#Helen Haig-Brown

[omnivorouscinephilia]

The White Reindeer: The Finnish Folk Horror Classic

Here is a review of one of the most famous Finnish films ever made, The White Reindeer. An odd passion project for it's married creative leads, this remains a unique work within folk horror.

Folk horror continues to be a significant subject of interest within our spheres, thanks in no small part to the recent publications and boxsets created to celebrate and highlight the trend. The term originates in the seventies, positing recent British works like Blood on Satan’s Claw (Piers Haggard, 1971), Witchfinder General (Michael Reeves, 1968), and The Wicker Man (Robin Hardy, 1973)…

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ID. a screenshot of the second half of the linked article.

The similarity in myth and legend across different cultures is striking. It seems witches, werewolves and cursed woods are endemic worldwide. And it’s tempting to use the idea of folk horror as a universalising ethnographic tool, making us all inhabitants of a global folk horror village of anxieties built over fissures between muddy past and scalding present. But the dominant perspective of folk horror cinema is that of the outsider looking in; the camera’s angled eye making us spectators arriving in a strange land, encountering its strange inhabitants with their strange tribal rites.

The American experience – indigenous and settler – still grapples with its ancestral and colonial legacy; tremors of buried anxieties, trauma, and loss. Here, the lens of folk horror can be redirected. Folk horror doesn’t just have to be about slumbering rural landscapes and eccentrically twee village folk. Take Nia DaCosta and Jordan Peele’s Candyman (2021) reboot, which reframed the original horror franchise – a white academic researching urban myths in a Black neighbourhood of Chicago – as a story told through an African American experience. In literature, writers like Stephen Graham Jones (a member of the Blackfeet Nation) wrap the Native North American experience in horror tropes and ambiences. Jones’s The Only Good Indians (2020) uses horror to look at how lost heritage and generational divides haunt the contemporary indigenous community. The wonderfully titled My Heart Is A Chainsaw (2021) opens with two European tourists disappearing into the malignant waters of Indian Lake (at the bottom of which lurks a sunken church), slashing its brutal way deeper into folk horror landscapes, reconfiguring ‘Indian’ cliches from popular entertainment with bloody wit.

In the Woodlands documentary, Executive Director of Canada’s Indigenous Screen Office, Jesse Wente is interviewed while clips play from Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining (1980), and Mary Lambert’s Pet Sematary (1989) (both originally Stephen King novels featuring Indian burial grounds): “The thing colonial states fear the most is to be colonised. It boils down to an innate fear that someone is going to come and take your home from you. And what do most Indian burial movie plots involve? Building your house over an Indian burial ground.”

There’s a twist to Wente’s story. Cut to a scene from Gwaai Edenshaw and Helen Haig-Brown’s The Edge of the Knife (2018) of a tribal mask placed upon a fire. Set in Western Canada, it’s a traditional Haida story of an outcast man who becomes Gaagiixiid, a wild-man. Wente continues, “I sort of like it. If non-indigenous people are going to be afraid of the Indian burial ground, then I got some news for you: it’s all an Indian burial ground.” Wente’s note is all the more painful, considering the discovery earlier this year of hundreds of bodies of Native children who died in Canada’s brutal residential school system; shamed in life, murdered by ideology, buried in secret.

What is buried here, in folk horror terms, is undead: a history that is unreconciled with – no matter how deeply covered up, ignored or repressed – becomes malignant, haunts our present and pollutes our future. And, as we know from horror films, we must confront those ghosts to rid ourselves of their curse, whether by the light of day or some other ritual of exorcism. All the wondrous and cathartic clichés of folk horror help us rewrite our own relationships to history, help us call in the light of morning so we can escape our suffocating village, the ghosts in the woods, the demons in the field.

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wonder if someone has written academic text on folk horror from an indigenous perspective

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SG̲aawaay Ḵ'uuna (Edge of the Knife | Helen Haig-Brown, Gwaai Edenshaw | 2018)

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Here's a trailer.

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2022 Book List

The Library Of Legends, Janie Chang (1/29)

Crying in H Mart, Michelle Zauner (2/4)

The Family, Nicole Krupitsky (2/6)

The Summer Place, Jennifer Weiner (2/9)

A History of Wild Places, Shea Earnshaw (2/12)

The Love Hypothesis, Ali Hazelwood (2/12)

The Golden Couple, Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen (2/14)

The Four Winds, Kristin Hannah (2/17)

The Water Dancer, Ta-Nehisi Coates (2/25)

The Guest List, Lucy Foley (2/26)

Pachinko, Min Jin Lee (3/5)

Conversations with Friends, Sally Rooney (3/6)

Dating Dr. Dil, Nisha Sharma (3/16)

Beautiful World, Where Are You, Sally Rooney (3/19)

Ramón and Julieta, Alana Albertson (3/26)

Britt-Marie Was Here, Fredrik Backman (4/9)

The Cartographers, Peng Shepherd (4/15)

It Ends With Us, Colleen Hoover (4/18)

Verity, Colleen Hoover (4/18)

Kaikeyi, Vaishnavi Patel (4/19)

Beach Read, Emily Henry (4/20)

