Here’s the video example. (Note: the file upload feature seems to be choking on the file, so download it here instead…)
Don’t threaten me with a good time.
Season 2, episode 1, Be Right Back.
It seems that the major national theater chains aren’t playing nice with Netflix at the moment. Wake Up Dead Man, along with Frankenstein, are only screening in relatively small local theaters.
But you know what? I love it. I don’t have a lot of money to spend, but what money I do have to see movies, I really want to give to those kinds of venues.
Corporate multiplexes can suck eggs.
I’m in for whoever has the best plans for Babylon 5.
I’d love to see the online chatter about a potential WB acquisition by Netflix be peppered with speculation about the future of the Babylon 5 franchise.
Seeing the comments here, I’m reposting what I said in the [email protected] community earlier today:
Look at the last 5 original properties released by Walt Disney Animation (not Pixar)…
…versus the last 5 live-ish-action re-hashes of existing properties…
You and I might hate them, but they’re a better financial bet. There is, literally, no accounting for good taste (at least in the short term).
Disney hasn’t abandoned the development of new animated film properties (Hexed in 2026, Gatto in 2027). They know that it’s wise to keep building from scratch, if only to uncover new gems that can then be rehashed for even more money later.
Also, one of the primary reasons I spend so much effort maintaining the content of [the trailers] community is to help uncover new movies that may have otherwise slipped under someone’s radar. If you want new animated films, you don’t have to rely on the mouse house.
It’s a casual reminder that sequels and rehashing existing IP are easy money.
I’d been waiting for Valve’s latest hardware before jumping into VR home experiences. I hope the real-world product reviews live up to expectations.
Throwing a big second behind Sister Midnight. Loved that one.
“Select theaters” == NYC and LA: https://www.neonrated.com/film/arco
First line:
As slow as the box office has been this month, it could have been so much worse had it not been for an unprecedented savior: anime.
Theatrical venues, starved for features whose theatrical window has gone from 6-12 months to a matter of weeks, is basically willing to screen anything that puts butts in seats.
Blah blah blah blah one existing screen in the US…
…plus 3 more before next year:
I’ve only seen the animated series, so that.
Barakamon (2014)
After torpedoing his career, a young, lonely calligrapher gets sent to a remote island community where he befriends the local townsfolk and a precocious child. Its quite lovely and I think you’ll like it a lot.
And it looks like someone has put the entire series, with English subtitles, up on YouTube:
I’ll admit that this does sound kind of like a joke suggestion, but I’m serious, after a hard day, sit down, suck up your pride and put an episode or two of Bluey on. It’s a warm blanket on a cold day.
I’ve heard Jordan Crucchiola argue for what she calls “a well-crafted” jump scare, but I haven’t heard them actually describe what that is or provide a solid example of one.
Depending on the taxonomy of scares and what technically does and doesn’t quality as a “jump” scare, two of my favorites come from early M. Night Shyamalan.
From The Sixth Sense…,
the slow pan inside the tent made of bedsheets,
and from Signs…
the initial monster in the news footage.
More-so that many other jump-scares I’ve seen, those felt earned. The framing was creative. You recognize that there’s something scary coming up, but the plot is shaped such that you don’t know what you’re about to see. The expectation and the not-knowing are far far more important to the scare than simply the virtual invasion-of-space and sharp orchestra sting.
Ages and ages ago, I was looking for free stencils of a fist for a screen printing project and found this one in the commons:
I swear I’ve seen it everywhere for the last 15 years.
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Hmm.
