theater.

Is Eternals in Movie Theaters?

Yes, indeed. Eternals is set to arrive in US theaters on November 5, 2021. Ahead of the theatrical release, the movie's world premiere was held at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles on October 18, 2021. It was also screened at the Rome Film Festival on October 24.

Eternals has been delayed by almost a year from its initial release date due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The film was originally supposed to be out on November 6, 2020. Pandemic delays caused the movie to be pushed first to February 12, 2021, and then to its current date.

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While things are somewhat better now, do continue to take all the necessary precautions when you go watch the movie. Due to the continued rise of COVID cases in the US, theaters may require you to wear a mask and maintain social distancing. Check your state's most recent safety guidelines for a worry-free moviegoing experience. Stay safe and have fun, true believers!

What Marvel Movies Do You Need to Watch Before Eternals?

If you've asked yourself this question already, we can't blame you. As a rule, everything is connected in the MCU and it's perfectly understandable if you're worried you might miss something without having seen all the previous movies. That said, you don't have to do that with this one.

That's not to say that Eternals doesn't tie in with other MCU releases. However, Chloe Zhao has created a rather unique story with this movie and it stands quite well on its own. Now, if you do want to watch a few previous MCU films ahead of Eternals, here's what you need to check out:

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Guardians of the Galaxy: The first Guardians of the Galaxy movie was also the first time we got a mention of the Celestials. For those who don't know, the Celestials are the oldest beings in the universe, responsible for creating practically all life in the MCU. Their experiments are what created the Eternals and the Deviants in the first place. In Guardians of the Galaxy, we get a pretty useful crash course on what the Celestials are and we also see Knowhere, the severed head of a Celestial that serves as a mining colony and a hub for the seedier elements of the galaxy.

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2: Now this one features the first full appearance of a Celestial, albeit one that's drastically different from the ones in Eternals. Kurt Russell plays an important role in the movie as Ego, the father of Peter Quill/Star-Lord (Chris Pratt). Ego is a Celestial, though he isn't as fully developed as the other members of his species. But despite that, he's a vastly powerful being and his feats should give you a pretty good idea of what the Celestials are capable of.

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Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame: Okay, to be honest, this two-part story doesn't actually have a lot to do with Eternals. However, the disappearance and return of half the universe's population does directly lead to the events of Eternals. Plus, all of Phase 4 pretty much spins out of Avengers: Endgame so it's an important milestone for the whole franchise. And even if that wasn't the case, the films are still a great watch for MCU fans and have some amazing moments that get better each time you revisit them.

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