#DoctorWho
Just saw Pearl, the prequel to X, and it's quite a good film. It's not a prequel in the traditional sense, but something they made on the back of filming X while they were at that location anyway. Basically it seems like after the actress playing Pearl and the director had worked out the backstory, they figured why not film it.
There's an amazing monologue in that film, as well as other great things.
Interesting that they basically put the whole cast and crew of X in the thanks session in the credits here, acknowledging how connected making these films were. (So yeah, technically Jenna is in the Pearl credits)
#Pearl
Looking for an Emilia Clarke film to watch... The Pod Generation is still not available here and neither are the other films of her I still have to watch.
I was already thinking to rewatch Voice from the Stone for Emilia's 37th birthday today, so that one it is. From my own blu-ray, since this one is also not available on the services of course.
#EmiliaClarke #VoiceFromTheStone
She speaks a lot of Italian...
It's a beautiful story, beautifully made. It's surprising how completely different Emilia's characters are, there's not a hint of Daenerys in Verena yet this is still someone you would like to get to know.
#VoiceFromTheStone #EmiliaClarke
Opened a substack reader account as yet another rss-like app to probably ignore over time and have new buildup of stuff to read.
From what I can tell so far it really is just rss but with better looks. Except they also have non-free subscriptions, but since credit card is the only option, probably not.
Now trying to remember who of those I follow here said they had a substack.
In honour of Katie Douglas' 25th birthday last Thursday, I'm rewatching Believe Me: The Abduction of Lisa McVey. It's moved from Netflix to Disney+, where I've nicely searched for the film via Katie's name so the statistics show why people are watching this (as opposed to any recommendation by algorithm). I've got my tea and popcorn ready.
It's a harrowing story played intensely and touchingly by Katie. The deep misery her character Lisa is in even before she's abducted, then the strength of character Katie portrays to fight her way out of it, make a lasting impression. And it's a true story.
More films of Katie should be released in my country, she's certainly made more.
Yasmin Paige is an actress I wish I'd hear more about. She did some great things. She was in the Doctor Who spinoff The Sarah Jane Adventures as Maria and also in Pramface and the film Submarine. She was the reason I watched Ballet Shoes, a film with the very talented trio of Yasmin, Emma Watson (yes, the Hermione) and Lucy Boyton (who I've recently seen is still very good). I saw her first in The Mysti Show (yes, I knew Maria before TSJA).
Now I'm watching this film from that same early time, Tooth. Her name may not be on the cover, but she is as the title character, presumably a young tooth fairy. I like how sparkly this cover is! It changes colour with the light falling on it differently.
#YasminPaige #Tooth #NowWatching
#Tooth #YasminPaige #SallyPhillips
As a lifelong Helena Bonham Carter fan I've of course seen Wings of the Dove already (in the cinema even I think). It's long ago and this is the first time watching it from my own blu-ray.
#HelenaBonhamCarter #WingsOfTheDove #NowWatching
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The Wings of the Dove (1997)
Kate is secretly betrothed to a struggling journalist, Merton Densher. But she knows her Aunt Maude will never approve of the match, since Kate's deceased mother has lost all her money in a marriage to a degenerate opium addict.letterboxd.com
#HelenaBonhamCarter #TheWingsOfTheDove
I hope someone somewhere finds a solution for the Israel/Gaza problem, but the only ones I can make up are utterly unrealistic. Of course the militants and instigators of the 7 October massacre need to be brought to justice (not necessarily by Israel). And of course the Israeli military needs to safeguard Palestinian civilians and definitely not block water and food. But with Hamas operating among civilian populations and no other Palestinian authority being present in Gaza to arrest and try them, any military action by Israel against Hamas can only be (and already is) disastrous. So hoping that Israel will stop its military actions and its siege is hoping for a miracle, but hoping for a miracle is all I've got.
And eventually, will Israelis and Palestinians be able to coexist? Will the factions that want to eliminate the other side give in? Or is this also an impossible dream of mine.
