International music and sound company Butter Music + Sound tackles fall TV with Bless The Harts, an animated half-hour comedy primetime Fox TV series centered on a rich-in-spirit southern family as they search for solutions to common community problems. Butter CCO and owner Andrew Sherman composed original music for each episode and the show’s main theme, with Butter’s Los Angeles-based EP Annick Mayer running production. All of the music was tracked with a live band Sherman put together for the show, evoking nostalgic grunge with some flavor of the American South.
The composer often syncs his musical expertise and love of humor with films, shorts and commercial work, with other credits including the films Still Happy, Game Day, 30 Days and more, and commercial clients including Ketel One, Burger King, Michelob Ultra, Supercell, and Geico.
The Bless the Harts premiere episode “Hug N‘ Bugs” aired Sunday, Sept. 29.
The show was created and executive-produced by Emily Spivey (The Last Man on Earth, Parks and Recreation and a writing Emmy winner for Saturday Night Live) and features an all-star voice cast of comedy stars, including Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph, Jillian Bell and Ike Barinholtz.
Review: Writer-Director Coralie Fargeat’s “The Substance”
In its first two hours, "The Substance" is a well-made, entertaining movie. Writer-director Coralie Fargeat treats audiences to a heavy dose of biting social commentary on ageism and sexism in Hollywood, with a spoonful of sugar- and sparkle-doused body horror.
But the film's deliciously unhinged, blood-soaked and inevitably polarizing third act is what makes it unforgettable.
What begins as a dread-inducing but still relatively palatable sci-fi flick spirals deeper into absurdism and violence, eventually erupting — quite literally — into a full-blown monster movie. Let the viewer decide who the monster is.
Fargeat — who won best screenplay at this year's Cannes Film Festival — has been vocal about her reverence for "The Fly" director David Cronenberg, and fans of the godfather of body horror will see his unmistakable influence. But "The Substance" is also wholly unique and benefits from Fargeat's perspective, which, according to the French filmmaker, has involved extensive grappling with her own relationship to her body and society's scrutiny.
"The Substance" tells the story of Elisabeth Sparkle, a famed aerobics instructor with a televised show, played by a powerfully vulnerable Demi Moore. Sparkle is fired on her 50th birthday by a ruthless executive — a perfectly cast Dennis Quaid, who nails sleazy and gross.
Feeling rejected by a town that once loved her and despairing over her bygone star power, Sparkle learns from a handsome young nurse about a black-market drug that promises to create a "younger, more beautiful, more perfect" version of its user. Though she initially tosses the phone number in the trash, she soon fishes it out in a desperate panic and places an order.
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