Content warning: Pinned post, about following from multiple addresses
Hi, when I follow someone I usually do this from multiple accounts, with different servers and platforms. This is partially as backup. It’s also because different software has different features. E.g. at the moment of writing I mainly post from my Friendica server, but it doesn’t yet support polls, or account migrations. So I also follow from my Pleroma server, which does notify me someone has migrated.
I also sometimes use platforms that support nomadic identity, that allows my channels on multiple servers to be synced. From software that doesn’t support that, a follow request looks like multiple separate requests from those channels.
Content warning: 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.
When I reshare a Twitter post from my own feed there, onto this fediverse account, it's only things I would otherwise have posted here anyway but this way it saves me typing it twice. It's not something unattended at all (as proven by the manual resharing), just somewhat lazy. I also leave out stuff that's not fitting for the fediverse. #CrossPosting
Hi, this me from my Friendica instance. I also post from @GidiKroon@mastodon.social, @gidi@pleroma.gidikroon.eu as well as from Twitter, Instagram and Tumblr as @GidiKroon but I'm mainly using my own Friendica for now. Even though I have been on the fediverse for a few years, I've never done an #Introduction post, so let's do one for this channel.
I tend to post about actresses and singers I'm a fan of, sharing news about their new projects as well as my thoughts about films and tv I watch. In between I give my take on political things as well as about the fediverse. When I learn new things hosting a fediverse server or other technical things, I try to share them here too. Longer posts may end up on my blog gidikroon.eu (which you can follow at @GidiKroon@gidikroon.eu).
In real life I work as a software developer, but I keep work separate from a private account like this. I play (beach) volleyball when I can, at a very low level. I live i... show more
Hi, this me from my Friendica instance. I also post from @GidiKroon@mastodon.social, @gidi@pleroma.gidikroon.eu as well as from Twitter, Instagram and Tumblr as @GidiKroon but I'm mainly using my own Friendica for now. Even though I have been on the fediverse for a few years, I've never done an #Introduction post, so let's do one for this channel.
I tend to post about actresses and singers I'm a fan of, sharing news about their new projects as well as my thoughts about films and tv I watch. In between I give my take on political things as well as about the fediverse. When I learn new things hosting a fediverse server or other technical things, I try to share them here too. Longer posts may end up on my blog gidikroon.eu (which you can follow at @GidiKroon@gidikroon.eu).
In real life I work as a software developer, but I keep work separate from a private account like this. I play (beach) volleyball when I can, at a very low level. I live in the Netherlands and occasionally cycle and take photographs. I read and watch sci-fi and fantasy, and am interested in ways to achieve social justice, gender and race equality, sustainable energy use and climate justice.
Feel free to follow, as I will also follow other accounts I find interesting without expectation of them following back. Feel free to share (boost, repeat) my posts if you want, using whatever share function comes with your platform. I tend to close DMs to only allow people I follow. I check my fediverse accounts only one or a few times a day, typically on my phone or tablet, so I tend to not be part of live discussions.
Being cast as a scheming toff in the global phenomenon Bridgerton was a surprise for Claudia Jessie. Fiercely proud of her roots, the Brummie talks about etiquette lessons, getting too many tattoos and why working-class actors so often get a rough de…
Turns out the new Doctor Who companion Varada Sethu will not replace the 'current' one but be in addition to her in the 2025 series. And I say 'current' in quotes because that 2024 series also still has to start for real (in May).
They say she played previously in Hard Sun, which I saw six years ago, so now I've got to try to remember what character that was. #DoctorWho
Her showreel is good though. Also helped me remember who she was in Hard Sun. I liked her, I quoted her character back when I was still doing that on Tumblr (now on @randomlinesfromtvandfilm ):
The new series of Beyond Paradise has a new actress (Melina Sinadinou) that I didn't know before. As you can see in the first photo (from her Instagram) she seems totally my type. Weird is very ok for me... But maybe for others the second photo (her professional headshot from Spotlight by Harry Livingstone) is more conventionally convincing?
They're advertising the series to start on BBC First this Monday 21h00. But it already runs on BBC One and I caught a glimpse. Her character seems interesting and she's worth watching for the acting too.
I found this last photo in such extreme resolution that you can see the photographer taking the photo reflected in her eyes. Proves that the twinkle in her eye is not photoshopped!
