Tag: The Beta Test
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Eyes Wide Shut Is Getting A Live Script Reading, And Full Costumes Are Encouraged
If you’re in the Los Angeles area and are looking for something fun to do the Wednesday before Halloween, we might have the perfect sexy, spooky event for you. IFC Films and Film Independent are presenting a live reading of Stanley Kubrick’s “Eyes Wide Shut” with “The Beta Test” directors Jim Cummings and Pj McCabe.…
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The Beta Test Trailer: Jim Cummings Takes On Toxic Masculinity Again, This Time In Hollywood
Jim Cummings is about to trade the wolf men of Utah for the shark men of Tinseltown. In “The Beta Test,” he portrays a Hollywood agent, a real “Swimming with the Sharks” type, who receives a letter in the mail inviting him to “an anonymous, no-strings-attached sexual encounter” with a secret admirer in a hotel room. He already has a fiancée,…
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‘The Beta Test’: Jim Cummings Tackles Douchebag Hollywood Agents In An Anxiety Horror About Being Canceled [Tribeca Review]
Indie anxiety auteur Jim Cummings’ work is always trembling nervously with the hum or uneasy apprehension. His brilliant debut, “Thunder Road” throbbed with the cringe-y tension of a grieving divorcee policeman on the verge of a nervous breakdown, and his follow-up, “The Wolf of Snow Hollow” layered murder mystery genre elements and the idea of…
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‘The Beta Test’ Review: Jim Cummings Rivets as a Hollywood Agent in a Twilight Zone of Temptation
In the late ’90s, when Jim Carrey did his pivot away from rubber-faced anarchy to became a serious actor, the detour didn’t last all that long, but he gave three stupendous performances, and one of the things that made them great is that Carrey, in those roles, seemed to be expressing more of himself than…