birdemic 2 : the resurrection is a 2013 american romantic thriller-horror film written and directed by james nguyen .

it is the sequel to the 2008 film birdemic : shock and terror .

the film , as with its predecessor , has been considered one of the worst films of all time and features mainly self-referential humor about the reception of the previous film .

taking place two years after birdemic , the film follows another mass bird attack caused by global warming , this time in hollywood .

birdemic 2 : the resurrection

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so birdemic 2 is in 2d , but birdemic 3 is going to be birdemic 3d , guaranteed .
birdemic 2 : the resurrection is quite possibly the most awful movie i’ve ever seen . but let’s back up a bit .
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not to be deterred , nguyen released a sequel , birdemic 2 : the resurrection , in 2013 and has plans to round out the franchise with birdemic 3 : sea eagle .
birdemic 2 : the resurrection
- an often hilarious sequel that isn ' t nearly as self - aware as you might suspect . . .
presently , birdemic 2 : the resurrection doesn’t have a release date , though this shouldn’t stop you from watching the trailer embedded below . the original birdemic is currently available on netflix’s instant streaming service .
a sage “tree hugger” tells us about how the environment is good in birdemic 2 .
a hot chick gets inexplicably stung by a bunch of jellyfish in birdemic 2 .
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jake pennington as clark . james nguyen as a restaurant customer ( cameo ) production . birdemic began production in 2 . birdemic was released on dvd and blu - ray disc on february 2 .
mechanic : resurrection proves to be a killer of this potential jason statham franchise .
watch birdemic 2 : the resurrection ( 2013 ) - a platoon of eagles and vultures attack hollywood , california . why did the eagles and vultures attack ? with alan bagh , whitney moore , thomas favaloro , chelsea turnbo . a platoon of eagles and vultures attack hollywood , california . why did the eagles and vultures attack . birdemic 2 behind the scenes . official birdemic 2 : the resurrection theatrical trailer . published on mar 25 , 2013 . birdemic 2 is an almost carbon copy of the first movie . the first 10 minutes are an almost shot - for - shot remake with new characters . the plot is similarly slow and .
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“birdemic 2 : the resurrection” – zero shrouds ( if nguyen was serious ) . if not ( and he’s trying to be bad on purpose ? ) - 25 shrouds . it’s the worst thing i’ve sat through this year either way .
birdemic 2 : the resurrection , the sequel to the modern no - budget classic birdemic : shock and terror ( 2010 ) , follows the survivors of the first film as they once again find themselves under attack by platoons of birds that resemble animated gifs . more environmentally conscious horror fun from james nguyen , the master of romantic thrillers .
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writer - director james nguyen’s upcoming romantic thriller birdemic 2 : the resurrection finally has a trailer , which arrives courtesy of internet movie database . the film , a sequel to the filmmaker’s dodgy b - movie birdemic , features the return of the original flick’s legion of angry birds , though they’re bigger , meaner , and goofier this time around .
one of the closing night films for the cinedelphia film festival on april 27 th is the sequel to the 2010 cult classic birdemic : shock and terror – birdemic 2 : the resurrection . if you haven’t seen the first birdemic , it’s a bit like the room , but with attacking cg eagles and vultures instead of the super awkward sex scenes . also , where birdemic fails in its technical prowess , it more than makes up for it with a sincerity you honestly can’t fake on screen .
i use wiki 2 every day and almost forgot how the original wikipedia looks like .
the advertising tag — “you asked for it” — is the best thing about “birdemic 2 : the resurrection . ” its 2010 predecessor , “birdemic : shock and terror , ” was one of those rare instances of filmic ineptitude so distinctive it could pass as inspired folk art , winning the biggest midnight - movie following since tommy wiseau’s “the room . ” lacking the [ … ]
prehistoric floating birds , a giant jumbo jellyfish , and an anti - toilet paper subplot . it could only be
birdemic 2 !
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so with birdemic 2 , i spent a lot of time casting . that ' s about 60 % of a good and successful movie is the casting .
director james nguyen talked with “this week in” about birdemic ii : the resurrection , his hotly anticipated sequel to birdemic : shock and terror . he explains that this movie will be about a flock of eagles and vultures that attack hollywood — who will survive ?
in response to an unexpectedly large number of fans being cuckoo for these killer birds , the film’s production company i got a fish productions turned down standard distribution deals at the last minute to remain independent and push the self - theatrical distribution of ‘birdemic 2 : the resurrection’ ahead of its previously anticipated june 2013 release date .
the late night cult sensation is back ! the chicago cinema society at the patio theater is excited to present the chicago premiere of birdemic 2 : the resurrection ! ! ! also , director james nguyen and producer jeff gross will be in attendance for q & a . come on out and meet the creators of birdemic , you know you have questions for these guys ! they will be bringing some exclusive birdemic merchandise and giveaways . this is one night only on april 25th at 9 : 00pm ! tickets are $ 9 . 00 and can be purchased in advance by clicking onto this sentence . more on birdemic 2 below :
birdemic 2 is about a flock of eagles and vultures wreak havoc amidst blossoming romance in hollywood , california , leaving bloodshed and destruction wherever they hover .
birdemic shock and terror was a masterpiece of awful that at least felt genuine in its mediocrity . birdemic 2 : the resurrection jogs along in unison , but has a sense of knowing that make the incredible production flaws a little less charming . the novelty seems to have worn off as the film takes on a
been there , done that
vibe that ' s hard to shake .
yes in a way . birdemic was produced for less than $ 10 , 000 , birdemic 2 is many times that for budget . but i tried to keep some of the elements that worked in the first one , the humor and the most important the hitchcockian romantic thriller structure .
according to the film’s press release , birdemic 2 director james nguyen’s inspiration for the sequel came while visiting the la brea tar pits . “i went to the museum at the tar pits , which had an exhibit of ancient eagles and vultures , ” he explained . “as i walked through it , i said , ‘this is birdemic 2 . ’ the tar pits are a major hint why the birds attack la . ”
we wanted to bring a birdemic 2 game to all of the fans as well as introduce it to those not yet traumatized by the superb masterpiece .
said joe peterson from goh invest .
working closely with the producers allowed us to use the models from moviehead pictures and i got a fish productions ' head animator on the film , mike wu .
birdemic 2 : the resurrection is expected to hit select theaters early next year , watch the trailer at the official website , www . thisisbirdemic . com . you can catch the original birdemic movie at a special one - night event , when the cast of the hit tv show ,
mystery science theater 3000
screens the original birdemic movie in over 600 theaters nationwide on october 25th .
a few weeks ago i got to chat via skype with james nguyen the director of the birdemic films while he was in vietnam working on pre - production for his next romantic thriller . we discussed not only birdemic 2 , but also his love for hitchcock , birdemic 3 and what he thinks of when he hears philadelphia . enjoy !
fountain valley , calif . , oct 25 , 2012 ( globenewswire via comtex ) - - medl mobile , inc . ( otcbb : medl ) - - a pioneer in the creation , development , marketing and monetization of mobile apps - - in collaboration with goh invest and the producers of birdemic 2 : the resurrection , announced today the launch of
birdemic 2 : the game
, the officially licensed augmented reality game . together they produced a game straight from the mind of james nguyen , the master of romantic thrillers ( tm ) , writer and director of the cult classic , birdemic : shock and terror , billed as the
best worst movie ever made
in 2010 .
so the same technique that i ' m doing for birdemic 2 : the resurrection is the same as james cameron and avatar . the only difference is that james cameron had , what was it , 3 or 400 million dollars , so he can add computers to automate and synchronize a lot of stuff like camera motion that i can ' t afford to do .
you see birdemic as the same as birdemic 2 , the first half of the movie there is a lot of romance between a struggling director bill and a struggling actress named gloria . but surrounding that romance in the first half there is foreboding and foreshadowing , an omen that all is not well .
the first birdemic film had a very environmentally friendly message will that be the same with birdemic 2 , from the trailer it seemed like you has raised the stakes quite a bit . there is a very sort of apocalyptic feel to it ? i think i even saw zombies in there as well .
clips of ' birdemic ' on
attack of the show
july 30 , 2009 .
speaking with birdemic : shock and terror writer - director james nguyen , the first thing that strikes you is that no one is more excited about his film than mr . nguyen . from our conversation it ' s clear that whatever the merits of his films , he ' s in love with the idea of making a movie and equally in enamored of being recognized as a filmmaker . while birdemic hitting dvd and blu ray on february 22 via severin films , the filmmaker with the idiosyncratic films is happily moving along with his next production : birdemic 2 : the resurrection in 3d .
jn : we just shot about 10 % of the production . we ' re shooting the easy scenes first before we take the big risk of shooting on the jaws set on the universal studios backlot . so part of birdemic 2 will be on the universal studios backlot on the jaws set .
the birdemic 2 dvd release party and damien carter live performance will take place at philamoca on friday , october 18 , 2013 , at 8 pm . admission for the event is $ 10 in advance or $ 12 the day of the event .
the film was largely self - financed and was produced through nguyen ' s moviehead pictures company for a budget of less than $ 10 , 000 . the film has gained notoriety for its poor quality , with many critics citing it as one of the worst films of all time . [ 2 ] [ 3 ] after a limited theatrical release , the film gained a cult following and was picked up for distribution by severin films in 2010 . a sequel , birdemic 2 : the resurrection , was released in 2013 .
this was a gift for my son as he loved the first birdemic movie . great seller !
the thing that seems to be throwing people off about
birdemic 2
is that they think it ' s a purposeful and self - aware attempt to make a bad film for the sake of comedy . . .
birdemic
: the magic of atrocious cgi , confirmed archived february 28 , 2011 , at the wayback machine .
