[CT-NFB] August Events

Tue Jul 30 23:34:58 UTC 2024

Hi All, 

Below is a list of events that everyone is invited to for the month of
August 2024, feel free to share with everyone! 

If you have suggestions for upcoming movies or would like your name added to
the weekly reminder list, send a message to Steve Cook at the below Email
address.

movies at nfbofsc.org <mailto:movies at nfbofsc.org> 

The Zoom room will be open at 7:45 for all events and the event will begin
at 8:00 PM Eastern. 

Friday, August 2, 2024 

Rocket Man audio described movie

Friday, August 9, 2024

Moon Fall audio described movie

Friday, August 23, 2024

42 audio described movie

Friday, August 30, 2024

Name that Tune

Rules for Name That Tune

Stay muted unless your team is up. 

No cheating.

Have fun!

TV Theme Song Category: 1 point.

only have to name the TV show  to get 1 point.

If your team guesses wrong,  another team can steal to get the point. If the
team that stole does not get the correct answer, they will lose 1 point. 

Decade : 3 points

name the artist and song for 3 points. If you correctly name the artist or
song, you’ll get 1 point. another team will be able to steal to get the
point(s) if they are able to get the correct answer. If the team that stole
does not get the correct answer. They will lose a point(s). 

Movie Theme Songs: 7 points

There are 3 parts to each tune for this category. You must name the artist
song and movie in order to receive the full 7 points. For each answer you
get correct, you will receive 2 points. If you get all three, you get a
bonus point, totaling 7.

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Rocket Man

Dressed in a flamboyant devil's outfit, Elton John enters an addiction
rehabilitation session, recounting his life in a flashback ("The Bitch Is
Back").

Reginald Dwight grows up in 1950s Britain, raised by his unaffectionate
mother Sheila, and his more loving grandmother Ivy. He is interested in
music and hopes to perform for his father Stanley, who takes no interest in
his son ("I Want Love"). Reginald begins piano lessons, making his way into
the Royal Academy of Music. Stanley abandons his family after Sheila has an
affair. Soon after, her lover Fred moves in with the family and he
introduces young Reginald to rock music. He grows up idolizing rock
musicians and begins performing in local pubs ("Saturday Night's Alright for
Fighting"). As an adult, Reginald joins the band Bluesology, which is hired
to play backup for touring American bands The Isley Brothers and Patti
LaBelle and the Blue Belles ("Breaking Down the Walls of Heartache"). Ronald
Isley recommends he write songs and put his old life behind him to become a
famous artist. Reginald changes his name to Elton John, taking his first
name from Elton Dean, the saxophonist of Bluesology, and "John" from John
Lennon.

Elton writes music and tries to find success with Dick James' record label
DJM Records under the management of Ray Williams. Williams introduces Elton
to lyricist Bernie Taupin; they become friends and move into a flat to
compose their songs ("Border Song"). When Elton admits he is homosexual, he
ends his romantic relationship with their landlady, so they are evicted.
Elton and Bernie move in with Elton's grandmother, his mother, and Fred,
where they continue writing and create "Your Song". James sets up a
performance for them at the Troubadour in Los Angeles. Elton is nervous
before his debut, but the audience embraces his performance ("Crocodile
Rock").

Elton is overjoyed by his success but feels abandoned when Bernie leaves him
at a party to spend time with a woman ("Tiny Dancer"). He is approached by
music manager John Reid and, after hitting it off, they sleep together
("Take Me To The Pilot"). Elton launches into a downward spiral into a life
of debauchery while his career rises to new heights ("Honky Cat"). He
develops a flamboyant stage persona and becomes one of the most successful
artists of the 1970s. Reid becomes Elton's manager and insists Elton tell
his parents he is gay, so he reconnects with his father, who displays no
interest in him. Distraught, Elton calls his mother to tell her he is gay.
She already knew, but says he will be forever unloved. Devastated by his
parents' rejection, as well as Reid's increasing physical and emotional
abuse, Elton becomes addicted to alcohol, cocaine, cannabis, shopping, and
sex. His addictions, mood swings and short temper alienate his friends
("Pinball Wizard"). Elton catches Reid cheating on him and ends their
relationship, but he continues as his manager. During a party, he overdoses
on pills and attempts suicide by jumping into his pool. He is rushed to the
hospital, then thrust on stage at Dodger Stadium to perform ("Rocket Man").

Elton descends further into a life of drugs, alcohol, and loneliness
("Bennie and the Jets"). He has a short-lived marriage with close female
friend Renate Blauel, but his homosexuality dooms their relationship ("Don't
Let the Sun Go Down on Me"). He falls out with his mother and Bernie ("Sorry
Seems to Be the Hardest Word"). Elton's dependence on prescription pills and
alcohol results in a heart attack. Realizing his life is out of control,
Elton leaves a concert without warning and checks into a rehab center
("Goodbye Yellow Brick Road").

Elton realizes he no longer needs approval from his parents or Reid. He also
rekindles his friendship with Bernie, who brings him new lyrics. Elton is
worried that he cannot perform or compose without alcohol or drugs, but
writes "I'm Still Standing" and returns to a successful career.

