🤣 ‘The Naked Gun’ = comedy gold

02.08.2025    Atlanta INtown Paper    2 views
🤣 ‘The Naked Gun’ = comedy gold

Back to the beginning Aug If ever you fail just change your name and pretend like nothing happened As disclosed earlier this year Warner Bros Discovery will officially split into two companies by one handling the studio side of things and the other the organization side The names of these companies you ask Well it seems like we re taking a page out of the good ol HBO Max Max HBO Max book The studio side will be called Warner Bros and the structure side will be Discovery Global It really is almost like that pesky merger never happened Cue Cher s If I Could Turn Back Time Without further ado Action Out on Film has revealed its first selections for the upcoming festival including Lesbian Space Princess and The Librarians The Atlanta Jewish Film Festival AJFF is launching a new learner film festival competition set to kick off on Aug High school students will work on films that center the theme Building Bridges and premiere those films on Nov I in the past few days spoke with playwright Jordan Cooper and True Colors Theatre Company Artistic Director Jamil Jude about True Colors upcoming production of Cooper s play Ain t No Mo ' which opens at present Check that out here For Atlanta Magazine Tess Malone wrote this ode to the indie theaters of Atlanta diving into the question of how they ve been able to survive in the age of streaming Sinners is playing in a special screening at SCADShow on Aug Tickets are free for SCAD Card holders This week s newsletter is hefty featuring interviews with two directors with movies coming out this weekend Reid Davenport for Life After and Ken Feinberg for Love Taxe We ve also got reviews for the new horror movie Together the new The Naked Gun movie and the Japanese thriller Cloud Plus what s at the movies this weekend and several reading and listening recommendations for your lunch break Thanks for reading Sammie Photo courtesy of Multitude Films Atlanta filmmaker to debut Feng Shui at Changing Minds Young Filmmakers Festival Talking with Reid Davenport and Colleen Cassingham of Life After In the s Elizabeth Bouvia became a prominent figure in the right-to-die movement when she went to court and demanded the state of California to allow her and only her to decide whether she would live or die Bouvia had cerebral palsy was in a lot of pain and desired the hospital to allow her to starve to death rather than keep her alive In Canada expanded its Diagnostic Assistance in Dying MAID plan to apply to not just people with terminal illnesses but also those with incurable conditions even if there is no death date in sight Life After a new film from filmmaker Reid Davenport uses both of these stories as roads into questions about the morality and ethics of the right-to-die movement and what it tells us about how society at large treats the disabled population I just now spoke with Davenport and his producer Colleen Cassingham about their experience making the film Check out that interview here Be part of the fun Perimeter CIDs launch Playfully Perimeter SPONSORED BY PERIMETER AREA IMPROVEMENT DISTRICTS When was your last carefree afternoon Playfully Perimeter is touching down here there and everywhere in Perimeter to brighten up your -to- routine This free event series will bring live music tasty treats art and creative games from local Perimeter businesses The party kicks off Aug on the Green at Perimeter Summit Expect frozen drinks oversized games and serious summer vibes See you soon at Play it Cool Learn more and RSVP currently Photo by Craig Tollis Georgia-made rom-com to play at Cobb International Film Festival Love Taxe a new film directed by Craig Tollis and Ken Feinberg is playing at the Cobb International Film Festival on Aug The film is set in the s following the tumultuous love story between a waitress Alexis Abrams and her accountant Jake Reiner with each scene taking place during their once-a-year meeting where he helps her with her taxes The script was written by TV writer and producer Lloyd J Schwartz the son of Gilligan s Island and The Brady Bunch creator Sherwood Schwartz Ken who also founded the Atlanta-based acting studio Creative Studios of Atlanta met Schwartz through mutual friends upwards of years ago According to Feinberg Schwartz offered him the script to Love Taxe around that time but it was only during the pandemic that he ascertained the time and money to be able to make something of it Check out my interview with Ken here Photo provided by NEON Together and the terror of codependencyWEEKLY FILM REVIEW When two people have been together for as long as Tim Dave Franco and Millie Alison Brie have their lives become intertwined to a degree where it s sometimes hard to recognize where one life ends and the other begins At one point toward the beginning of the new film Together Millie warns Tim that they should nip this relationship in the bud if he s not all in If we don t split now it ll only be harder later That line will come