#simon rifkind

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finally a horror movie deuteragonist that i can relate to

#ghost stories #ghost stories 2017 #simon rifkind #he's a hot mess and i appreciate that greatly #'stay' 'FUCK that' real #also grabbing the magazine like that's going to help you fight an inhuman demon creature thing... sure bud !!

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Watch me giving a hug to each one of Alex Lawther’s characters (except for Kenny)

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[hamletkin]

I write so much stuff that no one will ever see because I am a coward

#i wish i were not #I've done a lot of teotfw stuff and some simon rifkind things #lots of modern!hamlet #heck I've even done alex goodman #billy bloom and elliot from fucking departure #not to mention stanley uris and fucking danny torrance #oh and fucking joyce byers #I've thought up some nemik stuff but idk if I'll ever get to it #why am i a coward

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Review: Ghost Stories Athenaeum Melbourne

How do you review a show that relies on its secrets being kept? That implores you not to talk about it, lest you ruin the fun for everyone else? That’s the bind any reviewer heading along to Ghost Stories faces; to explain what the show is like, without revealing, well, anything really. Billed as a live horror movie – played out in front of you, on stage – this British horror-themed play written by Jeremy Dyson (The League of Gentlemen) and Andy Nyman (Derren Brown TV and live shows, Peaky Blinders) certainly offers scares aplenty. The question is, what kind of scares are you actually in for? I must admit, I’m not the jumpy kind, and I don’t scare too easily – which means I’m perpetually in search of something that will deliver the thrill of a proper jump-scare. The trailers certainly promised it so; filled with white-faced punters in the audience, it shows the scares, but never the stage. What is it they say about what you can’t see? Alas, Ghost Stories sits more in the deliciously schlocky, B-grade horror film space for me, rather than anything Blair Witch-worthy of genuine fear. But this doesn’t make it any less enjoyable. In fact, perhaps it makes it moreso. Three creepy stories, told with a generous swathe of winking humour, spin their narratives around a lecture made by Professor Phillip Goodman (Steve Rodgers) – a man who questions the very validity of the stories he has collected in his pursuit of the supernatural. Delivered as a lecture with montages, it’s an unusual structure for a play, and perhaps suffers from that sinking feeling like we’re back at University, rather than watching something spooky. Rodgers is excellent though, pacing it all perfectly as he brings the audience on side, before we start to question it all after something malicious or monstorous jumps out at us. First up is Jay Laga’aia as Tony Matthews, a security guard who stumbles upon some bumps in the night. Laga’aia is top tier in a role that suffers from too many long pauses – an attempt to build tension which instead just feels dull – but he capitalises on these moments, filling them with character. Darcy Brown is Simon Rifkind, a kid that finds himself on a deserted road late at night. Despite a truly cheesy (but immensely fun) horror storyline, Brown leans in – perhaps a testament to the direction of trio Jeremy Dyson, Sean Holmes and Andy Nyman, who seem to understand their source text. This is probably the best set piece of the three, accompanied by some of the best mood-setting lighting I’ve seen on stage of late. In fact, all of Jon Bausor’s production design is on point, and along with the lighting, aids in building the narrative perfectly. Special effects by Scott Penrose are fun for what they are – but in this day and age of film technology and digital SF, I wonder if Ghost Stories suffers from our general lack of wonder and amazement when something is executed live in front of us. There are limitations, after all. Nick Simpson-Deeks is slimy banker Mike Priddle in a role he feels made for. Although some of his jokes fall flat, he’s at his best when he’s not playing for the audience’s laughs. Add a fun little twist at the end, and Ghost Stories wraps itself up in a nice little shlock-horror bow. If you go in expecting to be scared off your seat, you may be disappointed. But accept it for what it is – a bloody fun night out for B-grade horror afficionados and fans of the supernatural – and you’ll be a happy little camper. BYO torch. Ghost Stories plays until November 5, 2022. Get your tickets here. Want more Melbourne theatre? Check out our list of the best theatre and musicals this month. Source link Originally published at Melbourne News Vine

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[marzipan-rifkynd]

some tips how to become one of my favourite characters of all times:

1. a banana peel

2. ask for proof of identity before letting anyone into your house

3. decorate your room with some spooky pictures of demons (but keep one cute picture of teddy bears in case you don’t want to see them)

4. yell "don't touch my books, please" at your guest after you told them to have a seat in the armchair that is actually full of books

5. keep the temperature in your room on the highest while wearing as many layers of jumpers as you can (you just like it how you like it)

6. be kind to the creatures you share a house with even if they are monsters, ghosts or demons

7. believe deeply that you can fight anything only if you get to know everything about it

8. lie to your parents about applying to university and/or about passing your driving test