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and yet here i am , reviewing the fascinating mess that is the film’s sequel , birdemic 2 : the resurrection . i willingly spent nearly two hours traveling to a chicago suburb with a group of friends to see the movie , which was attended by nguyen , star alan bagh , and producer jeff gross . i don’t tend to seek out these cult movie events , but i did it anyway . i’m writing this review despite the fact that it will say nothing of the film that could not be assumed based on one viewing of its trailer . of course birdemic 2 is bad – it couldn’t be anything else . but its poor quality is actually unbelievable this time .
the film’s production company , i got a fish productions llc , has announced that the world premieres will be in november 2012 in a few select cities with cast and crew on hand , with a wider theatrical release currently being set for december and early next year . to raise funds for broader marketing of birdemic 2 : the resurrection due to increasing theatrical demand , producer jeff gross created a campaign you can check out here .
chill will be bringing birdemic 2 : the resurrection to you first . they’ll have the film , written and directed by the master of romantic thrillers james nguyen , exclusively for 90 days before it out wide to other vod platforms such as itunes , amazon and google play . so if you’re dying to catch it early , hit them up here starting today , april 16th and you can check it out for $ 9 . 99 .
comedy - how did this get made ? ep . # 31 : 31 birdemic live !
but i managed to find a producer jeff gross is the producer and he managed to come up with the money many times over the original birdemic .
alan bagh and whitney moore reprised their roles for the sequel , as did colton osborne , rick camp , stephen gustavson , patsy van ettinger , and damien carter . in his 2 . 01 . 6 vice interview , nguyen said that he is hoping to eventually make birdemic 3 : sea eagle , which would be his last film . retrieved november 2 .
jn : yes , there ' s a sequel called birdemic 2 : the resurrection 3d . [ it ] has a great storyline - - even as good or better than the original , that compels me to make it . you know , i have a small office in hollywood , located near the corner of sunset blvd . and la brea ave . they call that corner
william wilder square ,
named after the great director billy wilder whose greatest film is sunset boulevard .
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birdemic 2 : the resurrection is essentially birdemic : the greatest hits , which is essentially just birdemic shock and terror all over again , but set in hollywood - oh , and zombies . . . there ' s also zombies . not much else has changed since rod and nathalie saved half moon bay from the bird menace and if you ' re up for more half half baked environmental messages and james nguyen ' s
guide on how to make it in hollywood
then you certainly have an eventful 80 minutes ahead of you . for everyone else , yes , the film is a trainwreck . . . but man is it an entertaining pile of awful and more fodder for the midnight movie crowd .
severin films acquired the film in early 2010 and launched the birdemic experience tour 2010 , which showed the film in numerous cities in the united states and toronto , canada from april through july 2010 . [ 19 ] birdemic premiered in the united kingdom at the curzon soho in london on may 28 , 2010 . [ 20 ]
birdemic : shock and terror ( often shortened to birdemic ) is a 2010 american independent romantic horror film [ 1 ] written , directed , and produced by james nguyen , and starring alan bagh and whitney moore . inspired by alfred hitchcock ' s the birds , birdemic tells the story of a romance between the two main characters as their small town is attacked by birds .
but i’ve obviously been a bad black saint because guess what arrived in my mailbox today ? it’s called “birdemic 2 : the resurrection” and lemme tell you something right here and now , i deserve a f * cking medal for sitting through this film . nothing on god’s green earth could prepare me for what i experienced while watching this movie . it’s like i ingested a really bad batch of shrooms and hallucinated the entire experience . i can still see the colors , swirling round my head like little rainbows…
not surprisingly , the original birdemic didn’t enjoy a national theatrical release , though this didn’t stop the film from finding an audience who were captivated by the director’s use of animated picture files to depict the story’s horde of angry , bloodthirsty birds . in certain circles , the film is mentioned in the same breath as troll 2 and showgirls . make of that what you will .
morbid . ' birdemic : shock and terror ' www . dreamindemon . com . december 18 , 2009 .
damien carter is a former street singer who was discovered by birdemic director nguyen . finally having a showcase for his vocal talents , carter wowed audiences with his appearance as a nightclub singer in the first birdemic , performing his inimitable hit
just hanging out ( with my family )
. he returns to birdemic 2 with a fresh perspective and new songs , chief among them the raucous
gonna be a star
. carter will return to his childhood coast for his first - ever philadelphia area performance .
director james nguyen pitches birdemic 3 - sea eagle to raise $ 500 , 000 for production . please help fund birdemic 3 - sea eagle at urltoken birdemic 3 - sea eagle is the 3rd sequel to the cult sensation hit movie , birdemic - shock and terror .
a high flying cult hit !
said the new york times synopsis : birdemic 3 - sea eagle : a flock of sea eagles attack the coastal town of santa cruz , california . why did the birds attacked ? production budget : $ 500 , 000 filming location : santa cruz , california written and directed by : james nguyen produced by : moviehead pictures visit urltoken and urltoken
well it doesn’t go into full apocalypse , because the sequel birdemic 3 is in play , which i am hoping to shoot in vietnam . i just came back from there , because i was in pre - production on the sea is rising my project outside of the birdemic franchise .
but who knows ? the guy who directed - - back in the early 2000s - - he directed open water [ chris kentis ] ? he just made another one - - a horror movie , and it got picked up at sundance . so who knows , birdemic got ignored at sundance [ and ] birdemic 2 is getting a lot of attention , so maybe they ' ll give it a second look .
birdemic 2 behind the scenes : urltoken urltoken # birdemic2 a flock of eagles and vultures wreak havoc amidst blossoming romance in hollywood , california , leaving bloodshed and destruction wherever they hover . the story features original ' birdemic ' survivors rod and nathalie , who are joined by new friends - struggling filmmaker bill , aspiring actress gloria and several other angelenos they encounter as they battle angry birds and a host of new enemies .
american independentromantichorror film . inspired by alfred hitchcock ' s the birds , birdemic tells the story of a romance between the two main characters as their small town is attacked by birds .
well , here you have it , a sequel to a one of the worst films you will ever witness , and even though the effects are
more consumable
than the first , the story is just as bad and the ego that
director
james nguyen brings to the table is far far worse . my jaw was on the floor from boredom and the acting is too wooden to even care . the sound editing is absolutely awful and the editing in general ( even though he nothing god to work with ) is dreadful . i am never going to watch these movies again , because they make we feel extremely dumb inside .
birdemic 2 : the resurrection
is a slap in the face to hollywood , and not is a good way .
on april 3 , 2009 , moviehead pictures self - released birdemic on dvd , selling it exclusively through moviehead ' s official website and manufactured on demand through urltoken . [ 21 ] in early 2010 , birdemic was picked up by severin films [ 22 ] with plans to release the film on home media . birdemic was released on dvd and blu - ray disc on february 22 , 2011 . the dvd ' s special features include an audio commentary by james nguyen as well as one by lead actors alan bagh and whitney moore , two deleted scenes , a feature on the birdemic experience tour , and an episode of the public - access san francisco tv show movie close up which features nguyen and was aired as birdemic was still under production ( the host of the show , bonnie steiger , later played an extra in the bus rescue scene of birdemic ) .
sequel to cult favorite ‘birdemic : shock and terror . to be released in select major cities worldwide in april 2013 .
i thought when birdemic became a world wide cult hit producers would just come up to me and say here is money james , for 20 million lets just produce birdemic 2 , lets make it a huge franchise . but it was still a struggle . i was an inch away from a deal at paramount , they were considering taking over the franchise , but they decided to pass and that was a total disappointment .
visionary writer / director james nguyen said his inspiration for the film was the la brea tar pits . “ i went to the museum at the tar pits , which had an exhibit of ancient eagles and vultures , ” he recalled , “ and as i walked through it , i said , ‘this is birdemic 2 . ’ ” he added , “ the tar pits are a major hint why the birds attack la . ”
bill is based on a real director i know , the character won something at sundace for a movie called four seasons back in 1999 . i wont say his real name , but seasons was in the title . well in birdemic 2 he made that movie and had a chance to direct a 100 million dollar picture , but the movie bombed and the studio said it was because he was too auteur .
