#Ioan Grufford

[enbyeighthdoctor]

just watched hornblower: mutiny and mmm paul mcgann in historical dress, shouting, being wet, having a character arc and plotting mutiny you love to see it

[captain-aralias]

9 books that are my favourites

tagged by @arenee1999 a few days ago, thank you <3 as i was writing this list in my head last night, i thought - this could be read as a list of my favourite fandoms and television/film adaptations, but hey ho. i did a degree in english lit or something.

harry potter and the prisoner of azkaban by JKR - no book has been so important to my life and i also just think it's a really fun mystery and i still like it, so - it's here, it's staying.

carry on by rainbow rowell - but of course. this one was quite important too.

pride and prejudice by jane austen - i don't think this has ever made a fav book list before, i think because i thought it was too basic, but damnit - this book is great, it influences the way i write enemies to lovers, i love the 1995 adaptation and all of austen's novels are bangers except mansfield park, which i keep trying to like but it sucks.

the once and future king by TH white - all my life i loved the movie 'camelot' and it's depiction of arthur. i only learned as an adult that it was TH white's gentle, earnest, thwarted arthur that they'd used <3 he's perfect. 'ill-made knight' is the best of the series, IMO

lieutenant hornblower by cs forester - i haven't read the books in ages, so maybe it's time for a re-read. the ioan grufford adaptation is great, i wish they'd do the later/earlier books too! BUT this early (in hornblower's life) book is my fav - the only one told from bush's POV as he struggles with how he loves hornblower but worries the guy wants to do a mutiny (which he totally does)

the folk of the air by holly black - a new entrant even though i've loved it for years, but i've decided i don't just think it's really good, it's so good that it's one of my favs. maybe the best of the trilogy is the middle book, 'wicked king' where jude is in power with limited support and they fall in love (or do they???). how the king of elfham learned to hate stories is also brilliant.

'the emperor mage' by tamora pierce. i've been waiting my whole life for the numair book and it was terrible, but her first three trilogies are my absolute crack, and this is the best book of those series IMO. the bit where numair tries to hit the emperor for implying he loves his student daine (which he does) while she's listening but disguised as a bird - and then he fakes his own death, and daine goes crazy... that bit has stayed with me for decades, i love it so much.

'night watch' by terry pratchett. i still feel late to properly loving pterry, but i've always liked this one and now i love it - vimes is my guy, i love the time travel, that he trains himself, that he resists both passively and when required actively. v good. my next fav is probably ... 'monstrous regiment', which i think is a bit more of a weird choice (unlike this one which is mega popular and also about all the things i like), but it just does everything right! oh, 'and 'going postal'.

'the princess bride' by s morgenstern william goldman. i haven't read this for ages either so maybe it shouldn't make the list, but i expect it's still pretty great. a mindfuck for a young child who has only seen the film and thinks all of the frame narrative must therefore be real... also, the film is like one of the best films ever and i have seen that super recently. if you haven't seen the home movie, do yourself a favour and watch it because it's a great way to enjoy the movie a-new.

no idea where this meme has been already. so just saying hello to some folks and if you'd like to do this meme and haven't done it already, please do! @giishu @orange-peony @you-remind-me-of-the-babe @carryonvisinata @alleycat0306 @fight-surrender @cows4247 @messofthejess @mysterioussheep

[swifteforeverandalways]

The recent casting of the Fantastic Four has no impact on Emoverse (unless we eventually do a multiverse crossover @arwen-elvenstar 🤔🤔🤔). In Emoverse, the casting is the same as the 2005/2007 films.

Ioan Grufford as Reed

Jessica Alba as Sue

Chris Evans as Johnny

Michael Chiklis as Ben

[tonhqs]

Faces fkr the featheringtons?

OF COURSE , MY SWEET LOVE , I'VE DONE all the featheringtons , so starting with archibald , cillian murphy , ioan grufford , damian lewis , tom hardy , iain glenn . for portia i would love , love , love to see , gillian anderson , megan follows , polly walker , naomi watts , claire forlani , essie davis . but for our daughters , prudence , phillipa and felicity , i think bella heathcote , celina sinden , abigail cowen , amanda fix , bessie carter , ceara coveny , charlotte hope , daisy head , eleanor tomlinson , ellie bamber , and honestly so many more !

