#2) forest whitaker by bad books

[shalegas34]

my new obsession on the guitar is lua by bright eyes. take me back

[notanothersongaboutlovebracket]

goodness gracious thats a lotta music, i wish you luck in organizing this all!

have you found any new artists or songs you like? im sure i will when i find the time to browse the playlist

Sorry for not responding before but I wanted to give a recommendation list after sorting through everything.

Small recommendation list (probably forgot some titles):

Bastielle - Daniel in the Den (only listened to Pompeii before!)

Bobby Pickett - Monster Mash

Bug Hunter - 2 Bed, 2 Bath (and a Ghost) (tw love :))

Conan Gray - Family Line (not new artist tho)

Charming Disaster - Radium Girls

Sabaton <3, just all Sabaton

Captain Tractor - The Last Saskatchewan Pirate

Bad Books - Forest Whitaker

Jhariah - DEBT COLLECTOR

GHOST - Solaria / Aura

Nancy Kerr - Fragile Water

Junie & TheHutFriends - The Consequence Of Imagination Is Fear

Mother Mother - Infinitesimal (not new artist tho)

The Longest Johns <3!!

Tikkle Me - Blow My Brains Out

I Expect You To Die theme song

Lord Huron - Dead man's hand

Jessica Law - Jekyll & Hyde 4eva

Lemon Demon - Cabinet Man

Poor Man's Poison - Feed the Machine

The Hit Crew - Love Potion #9 (tw love ig)

Fish in a Birdcage - Four Aces

The Hound + The Fox - The Paradox

Will Wood - Tomcat Disposables

Twenty One Pilots - My Blood (not new artist tho)

tom cardy!!!

Our Word from 36 Questions musical

Florence + The Machine - King (not new artist tho)

The Mechanisms - The Riddle Of The Sphinx; Lost In The Cosmos <3!!!

Laufey - Best Friend (very QPR??) And thanks for reminding me of:

Can You Hear The People Sing? from Les Miserables

Cavetown - Home

grandson - Despicable

Gregory and the Hawk - Boats and Birds (check if you need lullaby)

[bluehavensims]

Music Meme  

🎶✨ when u get this u have to put 5 songs u actually listen to, and publish. then, send this ask/tag 10 of your favorite followers (non-negotiable, positivity is cool)✨🎶  

Woop I got tagged! I love these so thank you so much @bakersimmer for tagging me!

My spotify gets updated sporadically every few months or so with a couple songs I’m obsessed with and then listen to on repeat (i don’t make dedicated playlists) so its a weird mismatch of stuff.

Five songs:

1. Through The Looking Glass by DI-RECT, heard it in the car a few weeks ago and now its my dance song! as in I jam out on it in the shower while pretending im on stage lmao

2. Reflecting Light by Sam Phillips, GILMORE GIRLS! I’ve been rewatching it lately and this song showed up and I somehow noticed it for the first time and absolutely love it

3. Forest Whitaker by Bad Books, the lyrics confused me so I analyzed them and they still confused me so now I just sing along and get the nice vibes.

4. Don’t You Worry Child by Swedish House Mafia, rediscovered the song on tiktok, got reminded of my childhood and singing along, immediately added it to my spotify.

5. I Hope by Gabby Barrett, I have a great partner, I don’t need a break up song, doesn’t stop me from yelling the lyrics dramatically everytime though.

Thank you again for tagging me! I am tagging @justkeeponsimming @starmoonsims @adair-the-bard @nightlifeseries  @sunflowersweetum  @faetheegrey  @yooniesim

If anyone else sees this and wants to participate go ahead and don’t feel pressured if you don’t want to do it! :)

[amazingphanisnotonfire-imagines]

song lyric prompts!

Hey! You guys know what to do! In celebration of requests opening soon, and to get me back into the flow of writing, I thought I’d do a month of lyric prompts, ending august 4th! 

So, send a number (or a few) and a person and I’ll see what I can come up with! ✨✨

Thank you for sticking with me and I am so excited to start writing for you all again. 🥰

Prompts: 

1: every time she mentions your name, she says it like a prayer (more like you: orla gartland)

2: you show up at my home, all alone with a shovel and a rose (maniac: conan gray)

3: anything you say can and will be held against you, so only say my name (just one yesterday: fall out boy)

4: i wanna sleep next to you but that's all i wanna do right now (talk me down: troye sivan)

5: i fall in love just a little bit everyday with someone new (someone new: hozier)

6: now the day bleeds into nightfall and you’re not here to get me through it all (someone you loved: lewis capaldi)

7: i always fall from your window to the pitch black streets (the kids aren’t alright: fall out boy)

8: i'm shaving with your toothpaste and trying to vacuum from the ceiling (give me a try: the wombats)

9: there'll be happiness after you, but there was happiness because of you (happiness: taylor swift)

10: cause even when she's next to me, we could not be more far apart (she: dodie)

11: things will change they always do, but my heart will stay open for you (stay open: maya hawke)

12: i know you were way too bright for me (golden: harry styles)

13: the boy you loved in spring, the way she looks at him (the key to life on earth: declan mckenna) 

14: could not care less if you love me (special girl: dodie)

15: you fell asleep in my car i drove the whole time (tear in my heart: twenty one pilots)

16: if you dance with me, darling, if you take me home. will we talk in the morning? (will we talk?: sam fender)

17: you knew it still hurts underneath my scars from when they pulled me apart (hoax: taylor swift)

18: all the people over there, they don't seem to have a care, i'm so fucking self-aware, it's exhausting (pretending: orla gartland)

19: you know the galaxies of my heart (space girl: frances forever)

20: i'm just a part of someone else's dream (cool people: alfie indra)

21: tell me that I'm alright, that i ain't gonna die (hard times: paramore)

22: you started a band, that was cool for awhile but it turned pretty bland (forest whitaker: bad books)

23: don't you know I'm no good for you? (when the party’s over: billie eilish)

24: all the silver tongued suits and cartoons that rule my world (hypersonic missiles: sam fender)

25: 'cause babe, what's yours is mine, all your drama and your trauma (zombie!: orla gartland) 

26: with so much left to do, you’ll be missing out and we’ll be missing you (missing you: all time low)