us distribution company severin films saw potential in its ineptitude and took the film on a
birdemic experience tour
that included a visit to london in 2010 .
at some point , james nguyen will be the new ed wood , creating disastrous films but doing so with an irrepressible passion . eventually , birdemic 2 will stand next to plan 9 from outer space and troll 2 as one of many enduring cinematic oddities . in some sense , he’s achieved his dream . we’ll let him have it…he might not intend to make us laugh , but his movies are bringing us all together , which is something that cinema , good or bad , should always be able to do .
a horde of mutated birds descends upon the quiet town of half moon bay , california . with the death toll rising , two citizens manage to fight back , but will they survive birdemic ?
coming from the hangover part ii school of sequel plotting , birdemic 2 is almost the same movie as its predecessor , beat for beat . nguyen again apes the birds , throwing in overt hitchcock references and a far - too - intentional insert of tippi hedren’s star on the walk of fame . this time , though , the story goes to hollywood , where the film’s same ham - handed environmental themes ( the real villain is that dastardly thing called global warming ) are balanced with what’s supposed to be a wry critique of the film industry .
barrett , simon ' birdemic ' interview on bloody disgusting archived february 11 , 2010 , at the wayback machine . bloody disgusting . com . retrieved december 27 , 2009 .
nguyen ' s sequel hits almost every single beat of the original birdemic , right down to the poorly filmed sex scene right before the titular birdemic kicks into gear . however , possibly bolstered by an admirable bit of macabre inspiration the murderous birds spawn out of an ocean of polluted red rain that drowns a couple or poor souls , gives birth to the eagles and vultures , and then disappears by morning . the protagonists waste no time reaching for their hangers to battle the onslaught of aviary villains .
so my next film , which i am pre - production for is the sea is rising , which is a romantic thriller and it takes place in vietnam . i have been going back and forth on pre - production for the last 2 years .
halfway through the film the birds attack and it’s disclosed later as to why the birds are attacking . that is the structure of the romantic thriller .
underserved in almost every single way , from script to direction and everything in between , jason statham deserves better than mechanic : resurrection . he is one of the few things that still works here and he saves it from being a total waste of time . not the worst film you’ll see this year but , sadly , this is one for the statham completist only .
on jun 27th , 2012 , youtuber and movie reviewer jontronshow [ 7 ] uploaded a video titled
birdemic : the best worst movie ever
examining why the movie , in spite of its flaws , had merit much like the room .
the attacking - bird sequences are as outrageously primitive as before . otherwise , the pic is marginally more pro in general packaging and design contributions , which isn’t saying much . “birdemic 2” does make one thing perfectly clear : mr . nguyen has a thing for blondes , invariably cast as wannabe actresses who’ll do whatever to attain “stardom . ” in a film less authentically dumb , this misogyny might actually be offensive . but one thing one can say for both “birdemic” pics is that their unique qualities arise from a filmmaker who truly appears not to know any better .
the movie was also inspired by alfred hitchcock ' s 1963 film the birds . the birds starred actress tippi hedren , who appeared in nguyen ' s earlier film julie and jack . birdemic includes footage of that appearance , playing on a television .
whether you look down on them or you lap them up , jason statham movies usually deliver what they promise – sadly , this one doesn’t . statham makes a great action hero and he’s fun to watch – he deserves much better than this and so does the audience . mechanic : resurrection lets him and itself down .
c . dennis moore is the author of over 60 published short stories and novellas in the speculative fiction genre . most recent appearances were in the dark highlands 2 , what fears become , dead bait 3 and dark highways anthologies . his novels are revelations , and the angel hill stories , the man in the window , the third floor , the ghosts of mertland and the flip . he is writing another angel hill novel called return to angel hill with co - author david bain .
continuity errors , like when the boy from the first film said that the girl from the first film died from the fish that the main character cooked , despite the fact that we clearly saw her refuse to eat it .
tim heidecker and eric wareheim , who hosted the los angeles premiere , parodied the movie on their television series tim and eric awesome show , great job ! in the 2009 episode
crows
. [ 32 ] on february 25 , 2011 episode of the soup , scenes of birdemic , especially an elongated scene in which employees clap incessantly at the company ' s good financial news , was the
clip of the week
. the bob buel ridicule theatre podcast featured both birdemic and its sequel on its show , mocking the films extensively . a live show of the podcast how did this get made ? released on february 28 , 2012 and starring cast member whitney moore and guest star
weird al
yankovic ( who states that he is a fan of the film ) is dedicated to discussing birdemic . [ 7 ]
on a 2009
best of
list , bloody disgusting listed birdemic amongst its honorable mentions , calling it
the best worst film you ' ll see in 2010
. [ 24 ] the huffington post referred to the film as
truly , one of the worst films ever made .
[ 2 ] variety reported that
' birdemic ' displays all the revered hallmarks of hilariously bad filmmaking : inane dialogue . . . miscued music , godawful sound . . . and special effects that simply must be seen to be believed : birds dive - bombing and exploding in red - and - yellow poofs of smoke , and clip - art eagles , crudely pasted on the screen , with only their wing tips mechanically flapping .
[ 25 ] the village voice described birdemic as
one more in the pantheon of beloved trash - terpieces .
[ 26 ] salon commented on the
atrocious cgi
and reported that the film had become
a cult hit among bad - movie fans .
[ 27 ]
on february 27 , 2010 , birdemic received its los angeles premiere at the silent movie theatre , [ 14 ] sponsored by bloody disgusting and hosted by tim heidecker and eric wareheim , [ 15 ] followed by a cast - and - crew attended screening at the alamo drafthouse in austin , texas on march 2 , [ 16 ] with follow - up screenings in tempe , arizona . [ 17 ] and new york city . [ 18 ]
a flock of eagles and vultures wreak havoc amidst blossoming romance in hollywood , california , leaving bloodshed and destruction wherever they hover . the story features original ' birdemic ' survivors r . . . more
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in his 2016 vice interview , nguyen said that he is hoping to eventually make birdemic 3 : sea eagle , which would be his last film . [ 39 ]
despite statham either knocking boots , kicking butt or carefully planning how to kick butt for most the film’s 98 minutes , mechanic : resurrection is nowhere near his best , or engaging work but that’s not his fault . the whole film feels much cheaper , less stylish and less engaging than the previous movie and , despite flourishes of creativity , much flatter . there are moments that do lift the film above the average to adequate , but that’s about as good as it gets , and that’s not good enough .
nguyen was inspired to write the script for birdemic : shock and terror while spending time relaxing in half moon bay , california , [ 5 ] and much of the filming took place in the area surrounding the community . birdemic began production in 2006 and took four years to produce , [ 6 ] partly due to time limitations—filming was done mostly on weekends over the course of seven months [ 7 ] —and also due to financial restraints , as it was financed through nguyen ' s day job , plus the time it took for nguyen to find a distributor .
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like the first movie , the birds barely even appear in the movie . the first half of the movie consists of boring segments such as bill walking around in hollywood blvd . at the film ' s opening intro .
i am very excited about the philadelphia premier and i think it’s my first time in philadelphia . whenever i hear philadelphia , i always think of david lynch , because that is where he came from . i am excited to meet the birdemic fans in philadelphia .
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the heart of a good movie - - whether it ' s a $ 10 , 000 birdemic or $ 100 million hollywood - style - - it ' s good casting . you got to have good casting . so i spent a lot of time casting and one of the reasons birdemic became a hit movie is because of good casting . and despite all the imperfections , good casting , good story - - a very seriously - felt story about man and his machines and all the harm it ' s doing planet earth . the movie became a hit , you know ?
“ as a rabid fan of the original and after hearing james’ pitch for the sequel , i knew this was a film that had to be made , ” gross said . “ at the very least , i needed to see it . i felt the world of cinema would be incomplete without the continuation of the birdemic saga . ” he also stated , “ we produced it entirely independently to ensure james had complete creative control through the final cut . fans of the original should be thrilled to see where he took the story . to call the picture ‘unique’ is an understatement . ”
birdemic : shock and terror is 2009 horror / drama film regarding large groups of acid filled , explosive eagles and vultures that attack the residents of silicon valley . though universally panned by critics , the film gained a cult following , leading to more widespread distribution in 2010 .
at times mechanic : resurrection feels more like mediocre straight - to - dvd affair from the late ' 90s or early 2000s than something that belongs in a multiplex . the script is leaden , the villain is thin and clichéd , some of the performances are so off and lackluster that they feel like perhaps they are being forced to perform - jessica alba and tommy lee jones , what were you thinking ? in the press notes , one of the few quotes from jones is about him getting to wear “some pretty cool glasses and shirts . ” that gives you an idea where we’re at with this movie .
now , while all this definitely makes blair witch 2 a pretty weak addition to the series’ very small franchise , i would be doing a disservice if i denied that this film didn’t hold a lot of potential . the core concept of the film—a tour group obsessed with a film that may or may not have been real go out to visit the filming locations and end up killing each other on the belief that supernatural powers were involved—has the potential to be something good and keeping along with the spirit of the series . director joe berlinger had stated that his original vision of the film was a more ambiguous tale that would make the viewer question the reality of the events that occurred and it was the studio that decided they wanted a more horror film - esque approach and ending .
on april 8th , 2014 , cinema sins uploaded a video to their youtube channel [ 6 ] titled
everything wrong with birdemic : shock & terror .
while their series normally indicates a specific time frame the video will work within ( for example in five minutes or less ) this video is set it fill
an awful lot of minutes ,
indicating the film has many more issues than normal . birdemic had a final sin count of 203 , one of the highest in the series , excluding some instalments which feature ' bonus rounds ' , in which the score rises into the high millions . the video gained over 590 , 000 views in less than a week .
in january 2009 , nguyen traveled to the sundance film festival in park city , utah to promote the film freelance , handing out flyers to passers - by from his van , adorned with stuffed birds and paper signs that read
bidemic . com
( spelling birdemic wrong in his haste ) and
why did the eagles and vultures attacked [ sic ] ?