Ariadne, Jennifer Saint (4/23)

The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern (4/30)

Tell The Wolves I’m Home, Carol Rifka Brunt (5/21)

Darling Girl: A Novel of Peter Pan, Liz Michalski (5/24)

The Hating Game, Sally Thorne (5/27)

Book Of Night, Holly Black (6/11)

It Happened One Summer, Tessa Bailey (6/13)

Forever, Interrupted; TJR (6/19)

The Stardust Thief, Chelsea Abdullah (6/26)

Lessons in Chemistry, Bonnie Garmus (7/3)

The Kiss Quotient, Helen Hoang (7/4)

In Five Years, Rebecca Searle (7/6)

How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, Julia Alvarez (7/13)

The Bodyguard, Katherine Center (7/14)

Rules of Civility, Amor Towles (7/23)

Book Lovers, Emily Henry (7/25)

Part of Your World, Abby Jimenez (8/1)

The Proposal, Jasmine Guillory (8/6)

When We Were Bright and Beautiful, Jillian Medoff (8/13)

Pretty Things, Janelle Brown (8/22)

Cloud Cuckoo Land, Anthony Doerr (9/20)

Well Met, Jen Deluca (9/25)

The Bride Test, Helen Hoang (9/29)

The Midnight Library, Matthew Haig (10/2)

The Lost Apothecary, Sarah Penner (10/9)

Love on the Brain, Ali Hazelwood (10/10)

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So, I was going to make this list on National Indigenous Peoples’ day but I held off for two reasons: firstly we shouldn’t have to wait for special occasions to talk about Indigenous experiences and Indigenous issues but also because Canada Day was right around the corner. Canada is a settler-colonial state and while for many non-native peoples Canada day celebrates a seemingly proud history of freedoms and equality and innovation, for many indigenous peoples across so-called-Canada it is an uncomfortable, and even painful, reminder of a violent history of oppression and a continued struggle against settler-colonialism. So instead of taking July 1st to dwell on Canada’s questionable past take the time to consider Canada’s future and how we can work to undo the settler-colonial structure currently in place. So many people really don’t know where to start with undoing this country’s colonial legacy, so I’ve compiled a list (which is by no means exhaustive) of resources to start with

So please, as Canada day does look a little different this year, maybe start a new tradition of education and/or appreciation of Indigenous Peoples’ and our history on this territory as well as are contemporary experiences here. Also if you are not Canadian you can take some time to look at these or spread these resources (colonialism is not just a Canadian issues, it is a global one). 

Documentaries: 

Angry Inuk (Dir. Alethena Arnaquq-Baril, 2016) - Can be found on Youtube. Examines the importance of sealing to the Inuit and their struggle to continue their ways of life against colonialism by both the Canadian state, private oil/fracking companies, and even the EU’s anti-sealing laws. Watch if you’re interested in food sovereignty and protecting traditional ways of life. 

Rumble: the Indian’s Who Rocked the World (Dir. Catherine Bainbridge, 2017) - Can be rented on Prime. Examines the role of Indigenous peoples in the Canadian and American music industry between the 1950s - present and what struggles they faced. Watch if you’re interested in music history and Indigenous representation. 

First Contact, S1 + 2 (Dir, Jeff Newman, 2018 - ) -  Can be found on APTN and TVO. A 3 part series that asks average Canadians to confront their biases about Indigenous Peoples. This is a very important watch for non-Indigenous peoples. TW: strong anti-indigenous racism in some parts. Watch if you’re interested in how racism and settler colonialism are enacted by everyday people and where common stereotypes come from. 

Canada’s Toxic Chemical Valley (Dir, Patrick Macguire, 2013) - Can be found on Youtube. Looks at the history of environmental racism in Sarnia, Ontario and its affects on the people of Aamjiwnaang Reservation. Watch if your are interested in environmental justice and land rights. 

Reel Injun (Neil Diamond, 2009) - Can be found Prime. Looks at the history on Indigenous representation in old Hollywood and its evolution since then. Watch if you’re interested in Indigenous representation and film history.

Searching for Winnetou: Drew Hayden Taylor Wants to Understand the Roots of the German Obsession with Native North Americans (Drew Hayden Taylor, 2018) - Can be found on Youtube. Traces the roots of Germany’s cultural obsession with the “Indians” and looks at the modern appropriation of Indigenous culture in Germany. watch if you’re interested in Cultural Appropriation and stereotypes and Europe’s role in this. 

Canada’s Darkest Secret (Rania El Rafael, 2017) - Can be found on Youtube. Looks at the long and violent history of the residential schools system in Canada which ran from the mid-1800s - 1996 and how it continues to affect Indigenous communities. TW: child abuse and sexual abuse and trauma. Watch if you’re interested in assimilation, inter-generational trauma, and the modern history of Indigenous-settler relations. residential schools are the source of so many issues within modern Indigenous communities and so understanding their history and impacts is a good way of understanding why Indigenous people have the struggles we do today. 