[mcmusing]

@sincerethoughtsblog

With the way the Four kept reuniting well before they became Fantastic, I firmly believe Johnny's had a long-time bond with Ben and Reed. Ever since the older males came to stay at that not so random boarding house, Johnny took a special interest in Ben. Likely due to him being an interesting big strong jock type still loaded with a lot of wisdom. Ben, in turn, easily sees straight through Johnny and calls out his mischief for what it is. While Reed always indulged Johnny and showed him fascinating things, Ben knows when the boy needs a firm hand.

Regardless, Ben maintains a soft spot for the kid. He even later becomes his commanding officer at NASA. Considering how young Johnny is in the original film, he had to be a surprisingly gifted teen during this time. His reaction to Sue and Reed's break-up must have been the reason behind his crashing out of the program.

Ben is initially annoyed to have to deal with Johnny again, but his low key affection for him remains apparent. He managed not to completely mangle Johnny through the Matchstick's sass and pranks.

This was deserved:

Eventually, so was this:

But it always comes back to this:

This has been another excerpt from Fantastic Four Feels 💛

[rawyld]

What I wanted to be in Multiverse of Madness. By Heroic heroes via Twitter

[captain-dad]

The new Midshipmen

The new Midshipmen are not what they used to be...

@extenebrisadastra and me are doing our job of annoying the Captain pretty well

[oftincturedwords]

Get To Know Me

I was tagged by @ezras-channel-rat thank you friend !! <3

1. Star sign and/or Hogwarts House:

aries , but i was born on the twenty-first of march thus the last day for aries star sign , so it doesn't match wholly since i have some taurus traits as well… not that i truly put much faith in star signs. & whilst i haven't ever seen nor read harry potter , i've taken quizzes & most often its ravenclaw i get , even though everyone i've met says that i more so match a hufflepuff ??

2. Put your Spotify/music app on shuffle. What are the first 4 songs that come up?

1.) computers down by david arnold ( good omens soundtrack )

2.) writing’s on the wall by sam smith

3.) the horror and the wild by the amazing devil

4.) work that way by the east pointers

3. Who is your celebrity crush?

i don't have crushes per se , but there's so many that i would love to meet ( but most likely never will because i get too nervous meeting new people & i know i would embarrass myself too much to ever recover from ahdkflf so i stay away from any opportunities to ) such as david tennant , michael sheen , sebastian stan , pearl mackie , jodie whitaker , paul mcgann , olivia coleman , ben whishaw , patrick stewart , billie piper , rami malek , shane taylor , joey batey , tom hiddleston , matt smith , daniel craig , karl urban , howard charles , keira knightly , lee pace , santiago cabrera , ian mckellen , luke pasqualino , james mcavoy , arthur darvill , wentworth miller , tom burke , ioan grufford , james d’arcy , alex kingston , kenneth branagh , & etc. so many more.

4. What’s a sound you love?

i love the absence of sound in the early morning that's punctuated by the soft russel of the wind through tree branches & later by bird song once the pale glow of the rising sun begins to lighten the sky. too i have a heartened fondness for kittens meowing , their rumbling purrs and quiet, rolling mrrs. the sound of rain , whether by mere drizzle or fierce storm , accompanied by wind and thunder. stories or poetry being read by a clear yet emotive voice , captivating my attention as much as they've captured the voices of the characters they read for.

5. Do you believe in ghosts?

no , i don't believe ghost exist. i believe the things that haunt us are an entirely different entity.

6. How about aliens?

yes. there's too much out there for me to believe we are the only living things ever to develop & evolve / be created.

7. Favourite place to travel?

spain , there's still so much more i long to see & i loved every minute of my times there. so beautiful & i love the atmosphere there.

too i love anywhere there are woods though , so i could be happy just going for a walk in the forest xD

8. Do you tend to hold grudges against people who have done you wrong?

no , because i don't remain angry or upset over any wrong against me. i just don't for some reason , whether there's an apology or not.

9. Tag 7 people who should do this:

( no pressure to do this if you don't want to ; it's only if you do want to ) @snidgethex , @flosimo , @pain-in-the-asguardian , @bisamwilson , @lindir , @theancientvaleofsoulmaking , & @inspirationmerls

[puppetmaster55]

AND ITS THE EVER GIVEN COMING TO TAKE OUT THE GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE ATOP THE TSUNAMI

Also goodbye Ioan Grufford

Tonight’s Bad Movie Watch is the disaster movie, San Andreas!