, and renting out a local theater to screen the film . [ 10 ] word of mouth eventually gave birdemic attention from horror movie websites dread central [ 11 ] and bloody disgusting , [ 12 ] while the trailer was featured on the july 30 episode of g4 ' s attack of the show . [ 13 ]
some of the cast from birdemic are coming back . you know , like alan bagh who plays rob in the original - - he ' s back . rick camp who plays the bird expert ? he ' s back - - he ' s in . and tree hugger ' s [ stephen gustavson ] back . the ceo - - he ' s in . the kid who plays tony [ colton osborne ] - - he ' s in the sequel . so some members of the original cast will be back in the sequel .
birdemic 2 picks up a few years after the events of the first movie . rod ( alan bagh ) and natalie ( whitney moore ) are still together , and they’re meeting a friend of rod’s , bill , for lunch . bill ( thomas favaloro ) is telling rod about his latest movie idea and how , after his first big budget hollywood picture flopped , it’s hard getting funding . rod promises bill a million dollars on two conditions : bill give parts to natalie and their adopted son tony . bill agrees , and they’ve got themselves a movie .
in this sequel to cult favorite ‘birdemic : shock and terror , ’ a flock of giant , prehistoric eagles and vultures wreak havoc amidst blossoming love in hollywood , california , leaving bloodshed and destruction wherever they hover . the story features original ‘birdemic’ survivors rod and nathalie , who are joined by new friends , as well as other angelenos in their battle with these deranged birds . fans can expect the same quality they’ve come to know from a james nguyen film , only a whole lot more of it .
uncle drew’s journey from the hardcourt to the silver screen has been an . . .
mechanic : resurrection isn’t unique but it is something of a rarity in that it is a sequel to a remake . while they do happen , they usually happen for a good reason but what the reason is here , i’m not quite sure . certainly , the mechanic redux that jason statham headlined in 2011 was an enjoyable enough action romp but it didn’t exactly have audiences crying out for more - they could get more of the same from most of his movies anyway . regardless , here we are in 2016 with the return of arthur bishop whether you wanted it or not .
i will easily admit that i have sat through tommy wiseau’s the room on several occasions , enjoying it with someone new to the eminently quotable lines , bizarre script , and questionable casting . the room , like many films of its caliber , is crap , but it’s fun crap . however , this is not the case with james nguyen’s birdemic : shock and terror , a film that possesses all the hallmarks of shoddy plotting and production but without any redeeming value . where wiseau ( mostly ) understood the technical aspect of filmmaking , nguyen’s film lets the intricacies of editing , sound , and picture slip through its fingers – which isn’t excusable in any case , even on the film’s tiny budget . combined with the wretched pacing , birdemic’s 80 - minute runtime is excruciating , as anyone who has endured it can tell you .
update 10 / 14 : we want to make sure that the room is packed for this so we ' re going to be offering a 2 - for - 1 special , buy one ticket and bring a friend for free ! damien ' s performance is going to be filmed so we want lots of people in attendance .
i’m not sure if i’m recommending birdemic 2 or not . i’m definitely going to tell my daughter to watch it , but she won’t , and that’s unfortunate because she’d really get a kick out of all the callbacks to the first movie . but for the casual viewer , if you haven’t seen the first one , don’t see the sequel . if you saw the first one and were disgusted by how bad it was , the sequel is no better so you should probably avoid it as well . however if , like me , you know the first one was crap but still had a great time watching it , then by all means try to find a way to watch the sequel . i can’t say i’d recommend buying the thing , but if that’s the only option , at least try not to spend too much . but however you see it , if you liked the first movie for all its stupid , quirky charm , you’re bound to have a great time suffering through this one as well . i know i did .
inconsistent walking speeds , celebratory high fives , sound cuts , and haphazard money transactions - it ' s all par for the course for a james nguyen joint . birdemic shock and terror certainly earned the
so bad it ' s good
label , but does simply copying the formula extend the good will to a sequel . it shouldn ' t , but it does . . . kinda .
sharknado fans rejoiced this week at the news that the syfy channel is pressing ahead with a fifth instalment in the trashy disaster franchise .
before she takes over as the queen in netflix’s the crown , olivia colman . . .
very bad acting as it starts with the
hi ! ' from the last movie .
most of the characters forget their lines halfway through . for example , when the the doctor from the first movie talks about ancient birds he says that they
attacked cavemen
.
nguyen ' s partial self - awareness of his new movie ' s camp value - - encompassing brief incorporation of zombies - - only makes it an effortful , half - understood in - joke rather than the guiltily pleasurable unintentional joke that was birdemic : shock and terror .
so , bill is played by lyle drucker . if you liked the original birdemic with whitney moore - - whitney moore is really talented [ and ] plays nathalie in the original one - - you ' re going to like lyle drucker because he ' s kind of like whitney moore . the guy [ has ] good talent and the right attitude , and i know he ' s going to do great .
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there aren’t enough negative words in the dictionary to fully describe the awfulness on display here but still i wonder whether this is all intentional or not ? if it’s intentional then it’s just a really , really bad spoof of the original “birdemic” , but if it isn’t and nguyen thought he was really making something watchable ( as he did with the original film ) then he shoots to the top of the f . b . i . ’s “most wanted” list . he is truly a menace to civilization if that’s the case and must be stopped at all costs .
but nguyen’s partial self - awareness of his new movie’s camp value — encompassing brief incorporation of zombies — only makes it an effortful , half - understood in - joke rather than the guiltily pleasurable unintentional joke that was “birdemic : shock and terror . ” the sequel also falls pathetically flat in finding any kind of narrative ending .
despicable me 2 is the sequel to illumination ' s first animated movie which came out in 2010 . in this one , gru is hired by an organization who wants to capture a criminal who ' s trying to take over the world because they believe gru can dentify whether or not he or she is a villain . that ' s all i ' m gonna say . i came into despicable me 2 with no expectations . i just didn ' t know what to expect . i really liked the first movie , but it wasn ' t a movie that needed a sequel . still , i ' m glad we got it . this movie feels exactly like the first one , but not in a bad way . it has the same feel , same humor , same style of animation and a pretty similar story . but it ' s all good fun . it ' s an entertaining ride with funny characters and some good jokes . just like the first movie , despicable me 2 also has heart . so not only are the characters funny , but they ' re also sympathetic . there ' s not much i can say about this film . overall , it was really good . if you ' re a fan of the first one , you ' ll love this one too most likely .
unlike the first film , where it ended with everyone being happy , this one just ends with the birds killing one of the guys and leaving , even though the others are still alive .
anyway i agree but i think the room is popular for reasons that don ' t have to do with tommys cult of personality either . the room is like running on raw but complex ambition and nothing else . there are no other ingredients , besides that tommy was like only superficially aware of all the complicated intricacies that go into making prolific dramas like a streetcar named desire . with movies like troll 2 and birdemic you feel like their greatest aspiration in life was trying to make a better version of gremlins or avatar but tommy was somehow aware of how truly good tennessee williams plays were and wanted to top that . it ' s just the most obvious example of a gulf between artistic appreciation and artistic creation i have ever seen .


caitlin plays herself is a 2011 american drama film directed and produced by joe swanberg , written by caitlin stainken and swanberg , and starring stainken and swanberg .

swanberg and stainken , a performance artist with the neo-futurists , play fictionalized versions of themselves .

caitlin plays herself

it is possible that one of swanberg ' s movies is not a complete waste of time , but caitlin plays herself , written in collaboration with its starlet , caitlin stainkin , is not the one .
