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🎞️Nomadland (2020) 🎥Chloé Zhao 📷Joshua James Richards

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Up next on my 90's Fest Movie 🎬 🎞 🎥 🎦 📽 marathon...A League Of Their Own (1992) on glorious vintage VHS 📼! #movie #movies #drama #sportsmovie #baseballmovies #aleagueoftheirown #AAGPBL #allamericangirlsprofessionalbaseballleague #geenadavis #loripetty #JonLovitz #TomHanks #GarryMarshall #ripgarrymarshall #pennymarshall #RIPPennyMarshall #megancavanaugh #anncusack #anneramsay #tracyreiner #billpullman #bittyschram #TeaLeoni #DavidStrathairn #lynncartwright #joeyslotnick #HarryShearer #vintage #VHS #90s #90sfest #durandurantulsas4thannual90sfest

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Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: Dennis Lehane Mystic River Performed by David Strathairn 5 Discs CD 2000 Harper.

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WIG REVIEW: NIGHTMARE ALLEY

Another Oscar bait movie, another remake of the damned!!! West Side Story did not need to be remade but actually wurqed - this movie also did not need to be remade and fully lived up to its title. IT’S A NIGHTMARE! It is also very VERY long and I watched all of it so you don’t ever have to. But what about the wigs? Let’s discuss.

Let me begin by saying: I DO NOT LIKE BRADLEY COOPER UNLESS HE IS PLAYING A 70S ASSHOLE. Definitely my enjoyment of this movie was affected by the fact that I truly did not care about him, his character, whoever he might have killed in the first moments of his movie and then set a house ablaze, and certainly not his penis. THIS IS A YEAR FOR DICKS and you almost kind of see his in this early scene in a bath if that is something you remotely care about (I DO NOT). I do, however, support Toni Collette in most things, and especially this wig! It has a nice 30s wave and texture and I wish had not been subjected to Bradley Cooper or any of his body parts.

Anyway, this movie is all carnie horrors from the getgo - tortured souls, tortured babies, tortured people, tortured chickens! It’s a lot and Guillermo del Toro clearly wants to shock and awe but the only thing I was shocked by is that NO ONE TOLD ME DAVID STRATHAIRN WAS IN THIS MOVIE YES!!!! His old lady is Toni Collette and their carnie deal is basically as fake clairvoyants: lying to people about familial dead ghosts. IT’S A LIVING! Bradley learns all he can from them and then MURDERS DAVID STRATHAIRN TO TAKE HIS COOL JOB AND IF I DIDN’T ALREADY HATE YOU BRADLEY COOPER UGHHHHHHHH.

He also charms Rooney Mara who has kind of a dumpy wig at first but does a really cool carnie trick where she electrocutes herself and man - people were really into paying to see other people get hurt in the 30s. What a time!

Rooney and Bradley leave the carnie life behind to cultivate a high class fake clairvoyant act. And after 2 years it works! They are making BANK lying to people about ghosts and wow maybe I picked the wrong profession. Rooney’s wig gets an upgrade! Bradley’s hair is still as slimey as he is but since he’s playing a career conman I guess it makes sense but also: WHO CARES. How he manages to actually psych people into believing him is never really explained and is also basically the plot of the USA show Psych except this movie is not funny at all and also endless.

2 hours (or maybe 2 days?) into this movie, Cate Blanchett shows up as a vamp/psychologist who thinks Bradley is a liar and duh she’s right but then they team up to defraud a bunch of rich assholes? Anyway, this wig isn’t bad and I definitely wanted to live in every interior she inhabited. Still, her motivations are so murky and everything is so boring at this point that like truly, no thanks.

MARY FUCKING STEENBERGEN shows up as a bereaved mother and again - this wig is very servable but deserved to be in a better movie? This is around when Bradley’s character gets really greedy about lying to rich people about ghosts and it ends in a murder/suicide because sure?

AND THEN! Rooney Mara and her slightly longer but still very boring wig try to escape the clutches of Bradley’s nonsense (and blatant cheating on her with Cate Blanchett in a weird Carol reunion no one wanted) but somehow agrees to one more con in which she has to appear as the dead lover of rich asshole Richard Jenkins.

This is where shit really just turns into a Guillermo del Toro nightmare nonsense fest and all logic - wig and otherwise- go out the window. In this scene in which Rooney appears as this fake ghost, she has to both cover herself in fake blood AND wear a wig for reasons unknown. WHY!!! She wears a wig in a turn of the century updo and then quickly removes it to run away from Richard Jenkins but like - WHY DID YOU NEED A WIG? Your hair was the same color and length of this ghost lady - just use bobby pins???? The wigs up until this point were fine but this plot point turned the tides. I love a wig on wig reveal but THIS ONE IS UNNECESSARY AND STUPID! Then again, this whole movie is unnecessary and stupid. 

