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2023-03-01 15:00:03


Don't say I didn't warn you. #ScreamVI


#screamvi

Miranda Cosgrove will be in a new film! It will be on Netflix and is called Mother of the Bride. I'm assuming she'll be the bride rather than the mother.
#MirandaCosgrove #MotherOfTheBride
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Brooke Shields, Miranda Cosgrove Join Netflix's 'Mother of the Bride'

Brooke Shields, Miranda Cosgrove and Benjamin Bratt will star in “Mother of the Bride,” a new romantic comedy from Netflix. Mark Waters, who previously helmed “Mean Girls” a…
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#MirandaCosgrove #MotherOfTheBride

Jenna Ortega is going to be in a new film! Its title is not announced yet, nor what it is about or even what kind of film it is. Yeah, all the news here...
#JennaOrtega #AFilm
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The Weeknd, Jenna Ortega, Barry Keoghan to Star in New Movie

Abel “The Weeknd” Tesfaye will have his first starring role in a feature film that he wrote and is also producing. The picture, which is currently untitled and has been kept shrouded in mystery reg…
Brent Lang (Variety)
#JennaOrtega #AFilm

Happy Birthday Georgina Leonidas!

Yeah, Georgina is born on double the date of her older sister, Stephanie, which makes it easy to remember for me. And I have a calendar on my phone.

I like to rewatch something to mark the occasion, but not much of hers is available on streaming services or on dvd. If you ignore a major film series about a boy wizard that is. So YouTube clips it is. I randomly chose this Basil Brush episode from the playlist I made last year.
#GeorginaLeonidas #BirthdayRewatch

The Basil Brush Show S04E06 The Stupid Christmas I Mean Halloween Episode


Georgina Leonidas - Actress

Georgina Leonidas. Actress: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Georgina Leonidas was born on 28 February 1990 in London, England, UK.
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#BirthdayRewatch #GeorginaLeonidas
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Rewatching New Tricks episode 6x03 "Fresh Starts" for the Birthday Rewatch for Georgina Leonidas. In this episode she has a significant guest role which she of course performs rather brilliantly.
#GeorginaLeonidas #NewTricks
#GeorginaLeonidas #NewTricks
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I've seen most episodes of this twelve year long series and I think this episode may be the best one. Intricate story, more difficult themes than normally, very emotional. And as I said, Georgina is really great in it.

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2023-02-27 01:21:22


Aubrey Plaza and Jenna Ortega being dark and moody together…love lol
#SAGAwards


#sagawards

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The German DVD for The Worst Witch series 1, with the main character flying on a broom stick. Neither Felicity nor Jessica are pictured on the cover. The German title is 'Eine lausige Hexe'.
#NowWatching #FelicityJones #JessicaFox #TheWorstWitch
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Episode 6 Jessica Fox comes in as Enid Nightshade. Instantly quite a character.

It has been my theory (without knowing the books) that originally the idea was to have Mildred go up against Ethel as the standard good vs evil battle. But because Mildred is 'the worst witch', and Ethel some sort of perfect witch with lots of talent, these stories were not going to work very well if magic was to be used in the battles. In comes Enid, also without morals, also very good at spells, but she takes an instant dislike to Ethel so she joins Mildred just to upset her.

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Teaching the kids puffication without also teaching them repuffication is quite irresponsible.

Dafne Keen on letterboxd reviewing a film with her father in it:

My g will Keen, never heard of him before, decent actor.

😁

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(She shared this herself on her Instagram, I'm not revealing anything secret)

New interview with Jenna Ortega for the SAG-AFTRA Foundation, with her fellow nominees for the SAG Award in her category. Focusing on Wednesday from an actress perspective. I really like seeing how much work and thought she put into it. The awards are handed out tomorrow I think.
#JennaOrtega #WednesdayNetflix #Wednesday #SAGAwards

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Female Actor in a Comedy Series, SAG Award Nominees 2023 I SAG-AFTRA Foundation Conversations

SAG Award nominees Quinta Brunson (‘Abbott Elementary’), Jenna Ortega (‘Wednesday’), Rachel Brosnahan (‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’), Christina Applegate (‘De...
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#JennaOrtega #Wednesday #WednesdayNetflix #sagawards

@Matthias Bürcher I tried adding the magic words to my profile, and as far as I can check two of them are there (searchable and tootfinder), but https://www.tootfinder.ch/ says that I don't have the magic word in my profile. I checked some profiles of others but I can't find what I'm doing wrong.

Do you have any advice, if you have time? Thanks!

