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Death unites us all. And societies are shaped by not just the dread of that inevitable outcome but the common manners in which we push those existential thoughts aside. Consumerism, conspiracy theories, and collective trauma collide in Noah Baumbach's daring adaptation of a novel that may have been published in the mid-'80s but undeniably speaks to the issues that continue to dominate our culture in the 2020s. A story of a family unmoored from their already fragile existence by an airborne toxic event has relevance to the COVID era that author Don DeLillo couldn't have imagined specifically. Yet, the source material here is designed to speak to a larger sense of trauma and fear—elements that will never go away as long as that pesky Grim Reaper remains in our lives. Baumbach's adaptation of "White Noise" unpacks these complex themes with a playful spirit for about 90 minutes before the writer/director arguably loses his grip on the more serious material in the final act. Still, there's more than enough to like here when it comes to the unexpected blend of an author and filmmaker who one wouldn't necessarily consider matches. Life is full of surprises, right?
"White Noise" opens with a professor named Murray Siskind ( Don Cheadle ) speaking of the comfort of car crashes on film. Like every choice in this script, it's not an accident. Siskind speaks of the simplicity of the car crash, noting how it cuts through character and plotting to something that's easily understood and relatable. It foreshadows the mid-section of a film that will play essentially like a disaster movie, asking viewers to imagine what they would do if stuck in the same situation. And it's a set-up for another fascinating aspect of "White Noise"—a commentary on crowd catharsis. We are at peace when we see others doing the same thing we are doing, whether it's watching a car crash in a movie, attending an Elvis concert, or buying things we don't need at an A&P grocery store.
Someone who keenly understands groupthink is Professor Jack Gladney ( Adam Driver ), one of the world experts on Hitler Studies, even though he's embarrassed that he doesn't speak German. The first act—and the film is divided into three parts on-screen—could be called a satire of academia as Gladney, Siskind, and their colleague use big words to help get a grip on big problems. Jack and his wife Babbette ( Greta Gerwig ) have a blended family that includes the anxiety-prone Denise ( Raffey Cassidy ), problem-solving Heinrich ( Sam Nivola ), and two more children. Babbette has forgotten things lately, and Denise notices a new prescription bottle for a drug called Dylar. This is an everyday American family—going through the motions of life as they try to push away the issues that have dogged philosophers for eons, like the meaning of it all and how to stop thinking about when it ends. In one of the best early scenes, a comment about how happy they are leads Babbette and Jack into a conversation about who should die first.
While death is a concern in the first act of "White Noise," it becomes more tactile in the second act, titled "The Airborne Toxic Event." A train crash at the edge of town sends chemicals flying into the sky, and everyone in the Gladney family except Jack panics. As he tries to defuse the situation, Denise becomes convinced that she's sick already, and Henrich obsessively listens to news reports. Before long, they're on the road in a mass evacuation, and one of Baumbach's most impressive technical achievements unfolds, capturing a family on the run from the unknown.
Without spoiling the final act completely, it re-centers the Gladneys back at home, but with death a much more present reality in Jack's mind. Unfortunately, as the intensity rises, "White Noise" loses some of its impact, especially in a few talky scenes near the end that betray the tone of the first half. Yes, the film always deals with "serious" subjects, but it gets rocky when they take center stage, and the tone struggles to merge satire and marital drama. DeLillo's book was notoriously called "unfilmable" for decades, and it feels like this last act is where that's most apparent.
Thankfully, Baumbach has two of his most reliable collaborators to keep it from going off the rails. Driver is, once again, excellent here, crafting a performance that is often very funny without relying on broad character beats. There's a version of this character that's pitched to eleven—the awkward academic forced into trying to keep his family alive despite his inferior skill set—but Driver gives a performance that's often very subtle even as everything around him is going broad. Gerwig is a little oddly mannered early in the film, but that makes sense for a character who becomes somewhat unmoored before the air around her becomes toxic.
