#Malcolm Kingsley

[tevantarlos]

Fanart: Good Sam Pt. 1

[msclaritea]

"Biopics of massively famous musicians are rarely very good, often because they stumble at the question of whom exactly they’re being made for. Are you making a movie for the already initiated die-hard fans yearning to see the life and times of their hero reflected back at them in exacting detail? Or is your movie a welcome mat for novices, a breezy jukebox of greatest hits aimed at cultivating new generations of fans, goosing streaming tallies and catalog sales in the process? Most musician biopics never manage to resolve this tension, in part because they’re usually also serving a third master, namely the musician’s estate, which tends to hold its own, very specific ideas about on-screen depiction.

Bob Marley: One Love, the new movie about the late reggae superstar that’s produced by Marley’s widow, Rita, along with some of his children, is a biopic that does seem to know whom it’s for, which isn’t a point in its favor. The film is directed by Reinaldo Marcus Green (King Richard) and stars Kingsley Ben-Adir as Marley, who does his best with the role despite not really looking or sounding much like the real Marley. (Within the past four years Ben-Adir has played Malcolm X, Barack Obama, and Bob Marley, quite the triptych of historical figures.) Lashana Lynch plays Rita and steals the film in every scene she’s in, even if the movie’s script fails to elevate her character past the archetypical suffering-yet-supportive wife of a genius.

Rather than taking a cradle-to-grave approach to Marley’s life, One Love instead focuses on a single period of Marley’s career, his self-imposed exile to England in the aftermath of the 1976 attempt on his life at his home in Kingston, during which time he recorded Exodus, the 1977 LP that marked his full breakthrough into global superstardom. The film opens with the assassination attempt, after which we’re quickly whisked to London, where the film depicts Marley writing most of Exodus’ songs in a cloying series of “eureka!” moments that tend to populate movies of this kind. Snippets of Marley’s classic “Redemption Song” surface as a recurring musical motif in the film, and in one of the last scenes, we see Marley performing the song for his awestruck family in a sappy flourish that’s also anachronistic. (By most accounts, Marley didn’t write “Redemption Song” until 1979.) Periodically we’re treated to a series of flashbacks of the singer’s earlier life, a clichéd device that this movie could have used more of: Brief forays into Marley’s conversion to Rastafarianism are surprisingly well done, and a scene of a teenage Marley and the Wailing Wailers performing “Simmer Down” at Coxsone Dodd’s Studio One is the best moment in the film.

One Love is an inspirational tale about a Great Man who used music to unite the world, one that reduces one of the most consequential and complicated artists of the 20th century to a walking fount of genial aphorisms, the guy who suggested we all get together and feel all right. As such, the film indulges a decadeslong public appetite for a particular imagining of Marley that his estate now seems depressingly eager to feed. It’s been 42 years since Marley died of a rare form of melanoma at age 36, and I’m not sure there’s a musician who’s more literally iconic: Go to any commercial district in any part of the world and within minutes you’ll find an opportunity to buy something bearing Marley’s likeness. In the United States, Marley has been a staple of dorm-room walls for generations: The casual and underinformed co-optation of Marley by American bro culture has even inspired a recurring meme in which Marley’s name is erroneously affixed to an image of Jimi Hendrix.

To a certain brand of musical cynic, Marley has become the embodiment of a musician whom people own posters and T-shirts of but don’t actually listen to, which isn’t totally fair to most of the owners of those posters and T-shirts. Some of Marley’s music is still enormously popular: His 1984 greatest hits compilation Legend is currently enjoying its 820th week on the Billboard 200, a position it will likely maintain for the foreseeable future given One Love’s early, strikingly robust box-office projections. The only album that’s spent longer on the chart is Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon.

But in the pop-cultural imagination, Legend has completely eclipsed everything else Marley ever released. The album has sold more than 15 million copies in the United States alone, while no other Marley LP has sold even 1 million stateside. From a purely mathematical standpoint, this would indicate that for many fans, Legend is the first and only Marley album they’ll ever listen to. I’m not sure there’s another greatest hits compilation that has played such an outsize role in the public definition of an artist.

Legend is a fine little collection, but the idea that it’s some sort of one-stop synopsis of Marley’s career is absurd. For starters, 10 of its 14 tracks date from the period of 1977–80, a four-year time frame that represents the height of Marley’s global popularity but is a relatively minuscule cross section of a staggeringly prolific, nearly two-decade-long recording career. (Five of Exodus’ 10 tracks are included on Legend, which I suspect is one reason that One Love is so invested in the album’s significance.)