Trick or Treaty (Alanis Obomsawin, 2014) - Can be found on Youtube. Looks at the history and mishandling of treaty relations and where that leaves modern Indigenous-settler relationships. Canada has not held up a single treaty. Watch if you’re interested in treaty rights, land rights, diplomacy, and the history of Treaties. 

Seachers: Highway of Tears (Dir. Stephanie Brown, Allya Davidson, 2016). Can be found on youtube and Netflix Canada. While not entirely Indigenous-centric, this documentary looks at the 71 km stretch know as the Highway of Tears where hundreds of Indigenous women have gone missing. It is not the best documentry in my opinion but its a good start to understanding the MMIDWG mov’t and how the RCMP fails indigenous women and girls. TW: murder, sexual assault and violence, violence against women and girls. Watch if you want to understand Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. 

Arts and Culture: 

Biidaaban/ the Dawn Comes (Amanda Strong, 2018). Can be found on Youtube. A claymation short film that examines an Urban Indigenous woman’s relationship to her land. 

The Mishomis Book: the Voice of the Obijway (Edward Benton-Banai, 2010). Can be bought at most book stores. An introduction to Anishinaabe culture and history on Turtle Island through stories and colouring-pages. Read if you’re trying to diversify you’re understanding of Canadian culture and history. This is also a great book for kids, especially Indigenous children. 

Indian Horse (Richard wagamese) - This is both a film and a book, both of which are amazing. The story follows an Anishinaabe Residential school survive as he uses hockey to cope with his trauma. TW: Abuse, Child Sexual Abuse, Violence and Anti-Indigenous Racism. 

Sgaawaay K’uuna/Edge of the Knife (Helen Haig-Brown, Gwaai Edenshaw, 2018) - The first film done entirely in Haadi-Gwaii (and I believe any Indigenous language), Sgaawaay K’uuna follows the struggle of a cursed man and his transformation into a wild man (Gaadiig). Based heavily in Kwakwaka’wakw and Haida folklore and oral history. watch if you’re interested in Historical reclamation, Indigenous oral history and Indigenous film. 

Kent Monkman - A Cree painter who often inserts Indigenous bodies, culture and sexuality into traditionally European styles (ex, the History Painting). 

To The Indigenous Woman (the 1491′s, 2011) - Can be found on Youtube. A spoken poem about violence against Indigenous women and the complacency of both Indigenous and non-Indigenous individuals in this epidemic of violence. TW: Violence against women, Sexual assault, rape.  

Bad Indians (Ryan red Corn, 2011) - Can be found on Youtube. A spoken word poem about the way Non-Indigenous peoples view Indigenous peoples and our work to reclaim our voice and power on this land. TW: references to racism and genocide. 

This is just the tip of the Iceberg so if you do find this interesting/ eye opening and want more information, I can 100% provide more resources. But hopefully, these documentaries can help to educate non-Indigenous peoples about the history and contemporary experiences of Indigenous People’s on Turtle Island. Gii’Miigwetch (thank you).  

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Edge of the Knife (2018) Gwaai Edenshaw, Helen Haig Brown 09-06-2019 Really atmospheric and a compelling story with wonderful bits of mysticism, tradition, surrealism and horror. Very well made film

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do I accept gif/icon requests?   not at the moment.

do I accept gif/icon suggestions?   yes,   always!

this post serves as a collection of direct links to all the fc resources I’ve uploaded to this blog.   you’re welcome to like this post to check back in later for more!   you can also view my gif packs here if you prefer to see example gifs,   and  here  is the side - blog where I reblog other people’s resources.  (If you’re struggling to find posts on tumblr I suggest searching using  this helpful site).   

my gif packs

William Fichtner,   Finding Steve McQueen (2018)

Alun Armstrong,   Possum (2018)

Richard Brake,   Perfect Skin (2018), The Dare (2019)

Robert De Niro,   Cape Fear (1991),  Heat (1995),  Being Flynn (2012)

Jessica Lange,   The Gambler (2014), AHS S1E1 (2011), Cape Fear (1991)

Jane Seymour,   Lake Effects (2012)

Laurence Fishburne,   Standoff (2016)

Lily Rabe,   Finding Steve McQueen (2018)

David Bradley,   The Lodgers (2017), Harry Brown (2009), Roy (2021), Edmund the Magnificent (2019), and Broadchurch S1E1

Michael Caine,   Youth (2015), Harry Brown (2009)

Scott Turner Schofield,   The Conductor (2018)

Bradley Cooper,   The Hangover III (2013)

Alex Blue Davis,   NCIS (2017)

Drew Barrymore,   Boys on the Side (1995)

Cameron Diaz,   In Her Shoes (2005)

John Goodman,   10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)

John Gallagher,   10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)

Dame Judi Dench,   Notes On A Scandal (2006)

Joaquin Phoenix,   [ gif icons ]   Joker (2019)

Paul Dano,   Being Flynn (2012)

Josh Brolin,   Labor Day (2013) *(accidentally deleted this. kill me. I’ll try to find a backup of this somewhere and repost it. rip.)

Jaz Sinclair,   When The Bough Breaks (2016)

Jonathan Rhys Meyers,   6 Souls/Shelter (2010)

Dermot Mulroney (gif icons),   The Wedding Date (2005), and the Griffin & Phoenix (2006).