VERDICT: DOESN’T WURQ

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Klaes Ashford, The Expanse, Season 3, Episode 7

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A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1999)

Whenever a play is successfully adapted to film, it's hard to tell who is responsible. It isn't like much content has been removed or altered for 1999's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Is it just the subject matter working its magic? Partially for sure but consider whether this retelling captures the original prose and structure. How does the movie look? Does it have re-watch value? Are the actors good in their roles?

Hermia (Anna Friel) is in love with Lysander (Dominic West). They want to marry but her father Egeus (Bernard Bill) wants to pair her with Demetrius (Christian Bale). Meanwhile, Helena (Calista Flockhart) is desperately in love with Demetrius but they broke up and he has no interest in trying again; he's after Hermia. She and Lysander decide to make a run for it, pursued by Demetrius, and Helena (who hopes to win him back in the process). Meanwhile, the king of the fairies, Lord Oberon (Rupert Everett), and his queen Titania (Michelle Pfeiffer) are in the middle of a lover’s quarrel. It's up to trickster Puck (Stanley Tucci) to mend their relationship. Finally, we also follow a group of would-be playwrights putting together a comedic/dramatic presentation of Pyramus and Thisbe. The stories are interwoven as the fairies’ magic interferes with the lovers and the actors.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream is an excellent play, even if you don’t understand Olde English completely. There are plenty of clever rhymes, and the comedic scenarios are timeless. The three stories are fairly simple, making them easy to follow. On DVD, you've got the option to turn on the subtitles, which makes it even easier. The camera's ability for closeups gives us a better look at the actors than you could ever get in an auditorium, which facilitates your understanding as well.

Rather than setting the story in ancient Greece, director Michael Hoffman has selected 19th Century Italy. While bicycles may be present and the only togas we see belong to the fairy-folk, it works. Any period with candlelight, lavish castles, old-timey attitudes, and green woods lovers could stroll through fits this material.

Performance-wise, everyone does well. The standouts are easily Kevin Kline as Bottom, one of the actors putting on the play-within-a-play, and Stanley Tucci as Puck. The performers have good chemistry, making this comedic romance unexpectedly sexy. The movie's got an infamous mud-wrestling scene and for me, it was one of the highlights. Throughout the film, everyone is fighting over who is going to get together with who and it gets even messier/funnier when Puck's enchantments get crossed. The ladies chase after the men and depending on what stage they're in, they run away from, run towards, or are completely bewildered by their affections. What better way to represent this messy sort of fun than by having them all get dirty for real? If that doesn't get you, some very selectively placed rose petals and bushes will.

If you’re looking at A Midsummer Night’s Dream and analyzing the feminist ideals within, or discussing how marriage and love relationships can make an individual's identity disappear, you’re looking too hard. It’s a movie that features a play within a play, some big laughs and magical enchantments being dropped left and right so that the audience can have a good time. It’s a light romantic comedy. It makes you laugh. It makes you happy to share it with someone. I’m not sure if I can pinpoint anything in it that “improves” the material, or would necessarily make it better than any other adaptations or live performances but that’s alright. The 1999 film version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream is exactly what it wants to be: fun. (On DVD, August 1, 2015)

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#SearchlightPictures ha svelato il #trailer dell'atteso #NightmareAlley del premio Oscar #GuillermodelToro.  Tratto dall’omonimo romanzo noir di William Lindsay Gresham, già adattato nel 1947 con il film La fiera delle illusioni per la regia di Edmund Golding con Tyron Power (ecco spiegato il cameo di Romina Power con cui il regista ha deciso di omaggiare il grande divo). Al centro della trama il legame pericoloso tra un cinico giostraio (interpretato da #BradleyCooper) e una femme fatale (interpretata da #CateBlanchett) che veste i panni di una psicologa senza scrupoli pronta a stringere con lui un accordo per truffare i suoi facoltosi clienti. Sarà lei a sussurrargli queste parole: “Trova ciò di cui hanno paura e rivendiglielo”…. Nel ricco cast spiccano #ToniCollette, #WillemDafoe, #RichardJenkins, #RooneyMara, #RonPerlman, #DavidStrathairn Punti di forza: regia, cast, colonna sonora (Alexandre Desplat), costumi (Luis Sequeira), scenografia, trucco, fotografia (Dan Laustsen) Searchlight Pictures farà debuttare Nightmare Alley di nei cinema di tutto il mondo a partire dal 17 dicembre. GUARDA: https://youtu.be/k-qVV8zyVmI https://www.instagram.com/p/CT7MdZMsRMY/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Congratulations on all your wins @nomadlandfilm 🙌🙌🙌 @hulu @searchlightpics . . #oscars2021 #academyawards #nomadland #francesmcdormand #davidstrathairn #lindamay #swankie #chloézhao #hulu #soundtrack #ludovicoeinaudi #cinema #cinematography #posterdesign #posters #movieposter #design #graphicdesign #art #artistsoninstagram #instart #fanart #photoshop #illustration #digitalart #2021 https://www.instagram.com/p/COHY21ghSzb/?igshid=3qtbcackkhsv

