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My Top 10 Films of 2020 with HM's

My Top 10 Films of 2020 with HM’s

1: Nomadland Fern is a woman whose life has fallen apart. Her job and town have gone extinct. She is forced to live out of her van and travel from state to state and town to town. Like, a modern-day nomad. Francis McDormand gives a more subdued performance than she ever has before in Nomadland. It’s just as effective as her Academy Award-winning performances in the past. Chloe Zhao has crafted a…

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📽 Crazy, Stupid, Love. (2011)

I was literally just talking about this movie today, not realizing it was my next review to write. I thought this movie was hilarious. I love movies that interweave all the characters’ lives into each other. The cast is absolutely incredible, and the whole movie is so weirdly funny. It had me laughing in the first ten minutes, and it kept me laughing the whole way through. I could watch this movie again, for sure.

Sex/nudity: 7/10 (kissing, quite a bit of sex talk, implied sex, honestly pretty heavy in this area)

Language: 6/10 (two f-words, quite a bit of other stuff)

Violence: 2/10 (slapping, punching, fighting, jokes about killing)

Overall rating: 8/10

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Total Drama (United States of America VAs)

anonymous:

Was thinking up a potential alternate universe cast for the Total Drama trilogy  

(if the series had been done for some famous actors/singers/comedians/celebrities of

United States of America, instead of Toronto, Canada).

Here's what I came up with.

CAST:

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Total Drama Series

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    •    Chris McLean: Ben Stiller

    •    Chef Hatchet: Idris Elba

Total Drama Island/Action/World Tour

    •    Alejandro: Antonio Banderas

    •    Beth: Mila Kunis

    •    Blaineley: Ellen DeGeneres

    •    Bridgette: Moira Kelly

    •    Cody: Nathan Lane

    •    Courtney: Mae Whitman

    •    DJ: Tracy Morgan

    •    Duncan: Ben Schwartz

    •    Eva: Jane Lynch

    •    Ezekiel: Bill Farmer

    •    Geoff: Cam Clarke

    •    Gwen: Carla Gugino

    •    Harold: Nicolas Cage

    •    Heather: Reese Witherspoon

    •    Izzy: Emma Stone

    •    Justin: George Lopez

    •    Katie: Mindy Kaling

    •    LeShawna: Jada Pinkett Smith

    •    Lindsay: Anna Kendrick

    •    Noah: Jason Bateman

    •    Owen: Zach Galifianakis

    •    Sadie: Lisa Kudrow

    •    Sierra: Amy Poehler

    •    Trent: Elijah Wood

    •    Tyler: Michael J. Fox

Total Drama Revenge of the Island

    •    Anne Maria: Loretta Devine

    •    Brick: Simon Pegg

    •    Cameron: Max Casella

    •    Dakota: Jenny Slate

    •    Dawn: Andrea Libman

    •    Jo: Bonnie Hunt

    •    Lightning: Chris Rock

    •    Mike: John Leguizamo

    •    Sam: Bill Fagerbakke

    •    Scott: Alan Tudyk

    •    Staci: Greta Gerwig

    •    Zoey: Kristen Bell

Total Drama Pahkitew Island

    •    Amy/Samey: Ginnifer Goodwin

    •    Beardo (speaking): David Oyelowo

    •    Dave: Steve Carrell

    •    Ella: Rachel MacFarlane

    •    Jasmine: Lupita Nyong'o

    •    Leonard: Shawn Michael Howard

    •    Max: Steve Buscemi

    •    Rodney: John Goodman

    •    Scarlett: Drew Barrymore

    •    Shawn: Channing Tatum

    •    Sky: Leslie Mann

    •    Sugar: Roseanne Barr

    •    Topher: Nate Torrence

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Total Drama Ridonculous Race

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CAST:

    •    Don: Louis C.K.

    •    Brody: Gregg Berger

    •    Carrie: Kristen Wigg

    •    Chet: Josh Peck

    •    Crimson: Scarlett Johannson

    •    Devin: Matthew Broderick

    •    Dwayne: Wallace Shawn

    •    Ellody: Zendaya

    •    Emma: Bella Thorne

    •    Ennui: Liam Neeson

    •    Gerry: Tim Carry

    •    Jacques: Jim Parsons

    •    Jay: Scott Menville

    •    Jen: Anne Hathaway

    •    Junior: Debi Derryberry

    •    Josee: Allison Janney

    •    Kelly: Jessie J

    •    Kitty: Kimiko Glenn

    •    Laurie: Alyssa Milano

    •    Lorenzo: Drake Bell

    •    MacArthur: Lake Bell

    •    Mary: Maia Mitchell

    •    Miles: Cheryl Hines

    •    Mickey: Jesse Eisenberg

    •    Pete: Billy Connolly

    •    Rock: Eric Idle

    •    Ryan: Tom Lister Jr.

    •    Sanders: Wanda Sykes

    •    Stephanie: Alfre Woodard

    •    Spud: Barry Bostwick

    •    Tammy: Katherine Heigl

    •    Taylor: Sarah Silverman

    •    Tom: Raymond Perri

Any comments or suggestions are welcome! The original cast is funny and fantastic, but if the series had been done in America I think these VAs would've done equally well.