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Tilda Swinton (gif icons & static icons),   We Need To Talk About Kevin (2011), Burn After Reading (2008), Constantine (2005), Thumbsucker (2005)

my icon packs

Keeley Forsyth,   The Devil Outside (2018)

Juno Temple,   Small Apartments (2012)

Peter Stormare,   Small Apartments (2012)

Johnny Knoxville,   Small Apartments (2012)

Rebel Wilson,   Small Apartments (2012)

James Caan,   Small Apartments (2012)

Billy Blair,   Whitetail (2021)

James Jordan,   Home (2020)

Kathy Bates,   Bad Santa II (2016), Home (2020)

Jena Malone,   The Public (2021)

Richard Brake,   Bingo Hell (2021)

Daniel Grogan,   Recipe For Abduction (2021)

Barabra Hershey,   The Manor (2021)

Sean Whalen,   Employee of the Month (2006)

Matthew Rhys,   The Americans S1E1

Noah Emmerich,   The Americans S1E1

Dax Shepard,   Employee of the Month (2006)

Danny Woodburn,   Employee of the Month (2006)

Doug Jones,   Pans Labyrinth (2006)

William Fichtner,   Finding Steve Mcqueen (2018)

Alun Armstrong,   Possum (2018)

Rosamund Pike,   Return To Sender (2015)

Richard Moll,   Lake Effects (2012)

Lara Flynn Boyle,   Twin Peaks: S1 (1990) & S2E1-4

Jacob Wysocki,   Loosely Exactly Nicole: S1E1-4 (2016), Fat Kid Rules The World (2012)

Nicole Byer, (pt one two three four)   Loosely Exactly Nicole: S1E1-4 (2016)

Brandon Scott (pt one two),   Loosely Exactly Nicole: S1E4-5 (2016)

Stanley Weber (pt one two),   Not Another Happy Ending (2013)

Sam Coleman,   Leatherface (2017)

James Bloor,   Leatherface (2017)

Lili Taylor,   Leatherface (2017)

Naveen Andrews,   Sense8: S1 (2015)

Helen Mirren,   Collateral Beauty (2016)

Octavia Spencer,   Gifted (2017)

Cate Blanchett,   Notes On A Scandal (2006)

Keiynan Lonsdale,   Love, Simon (2018)

Jonah Hill,   Acceptance (2006), Grandma’s Boy (2006)

Amy Aquino,   Bosch: S3 (2017)

Claudia Doumit,   Timeless: S2E1 and E3 (2018)

Nathan Page,   Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries (2012-2015)

my screencaps

Sid Haig,   Spider Baby (1967)

Danny Woodburn,   Employee of the month (2006)

[allthecanadianpolitics]

On a wintry beach lined with conifers, the body of a teenage boy washes up on the grey sand. A mother runs to her dead son and clutches him to her chest, wailing.

Meanwhile, a young man named Adiits'ii flees from the scene, running into the forest, gasping and grunting. Having taken the boy out in a boat which hit choppy waters, he feels responsible for his death.

It is this family tragedy that serves as the focus of the Canadian film Edge of the Knife, or Sgaawaau K'uuna. The story, steeped in the supernatural, centres on the universal themes of family, love, loss and betrayal.

What is less universal is the language of the film, Haida. According to the First People's Culture Council, there are only 20 remaining fluent speakers of this language, making it critically endangered.

Helen Haig-Brown and Gwaai Edenshaw, who is Haida himself, directed the film.

Writing the film in Haida "did not even feel like a choice", said Gwaai. "We were telling a Haida story."

Although they were "fully committed to the storytelling", he said, another consideration was that Edge of the Knife would act as a learning resource.

Diane Brown, Gwaai's grandmother, is one of the last remaining speakers of Haida and acted in the film.

"Our dream right at the start was it would help our children learn the language. That we help teach them," she said.

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quotes by author

these are quotes sorted by author! pretty self-explanatory. not all authors are on here, as i'm in a continuous process of reading and acquiring quotes! will be updated regularly. sorted a-z by last name.