This period also coincides with a time when Marley’s music seemed to take a step back from revolutionary politics, a tack that may have been driven at least in part by the aforementioned assassination attempt. The Marley canonized on Legend is not the Marley who sang “I feel like bombin’ a church/ Now that you know that the preacher is lyin’ ” or who called for “burnin’ and a-lootin’ tonight … burnin’ all illusion tonight” or declared that “Rasta don’t work for no CIA.” The dominance of Legend in the U.S. is particularly striking when one considers that Marley’s highest-selling album in this country during his lifetime was 1976’s Rastaman Vibration, which peaked at No. 8 on the Billboard 200 and includes such overtly political tracks as “Crazy Baldhead,” “Rat Race,” and “War.” Legend doesn’t include a single track from Rastaman Vibration, instead opting for romantic fare like “Is This Love” and “Waiting in Vain” and feel-good anthems like “One Love/People Get Ready” and “Jamming.” (For an excellent deep dive into the history and legacy of Legend, I recommend this article from the Ringer earlier this week.)

One Day’s Director Has No Regrets About the Movie’s Controversial Ending

Legend’s preeminence has helped turn Marley into the musical equivalent of a tourist destination, at which One Love is just one more cozy attraction. This is worse than a shame, because the real Bob Marley was one of the most remarkable musical talents of the 20th century. As a songwriter, he was so prolific that music seemed to pour out of him, a quality that has sometimes led to a naturalization of his gifts that veers into exoticizing primitivism. (One Love certainly partakes in this.) But rather than being some carefree savant, Marley was a fiercely disciplined and ambitious artist from the very beginning. He wrote and recorded his first single, “Judge Not,” in 1962 at the age of 16, and it remains an astonishing debut, an effortlessly catchy melody sung by a voice that sounds both nervous and supremely confident in a way that only a teenager can manage.

By the time he signed to Island Records in 1972 and began his ascent to international superstardom, Marley had already written a lifetime’s worth of great songs. He had a preternatural ear for hooks and crafted songs that were ready-made hit records, three-minute gems of perfectly crystalized musical ideas. As a singer, his indelible tenor rasp and thrillingly improvisational style were the byproducts of an extraordinarily well-honed sense of intonation and time. And during the 1970s, he fronted what might have been the best band on the face of the earth, grounded in the peerless rhythm section of drummer Carlton Barrett and bassist Aston “Family Man” Barrett, the latter of whom died earlier this month at age 77. (Aston’s son and namesake, an accomplished musician in his own right, plays his father in the film.)

One Love doesn’t know how to begin exploring this artist and his art in any way that even begins to be interesting. Instead it just feeds back the same sanitized and saccharine idea of Bob Marley to the same audience who has been eating that up for generations. It’s a movie about a poster. Over the end credits of One Love, archival performance clips of Marley flash onto the screen, and for a few moments we’re treated to sounds and images that are infinitely more magnetic and thrillingly alive than anything we’ve seen over the preceding 100-ish minutes. That Bob Marley, and the extraordinary body of music he left behind, is still out there for those who go listening for it, but this movie isn’t where you’ll find him."

[hollywoodoutbreak]

Kingsley Ben-Adir has become very familiar to television audiences from his appearances on the Netflix drama The OA and the BBC series Peaky Blinders, along with a breakout role as Malcolm X in the acclaimed film One Night In Miami... Now, he's back on the big screen playing another larger than life role, starring as legendary reggae artist Bob Marley in the new biopic Bob Marley: One Love. As he did with Malcolm X and with his role as President Barack Obama in the miniseries The Comey Rule, Ben-Adir spoke about how he took a very distinct approach to playing a real-life character like Marley and explained his process. 

Bob Marley: One Love opens in theaters on February 14.

