#michael gioulakis

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Reptile Movie (Review) and Film Summary

Benicio Del Toro slinks and weaves through Grant Singer’s debut thriller “Reptile,” but the film struggles to develop a confident personality around him, ultimately coming apart at the seams. Clearly inspired by David Fincher’s meticulousness—Singer too is a music video vet and has worked with The Weeknd, Skrillex, Sam Smith, and many more—“Reptile” is overly mannered and precious with its details, but its biggest misstep is its failure to understand that procedurals need to get narratively tighter and not just more convoluted. Del Toro always brings it, and this is actually one of his more intriguing performances in a long time, but one consistently wishes that it was in a movie that knew what to do with it.

Will Grady (Justin Timberlake) is a Scarborough real estate mogul dating an agent named Summer (Matilda Lutz). They flip foreclosures on expensive homes in the area under the watchful eye of Will’s mom, Camille (Frances Fisher), and there seems to be some brewing tension in the relationship. One day, Will meets Summer at a house she’s showing and finds her brutally murdered.

The suspects line up quickly for Detective Tom Nichols (Del Toro) and his partner Dan Cleary (Ato Essandoh). First, Grady couldn’t be creepier—Timberlake leans way too hard into the slimy silver spoon kid background of the kind of dude who lines up a new girlfriend who looks a lot like his dead one almost immediately. Will is clearly into some shady shit, but he found the body, right? Or did he? Could it be Summer’s soon-to-be ex-husband Sam (Karl Glusman)? He, too, is sketched as a few cards short of a full deck, introduced on CCTV footage cutting a stranger’s hair so he can turn it into art. Yeah, he’s weird. That’s not it! The cavalcade of creeps on the suspect list also includes Eli Phillips (Michael Pitt), a guy whose dad got screwed on a Grady deal. Did he kill Summer to get revenge?

As if that trio of potential murderers isn’t enough, the script by Singer, Benjamin Brewer, and Del Toro himself fills out a massive cast with the people in Tom’s orbit, including his wife Judy (an effective Alicia Silverstone), who helps him work angles on the case in some of the film’s best scenes. She’s fearless and intellectually engaged in discussing the mystery. She knows and loves Captain Robert Allen (Eric Bogosian), Tom’s boss, who is introduced receiving an MS diagnosis. Yes, this is one of those scripts where everyone has an instantly identifiable trait that tries to take a traditional character just a bit left of center. It's all over-written, exaggerated stuff that only reminds you that you’re in a movie.

Of course, it’s perfectly fine to be aware of a writer's voice and director’s eye—no one would say someone like Fincher quietly observes—but the problems of “Reptile” comes down to style vs. vision. There’s plenty of style here, but it never feels like anything coheres into an actual vision. The great Mike Gioulakis (“It Follows,” “Split”) slides his camera through these imposing spaces, but to what end? Does it mean anything? The abundant style of “Reptile” is increasingly hollow as its overlong 134 minutes unfold. "Reptile" tries to hold onto too many things at once and lands none of them, leaving subplots unresolved and characters inconsistent.

And yet, there’s that performance in the center. Del Toro is so good here, capturing a man who has seen it all and just wants a peace that won’t come. He doesn’t overplay trauma or experience; he just allows those elements to influence his body language and the stares from those unforgettable eyes. It’s also a playful performance at times as Tom uses elements of his journey into real estate to influence his home remodel. There are some decent turns in the ensemble—Silverstone, Bogosian, Pitt—but Del Toro is on another level, existing in his own space. A space that belongs in a much better movie.

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UNDER THE SILVER LAKE (2018)

Director: David Robert Mitchell Cinematography:  Michael Gioulakis

#under the silver lake #o mistério de silver lake #andrew garfield #riley keough #a24 #a24 films #noir #neo-noir #thriller #los angeles #la #aesthetic #cinematography #movie #movies #movie screencaps #movie screenshots

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The Eyes of Tammy Faye, 2021.

Dir. Michael Showalter | Writ. Abe Sylvia | DOP Mike Gioulakis

#the eyes of tammy faye #us film #2020s #single frame #michael showalter #jessica chastain #andrew garfield

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CALIFICACIÓN PERSONAL: 7.5 / 10

Título Original: Reptile

Año: 2023

Duración: 134 min

País: Estados Unidos

Dirección: Grant Singer

Guion: Benjamin Brewer, Grant Singer, Benicio del Toro

Música: Yair Elazar Glotman

Fotografía: Mike Gioulakis

Reparto: Benicio del Toro, Justin Timberlake, Alicia Silverstone, Michael Pitt, Ato Essandoh, Domenick Lombardozzi, Karl Glusman, Matilda Anna Ingrid Lutz, Mike Pniewski, Thad Luckinbill

Productora: Black Label Media. Distribuidora: Netflix

Género: Drama; Crime; Thriller; Mystery

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Under The Silver Lake (2018)

Directed by David Robert Mitchell

Cinematography by Michael Gioulakis

Starring Andrew Garfield, Riley Keough, Topher Grace, Callie Hernandez and Patrick Fischler

“There’s a message in the music.”