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Film Review: TEMPLE GRANDIN https://tinyurl.com/yk4ua3w9

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The kids wanted to see some kaiju action today so here we are...#GodzillaKingoftheMonsters #KyleChandler #VeraFarmiga #MillieBobbyBrown #KenWatanabe #ZiyiZhang #BradleyWhitford #CharlesDance #ThomasMiddleditch #OSheaJacksonJr #DavidStrathairn #MichaelDougherty #ZachShields #Godzilla #Mothra #Rodan #Ghidora (at Regal Cinemas) https://www.instagram.com/p/ByLyM79jlie/?igshid=43ysugrnlh6w

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Now showing on my 90's Fest Movie 🎥 marathon...A League Of Their Own (1992) on glorious vintage VHS 📼! #movie #movies #drama #sportsmovie #baseballmovies #aleagueoftheirown #AAGPBL #allamericangirlsprofessionalbaseballleague #geenadavis #loripetty #JonLovitz #TomHanks #GarryMarshall #ripgarrymarshall #pennymarshall #tracyreiner #billpullman #megancavanaugh #anncusack #anneramsey #TeaLeoni #bittyschram #DavidStrathairn #lynncartwright #JoeySlotnick #HarryShearer #vintage #vhs #90s #90sfest #durandurantulsas3rdannual90sfest

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Was no one going to let me know Nightmare Alley is on Hulu?!?!?!? #nightmarealley #guillermodeltoro #gdt #bradleycooper #rooneymara #tonicollette #cateblanchett #ronperlman #willemdafoe #cliffcollinsjr #davidstrathairn (at Baltimore, Maryland) https://www.instagram.com/p/CZiT9KlMEdq/?utm_medium=tumblr

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With poverty gradually stripping away Fern's past, Nomadland becomes a sober reflection on what it is to be old in rural America. https://is.gd/ETKVpV

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Klaes Ashford, The Expanse, Season 4, Episode 1

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A League of Their Own (1992)

No matter who you are, you'll relate to A League of Their Own. It's funny and dramatic, with great, quotable lines, and terrific performances. It's a crowd-pleaser, a movie you'll look back upon fondly right away.

In 1943, every young able-bodied men have left for Europe to fight the war. To keep the profits coming to the team owners and to give the people some entertainment, the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL) is created. The film chronicles the rise of the Rockford Peaches. Nobody respects them, not the least bit their washout of a coach Jimmy Dugan (Tom Hanks). But their star player Dorothy "Dottie" Hinson (Geena Davis) has what it takes to take them to the top, and make this league something to be taken seriously.

Right away, you'll latch onto the characters. These women want to be taken seriously as athletes They play for real. Sliding, hitting, giving it their all every single time. But this movie is not a gender-swapped selection of cliches. They aren’t a collection of underdogs just waiting to get their big break so they can go out and change the world. They're real people, products of their time. As soon as their husbands come back from the war, they’re going to head right back into the kitchen, ready to cook and raise the kids as if their time on the field never happened. It mixes the exhilaration you feel as they rise through the ranks with melancholy. They don’t realize how big of an impact they are going to have and you wonder what if...

You don't expect to find great conversation-starters out of sports movie but A League of Their Own has plenty. The players are not taken seriously because of their gender. To get attention, they have to be feminine and sexy. To be seen as legitimate, they have to try twice as hard as their male counterparts and shatter away the expectations placed on them. There is a lot of emotion in this movie on the screen as these women have to confront big ideas. There's even more going on in YOUR head. You wonder what you would do, or how you would react if placed in their shoes.

That would be plenty to keep you entertained, but there’s more. This is also a great sports movie. It’s a case of the ultimate underdogs. The coach doesn’t even believe in them. They have to prove themselves to EVERYONE. Their families, their teammates, to the world that is hesitant to fill baseball stadium to watch a bunch of ladies play, even to themselves. Baseball may not necessarily be what I would call an interesting sport to watch but here, I was gnawing on my fingernails. The way Hans Zimmer’s score was pounding in my ears (or was that my heartbeat?) during the final game, the uncertainty of who was going to win (because the movie does a great job keeping you guessing). It felt as real as a live event. My only criticism if I had to find one is that some of the baseball game montages do run on a bit long. It's worth seeing just to get a look at Tom Hanks playing a jerk. He's great at it too!

Even if you don’t like baseball, catch A League of Their Own. You easily latch onto the characters, the casting is immaculate (particularly in the before/after scenes) and it chronicles a chapter in sports history that’s worth telling. The movie makes you feel good and makes you think too. It only gets better if you can watch it with a crowd and discuss it afterward. (On DVD, March 6, 2015)

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