The Wednesday blu-ray doesn't have the "[barely restrained seething]" subtitle... That's a Netflix-only feature... The disc has the much less inspired "[breath trembling]". It's not all advantages to owning the disc...
It's a shame Emma didn't get to use her werewolf training this season, maybe next? Wednesday got knocked unconscious a disconcerting amount of times, it's a good thing she has Goody now, might help with the healing.
It's weird how they seemed to have special events every single day, Harvest Festival, Outreach Day, Poe Cup, Raven Dance, Parents Day, etc. Hardly any actual lessons seemed to be happening. Still, instead of more school, I'm hoping for the next season to be set outside the school. And have more Goody Addams, I like a powerful witch. #Wednesday
@StarkRG That is exactly what it is, thank you. I couldn't find it in the list of channels Amazon was trying to sell me, but it turns out that was (surprise surprise) because I'm already subscribed to it! It used to be called differently, StarzPlay I think, and got renamed.
Now if they only had Paramount+ too in my country like they do in most places...
The blu-ray for Wednesday arrived today! On Wednesday. Starting my umpteenth watch-through.
With recently the great experience of watching Miller's Girl on the big screen and now eight episodes of brilliance to see, these are really Jenna days...
We all know the level of detail Jenna puts in her performances, for Wednesday she got formal fencing and cello training, but on her Instagram posts of that time you can see she also had a mechanical typewriter in her apartment back in Romania. In this opening episode Wednesday is very comfortable typing her novel on the old typewriter, but doesn't really know how to work the keyboard of Enid's laptop.
Just found out that Joséphine Jobert is back in Death in Paradise, in episode 13x07. Apparently she's also in the next episode, I don't know whether she's fully back for coming seasons. IMDb suggests she already appeared at the end of 13x06. I had stopped following the series when she left... #JoséphineJobert #DeathInParadise
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'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
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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.
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
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
EXCLUSIVE: Tania Watson (The Head), Corina Bradley (Star-Crossed Romance) and Laura Gordon (Late Night with the Devil) have joined Danny Pino, Yul Vazquez, Michael Chiklis and Mark Feuerstein as se…
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.
I'm going to do some mixed-up rewatch to see the combined talents of Jenna Ortega and Amy-Leigh Hickman by jumping between the second and fourth seasons of You. Double the brilliance. I'll be doing episodes 2x08, 4x08, 2x09, 4x09, 2x10 and 4x10. #JennaOrtega #AmyLeighHickman #You #YouNetflix
Amy-Leigh Hickman. Actress: You. Amy-Leigh Hickman was born on 15 September 1997 in Hastings, Sussex, England, UK. She is an actress, known for You (2018), Ackley Bridge (2017) and Safe (2018).
Ellie shows up at the hotel room and speed edits a film script, until her smarts and insights throw the whole process in disarray when she realises they need to start over with the script and actually try to understand the character of Beck. After the defenestration she goes back to her own hotel room and is only quickly seen again when she assures Joe she can order an Uber for herself to get home. She knows nothing yet about the whereabouts of her sister.
Content warning: You 4x07&8 Nadia report (spoilers)
Nadia grows suspicious of her professor, who is actually Joe, and breaks into his apartment, finds the clues and the key faster than Joe does himself in the next episode and walks in on... Marianne in the cage! This is the latter half of the episode, in the beginning she has words with her 'is he or isn't he' boyfriend.
That was 2x07, I found I had to watch that too since Nadia's story is sort of broken between the episodes.
In 2x08 we get Marianne's story, the nightingale in a cage, for the first 21 minutes. This leads to the moment Nadia walking in on that terrifying scene, but seen from the other side. Nadia tries to free Marianne, call the police, anything, but has to settle for just bringing food and water. She promises to be back with a plan. But this episode Joe grows suspicious of Nadia and almost foils her plans to put the keys back and go to Marianne. The episode ends with Nadia rushing to the cage, just missing being seen by Joe who is finally on his own trail to find the cage, and announcing to Marianne that she has a plan, but that it's a mad one.
Ellie walks in on Joe and Love who have met up the morning after the events of Forty's process. She is still looking for her sister Delilah and proceeds to spend the day cooking with Love. She tells Love about how she came to live with her sister after her father died. Later in the episode she has the arguably most heartfelt moment of the series where she has her 'what's wrong with me' outburst in the kitchen, when she believes her sister has left her.
