Artists have placed an artwork in front of my flat and it's one of those things where you'd accidentally and without intending any malice ask the artist when they are going to finish it.
Two girls see themselves on screen, except it's not themselves, but the other girl who is completely identical. They didn't know they were twins. It uncovers a long running scandal in Georgia. Story by BBC News.
I have the boxset of The Shannara Chronicles, another one of these series they keep disappearing from the streaming services. It features two absolutely great actresses: Ivana Baquero and (from season two) Melise. Both are utterly cool here, which is sort of what this show is about.
Ivana was the little girl in Pan's Labyrinth and also as an adult she impresses a lot. Melise is an actress and singer who previously played 'rock chick' Lucy Stone in Big Time Rush. I was playing one of her songs just today.
From the makers of Wednesday apparently, I didn't know that. It does mean that getting a premonition is signalled by the actress suddenly and violently looking up to the sky.
It is set in a time after our time, when nature has mostly recovered from us and everything is overgrown with lush forests. The story starts in the Kingdom of the Elves and with a premonition showing the end of times and the destruction of all life.
It takes a while to establish the main characters, in fact you're introduced first to some Elf characters that will not be that important in the long run.
A long time ago I saw the tv series Roswell and loved it. I started watching it for Shiri Appleby, who I knew from Xena, but would probably have watched it anyway. Shiri is nowadays besides a great actress also a great director. She was amazing in Unreal and the episodes she directed were the best.
It's nice to see what a really great lead actress brings to a series. She not only plays her role very well, but she also captures the audience and sets the tone. I think she makes Roswell the warm and interesting show it is.
That her role would be the lead wasn't that obvious. The series is about aliens hiding in Roswell and she is just a human. But I think it works out well, to have human Liz as point of view. #ShiriAppleby #Roswell
Going to see Emilia Clarke. Not in person, she will be on a big screen. The Pod Generation is finally arrived in my country (NL). Release this Thursday, but prereleases all over the country this week.
Finally saw The Pod Generation with Emilia Clarke on the big screen, it has taken a while to arrive in my country. It's today maybe even more relevant than when it was made, now we're confronted with AI wherever you go.
In some future where not just pregnancies are artificial (the 'pod' of the title) but almost everything (virtual assistants, your home, nature and I think at some point even air), a couple have a baby via a pod, or in fact the woman springs that on the man. She is a corporate type, he is relatively a hippy, and throughout this artificial pregnancy they have to figure out their roles and feelings. All in a house where the clean and clinical interior is compensated for by an almost comical amount of throw cushions, and the only clinical and somewhat dodgy seeming Womb Center.
It's an interesting investigation of the dynamics in a relationship going through pregnancy when certain restraints of the biological situation are removed. It's also questioning how much you want big tech involved in your life, in this case something as personal as pregnancy.
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Finally saw The Pod Generation with Emilia Clarke on the big screen, it has taken a while to arrive in my country. It's today maybe even more relevant than when it was made, now we're confronted with AI wherever you go.
In some future where not just pregnancies are artificial (the 'pod' of the title) but almost everything (virtual assistants, your home, nature and I think at some point even air), a couple have a baby via a pod, or in fact the woman springs that on the man. She is a corporate type, he is relatively a hippy, and throughout this artificial pregnancy they have to figure out their roles and feelings. All in a house where the clean and clinical interior is compensated for by an almost comical amount of throw cushions, and the only clinical and somewhat dodgy seeming Womb Center.
It's an interesting investigation of the dynamics in a relationship going through pregnancy when certain restraints of the biological situation are removed. It's also questioning how much you want big tech involved in your life, in this case something as personal as pregnancy.
Emilia Clarke is this amazing actress where you don't even notice she's playing a completely different character because it seems like you've always seen her like that. But here she's not the strong and willful queen, nor the bumbling assistant, but a high performing executive with a lot of calmness about her. It does of course have a scene where she walks along the beach and touches the sand, though. #EmiliaClarke #ThePodGeneration
So many people in reviews annoyed that the film raises questions but doesn't provide answers and I'm annoyed at those reviews. Firstly, films don't have to provide answers, you can think for yourself, after the film explored the concepts. Secondly, I think this film does provide the answers, just not in an obviously hammered home way where the plot literally gives the answer, but the conclusions the film makers draw are clear from how it affects the characters. I didn't know film watchers had gotten so lazy.
Also there's a mid-credits scene about the big tech aspect, so don't go running to the toilet just yet.
The limbo state packages reach after you order them is still weird. The shop says the package service has picked them up. The package service says the shop still has them. This is an unavoidable state within the delivery process and can take days of no change, even for next day delivery.