@Matthias Bürcher
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The fallback to HTML does not work, because Friendica seems to use other URLs than Mastodon. This URL goes nowhere friendica.gidikroon.eu/users/g…
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@Matthias Bürcher Ah, that explains it. I thought the webfinger lookup would be used. The feed urls in Friendica are also different from Mastodon, even if the profile lookup would succeed. I had also tried my Pleroma account which gave the same message. Anyway, thanks for looking into it!

(Fyi, the Friendica profile url may be like https://friendica.gidikroon.eu/profile/gidi/profile or without the final /profile and the Pleroma one https://pleroma.gidikroon.eu/users/Gidi. My feed app discovers the Friendica feed url as https://friendica.gidikroon.eu/dfrn_poll/gidi (or https://friendica.gidikroon.eu/feed/gidi/) and for Pleroma https://pleroma.gidikroon.eu/users/gidi/feed.atom.)

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When did you try with Pleroma? I had another user this morning and could solve his problem.
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ok i see the problem. The bio is too long for Pleroma. Acess on the API returns "Interrnal Server error". Access on HTML returns only an abbreviated version of the bio which stops at "nothing wrong with..." because Pleroma limits the bio in the header to about 200 char. The rest will be displayed only with Javasrript in the app, so tootfinder cannot see it.
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@Matthias Bürcher ok, thank you for checking. I will experiment with different ways around it later, but your explanation is clear.
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Thank you for the details. I have created an issue in the wiki so I can try to make it work once I have some more time.
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Tootfinder Wiki - Issue:Friendica and Pleroma feeds

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Upcoming Jenna Ortega appearances: she will present (and hopefully receive) an award at this Sunday's SAG awards and on 11 March she will host SNL.
#JennaOrtega
#JennaOrtega

Rewatching season one of Jessica Jones. I like the idea of the reluctant superhero.
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It's one of my favourite opening sequences of a tv show, it looks so beautiful.
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It's weird how I have no memory at all about the season's later episodes, it's like seeing them for the first time.

While I'm watching Nicole Muñoz, now for something completely different: Center Stage: On Pointe.
#NicoleMuñoz #CenterStageOnPointe
The blu-ray cover showing various dancers, with Nicole's name listed first
#NicoleMuñoz #CenterStageOnPointe
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I think that for most dances and dance moves we can see that it's really her and that she's really properly dancing. I had no idea she could do that. A stunt double is credited, so I guess that one is doing some of the lifts and falls.
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Center Stage: On Pointe

A ballet company auditions modern dancers to expand their repertoire and Bella, played by Nicole Muñoz, is a really good modern dancer. The problem arises when they still want them to learn ballet. There's a weeks long process where they train and live together. Toxic competition and friendship will collide.

Initially the film suggests it may be about low confidence due to perceived weight issues but luckily it's not about that.

Nicole is really good as the girl who needs to find her confidence to perform her best. While remaining true to herself in her relationships with other people.
#NicoleMuñoz #CenterStageOnPointe

#NicoleMuñoz #CenterStageOnPointe

It's daytime and still light outside, so I'll dare to watch this horror film. I don't know anything about it, except it has Nicole Muñoz in it. She's a Canadian actress I know from the tv series Defiance. And that the film is called Pyewacket.
#NicoleMuñoz #Pyewacket #NowWatching
The blu-ray cover, showing a closeup of someone's bloodied hand and a read thread, in the woods, something dead lying on the ground. Yeah, I don't know either, seems very random.
#NowWatching #NicoleMuñoz #Pyewacket
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Pyewacket
Nightmarishly scary. I like that it shows the emotions that drive someone to use black magic, as well as the despair over the consequences. Nicole Muñoz is really good as the lead character Leah and she elevates this film a step above other occult horror films.
#Pyewacket #NicoleMuñoz
#NicoleMuñoz #Pyewacket
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Funny how in the making-of interview, Nicole semi-seriously mentions how Leah could have done the ritual better.

One wall is now minus two layers of wallpaper, one more to go. And three other walls. Time for a film, coffee and cake.
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Just noticed that all the wallpaper is now in my hair. Best deal with that first before I spread it around too much.

'We need groups on the fediverse', they say. 'When do we finally get groups'.

See screenshot. I am now on four different implementations of groups. Please stop thinking there are no groups on the fediverse.

Screenshot of the forums panel on my Friendica account, listing several Friendica forums (i.e. groups), a Streams group, a gup.pe group and a chirp.social group

My usage flow on the fediverse: encounter someone on Friendica, follow them, copy their address, paste it in Pleroma, follow them there, continue reading on Friendica, encounter a poll (not yet supported by Friendica), copy its address to Pleroma, vote there, see a notification in Pleroma that someone's account has migrated, which Friendica doesn't support, copy their address into Friendica, follow them there.