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caitlin plays herself premiered at the new horizons film festival in wrocław , poland , on july 18 , 2011 . its north american premiere was in brooklyn , new york , on december 2 , 2011 .
caitlin plays herself joe swanberg rounds out a busy year with his third feature release , the story of a chicago performance artist whose stage nudity upsets her boyfriend . with caitlin stainken ( whose life inspired the film ) , frank v . ross and spencer parsons .
composed largely of fixed , lengthy medium shots and long shots , caitlin plays herself is chopped up into discrete , self - enclosed tableaux , kind of like an american vivre sa vie without the passion , drama or gorgeous imagery .
mrs . potts says it herself : the tale is as old as time .
the five plays to be presented at the glt theatre at 176 morris st . include :
opens with a shot of caitlin ( caitlin stainken , who does indeed play herself ) baring her breasts . however , voyeurs will soon be frustrated , as she’s covered in dark liquid in the very next shot ( echoing brian de palma’s
, his flightiness makes him emotionally – and often physically – unavailable for caitlin .
caitlin stars as gifted technology officer ada hamilton in the upcoming police drama apb .
reason : jesse cheated on ellie with caitlin ryan , ellie ' s mentor .
panabaker and robbins got engaged in june 2016 during a trip to greece . the actress plays caitlin snow on the flash , which will return for a fourth season oct . 10 on the cw .
caitlin stainken , joe swanberg , frank v . ross , megan mercier , tim reid
visit caitlin moe ' s on myspace or at her website , caitlinmoe . com .
december dec . 2 answers to nothing the abduction of a child provides the background for six interweaving stories set in los angeles . with elizabeth mitchell , dane cook , julie benz and barbara hershey ; matthew leutwyler wrote and directed . caitlin plays herself joe swanberg rounds out a busy year with his third feature release , the story of a
according to ellie in jessie ' s girl , caitlin was on his freebie five list .
police were called to her room after ms putney had contacted loved ones and said she was planning to kill herself .
a mobile phone next to her bed also revealed a string of texts between herself and mr mueller discussing their failing marriage .
in the opening scene of the diy meta - production “caitlin plays herself , ” the performance artist caitlin stainken defends quick - turnaround techniques and her unfiltered aesthetic as “an attempt to make new work about something that is happening right now . ” she’s less interested in the final product , she explains , than in the exploratory process , which you can see in the way she slowly massages her breasts with a washcloth : “not everything i make is going to be good , you know ? ”
6 . 24 . 17 happiest day of my life ,
she captioned a picture of herself and robbins sharing a kiss .
they say she looks like britney but plays like beethoven . electric violinist , vocalist , and songwriter ( that ' s a lot of titles , guys ) caitlin moe is conquering the music scene , one bariolage and see - through tank at a time .
so well known . people will recognize it , but i also want to be able to bring my own take , ” said caitlin gillooly ’17 , who plays mrs . potts and is a student director . “ [ mrs . potts ] is so recognizable that you
levinson’s film is framed around a series of interviews madoff conducted from prison with the new york times reporter diana b . henriques . she plays herself ( and , in a debut performance , acquits herself quite nicely considering she’s acting alongside de niro ) as gently needling madoff , trying to learn both why he was motivated to lie about his ill - gotten gains , and why he thought his family would somehow be protected from scrutiny in the aftermath of his arrest .
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[ photo from pmc ] moe herself is one to watch . . . and listen to , and follow on twitter . this unfailingly energetic and sure - fingered ( orchestra fanboys across the country just giggled to themselves ) 22 - year - old has been hurling herself into music from a young age .
runtime 69 min rating nr year 2011 director joe swanberg screenwriter joe swanberg , caitlin stainken cast caitlin stainken , joe swanberg , frank v . ross , megan mercier , kurt chiang , tim reid , spencer parsons , adam wingard , dean peterson
though , caitlin isn’t going to be quick to let her team in on her secret . why does she keep it to herself ? “i think she doesn’t understand it , ” panabaker said . “i think that conversation would be a little bit difficult , like , ‘hey guys , i don’t have any answers , but here you go , ’ especially for caitlin as a scientist and someone who is focused on always having the answers . she wants to get this figured out for herself before she comes to the team with her request for them , etc . ”
earlier that night , caitlin made an appearance on stage for a panel discussion alongside her apb tv series co - stars .
in turned ( book # 1 of the vampire journals series ) , 18 year old caitlin paine finds herself uprooted from her nice suburb and forced to attend a dangerous new york city high school when her mom moves again . the one ray of light in her new surroundings is jonah , a new classmate who takes an instant liking to her . but before their romance can blossom , caitlin suddenly finds h
american - born animal welfare expert nicole putney , 32 , hanged herself in the novotel in worsley , greater manchester , while visiting the city for a conference .
an internationally acclaimed vet killed herself in a hotel room after leaving a note for a woman she believed was having an affair with her scientist husband , an inquest heard .
production : a swanberry production . produced by joe swanberg . directed , edited by joe swanberg . screenplay , caitlin stainken , swanberg .
caitlin , a socially - conscious performance artist , encounters difficulties when her boyfriend , joe , objects to the nudity in her art .
in degrassi goes hollywood , when ellie was staying with craig in los angeles , she apparently told him about jesse and caitlin ' s affair as craig said ,
i can ' t believe your ex slept with caitlin .
he and ellie both found it disgusting .
ronnie scheib of variety called it
an american vivre sa vie without the passion , drama or gorgeous imagery
. paul brunick of the new york times wrote that swanberg ' s biggest talent is his ability to get actresses to strip naked . nick pinkerton of the village voice wrote ,
it is possible that one of swanberg’s movies is not a complete waste of time , but caitlin plays herself , written in collaboration with its starlet , caitlin stainkin , is not the one .
jaime n . christley of slant magazine rated it 3 / 4 stars and compared it to tsai ming - liang ' s what time is it there ? .
i think it can be summed up as semi - interesting failure and caitlin should feel encouraged to to on and do far more interesting things .
at the reception , ellie drank three glasses of wine and became drunk . during the interview , she mentioned that caitlin had been raising controversy while traveling through canada , giving jesse a pointed look as she said it . she then asked caitlin if the responsible consumption that she encouraged in the film applied to alcohol consumption . both caitlin and the audience were confused by the question since it had nothing to do with climate change . as caitlin tried to cover , ellie bluntly asked ,
why did you hook up with jesse ? why ?
she then asked him ,
and how was it , jesse ? was it worth it ?
before waiting for an answer , she called caitlin a slut and stormed out .
that year , in addition to his two films , we worked together on [ bernard & eric shumanski’s ] blackmail boys [ 2010 ] ( he was dp and i acted in the film ) , art history , autoerotic and caitlin plays herself . it was a very fruitful collaboration that produced a great deal of work in a short time . since then , i’ve acted in you’re next and he was my dp on marriage material [ 2012 ] . i also cast him as an actor in a film i shot in october called 24 exposures . .
lindsay price , the preliminary adjudicator for this year’s wodl festival , announced her choice sunday for the five plays to be presented at guelph little theatre at 8 p . m . each weekday evening during march break .
caitlin ' s new gig comes amid controversy relating to her recent social media post , in which she is seen posing naked while spooning a dog .
shame michael fassbender plays a manhattan office worker who finds relief in casual sex ; his life gets complicated when his troubled younger sister ( carey mulligan ) moves in with him . directed by steve mcqueen ( “hunger” ) .
“while standing alone as the sole multi - media work and performance in the show , sierra diamond ’s contribution plays out the contemporary trope of watching while being watched , while knowing you are being watched . like the digital hiccup of the boomerang filter , sierra’s work stages a pause in the art viewers’ viewing . while watching her video , i got caught in the reflection of her glasses , her watching herself , watching herself , in infinite regress . this meditative , endurance driven performance challenges the manner in which we visually engage with watching video or being ‘videotaped . ' ” . . lauren mackler , guest juror
wearing a different ensemble to her red carpet look , caitlin donned an off - the - shoulder green dress with long sleeves and a graphic floral print .
if you’ve been wanting and waiting for more caitlin snow , you are going to be happy with the upcoming episodes . according to panabaker , the next two episodes continue to focus on caitlin and her transformation to killer frost , “she’s going to have to figure out different ways to cope with these changes . ”
' she made another suicide attempt in january 2015 , she tried hanging herself and collapsed . despite those events , we decided to follow through with our planned marriage which was on january 9 2015 ' .
with : with : caitlin stainken , joe swanberg , frank v . ross , spencer parsons , megan mercier , kurt chiang , tim reid , adam wingard .
“caitlin” marks swanberg’s sixth feature this year ( with “uncle kent” and “autoerotic” joining the aforementioned three ) . apparently the filmmaker’s answer to creative doldrums is increased productivity .
with : with : caitlin stainken , joe swanberg , frank v . ross , spencer parsons , megan mercier , kurt chiang , tim reid , adam wingard .
caitlin , a young chicago artist , sends her relationship into a tailspin when her boyfriend can’t get over the fact that she was naked during one of her performances .
but caitlin stasey took things down a knotch on thursday as she cut a decidedly demure figure on the red carpet at the television critics association press tour in california .
taking the plunge ! caitlin stasey stuns in off - the - shoulder top as she promotes new fox drama series apb . . . after posing naked while spooning her dog
the five plays to be staged during the annual western ontario drama league theatre festival , being held this year in guelph from march 13 - 17 , have been named . and in honour of canada’s 150th anniversary year , all of them are by canadian playwrights .
