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  • Ep. 103: Action Point

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    This is Knoxville doing his stuntwork all the way to the bank. Between he and Chris Pontius, my sides hrt from laughing. Check out my audio as usual and video review I tried my hand at this time. Tell me what you think. Would you like to see more video experiments from me?

    Action Point (2018)
    R | 1h 25min | Comedy | 1 June 2018 (USA)

    A daredevil designs and operates his own theme park with his friends.
    Director: Tim Kirkby
    Writers: John Altschuler (screenplay by), Dave Krinsky (screenplay by) | 5 more credits »
    Stars: Johnny Knoxville, Brigette Lundy-Paine, Susan Yeagley

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  • Mad Max: Fury Road

    This film is an extension of the Mad Max movies but one that extends far out into an eccentric rock and roll style and demands the attention of its viewers. Listen to my podcast on this handy player!

    Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
    R | 2h | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | 15 May 2015 (USA)

    A woman rebels against a tyrannical ruler in postapocalyptic Australia in search for her home-land with the help of a group of female prisoners, a psychotic worshipper, and a drifter named Max.
    Director: George Miller
    Writers: George Miller, Brendan McCarthy | 1 more credit »
    Stars: Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult

    On the director front: George Miller is one amazing dude. His first big movie was Mad Max in 1979. That movie really kicks ass even to this day. It’s an apocalyptic vision that would soon become developed further and more wonderfully that audiences would have ever imagined. Let me just pause for a moment and list the many films he has directed up to now:

    2015 Mad Max: Fury Road
    2011 Happy Feet Two
    2006 Happy Feet
    1998 Babe: Pig in the City
    1997 40,000 Years of Dreaming (TV Movie documentary)
    1992 Lorenzo’s Oil
    1987 The Witches of Eastwick
    1985 Tina Turner: We Don’t Need Another Hero (Video short)
    1985 Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
    1983 Twilight Zone: The Movie (segment “Nightmare at 20, 000 Feet”)
    1983 The Dismissal (TV Mini-Series) (1 episode)
    – Episode #1.1 (1983) … (part one)
    1981 The Road Warrior
    1979 Mad Max

    What range! “Babe: Pig in the City” to Mad Max: Fury Road. How are they related? Talk amongst yourselves.

    So, now back to Mad Max: Fury Road. A tyrant has risen. He is the evil one in this film, denying the people water they need to to survive. As usual, Max our hero sets out to first escape and second destroy this evil ruler. What follows are my notes taken while watching it today. I hope they amuse.

    Mad Max: Fury Road

    George Miller film

    Mad Max Tom Hardy

    Obstacle course/Physical role

    Evil leader, controls the water supply

    It’s a long way from Starbucks

    Wide open spanse of desert

    Their rich delicacy is breast milk

    They took his blood for water?

    The electric guitar jamming fire

    For being bled these guys are all in damn good shape

    CGI combined with real stunts makes for an amazing show

    Its him and the girls now. The misfits. They need each other.

    “I live I die I live again.”

    Drums are powerful.

    Like a rock concert

    You might call these tactics, assertive warfare

    Jumping onto cars

    Before they are martyrs, they dpray paint in their mouth

    Here comes religion again

  • A Podcast a Day Keeps the …

    My last 5 podcasts have been a day apart. They all got 10 listens each. I always think of the potential ten heads that heard my reviews and that seems exciting to me. To most podcasters that is probably nothing, they would quit if they only had that few. Of course, I wouldn’t kick more listeners out of bed if you know what I mean.

    This will likely explain to my readers here why I haven’t been as active in my reviews here lately. So have you given the podcast a listen yet? Give it a whirl. I’m watching my movie now and will record a podcast this evening. I am sure I will slow down soon but for now, I like doing it like a movie diary. Bookmark it:

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  • Ep. 100: The Martian

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    Films made from novels are usually great in my opinion. I think screenwriting a story without a famous novel behind it may be fading by convention. “The Martian” is one of those hip cool novel-to-movie examples.