To unpack this epic of existential dread, Baumbach has assembled a team that deserves mention. Cinematographer Lol Crawley (" Vox Lux ") finds the right balance between realism and parody in his camera work, giving much of the film an exaggerated look amplified by Jess Gonchor's ace production design. The A&P here, with its bright colors and shelves of identical items, is not quite reality, but it's close enough to make its point, and the chaotic sequences of panic in the mid-section have the energy of a CGI blockbuster. Finally, Danny Elfman's score is one of the best of the year, connecting the three tonally different sections.
What does it all mean? Why do we take pills, buy junk, and watch car crashes to escape our fears? The phenomenal A&P dance sequence that ends "White Noise" lands a key theme in a fascinating way—we may all just be buying colorful stuff we don't need to distract ourselves from reality, but let's at least try to have fun while we're doing it.
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Noah Baumbach's 'White Noise' adaptation is brave, even if not entirely successful
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Greta Gerwig, May Nivola, Adam Driver, Samuel Nivola and Raffey Cassidy appear in Noah Baumbach's White Noise. Wilson Webb/Netflix hide caption
Greta Gerwig, May Nivola, Adam Driver, Samuel Nivola and Raffey Cassidy appear in Noah Baumbach's White Noise.
These are frustrating days for ambitious American filmmakers. Critics and older filmgoers bemoan that our screens offer little more than blockbuster franchises and cheap horror pictures. Yet when directors try to make something different and daring, they usually get thumped if they don't completely succeed.
Take the new Netflix film White Noise , the latest film from Noah Baumbach, best known for movies like The Squid and the Whale and Marriage Story . The movie is adapted from Don DeLillo 's 1985 novel, a cool, dazzling book shot through with so many shifting ironies that virtually every reviewer has described it as unfilmable.
Well, Baumbach has filmed it, and though I can't call his adaptation a triumph, a lot of the reviews strike me as being ungenerous to a brave attempt. White Noise is bursting with fun things to watch. And though the story takes place in the 1980s, it tackles present day preoccupations: human-caused disaster, media saturation, drug addiction and consumerism.
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A deglamorized Adam Driver stars as Jack Gladney, a professor in the popular department of Hitler Studies, a program he invented not because he admires der Führer but because Hitler is a strong brand in the intellectual marketplace.
Jack lives in a cozy college town, along with his slightly dippy fourth wife, Babette — played by Greta Gerwig with big, bouncy curls — and their kids from assorted marriages. Whether the Gladneys are all having breakfast or driving in their station wagon, their scenes crackle with the sometimes inane, sometimes pointed texture of family crosstalk.
Their story unfolds in three very different chapters, all tinged with satire. The first part lays out the Gladney's life. In the second, disaster-film chapter, a calamitous train wreck menaces their town with a so-called "airborne toxic event," whose foreboding black cloud forces them to flee to a camp for evacuees. Once that gets sorted out, the noirish third chapter tells the story of Babette's use of a mysterious drug called Dylar and the violence it engenders.
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While this may make White Noise sound dauntingly dark, its default tone is actually jaunty, if ironically so. Baumbach creates scenes that recall popular TV shows like The Simpsons and Stranger Things , and in Don Cheadle 's character, a professor named Murray, you get an upbeat version of a Greek chorus who sounds happy as a clam no matter what he's discussing. In a great scene set in a classroom, Murray talks about the death of Elvis Presley , and, as in an academic battle of the bands, Jack tries to top him with the fall of Hitler.
Although Baumbach has a real gift for domestic realism, he's always been drawn to the audacity of the French New Wave. He loves its formal iconoclasm and juxtaposition of tones, from the lyrical to the intellectual to the silly. He attempts such a tonal collage here, and I regret to say, that his White Noise doesn't hold together as well as DeLillo's.
In fact, watching White Noise reminds me a bit of watching the work of the New Wave's greatest genius, Jean-Luc Godard , who was, as it happens, a huge influence on DeLillo. Godard's movies always tended to shuffle brilliant scenes with sections that leave you weak with boredom. You get the same unevenness here, but Baumbach is less intimidating than Godard or DeLillo, neither of whom ever worried about making the audience happy. Baumbach keeps White Noise on the lighter, less political side of the ledger, as in the joyous supermarket finale that's miles from DeLillo's trademark sense of paranoia and dread.