27: but if i just showed up at your party. would you have me? would you want me? (betty: taylor swift)

28: and i've cleaned enough houses to know how to cover up a scene (no body, no crime: taylor swift) 

29: the millisecond that you're away i get the loneliest feeling (give me a try: the wombats)

30: open up your eyes, shut your mouth and see (only angel: harry styles)

31: ‘cause i found a girl, who's in love with a girl, she said that she tried, but she's not into guys (i found a girl: the vamps)

32: i saw a shooting star and thought of you (all of the stars: ed sheeran)

33: but i've found my sweet escape when I'm alone with you (disconnected: 5sos)

34: late december with my heart in my chest and the clouds of my breath (roman holiday: halsey)

35: how could i have been so foolish to let you leave (lover come back: city and colour)

36: only fools fall for you (fools: troye sivan)

37: i'm the only one that has made you fall in love (the king: conan gray)

38: now which do you prefer? to be alone, to be in love or to just be worth it? i think you're worth it (strawberry sunscreen: lostboycrow)

39: it's you, you're the one that makes me feel right (me & you together song: the 1975)

40: you don't have to be scared, babe. you don't need a plan of what you wanna do (listen to the man: george ezra)

41: you won't ever be alone, wait for me to come home (photograph: ed sheeran)

42: have i known you 20 seconds or 20 years? (lover: taylor swift)

43: looked like how i feel 'bout your lips (space girl: frances forever)

44: give me a minute to hold my girl (hold my girl: george ezra)

45: i know i'm the one you want to forget (miss missing you: fall out boy)

46: the darkest night never felt so bright with you by my side (outer space/carry on: 5sos)

47: just let me cry a little bit longer (rose-coloured boy: paramore)

48: you felt it once before i know you did (backseat serenade: all time low)

49: don’t you know that you are golden (golden: the vamps)

50: and i might never be the one who brings you flowers but i can be the one tonight (perfect: one direction)

People I write for:

Stranger Things:

- Steve

- Robin

- Nancy

- Jonathan

Riverdale:

- Sweet Pea

- Fangs

- Toni

- Cheryl

- Veronica

- Reggie

- Josie

- Kevin

- Archie

- Betty

- Jughead

- FP

- Jason

The End of The F***ing World:

- James

- Alyssa

5sos:

- Calum

- Luke

- Ashton

- Michael

Sex Education:

- Otis

- Eric

- Maeve

- Adam

- Jackson

- Aimee

- Lily

- Orla

Killing Eve: 

- Villanelle 

- Eve 

Prodigal Son: 

- Malcolm 

- Dani 

- Ainsley 

- JT 

- Jessica 

- Dr Edrisa 

- Dr Martin 

- Gil

WandaVision: 

- Wanda 

- Vision 

- Darcy 

- Jimmy 

- Monica 

And if you have any suggestions of who I could write for, send them in! 

support my writing! if you want! 

[crystalclrs]

Rules: you can usually tell a lot about a person by the type of music they listen to. put your favorite playlist on shuffle and list the first ten songs (no skipping!) then tag ten people.

tagged by @taylorisapuppy 💖 thank you !!

1. what's the matter by milo green

2. clementine by sarah jaffe

3. hallucinating by elohim

4. teenage girls by bleeding knees club

5. entertainment by phoenix

6. forest whitaker by bad books

7. crazy by violent femmes

8. trojans by atlas genius

9. swimming in the moonlight by bad suns

10. to be alone with you by sufjan stevens

tagging: @spookyshai , @bundyshoes , @stephensking , @padmeschildren , @bitchpack , @housestcrk , @delanoisland , @wasenchanting , @ohtwilight @heydorothea

please don't feel like you have to play!! but if you do, it's really fun 🥰

[antpelts]

my boy Jare for the character hc's bc i'm predicatable as hell and Love your Jared

character headcanons meme

jared........ 2!!

2-4 songs that are probably on their iPod

did i make you cry on christmas day? (well you deserved it) - sufjan stevens (and the peach pit cover) under my skin - jukebox the ghost im not making out with you - surf curse forest whitaker - bad books

the one place they sometimes end up falling asleep — where they’re not supposed to

also.. master of falling asleep on at his desk instead of just going to bed

the game they’d destroy everyone else at

not really competitive but he kills at the papas games on coolmathgames

the emoticon they’d use most often

emoji this time: 🔪

what they act like when they haven’t had enough sleep

if hes really fucking tired around just evan he probably gets really frustrated and complains a shit ton until ev makes him just lay down

their preferred hot beverage on really cold nights. or mornings. or whenever.

if its too late for coffee hot coco

how they like to comfort/care for themselves when they’re in a slump

when he gets better at that sort of thing he takes hot showers and watches weird youtube videos (like going down rabbit holes of peoples exotic pet channels and building fish tanks)

what they wanted to be when they grew up

reflex he says he wants to make video games for a while but hes not totally sold. for a hot minute he had a crisis and wanted to become a chef

their favorite kind of weather

if not rain then just like summer nights that are just a little chilly

thoughts on their singing voice (decent? terrible? soprano? alto?)

when he actually does sing he hits those like shitty garage band vibe (which i love-) like yelly angry music like some of the front bottoms stuff

how/what they like to draw or doodle

he tries to doodle a dnd character hes never gonna use-

[shadowron]

Who Let The Dogs Out (of Great Britain)? Canines in Paranormal Animals of North America for Shadowrun (1st Edition)

A couple years ago I ran a short 3rd Edition Shadowrun campaign over the summer where all of the player characters were Orks or Trolls (the “All-Trog” Campaign). Knowing that in the summer campaigns are like romances (they never last…), I didn’t put a lot of work into developing any unique scenarios, so I just adapted the 1st Edition module Elven Fire.

In this adventure, the PCs are hired to investigate a recent uptick of Elven gang violence, and having Orks and Trolls be the “good” guys gave it kind of an anti-LOTR vibe. Anyway, there’s a scene where the runners are tracking down a bad guy and trying to keep him from escaping via helicopter. In addition to some supplementary goons to fight, the Baddie had two guard dogs that attack the party.

Me (GM): The two dogs are running at you. What do you do?

