This article contains Loki spoilers
The third episode of Loki season two is a wild trip back to the past as Mobius and Loki try to track down Ravonna Renslayer and Miss Minutes, who have been Mia since the season one finale. They find the pair trying to alter history at the Chicago World’s Fair in 1893, and are also led to a variant of He Who Remains, one who could potentially help them with their temporal loom problems back at the Tva.
A ton of detail has gone into recreating the World’s Fair, and Hwr variant Victor Timely (Jonathan Majors) puts on a spectacle for the crowd there, showing off an early version of the loom that doesn’t yet work as described. But before Loki and Mobius clap their eyes on Timely, they meander through the fair and take in some of the attractions, including a diorama...
The third episode of Loki season two is a wild trip back to the past as Mobius and Loki try to track down Ravonna Renslayer and Miss Minutes, who have been Mia since the season one finale. They find the pair trying to alter history at the Chicago World’s Fair in 1893, and are also led to a variant of He Who Remains, one who could potentially help them with their temporal loom problems back at the Tva.
A ton of detail has gone into recreating the World’s Fair, and Hwr variant Victor Timely (Jonathan Majors) puts on a spectacle for the crowd there, showing off an early version of the loom that doesn’t yet work as described. But before Loki and Mobius clap their eyes on Timely, they meander through the fair and take in some of the attractions, including a diorama...
- 10/20/2023
- by Kirsten Howard
- Den of Geek
This post contains spoilers for "Loki" season 2, episode 3.
The fate of the multiverse is at stake in the latest season of "Loki," as the Time Variance Authority's beating heart, the Temporal Loom, is currently at risk of being destabilized. A panicked Ob (Ke Huy Quan) explains that the Loom requires the temporal aura of its creator to return back to baseline — however, as He Who Remains (Jonathan Majors) has been dead for quite some time, all hopes are pinned on a rogue Miss Minutes (voiced by Tara Strong), who is secretly working with ex-Tva employee Ravonna Renslayer (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) since she dipped off the Tva's radar. As the duo journey back to the past, so do Loki (Tom Hiddleston) and Mobius (Owen Wilson), who are desperate to avert the catastrophe that might erase every timeline that exists.
The 1983 Chicago World Fair seems to be the destination that holds all the answers,...
The fate of the multiverse is at stake in the latest season of "Loki," as the Time Variance Authority's beating heart, the Temporal Loom, is currently at risk of being destabilized. A panicked Ob (Ke Huy Quan) explains that the Loom requires the temporal aura of its creator to return back to baseline — however, as He Who Remains (Jonathan Majors) has been dead for quite some time, all hopes are pinned on a rogue Miss Minutes (voiced by Tara Strong), who is secretly working with ex-Tva employee Ravonna Renslayer (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) since she dipped off the Tva's radar. As the duo journey back to the past, so do Loki (Tom Hiddleston) and Mobius (Owen Wilson), who are desperate to avert the catastrophe that might erase every timeline that exists.
The 1983 Chicago World Fair seems to be the destination that holds all the answers,...
- 10/20/2023
- by Debopriyaa Dutta
- Slash Film
There seems to be a governing principle that human history moves in cycles. If you need proof, just look around at the happenings of the past few years and see how comparable they are to highly similar events that occurred during the 20th century.
Or, if you want a smaller, more immediate example, check this out: "Air," a movie about the creation of Nike's popular "Air Jordan" line of footwear, is currently streaming on Amazon Prime, and it both stars and is directed by Ben Affleck. Affleck portrays Bruce Wayne/Batman in the upcoming DC Universe movie, "The Flash." Also starring in that movie is Michael Keaton, who portrays, well, another universe's Bruce Wayne/The Batman. Keaton was famously the first actor to play the role in multiple feature films: 1989's "Batman" and 1992's "Batman Returns."
What connects all of these disparate facts? Why, Bat-Boots, of course. In 1989, Nike...