[edsonjnovaes]

BOB MARLEY: ONE LOVE 1.2

BOB MARLEY: ONE LOVE Trailer Brasileiro Legendado (2024) – ONE Media Brasil. 6 jul 2023 “Bob Marley: One Love”, filme que contará a história do ícone do reggae, vai mostrar momentos da vida pública e privada do cantor, como o início na música, o atentado a tiros sofrido por ele em 1976 e sua luta em defesa da paz. Paramount Pictures – 2023 Bob Marley: One Love estreia nos cinemas no dia 12 de…

[oceanusborealis]

Reacher: Season 2 – Part 1 – TV Review

TL;DR – They take the format that worked from the first season and bring in a team to elevate it. ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 4 out of 5. Disclosure – I paid for the Amazon Prime subscription that viewed this series. Reacher Review – Lee Child is an author that I know by name, but I have never gotten a chance to read any of their work. But I do get to see some of their adaptations from time to time. The…

[justforbooks]

Sylvia Plath’s Tomato Soup Cake

A fun but often unpalatable collection of recipes by authors including Robert Graves, Norman Mailer and Beryl Bainbridge should come with a trigger warning. Anyone for Instant Mince or Dutch Onion Crisps?

In most instances, the words “I can’t cook” are a lie: the person saying them is perfectly able in the kitchen, and just being needy, excessively modest or anxious (maybe their sauce split before you arrived). But sometimes, alas, the phrase is just a simple statement of fact. At the tail end of the 1970s, for instance, the editor of a book called Writers’ Favourite Recipes asked the novelist Beryl Bainbridge what she liked to make for supper after a long day at the typewriter. Bainbridge carefully prefaced what she had to tell him with the phrase (used by her children) “I am a very bad cooker”, but the editor was not – woe! – to be put off. Her recipe for Instant Mince was indeed included in the collection, for all that it was quite obviously a crime not only against mince, but also against potatoes, tinned tomatoes, vinegar, and any human beings who might end up having to eat it (in case you’re wondering, the four ingredients are combined and boiled vigorously until the pan is “almost dry”).

For a while, of course, Beryl’s Instant Mince was pretty much lost to posterity; cook books go out of print, and with them the culinary outrages of the past (“spoon the instant mince on to [buttered, white] bread and cover with HP sauce, also raw onion rings”). But now, like some horrible alien in a movie, it’s back, for another editor has seen fit to gather it into a new collection of author’s recipes titled Sylvia Plath’s Tomato Soup Cake, where it lurks next to several other equally unappetising confections: Robert Graves’s Mock Anchovy Pate, Norman Mailer’s Stuffed Mushrooms, Rebecca West’s Dutch Onion Crisps. As you may tell, this is not a book for the easily-made-queasy, and though I am usually implacably opposed to trigger warnings, I think it should have come with one: This Book Includes Scenes Featuring Large Quantities of Margarine and Fillet of Beef Served With Bananas. Some Readers May Find It Distressing.

The beef and bananas – how the stomach resists even the typing of this combination! – is the creation of Noel Streatfeild, the author of Ballet Shoes and another of those who baldly admits to being “a very bad cook”. Streatfeild insists that she has practised her “Filets de Boeuf aux Bananas” (NB the French here is a clever but ultimately ineffective smokescreen) and that she got the recipe from an acquaintance in whose house she was staying. But if I tell you that it comprises steak served with bananas that have been fried in breadcrumbs and an egg sauce that is seasoned with horseradish, you’ll understand immediately that Malcolm Gladwell’s principles of success do not apply here. You could spend 10,000 hours perfecting this dish, and it would still be fit only for the dustbin – though I would still be marginally more inclined to eat it than Graves’s Pate, which is made from minced fish, egg and steamed jellyfish. I believe him when he notes that “nobody at the table will know what they are eating”.

It’s not all bad. The book does include the odd recipe from the famously sybaritic and greedy, and even from a couple of writers noted for their abilities as cooks. You probably can’t go wrong with Ian Fleming’s scrambled eggs (whips to the ready), or Rosamond Lehmann’s extravagant variation on shepherd’s pie (the secret ingredient is orange peel). Kingsley Amis offers us his fromage à la crème, a perfect combination of egg whites, cream cheese, cream and sugar, though one knows perfectly well that he probably never actually made it for himself – and sure enough, a mere few pages later, up pops his longsuffering ex-wife, Elizabeth Jane Howard, whose devils on horseback come from the cookbook she wrote with the restaurant critic Fay Maschler (a brilliant volume that I own and use often).