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Wow! That's very very very interesting! I Indeed I have evergreen thought of doing an au with the celebrities in real life and with the competitors of Total Drama! 😍😍😍😍

Thank you very much for the list and even if I don't know all the VIPs listed I would say that the few I know are well chosen! 👍

Maybe I could do some sketches or short comics based on this kind of AU thanks to the idea😀😘❤

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Total Drama (United States of America VAs)

anonymous:

Was thinking up a potential alternate universe cast for the Total Drama trilogy   (if the series had been done for some famous actors/celebrities in United States of America, instead of Toronto, Canada). Here's what I came up with. CAST: ----------------------------- Total Drama Series -----------------------------     •    Chris McLean: Ben Stiller     •    Chef Hatchet: Idris Elba Total Drama Island/Action/World Tour     •    Alejandro: Antonio Banderas     •    Beth: Mila Kunis     •    Blaineley: Ellen DeGeneres     •    Bridgette: Tori Kelly     •    Cody: Nathan Lane     •    Courtney: Mae Whitman     •    DJ: Tracy Morgan     •    Duncan: Dylan Minnette     •    Eva: Jane Lynch     •    Ezekiel: Bill Farmer     •    Geoff: Cam Clarke     •    Gwen: Carla Gugino     •    Harold: Nicolas Cage     •    Heather: Reese Witherspoon     •    Izzy: Emma Stone     •    Justin: George Lopez     •    Katie: Mindy Kaling     •    LeShawna: Jada Pinkett Smith     •    Lindsay: Anna Kendrick     •    Noah: Jason Bateman     •    Owen: Zach Galifianakis     •    Sadie: Lisa Kudrow     •    Sierra: Amy Poehler     •    Trent: Julián Rebolledo     •    Tyler: Michael J. Fox Total Drama Revenge of the Island     •    Anne Maria: Loretta Devine     •    Brick: Simon Pegg     •    Cameron: Max Casella     •    Dakota: Jenny Slate     •    Dawn: Andrea Libman     •    Jo: Bonnie Hunt     •    Lightning: Chris Rock     •    Mike: John Leguizamo     •    Sam: Bill Fagerbakke     •    Scott: Alan Tudyk     •    Staci: Greta Gerwig     •    Zoey: Kristen Bell Total Drama Pahkitew Island     •    Amy/Samey: Ginnifer Goodwin     •    Beardo (speaking): David Oyelowo     •    Dave: Steve Carrell     •    Ella: Ariel Winter     •    Jasmine: Lupita Nyong'o     •    Leonard: Shawn Michael Howard     •    Max: Steve Buscemi     •    Rodney: John Goodman     •    Scarlett: Drew Barrymore     •    Shawn: Channing Tatum     •    Sky: Leslie Mann     •    Sugar: Sally Field     •    Topher: Nate Torrence ----------------------------- Total Drama Ridonculous Race ----------------------------- CAST:     •    Don: Louis C.K.          •    Brody: Gregg Berger     •    Carrie: Kristen Wigg     •    Chet: Josh Peck     •    Crimson: Scarlett Johannson     •    Devin: Matthew Broderick     •    Dwayne: Wallace Shawn     •    Ellody: Zendaya     •    Emma: Bella Thorne     •    Ennui: Liam Neeson     •    Gerry: Tim Carry     •    Jacques: Jim Parsons     •    Jay: Scott Menville     •    Jen: Kaitlin Olson     •    Junior: Joshua Rush     •    Josee: Allison Janney     •    Kelly: Jessie J     •    Kitty: Kerris Dorsey     •    Laurie: Alyssa Milano     •    Lorenzo: Drake Bell     •    MacArthur: Lake Bell     •    Mary: Maia Mitchell     •    Miles: Cheryl Hines     •    Mickey: Jesse Eisenberg     •    Pete: Billy Connolly     •    Rock: Eric Idle     •    Ryan: Tom Lister Jr.     •    Sanders: Wanda Sykes     •    Stephanie: Alfre Woodard     •    Spud: Barry Bostwick     •    Tammy: Russi Taylor     •    Taylor: Sarah Silverman     •    Tom: Raymond Perri Any comments or suggestions are welcome! The original cast is funny and fantastic, but if the series had been done in America I think these VAs would've done equally well.

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Wanted Opposites!

This isn’t a very important post, especially when I should be doing drafts but if anyone has these faceclaims to go against any of mine, platonically, romantic, strangers, etc. HMU! (MESSAGES!) I will probably already be attached because I just adore ocs, but even better with these fcs. Don’t be discouraged though if you have none, it’s just a post to put out there if you’re interested in checking it out. I will roleplay with the majority of faceclaims except the ones on my banned list. Of course I’ll be open to writing against these faceclaims with any of my other muses, these are just first thoughts. 