Or, if you want a smaller, more immediate example, check this out: "Air," a movie about the creation of Nike's popular "Air Jordan" line of footwear, is currently streaming on Amazon Prime, and it both stars and is directed by Ben Affleck. Affleck portrays Bruce Wayne/Batman in the upcoming DC Universe movie, "The Flash." Also starring in that movie is Michael Keaton, who portrays, well, another universe's Bruce Wayne/The Batman. Keaton was famously the first actor to play the role in multiple feature films: 1989's "Batman" and 1992's "Batman Returns."
What connects all of these disparate facts? Why, Bat-Boots, of course. In 1989, Nike...
- 5/29/2023
- by Bill Bria
- Slash Film
Not every comic book or superhero movie warrants the call for awards in the same way that last year’s “Spider-Man: No Way Home” did. That felt like such a huge game-changer in terms of being a turnaround for a box office that was previously thought dead due to the effects of the pandemic.
“Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” starring Benedict Cumberbatch is well on its way to becoming the highest-grossing movie of 2022 after just a few weeks, having crossed 300 million domestically and 700 million globally. Much of that business may have come from the idea that it continues some of the “multiversal” ideas that played such a large part in “No Way Home.” But can it overcome the Oscars’ superhero stigma?
SEEBox office: 3rd week on top for ‘Doctor Strange,’ while ‘Downton Abbey’ crumbles
The film is actually more of a continuation of the Emmy-winning “WandaVision” limited series on Disney+.
“Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” starring Benedict Cumberbatch is well on its way to becoming the highest-grossing movie of 2022 after just a few weeks, having crossed 300 million domestically and 700 million globally. Much of that business may have come from the idea that it continues some of the “multiversal” ideas that played such a large part in “No Way Home.” But can it overcome the Oscars’ superhero stigma?
SEEBox office: 3rd week on top for ‘Doctor Strange,’ while ‘Downton Abbey’ crumbles
The film is actually more of a continuation of the Emmy-winning “WandaVision” limited series on Disney+.
- 5/31/2022
- by Edward Douglas
- Gold Derby
Making his first big-screen outing since 1988's "Stormy Monday", Sting plays a devious butler who wreaks havoc in an odd British household in the provocatively titled "Gentlemen Don't Eat Poets".
Produced by and co-starring Trudie Styler (Mrs. Sting), the darkly satirical yarn conjures up works ranging from Joseph Losey's "The Servant" to Pasolini's "Teorema" to Sting's "Brimstone and Treacle".
While the influences are all readily apparent, "Gentlemen", marking the feature debut of documentary filmmaker John-Paul Davidson, struggles throughout to find the right black-comic pitch and never really gets there.
The half-baked proceedings nevertheless remain watchable thanks to a couple of sharply amusing performances by seasoned pros Alan Bates and Anna Massey, but the LIVE Entertainment release will unlikely work up much of an appetite during its select-site run.
Set in a crumbling rural English estate circa 1949, the picture inhabits a world where all its characters bear quaintly bizarre names and exhibit similarly eccentric traits.
The lord of the dusty manor, Sir Hugo Coal (Bates), is an amateur paleontologist whose radical theories of evolution consume his daily routine at the expense of his neglected American wife, Harriet (Theresa Russell).
But that routine is about to be rudely interrupted with the arrival of the new butler, the diabolic but charismatic Fledge (Sting), and his quiet, alcoholic wife, Doris (Styler).
In short order, Fledge attends to Sir Hugo's wife's long-overlooked amorous needs and seduces Sidney Giblet (Steven Mackintosh), a sensitive poet and intended betrothed of Sir Hugo's daughter, Cleo (Lena Headey).
Soon after, Giblet goes missing, and an investigation is launched by his mother (Massey) and her friend Livinia Freebody (Maria Aitken).
Their findings aren't pretty. Giblet was murdered and his remains fed to Sir Hugo's pigs, who were subsequently slaughtered and served to the Coals and their dinner guests.