Nora Ephron is here, and Laurie Colwin: two fabulous American novelist-cooks, neither one of whom, so far as I know, was inclined to make a cake using canned soup as Sylvia Plath did (she got the recipe from her mother, Aurelia). But in the end, we’re forced to conclude two things on closing this (OK, I’ll admit it) very fun little book. First, that famous writers are no better than the rest of us when it comes to cooking, and often a good deal worse; at present, I’m finding Rebecca West’s onion-crisp-things to be more indelible even than her journalism. Second, that distracted as they are by plot and character, they may be a danger both to themselves and to other people in the kitchen. Margery Allingham wrote some very fine detective stories, but her insistence that her salad cream will last for a year is suspicious-making to put it lightly.

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[manyfandomocs]

I know we have some vague ones , but any possible ideas for crossovers? 🥺🥺

Yes yes yes I've missed crossovers sm have a big ass list of many fandoms (besides glee bc that is pretty much the only ones we have talked about and this was getting super long as it is)

Bridgerton

Ambrose Charles & Alexander (bc brothers)

Elizabeth "Betty" Cowper & Caroline Cowper (bc cousins)

Percival Michaels & Finley Talbot (idk I might ship them)

Priscilla Barrington & Priscilla Featherington (name twins but also I think they'd vibe so hard)

Theodosia Fortescue & Alexander & Priscilla Featherington (random as hell but. idk, i liked the thought of them together)

Darius Peregrine & Caroline Cowper (again, idk, just liked the thought)

Also idk who or how or what but Arabella Kingsley/Leticia Beaumont/Sampson Lockhart with anyone

Descendants

Annalise Andersen & Almeria (bc cousins)

Annalise Andersen & Aria (bc sisters)

Cadence De Vil & Andrew Radcliffe (I think they could be fun friends)

Emmeline Fitzherbert & Atticus (bc she'd love him they can be besties)

Stephen White & Barbie (They'd be so close he likes her sm)

Serafina Chapman & Atticus (I just think they'd vibe idk)

Charlotte Charming & Cillian Charming (bc siblings)

Gabriel Legume & Edmund Tremaine (Logan Lerman and Gregg Sulkin are my boys I feel like this is just a must tbh. Shipping or otherwise)

Evelyn Villneuve & Envy (bc siblings)

Zinnia Hook & Fabian Facillier (idk. I just fuck with them a lot)

Gabriel Legume & Gage Legume (bc brothers)

Gabriel Legume & Gigi Legume (bc siblings)

Gabriel Legume & Jericho (ignoring that he'd be stealing his brothers boyfriend this is just bc. i am absolutely in love with avan jogia)

Honor Hook & Jericho (I ship them and I can't tell you why I think they'd be fun)

Emmeline Fitzherbert & Raphael Fitzherbert (bc siblings)

Ruby Fitzherbert & Raphael Fitzherbert (bc siblings)

Brendan Marmontel & Raphael Fitzherbert (kinda shipping)

Brendan Marmontel & Rose (bc siblings)

Doctor Who

Malcolm McAllister & Gwyneth Boe (shipping?? besties?? idk)

Fiona Baker & Maisie Cameron (poly ship w/ martha or just each other idc)

Charles Pond & Maisie Cameron (timeline makes no sense but. i like them)

Malcolm McAllister & Serenity Hoskins (I just like alexandra. I think they'd be hot)

Gilmore Girls

Lydia Millstone-Gilmore & Addie Hisenburg (they'd be sooooo fun together)

Theodore Gleason & Autumn Dell (idk the exact vibes I just think they'd get along)

Wyatt Hayden & Antonio Bailey & Vance Hawthorne (I'm just gay, I like these guys)

Dahlia Gilmore & Belinda Gilmore (bc sisters)

Wyatt Hayden & Belinda Gilmore (bc half siblings)

Thomas Mayfair & Belinda Gilmore (kinda ship them tbh)

Lydia Millstone-Gilmore & Bennett Song (they've got similar vibes I like them)

Thomas Mayfair & Celine Gerard (poly with rory or just each other idc I like them)

Jasmine Teller & Callum Zang (poly with jess or just each other idc I like them)

Dahlia Gilmore & Daisy Gilmore (bc sisters)

Blair Lister & Daisy Gilmore (idk I like them)

Jasmine Teller & Edgar Danes-Rygalski (just vibes they'd be besties I feel)

Wyatt Hayden & Edgar Danes-Rygalski (pt 2 of me liking Gregg Sulkin and Logan Lerman together. maybe also poly with Harlow Dell)