Based on the kind of story you'd expect this film to be cheesier than it is. Instead, India Eisley acts her character Sawa so realistically, it's as if a real-life young assassin with amnesia has stumbled upon the film set and is trying to make sense of the clues she finds, hell-bent on exacting revenge on things in her past she can't quite remember. Some other bits of the film may live up more to the original expectation.
I disagree with the blu-ray cover image's suggestion that she doesn't play the lead character. But big names and all that. #IndiaEisley #Kite
Trump can claim he’s for democracy, and he can accuse others of fascism, but it’s been his own rhetoric and beliefs that put him in a fairly textbook fascist category.
Some fascists claim that democracy and fascism have the same goal – to give effect to the will of the people. But who the people are is where the ideologies divide.
Last weekend Jenna Ortega's film Miller's Girl had its festival premiere and 26 January it will have its theatrical release. Good news is that we in the Netherlands don't need to wait too long this time: Thursday 14 March it will be in our cinemas! pathe.nl/film/27023/millers-gi… #JennaOrtega #MillersGirl
Wanneer de getalenteerde en rebelse studente Cairo Sweet (Jenna Ortega) een schijnbaar onschuldige schrijfopdracht van haar charmante leraar Jonathan Miller (Martin Freeman) aanneemt, raken ze verstrikt in een web van geheimen en verlangens.
From the set of discs I recently bought because I'm getting more and more frustrated with the non-availability of titles on the streaming services. None of the films or series in the photo are available on demand and most can't even be bought or rented on digital. Yet, hardly any discs are released nowadays, so when I find a disc for a low price that I want to have, I'm not waiting anymore for it to appear on streaming later.
Pictured: Hotel New Hampshire, The Accused, Carny, American Carnage, Roswell, Kite, Look Away.
India is acting this so well. And we get two performances, one the teenage girl Maria with confidence problems, and also her mirror image 'Airam', who is sometimes subtly different, sometimes more so.
I don't know why India Eisley is not better known. She is one of the great actresses today, able to play with much intensity and authenticity.
I'd ask similarly why Mira Sorvino didn't get the roles she (and we) deserved. But I know the answer: she got blacklisted by Weinstein for refusing his advances. This has been confirmed by others. The entertainment industry isn't a fair place.
Such mixed reactions to this film when I check afterwards what people write about it. Really a love it or hate it thing. The difference seems to be that if you expect this teenage horror to be a teenage horror, you'll be disappointed since it's a psychological film with great cinematography instead.
Jenna Ortega has been nominated in the People's Choice Awards, as 'The Female Movie Star' and 'The Drama Movie Star'. Both for her role as Tara Carpenter in Scream VI. votepca.com/
As people we can vote for our choice once per day per category. They have many (many) more categories...
I've read news that despite being on streaming, Wednesday is going to be released on disc as well. Season one will apparently come out on 26 March. #JennaOrtega #Wednesday
The Silent Witness episodes (Flight part 1 and 2, 19x03 and 19x04) where Abigail Hardingham guest starred were on tv again recently and I'm watching them now. I am again reminded what a brilliant actress she is despite being hardly known. Unlike other guest roles in this series, hers is really a leading role and she's taking us through all the twists and turns of the story.
I'm doing a rewatch in honour of Dafne Keen's birthday last Thursday. The Acolyte is not out yet and Ana is still not showing anywhere on streaming in my country, so it'll be an episode of His Dark Materials. Episode 1x05 is the one I like to watch. Where Dafne shows that Lyra being brave doesn't mean she isn't scared.
Dafne Keen is such a good actress. A lead character can be made to look cool by writing cool things for them to do, but that's not the trick here. With Dafne's Lyra it's pure acting. It's interacting with other characters, the emotions, the frustration, the drive. And I'm also noticing that she has chemistry with every character she interacts with, not just Will but also Lee, Ma Costa and the leaders of the Gyptians.
Corina Bradley will be in a new tv series called Hotel Cocaine. She plays the character Valeria. It will be released this summer. #CorinaBradley #HotelCocaine
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There's someone who I've been following for over twelve years on her various social media. She used to post a lot (like all day every five minutes, and more even on other accounts) at the time. That she's Dutch like me is total coincidence. She's very funny and one day(*) a funny post of hers was retweeted by the showrunner of Doctor Who, which is how I found out about her. She's a very interesting person and did lots of different things. From blogging, rock climbing to inventing different ways to organise books on shelves.
Sometimes you may feel some kind of connection to the people who live in your phone, but especially if you're not mutuals you're actually complete strangers.
I've never felt that distance as much as now.
