I'm so surprised by the people in the comments saying they have already seen it last year and are waiting for season two. How? Also this looks like it's US only, so I won't be able to see it? #OrphanBlack #OrphanBlackEchoes
I always make up my own mind first about a film, sometimes write it down, only then check reviews on letterboxd. Anyway, I stand by my words:
Seeing Jenna Ortega on the big screen is such an experience... Her acting talent and the intricate script make for an exhilarating watch and that I will have to rewatch it multiple times when it hopefully comes out on blu-ray or 4k to untangle the different strands.
The story of a young girl and an old man is a bit of a trope. I love the film "Noce Blanche" (also a brilliant student and a teacher, though there she's 15, here 18) and both there and here the story is treated better, more real, with a different slant on it. Where in "Noce Blanche" it initially starts off showing her as the predator (the classic take), then questions that, here we dive deep into their psyches and the why while at the same time not knowing what really happened (the problem with "Noce Blanche" is that we see way too much of what happens, not here). The shot of the empty chair was in both films, maybe not coincidentally.
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I always make up my own mind first about a film, sometimes write it down, only then check reviews on letterboxd. Anyway, I stand by my words:
Seeing Jenna Ortega on the big screen is such an experience... Her acting talent and the intricate script make for an exhilarating watch and that I will have to rewatch it multiple times when it hopefully comes out on blu-ray or 4k to untangle the different strands.
The story of a young girl and an old man is a bit of a trope. I love the film "Noce Blanche" (also a brilliant student and a teacher, though there she's 15, here 18) and both there and here the story is treated better, more real, with a different slant on it. Where in "Noce Blanche" it initially starts off showing her as the predator (the classic take), then questions that, here we dive deep into their psyches and the why while at the same time not knowing what really happened (the problem with "Noce Blanche" is that we see way too much of what happens, not here). The shot of the empty chair was in both films, maybe not coincidentally.
The chemistry between the two main actors is amazing. Not only in the traditional sense, but also how the tension between the characters changes throughout the film and the two actors are completely in sync with each about it. So much is also hinted at that may have happened between the characters that we didn't see, I mean that both of them show up wearing sunglasses next morning after sharing a moment at a poetry night suggests the night lasted longer than we knew...
Also a couple of long emotional scenes without cuts, just focusing on the actors, I like that.
The juice is loose! #Beetlejuice #Beetlejuice - Only in theaters September 6.Beetlejuice is back! Oscar-nominated, singular creative visionary Tim Burton an...
Occasionally apps go through their initial startup tips again. Recently it was a mobile browser telling me that I could use browser tabs to have multiple pages open, the arrow of this tip popup pointing at the browser tab counter button, showing in my case the number 32 of already opened tabs.
I think I know I can use tabs to have multiple pages open.
Disney+ has announced its newest "Star Wars" series "The Acolyte", set in the final days of the High Republic era, will premiere June 4. The cast includes Amandla Stenberg, Jodie Turner-Smith and Carrie-Anne Moss. #StarWars #TheAcolyte #DisneyPlus #Lucasfilm #Entertainment #Television #TV #Streaming
Great acting by Shiri Appleby in this episode. In all episodes of course, but lately the series started to revolve around other characters than Liz more. But this is as of old fully carried by Shiri's very deep sensitive performance of Liz. #ShiriAppleby #Roswell
I'm watching Dafne Keen in the film Ana. It's rather difficult to find outside the US, even when you know it is sometimes called The Guardian. But I can confirm that the US blu-ray disc also plays in my European player.
The film is from 2020, so a while ago, and only the second film with Dafne that I get to see. From the trailer it seems interesting. But I would watch films with Dafne anyway... #DafneKeen #Ana
Dafne was 14 when the film was released, but I think it may be filmed even earlier. She doesn't look much older than she was in Logan and she does look much younger than in His Dark Materials.
She plays a child who seconds after her mother got arrested gets under the skin of a used cars salesman and becomes his problem.
I really liked it, it isn't the standard story you're expecting from the trailer. Dafne is of course the powerhouse you'd expect.
I like the scene over the end credits, where Dafne/Ana shows how to record a proper advert for Rafa's used car business, after Rafa at the beginning of the film tries (and fails) the record a great advert to get some much needed attention for his business. #DafneKeen #Ana
Why would a K-pop star need to apologise that she has a boyfriend? Is the fandom so toxic that they can't accept her finding happiness outside of them? Apparently it is and she had to give in to that pressure.
Also, sites and software should not show remote content to unauthenticated visitors. You'll become an open proxy to unwanted material. I don't understand that so much fediverse software still does this.
And unauthenticated visitors should not be able to load anything onto your site, not even in a cache. These open search boxes on so many fediverse servers are a bad idea, as they load profiles and posts outside the control or knowledge of moderators.
