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Failed doing an online training today, not because of the training itself but because I can't find it on the site.

A common theme in most Asian cinema that I have seen is that it has Zhang Ziyi in it. House of Flying Daggers, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Memoirs of a Geisha, 2046, Hero, The Warrior, The Banquet. Doesn't really say much about Asian cinema, more about me, or her. But now I'm watching Jasmine Women which I haven't seen yet. It is also known as Jasmine Flower.
#ZhangZiyi #JasmineWomen #JasmineFlower #NowWatching
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I was wondering which of the three women Ziyi would play and it turns out all of them.
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The film is at first difficult to get into since the young woman in the first generation is a very naive character, but each generation the woman is smarter, stronger and more independent. The film turns out to be much much darker than you'd suspect once you realise what the things are that are not spoken about and hardly shown, but which have a fundamental influence on someone's life. I really enjoyed this film. Ziyi is really great playing three different and growing personalities. And it has probably the most memorable giving birth scenes of all films ever...
#ZhangZiyi #JasmineWomen #JasmineFlower
#ZhangZiyi #JasmineWomen #JasmineFlower

If you see this message there is nothing wrong with my wifi despite what the chromecast says.
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It's Wednesday again so it's Wednesday again. For Mastodon users: that's first Wednesday the day of the week, then Wednesday the tv show. My fourth run-through I think, now one episode every week. Because Jenna Ortega is so brilliant.
#Wednesday #JennaOrtega
#JennaOrtega #Wednesday

I don't quite know what it means yet, but Adidas says they haven't done a new label in 50 years, but they are going to and Jenna Ortega is going to be the brand ambassador of it. That's all I know. More to be revealed. This was from an official Adidas press release.
#JennaOrtega #Adidas

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Jenna Ortega sitting in a purple Adidas outfit
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Most people will associate her with acting, red carpets, fashion and high heels, but people who have been following Jenna Ortega longer will know that sports and soccer in particular are very much part her. At some point as a kid she had to choose between the acting or continuing playing soccer and it could easily have gone the other way.

We all know harassment is bad, but on the fediverse there seems to be a subset of (often external) people of which the consensus is that it is fun when they are harassed. I don't agree with that.

Maybe it's my insecurity interpreting "thanks for asking" with an implicit "and now leave me alone", or maybe it's correct, but I tend to err on the side of caution, because I just literally can't tell.

Just started watching South of Hell, which I know nothing about except it's a tv series with Mena Suvari hunting demons.
#MenaSuvari #SouthOfHell
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The sfx with the eyes isn't really good... But the concept that she hunts demons possessing people helped by the demon possessing her, is quite nice.
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It was good to see Mena Suvari, both as the demon hunting woman Maria and as the demon hunting demon Abigail. But other than that the series does not have much going for it and I would instead recommend finding something else with Mena in it to watch...

pinned opinion about nude scenes in films

My opinion about nude scenes in films: against my own interests I believe that they are always avoidable and the same impressions can be achieved in other ways.

Many actresses are somewhere in their career forced to do a nude (sex) scene. The male actors hardly ever are. To me the purpose seems sales rather than art. I'd wish for films to never include nude scenes and to always use suggestion instead.

In saying who's a good actress and in buying their films I really do not care how famous they are (either way, some people are snobs and ignore those who are famous). It's just that for some people there are way more projects to talk about.

I'm now going to watch my blu-ray of Nina Forever, with Abigail Hardingham. It's a horror film, but it's the middle of the day so hopefully I don't get too scared.

I had known she was a good actress, but when I saw her in a double episode of Silent Witness I was stunned how good that performance was. I mentioned this on Twitter, years ago, and was shocked to get a thank you. Some people don't get praise all the time, even though they should.

On the cover, Abigail is the one on the right, not the eponymous ghost character.
#AbigailHardingham #NinaForever #NowWatching

Photo of the blu-ray cover of the film, with the three main characters: in the middle the ghost Nina (white face, with blood), a woman on the right kissing her on the cheek and a man on the left looking on. Nina has her arms around both pulling them close.
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The dead ex-girlfriend really objects to being called "ex". Her argument: we never broke up. Where's the lie, though.
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A very original treatment of baggage in a relationship, in the form of a horror film. A ghost story, but told from the perspective of the living, showing what it means for them. As such, Abigail Hardingham plays the main role, even though she isn't the Nina of the title. Great performance and a very worthy film.
#AbigailHardingham #NinaForever
#AbigailHardingham #NinaForever

#NowWatching something good, with several great actresses in it like Helena Bonham Carter and Carey Mulligan: Suffragette.
#HelenaBonhamCarter #CareyMulligan #Suffragette
The blu-ray cover of the film with the three main actresses including Carey Mulligan (center) and Helena Bonham Carter (left)
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So far the parallels with the Belgian film Daens (1992) are remarkable (that one is about a moment of social change in Belgium involving a priest called Daens). A smart young woman (Maud/Nette) observes hardships while working in a factory, including the brutality, including sexually, by the male supervisor. There's a government committee that will hopefully bring about change, but their hopes are dashed, resulting in an act of great police brutality. Even down to the committee members being ushered away and the policemen being on horseback. Though I must say that Daens did all this much better and I urge people to see that film. Antje de Boeck is truly amazing as Nette.

