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Sacha Baron Cohen’s Keynote Address at ADL’s 2019 Never Is Now Summit on Anti-Semitism and Hate

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USSR, Leningrad, 1986 Victor Tsoy, Boris Grebenshchikov

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Jackie (2016) dir. Pablo Larraín

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fangirl challenge || 5 cartoon/anime:

↳ 1. Saior Moon

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Fugees - Ready Or Not (1996)

UK #1 (2 weeks)

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© Tim Robison

Travel Tuesday: The simple and delicious Khachapuri at Compass Rose in Washington D.C. features cheese, local butter and an organic egg baked inside soft, chewy bread. Here, more great photos from the nation’s capital.

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No one has been smart enough to lauch a “The Accursed Kings” new adaptation

As everyone would see, we kinda live in a new golden age of period dramas. This trend seem to have seen its dawn since the day The Tudors aired on our TVs in 2007. I still remember all the fuss about the show’s constantly displayed sexuality “Oh my God, Middle Age nobility scored more than in Hollywood!”, which I suspect was portrayed this way to divert from, you ‘now, historically accurate represantation. 

Thank you, Johnny. Without you I wouldn’t ever guessed Henry VIII was actually Irish.

Still, it has been a good try to portray historical facts, mainly from the not-so-mainstream Middle Ages/Renaissance, adapting them for modern audiences and entertainment. Sex and intrigues, that’s the XXI century’s panem et circensem.

The mainstream success of The Tudors made sure that a crowd of spiritual successor 

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Marc at one of his finest moments

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Wong Chia Chi’s Theme - Alexandre Michel Desplat - Lust, Caution OST

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The Virgin Suicides (1999)

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Roman Polanski and Catherine Deneuve on the set of Repulsion, 1964.

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Marketa Lazarová (1967) dir. Frantisek Vlácil

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list of my favorite russian movies

“We Are from the Future” 2008