That's why you usually get two follows from me and why locked accounts see an extra request from me a few days after they migrated.

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#Youtube #twitter #SocialMedia #instagram #TikTok

There's some really bad wallpaper in one of the rooms, so I decided to pull at a small corner to see how easily it came off before applying water, steam or whatever. Quite easily.
#DIY
A mountain of torn off wallpaper
#diy

Rewatching His Dark Materials series 3 from my blu-ray that arrived a few days ago. At episode two, so bear on a boat. Lyra is still asleep, but fortunately Dafne Keen has actual acting to do besides lying in bed, also these early episodes.
#HisDarkMaterials #DafneKeen
#HisDarkMaterials #DafneKeen
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His Dark Materials series 3 spoilers

The role of the serpent is so weird: wander about for over a season, tell a story and go home. Still sort of beautiful in the end though.

I'm now at the bench, i.e. near the end of the rewatch.

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His Dark Materials series 3 spoilers
Lyra's world invests more in the upkeep of public infrastructure than our world does.

laptop: *provides displayport signal*
computer monitor with input auto-detection: no usb-c signal detected, going on standby
me: *manually switches to displayport input*

Every single time.

It's all 'no circles in squares' nowadays.
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(The washing instructions on the clothing label that says to not put the clothes in the dryer)

Maybe I should print out some blue check marks and mail them to people who order them. I don't know why, but they seem to be all the rage despite having no further function beyond being a blue check mark.

Watching Luna to celebrate the birthday of Stephanie Leonidas. This film is made by some of the same people that made Mirrormask, which is another great candidate for the birthday rewatch. I chose this one because I can now finally watch my US disc in a player that accepts the region coding. If I remember a theme was a couple mourning after the death of a child, but the events are fantastical and may be based on wishful thinking.
#StephanieLeonidas #Luna #BirthdayRewatch
Photo of the dvd cover which is somewhat monochrome, showing Dervla Kirwan in a forest surrounded my fantastical imagery
#luna #BirthdayRewatch #StephanieLeonidas

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I think the overall word for this film is beautiful. Stephanie is superb.
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Seven years it took between filming this film (2007) and it's eventual release (2014). And us in the rest of the world are still waiting (it's only out in the US and UK I think).

I guess there's a certain set of films you're supposed to know to 'know about films' and there's the set of films I've seen and there's no overlap. Personally, I think the 'film gurus' miss out. But it does mean I'm often on my own talking about them.

There's this site that only shows blurred photos of people until you pay. Joke's on them, this matches my eyesight.

My hottake on no day in particular about 'romantic' films. In such films there usually is a male character who really likes (or will like) the female character, appreciate her idiosyncrasies, comes to realise she's exactly who he loves and needs.

There's also a female character who finds out that the male character really loves her, that she looks for someone who respects her, 'gets' her, supports her and that he is that guy.

In both cases, it's about the man. First it's the man loving the woman. Secondly it's the woman wanting someone who loves her. Her own feelings and desires don't seem to matter to script writers of romantic films.
#RomCom #HotTake

#hottake #RomCom

Happy Birthday, Stephanie!

I may have some films and shows with Stephanie Leonidas... I think I already know which one I'm going to rewatch tonight.
#StephanieLeonidas

A rather large stack of discs with various films and tv shows that feature Stephanie. Including Luna, Mirrormask and the three seasons of Defiance.
#StephanieLeonidas

Made some popcorn and am rewatching After.Life because of Christina Ricci.
#ChristinaRicci #AfterLife
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After.Life (2009)

Following a terrible car crash, a woman awakes to find an enigmatic mortician preparing her for burial.
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#ChristinaRicci #AfterLife

American Carnage is a film that Jenna Ortega recorded in Spain several years ago. Nothing much was heard about it for a long time, but when Jenna became more famous with The Fallout and Scream, the film was suddenly released with her prominently in all marketing. I'm not sure yet how big her role really is.

It is not available on European blu-ray or on any of my local digital services. So this is the us blu-ray.
#JennaOrtega #AmericanCarnage #NowWatching

Photo of the blu-ray, all characters wear yellow prison-like outfits, Jenna and another character are shown larger than the others.
#JennaOrtega #NowWatching #AmericanCarnage
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American Carnage (2022) spoilerish
Horror comedy with teens forced to work in an old people's home, where the recent US anti-immigrant policies are part of the horror.
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As expected, only the JP character is a main character, others including Jenna's Camila are supporting characters. It's a fun or should I say interesting watch. Interesting concept, but if it wasn't for Jenna my interest would be somewhat less.

