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Five Night's at Freddy's (2023) movie by obake-the-sincere, literature

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Five Night's at Freddy's (2023) movie

Five Nights at Freddy’s *** Scott Cawthon is a mad genius. His Five Nights at Freddy’s video game series, rich with grisly lore and jump scares, is one of my favorites. As far as its (first) movie adaptation, it holds up. Mike (Josh Hutcherson) is unstable. Fired from a security gig for assault, threatened of losing custody of his sister Abby, and late on bills, you understand his plight. Yet his villainous aunt Jane (Mary Stuart Masterson) is right in some ways about wanting custody of Abby. One of the reasons the movie works is that even at his best, Mike is flawed. Hutcherson gives depth to what could have been a shallow protagonist. Abby (Piper Rubio) has troubles of her own. She barely acknowledges the world around her. Her only friends are imaginary, and her time is spent drawing them, over and over. It is her relationship with Mike that holds the horror set pieces together. As in most of the Fnaf games, the crux of the movie is our protagonist getting a security job at a

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The Vanishing (1988)

The Vanishing (1988) **** Can horror be effective when stripped to the bone? George Sluizer’s Spoorloos (translated to The Vanishing) proves it can. Most regular horror conventions are thrown out here, in favor of only the implications, and it is all too effective. Rex Hofman and his wife Saskia are on holiday in France. By sheer chance, Saskia is kidnapped and presumably murdered. Rex creates a national campaign to find out what happened. In a refreshing twist, we know immediately who her kidnapper is: a man named Raymond. He is introduced donning a fake arm cast, a la Ted Bundy. The movie makes no pretense of hiding his guilt, though it keeps his motives muddy. Chunks of time are spent away from Rex and Saskia’s story in favor of Raymond and his family. Sluizer has made moments that would be humorous in other movies somehow chilling. I think it is because the characters are so well developed, so strange yet close to life. We know people like Raymond, Rex, and Saskia exist.

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Asteroid City (2023)

Asteroid City *** Remember the gag in Looney Tunes, of the Roadrunner going into a tunnel, and Wile E Coyote chasing after him only to find the tunnel is a painted backdrop? The desert around Asteroid City looks like backdrops from Looney Tunes shorts. There is even an animated roadrunner. I assume the fake look is intentional. It was shot in both Spain and Arizona, according to Cinemaholic. This is Wes Anderson’s vision of an American desert town, circa 1950’s. An ensemble of eccentrics arrive for a science festival. There is the Sunday school teacher June (May Hawke) and her class, the recent widower Augie Steenbeck (Jason Scwartzman) and his children, troubled actress Midge (Scarlett Johansson) and her daughter Dinah (Grace Edwards), to name just a few. Augie and Midge begin a relationship. Both have emotional baggage, Augie having been a war photographer who lost his wife a few weeks before, Midge having been abused by men through most of her life. Though both have seen

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The Drowning Pool (1975) review

The Drowning Pool ** It is surprising how flat Paul Newman is in The Drowning Pool. Paul Newman playing a cocky, hard boiled Private Eye sounds fantastic. It could be any range of things, from thrilling to funny. Here it is boring. The Drowning Pool isa 1975 crime drama based on a Ross MacDonald novel. Lew Harper (Newman) is a PI working on a case involving an ex lover whom he had an affair with. The lover, Iris Devereaux (Joanne Woodward) wants Lew to find the identity of a letter writer. The writer claims to know of Iris’s infidelity, and threatens to let the word out. Meanwhile Iris’s stepmother, Olivia Devereaux (Coral Browne) keeps a strict household. As Lew points out, Olivia treats her pet birds better than people. She also has no time to suffer oil tycoons trying to buy her land. In comes J Hue Kilbourne (Murray Hamilton.) He is the local head of the oil industry. A weird, southern accented man with a lot money, and little idea how to use it all. His idea of fun is

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Dragnet Girl

Toxic relationships are the subject of Dragnet Girl. A woman and her boyfriend, both small time crooks, promise to go straight after a life of crime. Just after one last robbery. Crime, in their case, may be an addiction, as there always seems to be “one last time.” Tokiko’s relationship with her beau, Joji, is strained. Both he and her seem to hate one another at times, but they are always falling back into each other’s arms. Joji, a retired boxer, runs a local gang. One of his proteges, a featherweight by the name of Hiroshi, is eager to please his boss. Joji, on the other hand, wants little to do with anybody, sitting longingly in the club’s rec room while boxers and pool hounds get into fights. Hiroshi, who is young and not an ounce cynical, steals small amounts of money and dreams of making it big. Meanwhile Hiroshi’s sister, Kazuko, sees her little brother’s life of crime for what it is. There is no stability in the life of a crook. Joji is the ultimate testament to that;

