Reed Birney Puns

This is the debut film from actor turned writer/director Fran Kranz, and it’s a really solid piece of work. It’s about a meeting between the parents of a murder victim and the parents of the killer, 6 years after.

At times it feels like it would be better as a stage play, and the first 15 minutes is kind of unnecessary, but the writing and performances are terrific. Everyone’s going to have their favorite (Oscar pundits are talking about Dowd, I loved Isaacs & Plimpton). This type of movie is the best justification for why there should be an Ensemble category.

The most likely awards scenario is that this peaks with the Spirit Awards and Gothams, but it’s definitely worth your time and if you have a chance to support a small film on its first weekend…do that!

I think we’ll be seeing more from Fran Kranz.

Source-Kyle Puth

• "That'll do" - James Cromwell echoing his line in Babe
• "Fucking King Kong come out to dance with me" - Adrien Brody, star of King Kong
• VP Dave Boyer actor Reed Birney also played Frank Underwood's VP in House of Cards

Hi all! The Independent Spirit Awards are some of my favourite awards to predict, although most of the time we don't even know what's eligible. But here's my predictions at this point in time:

Best Feature • C'mon C'mon • The Green Knight • Mass (W) • Red Rocket • The Tragedy of Macbeth

Best Director • David Lowery (The Green Knight) • Joel Coen (The Tragedy of Macbeth) (W) • Mike Mills (C'mon C'mon) • Rebecca Hall (Passing) • Sean Baker (Red Rocket)

Best Male Lead • Adam Driver (Annette) • Denzel Washington (The Tragedy of Macbeth) • Joaquin Phoenix (C'mon C'mon) • Nicolas Cage (Pig) (W) • Simon Rex (Red Rocket)

Best Female Lead • Emilia Jones (CODA) • Olivia Colman (The Lost Daughter) • Taylour Paige (Zola) • Tessa Thompson (Passing) (W) • Vicky Krieps (Bergman Island)

Best Supporting Male • Christopher Abbott (On the Count of Three) • Colman Domingo (Zola) • Jason Isaacs (Mass) • Reed Birney (Mass) • Woody Norman (C'mon C'mon) (W)

Best Supporting Female • Ann Dowd (Mass) (W) • Frances McDormand (The Tragedy of Macbeth) • Marlee Matlin (CODA) • Martha Plimpton (Mass) • Ruth Negga (Passing)

Best Screenplay • After Yang • Bergman Island • C'mon C'mon (W) • CODA • Red Rocket

Best First Screenplay • El Planeta • The Lost Daughter • Mass (W) • The Novice • Shiva Baby

Best First Feature • The Lost Daughter • Mass (W) • Passing • Saint Maud • Shiva Baby

Best Documentary Feature • Cow • The Rescue • The Sparks Brothers • Summer of Soul (W) • Val

Best Cinematography • After Yang • The Card Counter • The Green Knight • Last Night in Soho • The Tragedy of Macbeth (W)

Best Editing • The Card Counter • C'mon C'mon • The Green Knight • Red Rocket (W) • The Tragedy of Macbeth

Best International Feature • Drive My Car • Paris, 13th District • Titane (W) • What do We do When We Look at the Sky? • The Worst Person in the World

John Cassavetes Award • El Planeta • Shiva Baby (W) • Test Pattern

Robert Altman Award • After Yang (W)

Best Picture:

3. Belfast
4. Licorice Pizza
5. Nightmare Alley
6. The Power of the Dog
7. King Richard
8. Dune
9. Don't Look Up
10. West Side Story
11. Being the Ricardos
12. tick, tick...Boom!
13. The Tragedy of Macbeth
14. Spencer
15. House of Gucci
16. C'mon C'mon
17. The Last Duel
18. Mass
19. CODA
20. The Worst Person in the World
21. Flee
22. The Lost Daughter

Best Director:

1. Paul Thomas Anderson (Licorice Pizza)
2. Jane Campion (The Power of the Dog)
3. Guillermo Del Torro (Nightmare Alley)
4. Kenneth Branagh (Belfast)
5. Denis Villeneuve (Dune)
6. Adam McKay (Don't Look Up)
7. Julia Ducournau (Titane)
8. Pablo Larrain (Spencer)
9. Joel Coen (The Tragedy of Macbeth)
10. Reinaldo Marcus Green (King Richard)
11. Steven Spielberg (West Side Story)
12. Asghar Farhadi (A Hero)

Best Actress:

1. Kristen Stewart (Spencer)
2. Nicole Kidman (Being the Ricardos)
3. Jessica Chastain (The Eyes of Tammy Faye)
4. Lady Gaga (House of Gucci)
5. Olivia Colman (The Lost Daughter)
6. Penelope Cruz (Parallel Mothers)
7. Jodie Comer (The Last Duel)
8. Frances McDormand (The Tragedy of Macbeth)
9. Alana Haim (Licorice Pizza)
10. Jennifer Lawrence (Don't Look Up)
11. Rooney Mara (Nightmare Alley)
12. Tessa Thompson (Passing)
13. Jennifer Hudson (Respect)
14. Rachel Zegler (West Side Story)
15. Emilia Jones (CODA)

Best Actor:

1. Will Smith (King Richard)
2. Benedict Cumberbatch (The Power of the Dog)
3. Denzel Washington (The Tragedy of Macbeth)
4. Leonardo DiCaprio (Don't Look Up)
5. Andrew Garfield (tick, tick...Boom!)
6. Peter Dinklage (Cyrano)
7. Joaquin Pheonix (C'mon C'mon)
8. Bradley Cooper (Nightmare Alley)
9. Javier Bardem (Being the Ricardos)
10. Adam Driver (The Last Duel)
11. Cooper Hoffman (Licorice Pizza)
12. Adam Driver (House of Gucci)
13. Mahershala Ali (Swan Song)
14. Nicolas Cage (Pig)

Best Supporting Actress:

15. Caitriona Balfe (Belfast)
16. Aunjanue Ellis (King Richard)
17. Ann Dowd (Mass)
18. Cate Blanchett (Nightmare Alley)
19. Kirsten Dunst (The Power of the Dog)
20. Meryl Streep (Don't Look Up)
21. Ariana DeBose (West Side Story)
22. Ruth Negga (Passing)
23. Toni Collette (Nightmare Alley)
24. Marlee Matlin (CODA)
25. Judi Dench (Belfast)
26. Martha Plimpton (Mass)
27. Glenn Close (Swan Song)
28. Olga Merediz (In the Heights)
29. Jessie Buckley (The Lost Daughter)
30. Jayne Houdyshell (The Humans)

Best Supporting Actor:

11. Jamie Dornan (Belfast)
12. Jason Isaacs (Mass)
13. Kodi Smit-McPhee (The Power of the D

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

Here's some layover from last weekend. Hope you enjoy.

First up was The Last Duel

Ridley Scott's "The Last Duel" is set in France during the late fourteenth century, amid the ruinous Hundred Years' War and social disturbances in the wake of the Black Death. The movie is based on real historical events; like the country's last officially recognized "judicial duel," which was fought in 1386 and immediately became the matter of national legend. True, when Matt Damon fights side-by-side with noble servants, the film sometimes feels like a spectacular big-budget action epic with a golden-age hero. But it also succeeds where many epics fear to tread, because this story is both surprisingly simple and deceptively complex.

The result of this clash is not really the point of the screenplay, adapted from Eric Jager's book of the same name by Damon, Nicole Holofcener, and Ben Affleck. Like the classic "Rashomon," this is a story told in a tripartite structure - the picture is split into three different sections showing the same series of events. Each of them functions as a perspective for one of the major players in this narrative of war, loyalty, betrayal, romance, serious accusations that can only be resolved with trial by combat, and the backward thinking is that God will only allow the truthful one to emerge victoriously.