I found that you can get dvd players that play any region discs for under €50, if you look for the unknown brands. These manufacture them region-free and sell them as such. This is perfectly legal, even if the studios don't like it.

Blu-rays is another matter. These can only be made to play discs from different regions by hardware modification. In that case you can buy a (major brand) player from a store where they modify the device before shipping it to you. This costs about €100 more than the normal price of the same model, so you end up paying €200-400. It will be region-free for dvd's as well.

But then you finally have freedom to buy the discs where you want. Especially since many films only have us releases nowadays, this was worth it.

Of course, converting it with handbrake is free...

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Why a company (a film studio) would prevent you from buying their product in one market when they are never going to release it in another market, I don't know.

This includes streaming btw, we also hardly get any of the streaming releases (either subscription, rental or buy) that the us gets.

Listening to Hope Sandoval. Not in person, but she was once in a room near a membrane that vibrated with the sound of her voice when she was singing and this caused some ones and zeroes to be ordered a certain way. These same ordered ones and zeroes are now causing a membrane in my room to vibrate and it's just like she's here!

Artsy people are clearly the opinion makers in society since you fail as a human being if you don't get or read some art thing but it's completely fashionable to say you don't understand math to the point that you're not even allowed to be seen to try.
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People's brains are wired differently of course, but it's grating to constantly have the way you think waved away as unimportant and 'no one needs that'.

'We'll burn that bridge when we get to it'

I tagged myself and I don't like it.

Amazing Facts!

2023-02-13 09:03:53


A malaphor is when two metaphors are clumsily and incorrectly combined, such as 'It's as easy as riding a piece of cake' or 'We'll burn that bridge when we get to it'.

Any others?


Advances in technology that allow a computer to do billions of instructions per second mean that they are now really fast waiting for user input.

Happy Birthday, Christina Ricci!

She's 'only' 10 years and 5 days younger than me... I have seen so many films with her, but I think Black Snake Moan is my favourite. I'll be rewatching that now.

For other ideas to celebrate, this is my letterboxd list "Watch for Christina".
#ChristinaRicci #BlackSnakeMoan #BirthdayRewatch


Watch for Christina

Films I've seen that showcase the talents of Christina Ricci.
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Black Snake Moan
The scene with the chain is of course also iconic, but I better not post photos of that, it'll get the wrong people excited.
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Black Snake Moan
"I done been toe to toe with the law in this town a heap of times just for being black and nearby."

Weird/telling how once a job gains status, society considers it a male job. Low on status, a female job. Even if it's the same job (was reminded of the example of cooking at home vs chef at restaurant).

Trolley Problem but pov is you're one of the people on the tracks and the lever is stuck. You can buy a place on one of the tracks, but the safe one is the most expensive one.

Also, why are people wondering why rich people don't take climate change seriously?

Some are welcoming the armageddon that's to come, believing they will be ok.

The limbo when a store says they have handed the package to the delivery service and the delivery service says they're waiting to receive the package from the store. This state can take days.

A film from my watchlist is leaving Netflix, so l have to watch it now. This is what I dislike about streaming services and why they don't replace owning films.

Karen David is a great actress and singer and by all appearances a great person, who I know from Pixelface and Waterloo Road. Though in the latter case I didn't realise it was her... Because of her I watched Galavant and that was such a great experience. It's a medieval comedy musical. Also because of her I watched Fear The Walking Dead, which made me discover other great actresses and which I'm still following. People may also know her from Once Upon a Time, but I was already following that...

Now I'm watching an early film she's in: The Scorpion King 2: Rise of a Warrior.
#KarenDavid #TheScorpionKing2

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Karen David - Actress, Producer, Soundtrack

Karen David. Actress: Galavant. Karen David is a multi-hyphenate talent - actress and singer/songwriter - who has found equal diversity in her film, television, stage, and recording career.
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The Scorpion King 2, ending
So many films end on a 'and the boy and the girl lived together happily ever after'. This teases going that way, then in the last second doesn't. I somehow like that.
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The Scorpion King 2: Rise of a Warrior is a fun watch, but the story doesn't make that much sense. It's great to see Karen David of course. The film seems aware enough of the usual tropes to not blindly follow them while still hinting at those, but it isn't smart enough to count as a commentary on the state of fantasy action films.
#KarenDavid #TheScorpionKing2
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