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Key Largo

Key Largo **** Systemic abuse is a running theme of John Huston’s Key Largo. The mafia were abusers of the law, kowtowing cops and politicians to do their bidding. As the movie shows, some mobsters had antiquated views on women as well. A former Major named Frank McCloud (Humphrey Bogart) goes to a sleepy hotel in Key Largo, Florida. He says he is there to visit a soldier buddy’s father. Reality may be that Frank is searching for a meaning to life after seeing war. He does, after all, seem to drift into deep thought every so often, even when others speakto him. His friend George’s father, James Temple (Lionel Barrymore) runs the hotel with his son’s widow, Nora (Lauren Bacall.) The two know of Frank from letters George sent to them. They are optimistic about the visit from McCloud. Frank, as courteous as he is, seems to almost not want to be there. Perhaps he thinks closure is impossible, but he still wants to help George’s family. Also at the hotel are a group of suspicious men

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Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)

Picnic at Hanging Rock *** ½ Picnic at Hanging Rock is a peculiar time capsule. If it were made today, it would likely be more blunt. Vague undertones of sexuality permeate Sarah, one of the girls attending Appleyard College. Her character may well be a lesbian, but like the Victorian times it is set in, it never explores further. I assume that is purposeful. The film is set in Victoria, Australia. Appleyard College, a progressive leaning girls school, is run by Miss Appleyard (Rachel Roberts.) She seems the typical authoritarian. Even her hair is high strung, always in a bun as big as her head. The movie starts with the college girls getting ready for a field trip. They are going to Hanging Rock, a real life inactive volcano. When I think of the Outback, I think of dry deserts or swampy jungles. Hanging Rock is a mix of both. Alongside the arid heat is the growing height of the rock formations. Four of the students take a hike up the mountain, and only one gets back down. What

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Starman (1984) review

Starman *** Jenny Hayden is a young widow. Her husband Scott died in an accident, leaving her virtually alone. She does not have neighbors to confide in, as she lives in a cabin, distant from civilization. Distance is a theme of Starman, both physical and emotional. When an alien crash lands and takes the form of Jenny’s late husband, she has an understandable reaction. Rather than screaming or running, she takes a moment to ask if it really is Scott, before realizing it could not be, and fainting. What starts out as nightmarish turns out to be rather sweet. The titular alien (played by Jeff Bridges) is a fish out of water, only knowing English from a probe sent by astronauts with various media on it. Think greetings in several languages, and some songs (“I Can’t Get No Satisfaction” by the Rolling Stones, for one.) The alien’s goal is to get to a rendezvous in Winslow, Arizona, where a ship will bring him home. Starman is a road trip movie, with Jenny (Karen Allen) taking the

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Bicycle Thieves (1948)

Bicycle Thieves **** My family, although well off now, has had hard times. When you are poor, you treasure what little you have. A home. Photos. Toys. In the case of Antonio Ricci, a bicycle. Vittorio De Sica’s Bicycle Thieves is an unrelenting look at poverty. The protagonist, Antonio, takes a loan to get a bike so he can work far out in the city, during a general workers strike. Antonio is lucky to have been hand picked for the new job. Crowds of fellow workers get nothing. His wife Maria and son Bruno finally look forward to having real money. As if fate has it out for Antonio, his bicycle is stolen. Knowing time is short, he and Bruno go on a rabid search. The once collected Antonio (played dutifully by Lamberto Maggiorani) slowly descends into despair. That is one part of poverty. The other is desperation. Desperation so menacing it makes people willing to lash out. Antonio almost breaks down after slapping Bruno in frustration. Something that went through my mind

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Monsieur Hulot's Holiday

Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday *** I remember seeing Sylvain Chomet’s The Illusionist (2010), which was based on one of Jacques Tati’s unused scripts. That one had more pathos than Jacques usual stories, from which I understand are mostly understated comedies. Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday is no exception. It loosely follows the ventures of Mr. Hulot (played by Tati himself) as he spends time on a beach. There is no through line or plot; it is more divided into short skits, which works for this type of comedy. There is Hulot’s time playing tennis, him going out on a boat, causing trouble in the local hotel, etc. Overall Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday is pleasant. It is hard to describe many of the jokes, as a lot are dependent on the composition of the actors, if that makes sense (like when two people’s umbrellas get stuck together. You have to see how it happens for the joke to work.) Jacques was known for having lots of extras in a scene that react to the bizarre situations all at once