** Please bring me your underused faceclaims, poc, ladies, nb, older, etc! They don’t get much love in the indie rpc.

I tried my hardest not to repeat as there are several fcs I’d like for other characters too, but, 

Below the cut is the list:

Angelica Ward:

Dominique P. Chalkley, Kat Barrell, Shamir Anderson, Paige Turco, Natalie Krill, Jodelle Ferland, Megan Follows, Zoie Palmer, Anna Silk, Ksenia Solo. 

Brooklyn Nash:

Cameron Monoghan, Shanola Hampton, Emma Greenwell, Laura Slade Wiggins, Jane Levy, Joel Kinnaman, Ruby Rose, Dermot Mulroney.

Cody Jane:

Zendaya, Sydney Sweeney, Alexis Demie, Margaret Qualley, Elliot Fletcher, Noel Fischer, 

Corrine Walker:

Charley Weber, Viola Davis, Matt McGorry, Tom Verica, Karla Souza, AJA Naomi King, Alfred Enoch, Alexis Bledel, Barry Sloan, Keiko Agena.

Dionne Davis:

Kristen Bell, D’Arcy Carden, jode Comer, Sandra Oh, William Jackson Harper, Jameela Jamil, Manny Jacinto, Emma Stone, Tiya Sircar, Adam Scott, Leslie Grossman, Stephan Merchant.

Fitz Stevens: 

Emmy Raver Lampman, Marin Ireland, Drew Barrymore, Robert Sheenan, Laverne Cox, Trace Lysette, Alexandra Billings, Indya Moore, MJ Rodriguez, Jamie Clayton, Gaby Hoffmann, Ritu Arya.

Ireland Magneri: 

Dave Franco, Aubrey Plaza, Gillian jacobs, Joel McHale, Carey Mulligan, Mary Holland, Mackenzie Davis, Bo Burnham.

Kendall Reid:

Alison Brie, Kristen Stewart, Kathryn Hahn, Rashida jones, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Michael Cera, Clea Duvall, Oscar Isaac, Pedro Pascal, Taika Waititi.

Koko Gallagher-Yang:

Ashley Tisdale, Shay Mitchell, Rooney Mara, Selena Gomez, Miley Cyrus, Kat Dennings, Brianne Howey, Ruby Rose, Cara Delevigne, Natalia Tena, Oona Chaplin, Ashley Benson, Lucy Hale, Troian Bellisario, Lucy Boynton.

Leona Langford:

David Harbour, Keanu Reeves, Ethan Hawke, Sean Astin, Christian Slater, Anthony Michael Hall, Johnny Depp, Millie Bobby Brown, Carla Buono, Joe Keery, Sadie Sink, Brett Gelman, Davis, Alex Baldwin, Michael Keaton, Catherine O’Hara, Dacre Montgomery, Francesca Reale, Angelina Jolie. 

Lillian Fitzgerald: 

Lili Reinhart, Milo Ventimiglia Sarah Paulson, Patrick Wilson, Evan Peters, Jessica Lange, Hamish Lanklater, Kyle Breitkopf, Connie Britton, Cody Fern, Zachary Quinto. 

Lorelai Bajwa Kapoor:

Mindy Kaling, Sara Ramirez, Tom Hopper, David Casteneda, Jake Epstein, Zoe Kravtiz, Perry Mattfield, Jode Whittaker, Pearl Mackie, 

Opal Riverand:

Cole/Dylan Sprouse, Camila Mendes, Reese Witherspoon, Molly Ringwald, Charles Merton, Madelaine Petsch, Mark Consuelos, Karlie Kloss, Keke Palmer, Vanessa Morgan, Marisol Nichols, Madchen Amick, Molly Ringwald, Skeet Ulrich. 

Penelope Banks:

Matt Czuchry,  Liza Weil, Lauren Graham, Samira Wiley, America Ferrera, Ashley Graham, Blake Lively, Amber Tamblyn, Amanda Seyfried, Lily James, Rosamund Pike, Chris Pine, Chris Pratt, Chris Evans.

Samantha North: 

Bonnie Wright, Natalia Tena, Kristen Stewart, Emilia Clarke, Piper Perabo, Lena Headey, Evanna Lynch, Mae Whitman, Kate Walsh, Ellen Page, Demi Moore, Jennifer Connolly, Cate Blanchett, Mandy Moore, Jennifer Gardner. 

Victoria Wilson: 

Rainn Wilson, Ed Helms, Steve Carrell, John Kransinski, Idris Elba, Jenna Fischer, Amy Ryan, Creed Bratton, Kate Flannery, Rachael Harris.

Zainab Abbott: 

Jim Howick, David Tennant, Hannah Waddingham, Jason Isaacs, Idris Elba, Benedict Cumberbatch, Juno Temple, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Jeff Goldblum,  Willem Dafoe, Elizabeth Mitchell, Emily Blunt, Anne Hathway, Jon Hamm, Stellan Skarsgaard, Helena Bonham Carter, Sarah Lancashire, Siobhan Finneran, Dev Patel. Catherine Zeta Jones. 

Zero:

Hunter Schafer, Bella Thorne, Hailee Steinfeld, Jennifer Tilly, Barbie Ferreira, Maya Hawke, Maude Apatow, Diana Silvers, Saoirse Ronan, Talulah Riley.

