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Get Out An Instant Cult Classic

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[divider]Jordan Peele’s debut film Get Out works not only as a timely bit of horror but a fantastic throwback to the slow burn psychological thrillers of the 1970s. The premise is simple enough, Chris is nervous about meeting his girlfriend’s parents at their lake house in upstate New York because he isn’t sure how they will react to their daughter being in an interracial relationship.

Chris (Daniel Kaluuya) is a bit of a blank slate when we first meet him. He is undoubtedly nice but all of his actions seem calculated to avoid conflict. In many instances he remains silent in the face of blatant racism always complying and choosing the path of least resistance.

That becomes impossible when his girlfriend Rose (Allison Williams) invites him out to her parent’s house for the weekend. Rose is a mid-20s liberal who seems to understand what Chris is going through. She forewarns him that her father is going to try and be ultra-cool in front of him and assures him that he would have voted for Obama for a third term if he could.

Yet the closer they get to the house the more his sense of paranoia seems to go up.  A sense of isolation permeates the film as the audience feels, like Chris, very alone even among a crowd of people. Peele is clearly an expert in horror films as you can see his homages to classics throughout the film. But the movie only tips its hat to movies like The Stepford Wives and Night of the Living Dead, it isn’t afraid to enter new territory.

Peele’s decision to hire mostly character actors instead of A-listers seriously helps the story. Not only are cast members like Bradley Whitford and Stephen Root at the top of their game but because they aren’t as well known it is easier for the audience to let them carry the story forward.  Kaluuya is as powerful as he is because he’s still relatively new. That gives him an everyman quality that might have taken away from the overall message of the story had it been played by someone like Denzel Washington.

The only flaw in the film is Peele’s insistence on making the movie comedic. A light touch isn’t a bad thing in comedy, look at Cabin in the Woods, but when the laughs to do come they feel very out of place with the overall mood of the rest of the film. Thankfully he places his comic relief far away from the main action to the point where it almost feels like a totally different movie.

The movie itself is a slow but that, despite being labelled as a horror, isn’t that violent. Peele knows he doesn’t have to shock to get his point across and that more often what isn’t said is just as powerful. Considering this is Peele’s first film it is quite an impressive display. As he begins to spread his wings and become more comfortable in the medium who knows what else he is capable of producing.

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Paramount+ Reveals Official Main Title Sequence for the Upcoming Series TALES OF THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES

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During the TALES OF THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES panel earlier today at San Diego Comic Con, Paramount+ revealed the official main title sequence for the series. The sequence is composed by EMMY® nominee, Matt Mahaffey, known for his work on Sanjay and Craig, Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie and much more. 

From the studios of the Mutant Mayhem film, the all-new Paramount+ original series TALES OF THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES explores the adventures of everyone’s favorite pizza-loving heroes as they emerge from the sewers onto the streets of NYC. Leo, Raph, Donnie and Mikey are faced with new threats and team up with old allies to survive both teenage life and villains lurking in the shadows of the Big Apple. The series is produced by Nickelodeon Animation and Point Grey Pictures.

TALES OF THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES is executive produced by Chris Yost (The Mandalorian, Thor: Ragnarok) and Alan Wan (Blue Eye Samurai, Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles [2012 Series]). Production is overseen for Nickelodeon by Claudia Spinelli, Senior Vice President, TV Series Animation, Nickelodeon, and Nikki Price, Director of Development and Executive in Charge of Production.

In addition to the upcoming new series, stream all things Turtles on Paramount+.

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DISNEY+ CASTS DANIEL DIEMER AS FAN-FAVORITE ‘TYSON’IN SEASON TWO OF “PERCY JACKSON AND THE OLYMPIANS”

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 in Hall H at San Diego Comic-Con, Rick Riordan and Disney+ revealed that Daniel Diemer (“Under the Bridge”) will star as fan-favorite cyclops “Tyson” in the epic adventure series “Percy Jackson and the Olympians.” Diemer joins Walker Scobell (Percy Jackson), Leah Sava Jeffries (Annabeth Chase) and Aryan Simhadri (Grover Underwood) as a series regular. The Disney+ Original series from Disney Branded Television and 20th Television will start filming its second season next week in Vancouver.

Season two of “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” is based on the second installment of Disney Hyperion’s best-selling book series titled “The Sea of Monsters” by award-winning author Rick Riordan. In the new season, Percy Jackson returns to Camp Half-Blood one year later to find his world turned upside down. His friendship with Annabeth is changing, he learns he has a cyclops for a brother, Grover has gone missing, and camp is under siege from the forces of Kronos. Percy’s journey to set things right will take him off the map and into the deadly Sea of Monsters, where a secret fate awaits the son of Poseidon.

Diemer stars as Tyson – a young Cyclops who grew up all alone on the streets, and finds it difficult to survive in the human world.  Shy and awkward, with a heart almost as big as he is, Tyson soon discovers that Poseidon is his father, which means Percy Jackson is his half-brother… and that Tyson may have finally found a home. 

Diemer recently starred in the Hulu limited series “Under the Bridge” based off the critically acclaimed book of the same name and a tragic true story of a missing teen girl in Vancouver in 1997. He will next star in the indie “Thug” opposite Liam Neeson and Ron Perlman for director Hans Petter Moland. Daniel was recently seen as the lead in the indie “Supercell” opposite Alec Baldwin and Skeet Ulrich and the lead in the film “Little Brother” opposite Phil Ettinger and JK Simmons. Daniel can also be seen in the Netflix series “The Midnight Club” and recently starred as the male lead in the breakout hit Netflix feature “The Half Of It” from producer Anthony Bregman and director Alice Wu. He is a graduate of Victoria Academy of Dramatic Arts in Vancouver.

Created by Rick Riordan and Jonathan E. Steinberg, season two of “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” is executive produced by Steinberg and Dan Shotz alongside Rick Riordan, Rebecca Riordan, Craig Silverstein, The Gotham Group’s Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Bert Salke, The Gotham Group’s Jeremy Bell and D.J. Goldberg, James Bobin, Jim Rowe, Albert Kim, Jason Ensler and Sarah Watson.

The first season of “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” is available on Disney+

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