Player #1: I… Uh, I shoot the dog.

Player #2: HOW COULD YOU SHOOT A DOG?!?!

Player #1: It’s coming right at me!

Player #2: Yeah but it’s a dog! You don’t shoot a dog!

The combat eventually ended with the runners capturing the baddie and subduing the other guard dog. Player #2 then made this rescued guard dog his pet.

The point is: People Love Dogs. Even in the Sixth World.

See? You love this.

The 1st Edition core book had the Barghest, and I feel like I have already discussed it, and its mammary glands, SO MUCH. I think that’s partly to do with the fact that, I admit, I had no idea what it was for a while. There isn’t a picture of it in the book, and when I first played I didn’t read its description closely enough to note that it resembles a mastiff. Probably distracted by other information.

The barghest does show up in Monster Manual II for D&D, sorry, for AD&D (in 1983), but again, no picture. There, it’s some kind of demonic dog-goblin. It finally got a picture in the 3rd Edition D&D Monster Manual, where it’s a weregoblinwolf (a werewolf where the human form is actually a goblin form).

It smells better in its wolf form.

The Shadowrun barghest drops all of the shapeshifting (though there are shapeshifters, they are animals that take on human form, rather than humans that take on animal form) and goblin (which are HMHVV-infected dwarves) business to just make it a Spooky Dog whose howl paralyzes you.

The barghest is but one example of a common motif in folklore, that of the Black Dog, sometimes ghostly but generally associated with death. What’s interesting is that the vast majority of instances of the Black Dog are in the British Isles: 

Exhibit 1.

While you can find examples of “ghost dogs” in other regions (such as the two-headed Cerberus in Greek mythology, Fenris in Norse mythology, and Forest Whitaker in Jim Jarmusch mythology), it is quintessentially British.

Exhibit 2?

That the barghest would exist in North America would not be surprising, given that, over the years, a handful of Brits made their way to America. What’s weird is that Paranormal Animals of North America introduces four new Spooky Dogs that are just re-skinned (or re-furred) barghests.

The Bogie, which makes accidents happen and is allergic to horseradish.

Hopefully it doesn’t make you spill a jar of horseradish.

The Gabriel Hound, which can make itself almost look human.

Unlike the Peter Gabriel Hound, which only makes stop motion Claymation videos

The Hellhound, which breathes fire.

Nothing clever to say here because it’s pretty badass.

Finally, the Shadowhound, which is a hound that creates shadows.

Perfect for it to run in...

Why are these in North America and not in Britain?

Sure, Paranormal Animals of Europe would come out later, for 2nd Edition, but it introduced precisely zero new British Black Dogs, and these 5 already in existence were only briefly mentioned. 

Maybe post-Brexit they decided to shove off across the pond?

[tabloidtoc]

People, January 27

Cover: Why Prince Harry and Meghan Markle walked away from the royal family 

Page 5: Chatter -- Adam Sandler, Rose Byrne, Zoe Kravitz on dad Lenny Kravitz, Julie Bowen on Wells Adams and Sarah Hyland, Michael B. Jordan, Issa Rae 

Page 6: 5 Things We’re Talking About This Week -- Timothee Chalamet will play Bob Dylan, Gwyneth Paltrow launches a Goop cruise, you can color Jason Momoa, The Masked Singer gets a spinoff, Nicki Minaj’s wax figure fail 

Page 9: Contents 

Page 10: StarTracks -- Mark Wahlberg on the beach in Hawaii 

Page 11: Selena Gomez and Rami Malek and Robert Downey Jr. at the Dolittle premiere in LA, Kaia Gerber in Miami, Brad Pitt and Bradley Cooper at the National Board of Review, Will Smith at the Bad Boys for Life premiere in Miami 

Page 12: Family First -- Vanna White and Pat Sajak and his daughter Maggie, Jonathan Scott and Drew Scott, Jack Nicholson and son Ray at a Lakers game 

Page 13: Serena Williams and daughter Olympia at her win in New Zealand, Minnie Driver and boyfriend Addison O’Dea and her son Henry at the premiere of Doolittle 

Page 14: Critics’ Choice Awards -- Nicole Kidman and Charlize Theron, Zendaya, Anne Hathaway and husband Adam Shulman, Chloe Sevigny expecting her first child with boyfriend Sinisa Mackovic 

Page 15: Stars On-Set -- Jessica Alba on the set of L.A.’s Finest, Jennifer Garner filming Yes Day, StyleTracks -- neon -- Kacey Musgraves, Ariel Winter, Kate Bosworth, Lupita Nyong’o, Laura Dern, Rachel Brosnahan 

Page 19: Is Julianne Hough and Brooks Laich marriage in trouble 

Page 20: How Adele changed her life 

Page 22: Heart Monitor -- Pink and Carey Hart happy anniversary, Zayn Malik and Gigi Hadid back on, Steph and Ayesha Curry date night, Katie Cassidy and Matthew Rodgers divorcing 

Page 23: Justin Bieber’s Lyme disease battle, Amy Schumer reveals IVF journey 

Page 24: Liam Hemsworth’s hot new romance with model Gabriella Brooks, Tia Carrere: A rock goddess grows up 

Page 26: Open House -- Forest Whitaker’s L.A. compound, Gal Gadot on raising a healthy family 

Page 27: The Oscar race is on, Jenna Dewan getting ready for baby no. 2 

Page 29: Stories to Make You Smile 

Page 31: Passages, Why I Care -- Rob Lowe helps provide college scholarships to students who have overcome serious adversity 

Page 33: People Picks -- Grace and Frankie 

Page 34: Awkwafina is Nora from Queens 

Page 35: Everything’s Gonna Be Okay, Diary of a Future President, Q&A -- Fortune Feimster 

Page 36: Avenue 5, Nightfall by Little Big Town, Q&A -- Jonathan Pryce 

Page 37: Troop Zero, Medical Police 

Page 38: Books 

Page 40: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle walk away -- there is a lot of hurt -- just 20 months after their fairy-tale wedding the couple make the decision to step back from royal life stunning the world and the Queen 

Page 50: Samuel Little says he killed 93 women making him the deadliest serial killer in U.S. history 

