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Sully: An exercise in subtlety.

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Release date:September 9, 2016

Studio:Warner Bros. Pictures

Director:Clint Eastwood

MPAA Rating:PG-13 (for some peril and brief strong language)

Screenwriter:Todd Komarnicki

Starring:Tom Hanks, Aaron Eckhart, Laura Linney

Genre:Drama, Biography

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This film, from the get go, is a very quiet, unassuming film, which is what I LOVED about it! There is no showboating of special effects, there is no melodrama, there is no grandiose posturing. It is simply a telling of what happened that day.

Tom Hanks is, as always, marvellous! The way he downplayed everything made me feel as though I was watching a documentary more than a movie. He was that very regular guy that the character needed to be.

All of the characters are masterfully played by this wonderful cast which included Aaron Eckert, Laura Linney, Valerie Mahaffey, Mike O’Malley, Jamey Sheridan, and a host of others.

The film does a fantastic job of going back into his history so as to establish the kind of pilot he is. We are allowed to see that, as a youth, he was encouraged by his instructor and as a young man, in Vietnam, he was able to land a plane in another very dangerous situation.

We’re introduced to his family specifically his wife and how much this weighed on her. How she had to come to groups with the idea that she might have lost her husband that day. We see how they communicated with each other through this ordeal.  We are, also allowed to see how the media onslaught took it’s toll on them and how they tried to maintain normalcy through out this whole ordeal.

The film brings us into the investigation that situation. We see him speaking to the review board, several of his superiors, as well as the federal officials. We’re also allowed to see the struggles that he had to face within himself. The struggle within his mind, the “did he do the right thing?”, “did he make the right decision?”, “what could have gone wrong”, and things of that nature. I think that is the part of the film that I appreciated the most.

It was also an interesting dichotomy portrayed in this film. We are shown that while the world praised him for his heroism, his superiors seem to want to do everything they could to prove that he made the wrong choice.

I found that the story unfolded in such a fluid, smooth fashion that by the time the film was over I was surprised that it had ended (This is close to a 3 hour movie by the way). I don’t know that I could more highly recommend this film! The subtlety of how this film unfolds is worthy of note and reason enough to see this film!

 

 

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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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