Damon plays Jean de Carrouges, an aristocrat and a respected warrior who took part in the Battle of Limoges, against English troops, in 1370, and proved both insubordinate and reckless. Defying orders to hold fire, he bravely yet vainly led a charge that was defeated. His life was saved in that dubious battle by his friend Jacques Le Gris (Adam Driver), a squire, educated and suave and no less courageous in battle, but also a notorious womanizer and a courtier to Count Pierre d’Alençon (Ben Affleck), a sybarite and a libertine who relied on Le Gris to keep his accounts and join in his debauchery.

We're first with Carrouges, who's a brave warrior in various campaigns for his king and country, certain that he will inherit a fortress captaincy from his father, and generous in marrying Marguerite, the daughter of Robert de Thibouville (Nathaniel Parker), who’d been a treasonous sympathizer of the English. The first contention between him and Jacque comes from a plot of land, promised to Carrouges in Marguerite's dowry but given to Le Gris by Pierre. Encouraged by his patron, Le Gris

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There are no flashes of panic, no sounds of gunfire nor sights of victims fallen, but make no mistake, Mass is born from violence. It’s the story of tragedy, just many years down the line, and how the immense and irreparable pain permeates and seeps into the lives of all those connected to the event. It’s not flashy in any way shape or form, but it sure does pack an emotional haymaker into its simple setup.

Two couples meet for a painful and raw conversation in the aftermath of a violent tragedy.

Director and writer Fran Kranz has delivered a raw, tightly woven chamber drama that is sure to render anyone overwrought with various emotions right along with the characters. Everything from the setting to the dialogue to even the pace, feels like a play, crafted for the low-key, naturalistic setting of a stage, that would be destined to clean up at the Tony Awards.

The minimalistic camera work and lack of any deviation from the four adults at the center of this story make this film effective, even if it does dip a toe here or there into the trappings of melodrama. It’s a conversation that effectively could be happening between any number of people in this country over the last 22 years, but the audience is the fly on the wall for this one, feeling the grueling experience of grief and pain along with them. And of this suits the story and the true showcase of the film, the performances.

All four members of the cast deliver empathy and pain through each muted word and resounding monologue. Gail, played by Martha Plimpton, is practically paralyzed by her own extended mourning, while Jay, played by Jason Isaac, is filled with an anger that can only be contained for so long before it all comes spilling out. Opposite them, Ann Dowd tries her best to provide comfort to all the others as Linda, the mother of the perpetrator of his heinous act, and Reed Birney, as the father Richard, is equal parts regret and resentment that he even is in this situation.

These four people talk and ruminate over all the things that could’ve been different, that could’ve changed the outcome for all of them. The topics that have been discussed for decades now - gun access, video games, mental health - are all brought up and mentioned as factors in one individual’s choice to kill his classmates, but none of that blame helps these people heal, and changing any one of them may or may not have helped, no one could ever know. But that room under a church is a place that so many people ha

Only 2 weeks left! So, why not (over)analyze the hell out of the trailer to bear the waiting?

Wanted to do it frame by frame with individual screenshots from a 4K trailer I found but there's a maximum of 20 pics so I had to make collages... but you can always zoom in, right?

This will be a bit long but worth your time if you are one of those fans like me who want to get into details.

Before we get to the images, here are the titles of the episodes + the synopsis of the 3 first ones so we can get a better idea of what we see in the pictures.

• Season 4 synopsis:

>June strikes back against Gilead as a fierce rebel leader, but the risks she takes bring unexpected and dangerous new challenges. Her quest for justice and revenge threatens to consume her and destroy her most cherished relationships.