Daniel Alarcón

Sarah Adams

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Elena Armas

Lauren Asher

Atticus

Mitch Albom

Benjamin Alire-Sáenz

Tessa Bailey

David Baldacci

Leigh Bardugo

Holly Black

Olivie Blake

Sabrina Benaim

Chaya Bhuvaneswar

Alexandra Bracken

Jericho Brown

Sól Casique

Yvonne Cassidy

Stephen Chbosky

Zen Cho

Agatha Christie

Sandra Cisneros

Susanna Clarke

Paulo Coelho

Tillie Cole

Sonali Dev

Charles Dickens

Anthony Doerr

Tony Fadell

Hafsah Faizal

Thomas C. Foster

Shana Galen

Stephanie Garber

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Bill Glose

Chloe Gong

Sophie Gonzalez

Amanda Gorman

Hafez

Matt Haig

Jenny Han

Tim Harford

Ali Hazelwood

Emily Henry

Frank Herbert

Féi Hernandez

Talia Hibbert

Helen Hoang

Charlie M. Holmberg

Homer

Cathy Park Hong

Colleen Hoover

Robert Jordan

Julie Kagawa

Brigid Kemmerer

Jahan Khatun

T. J. Klune

R. F. Kuang

Kevin Kwan

Jhumpa Lahiri

Lois-Soto Lane

Christina Lauren

Ursula K. Le Guin

Lang Leav

Erika Lee

Christy Lefteri

Trisha Levenseller

Marc Levy

Grace D. Li

Ann Liang

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Carmen Machado

Shelby Mahurin

Yamen Manai

Kerri Maniscalco

Raquel Marie

Daphne du Maurier

Casey McQuiston

Chanel Miller

Madeline Miller

Rebecca Mix

Erin Morgenstern

Vera Nazarian

Micah Nemerever

Courttia Newland

Viet Thanh Nguyen

Trevor Noah

Naomi Novik

Chibundu Onuzo

Helen Oyeyemi

Mary E. Pearson

Sylvia Plath

Plato

Clare Pooley

Claudia Rankine

Taylor Jenkins Reid

Jason Reynolds

Natalie D. Richards

M. L. Rio

Sally Rooney

Jennifer Rosner

Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin

Brandon Sanderson

Jack Schaefer

V.E. Schwab

Linda See

Rebecca Serle

William Shakespeare

Samantha Shannon

Adam Silvera

Anthony Veasna So

Barbara Andrea Sostaita

John Steinbeck

Erin Sterling

Maggie Stiefvater

Amy Tan

Jennif(f)er Tamayo

Karin Tanabe

Donna Tartt

Stuart Turton

Kirstin Valdez Quade

Jésus I. Valles

Kurt Vonnegut

Ocean Vuong

Jeff Wheeler

Elie Wiesel

Will Wight

Isabel Wilkerson

Hanya Yanagihara

E. Lily Yu

Obayd-e Zakani

Michelle Zauner

C. Pam Zhang

Xiran Jay Zhao

Markus Zusak

hope this helps! <3

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Sgaawaay K’uuna (Edge of the Knife) dir. Gwaai Edenshaw and Helen Haig-Brown

Got to watch this a few days ago. Considered the first feature film on Haida culture and life, the whole film is completely in two Haida dialects. Of course it reminded me a lot of the film Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner, but this was an independent story of Haida culture. I was really interested in the storyline, of a man’s descent into madness, taken over by the this wild spirit. I love being able to see what must have gone into a film like this, all the research and costume/set design. Overall really great story. 

[omnivorouscinephilia]

Edge of the Knife: A Haida Horror Masterpiece

Here is another reprint of an old review from HorrOrigin.com. This remains one of my favorite pieces I have written.

With the arrival of Robert Eggers in horror cinema last decade, we have seen a renewed interest in folk horror. Tales of localized terror that reveal, in some part, a larger tapestry of the culture they exist within. Eggers’ own The Witch (2015), Na Hong-jin’s The Wailing (2016), and Jeff Nichols’ Take Shelter (2011) all arguably fall into this moodier, more atmospheric kind of horror. Then in…

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- A -

Aaron Johnson - Leo Constantine

Aaron Tveit - Ezekiel Wymond

Abbey Lee Kershaw - S

Adam Brody - Cedric P. Powell

Adelaide Kane - Alana Windsor

Aidan Turner - Blaise Lynch

Alicia Vikander - Lily Marzia Lewis

Alona Tal - Claire Jenkins

Alycia Debnam Carey - Faith Franchot

Amber Heard - Edith Mori de Oliveira & Aureola Diana

Amy Poehler - Apple Corin

Ana de Armas - Riley Polanco

AnnaSophia Robb - Olivia Maeve

Andrew Garfield - Christen Austen

Andrew Lincoln - Desmond

Andy Samberg - Milo Dexter

Anna Christine Speckhart - Maria Sparrow

Anna Kendrick - June Lynwood

Ansel Elgort - Landon Scotty

Armie Hammer - Nikolai Fedosov

Ash Stymest - Wilford Grayson

Ashley Benson - Lexie Mallaith

Astrid Berges-Frisbey - Anthea Harrison

Aubrey Plaza - Zoya Everdene

- B -

Barbara Palvin - Annie Lancaster

Bella Heathcote - Fern Weinberg

Bill Skarsgård - Hermes Wolfhart

Boyd Holbrook - Hugo Montague

Bradley Cooper - Adonis Dard

Brett Dalton - Aldous Riordan

Brian J. Smith - Ä°.

