Octopus Overlords

Isgrimnur wrote: Sun Feb 23, 2020 8:50 pm Tuscaloosa

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Phillips's debut packs atmospheric wallop as it conveys the simmering heat and playing-with-fire tension of the summer of 1972 in Tuscaloosa, Ala. Narrator Billy Mitchell, 22, loafs contentedly between shifts as groundskeeper at a mental institution. He's preoccupied with an old family mystery: he vaguely recalls that his mother and her maid, who were secretly lovers, died in a fire as they were fleeing Tuscaloosa years before. Now that he's been to college, Billy imagines that he can fathom such life-altering past events, but he's about to be brought rudely to reality--by suspicions of his father's role in his mother's death, by the psychiatric patient who is his girlfriend and by the maid's son Nigel, a young black man. Much of the drama hinges on Billy's inability to recognize how condescending his attitude is toward "lunatics" and toward Nigel, whom he insensitively views as a romanticized "motif" in the story of his mother's death. Given the year and the locale, Billy's naivete about race and individuality is not quite credible, but his self-centeredness rings absolutely true. Phillips often presents plot elements in the same dreamy soft-focus as the protagonist's reveries, but his ability to sustain an engaging, witty narrative voice bodes well for this promising young writer.

Isgrimnur wrote: Sun Feb 16, 2020 11:06 pm The Hunt

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Daehawk wrote: Thu Mar 05, 2020 5:52 pm Greyhound

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Sony Pictures has released the action-laden first trailer for the war drama “Greyhound” with Tom Hanks’ commander promising to “bring hell from on high” on Nazi submarines.

“Greyhound” is set in the early days of World War II as an international convoy of 37 Allied ships, led by Hanks’ Capt. Ernest Krause, crosses the treacherous North Atlantic while being hotly pursued by wolf packs of Nazi submarines. The studio also announced that the film has shifted its release date back five weeks from May 8 to June 12, 2020.