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New Movie Reviews: Five Nights At Freddy's (2023) (Watched twice in theaters on 10/28/2023) Rated: PG-13, 1 hr. 49 mins., ⭐⭐⭐ Director Emma Tammi has made a very fine horror movie, based on the survival horror video game series "Five Nights At Freddy's" created by Scott Cawthon, with fine characters, a decent story and good effects and puppetry. The story follows Mike (Josh Hutcherson), a security guard who's having trouble keeping a stable job as he tries looking after his young sister Abby (Piper Rubio) who always draws and talks to imaginary friends. Yet after losing his job working at a mall due to mistaking a kidnapping, Mike's offered a nightly security watch from career counselor Steve Raglan (Matthew Lillard) at a pizzeria called Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, that was big in the 1980s until it was shut down but kept up due to the owner not letting it go. So, after some time, Mike accepts the job and watches video monitors to keep people out of Freddy's. He's soon visited by

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A Wright Reviews The Incredible Hulk 2008

Greetings fellow fandom admirers! I'm Nick Wright and this is A Wright Reviews. Was it really that hard to make a movie about Marvel's Jekyll-and-Hyde? The Incredible Hulk is by far the strongest and deadliest member of the Avengers. His creative destruction and thrilling rushes of adrenaline, and just the pure action of devastation. There's a monster film and a disaster film locked within this comic book series. But despite his potential for great storytelling and cinematic gold. The Hulk has had an underwhelming impact in terms of cinema. Sure people enjoyed watching the Incredible Hulk show on CBS during the late 70s and early 80s. And even though they had an actual Hulk on TV instead of a CGI monster. It didn’t match the same energy or excitement of seeing the Hulk go all the way with his destructive force. While the cartoon shows from the 90s and comic books did so. But what I did like about the 70s Hulk show was it captured the struggles of a man having to battle

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New Movie Reviews: Asteroid City (2023)

New Movie Reviews: Asteroid City (2023) (Watched in theaters on 6/24/2023) Rated: PG-13, 1 hr. 45 mins., ⭐⭐ 1/2÷ Director Wes Anderson has made an alright, but unusual film with okay characters, an okay story and fine effects. The story, set in 1955, has the Steenbeck family travelling to Asteroid City (known for its giant crater that contains an asteroid that landed in a California desert and left unbroken in its impact) where it has a yearly celebration called Asteroid Day to commemorate the anniversary of the asteroid's landing. The Steenbeck's son Woodrow (Jake Ryan) is partaking in an invention contest as the war photographer father Augie (Jason Schwartzman) wants the father-in-law Stanley Zak (Tom Hanks) to pick up the three young daughters as their car breaks down on their journey. And during their stay, the Steenbeck's meet other people who work there, are visiting the city for the event or vacationing, including actress Midge Campbell (Scarlett Johansson), scientist Dr.

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My Bottom 10 Episodes of MLP

At first, this was going to be a straight-up Top 10 list. But before I once again dived into the eternal struggle of defining an absolute order for these entries, I took myself aside and argued: "No." Which was a pretty thorough argument. So instead, here is a collection of 10 very, very bad MLP-episodes that I personally find to be my Top 10, but in no particular order. Also: What I said previously about my least favourite episodes has to be taken with a grain of salt. I chose that one for a controversy meme without long consideration (for formerly mentioned reasons). I still think they are objectively bad, but a good chunk of their ranking also comes from personal preferences, annoyance or a lack of ironic detachment. If it calms you down: The upper row pretty much represents my Top 5, though I wouldn't know where to put them in comparison to each other. So let's begin: Daring Doubt (Season 9) It all starts when Dr. Caballeron publishes a tell-all-book about "the

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Movie Review: Predator (1987)

It took me a rather long time to catch up on the movies that made Arnold Schwarzenegger famous. I knew about The Terminator, though I only saw it after I'd graduated from college. I also knew about Conan the Barbarian (but, speaking as a fan of the original stories, I'm not at all interested in watching John Milius' film any time soon). Typically, when I think of Arnold as an action star, three movies come to mind: Terminator from '84; Predator, from '87; and Total Recall from 1990. All three of those are movies that my father is a huge fan of (he considers the original "Terminator" to be nearly perfect from what I recall :XD: ) and, one day in October in the spirit of Halloween, I suggested we sit down and watch the middle of those three - both because it had an actual monster in it, and because I had it on DVD and had been meaning to watch it for a while already. So, with all of that setup out of the way, let us dive into the story of "Predator" and see what it offers us! :)

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Forgotten Cartoons Episode 22: KaBlam!