Nadia is talking to Marianne about the plan to get her out without involving the police, while Joe walks in and she needs to hide around the corner. This is when a panic-stricken Nadia properly sees the madness of her professor, indicating the reality closing in on Joe. When he's gone Nadia and Marianne agree that the only way is for Joe to die. When Nadia is later rushing back after sourcing the drugs and knife needed, she gets into a mishap at the underground access gates and is taken to the police station. Once outside, she receives the remainder of the drugs she needs for plan b that Marianne has set in motion due to the delay. Meanwhile, she has to admit to her 'boyfriend' that she doesn't consider him her boyfriend as this is not the kind of conversation that you can postpone because you're in a hurry.
Episode 2x04 of London Kills has a guest role for Klariza Clayton. It's so great to see acting that's a cut above, and to see her of course. It's still a 'girlfriend of/wife of' type of role, but done well. #KlarizaClayton #LondonKills
Season 2 of Wednesday may start filming in April, according to Deadline. Jenna first has Beetlejuice 2 to finish; Death of a Unicorn has already finished. #JennaOrtega #Wednesday
EXCLUSIVE: Netflix’s reigning most popular series, Wednesday, is headed to a new locale. The upcoming second season of the Addams Family offshoot will be filmed in Ireland, sources tell Deadl…
It's really great that BBC 2 are repeating Red Dwarf. They're doing series 2, or Red Dwarf II in official parlance, and yesterday we had the episode Queeg.
I still have my boxset of series I to VIII to watch. Instead of starting at the beginning, I'll start with where Red Dwarf started for me: the sixth series. That's the one with them flying the "Starbug". #RedDwarf #NowWatching
I had forgotten that Clare Grogan (the singer of Altered Images besides being a great actress) was also in the opening episode of series 6 (as well as in the pilot and selected other episodes).
I've reached the episode of Red Dwarf series VII where Chloë Annett enters the show as the new Kochanski. I loved seeing her so much and apparently I still do. Also the new angle on the character is great. And no, I have no problem liking both actresses who played the same role.
I also loved her in Crime Traveller, I may have watched that because of her... #RedDwarf #ChloëAnnett
Whoa, another actress I admire also plays Kochanski! Holly Earl, though here unrecognisably young, about 5, as part of a joke where Kochanski for a few seconds is turned to child form. I had no idea it was her, only spotted it in the credits... #HollyEarl #RedDwarf
What's with the suggestion that the new Doctor Who will not be on broadcast television but only streaming? The official account makes it sound that way, mentioning only iPlayer and Disney+. Will this be the end of my collection? #DoctorWho
It's the episode with the second of two cello scenes by Jenna in the series. It's my understanding many more were filmed in the series, but they had to be cut because the episodes ran too long. I so hope we get to see them some day. #JennaOrtega #Wednesday
I'm watching season three of the iCarly reboot, because of Miranda Cosgrove, and I can take my own slow time going through the season, because of the studio bosses not ordering a season four. #MirandaCosgrove #iCarly
The way American tv series are made, causes them to often feel like a book of which the last chapter is missing. The hope is that you've lost interest in the book by the time you get to that chapter. Sometimes you get a quick summary of how the author meant to wrap things up in that chapter.
A long time ago I watched The 4400, a series with Jacqueline McKenzie. I have all four seasons on disc, but somehow never got around to watching the final fourth season. Let's start it now, I hope I remember enough of the previous seasons.
It's a somewhat scifi series, with 4400 people suddenly returning to earth after presumably having been abducted by aliens. Jacqueline is not one of those, but a police person investigating things around it. As strange things happen: they start to show special abilities, they form a cult like organisation, and what really happened to them while they were missing is still unknown.
I'm about the rectify an omission: I haven't seen Dollhouse yet, even though it stars Eliza Dushku. I'm going to watch it now. And yes, I'm going to put the disc in the player, I'm not just watching the pictures on the cover as on the photo. #ElizaDushku #Dollhouse
Eliza Dushku. Actress: Bring It On. Eliza Dushku was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to Judith (Rasmussen), a political science professor, and Philip R. Dushku, a teacher and administrator.