    I read the first few chapters before seeing the movie. The understated humor and NASA space themes drew me in right away. That and the universal praise of the critics put seeing this one at a high priority. “Star Wars” proved a global love for space movies. “Castaway” did the same for survival films. It’s likely “The Martian” draws from both audiences along with readers of the novel. It’s already being given “Blockbuster” status in the press. In the story, a manned mission to Mars goes wrong and an astronaut, thought to be dead, is left behind. He uses his ingenuity and tenacity to survive. The movie is well over 2 hours and I wasn’t bored once. I give this one a perfect 10/10.

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  • Ep. 99: Pulp Fiction

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    I talk through a plot summary and review of Pulp Fiction.

    Pulp Fiction (1994)
    R | 2h 34min | Crime, Drama | 14 October 1994 (USA)

    The lives of two mob hitmen, a boxer, a gangster’s wife, and a pair of diner bandits intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption.
    Director: Quentin Tarantino
    Writers: Quentin Tarantino (stories), Roger Avary (stories) | 1 more credit »
    Stars: John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Samuel L. Jackson

    As usual I’m posting my rough rewatch notes below:

    Tim Roth, Amanda Plummer in restaurant.

    Casual talk to throw you off.

    Taran is really big on the right music

    Next scene travolta (Vincent) and Sam Jackson are arguing logic of whats more serious, cuningulus or a foot massage. This mindless, unrelated dialog is meant to throw the iewer off

    Jacksons character recites a Bible passage about wrath before he execites people

    23 mins into it you have a 3rd scenario. Bruce Willisvand Ving Raimes. Accepting a payoff to throw his fight.

    Rosanna Arquette and Eric Stoltz, the heroine dealers

    Marcellas wife Mia) Uma Thurman needs a chaperone to take her out. Vincent is chosen for the job.

    Their famous dance

    Mis finds heroin and snorts it, over doses. Vincent takes her to Stolz and Arquette and they inject adrenaline into her heart.

    Willis kills the other boxer in the ring. Bets on homself and leaves town.

    Marcella finds Willis character in a pawn shop.

    They fall into a dark spiral of gimp hell

    Driving around Vincent shoots Marvin in the face

    Harvey Keitel is the fixer

    Story comes full circle when Vincent and Jules are in the diner as the holdup resumes

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  • Ep. 98: In Darkness

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    A cool new suspense film! (These are just my unedited notes) In Darkness – Notes A blind musician hears a murder committed in the apartment upstairs from hers that sends her down a dark path into London’s gritty criminal underworld.

    In Darkness (2018)
    1h 50min | Thriller | 25 May 2018 (USA)

    A blind musician hears a murder committed in the apartment upstairs from hers that sends her down a dark path into London’s gritty criminal underworld.
    Director: Anthony Byrne
    Writers: Anthony Byrne, Natalie Dormer
    Stars: Natalie Dormer, Emily Ratajkowski, Ed Skrein

    Director: Anthony Byrne (Ripper Street, Peaky Blinders, The Last Kingdom) Wow!
    His partner is Natalie Dormer, sophia in the film.

    Orchestra playing to a movie being made very cool

    Sophia is a concert pianist.
    Natalie Dormer born 11 February 1982 is an English actress. She is best known for her roles as Anne Boleyn on the Showtime series The Tudors (2007-10), as Margaery Tyrell on the HBO series Game of Thrones (2012-14), Irene Adler on the CBS series Elementary (2013-15), and as Cressida in the science-fiction adventure films The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 (2014) and Part 2 (2015). She has been nominated for Best Performance at the Gemini Awards for her work in The Tudors. She has also been nominated for a Screen Actor’s Guild Award for her performance in Game of Thrones.

    her other senses like hearing and feeling touch take over and are in Hanst to compensate for her lack of sight

    she talks to a girl in the lobby Veronique who apparently is being abused by her spouse as she’s practicing her piano she begins to hear them fighting

    she falls if you fell or if you fall do you lick your blood or do I put on your clothes I think I would wipe it on my clothes

    The abused woman Veronique jumps out her window. murder?