Page 55: Robert De Niro -- what I know -- after 50 years in the business The Irishman star reflects on fame, fatherhood and lasting friendships 

Page 58: Identical Twins and a Twist of Fate 

Page 65: Special Dogs Changing Lives -- psychiatric service dogs give help and hope to people with mental illness 

Page 68: Olympic legend Greg Louganis turns 60 

Page 73: Grammy insider -- Lizzo, Alicia Keys 

Page 74: Aerosmith, Jessie Reyez 

Page 87: Second Look -- Michael Strahan 

Page 88: One Last Thing -- Martin Lawrence 

[ramajmedia]

10 Horror Movies Starring Your Favorite Avengers, Ranked by Scariness

Superhero actors often make their bones in similar action or comedy movies, if not just other comic book adaptations. But the genre has grown to such a size, and incorporated such a high number of talented actors, that you can find your favorite heroes in some unusually horrific situations. You just need to know where to look and, preferably, what you’ll find when you get there. (Unless you’re the kind of person who likes to roll the dice with their horror movies.)

Here’s ten horror movies starring actors who double-up as members of the Avengers in the MCU, ranked from the least scary to the most.

RELATED: 10 Campy Horror Movies To Watch If You Liked Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark

10 Repentance

Starring Anthony Mackie (A.K.A. The Falcon), Phillipe Caland’s psychological horror movie sees a life coach, played by Mackie, taking up the job of one-on-one therapy sessions with Forest Whitaker’s deeply troubled renovator. When it becomes apparent that Whitaker’s character suffers from a psychological haunting that may border on the spiritual, and that Mackie’s coach has many demons of his own, their relationship takes a dark turn.

Though mostly more on the thriller side of horror, Repentance does stray into the torture area of things once the situation fully deteriorates. It’s a movie that possesses a lot of the hallmarks of Bad Movie Syndrome but it’s undeniably bolstered by the performances of Mackie, Whitaker and – surprisingly enough – comedian Mike Epps on solid dramatic form.

9 Priest

Starring Paul Bettany (A.K.A. Vision), Priest is a big screen adaptation of the Korean comic of the same name by Hyung Min-woo. It follows Bettany’s titular Priest (a practically superhuman vampire hunter living in a post-apocalyptic world where his services are no longer needed) on his quest to rescue his niece from a vampire plot.

RELATED: Ranked: Every Version Of Vampires On TV/Movies

Priest, like the comic it’s based on, is really a mishmash of a number of genres from martial arts action to Westerns. Its horror elements go hand-in-hand with the undead monsters at the heart of its story, falling more on the action-horror side of the equation. Fans of the Blade movies will be familiar with it.

8 Gothika

Starring Robert Downey Jr. (A.K.A. Iron Man), Gothika is the Hollywood debut of acclaimed French director and actor Mathieu Kassovitz. It follows Halle Berry’s psychiatrist as she awakes to a nightmare scenario where she’s institutionalized in her own hospital after apparently murdering her loving husband. Downey Jr. plays a colleague trying to get to the bottom of things in this unusual thriller/chiller.

Gothika's horror, while supernatural in many instances, is mostly psychological but the movie has its fair share of gore in certain scenes. It fits more neatly under the category of 'disturbing' than it does 'frightening', with its central mystery playing comfortably to the conventions of the ghost genre.

7 Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers

Starring Paul Rudd (A.K.A. Ant-Man) in his movie debut as Tommy Doyle, a young character from John Carpenter’s original Halloween movie, The Curse of Michael Myers is the last of a kind of trilogy of Halloween sequels before the series began continually rebooting itself. 

Its production troubles resulted in two very different versions of the movie existing for public consumption, each with pros and cons. You could call the original theatrical version scarier, as it adds some much more graphic kills, but the so-called Producer’s Cut has the benefit of making a little more sense.

6 Silent House

Starring Elizabeth Olsen (A.K.A. Scarlet Witch), Silent House is another psychological horror movie but presented in a very unique way. The movie, like the original Uruguayan movie La Casa Muda from which it’s adapted, is presented as one continuous take. Meaning there are no visible cuts as it follows its main character, played by Olsen, in real time. 

RELATED: The 10 Most Haunting Ghost Movies Of The 2010s, Ranked

It follows Olsen’s character’s nerve-racking journey through an old family home as instances of trauma from her past begin to manifest around her in a ghostly fashion. It’s overall style and presentation will seem familiar to lovers of modern horror video games.

5 The Cabin in the Woods

Drew Goddard’s hugely entertaining monster mash horror comedy doesn’t skimp on either the frights or the laughs. As the title suggests, it riffs on the conventions of the supernatural slasher genre, with a just pre-career-explosion Chris Hemsworth (A.K.A. Thor) perfectly cast as the stock jock. But The Cabin in the Woods evolves into an examination of the horror genre itself, eventually folding in every type of phobia and thing that goes bump in the night that you can think of.

Things get progressively wilder and wilder as the movie progresses, leading to a parade of highly creative kills in a blood-soaked finale.

4 The Midnight Meat Train

Based on a short story from Hellraiser and Candyman creator Clive Barker, The Midnight Meat Train stars Bradley Cooper (A.K.A. Rocket Raccoon) as a photographer who falls down a deep and dark rabbit hole of grisly murder when he seeks more shocking photo opportunities on the subway system at night. 

The Midnight Meat Train is a movie that starts out pretty dark but there’s not much that can prepare you for how just how horrifically weird things get. Gory, macabre, and not necessarily a movie you should watch if you want to look at Bradley Cooper the same way ever again.

3 28 Weeks Later

Juan Carlos Fresnadillo’s sequel to Danny Boyle’s game-changing, rejuvenating, surprise zombie hit 28 Days Later surprised audiences in its own ways. To get a truly original-feeling genre movie of that type was shocking enough the first time it happened. But to get a sequel that amped up the scale and the action and the threat, while keeping the emotional intensity at an incredibly high standard, was something that beat phenomenal odds.

RELATED: The 5 Scariest Zombie Films (And The 5 Funniest)

Jeremy Renner (A.K.A. Hawkeye) plays a US military sniper overseeing the rebuilding of London after the zombie apocalypse of the first movie. When things go bad again, a chain of shocking, visceral, events plays out as he attempts to protect a group of survivors. 