Faces I’d love to interact with anyways: Lily Rabe, LP (the singer), Lana Del Rey, Winona Ryder, Stefanie Scott, Billie Ellish, Natalia Dyer, Natalie Portman, Natalie Dormer, Stella Maeve, Thomas Sangster, Most Drag Queens, Asia Kate Dillon, Halston Sage, Haley Lu Richardson, Shane West, Chris Meloni,  Selena Gomez, Jamie Bell, Charlie Rowe,  Kit Harrington, Matt Smith, Himseh Patel, Ansel Elgort, Lily Collins,  Katie Leung, Brendan Gleeson, Lea Seydoux, Rupert Grint, Domnhall Gleeson, Tom Felton, Allison Scalglotti, Ben Hardy, Chloe Sevigny,  David Tennant, Catherine Tate, Michael Sheen, Melanie Laurent, Rami Malek, etc.

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Total Drama (United States of America VAs)

sdfhkdjlsak anon you’ve submitted this post 4 times now!!!! but i just noticed you have goofy’s va for ezekiel and i’m fucking screaming, that’s very good actually

anonymous:

anonymous:

Was thinking up a potential alternate universe cast for the Total Drama series (if the series had been done for famous celebrities in United States of America instead of Toronto, Canada). Here’s what I came up with. CAST: —————————– Total Drama Series —————————–     •    Chris McLean: Ben Stiller     •    Chef Hatchet: Idris Elba Total Drama Island/Action/World Tour     •    Alejandro: Antonio Banderas     •    Beth: Anne Hathaway     •    Blaineley: Octavia Spencer     •    Bridgette: Tori Kelly     •    Cody: Nathan Lane     •    Courtney: Mae Whitman     •    DJ: Tracy Morgan     •    Duncan: Joseph Gordon-Levitt     •    Eva: Jane Lynch     •    Ezekiel: Bill Farmer     •    Geoff: Cam Clarke     •    Gwen: Carla Gugino     •    Harold: Nicolas Cage     •    Heather: Reese Witherspoon     •    Izzy: Emma Stone     •    Justin: George Lopez     •    Katie: Mindy Kaling     •    LeShawna: Jada Pinkett Smith     •    Lindsay: Anna Kendrick     •    Noah: Jason Bateman     •    Owen: Zach Galifianakis     •    Sadie: Lisa Kudrow     •    Sierra: Amy Poehler     •    Trent: Bruno Campos     •    Tyler: Michael J. Fox Total Drama Revenge of the Island     •    Anne Maria: Loretta Devine     •    Brick: Simon Pegg     •    Cameron: Max Casella     •    Dakota: Jenny Slate     •    Dawn: Diamond White     •    Jo: Bonnie Hunt     •    Lightning: Chris Rock     •    Mike: John Leguizamo     •    Sam: Jason Alexander     •    Scott: Alan Tudyk     •    Staci: Melissa McCarthy     •    Zoey: Kristen Bell Total Drama Pahkitew Island     •    Amy/Samey: Ginnifer Goodwin     •    Beardo (speaking): David Oyelowo     •    Dave: Steve Carrell     •    Ella: Ariel Winter     •    Jasmine: Lupita Nyong'o     •    Leonard: Shawn Michael Howard     •    Max: Steve Buscemi     •    Rodney: John Goodman     •    Scarlett: Drew Barrymore     •    Shawn: Channing Tatum     •    Sky: Leslie Mann     •    Sugar: Sally Field     •    Topher: Nate Torrence —————————– Total Drama Ridonculous Race —————————– CAST:     •    Don: Louis C.K.     •    Brody: Dylan Minnette     •    Carrie: Kristen Wigg     •    Chet: Josh Peck     •    Crimson: Scarlett Johannson     •    Devin: Matthew Broderick     •    Dwayne: Wallace Shawn     •    Ellody: Zendaya     •    Emma: Bella Thorne     •    Ennui: Liam Neeson     •    Gerry: Tim Carry     •    Jacques: Jim Parsons     •    Jay: Scott Menville     •    Jen: Kaitlin Olson     •    Junior: Neel Sethi     •    Josee: Allison Janney     •    Kelly: Jessie J     •    Kitty: Kerris Dorsey     •    Laurie: Alyssa Milano     •    Lorenzo: Drake Bell     •    MacArthur: Lake Bell     •    Mary: Maia Mitchell     •    Miles: Cheryl Hines     •    Mickey: Jesse Eisenberg     •    Pete: Billy Connolly     •    Rock: Eric Idle     •    Ryan: Tom Lister Jr.     •    Sanders: Wanda Sykes     •    Stephanie: Alfre Woodard     •    Spud: Barry Bostwick     •    Tammy: Russi Taylor     •    Taylor: Sarah Silverman     •    Tom: Raymond Perri Any comments or suggestions are welcome! The original cast is funny and fantastic, but if the series had been done in America I think these VAs would’ve done equally well.