Laced with good jokes, the movie brims with terrific moments, be it Murray's magnificent riff on Hollywood car crashes — which he sees as an expression of American optimism — or the sly sequence at the evacuee camp that seems to come from a missing movie by Baumbach's friend and collaborator, Wes Anderson .
Early on, Jack and Babette have a talk in which each admits that they hope they die before the other. It's partly funny, partly not. And it underscores White Noise 's obsession with death, the fear of dying, and especially the countless ways we fend off that fear — by turning catastrophes into media spectacles, by reducing the genocidal Hitler to a kind of pop icon, by smoothing ourselves out with dodgy drugs and by pretending that the disasters we see on TV could never hit us. And, if all else fails, the movie assures us, we can always go shopping.
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White Noise 2: The Light (2007) [REVIEW]
I only just saw the first White Noise not all that long ago, and despite wanting to like it, it sucked. Even with Michael Keaton being involved, I had to trade it in to get a dollar at a used DVD store. I wouldn’t say that I necessarily sought after this sequel, and in fact, I had no idea it even existed. However, when you’re browsing the Netflix Instant new arrivals, and you see White Noise 2 , how do you not watch it? Add to that the fact that Nathan Fillion was in this one and how can anyone stop me?! Well, no one did, and I watched it. And this is what it was about.
It’s almost like the shattered mirror represents your shattered life. ALMOST.
Nathan Fillion plays Abe Dale (I’m laughing at the name alone) who, of course, has a great life, until his wife and child are murdered in front of him. Not thinking he can go on living, he tries to overdose on drugs and ends up having a “Near Death Experience”, that people keep referring to as an NDE. Apparently this NDE has given him special powers, because he can’t walk up and down the street without seeing people glow, only to find out that those people die. He begins to intervene in these deaths, and starts feeling good about himself. Sadly, he realizes that the people he has saved end up going crazy and killing other people three days later. There is a lot of time wasted involving finding the guy who killed his family, trying to get information from him, and using codes and shit like that to figure out that apparently all this shit has to do with the devil. The reason he is figuring this stuff out is because his new girlfriend is someone he saved, and he doesn’t want her to freak out. Supposedly the only way to break the cycle is to kill himself? Which is something he does, and that ends the movie.
Bad news: you’re about to die, dude. Good news: Nathan Fillion is about to save you! Bad news: you’re going to freak out in a few days and crush that lady with a piano.
Really have no goddamned clue as to why this movie was a sequel to White Noise . My best guess is that someone wrote the script and the movie was made under the name of “The Light”, and someone paid enough money to add White Noise 2 to the front of it, in hopes of drawing in a larger audience. As if the first one wasn’t disappointing enough with the lack of scary TV images, this one had nothing to do with TVs! I think there were a couple of scenes where you saw TVs, but that’s about it. Despite that, I found this movie to be surprisingly fun. Sure, somewhere between the middle and the ending they made up a completely ridiculous and arbitrary justification of why these people were dying, but I was willing to put up with it. Not to mention the fact the the main character actually did die, rather than one of those last minutes saves. Just don’t go into this movie expecting Michael Keaton, because he’s nowhere to be found.