2 Oculus

Starring Karen Gillan (A.K.A. Nebula), Oculus was a landmark moment for both director Mike Flanagan (adapting the movie from an earlier short film of his own) and Gillan on their journeys into the spotlight. The movie’s classical American horror story, about a haunted mirror standing in as a traditional metaphor for the horror of losing one’s grip on reality, established Flanagan as a filmmaker able to weave complex character-based horror stories with real staying power.

Effective in its build-up, but never afraid to take the terror to dark and delirious places, Oculus is a movie that accomplishes a lot with relatively little and showcases exactly why Flanagan would go on to be trusted with several Stephen King adaptations.

1 Under the Skin

Scarlett Johansson (A.K.A. Black Widow) plays an alien Siren on the streets of Scotland, hunting for prey to seduce and lure back to her lair to be slowly digested, in Jonathan Glazer’s one-of-a-kind sci-fi nightmare. 

Johansson’s unflinching performance sees her interact with a number of non-professional actors in key sequences throughout the movie, often on the street with hidden cameras, and it intensifies the otherworldly feeling flowing through Under the Skin. Whether it be the tone of the scenes, or Mica Levi’s haunting music, Under the Skin is all but guaranteed to mess with your brain in one way or another.

NEXT: 10 Facts Behind The Making Of Avengers Endgame

source https://screenrant.com/10-horror-movies-starring-favorite-avengers-ranked-scariness/

[aion-rsa]

Star Wars The Bad Batch: What You Need to Watch Before Starting the Show

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The Bad Batch is the newest animated chapter in the Star Wars saga. Set immediately after Revenge of the Sith, the show explores the rise of the Empire from the perspective of a group of “genetically mutated” clones who never fit in with their own kind and fit in even less after Order 66. Unlike the rest of the Clone Army, the members of Clone Force 99 (the official designation of the group nicknamed “The Bad Batch”) are unaffected by the secret inhibitor chips implanted in their brains, which quickly puts a target on their back, especially after they refuse to execute Jedi on the battlefield.

Clone Force 99 find themselves in the middle of a sea change they don’t fully understand, as Palpatine declares himself Emperor and the Clone Army turns evil. To make matters worse, Admiral Tarkin (the future Grand Moff of A New Hope) sees the clone forces as obsolete and wants to replace them with a new Imperial army. On the run and without purpose, the Bad Batch will have to carve out a new future for themselves in a much more hostile galaxy.

In many ways, The Bad Batch is really a sequel to The Clone Wars, which spent much more time chronicling the lives of the soldiers than the Prequel Trilogy ever did. But that doesn’t mean you’ll have to watch all of The Clone Wars to understand what’s going on in The Bad Batch. In fact, all you need to know about Clone Force 99 is pretty much covered in the series premiere, “Aftermath.” That said, if you’re one of those fans who likes to be really thorough, here are a few other movies and TV episodes you should watch to get the full backstory of what’s going on in The Bad Batch:

Revenge of the Sith

To be completely honest, Revenge of the Sith is the only thing you’ll really need to have watched to understand what’s going on in the first episode of The Bad Batch. In fact, the first half of “Aftermath” takes place around the same time as the third act of the Prequel Trilogy closer, with the Bad Batch witnessing the atrocities of Order 66 with their own eyes.

Revenge of the Sith shows us Order 66 from the point of view of newly-anointed Sith apprentice Anakin Skywalker as well as the many Jedi who are about to get executed across the galaxy. We watch as Anakin, now known as Darth Vader, massacres his former brethren inside the Jedi Temple on Coruscant (even younglings), while masters like Aayla Secura, Ki-Adi-Mundi, and Plo Koon are slaughtered by their own clone forces.

The Bad Batch are confused as they watch the other clones turn on their Jedi general, and refuse to partake in the extermination. It’s the scene that truly sets up Clone Force 99 as the heroes of this story.

Later in the episode, fans also get to see another key moment from Revenge of the Sith from the clone perspective. This time, the Bad Batch gather with the rest of the Clone Army on Kamino to watch a hologram of Palpatine declare the formation of the first Galactic Empire. It’s almost a complete word-for-word recreation of the scene in the movie, complete with the voice of Ian McDiarmid.

If you want a better sense of the gravity of Order 66, and how Palpatine’s machinations led to the fall of the Republic and the Jedi, you’ll want to watch this movie.

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The Clone Wars Season 7 Episodes 1-4

While I’d even count “The Bad Batch” arc of The Clone Wars as optional, it is technically the first Star Wars adventure starring Clone Force 99. In this season 7 arc, Hunter, Wrecker, Tech, and Crosshair team up with Clone Commander Rex and Anakin to rescue Echo, a clone soldier who was once thought dead but has actually become an involuntary pawn in the Separatist war machine.

These episodes flesh out how the genetic mutations of each member of the Bad Batch makes them unique, and how these abilities sometimes cause friction with the “normal” clones. Hunter and his team are more individualistic, more prone to breaking the rules, which doesn’t earn them many friends within a society that expects them to follow all orders without question.

The second half of this arc also acts as an origin story for how Echo became the fifth member of the Bad Batch. It’s a pretty gruesome tale, but there’s also plenty of action if you want to see just how efficient Clone Force 99 are when it comes to blowing up droids.

The Clone Wars Season 7 Episodes 9-12

The final four-episode arc of The Clone Wars, titled “Siege of Mandalore,” is also the best of the entire series. While it doesn’t feature the Bad Batch at all, it does give us yet one other perspective on the events of Order 66. This time, we see the massacre from the point of view of the heroic Ahsoka Tano, Commander Rex, and the scheming Maul, who’s declared himself ruler of the Mandalorian home world.

The arc begins as a straightforward mission led by Ahsoka and Rex to capture Maul once and for all, but plans quickly change when Darth Sidious sets Order 66 in motion. While we all know the twist is coming, “Siege of Mandalore” still provides a shocking and exciting conclusion to Ahsoka’s story on The Clone Wars, while also showing the true cost of war.

The events of “Siege of Mandalore” happen somewhat at the same time as the first episode of The Bad Batch so watching this arc should give you a fuller picture of everything going on at the end of the war. We also know that Rex will appear on The Bad Batch, so these episodes are a good primer on who he is, too.