) during a performance piece about the bp oil spill . caitlin’s in an on - again , off - again relationship with a filmmaker ( swanberg ) who frequently travels out of town . she dates other men , but she can’t pull herself together to make a definitive break with swanberg , who takes offense at her onstage nudity . the film exposes both female bodies and , more daringly and threateningly , male egos .
although we can glimpse caitlin ' s vulnerability and doubt from scene to scene , she might be the most well - armed and well - fortified protagonist joe swanberg ' s ever given us .
a book to rival twilight and vampire diaries , and one that will have you wanting to keep reading until the very last page ! if you are into adventure , love and vampires this book is the one for you !
twilight ? no . vampire diaries ? the books ? hell no . the tv series ? absolutely not . speshul 18 year old caitlin only wants to be an anonymity at her high school . speshul caitlin is too “weird” for people . too boring . too plain . nothing speshul about speshul caitlin . “… she felt alone . not because she was
“curiously , while given the highest prize , caitlin’s work is the one that eludes me the most and therefore leaves me the most uncomfortable to summarize . but that is perhaps why , when something works , the words run a short and fail to convey in syntax what the materials , their arrangement and display , have successful jolted into experience . experiential , emotional and yet cerebral , caitlin’s work is contradictory : large in scale , sensory and poetically open ended . caitlin’s sculpture invites lingering thought long after its viewing , along with powerful , tangible discomfort . ” . . lauren mackler , guest juror
* * * * * * * * * spoilers * * * * * * * * * * um , can you repeat that sentence ? and seriously ? the vampire journals ? she couldn ' t come up with a more original name for her series ? the journal caitlin has barely plays a part . it ' s just there , it ' s in no way an integral part of the story . i actually forgot all about it until l sat down to write this review and saw the title of the series . the book flew by so fast i barely remember what happened . in 196 pages , the main character , caitlin , starts out at a new school in
yet caitlin’s urge toward experimentation appears to hold sway , mirrored by the film’s lack of segues or continuity between scenes , which feel arbitrarily sectioned off as self - contained setpieces ; it’s impossible to know from the desultory dialogue how much time elapses between segments . in her on - again , off - again relationship with swanberg , caitlin manages to intensify mumblecore’s patented social awkwardness into something resembling open - ended theater .
in this new timeline , cisco is dealing with his brother’s death , which has influenced how valdes plays the role , “i have found it interesting to balance the comic expectations of this character while at the same time grounding him out in the realistic grief that he’s undergoing at this moment , ” he said .
caitlin , a young chicago performance artist , struggles to create work that is both personal and political . a piece she performs about the bp oil spill sends her relationship into a tailspin because her onstage nudity bothers her boyfriend .
and how does miss moe feel about that pop tart comparison ? does she want to spin her image away from the fans who post
i want to date you , caitlin !
and hail her adorableness ? nah .
masters of sex fans received sad news on wednesday when it was announced that the show would not be getting a fifth season . the series , starring lizzy caplan as virginia johnson and michael sheen as william masters , two cutting - edge sex researchers whose work helped kick off the sexual revolution , aired its final episode a few weeks ago . caitlin fitzgerald , who plays william’s wife , libby , on the show , was not surprised when she got the call from masters of sex creator michelle ashford and producer sarah timberman , delivering the news of the cancellation .
pariah an african - american teenager ( adepero oduye ) is determined to make a life for herself as a lesbian in fort greene , brooklyn . dee rees wrote and directed this feature , an expansion of her 2007 prize - winning short film . with pernell walker , aasha davis and charles parnell .
description : caitlin , a young chicago performance artist , struggles to create work that is both personal and political . a piece she performs about the bp oil spill sends her relationship into a tailspin because her onstage nudity bothers her boyfriend .
the five shows chosen by price , who is a canadian playwright herself , will be adjudicated for a second time by festival adjudicator beatrix quarrie . the winner will represent the western ontario district at the annual theatre ontario festival to be held in ottawa during the victoria day weekend , a news release said .
“this is the first time they’ve done anything like this ; usually they have bought things like this in the past , but we are making them now , so this is really new and we could end up using this a lot for future musicals and plays at the high school . i’m sort of the trailblazer for this , ” said kinney .
when the military rolled into camp firewood , elizabeth bank ' s lindsay was able to convince reagan to stop by revealing herself to be a journalist and threatening to expose this government conspiracy theory in rock & roll world magazine . reagan backed down without much of a fight and camp firewood was saved — for now .
turned has set the stage , the chaos and leaves us with tons of questions to be answered in additional books to the series . morgan rice has added some pretty interesting twists that feel like landmines waiting to explode . caitlin is a normal teen , until her eighteenth birthday when her life becomes a story out of the things nightmares are made of . she suddenly craves blood , has gained supernatural strength , speed and she is both exhilarated and terrified . caitlin went from a teen in a dysfunctiona
morgan created a nice spin for the vamp genre . not familiar with with this author , i took a shot on the ebook version through my ipod / ibook account . found it to be nice paced , action packed and intriguing enough to buy the second book ! if you ' re looking for a new series - definitely check this out . here ' s the gr ' s synopsis if you haven ' t read it :
eighteen year old caitlin paine finds herself uprooted from her nice suburb and forced to attend a dangerous new york city high school when her mom mov
wow ! wow ! wow ! turned by morgan rice was fabulous ! couldn ' t put this down . even though it was a shorter novel , it was filled to the brim with excitement and suspense . caitlin is not your normal teenager . when she moves to a new york city with her mom and brother sam , she doesn ' t know what to expect . one day after school , she notices a fellow classmate being bullied in an alley . when she tries to help , and discovers herself in danger , an overwhelming hunger , urge and strength comes over her . the
tickets for any of the festival’s five plays can be purchased at the river run centre box office – in person , by phone at 519 - 763 - 3000 or online . single tickets are $ 24 each , the release said . a five - play package costs $ 110 , and tickets to the awards gala banquet on saturday march 18 can be bought for $ 55 .
hannah scholl ’17 ( wardrobe ) , emma downie ’18 ( babette ) , caitlin gillooly ’17 ( mrs . potts ) , jack grossi ’18 ( lumiere ) , and will fulginiti ( cogsworth ) gather as the play’s leading objects . note that these are not their final costumes .
turned is free on kindle ( you ' re welcome ) and for good reason . if i bought the first book in rather unimaginatively named the vampire journals series , i would be kicking myself . caitlin , the boring 18 year old heroine , starts her first day at a tough inner - city new york high school . as the new girl and one of the white kids , she finds it difficult to fit in . she befriends a latino kid , whose name escapes me , and saves him from being beat up by school bullies , who destroy his viola . caitlin ends
it ' s in this spirit that we give a nod today to the lifetime douchechievements of mrs . caitlin flanagan : author , columnist , wife , mother , professional scold , and 24 - karat - gold douchebag . flanagan has been honing her tirelessly contrarian standpoints on motherhood , work , abortion , teen girls , sexuality , adultery , and education in the pages of such august publications as the new yorker and the atlantic monthly for almost a decade , and in that time has churned out dozens of stupendously specious , haughty , and intellectually dishonest ( and sometimes plagiarized ! ) reviews and opinion pieces that offer little more than a window on the author ' s self - focused worldview . herewith , some of her defining plays .
thermoplastic provided the answer to one of the questions about how to dress students as objects . visual artist ellie kinney ’18 , who has taught herself how to use the unusual medium , describes it as similar to construction paper that can be shaped and cut and then secured with heat gun . kinney’s thermoplastic pieces serve as supplements costumes , such as feather duster babette’s handle or lumiere’s candelabra .
wow ! wow ! wow ! turned by morgan rice was fabulous ! couldn ' t put this down . even though it was a shorter novel , it was filled to the brim with excitement and suspense . caitlin is not your normal teenager . when she moves to a new york city with her mom and brother sam , she doesn ' t know what to expect . one day after school , she notices a fellow classmate being bullied in an alley . when she tries to help , and discovers herself in danger , an overwhelming hunger , urge and strength comes over her . the unfortunate thing is , she doesn ' t remember a thing . when it happens again , it turns fatal and she finds herself in the middle of a vampire war . with the help of a fellow vampire caleb , she escapes , but not for long . she may just be
the one
they are looking for . i ' ll be starting the next book in this series , like now ! thanks ms . rice , you ' ve made a fan out of me ! ! ! highly recommended .