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White Noise is a 2005 supernatural horror thriller film directed by Geoffrey Sax and starring Michael Keaton. A 2007 sequel, White Noise 2: The Light, was directed by Patrick Lussier and stars Nathan Fillion and Katee Sackhoff. Both titles refer to electronic voice phenomena (EVP), where voices, which some believe to be from the "other side", can be heard on audio recordings
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White Noise: The Light (2007) / Horror-Thriller aka White Noise 2 MPAA Rated: PG-13 for violence, disturbing images, and language Running Time: 99 min. Cast: Nathan Fillion, Katee Sackhoff, Craig Fairbrass, Kendall Cross, Adrian Holmes, Aaron Pearl, Teryl Rothery Director: Patrick Lussier Screenplay: Matt Venne
You might wonder how a film like White Noise , which was trashed nearly unanimously by critics at the time of its release in January of 2005, could ever produce a sequel. I know I do. Turns out that the original film, budgeted at about $10 million, made about five times that in US box office gross alone. I guess the thinking is that, if it made money, a sequel should naturally follow. I think that's very misguided in this case, as White Noise benefited financially by being a horror release at a time when there weren't many other options, not because people loved it. Very few who'd seen it would likely watch it again, and of those, practically none have clamored for a sequel. Even if there were people who did like it enough to purchase it on home video, they will be unlikely to head back to theaters for a second go around, as White Noise 2 isn't even a sequel to the first film at all. The characters are wholly different, as well as the main story. The only thing that ties the two films at all is the notion of EVP, or Electronic Voice Phenomenon, where electronic viewing devices like monitors and televisions provide conduits of communication between the living and the spirit world. Except in this film, they don't really communicate, so really, the only thing similar is the fact that both films are horror-thrillers with a bunch of TVs that show static. Apparently, there is a market for this. If anything, White Noise 2 plays out more like a rip-off of The Dead Zone, with elements of Yogen , if told with a Final Destination mentality, with its protagonist who suffers from a near-death experience that gives him unique powers to foretell the upcoming deaths of people he sees. The man in this case is Abraham Dale (Fillion, "Firefly"), who loses his wife and son at the hands of a gunman (Fairbrass, The Long Weekend ) who shoots them both in cold blood for reasons unknown before emptying another round on himself. Despondent, Abraham tries to take his own life, seeing the infamous "white light" phenomenon that occurs for many who experience a near-death state, and he awakens to find that he can see auras around certain people. He doesn't know why, but soon discovers that those viewed with an aura soon die afterward, knowledge Abe soon uses to try to save them before calamity strikes. Unfortunately, disaster awaits when fate (or Satan, in this case) is denied the souls of intended victims, so Abraham tries to figure out hows and why the powers work in order to try to reverse the trend that ends with even more mortalities when he saves a life. Whether you're a fan of White Noise or someone who detests it, your ability to be entertained by White Noise 2 resides primarily on your tolerance for the gimmick-laden horror-thrillers of recent years, like The Butterfly Effect and the aforementioned Final Destination series. All of them feature characters that are trying to find a way to cheat death, only to encounter some sort of conundrum as to why they can't quite achieve total success, despite the fact that they do achieve momentary victories over an unknown force. You should know that my tolerance level for these kinds of films are pretty low, as I can't think of one I regard positively (save perhaps Minority Report , if you want to stretch out the scope to include non-horror), but if that's your bag, perhaps you will come away liking the mechanical, derivative pleasures that this tricky, paranormal b-movie has to offer. Though it stars Serenity 's Nathan Fillion, who tends to be best in campy fare for his deadpan, wisecracking delivery, White Noise 2 plays out completely straight-faced and somber. Just as Michael Keaton in the first White Noise , Fillion serves merely as a placeholder hero for the piece, not really utilizing him for his personality strengths except that we have liked him in other vehicles. Katee Sackhoff ( Halloween: Resurrection, "Battlestar Galactica") does come along to provide a bit of levity, and perhaps the possibility of an emotional connection, but the development just wasn't there in order to truly connect the characters as anything more than a passing fancy. As the film is serious, the implausibility factor is inordinately high, as we see Abe encounter those with auras at predictable turns. Perhaps I've led too much of a sheltered life that death doesn't occur whenever I leave the house, but poor Abe seems to have calamity follow wherever he goes, particularly among those he has come to know. Allusions to Abe being some sort of superhero come about, which is an interesting story angle that would have made the film a bit more robust if pursued, but, once again, marketing such a film would prove too difficult, and the script by Matt Venne plays most of it safe by sticking closely to the tried-and-true horror-thriller formula. White Noise 2 is a wholly derivative thriller that suffers by being far too similar to other movies that aren't particularly great to begin with. Although it could have gone for a more philosophical approach, the direction by Patrick Lussier ( Dracula 2000 ) tries more for the contemporary form of visceral cinema that has nearly suffocated the horror genre into being little more than sensory titillation and visceral jolts, punctuated by needless jump-scares every 10 minutes or so. Ghosts appear right on cue, although their presence in this film is still a complete mystery to me. While it certainly does hold your interest, it isn't half as intelligent as it should have been to stand out in the crowded field of gimmick-laden horror. I suppose if you want nothing more than something to hold your attention and creep you out from time to time, White Noise: The Light works in a limited fashion. However, viewers looking for a tight plot, intelligent story, and something of substance will find themselves irresistibly drawn to the light of the sun shining outside the theater doors, beckoning them ever more strongly with each passing minute of this inconsequential, noise-filled distraction.