Brit Marling - Euria Madlyn

- C -

Candice Accola - Evanora Eckhart

Carey Mulligan - Ophelia Delfino

Charlie Cox - Darcy Hemingway

Charlie Weber - Wardell Jon

Chloe Bennett - Miroslawa Waljewski

Chris Pine - Azure Welkin

Chris Pratt - Dux Stanton

Chris Wood - Atlas

Christian Bale - Mars Brant

Christian Cooke - Conor Lynton

Chyler Leigh - Cassandra Evans

Claire Holt - Karyna Gwen

Clark Gregg - Christopher Hart

Courtney Eaton - Night Haven

- D -

Daisy Ridley - Monica Myles

Dakota Johnson - Barbie Riley

Dan Stevens - Damien Delacroix

Daniel Radcliffe - Michael Genim

Daniel Sharman - Clementine Quinton

Danielle Campbell - Calista Apostolou

David Tennant - Hunter Chandra

Dianna Agron - Isis Chamberlain

Domhnall Gleeson - Jules E. Lincoln

Dominic Cooper - Quentin J. Lloyd

Dominic Sherwood - Dimitri Wolf

Douglas Booth - Vasco Delacour

Dylan O''brien - Nathaniel Hawkins

Dylan Sprayberry -Ove Stanford

- E -

Eddie Redmayne - S

Ebba Zingmark - Eloine Heaven

Eiza Gonzalez - Veronika Boleslava

Eleanor Tomlinson - Calleigh Gardenar

Elizabeth Debicki - Pippa Voughan

Elizabeth Henstridge - Gwendoline Cler

Elizabeth Olsen - Corinne Constantine

Eleanor Tomlinson - Calleigh Gardenar

Ella Purnell - Dolu

Elle Fanning - Rosie Van Laren

Ellen Page - Lydia Carrington

Elodie Yung - S

Emeraude Toubia - Elena Dimitriou

Emma Stone - Alexandra Zaleski

Emilia Clarke - Maya Davenport

Emilie De Ravin - Astrid Blanche

Emily Bett Rickards - Ocean Highmore

Emily Blunt - Lilla Arverne

Emily Browning - Ava Marlowe

Emily Deschanel - Hannah Montiel

Emily Didonato - Vera Isabel

Emmy Rossum - Vivian Gardner

Emily Rudd - Antje Griet

Erin Richards - Glory Constance

Eva Green - Verena Gray

Evan Peters - Viktor Chekov

Evangeline Lilly - Blue Marchand

Ewan McGregor - Acse Lemoine

Ezra Miller - Eugene Irwin

- F -

Felicity Jones - Macey Raphaelle

Felix Kjellberg - Silvestre César

Finn Jones - Buster

Freya Mavor - Olivia Fitzgerald

- G -

Gabriel Luna - José Espina

Gaia Weiss - Freya Kjellfrid

Gal Gadot - Cerys Ryan

Garrett Hedlund - Vitto Carlevaro

Gemma Arterton - Sabetha Belrossa

Georgina Haig - Calypso

Gigi Hadid - Mitchie Finnegan

Gina Rodriguez - Ida Castillo

Grace Phipps - Mia Kayleigh

Gustaf Skarsgård - Vincent Valente

- H -

Haley Bennett - Graciela de la Fuente

Hannah Simone - S

Harry Lloyd - Valentin Veaceslav

Hayden Christensen - Kristoff E. Petrov

Hayden Panettiere - Skyla Chavira

Hayley Atwell - Carmela di Chimici

Henry Cavill -Â Chester Norton

Hunter Parrish - Francis Rousseau

Hwang Jung Eum - Hana Godfrey

Ian De Caestecker - J.C. Murphy

Isabel Lucas - Helen Ambrosia

- J -

Jack O''Connell - Roy Whesker

Jai Courtney - Téo Teixeira

Jake Johson - Tony Thompson

James Franco - N/ash Carrington

James McAvoy - Sebastian Van Laren

Jamie Chung - Irene Weitz

Jane Levy -Â Elsie Rodgers

Jasmine Sanders -Â Liesje Lijsbeth

Jason Statham - Rafael Romero

Jay Baruchel - Cal J.W. Fox

Jeffrey Dean Morgan - Zed O''Callaghan

Jenna-Louise Coleman - Cecilia D. Chandler

Jennifer Morrison - Penny Black

Jensen Ackles - Florian W. Hoffman

Jeon Jeongguk - Jeon Jeongguk

Jeremy Renner - Dorian Dixon

Jesse Soffer - Grover Alen

Jessica De Gouw - Vera Guthrie

Ji Sung - Yong Jae Sun

JoAnna Garcia Swisher - Pacifica

Joe Gilgun - Desmond Gallagher

Johanna Braddy - Reva Keegan

John Krasinski - Jesse Wescott

Jon Kortajarena - Aaron Anderson

Josefine Frida Pettersen - Dolu

Jude Law - Andrei Pavlov

Julian Morris - Wesley Franklin

Julianne Hough - Madelyn Weaver

- K -

Karen Fukuhara - Yuki Nakashima

Karen Gillan - Emma Fray (<33)

Kate Mara - Tuesday Beckett

Kate Mckinnon - Myrna Morgenstern

Katherine McNamara - Norene Harland

Kaya Scodelario - Quinn Jenae

Keira Knightley - Mystral Roux

Kevin Zegers - Damon Wallner

Kit Harington - Joel Paxton

Kristen Bell - Vivien Rouge

Krysten Ritter - Iris Thorne

- L-

Lauren Cohan - Wonder B.