I knew she was ill. With an incurable disease (progressive ME). Recently I heard she had requested to be euthanised. Now I hear it's going to happen in January. This is going to be her last month on this Earth. And I guess she has no idea that there are several people like me she doesn't even know of, who are thinking of her.
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There's someone who I've been following for over twelve years on her various social media. She used to post a lot (like all day every five minutes, and more even on other accounts) at the time. That she's Dutch like me is total coincidence. She's very funny and one day(*) a funny post of hers was retweeted by the showrunner of Doctor Who, which is how I found out about her. She's a very interesting person and did lots of different things. From blogging, rock climbing to inventing different ways to organise books on shelves.
Sometimes you may feel some kind of connection to the people who live in your phone, but especially if you're not mutuals you're actually complete strangers.
I've never felt that distance as much as now.
I knew she was ill. With an incurable disease (progressive ME). Recently I heard she had requested to be euthanised. Now I hear it's going to happen in January. This is going to be her last month on this Earth. And I guess she has no idea that there are several people like me she doesn't even know of, who are thinking of her.
There's an interview with her about her euthanasia in a news website related to a national tv channel (in Dutch): rtlnieuws.nl/nieuws/artikel/54…
I joke often about the weird/wrong date format that Americans use. That's in honour of her, a joke I stole from her. I can still cite this post she made of the top of my head.
Back when she was posting a lot she also had severe mental health issues and was suicidal. I remember how she did a lot to overcome this (like setting a challenge of 100 days of 100 positive things, which she did complete) but also how she did a lot to support others with similar problems (e.g. there was a monthly video project she edited).
Anyway, had to write this down so it wasn't only in my head.
Samen met haar ouders voor de laatste keer een oliebol eten, een potje 30 Seconds met haar beste vriendin. Dat zijn vandaag de wensen van Lauren Hoeve (28). Ze heeft de multisysteemziekte ME en ligt voornamelijk in bed.
Watching Killjoys season one because of course I ordered this missing blu-ray. Why only have S2-5? I'm starting to notice that they are not afraid to show really bright sunbeams and large lens flares. Sometimes most of a scene is almost completely washed out by bright sunlight. This really helps in creating the impression of being on another world. So many sci-fi shows are just dark. #Killjoys
Rewatching Killjoys but starting at season 2, because that is the disc I have and streaming fails yet again. (How can there be so many streaming services and yet when you want to see something none of them have it?)
Following the season 1 cliffhanger, Dutch, Johnny and D’avin hit the ground running in season 2 to uncover Dutch’s duplicitous and mysterious childhood mentor, Khlyen’s secret agenda.
Though this Dutch character that Hannah John-Kamen plays is immediately clear in this second season as well as she dives head first into a planet's defensive layer without any plan whatsoever. She's the ultimate scifi-cool.
Interesting how another server that identifies itself with the User Agent "facebookexternalua" has IPv6 addresses with ":face:" in it, like "2a03:2880:3ff:1::face:b00c". Not so nice that it seems broken and keeps requesting the same url over and over again around 10 times per second since yesterday, while circumventing caching. It is for now blocked.
(edit: I didn't even notice the "b00c" for "book"...)
Doing the thing that I do: watching a film I know nothing about with an actress I hardly know anything about. Sasha Lane was with Chloë Grace Moretz in the film The Miseducation of Cameron Post and she seemed interesting enough to watch American Honey in which she is the lead, or at least front and center on the poster. #SashaLane #AmericanHoney
A teenage girl with nothing to lose joins a traveling magazine sales crew, and gets caught up in a whirlwind of hard partying, law bending and young love as she criss-crosses the Midwest with a band of misfits.
It's more of an atmospheric film than a story and I like that. It's just not clear from the beginning that it's going to be like that, so for a while I was waiting for something to start happening. Many independent things happen, but none are really what the film is about.
The atmosphere is not unlike Mouth by Mouth, but that one is a bit more extreme.
I really liked the performance by Sasha Lane. She plays someone who never really fits in, but who also doesn't know where she would fit in. Someone who had she been born in a different family, would have led a totally different life.
I didn't realise before how much I dislike the brainwashing lyrics of sexually explicit rap music. #AmericanHoney #SashaLane
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Lindsay Armaou has her birthday today and it would be obvious to play her songs as celebration. She was in B*Witched as well as Clayton, and is again in B*Witched now they're performing and recording again. But I don't like to be obvious.
So for the Birthday Rewatch I'm rewatching the film (Two Days in) The Smoke, which is one of her acting jobs. It's a very long time ago I saw this film, so it's about time. 'The Smoke' is a nickname for the city of London. #LindsayArmaou #BirthdayRewatch #TheSmoke
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