Mostly involved is heckling the science and the contrived Drama

Like this whole entire movie is just a pilot for that one show where this kind of destruction is every other episode

[myhahnestopinion]

The Night AN OVERCOMPENSATING, KARAOKE ROCK-AND-ROLL STAR Came Home: SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRE II (1987)

Incompetent movies usually beget incompetent sequels. Did anyone really expect Silent Night, Deadly Night or Troll to spontaneously produce a masterpiece for their third franchise entry? But, while a zebra can’t change its spots and Michael Bay can’t make a good Transformers movie, sometimes a mildly entertaining slasher flick will spawn a sequel that not only is barely recognizable in tone, style, and concept as a continuation of the previous entry, but is barely recognizable as a film at all.

1982’s Slumber Party Massacre is a film more interesting for its backstory than its actual slashering. The film was written by Rita Mae Brown as a parody film, designed to provide a feminist critique of the slasher genre, and the film was in turn directed by a female director, as were the rest of the trilogy. However, in production, it was transformed into a straight-forward horror film centered on another group of teens being picked off one by one by an escaped mass murderer. This shift in focus left the film very uneven, with its most memorable bit being a gag about one teen eating some pizza, worrying it will get cold soon, after finding the delivery boy dead on the doorstep. This unevenness doesn’t even begin to compare to what happened to the sequel film though, released five years later. 1987’s Slumber Party Massacre II basically came about by throwing A Nightmare on Elm Street, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Pepsi product placement, and 1980’s MTV into a blender, then having it mixed at the discretion of B-movie “Auteur” Roger Corman, the man behind that infamous unreleased $1 million Fantastic Four movie, made solely to keep the rights. Here, with $200,000 at his disposal, it goes about exactly as well as you expect.

If there’s one thing that can be said about Slumber Party Massacre II, it would be that the film excels at delivering the unexpected. For example, you may have many ideas about how a slasher film would begin: an early murder tease, a presentation of the villain’s origin, or something along those lines that sets the mood. Did you expect romantic music to swell and the camera to pan longingly over a woman’s body as she has a sexy dream about a hunky football player? Probably not.

This sexy dream is the dream of our protagonist, Courtney Bates, the younger sister of the protagonist from the last movie, Valerie, who now resides in a mental hospital. Despite being uninvolved in much of the last film’s events, Courtney’s sexy football dreams are interrupted by clips from the past movie’s bloody events. Yes, the film could have continued to follow the person whose life was upended by the brutal murder of several of her friends as she attempts to deal with this traumatic past… but instead it follows her younger sister, because desiring to have uninterrupted sex dreams about hunky football players is a way more involving motivation, I guess.

Courtney meets up with her friend Amy for a session of carpool karaoke that is about as interminable as… well, Carpool Karaoke. It does introduced the concept that Courtney, along with three of her friends, have a garage band together, one whose jam sessions are about as interminable as... well, your average garage band. And yes, we are about 10 minutes into this film, and there have already been two extended musical sequences.

The band, which also includes Sheila and Sally, is heading up for the weekend to a condo recently purchased by Sheila’s family. Amy encourages Courtney to invite Matt, the hunky football player of her dreams, to come along, which she does. Yes, hunky football player is real, and boy is he… not nearly as dreamy in real life. I mean, not as much as a doofus as Matt from Troll 3, but better keep dreaming, Courtney. Though perhaps the reason why Matt seems so unnerving in real life is the film’s insistence on always shooting him from this weird close-up, head-on angle.

That night, Courtney dozes off for another sexy dream about hunky football player, but instead finds herself dreaming about being in the mental hospital with her sister, whose hiding, terrified, under her bed. “Don’t go all the way!” she shouts. Yes, the central conflict of the movie at this point is Courtney being c*ckblocked from her hunky football sex dreams by her sister. The film holds off on revealing it’s central villain for a good while, but it does give us a few brief teases to build anticipation. We see a few shots of his… dancing feet…and screech that… “Rock and roll never die,” so, uh, I don’t know guys. Our killer is… Michael Jackson or something. Read on.

The band arrives at the condo the next morning. “It looks like nobody lives here yet,” observes Amy, a line of dialogue that the movie uses as its excuse for not spending any of its precious $200,000 budget on furnishing this home. Amy’s observation isn’t entirely accurate though, as when the girls head upstairs, they find an inflatable sex doll on a bed upstairs. “Looks like my brother has been up here,” Shelia notes, and the girls all have a chuckle about this, because there’s nothing at all concerning about this grown man breaking-in his parents’ brand new condominium by having secret getaway weekends with his inflatable sex doll!

The girls kick off their weekend with a dance party, because if there was one thing this slasher film was missing at almost the halfway mark, it was another musical sequence, and not, like, a murder or something. During the dance party, the girls start a pillow fight, and then begin to undress. Why go forward with that whole feminist critique of the genre thing when you can have gratuitous nudity instead? There’s really just not enough of that in the genre!