Other Clone Stories

When it comes to a franchise as expansive as Star Wars, I truly believe you should just watch the stuff you enjoy as opposed to sitting through every single episode or movie just to check off boxes. (For example, in my opinion, you can skip most of The Clone Wars in general and just watch these episodes.) But if you’re hellbent on being a completionist, you can also add Attack of the Clones as well as the first four episodes of The Clone Wars season 6 to your watchlist.

Attack of the Clones covers the start of the Clone Wars as well as the conspiracy behind the creation of the Clone Army. For a chunk of the movie’s runtime, we follow Obi-Wan Kenobi as he tracks a Separatist plot to assassinate Senate Padme Amidala. Once he learns the name of the bounty hunter trying to kill Padme, this leads him to Kamino, a distant planet where scientists are hard at work creating a massive army for a war to come. It’s in this movie that we learn that Jango Fett provided the genetic template for the entire Clone Army, which is why all the soldiers look just like him.

Interestingly enough, The Bad Batch indirectly addresses how that template has been stretched thin in the eyars since the opening salvo of the Clone Wars. It explains why new clones like the mysterious Omega are so different to the original template as well as why the Bad Batch developed genetic mutations.

Recurring Kaminoan characters on the animated series like Lama Su and Taun also made their first appearances in Attack of the Clones. Kaminoan scientist Nala Se recurred on The Clone Wars.

Meanwhile, The Clone Wars season 6 episodes 1-4 focus on a clone named Fives. After a clone trooper slays a Jedi on the battlefield, Fives is thrust into a conspiracy involving a plan to mind control the Clone Army with an inhibitor chip, the same one that will eventually force the clones to execute Order 66. Fives plans to uncover the truth behind the chips and reveal it to the galaxy before it’s too late. You can pretty much guess how that went…

Fennec Shand and Saw Gerrera

These next ones are also optional.

The trailers for The Bad Batch have already revealed that assassin Fennec Shand will appear on the show. This fan-favorite live-action character played by Ming-Na Wen was first introduced in The Mandalorian. Without spoiling anything, Fennec goes through her own kind of transformation on the live-action series that will likely be further explored on The Book of Boba Fett, where she’ll share top billing with Temuera Morrison’s beloved bounty hunter.

In The Bad Batch, we’ll get to see Fennec decades prior to her adventures on The Mandalorian. What was she up to years before she crossed paths with Din Djarin? We’re excited to find out!

And finally, there’s Saw Gerrera, another character we know will cameo on the show. He was first introduced in The Clone Wars season 5 episodes 2-5 and later appeared in Rogue One, played by Forest Whitaker. When we first meet Saw, he’s leading a rebellion against Separatist invaders on the planet Onderon. But, as Saw will learn on The Bad Batch, the fight for freedom just leads to another system of tyranny when the Empire comes into power. It’s a painful truth all of the heroes of the new animated series will be forced to discover.

Read more about The Bad Batch here.

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[machsabre]

My Thoughts on Black Panther

With Guardians of the Galaxy, the first one that is… It hit enough of the key nostalgia points for my childhood that no movie would ever be able to realistically top. There have been better movies made, naturally, but it connected with me on a level that goes right into the core childhood youth of mine, that used to sit up and watch cheesy sci-fi movies like Starcrash and Spacehunter: Adventures into the Forbidden Zone, and a love for interstellar space dramas like The Last Starfighter, all in one fell swoop. GotG was a movie that spoke to me as a (then) 39 year old nerd that has craved this kind of science fiction adventure for nearly two decades. And it delivered. So for the sake of all fairness, I am removing the first GotG movie from my statement here.

Now, for some dumb reason… Probably love for the media that inspires them… I try to see every single comic book movie that gets made. I haven’t seen them all, but I’ve seen a lot. Including some obscure bullshit you’d be like “Wait, they made a movie of THAT?!” or even more so “Wait, THAT was based on a comic?” So I try to be fair and watch as many as I can. Not just superhero movies, but even those based on independent and smaller, lesser known books, like American Splendor, Road to Perdition and Ghost World. And it kind of goes without saying that the Marvel movies are generally all pretty damn good, and even their weakest entires, like Thor: Dark World or Iron Man 2 is still very watchable.

I mean, I had some issues with Spider-Man Homecoming, but I didn’t hate the movie. And if it was one, I’d watch it again. There’s plenty to like about it. Doctor Strange was basically a magical retelling of Iron Man’s origin all over again… But there was enough fun in it to make me like it a lot. Ant-Man wasn’t perfect, but it was funny and I actually liked it more than Avengers: Age of Ultron. Thor: Ragnarok? The more I think about that movie, the more I love it. So when the Marvel movies are weak, they’re still pretty good. And when they are good, they are exceptional.

So, with all that said, what is my thoughts on Black Panther?

It was the greatest comic book movie I have ever seen. It’s certainly one of the best movies I have ever seen.

This was a 2 hour and 15 minute movie and it did NOT feel that way. It was well written and it was engaging. The superheroics take a total backseat to an actual Shakespearian Epic about family legacies and betrayals. I was drawn into the world of Wakanda and I never questioned it once. Usually in a lot of comic book movies… And really a lot of movie genres to be honest… There’s this lull point, there it kinda drags a bit. GotG had it. So did it’s sequel. All three Cap movies did. All three Iron Mans. Ant-Man did. The Avengers did. Power Rangers, Wonder Woman, all three of the Disney Star Wars movies… But roughly around the latter half of the second act, things drag a bit. Usually taking it’s time to have the hero shown to the world and stuff. Black Panther does not have that lull point. It was engaging the entire way through. The biggest problem with the movie is that I never thought T’Challa was in danger, because I knew he was in Avengers: Infinity War. And that’s one of the movie’s greatest strengths is that there is no real connection to the greater Marvel Cinematic Universe. Or sure, there’s Ulysses Klaue and Agent Ross from earlier movies. But they’re treated in a way that if you do not remember then at all… It’s okay. There’s no cameo’s by Iron Man or Captain America. No mentioned of the Sokovia Accords or the Infinity Gems. This is entirely it’s own movie. Only the post-credit stinger has any major connection. And really, by this point in time with the Marvel movies, that should be obvious. (And who’s in it should be obvious too.)