back in spectacular fashion Together Michael Shanks directorial debut starring Brie and Franco gives viewers a couple who after encountering a supernatural force in an underground cavern start to fuse together A slightly on-the-nose metaphor for codependency Sure But after a fairly stagnant first act Together starts to go fully gonzo in a way that plays well to both its lead actors comic sensibilities filled to the brim with great effects and set pieces The film s final message falls a bit flat unless you like me see it as perversely bleak but it s a fun ride to get there Read my full review here Photo courtesy of Sideshow and Janus Films Kiyoshi Kurosawa s Cloud explores the dark side of digital capitalism WEEKLY FILM REVIEW Right off the bat Cloud the new film from Japanese director Kiyoshi Kurosawa manages to do the impossible find cinematic expression in the act of staring at screens Yoshii Masaki Suda works a run-of-the-mill factory job but moonlights as a reseller buying up luxury goods at a discount price and selling them for a profit online As Yoshii s first big sale of the movie unfolds several sort of therapy machine the camera zeroes in on a computer screen as the products begin to sell out their icons rapidly blinking before going dark The camera slowly moves from the screen to Yoshii who is also staring at the screen blank-faced thoroughly engrossed In the world Kurosawa has built slightly exaggerated but so close to our own he exposes cracks and fissures that betray the fundamental dearth of empathy in our digital capitalist age Cloud is a parable a funny horrifying encapsulation of how we are slaves to an internet that makes us apathetic And if we re not careful that apathy will kill us one day Read my full review here Photo provided by Paramount Pictures The Naked Gun is the comedy of the summer WEEKLY FILM REVIEW During an early scene in The Naked Gun Frank Debrin Jr Liam Neeson is kneeling in front of a photo of his father Frank Debrin Sr Leslie Nielsen of the original film asking for guidance I want to be just like you he says But original And wholly different Neeson might as well be speaking for the movie itself or any of the plethora of remakes and reboots that have filled movie theaters this century Directed by Akiva Schaffer The Naked Gun clearly outlines the gold standard these remakes are aiming for but hardly ever reach capturing the spirit of the original but still standing on their own merit I m delighted to say The Naked Gun nails that balance It s the funniest big studio comedy release to come along in years playing in a similar sandbox to the Zucker Abrahams and Zucker films of yore but in a new context with new toys Read my full review here Photo provided by Universal Pictures DreamWorks Animation At the Movies If you re looking for a movie to see in theaters this week here s what you ve got to look forward to Movies releasing this weekend The Bad Guys pictured The Naked Gun Cloud The Tara Architecton The Tara Diciannove The Plaza Life After Aug The Tara Special Events CatVideoFest The Plaza Saturday-Sunday Montopolis Ghost Almanac The Plaza Sunday Throne of Blood in K The Tara Friday-Thursday Sunset Boulevard th Anniversary Select Theaters Sunday-Monday Photo by Lola Scott design by Aaron Strand Crash Zoom Venice Film Festival and indie distributor news Welcome to Crash Zoom a podcast where we take a deep dive into film and entertainment industry news Each week join my cohost Aaron Strand and me as we explore how things happening at the highest level trickle down and affect the independent artist We ll be releasing two short episodes each week one on Wednesday and one on Friday diving deep on two news stories This week s Wednesday episode covers this year s Venice Film Festival lineup This week s Friday episode covers A s move into the theater space and the pause in Metrograph Pictures theatrical schedule Check out both episodes here Lights Camera Action Director Ari Aster Eddington Hereditary joined the hosts of Blank Check last weekend to talk all things Miller s Traveling and the Coen Brothers Miller s Transiting is not my favorite of the Coens movies but it was lovely listening to a group a people who really love the film discuss it Take a listen here The Straight Story is real curio in David Lynch s filmography a Disney production and rated G two things you don t often associate with a Lynch film But in various options it holds various of the harshest truths about life For Vulture Matthew Schnipper wrote about his experience watching The Straight Story for the first time since he was a teenager and what he missed about what Lynch was trying to say back then Check it out here There is no one I repeat no one doing press quite like Rene Rapp And she proved that once again while prank calling her friends in this episode of Elle s Phoning It In Rapp may be taking a break from acting but her performances here prove those Oscars are hers if she wants them This day s Scene was edited by Julie E Bloemeke 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