Leighton Meester - Anastacia Bouvier

Leonardo diCaprio - Jerry Arlexa

Lily Collins - Frankie Chandra

Lily James - Anaïs V. Grimaldi

Lindy Booth - Camilla Weitz

Lindsey Morgan - Zenobia

Lizzy Caplan - Ramona Fade

Logan Lerman -Â Harley Langley

Luana Perez - Elizabeth Burton

Lucy Hale -Â Sheri Payne

Lyndsy Fonseca - Daisy de la Vina

- M -

Mads Mikkelsen - Ä°

Maeve Dermody - Athena Zoega

Maia Mitchell -Â Lynda Stine

Margot Robbie - Josie Lesniewski

Maria Valverde - Valerija Roque

Marie Avgeropoulos - Ljubica Solvej

Marion Cotillard - Marika Lamora

Martin Wallström - Fabio Chepe

Mary Elizabeth Winstead - Amelie Steiner

Matt Hitt - Douglas Roswell

Matt McGorry - Corbin Renwick

Matthew Daddario - Diego Mendoza

Matthew Gray Gubler - Patrick Descoteaux

Max Irons - Marc Janko

Max Riemelt - Ziggy Hildebrand

Melanie Martinez - D

Melissa Benoist - Charlotte Evans

Melissa Fumero - Catherine Winters

Michael Fassbender - Franco Locatelli

Miguel Ángel Silvestre - Rico A. Moreno

Min Yoongi - Min Yoongi

Morena Baccarin - Tulip Talitha

- N -

Natalie Dormer - Gem Julep

Nick Blood - Isaac Wyatt

Nick Offerman - Alfred Castillo

Nico Mirallegro - Jack Daniels

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau - Theos Volantis

Nina Dobrev - Emmaline Winslow

Norman Reedus - Harley Harford

Noomi Rapace - Yulia Utkin

- O/Ö -

Olesya Rulin - Ceku Balım

Olga Kurylenko - Zelda Croft

Olivia Holt -Â Rylee Cantrell

Oscar Isaac - Aldo C. Ferreiro

- Q -

- P -

Paul Rudd - Marco Polo

Paula Patton - Winter Willford

Penelope Mitchell -Â Caitlyn Weatherly

- R -

Rachel McAdams - NavoÅŸ Lancaster

Rashida Jones - Jean Cardellini

Rebel Wilson -Â Lauren Dwyer

Reeve Carney - Dylan Breckendridge

Richard Madden - Tristan Windsor

Rinko Kikuchi - S

Rosario Dawson - Eve Blanchett

Rosamund Pike - Daniela Carlevaro

Rose McIver - Skyler Freestone

Rosie Huntington-Whiteley - Leona Lane

Ruth Negga - Lara Tailler

- S -

Sabrina Carpenter - Louise Linn

Sam Claflin - Mathias Clayton

Sarah Gadon - Nina Buchvarov

Sarah Hyland - Marceline Apostolou

Sebastian Stan - Maximillian di Chimici

Seychelle Gabriel - Leila Beaumont

Scarlett Johansson - Diamontina Dixon

Shailene Woodley - Joy Cappella

Shantel Vansanten - D

Shelley Hennig - Nora Simmons

Sophia Bush - D

Sophie Cookson - Rain Gisbourne

Summer Glau - Rhea Crisanta

- T -

Taron Egerton - Caleb Lysander

Tatiana Maslany - Margo Wiggins & Felicia Makovecz

Taylor Marie Hill - Milla Alexander

Taylor Swift - Melanie Phoenix

Teresa Palmer - Dora Desjardins

Theo James - Keiro Padmore

Tom Ellis - Hector A. Whittemore

Tom Felton - Alpha Rigorous

Tom Hardy - Dito Delfino

Tom Hiddleston - Newton F. Windsor

Tom Holland - Flynn Holdsworth

Tom Mison - Armitage Cromwell

Toni Garrn - Audrey Tyler

Torrey Devitto - D

Travis Fimmel - Forrest Dickson

Tuppence Middleton - Mia Santiago

- U/Ü -

- V -

Victoria Justice - Lotus van Boven & Selo

- X -

Xavier Samuel -Â August FridtjofÂ

- W -

Will Smith - Dante di Mercurio

Willa Holland - Ethea Middlesworth

- Y -

- Z -

Zendaya - Izzy McGowan

Zoe Kazan - D

Zoë Kravitz - Thalia Hardy

Zoe Saldana - Kiara Kingsley

Zooey Deschanel - Hailey Montiel

Zoey Deutch - Myra Blackbourne

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SG̲aawaay Ḵ'uuna (in Haida)  Edge of the Knife (in English)  

Haida Gwaii, 1800’s. At a seasonal fishing camp two families endure conflict between the nobleman Adiits’ii and his best friend Kwa. After Adiits’ii causes the accidental death of Kwa’s son, he flees into the rainforest, descending into madness and transforming into Gaagiixid – “the Wildman.” When the families return in the spring, they discover Adiits’ii has survived the winter. Can he be rescued and returned to his humanity? Meanwhile, Kwa wrestles with his deepest desire – revenge.

Directors: Hluugitgaa Gwaai Edenshaw, Jaada Yahlangnaay Helen Haig-Brown

It is the first feature film spoken only in dialects of the Haida language.