The acting? Jesus, these actors and actresses are all amazing. Chadwick Boseman is a king and hero that anyone can look up to and respect. He is masculine in the most non-toxic way possible. You can feel is frustration and his anger to the situations he’s put in. And Michael B. Jordan as Erik Killmonger… Jordan is an amazing actor, who’s talents only grow every year. He is up there with Loki and the Vulture as one of the most defined villains in the Marvel movies. More importantly, you can actually understand, even sympathize, with him. He’s still a bad guy, but you get where he’s coming from. He won’t get it, because it’a comic book movie… But he deserves at least an Oscar nod for the role. Both the characters of Nakia and Okoye (played by Lupita Nyong’o and Danai Gurira respectively) both are amazing scene stealing characters. But the highlight of the movie was Letitia Wright as Shuri, T’Challa’s younger genius sister who’s responsible for the advance technology that Wakanda enjoys. Her enthusiasm is endearing and addictive. Martin Freeman, Andy Serkis, Forest Whitaker, Angela Bassett… Look. EVERYONE in this movie is amazing and they sell their roles convincingly.

Was there anything bad about the movie?

No. My God, no. That’s…

Look, me and my wife saw the movie this afternoon, and it’s not 1:30 am as I’m typing this. I’ve been giving it a lot of thought, and even trying to analyze the movie, the closest I can come to with giving it any harsh criticism, is that a lot of the overall plot forms, we have seen in other superhero movies before… But even then, we haven’t seen it like THIS. Ever since I saw Fruitvale Station, I knew Ryan Coogler is a super talented director. That movie was awesome. Creed was probably the second best Rocky movie ever made… And depending on my mood, may be the best one ever made… And it doesn’t surprise me that Black Panther was this good too.

Bottom line: Black Panther is an amazing movie. Whether or not you consider it to be as good as I do is up to you.

But I’m willing to bet you are probably going to have a good time.

Wakanda Forever.

[cody-kun]

I was tagged by @veridan

RULES: We’re snooping on your playlist. Set your entire music library on shuffle and report the first 10 songs that pop up. Then choose 10 victims. Ok first off, that just sounds hella creepy. Next, I use like Spotify so I can’t really put songs all together or whatever, so I’m just gonna pick 10 songs from one of my favorite playlists (in no particular order, and I’m probably forgetting songs). 1. Ghost Inside - Broken Bells 2. Fire - Discopunk 3. Out of My League - Fitz and the Tantrums 4. Awake - Electric Guest 5. Pumped Up Kicks - Foster the People 6. Come a Little Closer - Cage the Elephant 7. Atomic Man - Portugal. The Man 8. Forest Whitaker - Bad Books 9. Brighton - Swelo 10. Elevator Operator - Courtney Barnett Also if y’all are interested, check out my Spotify: yeroc790 These songs are from my Indie Pop playlist tagging: I don’t really know 10 people so just like whatever @leafbunny @j-heifer @cardiclon @myclestrade @rosesartblue

[evilpenguinn]

Top Ten songs

Thank you @alverixorcustransfrogamorphus , @missolitude , and @missy-poppins91 for tagging me!

Rules: if you can, list the Top Ten songs you are listening to lately, and tag ten mutuals to do the same.

This is difficult since I can’t enjoy anything like a normal person, so I listen to like 3 songs on repeat for days, or play whole albums/playlists over and over again. Anyway…

1. Forest Whitaker - Bad Books

2. Are You What You Want to Be? - Foster the People

3. Fallen Leaves - Billy Talent

4. Good Rhymes for Bad Times - Bears In Trees

5. West Coast - The Neighbourhood

6. Burn The Witch - Queens of the Stone Age

7. Fluorescent Adolescent - Arctic Monkeys

8. Glowing Eyes - Twenty One Pilots

9. Dance of Death - Iron Maiden

10.  Bat Country - Avenged Sevenfold

I tag: @daggers-in-the-smiles-of-men , @aandtheuniverse , @error-464 , @shwag, @matildaswan, @hacklesacademy , @cherrysconesandgoatscheese, @kateriverameliawolfe, @actuallyasinnamonroll, @cakeeatingwingedcat

Obviously, please feel free to anyone who wants to join! 

[ifyouregoingtakethemoon]

soft - a (really daggy) collection of my favourite calm, chill and sleepy songs.

(-listen here-) - exhaustive tracklist under the cut, though im constantly adding to it

1.aerial east - appetizer // 2.arcade fire - put your money on me // 3.london grammar - wasting my young years // 4.coeur de pirate - drapeau blanc // 5.natalie merchant - beloved wife // 6.sarah sparks - the surgeon // 7.tiê - mexeu conmigo // 8. katie melua - nine million bicycles // 9.bad books - forest whitaker // 10.janelle monáe ft. miguel - primetime // 11.liv - dream awake // 12.coeur de pirate - crier tout bas // 13.mai lan - easy // 14.vampire weekend - step // 15.the xx-crystalised // 16.the xx - on hold // 17.lisa mitchell - neopolitan dreams // 18. lisa mitchell - the boys // 19. lisa mitchell - clean white love // 20. lisa mitchell - pirouette // 21.jenyer - i do // 22.lana del rey ft. the weeknd - lust for life // 23.blackpink - stay // 24.lord huron - the night we bet // 25.francesca michielin - 25 febbraio // 26.francesca michielin - nessun grado di separazione // 27.oh wonder - without you // 28.francesca michielin - sons and daughters // 29.francesca michielin - tutto questo vento // 30.keane - somewhere only we know // 31.within temptation ft. dave pirner - whole world is watching // 32.iu - sogyeokdong // 33.alvvays - dreams tonite // 34.the go-betweens - right here // 35.the go-betweens - bye bye pride // 36.the xx - say something loving // 37.tracy chapman - fast car // 38.alma - après l’aurore // 39.alma - j’ai // 40.angus & julia stone - big jet plane // 41.la oreja de van gogh - verano // 42.blanche - city lights // 43.florence + the machine - breaking down // 44.sixpence none the richer - kiss me // 45.billie eilish - idontwannabeyouanymore // 46.billie eilish - watch // 47.calvin harris ft. jessie reyez - hard to love // 48.maria taylor - time lapse lifeline // 49.khalid - young dumb & broke // 50.angus & julia stone - snow // 51.wolf alice - don’t delete the kisses // 52.high highs - st.marie // 53.florence + the machine - only if for a night // 54.ed sheeran - perfect // 55.vampire weekend - obvious bicycle // 56.lana del rey - cherry // 57.lana del rey - god bless america // 58.lana del rey - heroin // 59.marco mengoni - ti ho voluto bene veramente // 60.lp - lost on you

[spamhotnspicy]

top 10 songs tag!

my amish bestie @bimikes tagged me in this cute tag where I list my top 10 songs!

