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Review: Labor Day

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Release Date: April 29, 2014.
MPAA Rating:PG-13
Runtime:111 min
Director:Jason Reitman
Studio:Indian Paintbrush and Mr. Mudd
Genre:Drama
Stars:Kate Winslet, Josh Brolin, Gattlin Griffith
Your Rating: (2.5 out of 5 stars)

Labor Day is a new drama from Director Jason Reitman (also known for Juno) starring Josh Brolin and Kate Winslet. It’s starts with a mother lost in deep depression and her son being forced to take an escaped convict to their home and help him hide out until he can leave town. The love deprived mother, Adele, begins to allow this wanted man in to her heart and they grow to love each other. Will their love be able to conquer the truth of his past ? Will the Police catch him before they can have a happy ending?

The premise seemed interesting to me as I anticipated watching this movie. Everything I heard about the film going in gave off a Stockholm Syndrome type of vibe. The love story portion of it seemed a bit ridiculous as these two strangers fell in love in a matter of days, 5 to be exact.Even with the initial kidnapping and forced aiding and abetting of herself and her child she looks past his murder conviction, escape from prison, and willingness to manhandle and threaten her family and neighbors to fall for him. Insanity and outright bad parenting aside, they do seem to genuinely love each other and it comes through in the performances of Brolin and Winslet. Winslet plays the traumatized shut in Adele Wheeler with subtlety and grace. Never over doing it with the neurosis but laying it on just enough to show how damaged she is. Brolin is good in his role but I think the character had to jump to extremes at times too quickly. One moment he’s baking pies and making love to Adele and the next he’s snatching her around the neck to keep Henry from saying anything to neighbors. I kind of wished he stayed the same person in those situations. Gattlin Griffith plays the teenager coming of age Henry very well here. He is a bit awkward due to living with his mother and her condition. There’s also the ever so fun puberty stage where he’s getting interested in girls. This makes the situation with Brolin’s Frank, Adele, his Father and his new family all the more confusing. It was weird though that they picked up Tobey Maguire to play an older version of Henry for like a total of 5 minutes.

All in all, Labor Day left a lot to be desired for this viewer as it seemed it never really reached the point it was meant to. I just kept waiting for this drama to seem more dramatic.The actors chosen were fantastic and all but it seemed like the Director wasn’t quite capable of getting the feel just right. Labor Day could have but didn’t tug hard enough at the heart strings of this reviewer.

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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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