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Total Drama voice actors

anonymous:

Was thinking up a potential alternate universe cast for the Total Drama series (if the series had been done in United States of America instead of Toronto, Canada). Here’s what I came up with.

Chris McLean: Ben Stiller Chef Hatchet: Idris Elba

Alejandro: Antonio Banderas Amy/Samey: Ginnifer Goodwin Anne Maria: Loretta Devine Beardo (speaking): Michael Leon Wooley Beth: Anne Hathaway Blaineley: Octavia Spencer Brick: Simon Pegg Brigette: Tori Kelly Cameron: Jason Bateman Cody: Nathan Lane Courtney: Mae Whitman Dakota: Jenny Slate Dave: Steve Carrell Dawn: Diamond White DJ: Tracy Morgan Duncan: Josepoh Gordon-Levitt Ella: Ariel Winter Eva: Jane Lynch Ezekiel: Bill Farmer Geoff: Cam Clarke Gwen: Carla Gugino Harold: Nicolas Cage Heather: Reese Witherspoon Izzy: Emma Stone Jasmine: Lupita Nyong'o Jo: Bonnie Hunt Justin: George Lopez Katie: Amanda Leighton Leonard: Shawn Michael Howard LeShawna: Jada Pinkett Smith Lightning: Blair Underwood Lindsay: Anna Kendrick Max: Steve Buscemi Mike: Chris Rock Noah: Jason Marsden Owen: Zach Galifionakis Rodney: John Goodman Sadie: Rita Moreno Sam: Jason Alexander Scarlett: Drew Barrymore Scott: Alan Tudyk Shawn: Andy Samberg Sierra: Maia Mitchell Sky: Leslie Mann Staci: Melissa McCarthy Sugar: Sally Field Topher: Nate Torrence Trent: Bruno Campos Tyler: Samuel West Zoey: Kristen Bell

Any comments or suggestions are welcome! The original cast is funny and fantastic, but if the series had been done in America I think these VAs would’ve done equally well.

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London Film Festival 2017 or: the real world sucks just watch films for 2 weeks

I feel like I’ve spent my entire student loan seeing things at the London Film Festival, which ran over the last few weeks.

Was worth it.

#1: MANIFESTO, directed by Julian Rosefeldt, 90 mins

- Originally a critically acclaimed multi-screen video installation in which Cate Blanchett plays 13 different characters, ranging from a school teacher to a homeless man, performing artist’s manifestos in 13 different scenarios. Part of the financing deal was Rosefeldt had to cut a 90 minute, linear version of the piece for a cinematic setting. Provides some super interesting results.

- Clearly a translation, but an interesting one. Making the viewer watch it beginning to end highlights the flaws in that translation from installation to cinematic setting (can get too much to digest sometimes), but when it works, it *really* works. 

- More than anything, made me think about the cinema as a space- question the realms of it and what we’re putting on a big screen. 

- CATE FUCKING BLANCHETT!!!! i am convinced no one could have pulled this off like she did. She’s running on adrenaline and pure bravery. She makes interesting choices at every twist and turn. A masterclass.

- You HAVE to be fully, super awake and willing to give this your full attention from the start. It’s slow and beautiful and wonderful... but it is slow. 

- Genre hops from scenario to scenario perfectly... from Clio Banard-esque social realism to Rachel Maclean-like cartoonish sci-fi. 

- Some things Julian Rosefeldt and Cate Blanchett said in the talk afterwards that seemed interesting (lots of paraphrasing): - The white cube is a prison... talking to people who already agree with you... Cinema has a bigger audience with more coincidental audience members-  Cate Blanchett fans from the new Thor film mayyyy see this... - Ask ‘would anyone be interested in seeing this?’, NOT ‘will anyone like it?’ - ‘If I could say what everything means, I should stop doing art.’ - ‘Your brain attends to things differently when watched linearly’ - ‘Art’s role isn’t educative- it’s provocative.’

4/5.

Opens November 24th.

#2: BATTLE OF THE SEXES, directed by Jonathan Dayton & Valarie Faris, 121 mins

- True story of 1973 tennis match between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs.

- Rousing good fun. A real crowd pleaser. I saw the Gala screening at the Odeon in Leicester Square... the perfect way to watch- with lots of people, all feeling the Hollywood-ised, over-dramatised, over-sentimental beats together... and super enjoying it. 

- It’s less subtle than MOTHER! (2017) about what it’s saying, but has a shining, naive optimism to it that you just kind of have to smile at.

- Emma Stone and Steve Carrell as King and Riggs hold all the moving pieces together. They add weight to potentially weightless, throw-away moments.

- All supporting performances great too- Sarah Silverman the MVP. Andrea Riseborough continues to be a chameleon, effortlessly embodying everything about who she’s playing, and it doesn’t even look like she’s trying. And hey! it’s super nice to Martha MacIsaac back on screen with Emma Stone! Their first time together on screen since Superbad (2007).

- The romance between Billie Jean King and Riseborough’s character Marilyn Barnett is easily the most engaging aspect of the film. The only time it leaves Hollywood feel-good territory. Something so magical watching them drive the sun-kissed California roads together listening to ‘Rocket Man’.