9. get irritated every time your surname is spelled incorrectly

10. attempt to kill the demon with a newspaper

11. smile nervously at all times because you are on the edge of emotional breakdown

12. be played by alex lawther

13. demonstrate all of the above in just fifteen minutes of screen time and you’re done

#ghost stories #ghost stories (2017) #simon rifkind #alex lawther

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Alex Lawther as Simon Rifkind - Ghost Stories

#alex lawther #simon rifkind #ghost stories #ghost stories 2017 #ghost stories 2018 #ghost stories movie #he is a treasure #sorry the gifs are shit but i needed them #they are for me but feel free to use them

[alexgoodman]

simon rifkind in ghost stories is So unhinged ... i think his case is the scariest imo

#alex did such a good job w that movie whew #ghost stories #simon rifkind #alex lawther #text #mine

[figatlas]

8. star

#inktober #inktober2018 #goat #demon #star #digital animation #horns #ghost stories #simon rifkind #but its more disney #i just couldnt draw a creepy demon goat alright

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Reginald F. Lewis (December 7, 1942 – January 19, 1993), was an American businessman. He was one of the richest African-American men in the 1980s, and the first African American to build a billion-dollar company, TLC Beatrice International Holdings Inc. Recruited to top New York law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP immediately after law school, Lewis left to start his own firm two years later. After 15 years as a corporate lawyer with his own practice, he moved to the other side of the table by creating TLC Group L.P., a venture capital firm, in 1983. His first major deal was the purchase of the McCall Pattern Company, a home sewing pattern business, for $22.5 million. Lewis had learned from a Fortune magazine article that the Esmark holding company, which had recently purchased Norton Simon, planned to divest from the McCall Pattern Company, a maker of home sewing patterns founded in 1870. With fewer and fewer people sewing at home, McCall was seemingly on the decline—though it had posted profits of $6 million in 1983 on sales of $51.9 million. At the time, McCall was number two in its industry, holding 29.7 percent of the market, compared to industry leader Simplicity Patterns with 39.4 percent. He managed to negotiate the price down, then raised $1 million himself from family and friends and borrowed the rest from institutional investors and investment banking firm First Boston Corp. In 1987, Lewis bought Beatrice International Foods from Beatrice Companies for $985 million, renaming it TLC Beatrice International Holdings Inc., a snack food, beverage, and grocery store conglomerate that was the largest African-American owned and managed business in the U.S. The deal was partly financed through Mike Milken of the maverick investment bank Drexel Burnham Lambert. In order to reduce the amount needed to finance the leveraged buyout, Lewis came up with a plan to sell off some of the division's assets simultaneous with the takeover. When TLC Beatrice reported revenue of $1.8 billion in 1987, it became the first black-owned company to have more than $1 billion in annual sales. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence #kappaalphapsi https://www.instagram.com/p/B5xcPJCnP64JNEHd2qFps_QP5gIRrb-MPSwDXs0/?igshid=2adz05aa9e9k

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I know it’s more than 2 weeks too late and the video and character are kinda random but here’s the super quick Halloween edit I made with Simon Rifkind after re-watching Ghost Stories because I love him!

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GHOST STORIES (2017)

Starring Andy Nyman, Martin Freeman, Paul Whitehouse, Alex Lawther, Paul Warren, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Nicholas Burns, Samuel Bottomley, Daniel Hill, Leonard Byrne, Jake Davies, Nicholas Burns, Oliver Woollford, Callum Goulden, Louise Atkins, Lesley Harcourt, Amy Doyle, Deborah Wastell, Christine Dalby and Maggie McCarthy.

Screenplay by Jeremy Dyson & Andy Nyman.

Directed by Jeremy Dyson & Andy Nyman.

Distributed by IFC Midnight. 97 minutes. Not Rated.

I had a great intro for this review, and then I realized that it was actually a huge spoiler for this multifaceted film. So, time to switch gears – there is too much good in this film to spoil in any way.

Here’s what I can tell you, this movie is even better when you watch it a second time. There is so much to see, so much to hear. It is a mystery and a spectacle and one hell of a narrative.

Andy Nyman wrote, directed, and starred in Ghost Stories as lead character, Professor Phillip Goodman, a middle-aged man who has spent his lifetime working to debunk people’s belief in the paranormal in his show “Psychic Cheats.”

I think that it is safe to use the comparison that Ghost Stories feels a lot like “A Christmas Carol,” but instead of being visited by three ghosts, Goodman is tasked with pursuing three unexplainable cases of paranormal activity which prove that everything he has spent a lifetime trying to debunk… is true.

