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lumisentertainment · 4 months

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Batman Beyond: Year One - TEASER

Hey everyone, our first teaser trailer for BATMAN BEYOND: YEAR ONE is up! Check it out on Youtube or Vimeo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JHL_bDbXZA

We also launched an Indiegogo campaign, which I'll post more about tomorrow, but please check that out for any support if you can as well.

https://igg.me/at/batmanbeyondfilm

Would love for this trailer to reach as many Batman fans as we can around the world, so please help share this around - thank you!

#batman #batman beyond #dc #fan film #live action #batfam #comic books #dc comics #superhero films #bruce wayne #terry mcginnis #trailer #dcu #short film

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rrcraft-and-lore · 15 days

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Monkey Man and why I loved the heck out of it

At it's core, it's a Bollywood flick presented to the West with familiar nods to previous action films - I definitely picked up hints of Tony Jaa's influence on Asian action flicks throughout.

It's heavily focused on police corruption, something commented a lot about in India, and here, more importantly, Indian films. Just like America has its love affair with mobster flicks, Bollywood has a long history featuring films that showcase police corruption, sometimes tied into political extremism, fanatical or greedy religious leaders, and Monkey Man comments on all this as well and pays nods to that commonality. We've got televangelists and religious leaders in the states funnelling money, preaching prosperity gospel, and using it to influence politics and fund lavish lifestyles here.

Monkey Man shows this happening in India, and is filled with Indian culture and symbolism through out. The focus on Hanuman, the god and one worshiped by the strong, chaste, wrestlers, champions, and fighters. It's a common thing to have a household deity if you will. Some families might choose to focus worship on Ganesh, others Hanuman, some might do Mata Rani or Lakshmi. Here, it's the divine Vanara (monkey people race) - one of the Chiranjivi - immortals/forever-lived.

Hanuman. Themes of rebirth, common in South Asian history and mythology are present from Kid being a ringer, beat up fighter getting whooped for money to being reborn and facing his trauma through a ritual/meditate process that I don't want to get too much into to not spoil the movie. Post that, he begins his own self alchemy to really become the true Monkey Man. Nods to Ramayama, and an unapologetically Indian story featuring dialogues throughout in Hindi - don't worry, there are subtitles.

And of course a love for action flicks before it, all the way back to Bruce Lee. A beautiful use tbh of an autorickshaw (and you might know them as tuk-tuks in Thailand) which are popular in India with an added kick...I swear, that thing had to be modified with a hayabusa motor. Which is an actual thing people do - modding those dinky rickshaws with motorcycle engines, and considering they weigh nothing at all, they can REALLY FLY once you do that.

Monkey Man brings to the big screen other elements of India people might not know about, such as the gender non conforming and trans community that has a long history in India, presenting them as action stars as they go up against a system of corrupt elites oppressing part of the city, marginalized communities, and minority voices as depicted in the film. I'm not sure if people are going to get all of that without having the context, but I love that it does it without holding anyone's hands.

It's a fun action flick to see in the age of superhero films, and I say that as an obvious superhero/sff nerd. Also loved that Dev included a little bit about Hanuman's own story in the film, and the loss of his powers - almost mirrored by Kid's own loss of self/skills, strength until he confronts his trauma and is reborn, and in fact, remade (not necessarily the same). Also, the use of music was brilliant, including one scene with a tabla (the paired hand drums of south asia) - and Indian music is central to Indian stories.

This is a culture with evidence going back to the Paleolithic with cave murals showing art of Indian dance nearly 30,000 years ago. Yeah, that far back. As well as Mesolithic period art depicting musical instruments such as gongs, lyres, and more.

Indian music is some of the earliest we can find that has high developed beat and rhythm structures such as 5, 7, 9 and now the extremely common and known 4/4 and 3/4 - which so much of Western music is built upon. The foundations and experimentation of/in Jazz. John Coltrane and John Cage were heavily inspired by Indian music and incorporated a lot from it into their works. And Monkey Man blends Eastern and Western music through the narrative as comfortably as it does an Indian story in a very familiar Western accessible structure.

Dev did a wonderful job. And thanks to Jordan Peele for bringing it to screens.

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alwaysbewoke · 2 months

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finally got around to watching into the spider-verse and wow, it is as good as everyone said. what's wild is how good sony is at making these spider-man movies compared to how bad they are at making the live-action spider-man movies. clearly, the strategy moving forward should be to put some of the animated people on the live-action movies because this is head and shoulders above everything they're doing in live action.

#into the spider-verse #animated movies #spider-man #sony pictures #movie reviews #animation excellence #superhero films #cinematic universes

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twoheadedfilmfan · 5 months

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Batman Directs

#christian bale #batman begins #christopher nolan #wally pfister #2005 #behind the scenes #superhero movies #comic book movies #superhero films

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thedepartmentofdiscoveries · 21 days

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"Batman", Original Release Japanese Movie Poster 1966, Ultra Rare, B2 Size (51 x 73cm) - Japan Poster Shop on Facebook.

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schlock-luster-video · 4 days

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On April 19, 1989, principal photography began on Darkman.

Here's some new Liam Neeson art!

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coffeebookslovegt · 11 months

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“Si un superhéroe no puede defender a su familia ¿qué clase de superhéroe es?”

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giveamadeuschohisownmovie · 1 year

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Congratulations to the 2008 Iron Man movie for being added to the National Film Registry. Just for reference, there are only two other superhero movies in the registry; Superman (1978) and The Dark Knight.

Now that I think about it, I’m surprised that Batman ‘89 and Spider-Man ‘02 aren’t in the registry as well. Oh well.

#iron man #iron man 2008 #national film registry #mcu #marvel #superhero movies #superhero films #superman 1978 #the dark knight #batman 89 #spiderman 2002 #tony stark #robert downey jr #RDJ #movies #films

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videoreligion · 10 months

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Meaty Bits: The Retreat, Debbie Does Demons, The Nanny's Night, The Invisible Man, Bloodshot

"I spent the last few weeks going through every Marvel and DC movie I had ignored for the last 5+ years. Reviewing those films would be boring and possibly gain me the ire of several Twitter groups, so I won’t do that. Instead, here are some quick reviews of random films I watched during my much-needed breaks in my belated journey through the multiverse of multibillion-dollar factory art... "

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#cinema #cult cinema #cult film #cult #new movies #the invisible man #donald farmer #b-movie #hollywood #superhero films #horror films #horror movies #independent film #horror cinema

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notesonfilm1 · 8 months

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Blue Beetle (Angel Manuel Soto, 20230

I was eager to catch this before it left theatres and glad I made the effort (and an effort it was). The only Mexican-American superhero I know of. The film is extremely ambitious, with considerations of class, capitalism, imperialism and ethnicity completely woven into a narrative that is immersed in the US’s Hispanic cultures. References abound from Macario to Calle 13’s Atrevete. It’s very…