At this moment, we are also introduced to two other male characters, T.J. and pencil-mustached Jeff, who sneak up on the girls. “You really should lock your back door,” Jeff says in creepy fashion. The girls find neither this remark nor the fact that these two were watching them strip at their dance party to be concerning.

The whole gang enjoy their weekend, filled with swimming, and snacking, and… car washing, because that’s a fun vacation activity. But, Courtney begins to be plagued by visions of strange events, each accompanied by an electric guitar riff. Bathtub water turns to blood. A… raw turkey attacks her when she opens the fridge…? And, she goes in for a bite of her hamburger, only to discover that there was a severed appendage between the buns. Now that’s what I call…. a HAND-BURGER! HA HA HA HA! AM I RIGHT, GUYS?!

Hey, give me a break. We’re far more than halfway through this movie, and there still hasn’t been a single death… or really any indication at all that this is a horror movie. But, hey, there is another musical sequence, where the band performs another track! That’s something!

Once again, Courtney dreams are filled with brief flashes of our main villain, but if you were looking for indication that this is a horror movie, then you’re still out of luck. In this further teases, we now know that our main villain is dressed toe-to-toe in a black leather cowboy outfit, with a face that suggest Ioan Grufford really hit rock bottom after those dreadful Fantastic Four movies.

Finally, after numerous tedious musical sequences and… whatever is happening with this villain… there is a death. Well, more or less. In the bathroom, Courtney watches, horrified, as a pimple on Sally’s face swells to grotesque proportions. Considering the low budget of the film, it’s actually a half-decent practical effect. 

Courtney runs downstairs, right into the arms of Matt, who’s arrival at the house is never seen. The group tries to calm Courtney, as Matt calls the cops. When two officers arrive to investigate, Sally walks through the door, the whole thing being another dream. “You just wasted $200 of taxpayer money,” the cop says sternly. It’s a valid point, but, well, I’m more upset about someone wasting 200 THOUSAND DOLLARS on this trash.

With Matt finally here, he and Courtney head upstairs in hopes of finally making those hunky football player sex dreams a reality. They begin to make out, when Courtney pauses. “I’ve never…” she starts, when our leather-cowboy rock and roll villain shows up. “Gone all the way?” he finishes, before drilling through Matt’s chest, killing him.

And so, 50 minutes into this 75 minute movie, we have both our first official kill, and our first clear glimpse of the villain. Beyond his gaudy outfit and personality that suggests Ferris Bueller started doing crack shortly after high school, we finally get a good look at his weapon.

Slasher villains often brandish an iconic weapon. Freddy has his glove. Jason, his machete. In one of the best bits of that film, the killer from the original Slumber Party Massacre had an electric drill. This choice of weapon was clearly make to invoke phallic imagery as it impaled through the first film’s victims, which is then turned around on the killer by the women at the end of the film, a reversal of power that was one of the few remaining elements of the film’s feminist roots. If that drill was indeed meant to carry such implications, well, then, the Driller Killer in this film is certainly compensating for something with his massive electric drill, mounted onto a large, elaborate guitar.

“He’s real,” Courtney shouts, as she stumbles downstairs to the others. And so, as if by Courtney’s command, the film does indeed finally commit to having an actual killer in this film, and crams an entire slasher film worth of kills into just a few minutes. While having any murder at all is a relief, the kills are fairly mundane. Rock-Star Man simply impales a few people with his spinning drill guitar, shredding their insides. Come on, man! You gotta switch it up now and then! Have you tried them on top and you on bottom?

After taking out a few members of the group, the killer turns to camera and announces, “Now it’s time for the good part.” Oh good, I’ve been waiting for an hour for this film to get to the good part!

And… it’s another musical sequences…  Yes, after dispatching a few people, some technicolor lights pop on, and the Driller Killer begins to dance and sing along to the song “Let’s Buzz” by the Paladins. It’s less frightening and more… utterly confusing… And even if I did understand it, it would probably be less frightening, and more utterly confusing.

This driller killer dude is played by the son of the founder of Little Caser’s by the way. That’s a real fact. It’s not really all that relevant, but neither is having a karaoke sequence in the climax of your slasher movie, so, well, here we are. So, the Driller Killer kills everyone but Amy and Courtney, but continues to dance and spout song lyrics as he chases them to an unfinished extension on the condo, where Amy is killed. Up on the roof, Courtney grabs a conveniently nearby flamethrower. The killer is engulfed in the fire, and falls off the building. Yes, like so many young rock stars, the Driller Killer short lived career ended up going down in flames.

