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Fantastic Fest 2018: Ladyworld

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Eight teenage girls at a birthday party become trapped without adult supervision after an earth-shaking disaster outside. As supplies dwindle and nerves fray, the girls fall into the worst of society’s patterns.

Some bond and some break, all while they deal with their new, limited world… and the possibility of a male intruder. Working from her script co-written with Benjamin Shearn, director Amanda Kramer leads her troupe of actresses through a symbolic exploration of women’s roles, the value of societal archetypes and systems, and the damage we can do to one another.

The movie is far less concerned with the reality of a disaster, or any plausible escape plan for the girls. The lack of concern about a realistic disaster narrative threatened to take me out of the narrative early on, as I got increasingly frustrated at what I felt was the girls’ lack of effort toward their escape. I desperately wanted the girls to realize the windows open inward, or try stacking more furniture to reach a skylight. Something, anything more to escape their predicament.

Instead, they cave to pettiness and boredom almost immediately, almost immediately breaking all their own rationing rules for unfocused and petty sniping. An early warning about not needing a leader goes unheeded until it’s far too late, and by the time we leave the girls, each character is hurt from their time together. No one fares particularly well as a survivalist, here.

The film works best when considered as a performance piece about our need for roles in society and the damage we do imposing those roles on others. The actresses give a heightened, melodramatic emotion to everything, which mirrors perfectly the maddening and exceptional score and sound design. Giulio Carmassi, Scott Casillas, and Bryan Scary give Ladyworld the most discomforting soundtrack I’ve ever experienced. It brings you fully into the world of the film, even as logic sometimes breaks the narrative. The sounds range from what I imagine was skin-on-leather, to a variety of mouth noises, to shrieking strings. Everything was done in order to match the sounds in the theater to the emotional and mental states of the actresses onscreen. Though effective, it was not fun. As they went mad, so did the space around me. It was terrible and immersive, and flawlessly matched to a movie that appears purposefully uncomfortable.

While there are several scenes I thought about days after, I would not say I liked Ladyworld. I also believe Amanda Kramer was completely unconcerned with the film having ‘likeability’. Whatever you think of it, Kramer’s vision for the project surrounds you for the full runtime. There is nowhere else to look, nothing happening that doesn’t feel a part of this movie. Uncomfortable, stylish, brash and symbolic, Ladyworld doesn’t need you to love it.

 

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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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