Cleo suspects Fledge, although Sir Hugo has never made secret his disdain for the late poet.
There's certainly a willing cast. Sting more or less sneers his way through his restrained performance, and Russell seems to be working out her accent as she goes along.
But Bates is terrific as the obsessed Sir Hugo, taking the self-consciously quirky dialogue and making it unmistakably his own. Hearing him spit out the word "poet" with utter disgust is a particular hoot. Likewise, Massey, as the unflappable, not-exactly-grieving mother of the deceased, has fun with the language, knowing how to mine humor out of the most innocent of adjectives.
The look of the film is also amusing, thanks to the imaginative work of Oscar-nominated production designer Jan Roelfs and Oscar-nominated costumer Colleen Atwood.
GENTLEMEN DON'T EAT POETS
LIVE Entertainment
Producer Trudie Styler
Director John-Paul Davidson
Screenwriter Patrick McGrath
Based on a novel by Patrick McGrath
Executive producer Stephen Evans
Director of photography Andrew Dunn
Production designer Jan Roelfs
Editor Tariq Anwar
Costume designers Colleen Atwood,
Graham Churchyard
Music Anne Dudley
Color/stereo
Cast:
Sir Hugo Coal Alan Bates
Lady Harriet Coal Theresa Russell
Fledge Sting
Cleo Coal Lena Headey
Sidney Giblet Steven Mackintosh
Mrs. Giblet Anna Massey
Doris Fledge Trudie Styler
Livinia Freebody Maria Aitken
Sir Edward Cleghorn Sir John Mills
Running time -- 98 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
Produced by and co-starring Trudie Styler (Mrs. Sting), the darkly satirical yarn conjures up works ranging from Joseph Losey's "The Servant" to Pasolini's "Teorema" to Sting's "Brimstone and Treacle".
While the influences are all readily apparent, "Gentlemen", marking the feature debut of documentary filmmaker John-Paul Davidson, struggles throughout to find the right black-comic pitch and never really gets there.
The half-baked proceedings nevertheless remain watchable thanks to a couple of sharply amusing performances by seasoned pros Alan Bates and Anna Massey, but the LIVE Entertainment release will unlikely work up much of an appetite during its select-site run.
Set in a crumbling rural English estate circa 1949, the picture inhabits a world where all its characters bear quaintly bizarre names and exhibit similarly eccentric traits.
The lord of the dusty manor, Sir Hugo Coal (Bates), is an amateur paleontologist whose radical theories of evolution consume his daily routine at the expense of his neglected American wife, Harriet (Theresa Russell).
But that routine is about to be rudely interrupted with the arrival of the new butler, the diabolic but charismatic Fledge (Sting), and his quiet, alcoholic wife, Doris (Styler).
In short order, Fledge attends to Sir Hugo's wife's long-overlooked amorous needs and seduces Sidney Giblet (Steven Mackintosh), a sensitive poet and intended betrothed of Sir Hugo's daughter, Cleo (Lena Headey).
Soon after, Giblet goes missing, and an investigation is launched by his mother (Massey) and her friend Livinia Freebody (Maria Aitken).
Their findings aren't pretty. Giblet was murdered and his remains fed to Sir Hugo's pigs, who were subsequently slaughtered and served to the Coals and their dinner guests.
Cleo suspects Fledge, although Sir Hugo has never made secret his disdain for the late poet.
There's certainly a willing cast. Sting more or less sneers his way through his restrained performance, and Russell seems to be working out her accent as she goes along.
But Bates is terrific as the obsessed Sir Hugo, taking the self-consciously quirky dialogue and making it unmistakably his own. Hearing him spit out the word "poet" with utter disgust is a particular hoot. Likewise, Massey, as the unflappable, not-exactly-grieving mother of the deceased, has fun with the language, knowing how to mine humor out of the most innocent of adjectives.
