Released: 1 December 2025 (Digital) Director: Luc Besson Starring: Caleb Landry Jones, Zoe Bleu Sidel Back in 2023, filmmaker Luc Besson (Leon: The Professional) and actor Caleb Landry Jones (Get Out) worked together on DogMan, a unique crime thriller centering on a traumatised individual leading life in the margins of society with his dogs. Their […]
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When you think about Christmas movies, you probably think of Santa Claus, his reindeer, and even the North Pole. Santa has been the main character in holiday movies for a long time, from classic children’s movies to big-budget blockbusters. There is more to the sparkle of Christmas than just Santa. Some of the best holiday […]
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An appraiser pauses at the curb, head tilted toward a maple with split limbs and exposed roots. In Seattle, property valuations now factor tree health and visible maintenance into condition ratings, so what happens beneath the canopy matters as much as house paint and gutters.
Homeowners who keep records of pruning, pest treatments, and arborist visits make appraisals more straightforward and cut down on back-and-forth with agents and lenders. Start with dated photos and service slips, schedule major pruning a few weeks before inspections, and keep a simple maintenance log to show steady care. Noting tree locations relative to foundations, driveways, and power lines helps clarify safety concerns and expected upkeep. A little preparation makes the evaluation smoother at closing.
Seattle appraisers now use specific scoring points tied to tree structure, placement, and visible care. During site review, they measure canopy spread relative to nearby roofs, note clearance from power lines, and record signs of pruning quality. Exposed roots near foundations or cracked pavement often trigger risk comments. Each item links directly to a condition category that influences the final property rating.
Appraisers compare visible upkeep with the overall condition of trees on the property. Regular maintenance performed by a reputable tree service Seattle company will show consistent care that reduces visible risks like dead limbs or overextended branches. When trees appear healthy and well managed, lenders view the property as lower-risk and easier to maintain long term.
Healthy trees increase curb appeal and protect nearby structures. Strong root systems prevent cracking in sidewalks and driveways, while even canopy growth shades roofs and windows, reducing long-term wear. Visible pruning cuts and trimmed limbs show steady care, signaling to appraisers that upkeep is consistent rather than reactive. Balanced, clean crowns indicate stable condition.
Regular service from an ISA-certified arborist adds measurable value. Reports detailing structural trimming, pest treatments, and soil amendments give evaluators clear evidence of reliable care. Properties with organized documentation and technician notes appear safer for lenders and buyers across Seattle’s varied urban environments.
A clear care record gives evaluators verified information instead of guesswork. Detailed logs with dates for trimming, soil treatments, and pest work establish a reliable baseline; signed service slips and short technician notes strengthen credibility. Certified arborist reports outlining treatment plans and expected outcomes provide measurable proof of property management, anchoring each appraisal in documented evidence.
Dated before-and-after photos create a visual history of hazard repairs that support written records. Upload organized files for review before inspection to minimize follow-ups and keep the evaluation focused on safety, consistency, and steady care from season to season.
Scheduling maintenance by season helps trees recover before inspections and prevents rushed cleanup that looks like neglect. Plan major pruning six to eight weeks ahead of appraisal dates so cuts seal and foliage fills in naturally. Complete stump removals, limb hauling, and surface cleanup early to present a clear, even-grade yard with no debris or exposed roots.
Apply soil nutrients and pest treatments several weeks in advance for visible recovery and improved canopy color. Inspect cabling and bracing hardware for wear and tighten exposed fittings. Confirm all service dates with an ISA-certified arborist so records, photos, and visit timing align with appraisal schedules and show steady year-round care.
ISA-certified arborist reports lend clear credibility during appraisals and showings. Their assessments set a recognized standard of care and are more useful when the arborist knows Seattle soil, pests and permit rules. Request brief summaries detailing structural pruning, soil improvements and pest treatments so appraisers can map specific work to condition ratings.
A standing service agreement keeps dated invoices, technician notes, and annual summaries together, simplifying requests from agents or lenders. Regular contracts encourage timely follow-ups and build a consistent paper trail showing ongoing upkeep. Keep concise written outcomes and photos after major work so you can present a single packet to an evaluator or upload files before inspection.
Seattle appraisers now record canopy shape, root exposure, and pruning quality as measurable indicators of property condition. Homeowners who keep dated photos, service slips, and brief arborist summaries provide inspectors with clear proof of continuous care. Scheduling pruning, pest treatments, and soil work several weeks before valuation helps trees recover and appear stable. Organizing documentation by tree location allows faster reference during appraisal and prevents confusion about maintenance history. Healthy, well-documented trees minimize liability risks, improve condition ratings, and demonstrate visible evidence of responsible upkeep that buyers, lenders, and insurers interpret as a sign of long-term property reliability.