Anyway, I'm now wondering who will go to Rome for an audience with the Pope... For surely from here on the stories must diverge.

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Of course Carey Mulligan and Helena Bonham Carter are very good in this. But the film seems a bit lightweight. The suffragette movement is depicted as a choice, rather than born out of desperation, especially for the rich ladies. The comparison with Daens is that there Nette was forced out of desperation to fight for social change. Here Maud almost accidentally joins the movement.

#NowWatching Bad Neighbours 2 because it has Chloë Grace Moretz in it. This is a film of before she realigned her project choices and I'm only watching it for completeness. Or maybe it'll be fun. Anyway, I'm sure Chloë will be good as always.
#ChloëGraceMoretz #BadNeighbours2
blu-ray cover of the film, Chloë center front in front of a wooden fence, other actors behind the fence.
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When you see a very unrealistic representation of university life, it's not clear whether it's because of it being a comedy or that we are supposed to think (American) university life is like that.

Also, a group of girls asserting their independence as a sorority by doing exactly what a guy tells them to do? I hope this becomes a plot point later on...

So far, every single character is not being true to themselves, but not really in a comedic way.

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A bit difficult to find something positive in this film. It seems to try to be a comedy with a feminist slant to it, but is at risk of only making fun of feminism. Maybe the resolution at the end is the only good thing, and of course that Chloë was indeed in it.

So often the quaint or old English is the current Dutch.

Seeing the BBC version of His Dark Materials series 3 and there are rather beautiful subtitles on all the 'mulefa' dialogue. They show both the original and the translation as Mary is slowly learning the language. On the HBO broadcast we didn't get this at all. There there were whole scenes in this fantasy language, with no indication what it was about. That was weird and now I'm jealous...
#HisDarkMaterials
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I'm realising yet again that I want to see everything else Dafne Keen will act in as well, and that it means I will have to watch some more Star Wars.

I may have written quite some articles for the student periodical in my university days, but here's me letting you in on a secret: almost all of them were filler stories like mentioned in the previous reshare by @Jason Lefkowitz. Though I didn't know the term 'bus plunge story'.

Our periodical needed to be a multiple of four pages, due to how it was printed. And even though it was laid out on the computer (wordperfect, but then laser printed and the pictures glued in by hand), there was only so much whitespace you could remove and articles you could shorten. At some point you realised you were still half a page over and you were just going to have to add content to make it to the next multiple of four.

I wrote so many totally pointless articles, quickly, after the deadline, but before the printer offices closed...

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Doing one Wednesday per Wednesday for my fourth run-through of the series. Meanwhile also at episode four of The Lizzie Borden Chronicles. There's something quite Wednesday about this Lizzie.
#JennaOrtega #Wednesday #WednesdayNetflix #ChristinaRicci #TheLizzieBordenChronicles
#JennaOrtega #Wednesday #ChristinaRicci #WednesdayNetflix #TheLizzieBordenChronicles

I may have totally missed the joke about shitting down vs booting up.

Every single time I upgrade handbrake, I forget to safeguard libdvdcss.

I enjoy the women in this house
-- Count Dracula


#Dracula

#dracula

In the meantime, while the conversion runs and the PC is making a lot of noise to pretend it's busy, the amazing Stephanie Leonidas in Dracula. I've seen this version and as always she's very good. Though as always in stories the female lead is more the object than the subject, even more so in a Dracula story. What's great is that Stephanie really shifts her character when the influence of the count becomes stronger.
#StephanieLeonidas #Dracula
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This is still early in the film, I keep freeze framing because I'm also making dinner.

#NowWatching Christina Ricci in The Lizzie Borden Chronicles, the tv series that came after the film. I'd seen the film a while ago. Of course I have to see everything with Christina in it, still quite some to go...
#ChristinaRicci #TheLizzieBordenChronicles #LizzieBordenTookAnAxe
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Conversion still ongoing, I have a slow computer, but I can already play episode 1. Of course next to Christina Ricci there's also Clea DuVall, that's great! Starts off with lots of axe-work and chasing a load of kids away with a single raised eyebrow. This is going to be good.
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I'm an idiot, mixed up Clea DuVall's name with someone else (also great). Edited the post.