The look of the film is also amusing, thanks to the imaginative work of Oscar-nominated production designer Jan Roelfs and Oscar-nominated costumer Colleen Atwood.
GENTLEMEN DON'T EAT POETS
LIVE Entertainment
Producer Trudie Styler
Director John-Paul Davidson
Screenwriter Patrick McGrath
Based on a novel by Patrick McGrath
Executive producer Stephen Evans
Director of photography Andrew Dunn
Production designer Jan Roelfs
Editor Tariq Anwar
Costume designers Colleen Atwood,
Graham Churchyard
Music Anne Dudley
Color/stereo
Cast:
Sir Hugo Coal Alan Bates
Lady Harriet Coal Theresa Russell
Fledge Sting
Cleo Coal Lena Headey
Sidney Giblet Steven Mackintosh
Mrs. Giblet Anna Massey
Doris Fledge Trudie Styler
Livinia Freebody Maria Aitken
Sir Edward Cleghorn Sir John Mills
Running time -- 98 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
- 3/17/1997
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Making his first big-screen outing since 1988's "Stormy Monday", Sting plays a devious butler who wreaks havoc in an odd British household in the provocatively titled "Gentlemen Don't Eat Poets".
Produced by and co-starring Trudie Styler (Mrs. Sting), the darkly satirical yarn conjures up works ranging from Joseph Losey's "The Servant" to Pasolini's "Teorema" to Sting's previous "Brimstone and Treacle". While the influences are all readily apparent, "Gentlemen", marking the feature debut of documentary filmmaker John-Paul Davidson, struggles throughout to find the right black-comic pitch and never really gets there.
The half-baked proceedings nevertheless remain watchable thanks to a couple of sharply amusing performances by seasoned pros Alan Bates and Anna Massey, but the LIVE Entertainment release will unlikely work up much of an appetite during its select-site run.
Set in a crumbling rural English estate circa 1949, the picture inhabits a world where all its characters bear quaintly bizarre names and exhibit similarly eccentric traits. The lord of the dusty manor, Sir Hugo Coal (Bates), is an amateur paleontologist whose radical theories of evolution consume his daily routine at the expense of his neglected American wife, Harriet (Theresa Russell).
But that routine is about to be rudely interrupted with the arrival of the new butler, the diabolic but charismatic Fledge (Sting), and his quiet, alcoholic wife, Doris (Styler). In short order, Fledge attends to Sir Hugo's wife's long-overlooked amorous needs and seduces Sidney Giblet (Steven Mackintosh), a sensitive poet and intended betrothed of Sir Hugo's daughter, Cleo (Lena Headey).
Soon after, Giblet goes missing, and an investigation is launched by his mother (Massey) and her friend Livinia Freebody (Maria Aitken). Their findings aren't pretty. Giblet was murdered and his remains fed to Sir Hugo's pigs, who were subsequently slaughtered and served to the Coals and their dinner guests. Cleo suspects Fledge, although Sir Hugo has never made secret his disdain for the late poet.
There's certainly a willing cast. Sting more or less sneers his way through his restrained performance, and Russell seems to be working out her accent as she goes along. But Bates is terrific as the obsessed Sir Hugo, taking the self-consciously quirky dialogue and making it unmistakably his own. Hearing him spit out the word "poet" with utter disgust is a particular hoot. Likewise, Massey, as the unflappable, not-exactly-grieving mother of the deceased, has fun with the language, knowing how to mine humor out of the most innocent of adjectives.
The look of the film is also amusing, thanks to the imaginative work of Oscar-nominated production designer Jan Roelfs and Oscar-nominated costumer Colleen Atwood.
