Intruders
No Face Face Off
Official Website | Trailers & Mo
R | 100 min

Things with no faces go bump in the night in Juan Carlos Fresnadillo‘s uneven, but very watchable Intruders.  They bump into Clive Owen‘s daughter Ella Purnell and to Pilar López de Ayala‘s son Izán Corchero.  And there’s nothing that they or (Black Book‘s often nekkid)  Carice van Houten, priest (our favorite German actor ever) Daniel Brühl, or unfoxy, but always roxing Kerry Fox can do about it, cause the bumpings may all be in these kids’ minds, or maybe not, or maybe so?!?!?!  And how are these two bumping cases, from two different countries (and languages) related?  They must be cause their stories are told separately, but of course this is a movie, so the two will come together at the end in some sorta nifty package, right?  They do, and when they do, it’s kinda sorta nifty, kinda sorta not, but mostly confusing, and makes this frightening looking, but not all that frightening movie kinda sorta fall apart, maybe?

moral of the story – Intruders had the right ingredients to bake a tasty scary movie cake (this aint no torture porn junk), but it feels kinda 3/4ed baked.  Juss cause something’s edible doesn’t mean you have to eat it, but you can

Verdictgo: a nice-ish try, so a high end Sum Merit But No Stinkin Badges

Intruders invades theaters in limited release today

and until next thyme the balcony is clothed…

can’t tell if this poster is cool or not

meet

Lauryn Schlinglof

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Bully
Kids Unincorporated
Official Website | Trailers & Mo
NR | 94 min

Mean kids suck.  But what can we do about them and about the kids who are being meaned on by them? Lee Hirsch & Alicia Dwyer‘s Bully documentary doesn’t have the exact answers, and apparently neither do the schools or the community at large, but what it does have is a deeply moving and beautifully crafted examination of one of the biggest problems facing today’s youth in hallways, playgrounds & school buses across America

While Bully‘s message in wide-ranging, it wisely focuses on a handful of kids by putting their bully-ish problems on eye-opening display/dismay.  One kid has fish-y looking lips (see above photo) and is picked on endlessly for that reason, amongst other things, another is a gay girl growing up in a town where gay doesn’t exist, and another is an African-American girl who was pushed so far that she borrowed her mom’s gun and threatened other students with it (luckily no one got hurt). There are two other kids chronicled, but tragically, their stories are told after the fact by their parents, since they were bullied to the point where they believed that life was no longer worth living (a scene in which one of the parents points out the closet where her son had hung himself is as pretty much as wurst as wurst gets)

These bullied kids can’t defend themselves, and since the schools seem to be at a loss in the helping department (they all lean on the ole ‘kids will be kids’ excuse), it’s pretty much left up to the parents to make a difference.  And a lot of them do, but in most cases, it’s only after tragedy strikes.  Some of the parents aren’t even fully aware that a bully-ish problem even exists for their child.  In the case of the fish-lipped boy, his parents have zero idea at how much gruff their kid goes thru just riding the bus.  At one point it gets so bad that the filmmakers decided to share their footage with his parents and the school.  When we have to have filmmakers blowing whistles in our society, you know we’ve gots bigger issues than juss bullying!!!

moral of the story – our theory goes, if a documentary is released in a movie theater, then it’s probably worth seeing.  Check!  And a new theory – if the Weinstein Bros release a documentary, it’s probably about some burning hot button topic that probably must be seen (or at least they will make you think it is).  Check!  Good for the Bros Weinstein, and for this whole ratings controversy, as it’s bringing well needed attention to a doc that probably otherwise wouldn’t get much attention, other then for people who work for anti-bullying organizations.  If you have kids OR were ever a kid, you should see this.  Spank dog that we no longer have to go thru middle school ever again, let alone ride a school bus.  Too bad zillions of kids have to, YEAR AFTER YEAR!!!!

Verdictgo: Breast In Show

Bully pushes its way into select theaters on Friday

and until next thyme the balcony is clothed…

‘Daisy’, sometimes known as ‘Daisy Girl’ or ‘Peace, Little Girl’, was a controversial political advertisement aired on television during the 1964 United States presidential election by incumbent president Lyndon B Johnson’s campaign. Though only aired once (by the campaign), it is considered a factor in Johnson’s landslide victory over Barry Goldwater and an important turning point in political and advertising history. It was created by Tony Schwartz of Doyle Dane Bernbach. It remains one of the most controversial political advertisements ever made [wiki]

Monique Corzilius
is the Daisy Girl

and here’s more of her work

MORE!!!

&

and this is what she looks like today

MUCH MORE!!

• MEET THE REAL DAISY GIRL: MONIQUE CORZILIUS

• PICKING THE WRONG DAISY: A CONELRAD CORRECTION

• DAISY GIRL EXHIBIT SERIES A: New Jersey Courier Article

• SERIES B: Time Magazine Letter

• SERIES C: DNC LETTER

• SERIES D: Monique Corzilius Portfolio Selections

• SERIES E: EUE Pay Slip / Screen Gems Tax Document

• F: Modeling Payments and Miscellaneous Evidence

oh, and

nice try Mondale!!!

this sauve-ass French dude (Marcel Herrand from Les Enfants du Paradis) is officially our new hair & mustache hero-icon-overlord-messiah, and possible future Halloween costume, or perhaps even daily costume, if we were to ever allow product back into our hair, which won’t ever happen, EVER.  still, this guy is the F$%KING MAN!!! (even though his character in the movie is kind of a giant jerk-a$$)