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"White Noise 2" Set Visit: Hanging With Nathan Fillion, PLUS The First "White Noise 2" Set Photos!
Our " White Noise 2 " set coverage wraps up with not one, but many delights: a sit down with Nathan Fillion , plus the first ever photos from the spooky set to grace the internet!
If you know Sci-Fi, you know Nathan Fillion . The erstwhile space cowboy Malcolm Reynolds, Fillion rose to idol status in the realm of Sci-Fi/Fantasy geekdom last year with the triumphant big screen bow of the " Firefly " crew in " Serenity ," and recently grossed out gleeful gore-hounds in the critically acclaimed " Slither ." Now Fillion stars in " White Noise 2: The Light ," which is sure to make audiences think twice about dismissing the EVP/supernatural sequel. RT’s Senh Duong and Phu Bui-Quang sat down with the dashing jokester between scenes on the Vancouver set of "White Noise 2" to learn more about his character, his upcoming rom-com, and what he expects from his fans.
Rotten Tomatoes: The first " White Noise " dealt with Electronic Voice Phenomenon. In " White Noise 2: The Light ," you kind of become the medium. Nathan Fillion: In the first one, Michael Keaton was listening to TV’s and radios to hear messages from his deceased wife. In this one, I have become a de-tuned receiver…I’ll just be walking down a street and I’ll see something happening that grants me the ability to see in a crowd of people and tell which one is gonna die. And the movie becomes about if you had this ability, what would you do? What could you do? RT: Can you give us any background about your character in the movie?
NF: He’s a normal, everyday, average guy. I’ve played some characters in the past that have experienced loss; Malcolm Reynolds took loss not very well, but it kind of turned him hard, into a rock. [In "White Noise 2"] Abe — Abraham Dale is his name — doesn’t take his loss as well. He’s on this path of destruction. It destroys him and pulls him apart in a way; he’s far more fragile. And then confronted with this ability, what would you do if someone was gonna die?
He’s an ordinary guy with extraordinary circumstances. This is what I think all movies are about, ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances.
RT: So he’s faced with his ability to use his power for good?
NF: Or awesome. Good or awesome, those are his choices.
RT: How is it working with Katee [Sackhoff] in the film?
NF: She’s awesome. I think there are people who are cut out to play certain roles and Katee’s character, this kind of bubbly, gleeful, certainly not shy nurse, she’s just all out there for you. Her interest is in enjoying life. Katee fits the bill. Perfect. Typecast her right there. She’s exactly like that, she’s not even working that hard.
RT: Since both of you come from sci-fi backgrounds — you were in " Firefly ," and she plays Starbuck on " Battlestar Galactica ," — do you guys ever compare notes, like who would win between your characters?
NF: We trade trading cards. I’ll give you a Jane for two Number 6’s. That kind of stuff.
RT: You’ve worked on a soap opera, as well as a sci-fi series, and a horror film (" Slither ," and now " White Noise 2 ")…one of our readers pointed out that it looks like you’re tending toward genres with specific target audiences in mind, as opposed to more mainstream roles, such as a romantic comedy. NF: I can completely see how it would look that way, but the fact is I don’t sit down with five scripts in front of me and say, "you know what, I’m gonna do this one because of the audience it’s reaching or I’m gonna do this one because of the genre." I go out for jobs, or jobs come my way, and I want to be a working actor; I want to do jobs that excite me and challenge me, and I want to something fun.