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With the spine of a sports movie, the maniacal misadventure Marty Supreme from director Josh Safdie invites and pushes viewers to get into a tizzy, more or less, over ping pong. For film aficionados with simpler tastes than finery produced by A24, there’s a good chance they haven’t seen ping pong depicted this much on the big screen since the 2007 oddball comedy, Balls of Fury. Holy macaroni, other than securing ping pong consultant Diego Schaaf, Marty Supreme is far from that lemon, and is filled with the kinds of harsh personas and agitated tension that would squish an entire bushel of lemons without wincing.
Harsh and agitated, you ask? Yes, and here’s an example. According to the title character of Marty Supreme, we’re naming the sport wrong right off the bat. In a running gag not overtly hilarious on the level of something found in a Naked Gun movie but effective to get eye-rolling chuckle, every time the name “ping pong” is spoken to Timothée Chalamet’s Marty Mauser, he offhandedly corrects the confronted person with crude prissiness to call the sport its proper name of “table tennis.”
When he does it, Marty is perturbed and petulant because he sees the majority of people not taking his chosen passion seriously. He zips right past passive-aggressive whining to in-your-face indignation as quickly as his drop shot. The behavior brewing—which only gets more irrational and deranged as the movie goes on—creates another cinematic litmus test for Marty Supreme when it comes to embracing the prescribed tizzy.
We have to find a way to root for an asshole. Worse, depending on your own contempt or adoration for the debate of formality of table tennis versus ping pong, we have to root for an asshole playing that predominantly inconsequential sport. Pin that for later.
Loosely inspired by the flamboyant former table tennis champion Marty Reisman, Marty Supreme is set in 1952, where the self-proclaimed best American champion of table tennis is languishing in the Lower East Side of New York City, living with his old biddy mother (Fran Drescher, criminally underused in a comeback role) and laboring at a shoe store run by his uncle. After banging and—complete with a Look Who’s Talking!-style opening credits sequence—impregnating his married paramour, Rachel Mizler (2025’s very busy Odessa A’zion), in the storeroom, Marty lifts the money owed to him from the store safe and flies to London for the British Open, expecting to win and be pampered like a champion professional athlete.
LESSON #1: OVERCONFIDENCE PERSONIFIED— Mary Mauser sees himself to be uniquely positioned to become America’s first superstar of the sport, with the potential to fill stadiums, and pitches his greatness to anyone who will listen and anyone who can elevate his status. A proud Jew, he takes it a step too far, calling himself “the ultimate product of Hitler’s defeat.” At 23, Marty has branded his own table tennis ball and hopes to market the first high-visibility orange ball. In London, he verbally tears down his competition and weasels his way into the wandering eye, good graces, and illicit bedsheets of Kay Stone (Oscar winner Gwyneth Paltrow), a retired movie star and trophy wife to inkpen magnate Milton Rockwell (Shark Tank’s Kevin O’Leary, planted as the domineering villain).
When Marty loses in the British Open final to the unflappable post-war Japanese champion Koto Endo (real-life deaf Olympian Koto Kawaguchi), he refuses to accept his defeat and declining circumstances. After taking entertainment money beneath his standards by working as vaudeville halftime and pre-game entertainment for the Harlem Globetrotters basketball team with fellow champ Béla Kletzki (the overqualified Géza Röhrig from Son of Saul), he returns to New York City, heartset on making the trip to Japan for the world championship and a rematch with Endo.
This is where Marty Supreme and Josh Safdie flip the proverbial big switch from the old Frankenstein set and jolt this movie to a different voltage level of electricity, and it starts with being handcuffed in his mother’s apartment, wrapped in a towel from the shower. After a daring fire escape chase with little else but the shirt on his back, Marty goes on the run with a mission to scrap together the necessary money and evade the law. Taking a page from last year’s Best Picture winner, Anora, which stopped its steady passage of time for a combative “one wild night” escapade, the massive and arduous middle of Marty Supreme becomes a turbulent comedy of errors and a tawdry cavalcade of lucky breaks.