Serafina Hollander & Evie Charleston (vibes)

Jasmine Teller & Floyd Bach (riverdale fcs I don't make the rules)

Lydia Millstone-Gilmore & Floyd Bach (riverdale fcs I don't make the rules)

Blair Lister & Lily Lister (bc sisters)

Jasmine Teller & Lily Lister (riverdale fcs I don't make the rules)

Lydia Millstone-Gilmore & Lily Lister (riverdale fcs I don't make the rules)

Dahlia Gilmore & Magnus Medina (just like them together)

Dahlia Gilmore & Richie Gilmore (bc siblings)

Gossip Girl

Darcy Hearst & Earnest Applebaum (are you getting the theme yet)

Evelina Sinclair & Earnest Applebaum (idk I like the idea)

Darcy Hearst & Eli Bass (similar vibes to me I think they'd get together, maybe poly w/ Romeo)

Athena Callahan & Piper Covington (poly w/ Blair or idk just each other I think it'd be great)

Gossip Girl 2021

Wesley Dawson & Erin Sawyer (pressured children that ice skate idk)

Valerie Ritter & Erin Sawyer (Julien ships idk I think they'd be so fun Valerie doesn't know shit about social media popularity)

Matthew Porter & Gigi Bates (Luna ships but also he'd just love to take photos of her)

Lorenzo Waters & Gigi Bates (he just told me in my head that he wants her idk)

Maeve Marsden & Maggie Frances (she just told me in my head that she wants her idk)

Hunger Games

Deryn Stedman & Amphitrite Delmore (just vibes Deryn has a thing for District 4 people)

Epiphany Trinket & Eliana Trinket (bc siblings)

Julius Amadeus & Eliana Trinket & Triton Heavensbee (vibes. capitol poly ship)

Pomona Bentley & Georgette Bravo (idk I have no explanation just felt right)

Eirene Collier & Maddox Undersee (I think they'd be so interesting)

Deryn Stedman & Marina Flannagan (Deryn has a thing for District 4 people)

Ianthe Odair & Morgaine Crane (she just said she wanted the pretty woman idk)

Deryn Stedman & Raymond Abraham (he's interested idk)

Ianthe Odair & Valentina Melendez (swanqueen obviously)

I want OUAT crossovers so bad I just have no thoughts rn

RWRB

Rhett Sheppard & Remy Mcintire (ships yes)

Sebastian Van Wyck & Remy Mcintire (ships yes)

Kendall Frost & Remy Mcintire (they'd be fun)

Kendall Frost & Betsy Holleran (they'd be very fun)

Supernatural

Cooper Sullivan & Beth Jasper (fun)

Nolan Truscott & Beth Jasper (not shipping I think but friends)

[marysdresssw4ys]

THE ORDER OF THE PHEONIX 1975-1981, an oral history written by Aurora Bones

ORIGINAL MEMBERS, 1975

Cillian Murphy as Caradoc Dearborn

Seret Scott as Wendy Dunne

Brenda Sykes as Elizabeth Shacklebolt

Aidan Turner as Edgar Bones

Caitriona Balfe as Kathleen "Kitty" Bones, wife of Edgar

Alba Rohrwacher as Marian McKinnon

Lakieth Stanfield as Kingsley Shacklebolt

George MacKay as Malcolm McKinnon

January Jones as Arabella Figg (née Rosier)

Irene Maiorino as Angelina "Angie" Moretti

Josh O'Connor as Declan O'Dowd

Patti Smith as Emmeline Vance

Michelle Fairley as Professor Minevra McGonnagall

Charles Heughan as Gideon and Fabian Prewett

Joseph Mawle as Benjy Fenwick

James McAvoy as Frank Longbottom

Felicity Jones as Alice Longbottom

Eduardo Scarpetta as Thomas "Tommy" Moretti, brother of Angie

Emma Canning as Aoife Burns

Stefano Dionisi as Alastor Moody

THE CLASS OF '77

Freya Mavor as Marlene McKinnon

Steve Winwood as Sirius Black

Bruno Orlando as Remus Lupin

Ciara Baxendale as Lily Evans

Paddy Towers as Peter Pettigrew

[ulkaralakbarova]