GENTLEMEN DON'T EAT POETS
LIVE Entertainment
Producer Trudie Styler
Director John-Paul Davidson
Screenwriter Patrick McGrath
Based on a novel by Patrick McGrath
Executive producer Stephen Evans
Director of photography Andrew Dunn
Production designer Jan Roelfs
Editor Tariq Anwar
Costume designers Colleen Atwood,
Graham Churchyard
Music Anne Dudley
Color/stereo
Cast:
Sir Hugo Coal Alan Bates
Lady Harriet Coal Theresa Russell
Fledge Sting
Cleo Coal Lena Headey
Sidney Giblet Steven Mackintosh
Mrs. Giblet Anna Massey
Doris Fledge Trudie Styler
Livinia Freebody Maria Aitken
Sir Edward Cleghorn Sir John Mills
Running time -- 98 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
Produced by and co-starring Trudie Styler (Mrs. Sting), the darkly satirical yarn conjures up works ranging from Joseph Losey's "The Servant" to Pasolini's "Teorema" to Sting's previous "Brimstone and Treacle". While the influences are all readily apparent, "Gentlemen", marking the feature debut of documentary filmmaker John-Paul Davidson, struggles throughout to find the right black-comic pitch and never really gets there.
The half-baked proceedings nevertheless remain watchable thanks to a couple of sharply amusing performances by seasoned pros Alan Bates and Anna Massey, but the LIVE Entertainment release will unlikely work up much of an appetite during its select-site run.
Set in a crumbling rural English estate circa 1949, the picture inhabits a world where all its characters bear quaintly bizarre names and exhibit similarly eccentric traits. The lord of the dusty manor, Sir Hugo Coal (Bates), is an amateur paleontologist whose radical theories of evolution consume his daily routine at the expense of his neglected American wife, Harriet (Theresa Russell).
But that routine is about to be rudely interrupted with the arrival of the new butler, the diabolic but charismatic Fledge (Sting), and his quiet, alcoholic wife, Doris (Styler). In short order, Fledge attends to Sir Hugo's wife's long-overlooked amorous needs and seduces Sidney Giblet (Steven Mackintosh), a sensitive poet and intended betrothed of Sir Hugo's daughter, Cleo (Lena Headey).
Soon after, Giblet goes missing, and an investigation is launched by his mother (Massey) and her friend Livinia Freebody (Maria Aitken). Their findings aren't pretty. Giblet was murdered and his remains fed to Sir Hugo's pigs, who were subsequently slaughtered and served to the Coals and their dinner guests. Cleo suspects Fledge, although Sir Hugo has never made secret his disdain for the late poet.
There's certainly a willing cast. Sting more or less sneers his way through his restrained performance, and Russell seems to be working out her accent as she goes along. But Bates is terrific as the obsessed Sir Hugo, taking the self-consciously quirky dialogue and making it unmistakably his own. Hearing him spit out the word "poet" with utter disgust is a particular hoot. Likewise, Massey, as the unflappable, not-exactly-grieving mother of the deceased, has fun with the language, knowing how to mine humor out of the most innocent of adjectives.
The look of the film is also amusing, thanks to the imaginative work of Oscar-nominated production designer Jan Roelfs and Oscar-nominated costumer Colleen Atwood.
GENTLEMEN DON'T EAT POETS
LIVE Entertainment
Producer Trudie Styler
Director John-Paul Davidson
Screenwriter Patrick McGrath
Based on a novel by Patrick McGrath
Executive producer Stephen Evans
Director of photography Andrew Dunn
Production designer Jan Roelfs
Editor Tariq Anwar
Costume designers Colleen Atwood,
Graham Churchyard
Music Anne Dudley
Color/stereo
Cast:
Sir Hugo Coal Alan Bates
Lady Harriet Coal Theresa Russell
Fledge Sting
Cleo Coal Lena Headey
Sidney Giblet Steven Mackintosh
Mrs. Giblet Anna Massey
Doris Fledge Trudie Styler
Livinia Freebody Maria Aitken
Sir Edward Cleghorn Sir John Mills
Running time -- 98 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
- 3/14/1997
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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