Goodman is tasked by the crotchety, ailing, missing-for-decades Charles Cameron (played by Leonard Byrne). Cameron inspired Goodman’s career as a paranormal debunker and coined the term “existential terror” – the fear of there being nothing to go to in the great beyond, which leads people to believe anything to relieve the fear. “The brain sees what it wants to see.” When faced with his career idol, he is told that his work, and therefore life, is shit. And Cameron begs Goodman to prove him wrong.

The film then jumps straight into the three cases, while weaving back to Goodman as he is forced to work through his cynicism and face his own past.

One of the most interesting things about Ghost Stories is the difference in tone for each of the unsolved cases. The first time I tried to watch the movie (and granted, I am a self-admitted wimp) I was so terrified that I had to turn it off and wait until daylight to continue. I spent half of the movie jumping out of my seat, even when the pop scares were predictable. But, then the movie switches gears with each story and we are given humor and arrogance and a full range of human emotions in the characters.

I requested the opportunity to screen Ghost Stories because of my appreciation of actors Alex Lawther (Freak Show, The Imitation Game, End of the F***ing World) and Martin Freeman (The Hobbit Trilogy, Sherlock, Black Panther).

Lawther plays Simon Rifkind, the focus of case number two. He is so brilliant in this quirky, manically humorous role of a teenager with a classically strained relationship with his parents. In my opinion, Lawther is the character actor of this generation. He plays exhausted and crazy better than any actor that I have seen as of late. Plus, you cannot miss the score for this case – it is straight out of every gothic fright film. Lawther’s facial expressions match its drama.

The usually likeable Freeman plays the self-assured Mike Priddle in the final case, and his story carries us to the jaw dropping end of Ghost Stories.  

With fear of going too far, I am going to leave this review where it is. I strongly recommend this film and suspect it will be my new go-to choice to show friends in need of a film that goes bump in the night.

Bonnie Paul

Copyright ©2018 PopEntertainment.com. All rights reserved. Posted: April 27, 2018.

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#ghost stories #ghost stories (2017) #simon rifkind #alex lawther #braciszek taurus

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Today is the premiere of Cargo at the Adelaide film festival in Australia as well as the premiere of Ghost Stories at the @BFI London Film Festival.

The film is having its world premiere at the London Film Festival.

IFC Midnight has acquired North American rights to the supernatural thriller Ghost Stories, based on the Olivier-nominated stage production, co-written and directed by Jeremy Dyson and Andy Nyman and having its world premiere Thursday at the BFI London Film Festival.

Nyman also leads the cast, reprising his role as Professor Goodman alongside Paul Whitehouse (The Death of Stalin, Corpse Bride, Alice in Wonderland), Alex Lawther (The Imitation Game, Goodbye Christopher Robin, Black Mirror) and Martin Freeman (The Hobbit franchise, Captain America: Civil War, Fargo and Sherlock).

Professor Phillip Goodman, psychologist and arch-sceptic, has his rationality tested to the hilt when he stumbles across a long-lost file containing details of three terrifying "hauntings." Shaken by what he reads, Goodman embarks on a mission to find rational explanations for these ghostly stories.

As Goodman investigates, he meets three tormented people, each with a tale more frightening, uncanny and inexplicable than the last. Night-watchman Tony Matthews had a horrifying encounter in an empty warehouse and it has haunted him for years. Teenager Simon Rifkind took a late night drive that has rendered him unable to sleep. Mike Priddle, a brash banker, has had his worldview shaken to the core by unquiet spirits that apparently inhabit his otherwise perfect existence.

As Goodman digs into their stories, his carefully maintained and rational world starts to dissolve around him. Is it a trick of the mind or are darker forces at work? Gradually Goodman is drawn towards the unearthing of a long-buried secret that will pull his life, and everything he thought he knew, apart

Dyson is best known as a member of sketch comedy team The League of Gentlemen along with Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith which started as a stage act and went on to become a BAFTA Award-winning TV series. He also co-wrote and directed Sky Arts hit series Psychobitches which won the 2015 Rose d’Or for best comedy.

Nyman's acting career has included roles in many films including Death at a Funeral, Kick-Ass 2, Severance, Automata and Black Death. Nyman is a co-writer and director of magician and illusionist Derren Brown's TV and stage shows including Russian Roulette, Seance, and Messiah. Their collaborations have been nominated for and won both BAFTA and Olivier awards.

The film is produced for Warp Films by Claire Jones (Sightseers, Kill List), and Robin Gutch ('71, Kill List) and is backed by Ultimate Pictures and Screen Yorkshire.

Catalyst Global Media and Screen Yorkshire serve as executive producers. Altitude Film Sales is handling worldwide sales. Lionsgate will distribute the film in the U.K./Eire in Spring 2018.