The epilogue notes that Elton has been sober for over 28 years. He remains
good friends and song-writing partners with Bernie and is happily married to
David Furnish, with whom he has two children.

Cast

Taron Egerton, Jamie Bell and Richard Madden (left to right) play Elton
John, Bernie Taupin and John Reid, respectively.

Taron Egerton as Elton John (Reginald Dwight)

Matthew Illesley as young Reginald Dwight

Kit Connor as teenage Reginald Dwight

Jamie Bell as Bernie Taupin

Richard Madden as John Reid

Bryce Dallas Howard as Sheila Dwight

Gemma Jones as Ivy, Elton's grandmother

Stephen Graham as Dick James

Steven Mackintosh as Stanley Dwight

Tate Donovan as Doug Weston

Charlie Rowe as Ray Williams

Tom Bennett as Fred, Sheila's boyfriend

Keith Lemon as a retail worker

Rachel Muldoon as singer Kiki Dee

Ophelia Lovibond as Arabella (Elton's girlfriend)

Celinde Schoenmaker as Renate Blauel (Elton's wife)

Moon Fall

In 2011, astronauts Brian Harper, Jocinda "Jo" Fowler, and newcomer Alan
Marcus are on a Space Shuttle mission to repair a satellite. A mysterious
swarm of alien technology attacks the orbiter, killing Alan and knocking Jo
unconscious before tunneling into the surface of the Moon. Brian, the only
witness to the swarm, returns the crippled shuttle to Earth, but his story
is dismissed and he is fired from NASA.

Ten years later, conspiracy theorist K.C. Houseman, who believes that the
Moon is an artificial megastructure, secretly uses a research telescope. He
discovers that the Moon's orbit is veering closer to Earth, and tries to
share his findings with the disgraced Brian. NASA also discovers the
anomaly, but K.C. goes public on social media, leading to a global panic. Jo
is now NASA's deputy director, launching a spacecraft on an SLS Block 1
rocket to investigate the abnormality. The same swarm attacks, killing all
three lunar astronauts after they drop a probe into a miles-deep artificial
shaft that has opened up on the Moon's surface.

As the lunar orbit deteriorates, the Moon falls closer and closer to the
Earth, causing seismic and gravitational disturbances. Jo meets former NASA
official Holdenfield, who reveals that Brian was discredited because of a
NASA coverup dating back to Apollo 11. During the first Moon landing, a
two-minute radio blackout was meant to conceal evidence of pulsating lights
on the surface. Apollo 12 revealed that the Moon is hollow, and a military
EMP device created to kill the swarm was abandoned for budgetary reasons.

With help from her ex-husband General Doug Davidson, Air Force Chief of
Staff, Jo requisitions the EMP and rescues retired Space Shuttle Endeavour
from a museum to serve the new mission: to correct the Moon's orbit and
destroy the swarm. Brian, K.C., and Jo launch with the EMP, narrowly
escaping to orbit as a tsunami destroys Vandenberg Air Force Base.

They reach the interior of the Moon, revealed to be a Dyson sphere powered
by a white dwarf at its center. The Dyson sphere's AI operating system
explains to Brian that billions of years ago, the technologically advanced
ancestors of modern humans were eradicated by a rogue AI. They built the
Moon as an interstellar ark to create and seed life on Earth, but the AI (in
the form of the swarm) discovered it and began siphoning energy from its
power source, destabilizing its orbit.

Meanwhile, Brian's son Sonny, Jo's son Jimmy, and his caretaker Michelle try
to reach Doug's military bunker in the Colorado mountains, finding Brian's
ex-wife and Sonny's mother Brenda, her husband Tom, and their family.
Escaping disasters caused by the Moon's proximity and fighting off other
survivors, the group finds safety in a mountain tunnel. As the Moon strips
away the local atmosphere, Tom's youngest daughter runs out of oxygen. The
injured Tom gives her his own supply, suffocating to death. The president
orders a nuclear strike on the approaching Moon, but Doug refuses to comply,
with debris collapsing the bunker shortly thereafter, apparently killing
Doug.

As the swarm only attacks organic life in the presence of electronic
activity, K.C. lures the swarm away from their spacecraft with their lunar
module, sacrificing himself to detonate the EMP. Jo and Brian return to
Earth, reuniting with their families, and the Moon's power is restored,
returning to its regular orbit, but now shed of its rocky exterior.
Reconstructing K.C.'s consciousness, the Moon's operating system appears to
K.C. as his cat, Fuzz Aldrin, and his mother, remarking that they must now
"get started".

Cast

Halle Berry at the 2017 San Diego Comic-Con International in San Diego,
California.

Patrick Wilson at the 2018 San Diego Comic-Con International in San Diego,
California.

Halle Berry and Patrick Wilson play former NASA astronauts Jocinda Fowler
and Brian Harper.

Halle Berry as Jocinda Fowler, a former NASA astronaut now serving as deputy
director of NASA and Brian Harper's colleague who once flew together on a
Space Shuttle Endeavour mission

Patrick Wilson as Brian Harper, a disgraced former NASA astronaut and Jo's
colleague who flew on a Space Shuttle Endeavour mission.