Aug 30, 2019

Welcome back to "Forgotten Cartoons" everyone. Having to go back to work and school has been a bit stressful, but I'm now ready to do a new episode of this review series. Requested by Towers-of-Obscure, this series is known as "KaBlam!" "KaBlam!" was created by Robert Mittenthal, Will McRobb, Chris Viscardi, Michael Pearlstein, Cote Zellers, and Albie Hecht, and it ran on Nickelodeon from 1996 through 2000 with 4 seasons under its belt. Each episode thus features a collection of short films in multiple innovative styles of animation, bridged by the characters Henry and June, who introduce the shorts and have adventures of their own in betwee

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And so, after a bit of a hiatus I welcome you all back to the Disney Marathon. For those new here, this is where I review every film made by Walt Disney Animation and I try to actually make said reviews interesting in some way. In the first year of the new millennium, Walt Disney Pictures released Fantasia 2000. This was of course made as a sequel for Fantasia. You all know the story of that film at this point. Walt Disney want to revive the popularity of Mickey Mouse, created The Sorcerer's Apprentice, but then creativity struck, and Fantasia was born. But what some of you might not know is that Walt was so proud of his work that he wanted

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I am an aspiring artist, writer, Doom wad creator, and a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

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Mar 31, 2023

Cemeteries and Nova lll

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I worked on a group Doom wad called Nova III, specifically Map 16, "Dregs of a Bitter Cup" For those interested, a link is here: https://www.doomworld.com/idgames/levels/doom2/Ports/megawads/nova3 I've cited my love of cemeteries as my inspiration for my map. It is indeed based on actual mausoleum designs. Cemeteries can be both peaceful and haunting, a juxtaposition that I find fascinating. For those interested in Doom stuff, Doom World and Doom Wiki are great places to learn more!

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It's January 27th which means it's that time of the year again and your special day is here! We hope you have an awesome day with lots of birthday fun, gifts, happiness and most definitely, lots of cake! Here's to another year!

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hi so sorry it has been hectic year this year for us all.

specially this last 6 to 9 weeks i never known a year like it.. i am sorry for the late reply. i normally do reply every week. or so . or soon as i can. what else can go wrong this year i hate to think. thanks again tho for the watch. i always return a watch. all the same.

aww thanks so much for the watch.

. i hope to fav more soon. i i hope to comment and fav some more of your work and others. i hope you and your family is well. i hope your Christmas went well. happy new year to you. i hope 2022 will get better for us all. i hope 2023 will be a better year for us all i hope and pray .

i hope everything is good at your end. sorry for the late reply. i have just got back from late nights at the farms where i do work. as there has been lots of storms in the UK this year already. lots of damages to building and fences. . so sorry for my late reply. i hope you had a lovely valentines. i hope your Easter will be a great one. i wish you all the best. thanks again,. please take care keep safe. best wishes and high regards,

thanks so much for the watch always good to see a fellow artist i hope you enjoy your time on da and much as i do as on da. i hope you are enjoy da too. i always watch a fellow watcher. but might take me some time to watch back as i fav 1000s of pictures a day. i am. so sorry for the delay. i hope your well. i hope your Christmas was a good one. a good one well to remember, i do hope it went well, as i hope the same goes for the new year to you and all i hope it be as happy one.. i hope 2023 will be a better year for everyone. i hope your keeping well and safe. i hope you and the family is well. i thank you so much for the watch. i am over the moon. i look forward to seeing more of you work soon. i hope you have a nice day and nice weekend i hope you had a nice Easter, i wish you all the best of health and luck. please take care best wishes

i hope you have a very scary but a fun time for Halloween this year hope it will better that last year. as it was not so good one for me. . i hope you had a great time. be safe. take care. watch out it a crazy world out there right now. have a nice day and nice evening and nice weekend.

i do pray for you and all. that are struggling right now.

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