Lidl in Oxford?!
-- Saleem


#AckleyBridge

#AckleyBridge

What is all this green stuff in my salad?

Building with maven: please wait while we download the internet.

If he's not your boyfriend, then why is he making you this miserable?
-- Mrs Haider


#AckleyBridge

#AckleyBridge

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It's one thing to lie about your sexuality, it's quite another to lie about dinner
-- Naveed


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#NowWatching more Amy-leigh Hickman, in series three of Ackley Bridge. Soon, very soon, we can see her in season four of You: 9 February!
#AmyLeighHickman #AckleyBridge #YouNetflix
#YouNetflix #NowWatching #AmyLeighHickman #AckleyBridge
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I'm only at episode two of Ackley Bridge series three, but this is an acting masterclass by Amy-leigh Hickman.
#AmyLeighHickman #AckleyBridge
#AmyLeighHickman #AckleyBridge

Starting to watch The Princess, knowing nothing about it except that the film has Joey King in it and that she looks utterly cool on the poster wielding a sword. All good reasons to watch it.
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Yeah, I think they lied to us about what Disney princesses are like. Or this one is different...
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It's essentially one long, raw, no holds barred fight sequence. I like that it doesn't fall into the trap of having the female lead use cunning to stay out of the fighting, or do the fighting in some clean distant way with bow and arrow, as is common in films. Instead, she's fully in the thick of it, going all in. I like it. Joey King also executive produced this film.
#ThePrincess #JoeyKing
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Bought a Wacon drawing tablet today. After some deliberations I went for the cheaper model that is advised for beginner's, since, well, I don't know what I'm doing. But the more expensive models were so much better... and so much more expensive...

I already notice that I've really got to get used to the absolute positioning. I keep using it as a touch pad!

I also realised that in a sense, I already have two other Wacom devices: both my phone (Samsung Note8) and tablet (Samsung Tab S4) have an s-pen, which is the same thing. Especially the Tab S4, using the Pen-Up app, is showing features of the more expensive Wacom models: pressure sensitive, multi touch, tilt(!), and of course its own display...

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The Scream VI trailer is out! It looks great. Nice detail is that unlike the previous one where they suggested Tara (Jenna Ortega's character) was the opening kill, here we see her in multiple outfits, so she is in the film for a while. Not so nice is that there is a clip of Tara in trouble that she maybe doesn't survive...

In cinemas in March!
#JennaOrtega #ScreamVI #Scream
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Scream VI | Official Trailer (2023 Movie)

This is unlike any other Ghostface. Watch the NEW trailer for #ScreamVI - Only in theatres March 10, 2023.Following the latest Ghostface killings, the four s...
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Melissa Barrera and Jenna Ortega are so believable as sisters.

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This is unlike any other Ghostface. Watch the NEW trailer for #ScreamVI - Only in theatres March 10, 2023.


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Hmm, The Fallout is not eligible for the Oscars 2023 and it wasn't eligible last year either. So it can win SXSW 2021 but just not even be allowed for the Oscars. Anyway, both X and Scream are eligible, but Oscar films tend to be picked from autumn releases and I don't think these are contenders.

It is all great how Jenna Ortega's talent is now so much recognised, resulting in The Fallout suddenly getting nominated in the 2023 awards season even though it premiered at sxsw 2021, and her Instagram followers jumping from 8 million to 38 million, but can we let her lead her own normal life in between jobs? You can see all the (presumably professional) autograph hunters on all the paparrazi photos.
#JennaOrtega
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Using my note8 s-pen on my tab s4 to do the text extraction. It just works.

It looks like Schmigadoon! season 2 comes out 7 April. At least I see them mentioning "4.07" which I think is American for 7 April and not some room number. I got season 1 on Apple TV+ and I think it's like that worldwide.
#Schmigadoon #DoveCameron
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I loved the first season and I'm glad it'll be back.
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@ART // Cantankerous Tech // 🐀 It definitely was fun and I'll be watching this season too. It's going to be six episodes, one a week and the first two the first week. So something to look forward to for the Fridays.
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What a week, huh?

Buddy, it's

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Me third-wheeling.

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Look at you, my little death trap!
-- Gomez


#Wednesday

#Wednesday

Yesterday Jenna Ortega was at the YSL fashion show in Paris. Here is an article about her outfit for those that can read French, others just look at the pictures.
#JennaOrtega
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Jenna Ortega était la star du défilé Saint Laurent

Jenna Ortega portait une robe à l'image de la femme Saint Laurent au défilé homme automne-hiver 2023-2024 de la maison.
Jessica Scemama (Vogue France)
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