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You can buy Sgaawaay K’uuna (Edge of the Knife) on itunes.

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November’s reading! I did really well again this month, and actually was very pleased with almost everything I’ve read. Decided to give a little more detail - see under the cut for one-line reviews of each book!

Honourary mention to the other two Katherine Woodfine books which I read in December, The Painted Dragon and The Midnight Peacock; now those are read, I am free to focus on December’s challenge! That being a massive reread of the Animorphs books (I’m FINALLY GOING TO FIND OUT HOW IT ENDS FOLKS). 

I’ll be making some fun books posts later in the month, see you then!

For now... one line reviews and a list of the pictured books below the cut.

The Mystery of the Clockwork Sparrow (Katherine Woodfine): This is the first of four excellent books! 9-12 detective stories with a female lead and a great ensemble cast (which is majority female and they’re all different and they’re all a team and - I just really loved them). Absolutely check them out!

Ink (Alice Broadway): Nice world-building, interesting backstory - looking forward to book two when it comes out!

My Name Is Victoria (Lucy Worsely): Intriguing, loved the characters progressively more as it went on - brilliant ending!

The Fandom (Anna Day): Ooooooo I liked this. A bit slow to begin with and some parts were a tad predictable - but then it went somewhere I didn’t expect!

The Longest Whale Song (Jacqueline Wilson): Sweet, simple, standard Wilson fare.

The Black-Eyed Susans (Julia Heaberlin): Good mystery - I didn’t figure out who did it! - and unsettling in all the right places.

Of Fire and Stars (Audrey Coulthurst): HECK YEAH F/F PRINCESSES. Lives up to the hype - straightforward and good. Only disappointed there’s no sequel.

How to Stop Time (Matt Haig): Haig writes so. damn. smoothly. I love it. Very slow though, I was enjoying myself but the plot only really kicked in in the last third.

The Last Hero (Terry Pratchett): The only Discworld main-run book I’ve never read before! Not one of his best, but I loved Carrot. As always. And Vetinari remains my patronus.

Hag-Seed (Margaret Atwood): Hot damn, Atwood did it again. One of the best Shakespeare retellings I’ve read this year and I’ve read like, eight. Or something. 

Not Your Sidekick (C. B. Lee): Never have I enjoyed the “clark kent’s disguise is impenterable obviously” trope as much. Brilliant! Need to get the next one.

Romeo’s Ex (Lisa Fiedler): Good, enjoyable retelling; not as good as Dating Hamlet by the same author, though.

Vinegar Girl (Anne Tyler): Nah. I mean, come on, there’s a lot you can do with Taming of the Shrew - Tyler just... didn’t. Eh.

Everless (Sara Holland): oooOOOO YUP I liked this :D It’s not out yet, but I need the sequel. Part of the Hunger Games/Red Queen teen dystopia trend, with excellent world-building and intriguing plotline.

Shylock Is My Name (Howard Jacobson): Good, but a little too rambly and philosophical for my tastes. Liked how it ended.

The Legend of Podkin One-Ear (Kieran Larwood): Did not expect to enjoy this as much as I did! BORG BUNNIES. Seriously. Gonna read the next one when it’s in paperback.

The Firework-Maker’s Daughter (Philip Pullman): Neat! Good kids book with a straightforward moral and a cool setting.

As I Descended (Robin Talley): Oh mannnnnnnn I fell in love with this book. Even though I had to stop reading it because it was night and uh. I scare easily. Lesbian Macbeth set in a High School, what more could you possibly want? GHOSTS AND MURDER AND STUFF. Brilliant!

The Names They Gave Us (Emery Lord): I teared up, I really liked the characters and the way faith was handled and everything.

Binary/System (Eric Brown): Thought this would be generic dude SF. Eric Brown, I had you so wrong, I am sorry. Really great book! Female lead who is well-written! Multiple alien species, all convincingly strange! I did guess the twist, but it was still great - and the ending punched me in the heart in a really nice way!

The Ice Garden (Guy Jones): Sweet, fairy-taleish, charming.

Perfect Prey (Helen Fields): Serial killers in Edinburgh. Actually one of the better crime novels I’ve read this year! Good mystery, liked the detectives and the subplot, scary bits worked well.

Not If I Save You First (Ally Carter): Niiiiiiiiiice. I like the female lead, she’s a well-written character, and the relationship was cool. Particularly liked that she was a good balance between being kick-ass and being scared - realistic and motivating.

Whispers Through a Megaphone (Rachel Elliott): Slice of life; casual inclusion of gay/bi characters (which I liked); good characters all round. 

The Heart of Myrial (Maggie Furey): Took me a while to work through - liked it by the end. Will probably check out sequels eventually. Nice worldbuilding.

Middlesex (Jeffrey Eugenides): Took me foreverrrrrr. ‘Here is a person’s life and their parents’ and their grandparents’ life too’ is not really my thing. Couldn’t find anything particular that I actively liked or disliked about it. But I can acknowledge it was well-written!

The Jewelled Moth (Katherine Woodfine): See The Mystery of the Clockwork Sparrow - this is book two!