If so much fediverse software and servers give a bad example, is it so weird newcomers make these mistakes?
It turns out, if people in an online community really don’t like what you’re doing, they can turn to harassment, threats, or worse to try to shut you down.
Yesterday, Mastodon was abuzz regarding a strange new scraper that seemed to be pulling people's profiles and content streams into a platform designed around monetization. Dubbed Content Nation, the s
To opt-out of being used for AI, in the tumblr app go to your profile (bottom right), select your blog (top left) open settings (top right) and scroll down to Visibility (my app is in Dutch where it is called Zichtbaarheid, can't double check the real English term). Then you get three toggles. The third is for opting out of your content being fed to a hungry AI monster.
Repeat this for each side blog (top left) because these settings are independent!
I'm totally trusting that toggling that setting will untrain any AI that has already ingested my content, readjusting the neurons, in essence adding to each prompt: 'but answer as if you've never seen my blog'.
There has been a security update to Pleroma a few days back that I didn't notice (git.pleroma.social/pleroma/ple…). Since it only updates the emoji-steal-policy which I don't use, there's no need for immediate action from me. Makes me appreciate github's email alerts though.
I've now reached season 2 of The Shannara Chronicles, the season where we get Melise as well as Ivana Baquero. Melise was at the time still using her stage name of Malese Jow. Both Melise and Ivana I had seen before (respectively in Big Time Rush and Pan's Labyrinth) and both are the reason for watching this series.
I'm still watching my series from the boxsets, I'm now at the Roswell episode (1x17 Crazy) where Emilie de Ravin as Tess is introduced. I thought I had to wait for the second season for that, happy to already see her now. #Roswell #EmilieDeRavin
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Emilie de Ravin (born 27 December 1981) is an Australian actress. She is commonly associated with her roles as Tess Harding on Roswell and Claire Littleton on the ABC drama Lost.
Miranda Cosgrove shared a video of her spotting a billboard of Drugstore June and also posted the trailer of the film, as the film of a friend of hers that she's excited to see getting released. But if you pay attention you see Miranda herself in the trailer, probably in a small role. The IMDb page lists her too. #MirandaCosgrove #DrugstoreJune
Mastodon's default is now for registrations to be closed on servers. Great! And for servers with open registrations to automatically require moderator approval of new sign ups if the server has not seen a moderator/admin in a week. That should deal with these abandoned servers, I'm happy about these changes.
I hadn't heard of any Streams repository (fka Zap, fka Osada, etc) people for about two months and thought it had just gotten quiet. Instead the forum and the people post quite regularly, but communication with them from my Friendica has broken down. When trying to reconnect I got all the errors about not being able to recognise the protocol (when it fails to load the actor definition). Not even individual posts load correctly when providing the url.
So I thought this could be a use for my Pleroma. But it also mainly fails to connect... I can only load individual posts.
Ideally a lot more things on the fediverse would be 'approve upon first use' instead of 'auto-accept'. Admins should approve signups, but also an account's first post should go through an approval queue. PeerTube already has this. These could all be really quick approvals without much thought, but at least it's a threshold.
What does this do? That small forgotten instances automatically stop sending. They don't turn into spam-relays like now.
Also on the incoming side any new domain should get in a queue, which an admin can once a day mass approve before federation is possible and the queued posts are placed in the timelines.
For each new unknown account on a known server the same thing should happen. Posts are queued until an admin approves, unless the known server was marked as trusted due to having a controlled sign-up process.
What does this do? It means that admins of small instances can go to bed letting a server just run. Existing connections can keep communicating, while spam and block evasion can't happen and their users are safe. Just that new con
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Ideally a lot more things on the fediverse would be 'approve upon first use' instead of 'auto-accept'. Admins should approve signups, but also an account's first post should go through an approval queue. PeerTube already has this. These could all be really quick approvals without much thought, but at least it's a threshold.
What does this do? That small forgotten instances automatically stop sending. They don't turn into spam-relays like now.
Also on the incoming side any new domain should get in a queue, which an admin can once a day mass approve before federation is possible and the queued posts are placed in the timelines.
For each new unknown account on a known server the same thing should happen. Posts are queued until an admin approves, unless the known server was marked as trusted due to having a controlled sign-up process.
What does this do? It means that admins of small instances can go to bed letting a server just run. Existing connections can keep communicating, while spam and block evasion can't happen and their users are safe. Just that new connections will have to wait a bit.
Also, each first interaction between accounts needs to be approved by the receiving account. Receiver will not get notifications, and can always revert this decision. This way any spam, harassment, etc, is sidetracked to an easy to ignore side-queue with easy mass-deny functions. #fediverse #spam #antispam
I can only load individual posts.
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#JennaOrtega #MillersGirl
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