I absolutely loved that show, but I have a certain lack of comfort with the entire premise years later, especially knowing what I know now about Whedon. Even so, the cast is utterly phenomenal, and I wish the series had gotten the attention it deserved, flaws and all, at the time.
This may be relevant to the strike as the article points out. I think if Netflix were to create a film by replacing writers and actors with AI, we would be legally allowed to copy it.
“The Peripheral” has been canceled at Amazon’s Prime Video, Variety has learned. The news comes despite the fact that Amazon renewed the show for a second season back in February.…
Felicity Jones. Actress: Rogue One. Felicity Rose Hadley Jones is an English actress and producer. Jones started her professional acting career as a child, appearing at age 12 in The Treasure Seekers (1996).
Some wrapping up of storylines, but indeed no real answers. And I think we're never going to get the answer what 'it' is and whether it even is something.
There are calls to support the SAG-AFTRA strike by cancelling your streaming subscriptions temporarily. I'm not against that.
A while ago when Spotify did their right wing extremism I cancelled my subscription and moved to TIDAL. I could because TIDAL was there as an option, has all the same songs, and every song is available to buy on other platforms anyway. So I'm still at TIDAL and buy all songs from the artists I support, DRM-free on places like iTunes.
But I've long known that if a similar thing would happen to a streaming service, I couldn't do the same. Virtually all content of actresses I support is exclusively on one service and not available to own on DVD or blu-ray. Believe me I check regularly and internationally. So I'm locked in, essentially a prisoner to the subscription system. Add to that the early bird discounts I have where I pay 50% less for my lifetime, which I would lose if I cancelled temporarily.
And I believe it may not be temporarily. If like with Spotify they don't fix the problem, I would want to be able to stay away.
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There are calls to support the SAG-AFTRA strike by cancelling your streaming subscriptions temporarily. I'm not against that.
A while ago when Spotify did their right wing extremism I cancelled my subscription and moved to TIDAL. I could because TIDAL was there as an option, has all the same songs, and every song is available to buy on other platforms anyway. So I'm still at TIDAL and buy all songs from the artists I support, DRM-free on places like iTunes.
But I've long known that if a similar thing would happen to a streaming service, I couldn't do the same. Virtually all content of actresses I support is exclusively on one service and not available to own on DVD or blu-ray. Believe me I check regularly and internationally. So I'm locked in, essentially a prisoner to the subscription system. Add to that the early bird discounts I have where I pay 50% less for my lifetime, which I would lose if I cancelled temporarily.
And I believe it may not be temporarily. If like with Spotify they don't fix the problem, I would want to be able to stay away.
A minor thing I can do if I stay on these services, which I already did anyway: whenever you search for a film, instead of the title search for the actor or actress name you want to watch the film for. This shows up the acting talent as a valuable resource in their statistics.
Of course it's Aimee Carrero who has the best words, as always. Actors are on strike and of course they deserve to be paid properly for their work, even if it's on streaming, and deserve guarantees against misuse of AI, like the writers do. https://www.instagram.com/p/CupRXuuprsa/
SAG-AFTRA Strike
For the first time in over 40 years, union film and television actors are on strike.
I'm reflecting on the importance of unions.
Though *never* above reproach or improvement, unions harness the power of the collective.
Together, we can alleviate the crushing weight of unfettered capitalism.
Together, we can slow the terminal spread of endless consumption and growth-at-all-cost.
At their best, unions represent the hope that the worker is not a pawn, that The Man is not invincible, and that the fight for human dignity cannot and will not be deterred.
Unions are the ever-rare reminder that power is really in the hands of the people.
Rewatching We Hunt Together one episode per week, now they are finally showing it on the BBC (One) after I had previously seen it on the BBC (First) and caught up with the repeat on the BBC (Entertainment).
Hermione Corfield and Eve Myles, double the reason to watch. #WeHuntTogether
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in reply to Gidi Kroon • •Her showreel is good though. Also helped me remember who she was in Hard Sun. I liked her, I quoted her character back when I was still doing that on Tumblr (now on @randomlinesfromtvandfilm ):
https://www.tumblr.com/randomlinesfromtvandfilm/170765134669/ill-bring-the-matches-and-the-party-hat-mishal?source=share
She was also in Doctor Foster in a small role, but I remember liking that one.
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