The process is I’ll try out for 30 jobs, maybe five of them will call me back to try out again, maybe one of them will hit, maybe, maybe not. Then you’ve gotta wait for the next 30, you know what I mean. It’s a game of numbers, and I’m just plucking along. What I get is what I get.
"Firefly" was a lucky get, I’m really glad that that happened. "Serenity" happened because of "Firefly." It wasn’t a choice I made; I was just able to have the opportunity. I did "Slither," I was very, very excited about that (horror genre). It was new, fun and exciting. It was funny. "White Noise 2" was a little bit different; it came along because of "Slither." It’s not the choices that I’m making — it’s just the opportunities that are opening up for me.
I’m hoping I get more different opportunities. And I actually do have a romantic comedy coming up call " Waitress ." So tell you reader to put that in his pipe and smoke it.
RT: In a lot of your previous projects you had a comedic role ("Firefly," for instance). "White Noise 2" seems like more of a serious role. How does that change your approach to the character?
NF: You know, my job changes very little because I’ve found that the more you try to be funny, the less funny you become. When I watch TV I can tell when someone is punching the joke and telling me when to laugh (I’ll decide when to laugh, thank you very much), or I can tell when someone is just being in a situation or being under some circumstances that make me laugh, like I’m glad that that’s not me. I think that the secret to comedy is not playing the comedy, but actually playing the situation, playing the drama of it.
So playing the drama of a drama is no stretch. What I did love is that they actually put in something very funny in "White Noise 2." I can’t even tell you what it is.
I can tell you that they put in a little nod to "Firefly." That was really nice to do, but it might get cut out. They didn’t film any options, so almost the whole scene is out, which I don’t think it will be. There’s a little nod in there to "Firefly," which I’m really happy about, it really honors me.
There’s that stuff coming up. That’s my niche. Six foot tall and funny, can make you laugh. My manager always likes to say that, "you can do the drama and you can do the comedy." I’ve found my niche.
RT: So do you think a lot of fans of "Serenity" and "Slither" will like you in this role?
NF: I’m counting on it. I am counting on every "Serenity" fan, and every "Firefly" fan, and every "Buffy" fan, and every "Slither" fan, I am counting on them to see this movie. If this movie fails it is their fault. I’m glad you let me get that clear. I finally had a voice.
RT: We’ve been reading through the forums and a lot of people weren’t too fond of the first "White Noise," but they saw that you were in the cast of "White Noise 2" and have decided to watch it because of you.
NF: This movie is not about the first movie. They’ve taken it a step further. It’s gone beyond; they’re not recycling a story or an idea, they’re taking it somewhere else. But it shares a theme, certainly, what with ‘white noise’ in the title.
RT: Did you watch the first "White Noise?"
NF: Yes, I did. I watched the first "White Noise" actually while I was shooting "Slither." And in the hotel I was staying in I was lying in bed watching it, and every time I moved I would catch my reflection moving in the mirrored doors that looked like glass — it looked like a French door but it was a mirror, so I would see something moving and it would just give me such a start. Those conventions that work to build our tension and to release it, to scare you in movies, that stuff works on me.
" Jaws " changed my life. I will not go near the ocean, I have to be between the shore, me, whoever else is swimming with me has to be on the outside. I’m always on the inside. My diving instructor said, "Nathan, if you ever are with somebody and you see a shark, all you do is you take your dive knife out, and you stab your dive buddy."
I’ve always kept that with me.
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TRAILER. 3:10 to Yuma, Sunshine. In Theaters At Home TV Shows. A man's family is killed, but he survives -- barely. After recovering, he realizes that he has changed in some way: He now senses ...
A few cheap jolts, a handful of clever ideas, and just enough energy and creativity to make it across the finish line. Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 8, 2008. White Noise 2 is pretty much ...
6/10. Better-Than-Average Supernatural Thriller. sounds-5 4 June 2007. The main reason to see "White Noise 2: The Light" is for Nathan Fillion's quietly powerful performance as Abe Dale, a man whose family is killed and who is himself brought back from the dead.