#Spotify

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UBER - TONY'S HAWK from Saman Kesh on Vimeo.

Directed by: SAMAN KESH (@saman_kesh)

Voiceover: Nicole Byers Featuring: Tony Hawk and Dalia Lindquist

Client: UBER Agency: ANOMALY Production Company: GOLDEN Producer: Nicole Powell Cinematography: Michael Gioulakis First Assistant Director: Rudy Van Zyl Editor: Biff Butler @ Work Editorial Colorist: Sean Coleman @ CO3 Sound: LIME

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Lupita Nyong'o in Us (Jordan Peele, 2019) Cast: Lupita Nyong'o, Winston Duke, Elisabeth Moss, Tim Heidecker, Shahadi Wright Joseph, Evan Alex, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Anna Diop, Cali Sheldon, Noelle Sheldon, Madison Curry, Ashley McKoy, Napiera Groves, Lon Gowan. Screenplay: Jordan Peele. Cinematography: Mike Gioulakis. Production design: Ruth De Jong. Film editing: Nicholas Monsour. Music: Michael Abels. The Wilsons have met the enemy and they are them. Jordan Peele's Us is a darker film than his Oscar-winning Get Out (2017), more purely a horror film than that satiric horror-comedy, but it's just as assured in achieving its aims, which are largely to scare us while making us think. Peele has said that the movie's theme is the consequences of "privilege," and by making his central characters a well-to-do black family who suffer in part because of their assumptions about the world they feel entitled to, he gives the theme a sharp focus. There is a sci-fi explanation for the encounter of the Wilson family and others with their doppelgängers, who call themselves "the Tethered" and emerge from their subterranean hiding places to torment the privileged surface-dwellers, but it fades into the background of the battle for survival. Lupia Nyong'o gives a brilliant performance as Adelaide Wilson and her doppelgänger, Red, building toward a shocking moment of recognition at the film's end.

#Us #Jordan Peele #Lupita Nyong'o

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UBER - OLYMPICS 2021 "Go Get Life" from Saman Kesh on Vimeo.

Directed by: SAMAN KESH

Voiceover: Nicole Byers Featuring: Tony Hawk and Dalia Lindquist

Client: UBER Agency: ANOMALY Production Company: GOLDEN Producer: Nicole Powell Cinematography: Michael Gioulakis First Assistant Director: Rudy Van Zyl Editor: Biff Butler @ Work Editorial Colorist: Sean Coleman @ CO3 Sound: LIME

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Old (2021, US)

 • Dirección: M. Night Shyamalan

 • Guion: M. Night Shyamalan

 • Cinematografía: Michael Gioulakis

 • Cast: Thomasin McKenzie,  Alex Wolff

#Película #Intriga #Sobrenatural #Tiempo #M. Night Shyamalan #Michael Gioulakis #Thomasin McKenzie #Alex Wolff #Film #Old #Supernatural Thriller Movie #Maddox Cappa #Trent Cappa #Sandcastle #2021 #20s

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Under the Silver Lake (2018)

Director: David Robert Mitchell

DOP: Michael Gioulakis

#under the silver lake #2018 #david robert mitchell #michael gioulakis #a24 #mine

[deccut]

Split (2016)

#Split #2016 #M. Night Shyamalan #Michael Gioulakis

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3 brilliant moments of horror in It Follows

#it follows #horror #cinema #david robert mitchell #bailey spry #keir gilchrist #maika monroe #lili sepe #olivia luccardi #jake weary #daniel zovatto #disasterpeace #richard vreeland #mike gioulakis #julio perez iv #julio c. pérez iv #michael perry #joey ostrander

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It Follows (2014) | dir. David Robert Mitchell | dp. Michael Gioulakis

#it follows #david robert mitchell #michael gioulakis #maika monroe #movies

[sesiondemadrugada]

Under the Silver Lake (David Robert Mitchell, 2018).

#under the silver lake (2018) #under the silver lake #david robert mitchell #andrew garfield #julio perez iv #mike gioulakis #michael perry #Steven Light-Orr #James Terry Welden #Melody Lavigna #paul roome #caroline eselin

[somebaconlover]

Us (2019)

Directed by Jordan Peele

Cinematography by Mike Gioulakis

Starring Lupita Nyong'o, Winston Duke, Elizabeth Moss, Tim Heidecker and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II

“They look exactly like us. They think like us. They know where we are. We need to move and keep moving. They won't stop until they kill us... or we kill them.”

#Spotify

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- Who are you people? - We're Americans.

Us, Jordan Peele (2019)

#Jordan Peele #Lupita Nyong'o #Winston Duke #Elisabeth Moss #Tim Heidecker #Shahadi Wright Joseph #Evan Alex #Yahya Abdul Mateen II #Anna Diop #Cali Sheldon #Noelle Sheldon #Madison Curry #Ashley Mckoy #Napiera Groves #Mike Gioulakis #Michael Abels #Nicholas Monsour #2019