ever since flashpoint , team flash hasn’t been the same that we knew and loved last season . the flash season 3 has seen caitlin dealing with her earth - 2 doppelganger’s icy powers , another new harrison wells , a grieving cisco and a reckless wally . that’s a whole lot of change , not to mention barry’s regrets .
collider visited the flash set in vancouver earlier this month with a group of journalists to talk to danielle panabaker ( caitlin snow ) , carlos valdes ( cisco ramon ) , tom cavanagh ( dr . harrison wells / hr ) , and keiynan lonsdale ( wally west ) about what’s coming up for their characters and team flash :
the latest in joe swanberg ' s self - reflective series about artistic indecision ( after
art history ,
silver bullets
and
the zone
) focuses on real - life performance artist caitlin stainken ( who also co - wrote ) and her intermittent relationship with an indie filmmaker played , unsurprisingly , by swanberg himself .
of course , a blow to this relationship can be dealt by changing the gender of the artist and her audience . and this is what stasey , in word and text , has done . but to suppose , as many have , that such a simple shift will disrupt the way in which a woman’s body is conventionally viewed by herself or others — and this is the process to which the phrase “male gaze” generally refers — is naïve .
and for some actors , that pressure to follow the “general characteristics” has become more personal . lead actress cypress smith ’17 plays belle . “i recognize that i’m a person of color playing a role that has pretty much always been white , ” she said . “everyone has been really good about keeping as much of myself in the role as possible . ” she added that one way of doing this is by wearing her hair in its naturally curly state , rather than straightening it or covering it with a wig .
in her house , ellie was having difficulty preparing her notes for the interview the next day as griffin was having a party . as the party became even noisier , ellie decided to do her work in the core . when she arrived at the office , she was shocked to find jesse and caitlin having sex . the next morning , jesse tried to apologize to her but she said that she wanted to break up . after he managed to manipulate her into continuing their relationship , she told him that she was going to quit the paper as she did not want people talking about them . as paige helped her to pick out an outfit for the interview , she confided in her that jesse and caitlin had hooked up . when paige commented that she did not know why either of them had dated jesse , ellie told her that she was still with jesse but had quit the core . paige thought that this was a very bad idea and that there were times when she had to choose her professional career over her love life as the interview with caitlin was a great opportunity for her .
luckily for the high school , though , the drama department has a robust team of volunteers who are up for the challenge . as costume designer cathy dubois put it , the team has been “sewing like maniacs . ” dubois herself has been researching and planning how the execute the challenging costumes since this summer . gillooly gushed about just how much effort and work dubois has poured into designing costumes . “the amount of thought that cathy has put into making these costumes is incredible . ”
so while philosophically flanagan believes that
when a mother works , something is lost ,
someone has to clean up the yucky fluids that princess can ' t soil her tiny hands with . what kind of person proudly calls herself a stay - at - home mother , demonizes professional working women , yet employs other women , with their own children , to do the work she considers beneath her ? i ' ll tell you : a dryer - fresh , lemon - scented douchebag .
once matthew arrives at the train station to collect her , we’re in more familiar territory . episode one covers the first 10 chapters of the book , more or less , with a few later incidents thrown in . the drive from the station is basically canonical , as anne chatters to matthew and marvels at the blossom - lined drive known as the avenue . when they arrive and she discovers she is not wanted after all , the world recedes again as she begins to disassociate . it’s hard not to be affected by mcnulty’s performance , especially later , when she sobs herself to sleep . the experience of trauma and its aftermath feels real , though it’s not exactly the stuff of montgomery’s romantic escapism . it’s one thing to read about anne crying herself to sleep , and quite another to witness her reliving the experience of being viciously beaten by mr . hammond . unlike montgomery , wallet - beckett wants to show life as it really is , not as we wish it could be .
tinker , tailor , soldier , spy gary oldman plays the master spy george smiley , a role made famous by alec guinness in the 1979 television adaptation of john le carré’s novel . with colin firth , tom hardy , john hurt and toby jones ; tomas alfredson ( “let the right one in” ) directed . w . e . directed by madonna , the time - shifting story of a contemporary new york woman ( abbie cornish ) fascinated by the romance of king edward viii ( james d’arcy ) and the american divorcée wallis simpson ( andrea riseborough ) .
at breakfast the next morning , ellie was drinking coffee and asked marco to lower his voice . he realized that she was hungover and reminded her that they had talked about her inability to handle alcohol . caitlin then entered and demanded an explanation for why she had humiliated her in public . ellie revealed that jesse was her boyfriend . caitlin had no idea and apologized , saying that she would have never slept with jesse if she had known . caitlin was astonished when ellie said that she had quit the core to save her relationship with jesse . she told ellie that she had the potential to become a great journalist and not to let a
freshman romance
stand in the way of her future . ellie followed her advise and returned to the core . jesse was surprised to see her there and said ,
well , i ' m just glad you ' re back , frosh , and i promise i will never cheat on you again .
ellie irritably responded ,
i ' m back at the core , not with you . . . and from now on , call me ' ellie . '
a shamefaced jesse sat down at his desk as ellie smirked slightly .
this week , australian actor caitlin stasey launched online art project urltoken to a gratitude whose intensity almost outshone its ambition . the webmistress had wished for nothing less than a blurring of the object and subject and many viewers experienced exactly this and a subsequent “ blown mind ” . “honest” images of barely attired women accompanying “candid” interviews , succeeded , it was largely agreed , to depict the “real” of womankind .
critique for the project has been almost common as appreciation , with sundry conservative commentators asking if the exposure of tits — even “diverse” ones — could be understood as anything more than the exposure of tits . unkind women , of the type whose opposition stasey had predicted in her interview with herself as those who “tear one another down” , thought of the online gallery as little more than an elaborately funded selfie - stick . just because you say you’re “subverting the male gaze” doesn’t mean you are not , in fact , just poncing around in the buff with a guarantee of approbation .
r . h . thompson is well cast as matthew , a laconic beacon of goodwill . geraldine james plays a harsh marilla who doesn’t begin to thaw until about 40 minutes in . clearly , oiling the hinges on what montgomery described as marilla’s “rusty sense of humour” is going to be part of the journey . more than once , i longed for colleen dewhurst’s wry smile and repressed laughter , which was such an essential component of the 1985 adaptation . watching anne and diana make their first forays into friendship is charming . when the little girls swear to be best friends , sunlight drenches the scene . it’s all overexposure and soft focus , like any happy memory in the making .
so far , i ' ve read up to book 6 on this series . i really like the series and as you read into the next books , the characters start to evolve more and you get more background on them . i do like the story line , and it moves at a pretty good pace . however , there are a lot of technical errors in these books . there was obviously no editor that worked on this book , and i have to assume that the author herself did not go back and do a lot of re - reading on her script . there are a lot of typo ' s and words
so what ' s next for the bowing beauty ? moe ' s ep dropped last spring , but her 2010 tour schedule - including a recently wrapped stint with the transsiberian ochestra - has been keeping her from heavy recording in her own studio on her next album . while she aims for a summer release , moe ' s steeping herself inspiration from thom yorke and the composer shostakovich ,
because he ' s a little bit more badass .
she ' s also been forging a partnership with dj mia moretti , who has expanded moe ' s musical tastes and , yes , served as a buffer against the pressure cooker of pro musicianship .
in jessie ' s girl , ellie had written an article about a tuition hike at toronto university which was to have been the lead story on the next issue of the core . however , jesse pulled it when he arranged for bill nye to give a talk about climate change . ellie was extremely annoyed by this but jesse convinced her to go along with it , though she was dissatisfied that she was relegated to writing the horoscopes . bill nye had to cancel and the paper was left without a lead story . although jesse suggested publishing ellie ' s story , she used her relationship with her mentor caitlin ryan to get the famous journalist to give a talk on her newly released environmental film storm of controversy . jesse was thrilled that he would get the chance to interview caitlin , though she informed him that she wanted ellie to conduct the q & a due to their history together . jesse was extremely annoyed by this so , to appease him , ellie gave him her ticket to the dean ' s ball that night .
we ' ve noticed that electric violins are increasingly popular on the new york party scene , and miss moe is a favorite . fresh from a gig at sxsw , caitlin talked to us from a snowboarding slope in vail . the peptastic musician gushed about playing at perez ' s sxsw swagg party , where
people went wild . there was fistpumping , tons .
she loved
courtney love . oh my god , she was unbelievable , courtney love !
and she says danish pop group alphabeat is one to watch .
while i cannot claim to have wasted my life reading all of caitlin ' s rants , i have read enough to realize that the high school girl which i knew 30 years ago hasn ' t changed at all . . still arrogant and clueless , yet inexplicably able to earn a paycheck by exploiting these wonderful character attributes . the only benefit i can see to her ridiculous essays is that they have enabled others who are actually intelligent and observant to populate blogs like this with wise commentary - 0 as well as completely justifiable derision and disgust !