3.5/5.

Opens November 24th.

#3: OUR TIME WILL COME, directed by Ann Hui, 130 mins

- 1940s Japanese occupied Hong Kong. Fang Lan, a young primary school teacher, gets involved in the resistance movement and rises to become a legendary figure in the fight for freedom.

- STAKES. Really, really gets how to set up stakes for the characters. It’s a film about all the small things, the little fights in a war that will eventually add up to victory. Not assassinating all the leaders of the opposing army, just stealing a map that’s been put in a bin in an enemy outpost, hoping perhaps it helps. It’s a section of a larger painting. EVERYTHING feels dangerous. Every character is in danger at every moment, and is always punished for making the smallest mistake. Gives the sense that the oppressive State is ALWAYS watching. It demands you never become de-sensitised to the violence which leads to that immediate sense of danger.

- Had a restrained cheapness to it which I actually quite liked. Every now and then you get some goofy looking VFXs and some badly dubbed ADR, but the restraint keeps everything feeling grounded and human.

- Runs at it’s own pace/abides by it’s own structure, which may be too slow/anti-climactic for some, but I liked it for the most part. Playing by it’s own rules and truly being what it wanted to be... which sometimes worked and sometimes didn’t.

- The moments it steps out of the main story and does a docu-drama thing... just why? Came across so half-baked. Similar to the 3 time scales in Nolan’s Dunkirk (2017), there was never really a moment of release, an ‘oh! that’s a really interesting decision to do that!’ moment. Just left me kind of baffled to why?

- Genuine moments of magic that I wouldn’t dream of spoiling. Seriously some of the most creative, inspired scenes I’ve ever seen.

- Some guy (wearing a BFI lanyard??) sitting a few seats away kept repeating phrases from the film outloud in a strange voice? Why would you do this??

3.5/5.

UK release date unknown, probably some time in 2018.

#4: LAST FLAG FLYING, directed by Richard Linklater, 124 mins

- 2003. A Vietnam veteran recruits his two oldest buddies, who he served with, to accompany him on a journey no one should ever have to take.

- Richard Linklater continues to prove he can effortless hop between genres like no one else, but the film is still packed full with ideas he’s played with before.

- Performances are uniformly and predictably excellent. Bryan Cranston’s Sal is like the crazy friend of your parents who’d show up every few years in a beaten up old car and give you a pack of smokes for your birthday. Laurence Fishburne says ‘praise Jesus’ every 2 minutes and it’s amazing. Steve Carrell has a quiet dignity to him that’s really special. 

- Linklater knows exactly what he’s doing with his camera (water is wet), but it kills me to say it felt visually bland like his films never have. 

- Features the best ‘characters uncontrollably laughing�� scene since The Intouchables (2011).

4/5.

Opens 3rd November.

#5: THOROUGHBREDS, directed by Cory Finley, 90 minutes

- Two rich-kids from small town Connecticut hatch a plan together.

- Ugh, just.... what’s the point? It’s not boring, but every frame just had me thinking ‘why is this happening?’ So disappointingly transparent. I could see the director sitting planning the movements and cuts. Painfully ‘first-feature’ like. Should have been a rich, twisted delight, but was just so vapid and empty. 

- Olivia Cooke is one of my favourite rising actresses. Has one of my favourite performances ever as Rachel in Me and Earl and The Dying Girl (2015), and dammit I cry every time I watch her in it. In this... she does a good job with what she’s given. Anya Taylor-Joy is fun too.

- Badly costumed?? So rarely actively think that.

- Music was fun but as empty and ultimately weightless as the rest of the film. Felt like an afterthought to spice things up.

- Anton Yelchin’s character was the only person in the whole film I cared about. Brings a greyness to such a black and white film. What a fucking loss to the world man.

2/5.

Opens 9th March, 2018. 

#6: CALL ME BY YOUR NAME, directed by Luca Guadagnino, 130 minutes

- Somewhere in Northern Italy, Summer 1983, Elio’s life changes.

- Sun-drenched Europe, the smell of warmth and twirling cigarette smoke, deep blue sky- pure, breakfast with a glass of apricot juice and an espresso, the sound of bike spokes spinning lazily. 

I wish I could live with these people.

‘Later.’

4.5/5.

Opens 27th October.

#7: THE SHAPE OF WATER, directed by Guillermo del Toro, 119 minutes

- 1962, Cold War America. A mute cleaner at a government research facility, Elisa, strikes up an unlikely relationship.

- Del Toro just *knows* what he’s doing. It’s all so effortlessly confident. So rich and fulfilled. Such commitment to everything. 

- The first half is fantastical and brilliant. The second.... loses something. Still has moments of genius, but too much plot. Fizzles out in a disappointing way.

- Reminded me in a lot of ways of Edgar Wright’s Baby Driver (2017). Both are clearly projects the directors have wanted to make for a while, both have amazing first acts then don’t quite know what do with themselves. However, Shape has pure heart that carries it through any rough patches. It feels like it’s actually about something, not just an exercise in style for the director.