LESSON #2: THE DEPTHS ONE WOULD STOOP FOR THEIR OWN GAIN— The longer and weirder the odyssey careens in Marty Supreme, the more shocking the litany list of sins, fuckups, and indiscretions becomes. For our main character, all of it tests the Top Gun line of “Son, your ego is writing checks your body can’t cash.” Continuing into James Tolkan’s fiery chew-out monologue, there’s admittedly a thrilling point in Marty Supreme, watching it spew its narrative guts of pitfalls all over the place, where we, the viewer, fall in line like Goose to answer “Thank you, sir” to the interjection of “And you, asshole, you’re lucky to be here.” Marty Supreme indeed is an untamed plunge that has to be seen and weathered to believe (something this review refuses to spoil further).
LESSON #3: ROOTING FOR THE ASSHOLE— With each new despicable and desperate act committed by Marty, inflicting selfish collateral damage to others around him, his foolhardy pride becomes more incorrigible. His collective impatience for money, dreams, and respect is huge. Compared to most sports movie tropes presenting emerging giants among men, romantic depictions of universally embraced sports, or, at the very least, lovable losers we can relate to, Marty Supreme gives us a “hero” who is reprehensible, through and through. As aforementioned, we somehow have to root for that guy or, contrarily, any measure of well-deserved comeuppance. How you find yourself cheering—or adamantly not—in Marty Supreme is crucial to the experience and will almost certainly split the theater patrons.
Deemed the hero or his own villain, Timothée Chalamet chisels an unforgettable scoundrel of a specimen in Marty Supreme, striding that fine line between complete hate and wow-level talent. Through posture, gait, swirls of hair, beads of sweat, and devious grins on top of table tennis chops, the Wonka and Dune franchise star invents a singular personality of a narcissistic champion mired with the path of a loser so warped and wound differently than everyone else in the movie that his performance leaps off the screen. He and his tailspin are spellbinding, all ominously backed by an aggressive musical score from synthesizing Uncut Gems composer Daniel Lopatin and tone-setting, on-the-nose soundtrack pulls from the 1980s.
Those infusions, coupled with edgy camera work from cinematographer and two-time Oscar nominee Darius Khondji, attempt to enliven the striking period detail of the production and engineer a big game feel rocketing towards a finale. In doing so, Marty Supreme can be as frenetic as its lead, and those brazen balls are what people come for with a Safdie film. There’s an energy—an intoxicating and exhausting fix—to hitchhiking on this downward spiral. However, when it’s all said and done in this male-dominated affair, you’re back to scrounging for or justifying the satisfaction or dissatisfaction of Lesson #3 and the fact that this is, once again, a tizzy made for ping pong.
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One minute you’re at an independent film festival watching a short film by some newcomer called Christopher Nolan, the next minute you’re watching him collect Oscars like sweets, for a three hour epic called Oppenheimer. Short films are often the calling cards of great film makers of the future. However, these films are often small […]
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There’s a striking montage that seals the rustic simplicity of Max Walker-Silverman’s sophomore directorial effort, Rebuilding. A major supporting character has died, and a funeral must be scraped together. The procession is a pine box casket ratchet-strapped to the bed of a pickup truck, followed by a single additional car of family members. On the way to where they are going, those two vehicles—coffin and all—stop on the side of the road to pick impromptu wildflowers for the service. They arrive at a fenced family plot of tombstones marred by recent wildfires. Tears are shed, a single acoustic guitar song is played, and no one is in a suit or black dress.
When you’re watching these stitched-together scenes in the final third of Rebuilding, never once are you questioning its crudeness. Knowing what you know at this point in the film, the commonly used words of grief consolation of “It’s what they would have wanted” come to mind, and there’s immediate peace in that. You are not looking down on any perceived lack of ceremony or decorum, because what’s there and the people putting together this personal tribute are beautiful and caring in their own right. Rebuilding crafts this level of care into its entire narrative.
LESSON #1: NOT EVERYONE WANTS TO “BUST OUT OF THIS COW TOWN”— So often in movies that depict rural American life, there are major or minor characters who, through their actions and words, are always looking to “bust out of this cow town.” The time period could be 150 years ago or the current 21st century, and the trend of dreaming about perceived more exciting places is the same. Screenplays frequently written by urban outsiders cannot fathom that plenty of people actually prefer the bucolic lifestyle. Rebuilding, a darling of the 2025 festival circuit going back all the way to the Sundance Film Festival, defies that trope with tremendous conviction.