    Inspector is Mills (Neil Maskell of Kill List and High Rise)

    The co conspirators:

    Joely Richardson
    For Joely, the theatre must be in her genes. Born in Marylebone, London, England, she is the daughter of director Tony Richardson and Vanessa Redgrave, granddaughter of Sir Michael Redgrave, niece of Lynn SRedgrave, and sister of Natasha Richardson. Former husband Tim Bevan is a producer. However the genes were slow – as a child she saw her older sister Natasha interested in acting but she was imagining a career in tennis. Her father put his foot down, and tennis was out. British by birth, she considers herself a sort of honorary Yank, having attended boarding school at Thacher in Ojai, California. Beginning in the ’80s film became her life, from small parts in Wetherby (1985) to BBC dramas such as Lady Chatterley (1993) to today’s Disney studio going to the dogs in 101 Dalmatians (1996).

    Ed Krein (Pushed his sister to her death- Father ordered it
    Ed Skrein grew up in North London, graduated with a degree in Fine Arts from Central Saint Martins, and is one of the most highly versatile artists of his generation. He was selected by Screen International as one of their “Stars of Tomorrow” in 2013, which showcases the next generation of talent from the UK.

    Most recently, Skrein starred as the villain Ajax in Marvel’s and Twentieth Century Fox’s box office hit, Deadpool (2016), directed by Tim Miller and alongside Ryan Reynolds. The film shattered box office records, nearing $500 million worldwide. Deadpool (2016) chronicles the story of Marvel comic book character Deadpool (Reynolds), a former Special Forces operative turned mercenary who adopts an alter ego after being subjected to a rogue experiment that leaves him with accelerated healing powers.

    Skrein also recently starred in the Danish drama, The Model (2016), directed by Mads Matthiesen, who won the “World Cinema – Dramatic” award for his film, Teddy Bear at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. The Model (2016) follows an emerging fashion model attempting to enter the Parisian fashion scene who develops a deadly obsession for top fashion photographer Shane White (Skrein). Nordisk Film Distribution released the film in Denmark on February 11th.

    This year, Skrein will appear in the comedy crime film, Kill Your Friends (2015), directed by Owen Harris (Black Mirror) and alongside Nicholas Hoult and James Corden. Based on John Niven’s 2008 novel, the film accounts the story of a 27-year-old A&R man working at the height of the Britpop music craze and going to extremes in order to find his next hit. Kill Your Friends (2015) screened at Cannes and was purchased by Well Go USA Entertainment, which will release the film on April 1st.

    Last year, Skrein starred in the action crime thriller reboot, The Transporter Refueled (2015), directed by Camille Delamarre and produced by Luc Besson and Mark Gao (Lucy, Taken Trilogy). Skrein portrayed the lead role of Frank Martin, a former special-ops mercenary who now spends his life as a transporter of classified packages for questionable people on the other side of the law.

    In 2013, Skrein appeared in the critically-acclaimed and BAFTA and Critics Choice Television Award winning HBO series, Game of Thrones. Skrein portrayed the character Daario Naharis, originally a lieutenant in the “Second Sons,” who takes over the company after killing his superiors and aligns with Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke).

    In 2012, Skrein starred in Revolver Entertainment’s critically-acclaimed drama Ill Manors, written and directed by Ben Drew. The film revolves around the lives of eight characters as they struggle to survive on the streets. It takes place over the course of seven days, each story blending into the others, painting a gritty picture of a world on the brink of destruction.

    Other film credits include The Sweeney, Tiger House, Piggy, Northmen: A Viking Saga, Sword of Vengeance and Goldfish. Other television credits include The Tunnel.

    Ed Skrein currently resides in London.

    At the funeral, Upon being taken back to the victim’s father’s apt, Sofia steps on something encased in glass.

    After visiting with the brother, Sofia realizes she has the usb. The dead woman put it in her jacket pocket.

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