John Bradley as K.C. Houseman, an amateur researcher, who finds out about
the Moon being artificial and also discovers the incoming Moon impact
towards Earth following his contact with an official from an observatory in
Chile.

Michael Peña as Tom Lopez, Brenda's husband.

Charlie Plummer as Sonny Harper, Brian and Brenda's estranged son who was
arrested for speeding. Plummer and Dalman additionally portray the
manifestation of the Moon's alien operating system as it appears to Brian
Harper.

Azriel Dalman as young Sonny

Kelly Yu as Michelle, a Chinese foreign exchange student who is also the
nanny to Jocinda's son Jimmy.

Donald Sutherland as Holdenfield, a former NASA official who found out about
the dark side of the Moon mystery that occurred during Apollo 11 mission and
was ordered to keep it under wraps.

Carolina Bartczak as Brenda Lopez, Brian's ex-wife and Sonny's mother, who
currently lives with her new husband Tom.

Eme Ikwuakor as Doug Davidson, a United States Air Force Four-Star General
who served as Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force and deputy
director, as well as Jocinda's ex-husband.

Maxim Roy as Sgt. Gabriella Auclair, a military captain who leads the
task-force mission to rescue Brian and Houseman.

Frank Schorpion as General Jenkins, a United States Air Force Four-Star
General who served as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and was tasked
by the President of the United States to launch a nuclear strike at the
Moon.

Stephen Bogaert as NASA Director Albert Hutchings, who turns over his
position to Jo at the last minute before the Moon's impact.

Andreas Apergis as Colonel Reed, a soldier tasked to deliver an EMP that was
to be detonated on the Moon.

Kathleen Fee as Elaine Houseman, K.C.'s mother who lives at a nursing home
and suffers from Alzheimer's disease.

Additionally, Zayn Maloney portrays Jocinda's and Doug's 10-year old son
Jimmy, while Ava Weiss and Hazel Nugent portray Brenda's and Tom's 9-year
old and 12-year old daughters, Nikki Lopez and Lauren Lopez, respectively.

42

In 1945, Brooklyn Dodgers owner Branch Rickey meets with sportswriter
Wendell Smith regarding wanting to recruit a black baseball player for his
team; Wendell suggests Jackie Robinson of the Kansas City Monarchs. Robinson
accepts, but is warned by Rickey that he must control his temper despite the
adversities he will face while breaking the color line. Robinson proposes to
his girlfriend, Rachel, and she accepts.

Robinson earns a spot with the Montreal Royals, the AAA affiliate of the
Brooklyn farm system. After performing well his first season, he advances to
the Dodgers and is trained as a first baseman. Some of the Dodgers draft a
petition refusing to play with Robinson, but manager Leo Durocher rebuffs
them. However, Durocher is suspended by Baseball Commissioner Happy Chandler
due to his extramarital affair. Burt Shotton takes over as manager. Robinson
and Rachel have their first child.

In a game against the Philadelphia Phillies, manager Ben Chapman taunts
Robinson with racial epithets.[9] With encouragement from Rickey, Robinson
scores the winning run. When Chapman's behavior toward Robinson generates
negative press for the team, Phillies' general manager Herb Pennock requires
him to pose with Robinson for magazine photos.

Later, Pee Wee Reese comes to understand what kind of pressure Robinson is
facing, and makes a public show of solidarity, standing with his arm around
Robinson's shoulders before a hostile crowd at Crosley Field in Cincinnati,
silencing them.

In a game against the St. Louis Cardinals, Enos Slaughter spikes Robinson on
the back of the leg with his cleats. The Dodgers want revenge, but Robinson
calms them and insists they focus on winning the game.

Robinson's home run against Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Fritz Ostermueller,
who had earlier hit him in the head, helps the Dodgers clinch the National
League pennant, sending them to the World Series.

A series of texts is shown in the epilogue of the film regarding Robinson
and his teammates’ future involvements, as well as others.

Cast

Chadwick Boseman as Jackie Robinson

Harrison Ford as Branch Rickey

Nicole Beharie as Rachel Robinson

Christopher Meloni as Leo Durocher

André Holland as Wendell Smith

Alan Tudyk as Ben Chapman

Lucas Black as Pee Wee Reese

Hamish Linklater as Ralph Branca

Brett Cullen as Clay Hopper

Ryan Merriman as Dixie Walker

Brad Beyer as Kirby Higbe

Gino Anthony Pesi as Joe Garagiola

T. R. Knight as Harold Parrott

Max Gail as Burt Shotton

Toby Huss as Clyde Sukeforth

James Pickens Jr. as Mr. Brock

Mark Harelik as Herb Pennock

Derek Phillips as Bobby Bragan

Jesse Luken as Eddie Stanky

John C. McGinley as Red Barber

Dusan Brown as young Ed Charles

Linc Hand as Fritz Ostermueller

Matt Clark as Luther

Peter MacKenzie as Happy Chandler

C. J. Nitkowski as Dutch Leonard

Peter Jurasik as Hotel Manager

Jeremy Ray Taylor as Boy

Colman Domingo as Lawson Bowman

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