! especially in its first half , it is full of scenes that seem hopelessly digressive , introducing minor characters who never reappear , or subject matter that sheds light on nothing . the film promises to address the contradictions and difficulties of making political theater in the obama era , but it turns out to have almost nothing to say about this . it’s far from devoid of subtext , such as caitlin’s desire to get back to nature ( which seems linked to her politics ) , but swanberg’s storytelling methods are so haphazard that little of it really resonates .
alex • alli • anya • ashley • blue • bruce • caitlin • chantay • clare • connor • craig • damian • danny • darcy • dave • declan • derek • ellie • emma • fiona • hatzilakos • hazel • holly j . • j . t . • jane • jay • jenna • jimmy • joey • johnny • k . c . • kelly • leia • liberty • manny • marco • mia • paige • peter • raditch • riley • sav • sean • snake • spike • spinner • terri • toby
turned is free on kindle ( you ' re welcome ) and for good reason . if i bought the first book in rather unimaginatively named the vampire journals series , i would be kicking myself . caitlin , the boring 18 year old heroine , starts her first day at a tough inner - city new york high school . as the new girl and one of the white kids , she finds it difficult to fit in . she befriends a latino kid , whose name escapes me , and saves him from being beat up by school bullies , who destroy his viola . caitlin ends up going on a killing spree as she ' s going through the vampire turning process . an evil new york vamp coven and the police are after her . the book is has instalove and it ' s hard to take the book seriously as a result . everything was so rushed and the story was really basic . i noticed a lot of spelling and grammar mistakes , but i assume the book was independently published ? i won ' t be reading the other eleven books in the series . it doesn ' t offer anything new to the vampire genre .
de niro plays madoff as almost willfully ignorant . as henriques presses him on the pain of his wife ruth ( michelle pfeiffer ) and sons mark ( alessandro nivola ) and andrew ( nathan darrow ) , he assures her they’ll be fine . as she tries to get to the bottom of his motivations , he smirks and says , “i do enjoy sparring with you , diana . ” they aren’t sparring , she reminds him—henriques is just trying to understand how someone’s conscience might have survived so many years of lying and such brazen theft of other people’s savings . madoff’s defense amounts to a passing of the buck ; he insists that he always told people not to put all of their savings with him , because “who knows” what might happen to the market . that implicit warning was enough , to him , even if it wasn’t to anyone else .
the best part of this book is the cover . first off , the series is called the
vampire journals
because of the two scenes where the main character carries a journal with her ? i fail to see the significance , other than the hope that it will be confused with the
vampire diaries
series . the story itself just doesn ' t track . for instance , caitlin and her brother sam have this horrible mother and no father , so they ' re supposed to be incredibly close :
he was the only constant in her life . . . he seemed
hmmp . . let see . . this is definitely an easy read novel . . i finished it in about 3 hrs . . it has some good points in it such as how the author choose to use simple words which is definitely a good one since i ' m having a hard time reading other novels and keep on glancing my dictionary and keep wondering if its meant to be literally or if its meant to be figurative . . but anyway , i hate to say that the negative ones , outnumbered the positive . so here are some of them : i hate how caitlin keeps o
review for : bloddeuedd i’ll be honest , when b . sent me this book and i saw the title , my thoughts were : “gawd , not another vampire diaries , twilight rip - off ! ” ‘cause there seems to be no end of those . it’s like the davinci code all over again ! while turned is in no way original or refreshing – at least to me ( let’s face it , there’s not much i haven’t seen and that includes lizard vampires ! ) – it was a nice read and i was glad b . sent it over . let me tell you why . caitlin’s mum has the moving bug ,
what a weird book . i got it for free , from the writers website . but i ' m not really sure what i think of it . it hasn ' t really started yet . i was just getting in to it , but it already ended . the idea of this book is good , and it could definitly go somewhere , but i feel like it ' s not been thought through . if that makes any sense . . i don ' t like the main character . caitlin falls in love with a complete stranger , she doesn ' t even know his name . and a few hours before she met this complete stranger she
contrary to what had been said by a police officer at the inquest in 2015 , in a high court hearing in 2017 a senior judge said that there was no evidence her widower was unfaithful or even that she feared he had been . the suicide note had been misread by detective inspector koran sellars , of greater manchester police , said the judge , sir brian leveson . the portion of the note which the detective believed to be addressed to another woman was actually written by ms putney to herself , he said . “i have no doubt whatsoever that the note does not bear the meaning that det insp sellars sought to give it… i repeat that there is nothing in the note or any of the other evidence to suggest that mr mueller has ever had an affair or was ever unfaithful to his wife , ” sir brian said in his ruling .
, except that neither swanberg nor stainken is as charismatic an actor as jean - pierre léaud , and the drama that ultimately emerges offers nothing as compelling as eustache’s devastating finale . perhaps judging this film by the standards of conventional screenwriting or french films from the ‘60s and ‘70s is misguided ; after all , swanberg has said that he’s more influenced by youtube clips than cinema from the past . at its best , his cinema suggests a hybrid between previous models and something genuinely new , specific to video and our fragmented technological communication . ( caitlin talks about reducing her anxiety by going off the grid . ) while not nearly as accomplished as the films it evokes ,
your article contains many insightful ideas , but i believe that comparing philosophical feminist or equality ideas with this project encourages the suggestion it lacks something it may never have been trying to achieve . it came across as though you were desperately trying to dial back your criticism of stacey ( although i will accept if this is not the case ) for failing in goals that she herself didn’t set . the project appears to be a direct attempt to counteract the societal ill of unhealthy media representation of women . along the line of setting up a soup kitchen to feed hungry people , directly engaging with the people who are without food . no one blames the soup kitchen for failing to dictate social policy or political debate . they are doing their bit , someone else needs to be in canberra advocating for the homeless , and trying to do both at the same time can often be counterproductive .
when the flash premiered on the cw in 2014 , it won glowing reviews from comic fans and newcomers alike . with charming performers like grant gustin , jesse l . martin , carlos valdes , and tom cavanagh at the core of the cast and ingenious special effects delivering a superheroic punch , the arrow spin - off quickly became the most watched show in the network’s history . but there was a hitch in * the flash’ * s sprint to tv greatness . through no fault of the actresses playing its female leads , characters iris west and caitlin snow have never quite matched the stride of the show itself when it’s humming on all cylinders . but the third - season premiere proves that the flash has finally figured out how to use one of its leading ladies .
anne is played by 15 - year - old amybeth mcnulty , who is a more convincing 13 - year - old than megan follows was at 17 . she’s as thin and waifish as described in the book ( in which anne is actually supposed to be only 11 ) , with big , expressive eyes . we first meet her on the train , looking out the window . when she’s startled from her reverie by a crying baby , the cheery fiddle soundtrack dissolves into dissonance and she slips into a dark memory of being slapped and screamed at by mrs . hammond in the unhappy household where she used to be a little drudge . before anne has even uttered a word , we learn she has ptsd . when she comes back to herself , she remarks to mrs . spencer , “i like imagining more than remembering . why are the worst memories the most insistent ? ” there’s more than a touch of bitterness in the question . evidently , this anne shirley has issues—and an edge .
that is , unless those women work for me . it ' s a rare kind of asshole who can lecture other women about the importance of housewifery in one breath and brag about being far too good for quotidian domestic chores in the next . caitlin flanagan is that asshole . she proudly noted in the 2003 atlantic essay
housewife confidential
that not only had she never changed a sheet , she was
far too educated and uppity to have knuckled down and learned anything about stain removal or knitting or stretching recipes .
singing the praises of her nanny , paloma , in her 2006 essay collection to hell with all that , she describes her method of dealing with a sick child .
' paloma , patrick is throwing up ! ' i would tell her , and she would literally run to his room , clean the sheets , change his pajamas , spread a clean towel on his pillow , feed him ice chips , sing to him . i would stand in the doorway , concerned , making funny faces at patrick to cheer him up .
what a weird book . i got it for free , from the writers website . but i ' m not really sure what i think of it . it hasn ' t really started yet . i was just getting in to it , but it already ended . the idea of this book is good , and it could definitly go somewhere , but i feel like it ' s not been thought through . if that makes any sense . . i don ' t like the main character . caitlin falls in love with a complete stranger , she doesn ' t even know his name . and a few hours before she met this complete stranger she was on a date with someone else , who she also liked . i mean , for the love of god choose or something . and the ending . . it ' s not an ending . this felt like half a book . where is the rest ? ( and not in a good way ) but all that said , i did like it . but i ' m also not in a hurry to read the next one .
aside from a couple of casual ( if awkward ) sexual encounters involving guys portrayed by mumblecore helmers frank v . ross and spencer parsons , the pic features few members of swanberg’s usual eccentric troupe . this leaves the thesping chores to swanberg , never the most charismatic screen personality , and stainken , whose very self - possession , even when mired in doubt , offers few points of entry ; the lack of assertive personalities further divorces the scenes from any sense of linear narrative .