1. Rewrite The Stars By The Greatest Showman Soundtrack

2. Forest Whitaker By Bad Books

3. Be The One By Dua Lipa

4. Tightrope By The Greatest Showman Soundtrack

5. Call It What You Want By Taylor Swift

6. Sober 2 (Melodrama) By Lorde

7. The Other Side By The Greatest Showman Soundtrack

8. Ocean Eyes By Billie Eilish

9. My My My By Troye Sivan

10. The Greatest Show By The Greatest Showman Soundtrack

this is like my top 10 of the week/month because I have no consistency and am a mess, also can u tell what musical I’m obsessed with this week

I’m tagging @nalexfx , @heart-of-pots-and-pans , @sunshineandtigers , @brandibees

[supercultshow]

Hello Supercult West! This is Supercult South Bad Movie Professor Cameron Coker (BS in “Kumite” with a minor in “Championship Level Bullshit”) and I’m reaching out to you from across the country to help hype the true story of an American Ninja, Bloodsport!

Bloodsport is a 1988 Action, Drama, Biography starring the muscles from Brussels himself, Jean-Claude Van Damme from infamous Cannon Films. It’s a virtually plotless excuse for nut punches and shirtless fisticuffs. It’s clichéd, over the top, but nonetheless an exciting athletic showcase from everyone involved. On Rotten tomatoes it holds a 39% critic score, but a 74% audience score, it was nominated for a Razzie Award for Worst New Star, and it’s the film that kicked of Van Damme’s career and inspired the Mortal Kombat video game series. His first credited appearance in a film just two years prior was as “Gay Karate Man” in the 30-minute-long comedy, Monaco Forever.

BUT, did you know that Bloodsport is actually the true story of 1956 Toronto born martial artist/clandestine CIA operative, Frank W. Dux?

Directed by Newt Arnold, second unit director for some of the best films (Godfather 2, Bladerunner, Abyss) and primary director for…well this.

Hey! I’m meditating here! I’m meditating here! Up yours you SOB!

Donald Gibb, who plays Jackson, also played Ogre in Revenge of the Nerds!

Don’t forget, it’s not Frank Ducks, it’s Frank Dux, like “put up your dukes.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASNRZrqllbc

Did you know Forest Whitaker is in this film? Yeah, Oscar Winner Forest Whitaker! I mean he doesn’t high-kick anybody but- oh, you’re walking away…

“Aren’t you a little young for full-contact?” “Aren’t you a little old for videogames?”

In a 1980 Black Belt Magazine interview titled “Kumite: A Learning Experience”, Frank Dux revealed the truth behind his experiences. Not only was Kumite a real full contact martial arts tournament held in a private location every 5 years, but Dux did in fact receive an invitation to the event and win the 1975 Kumite. The real tournament that Dux attended was held in the Bahamas rather than in Hong Kong, but many of the other details are correct, according to Dux. Dux really was an inexpendable soldier in the U.S. Military who distinguished himself in clandestine operations in Vietnam before joining the CIA.

Regarding the Kumite tournament, Dux said, “My involvement in that tournament was part of a plan, launched in 1975, to infiltrate the criminal organizations that organized the fights. The original idea was to participate in the Kumite tournament and make a few contacts. We initially assumed I would lose, but eventually I became one of the best Kumite fighters to ever participate in the event.”

Dux’s instructor in the film is a composite of two individuals: Jack Seki and Senzo Tanaka, though Dux meeting his instructor during an attempted break in was the producer, Mark DiSalle’s idea as a clever screen time saving device. Dux’s friend Ray Jackson, played by Donald Gibb, is also a composite of two people: Richard Robinson, a jujitsu black belt and Swedish Karate champion Kurt Peterson.

Dux said that the then 50-year old actor Bolo Yeung’s character in Bloodsport, Chong Li, is based on a real person as well. Dux said that the real Chong Li openly admitted to blinding Dux during their fight, like what is depicted in the film, however in reality the blinding incident was purely accidental due to beads of sweat rather than intentionally thrown powder.

Dux himself was the fight coordinator for Bloodsport and announced that Van Damme was not nearly in good enough shape for the film and put Van Damme through a 3-month training program. Van Damme a 20-something martial arts champion in his own right would later say that it was the hardest training of his life.

Why did Frank Dux reveal these secrets in the Black Belt magazine interview? As an open challenge encouraging other to fight in the Kumite circuit I championed. Now that is truly badass.

…Or it could all be a complete fabrication by a professional bullshitter trying to sell his books and promote his martial arts system, FASST™/Dux Ryu. Most martial-arts enthusiasts view Dux’s claims of competing in secret tournaments as complete fiction. It is now widely accepted that Frank Dux lied his way into Hollywood, was never in any branch of the military, let alone the CIA, and that even his personal brand of martial arts as well as his alleged tournament victories and records are products of Frank’s imagination! Is ANY of this ridiculously awesome tale true? I don’t flipping know. But it sure made for one awesome, over-the-top, ball-punchingly spectacular Jean-Claude Van Damme film!

You only get killed at Kumite if you f*%@ up!

Supercult West is proud to present, Bloodsport!

Bloodsport Hello Supercult West! This is Supercult South Bad Movie Professor Cameron Coker (BS in “Kumite” with a minor in “Championship Level Bullshit”) and I’m reaching out to you from across the country to help hype the true story of an American Ninja, Bloodsport!