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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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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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At the beginning of the day make a small list of things you want to do that day, they say. At the end of the day change the date at the top of the list to tomorrow's date, I do.

Happy Birthday, Chloë!

Today Chloë Grace Moretz turns 26. I'll be rewatching The Miseducation of Cameron Post to celebrate!
#ChloëGraceMoretz #TheMiseducationOfCameronPost

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The Miseducation of Cameron Post (2018)

Pennsylvania, 1993. After getting caught with another girl, teenager Cameron Post is sent to a conversion therapy center run by the strict Dr.
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The Miseducation of Cameron Post
Cameron is more of an observer character than the one stuff happens to, eventually she's the one best able to put things into words. That moment when she realises the therapists don't know what they're doing and how that coincides with the therapist himself realising it too, is so great.

The Peripheral season two has been announced, just in time for Chloë's birthday! Happy Birthday, Chloë Grace Moretz!
#ThePeripheral #ChloëGraceMoretz
#ChloëGraceMoretz #ThePeripheral

"Turn regularly"

Turning it over once, halfway the cooking time, is also sort of regular.

The grounding of the bird was short lived, it seems. Also, weirdly, even though it's 9 February and the free api should have stopped working, the api worked fine from my server.

ExtraTV

2023-02-08 19:24:30


#YouNetflix: Penn Badgley talks starting Season 4 with a murder mystery. Plus, @AmyLHickman says her character Nadia will "surprise" people!

Full interview: youtu.be/hspuSElK1IU

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#YouNetflix @YOU @Amy-Leigh Hickman

Tomorrow You season four starts on Netflix, with Amy-Leigh Hickman as Nadia. Apparently it starts off as a murder mystery, which is different since in previous seasons we knew exactly who the killer was... Amy-Leigh says we will be surprised by Nadia. I say we will be surprised by Amy-Leigh Hickman. She is a seriously good actress.
#AmyLeighHickman #YouNetflix

I tried to retweet the promotion, but apparently I'm not allowed to help since I've reached the maximum amount of tweets for the day. Which is apparently 0. Anyway, this time twitter is properly broken and we'll have to do with a link to the video here.
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#YouNetflix: Penn Badgley talks starting Season 4 with a murder mystery. Plus, @AmyLHickman says her character Nadia will "surprise" people! Full interview: youtu.be/hspuSElK1IU @YouNetflix
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Binging all five episodes means just that I had to rewatch the final one since I remembered nothing of it. Anyway, some theories still hold for part 2 of the season (9 March) and the solution of the part 1 mystery was one of the things I thought about early on and not really that great a revelation; I guess it's all a setup for part 2. I'll be watching that!

Amy-Leigh Hickman's character Nadia is not unlike Ellie, the character that grounds the story in reality. And she's brilliant. It is what I missed in season 3.
#AmyLeighHickman #YouNetflix

#YouNetflix #AmyLeighHickman

Admin tip: if you see that a problem with the server is going to occur in the future, like slowly running out of resources, ignoring it doesn't make it go away. For now solved by using a less cheap setting, but I really need to figure out what is using the resources.

Also, running multiple applications on the same host doesn't help in identifying where a problem comes from.

You want to be my sandwich?
-- Helena


#OrphanBlack

#orphanblack

Like the "I'm not a robot" test during signup for an account, we may need "Not written by a robot" signatures on any online texts.

Keep provoking them and we'll never get any mangoes.
-- Pupok


#OrphanBlack

#orphanblack

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I have of course seen all of Orphan Black already when it came out on Netflix, but I am still behind on seeing Tatiana Maslany's on my own discs. Season three now.
#TatianaMaslany #OrphanBlack #NowWatching
Photo of the blu-ray disc, showing the many characters Tatiana plays as if in shards of glass. The tagline is "I am not your property".
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It is the season with Ksenia Solo!
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Helena's "Where are these mangoes?" is such a classic line and so Helena. She follows it up in the same scene with telling an identical clone: "I met your brother. He's ugly.".

I love shows that are so character-based, especially when writers and actresses get it exactly right.
#OrphanBlack

#orphanblack
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Tatiana Maslany's performance is exceptional. Everybody keeps saying that you keep forgetting she plays all those different characters, because it is true, you forget. All clone characters are so different, but also such completely formed individuals, that each could be the central character of their own tv show. Anyway, on to series four.
#TatianaMaslany #OrphanBlack
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Tatiana as [a clone] as [another clone]. It never ceases to amaze. It isn't just mixing some mannerisms. It is doing exactly how this one character would have pretended to be that other character, within their ability. E.g. Sarah is much better at it than Alison (and Helena doesn't even try).
#TatianaMaslany #OrphanBlack
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Found myself doing it again: I'm watching a making of extra and there's Tatiana Maslany explaining how horrible it was handling some gory, rotten, head, and I'm thinking 'that wasn't Sarah cutting up that head, that was Cosima'.
#TatianaMaslany #OrphanBlack
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A very interesting thing they mentioned in the behind the scenes interviews is that MK's scars on her face are only shown once and hidden in all other scenes behind hair, shadows, etc. But Tatiana Maslany insisted on having the makeup put on for every MK scene anyway, because she just wanted to have the feel of it being there.
#TatianaMaslany #OrphanBlack
#orphanblack #TatianaMaslany
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Of course, one can to some extent and should especially at the beginning, describe each character's personality in depth and distinctive, however, in this case, at some point it has to have been Tatiana Maslany who made small decisions on how to portray a character as another character. And that instinct is just so on point
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@feld It is. I was really due for a rewatch and am fully enjoying it.
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Next week's Father Brown (BBC, daytime, Friday) will be an episode with Sarah Smart and Kara Tointon, double the reason to watch.
#FatherBrown #SarahSmart #KaraTointon
#FatherBrown #SarahSmart #KaraTointon

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Vanity Fair Bafta rising star night @vanityfairlondon @EE @BAFTA #EERisingStar #EEBAFTAs @LoopVIP

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#EERisingStar #EEBAFTAs @EE @BAFTA @LoopVIP

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#NowWatching Felicity Jones in A Monster Calls. It looks like the film is mainly about a little boy and the monster, with Felicity playing a supporting role of the boy's mother. So often, for actresses, once they no longer play the teenager in an coming-of-age story they become the mother and somehow that's hardly ever the main role in a film; for male actors this rule doesn't seem to apply.
#FelicityJones #AMonsterCalls
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#NowWatching #FelicityJones #AMonsterCalls
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A young boy has to deal with a bully at school, his mother being ill, a strict grandmother and the annoyance of a monster telling allegories, all the while learning some life lessons.

I didn't really feel this film, maybe because the monster was not very convincing as either a monster or a storyteller. Felicity was as feared not in it enough for my liking.

Watching a very long making-of for a Chinese film, without English subtitles. I have zero idea what they're talking about.

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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#NowWatching #ZhangZiyi #JasmineWomen #JasmineFlower
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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
#JennaOrtega #Adidas

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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.
#NowWatching #AbigailHardingham #NinaForever
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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)
#NowWatching #CareyMulligan #HelenaBonhamCarter #Suffragette
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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.
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