So, after this dreamed-up rock star is defeated by a simple flamethrower, the film realizes it has no idea what this film was about either, and bumbles its way through an ending. First, Amy’s body is being carried away by cops, but her eyes open and the killer’s laugh comes out of her mouth. Then Courtney wakes up next to Matt, the whole thing being a dream. THE ENTIRE FREAKING MOVIE BEING A DREAM! BUT WAIT, THERE’S MORE! COURTNEY ROLLS OVER TO EMBRACE MATT, BUT MATT TURNS INTO THE DRILLER KILLER, AND COURTNEY WAKES UP AGAIN!!! IN THE MENTAL HOSPITAL!!! DREAM WITHIN A DREAM WITHIN A DREAM WITHIN A PATHETIC MUSIC VIDEO!

If someone were to ask me what Slumber Party Massacre II was about, what its character motivations and central conflicts are, well, my best attempt would be to explain that it is about a woman so scared of intimacy that she dreams up a meth-head cowboy rockstar who wants to have sex with her so much he kills her band, but also none of it was real, but also all it might have been real. Now, as to why anything in this movie happens, I have no clue. Does this film have anything to say about femininity, the rock-and-roll generation, the nature of reality, or even about the ethical use of inflatable sex dolls? No, it doesn’t seem like it. It seems more like producer Roger Corman and director Crystal Bernard decided to cash-in on a bunch of popular trends, without having either the money or talent to tackle any of it. There’s no conclusion here. There’s no sense of pacing. There’s no real plot of any kind. And there’s certainly no money on display here, despite the continuous very obvious Pepsi product placement. Truly the most baffling decision in a true cornucopia of nonsensical incompetence though is our villain, low-rent-Billy-Idol-cosplay Freddy Krueger. It’s not really surprising that the next film in the series return to a regular old guy with a drill. But, well, when you have a killer as cool as this, it can’t be long before he comes back in style.

Slumber Party Massacre II is available on Blu-ray and DVD.

NEXT: The Night A BUREAUCRATIC, OPEN-HEARTED NICE GUY Came Home... 

[stefaniekemp]

We loved…

…ITV’s hard hitting drama ‘Liar’. 

We here at The Mill are a little biased but we absolutely loved the Make-up Hair & Prosthetics work of Makeup Designer Jojo Williams and her team on ITV’s drama Liar.

We especially loved the final shot (seen above) of Andrew Earlham (Ioan Grufford) dead as a dodo out in the mud, marvellously mottled with a deathly pallor and gruesome prosthetic slit throat. 

Watch on ITV Player for some more marvellous make-ups.

http://www.express.co.uk/showbiz/tv-radio/867289/Liar-Spoilers-Andrew-Earlham-Ioan-Gruffudd-Dead-Killed-Laura-Nielson-Joanne-Froggatt-ITV

[gameof-series-blog]

Joanne Froggatt: "voglio fare cose diverse"

Joanne Froggatt, Anna di Downton Abbey, parla del suo prossimo lavoro e del film di Downton

Joanne Froggatt, che in Downton Abbey interpretava Anna Bates, durante un’intervista per Deadline durante la promozione del suo nuovo lavoro, Liar, ha parlato anche della sua esperienza in Downton Abbey e del film/revival di cui si parla da qualche mese. In Liar, Joanne interpreta Laura un’insegnante che va ad un appuntamento “sfortunato” con Andrew (Ioan Grufford), finito l’appuntamento Joanne…

[a-burrito-named-brainy]

What kills you is not what causes your heart to stop beating, it's what prevents you from living

Dr. Henry Morgan (Forever)

[mcmusing]

💙The Journey of Dr and Mrs. Richards💓

Schoolgirl crush when Reed and Ben came to stay at her aunt's boarding house. Yes, Sue was a teenager and Reed a grad student but it's Reed. Nothing but polite conversation until after Sue came of age.

Meeting up again through disaster and near-death:

Until they made it to this moment:

This has been another excerpt from Fantastic Four Feels 💖

[rawyld]

Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of madness review and spoilers.

What a film that was with the whole very gruesome deaths that Wanda did to get to her children, which every loving mother would do after losing her children but can never get them back.

Also Anson Mount Captain Pike back from Inhumans.

Only disappointed was that Ioan Grufford wasn’t used as Mr Fantastic, but well John was ok.

Also saw Oswald the Lucky Rabbit on the TV screen

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