• Episode 401 'Pigs' synopsis:

>On the run after the end of Season 3, an injured June and the fugitive Handmaids find refuge at a farm, where the 14-year-old Wife nurses June back to health. June restores her role as the women’s leader. In Gilead, an imprisoned Lawrence tries to avoid a death sentence, and Aunt Lydia reels from the loss of 86 children on Angels’ Flight. The combative Waterfords, in custody in Toronto, learn of June’s feat.

• Episode 402 'Nightshade' synopsis:

>June plots revenge at the local Jezebels, before she and the Handmaids plan to leave the farm for the next safe house. In Toronto, Moira deals with the fallout of June’s choices, and Serena and Fred are bound together by a miracle.

• Episode 403 'The Crossing' synopsis:

>Captured by Gilead, June faces a vengeful Aunt Lydia and endures a torturous interrogation. Nick and Lawrence collaborate to protect June. In Toronto, Luke struggles with how to help June and Hannah

• Episode names:

1. Pigs
2. Nightshade
3. The Crossing
4. Milk
5. Chicago
6. Vows
7. Home
8. Testimony
9. Progress
10. The Wilderness

( Here's a great analysis by another user about that finale title! I think I figured out what the season finale title “The Wilderness” is referencing. : coconutsandtreason (reddit.com) )

Now the screenshots (combined with official screencaps of the first 3 episodes):

Right after S3 finale

So, the handmaids carry

Do your worst!

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

Because she wanted to see the task manager.

They’re on standbi

Pilot on me!!

BamBOO!

Nothing, he was gladiator.

Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.

This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.

If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.

Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.

What did 0 say to 8 ?

" Nice Belt "

So What did 3 say to 8 ?

" Hey, you two stop making out "

When I got home, they were still there.

I won't be doing that today!

Best Picture:

1. Nightmare Alley

2. Soggy Bottom

3. The Tragedy of Macbeth

4. House of Gucci

5. Dune

6. West Side Story

7. The Power of The Dog

8. Don’t Look Up

9. Belfast

10. The French Dispatch

11. The Humans

12. The Last Duel

13. Decision to Leave

14. Mass

15. Tick, Tick... Boom

16. King Richard

17. Spencer

18. The Lost Daughter

19. The Hand of God

20. C'mon C'mon

21. CODA

22. Journal for Jordan

23. Parallel Mothers

24. Being the Ricardos

25. A Hero

26. Cyrano

27. Cry Macho

28. The Card Counter

29. Last Night in Soho

30. In the Heights

31. Unforgiven

32. Dear Evan Hansen

33. Bruised

34. Eternals

35. The Guilty

36. Titane

37. The Harder They Fall

38. The Starling

39. Official Competition

40. Wolf

41. Electrical Life of Louis Wain

42. Swan Song

43. Carmen

44. Respect

45. Triangle of Sadness

46. The Green Knight

47. Fire

48. Munich

49. Benediction

50. The Survivor

Best Director:

1. Paul Thomas Anderson - Soggy Bottom

2. Guillermo Del Toro - Nightmare Alley

3. Denis Villeneuve - Dune

4. Jane Campion - The Power of the Dog

5. Joel Coen - The Tragedy of Macbeth

6. Ridley Scott - House of Gucci

7. Adam McKay - Don’t Look Up

8. Steven Spielberg - West Side Story

9. Kenneth Branagh - Belfast

10. Wes Anderson - The French Dispatch

11. Park Chan-wook - Decision to Leave

12. Ridley Scott - The Last Duel

13. Pablo Larrain - Spencer

14. Pedro Almodovar - Parallel Mothers

15. Paolo Sorrentino - The Hand of God

16. Asghar Farhadi - A Hero

17. Stephen Karam - The Humans

18. Denzel Washington - Journal for Jordan

19. Edgar Wright - Last Night in Soho

20. Mike Mills - C'mon C'mon

21. Clint Eastwood - Cry Macho

22. Lin Manuel Miranda - Tick Tick… Boom

23. Maggie Gyllenhaal - The Lost Daughter

24. Aaron Sorkin - Being the Ricardos

25. Fran Kranz - Mass

26. Julia Ducournau - Titane

27. Joe Wright - Cyrano

28. Halle Berry - Bruised

29. Leos Carax – Annette

30. Chloe Zhao - Eternals

Best Actor:

1. Denzel Washington - The Tragedy of Macbeth

2. *Will Smith - King Richa

Best Picture:

1. Nightmare Alley
2. Don't Look Up
3. Belfast
4. Soggy Bottom
5. The Power of the Dog
6. House of Gucci
7. Dune
8. King Richard
9. CODA
10. The Tragedy of Macbeth
11. West Side Story
12. The Last Duel
13. The Humans
14. Spencer
15. Tick, Tick... Boom!
16. Mass
17. In the Heights
18. The Lost Daughter
19. Being the Ricardos
20. C'mon C'mon
21. The French Dispatch
22. Parallel Mothers
23. The Card Counter
24. Respect
25. Last Night in Soho

Best Director:

1. Paul Thomas Anderson (Soggy Bottom)
2. Guillermo Del Torro (Nightmare Alley)
3. Jane Campion (The Power of the Dog)
4. Adam McKay (Don't Look Up)
5. Denis Villeneuve (Dune)
6. Ridley Scott (House of Gucci)
7. Pablo Larrain (Spencer)
8. Kenneth Branagh (Belfast)
9. Steven Spielberg (West Side Story)
10. Paolo Sorrentino (The Hand of God)
11. Joel Coen (The Tragedy of Macbeth)
12. Sian Heder (CODA)
13. Pedro Almodovar (Parallel Mothers)
14. Stephan Karam (The Humans)
15. Lin-Manuel Miranda (Tick, Tick... Boom!)

Best Actress:

1. Kristen Stewart (Spencer)
2. Jessica Chastain (The Eyes of Tammy Faye)
3. Frances McDormand (The Tragedy of Macbeth)
4. Lady Gaga (House of Gucci)
5. Jennifer Hudson (Respect)
6. Jodie Comer (The Last Duel)
7. Olivia Colman (The Lost Daughter)
8. Penelope Cruz (Parallel Mothers)
9. Cate Blanchett (Nightmare Alley)
10. Nicole Kidman (Being the Ricardos)
11. Jennifer Lawrence (Don't Look Up)
12. Rachel Zegler (West Side Story)
13. Emilia Jones (CODA)
14. Tessa Thompson (Passing)
15. Caitriona Balfe (Belfast)

Best Actor:

1. Will Smith (King Richard)
2. Denzel Washington (The Tragedy of Macbeth)
3. Peter Dinklage (Cyrano)
4. Benedict Cumberbatch (The Power of the Dog)
5. Leonardo DiCaprio (Don't Look Up)
6. Joaquin Pheonix (C'mon C'mon)
7. Adam Driver (House of Gucci)
8. Bradley Cooper (Nightmare Alley)
9. Steven Yuen (The Humans)
10. Andrew Garfield (Tick, Tick... Boom!)
11. Jamie Dornan (Belfast)
12. Javier Bardem (Being the Ricardos)
13. Oscar Isaac (The Card Counter)
14. Timothee Chalamet (Dune)
15. Matt Damon (The Last Duel)

Best Supporting Actress:

1. Ann Dowd (Mass)
2. Kirsten Dunst (The Power of the Dog)
3. Ariana DeBose (West Side Story)
4. Rooney Mara (Nightmare Alley)
5. Judi Dench (Belfast)
6. Marlee Matlin (CODA)
7. Toni Collette (Nightmare Alley)
8. Martha Plimpton (Mass)
9. Meryl Streep (Don't Look Up)
10. Aunjanue Ellis (King Richard)
11. Jayne Houdyshell (The Humans)
12. Glenn Close (Swan Song)
13. Jessie Buckley (T