#DoveCameron #Alchemical
You need to listen to Dove Cameron's Lethal Woman on better head/earphones. So much is lost on the cheap ones I had attached to the pc, I assume the same is true when playing it as background music (I guess if you're a streamer you're going to need to use TIDAL instead of Spotify for the sound quality). Now done my standard copying to phone, tablet and nas, and listening to it on my tablet.
She already said this song is quite different from what the other songs on the album will be. And indeed, it sounds somewhat chaotic in a way that I like and doesn't seem to have an obvious hook that her popular songs had (again, I like that).
#DoveCameron #Alchemical #LethalWoman
HG = Hit Girl
Yes, I'm watching Kick Ass 2 again since Chloë Grace Moretz is so great in it. I think I can tell she does a lot of her own stunts too. This film focuses a lot more on her character and less on Kick Ass himself.
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#ChloëGraceMoretz #KickAss2
Chloë Grace Moretz in Kick Ass 2
These are some screenshots I took of Chloë Grace Moretz in Kick Ass 2. She is so good, in every film and also in this film. There are basically two characters she plays: the superhero Hit Girl and …Blog by Gidi Kroon
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#LindsayArmaou
Now watching Death Note, the 2006 Japanese film. I understand this story has rather a high status here on fedi, but that's likely because of the manga this film is based on. I don't know much about the story though, going in fresh, except that I'm surprised there isn't a fediverse account posting posts each with just a single name of one of the world's bad persons on it.
Though this is probably one of those things where you shouldn't mix fantasy and reality.
No particular actress I'm watching this for this time, just that way back this dvd was 3 for €25 at the shop.
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#DeathNote #NowWatching
The ending being unsatisfactory is being explained away by there being a sequel, but I'm not sure I want to see it.
Read some reviews that were essentially like: 'much better than the Netflix one, 2 1/2 stars'. Actually the reviews were quite mixed, some people who already knew the characters from the original really liked this film, and didn't seem to notice that the characters barely existed here.
Teaser trailer for Orphan Black Echoes, coming in 2024. This “Was I asleep?” is very Dollhouse…
Teaser trailer for Orphan Black Echoes, a new series with Krysten Ritter in the Orphan Black universe, coming in 2024.gidikroon.eu/2023/10/13/orphan…
Miranda Cosgrove introducing the hashtag #GirlsLeadSTEM for Girls Lead STEM Month, in this Instagram reel.
(Let’s see what following the hashtag outside of the major platforms does…)
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I still don't manage to upload a working video to Friendica, but at least I've figured out a way to 'fix' the broken upload flow for media on WordPress:
Upload the file. Find that it doesn't show on posts because it hasn't been uploaded to CDN. Click Purge from CDN, even though you want the opposite. Find that you now have many errors in the purge queue indicating none of the purges succeeded. Find that magically the media now does show because it has been uploaded to CDN.
Previously I had to reupload the whole media library to CDN, which took about half an hour, each time I added one image or video.
Thinking about the horrific event a few days ago where 260 young people at a party were gunned down with machine guns in cold blood, in a planned attack.
The organisation that planned that and the people that celebrate that can't count on my sympathy. The ordinary people on either side that suffer as a result, can.
#JennaOrtega #Wednesday
#ClaireFoy #JessieBuckley #WomenTalking #NowWatching
It's a really impressive film. The women of a religious colony discuss their options after generations of abuse by the men. These discussions go deep into matters of morality, religion and personality. I like that the film has as narrator/pov a young girl who isn't just the observer but who the writer allows to be more involved and occasionally inject into the discussions things like 'why are you making it so complicated!'. The character played by Claire Foy has some really fiery dialogue and it's not often that a film throws you against the back of your seat by the sheer fire of the lines and their performance, and the truth of them.
Regarding content warning you need to know that, even though the abuse is never shown on screen, the aftermath is (sometimes rather graphically) and the level of abuse discussed is of an extreme sexual nature, targeting women and very young children.
#WomenTalking
#MirandaCosgrove #iCarly
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