Rebuilding opens on the cinders of Colorado wildfires, and shows a sullen man in a Bangora cowboy hat who has lost his home, burnt right down to the concrete foundation base positioned near a grove of blackened trees. Even in this dire condition, exceptionally shot by cinematographer Alfonso Herrera Salcedo (Ex-Husbands), absorbing the rich topography of Conejos County shooting locations, you can picture the previous forested beauty that would have been there. Nearby, there’s that aforementioned family cemetery, showing that generations have lived here, and your heart aches more. Thomas “Dusty” Fraser, Jr. (The Crown Emmy winner and busy 2025 movie star Josh O’Connor) has to circle the wagons and figure out what to do to make ends meet.
Dusty’s first step is selling the cattle that used to roam his 200 acres at auction, netting pennies on the dollar of their true value. He has supportive help nearby, in the form of other ranchers. Where there is infinite work to do, few have the money to pay to get it done. Dusty learns that a cousin in Montana could use some help through calving season and hopefully after, creating Rebuilding’s only glimpse of the “bust out of this cow town” trope.
Making that move would require Dusty to leave home, and he won’t do it. Even though they are divorced, his cooperative and understanding ex-wife Ruby (multiple Emmy Award nominee The White Lotus and Sirens Emmy nominee Meghann Fahy) and former mother-in-law Bess Hadley (2025’s comeback dame Amy Madigan of Weapons) live locally. Ruby and Dusty share a precocious elementary-aged daughter, Callie-Rose (excellent newcomer Lily LaTorre).
She adores her cowboy father and looks up to him with “I can do it” gumption. As soon as you see Callie-Rose and her father together—learning to ride horses and pulling WiFi from the library parking lot to do school homework—you know straightaway the reason Dusty is not high-tailing it to Montana to chase money. Next to Lily LaTorre putting forth one of the best child performances of the year, Josh O’Connor delivers a wonderfully tender performance that brightens this relationship and flickers the hope inside a defeated man. Madigan and Fahy add two more amicable characters who do right by Dusty and want the best for him, knowing a positive Dusty makes for a better Callie-Rose.
LESSON #2: MAKING THE BEST OF A TEMPORARY LIVING SITUATION— In a small inclusion of outside influence shown in Rebuilding, FEMA has put those displaced by the recent wildfires up in a lot of temporary mobile homes. There, Dusty befriends Mila (True Detective ensemble member and former champion boxer Kali Reis) and other families who are doing their level best to make “home where the heart is.” Thanks to Callie-Rose’s pluck and optimism, Dusty joins this makeshift community and finds his downtrodden heart lifted. They become his new people, and it’s a pleasant blend of spirit and diversity of people, all fearing they are being forgotten or that “temporary” is truly their unfortunate fate.
LESSON #3: “YOU GOT WHAT YOU GOT”— Amy Madigan’s Bess gets the line of the movie with this lesson title. In a film with plainspoken folks, very few people are going to peel off any type of lengthy monologue in Rebuilding. In a way, less is more, making small conversations reverberate with bonded importance. Yet, within this hardscrabble mantra of “you got what you got,” half of it is the resilience to make due with what you have through community resourcefulness and a softening of big dreams without regret. At the same time, that axiom is a past-tense reminder of how you likely have all the right things for your destiny around you, like loved ones, good friends, and a roof—no matter its type of construction—over your head.
Once again, a different movie than Rebuilding would be populated with social climbers or stiffer political messages, especially with the plot of citizens losing livelihoods and entire homes to natural disasters. That type of movie’s “what do we do about it” attitude would be in high gear. Yet, here’s Max Walker-Silverman, following up the well-received A Love Song, with a drama that emphasizes true familial roots before anything else. When done right, those basics are bigger than any flashy extras. Instead of only “home is where your heart is,” Rebuilding asserts that home is where you are welcome, and, even after everything, Dusty says it like it is: “I don’t like anywhere better.”
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Choosing the right hair extension type for your natural hair texture is crucial for achieving a seamless, effortless look that enhances your confidence. Londoners searching for a transformative hair solution will find that texture compatibility and proper application are just as important as premium-quality hair. Whether your goal is length, volume, or a new style, matching extensions with your hair’s unique qualities ensures a natural blend and long-lasting results. For those interested in professional, lasting options, the company Ivana Farisei offers keratin bond extensions which have become a popular choice in London salons due to their customizability and discreet finish.
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Flawless hair extensions start with expert assessment and application. Collaborating with an experienced specialist ensures you select the best method for your hair texture and lifestyle, reducing the risk of damage and dissatisfaction. Professionals not only match color and texture precisely but also offer ongoing support for maintenance and styling. For London residents, investing in high-quality extensions and specialist guidance pays off with beautiful, undetectable results that feel as natural as they look.
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