3.8/5.

Opens 16th February, 2018.

#8: LUCKY, directed by John Carroll Lynch, 88 minutes

- The swan song of Harry Dean Stanton. A 90-year old atheist’s life as he wanders his desert town, drinking, smoking and speaking to old friends.

- Pure magic all the way through. Plays at exactly the speed and tone it wants to play at.

- One of the most engaging ‘but nothing happens!!’ films I’ve ever seen.

- Everyone hits perfectly. David Lynch appears playing a character that has a pet tortoise called President Roosevelt for fuck sake.

- Bleak, but finds immense joy in that bleakness. Whenever I feel like I’m about to face the void- I will remember the smile of Harry Dean Stanton.

- 3.5/5.

Opens January 2018.

#9: BAD GENIUS, directed by Nattawut Poonpiriya, 130 minutes

- Thai Heist-Thriller about students cheating their exams.

- WHAT A FUCKING RIDE!! More stakes in this than most ‘end of the world’ superhero movies.

- The filmmaking is so good it makes you forget plausibility is sometimes being pushed. Amazing set-pieces. Expertly choreographed.

- Whimsical, but painful and genuinely emotional when it needs to be. 

- Every character is so rich and textured in their own way. So fully realised.

- Why do the last 2 minutes of this film exist??

- 2 years time, there will almost certainly be an American remake of this... and it’ll suck so hard. 

- SEE THIS FILM. SEE THIS FILM. SEE THIS FILM. SEE THIS FILM.

4/5.

Opens some time in 2018.

#10: THE FLORIDA PROJECT, directed by Sean Baker, 115 minutes

- In the shadow of Disney World, 6 year-old Moonee and her friends spend the summer playing around the Motels they live in.

- Pastel bright colours. Every person has survived a storm. Explore the wasteland of failed corporate America. Become a child again.

- Baker continues to masterfully blend fiction with reality, wrapping one in the other.

- Doesn’t ask you to like the characters. Doesn’t need to. One of the very best films of the year.

4.5/5.

Opens 10th November.

#11: INGRID GOES WEST, directed by Matt Spicer, 98 minutes

- Ingrid moves to California to become Instagram famous.

- An enjoyable, fun Saturday night film. 

- Elisabeth Olsen as ‘photographer’ Taylor Sloane is note perfect. Could so easily have slept-walked through it, but didn’t. Her relationship with brother Nicky is so, so good. Idea of this Instagram famous rich girl with her crazy, pill-junkie, roid-monkey brother who she knows is terrible but loves him and is sort of as vapid as he is- just knows how to hide it better. And man, he is SO evil. Haven’t hated a character as much as I hated him in a while.

- Plaza holds it together. Her and the film trust you to realise how mentally ill she is without reminding us too much.

- 1st half is superbly played... loses it somewhere in the middle of the 2nd act but picks up again at the end.

- Music was terrible?! Suggested some weird criss-cross in tone of the film.

- I GET IT! THE INTERNET IS BAD!

3.5/5.

Opens 17th November.

#12: You Were Never Really Here, directed by Lynne Ramsey, 85 minutes

- Gulf War veteran Joe is known for the brutality he inflicts on captors of the children he’s rescuing.

- Deeply troubled. Beautiful. Precise. Scatter-brained. Focused. A violin strung too tightly, then played by a madman. How can something so stripped down and raw feel so symphonic and wholesome? I feel like I’ve been repeatedly smashed in the head with a hammer... but enjoyed it.

- Jaoquin Phoenix. Lynne Ramsey. Johnny Greenwood.

- There are things in this that will play on loop in my head for the rest of my life.

4.5/5.

Opens in early 2018.

#13: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, directed by Martin McDonagh, 115 minutes

- A mother takes desperate steps to pressure local law enforcement to find her daughter’s killer.

- Perfectly woven and layered characters. I fucking hate the phrase ‘the character arc’, but if I were teaching a class in it- I’d show this film. 

- A film about relationships, and every relationship between every character or creature or inanimate object is perfect.

- McDonagh loves theatrical sensibilities. Nobody does grand, rich set-pieces quite like him... makes highly stylised situations feel real in the world he sets up.

- I could have watched hours more of these characters interacting.

4/5.

Opens 12th January 2018.

STRAY THOUGHTS:

- Felt spoilt in the audiences I had the pleasure of watching these films with. Always respectful.

- Every time Clare Stewart (head of festival) came on stage to present a film, I just couldn’t help but smile. Bumped into her after a screening and told her my student loan situation. I don’t think she knew what to say.

- DON’T WATCH THE TRAILERS OF ANY OF THESE FILMS. THEY SPOIL SO MANY OF THEM.