White Noise 2: The Light: Directed by Patrick Lussier. With Nathan Fillion, Katee Sackhoff, Craig Fairbrass, Adrian Holmes. Following the loss of his family, a man attempts suicide only to discover upon waking that he can identify people who are about to die
"White Noise 2" , while being heavy handed regarding the loss of loved ones much like the first film, managed to keep similar scenes while branching into new territories. However, the movie fell short as the directors and FX teams grew overly ambitious in their takes of the afterlife, ghosts and all the ephemeral trappings of a ghost story.
Advertisement. "White Noise" opens with a professor named Murray Siskind ( Don Cheadle) speaking of the comfort of car crashes on film. Like every choice in this script, it's not an accident. Siskind speaks of the simplicity of the car crash, noting how it cuts through character and plotting to something that's easily understood and relatable.
White Noise: The Light, also marketed as White Noise 2, is a 2007 supernatural horror thriller film directed by Patrick Lussier and starring Nathan Fillion and Katee Sackhoff.Written by Matt Venne, it is a stand-alone sequel to the 2005 film White Noise, directed by Geoffrey Sax.. The film received a theatrical release internationally on January 5, 2007, but was released direct-to-video in the ...
Following the loss of his family, a man attempts suicide only to discover upon waking that he can identify people who are about to die
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The 1985 novel has been described as "unfilmable." Baumbach wasn't deterred — and though the movie brims with terrific moments, his White Noise doesn't hold together as well as Don DeLillo's.
White Noise 2: The Light (2007) [REVIEW] ... Really have no goddamned clue as to why this movie was a sequel to White Noise. My best guess is that someone wrote the script and the movie was made under the name of "The Light", and someone paid enough money to add White Noise 2 to the front of it, in hopes of drawing in a larger audience. As ...
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White Noise: The Light (2007) / Horror-Thriller aka White Noise 2. MPAA Rated: PG-13 for violence, disturbing images, and language Running Time: 99 min. Cast: Nathan Fillion, Katee Sackhoff, Craig Fairbrass, Kendall Cross, Adrian Holmes, Aaron Pearl, Teryl Rothery
Our "White Noise 2" set coverage wraps up with not one, but many delights: a sit down with Nathan Fillion, plus the first ever photos from the spooky set to grace the internet!If you know Sci-Fi, you know Nathan Fillion.The erstwhile space cowboy Malcolm Reynolds, Fillion rose to idol status in the realm of Sci-Fi/Fantasy geekdom last year with the triumphant big screen bow of the "Firefly ...
White Noise 2 turned out to be a great scary movie, one full of scares and twists that will keep you interested. You have to follow along closely so that you can keep up with what is going on. The acting was very well done, especially on the part of the lead, Nathan Fillion. The effects were decent and for the most part they set a creepy, moody ...
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E.C.McMullen Jr. reviews White Noise 2 The Light starring Nathan Fillion, Kendall Cross, Adrian Holmes, Kattee Sackhoff, William McDonald, and Cory Monteith. Directed by Patrick Lussier
White Noise 2: The Light on DVD January 8, 2008 starring Nathan Fillion, Katee Sackhoff, Craig Fairbrass, Teryl Rothery. In the sequel, a man's family is murdered and he is brought back from the brink of death. The man realizes he has changed and can now ident
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Our review: Parents say Not yet rated Rate movie. Kids say ( 2 ): A far cry from Noah Baumbach 's usual talky character pieces, this adaptation of Don DeLillo's 1985 novel is big, ambitious, bizarre, wildly uneven, sporadically funny, and weirdly worth seeing.
House of the Dragon Reviews. 1999 Movie Showdown. Best Movies of All Time. White Noise 2. 1h 42m. Drama. Directed By: Patrick Lussier. Streaming: Apr 19, 2016.
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White Noise 2 (2007) White Noise 2 (2007) White Noise 2 (2007) View more photos Movie Info. Synopsis A man, agonized by the loss of his family, finds himself with the strange power of predicting ...