#Martin Freeman #Ghost stories #bfi london film festival #premiere

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Israel's cabinet meets to finalise annexation plans - The Guardian

The Israeli cabinet will meet on Sunday to finalise plans to annex parts of the West Bank amid growing international opposition and calls for sanctions to be imposed if the proposal is implemented.

Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said Israel will “apply sovereignty” to up to 30% of the West Bank, covering Israeli settlements and the rich agricultural lands of the Jordan Valley, from 1 July.

On Friday, two rockets were fired from Gaza towards Israel a day after the Palestinian group Hamas warned that annexation amounted to a “declaration of war”. In response, Israeli air force jets struck two military facilities in the southern Gaza Strip, the army said.

The head of Mossad, the Israeli secret service, visited Amman last week to discuss the annexation plan with King Abdullah of Jordan after he warned of a “massive conflict” with Israel if it proceeded.

Despite Netanyahu’s pledge to give the order to annex on Wednesday, he may be forced to dilute or delay the proposal after three days of deliberations at the White House last week ended without an endorsement.

What would be left would be a Palestinian Bantustan, islands of disconnected land completely surrounded by Israel

UN experts’ statement

Netanyahu had been counting on the backing of the Trump administration after it unveiled its “vision for peace” six months ago which said Jewish settlements in the West Bank – illegal under international law – and the Jordan Valley would be incorporated into Israel. Kellyanne Conway, a top aide to the US president, said on Thursday that Donald Trump was poised to make a “big announcement” on Israel’s planned annexation, but White House officials later said talks were set to continue.

Although there is substantial international opposition to annexation, Trump’s endorsement would shore up his crucial support base among evangelical Christians in the US for November’s presidential election.

Hardline nationalists in Israel regard Trump’s presidency as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to carry out measures that were unacceptable to previous US administrations. The Israeli government, aware that the most pro-Israel president in recent history could fail to win re-election in four months’ time, is keen to move fast.

Last week, the UK, Germany and France were among seven European members of the UN security council that issued a joint statement saying the annexation plan was “a clear violation of international law” that would jeopardise the possibility of a future Palestinian state and would threaten security in the region.

The statement added: “Annexation would have consequences for our close relationship with Israel and would not be recognised by us.”

The statement followed a letter signed by more than 1,000 European parliamentarians, including senior Conservative figures in the UK, which said “acquisition of territory by force … must have commensurate consequences” and called on European leaders to “act decisively”.

The Labour party, a former Conservative chair of the foreign affairs select committee and a former British consul-general to Jerusalem called this weekend for a ban on the import to the UK of goods from illegal settlements in the West Bank in response to annexation.

The Israeli settlement of Mitzpe Kramim on the West Bank Photograph: Menahem Kahana/AFP/Getty Images

The archbishops of Canterbury and Westminster have voiced their opposition to the Israeli plan. The Holy Land Coordination Group, composed of bishops from Europe, North America and South Africa, warned the proposed annexation “would only bring more conflict, suffering and division”.

Almost 50 UN experts said in a statement earlier this month that the acquisition of territory by force was a violation of international law. “The international community has prohibited annexation precisely because it incites wars, economic devastation, political instability, systematic human rights abuses and widespread human suffering,” they said.

Human rights violations over more than 50 years of occupation of the West Bank would, the statement said: “Only intensify after annexation. What would be left of the West Bank would be a Palestinian Bantustan, islands of disconnected land completely surrounded by Israel and with no territorial connection to the outside world …

“The morning after annexation would be the crystallisation of an already unjust reality: two peoples living in the same space, ruled by the same state, but with profoundly unequal rights. This is a vision of a 21st-century apartheid.”

A prominent South African Jewish journalist living in Israel has also drawn parallels with the former regime in his home country. Benjamin Pogrund, 87, who reported on events under apartheid for most of his career, previously held the view that applying the term to Israel was “at best ignorant and naive and at worst cynical and manipulative”. But in an interview last week, he said annexation would mean “Israeli overlords in an occupied area, and the people over whom they will be ruling will not have basic rights. That will be apartheid, and we will merit the charge”.

Last week, the Board of Deputies of British Jews agreed to debate a motion reaffirming support for a two-state solution and warning that “unilateral steps” would damage efforts to restart peace talks.

The decision followed growing unease among British Jews over the plan. A letter signed by more than 40 of the most prominent names in British Jewry, including Sir Simon Schama, Sir Malcolm Rifkind and Dame Vivien Duffield, warned of an existential threat to Israel and of “grave consequences for the Palestinian people”.

The signatories said their alarm was “shared by large numbers of the British Jewish community, including many in its current leadership”.

Netanyahu’s pledge to annex parts of the West Bank was made during his campaign to win Israel’s third general election within 12 months. Annexation would be “another glorious chapter in the history of Zionism”, he said at his swearing-in ceremony last month.

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