- I am consistently shocked by how enamoured I am with celebrities. Some weird conditioning in my brain. Am glad I didn’t queue up to get a picture with anyone. Saying that, this screenshot from a random interview I saw online where I’m juuuust to the left of Emma Stone will live on my wall forever.

ughhhhhh i’m a loser ughhhhh

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Öğüt ve Nasihat İle İlgili Sözler

Sayfa İçeriği: Öğüt ve Nasihat İle İlgili Söylenmiş Ünlü Sözler, Öğüt ve Nasihat İle İlgili Anlamlı ve Özlü Sözler, Öğüt ve Nasihat İle İlgili Kısa ve Uzun Sözler, Öğüt Sözleri, Nasihat Sözleri, Nasihat Verici Sözler

Acı nasihat faydalı şerbettir. Atasözü Ne öğüt verirsen ver,yalnız kısa olsun. Horatius Tenkit etme örnek ol,öğüt ver de kardeş ol. Atasözü Evvela kendi nefsine ,sonra insanlara nasihat et. Hz.Ali(ra) Verilmesi en kolay şey nasihat,alınması en güç şey ibrettir. Droz Sizi övenlerden çok,öğüt verenlere bağlanın. Boiteau Bazen iyi bir öğüt,zengin bir armağandan daha değerlidir. Montaigne Öğüt vermek kolay, örnek olmak zordur. La Rochefacauld En cömertçe bağışlanan şey öğüttür. La Rochefacauld En kötü insan,bazen en iyi öğüdü verebilir. P.J.Bailey Nasihat kabul etmeyecek insan,başkalarından imdat istememelidir. John Stuart Mill Dinlenilmediğini bilsen de ,başkalarının iyiliğini düşünerek bildiğin kadar öğüt ver. Alman Atasözü Kusurlarını çevrendekilerin fark etmesini istiyorsan,onlara öğüt vermeye başla. K.Stephans Aşksızlara verme öğüt,öğüdünden alır değil, aşksız adam hayvan olur,hayvan öğüt bilir değil. Yunus Emre İhtiyar öğüdünü tutmayan,ihtiyarlayıncaya dek iyi bir gün göremez. Atasözü Verilen hiç bir nasihat; Yenilen bir kazık kadar öğüt verici değildir. Tom Robbins Kimsenin nasihat istediği yok herkes onaylanma derdinde. John Steinbeck İnsan öğüdü kendi kendine vermeli,derdinizi sizden iyi kimse anlamaz. Publius Cyrus Bazen iyi bir öğüt, pahalı bir armağandan daha değerlidir. Montaigne Nasihat veren insanın darbesi içinde düşmanlık gizleyen kişinin selamından hayırlısıdır. Hz.Osman(ra) Kalbi kara insana öğüt vermek boştur.Paslı bir demirden pası cila ile gidermek mümkün değildir. Jonathan Swift Öğütler ancak öğüt verene yararlıdır. O da, vicdanındaki yükü hafiflettiği için. Nicholas Seare İnsanın bir başkasından iyi bir öğüt aldığı gün, asla yitirilmiş bir gün sayılmaz. José Saramago Bazen insan yalnızca dinlemekle de yardımcı olabilir. Yargılamaksızın, öğüt vermeksizin. Leo Buscaglia Kendini beğenmiş kimselere öğüt vermek rüzgara karşı ıslık çalmakla aynıdır. Hood İhtiyarların öğütleri,kış güneşinin ışınlarına benzer:aydınlatır fakat ısıtmaz. Vauvenargues Hatayı açıkça görmek insanı harekete geçirir. İnsan ancak düştüğünü fark ederse ayağa kalkabilir. Alex Carrel Her zorluk bir eğitici melek sayılır. Bin nasihat bir musibet kadar etkili eğitmez. Muhammed Bozdağ Uykuya dalmış bilgisiz kişiye öğüt vermek, çorak toprağa tohum atmak gibidir. Aptallık ve bilgisizlik yırtığı, yama tutmaz. Mevlana Başkalarına nasihat etmek yerine onları bilgilendirin, bilgiyle donatın, onlar kendi yollarını bulacaklardır. Ali Şeriati Arkadaşına içtenlikle öğüt ver ve onu iyilikle yönlendir. Onu yeteneksiz buluyorsan, bundan vazgeç, kendini küçük düşürme. Konfüçyüs Yıllar bir tür simyasal oyun oynayarak insanın gevelemelerine saygınlık kazandırır. Kırkında nasihat verirsen dırdırcısındır. Yetmişinde alim. Scott Lynch Sen de önce kendine, sonra başkalarına öğüt ver. Sen kendine bak, kendinde düzelteceğin bazı şeyler dururken başkasıyla niye uğraşasın. Abdülkadir Geylani Vefasız olana gösterilen sevgi, teşekkürü olmayan kimseye yapılan iyilik, terbiye kabul etmeyen, nasihat dinlemeyen kimseye sarf edilen terbiye gayreti ve sır tutmayana verilen sır kadar boşuna harcanmış bir şey yoktur. Beydeba

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The Trial of the Chicago 7 Review

Aaron Sorkin directed his first film in 2017 when he made Molly’s Game. The Trial of the Chicago 7 is his 2nd directorial outing, but it may be the most logical project he’s worked on since The West Wing because of its subject matter which is right up his alley. 

The Trial of the Chicago 7 depicts the culmination of the events that took place around the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago,…