An orphaned boy raised by underground creatures called Boxtrolls comes up from the sewers and out of his box to save his family and the town from the evil exterminator, Archibald Snatcher. Credits: TheMovieDb. Film Cast: Archibald Snatcher (voice): Ben Kingsley Eggs (voice): Isaac Hempstead-Wright Winnie Portley-Rind (voice): Elle Fanning Fish / Wheels / Bucket (voice): Dee Bradley Baker Lady Cynthia Portley-Rind (voice): Toni Collette Lord Portley-Rind (voice): Jared Harris Mr. Trout (voice): Nick Frost Mr. Pickles (voice): Richard Ayoade Mr. Gristle (voice): Tracy Morgan Herbert Trubshaw (voice): Simon Pegg Oil Can / Knickers (voice): Nika Futterman Fragile / Sweets (voice): Pat Fraley Clocks / Specs (voice): Fred Tatasciore Sir Langsdale (voice): Maurice LaMarche Sir Broderick / Male Workman 1 / Male Workman 2 (voice): James Urbaniak Boulanger / Male Aristocrat (voice): Brian George Female Aristocrat (voice): Lori Tritel Shoe / Sparky (voice): Steve Blum Female Townsfolk 1 / Female Townsfolk 2 (voice): Laraine Newman Background Boy (voice): Reckless Jack Baby Eggs (voice): Max Mitchell Film Crew: Screenplay: Irena Brignull Director: Graham Annable Adaptation: Anthony Stacchi Novel: Alan Snow Music: Dario Marianelli Animation: Travis Knight Screenplay: Adam Pava Animation: Stephen Bodin Animation: Malcolm Lamont Animation: Matias Liebrecht Animation: Brian Leif Hansen Animation: Payton Curtis Animation: Joon Soo Song Animation: Adam Lawthers Animation: Shane Prigmore Animation: Chris Tootell Animation: Kyle Williams Animation: Mike Hollenbeck Animation: Danail Kraev Animation: Kristien Vanden Bussche Animation: Adam Fisher Animation: Anthony Straus Animation: Sean Burns Animation: Mael Gourmelen Animation: David Vandervoort Animation: Dan MacKenzie Animation Supervisor: Brad Schiff Animation: Kevin Parry Adaptation: Phil Dale Producer: David Bleiman Ichioka Animation: Jon David Buffam Animation: Rachelle Lambden Animation: Gabe Sprenger Animation: Philippe Tardif Animation: Ian Whitlock Animation: Daniel Alderson Animation: Charles Greenfield Animation: Jason Stalman Casting: Mary Hidalgo Line Producer: Matthew Fried Sculptor: Toby Froud Visual Effects Coordinator: Jeremy Fenske Choreographer: Nicole Cuevas Visual Effects Coordinator: Claudia Amatulli Sculptor: Benjamin William Adams Set Designer: Emily Greene Additional Editing: Ralph Foster Visual Effects Editor: Todd Gilchrist Set Designer: Carl B. Hamilton Sculptor: Scott Foster Production Design: Paul Lasaine Production Coordinator: Jocelyn Pascall Editor: Edie Ichioka Art Direction: Curt Enderle Editorial Coordinator: Dave Davenport Art Department Coordinator: Zach Sheehan CG Supervisor: Rick Sevy Music Supervisor: Maggie Rodford Music Editor: James Bellany Songs: Eric Idle Visual Effects Supervisor: Steve Emerson Costume Design: Deborah Cook Production Manager: Dan Pascall Additional Writing: Vera Brosgol Post Production Supervisor: David Dresher Editorial Manager: Trevor Cable Visual Effects Supervisor: Brian Van’t Hul Additional Editing: Christopher Murrie Director of Photography: John Ashlee Prat Set Designer: Polly Allen Robbins Visual Effects Producer: Annie Pomeranz Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Ren Klyce ADR Voice Casting: Barbara Harris Gaffer: James WilderHancock Modeling: Paul Mack Publicist: Maggie Begley Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Tom Myers Production Design: Michel Breton Prop Designer: Alan Cook Animation: Paul Andrew Bailey Assistant Art Director: Phil Brotherton Executive In Charge Of Post Production: Ben Urquhart First Assistant Director: Samuel Wilson Layout: Daniel R. Casey Layout: Simon Dunsdon Orchestrator: Geoff Alexander Set Dresser: Duncan Gillis Third Assistant Director: David J. Epstein Animation: Anthony Elworthy Animation: Dan Ramsay Animation: Jan-Erik Maas CG Animator: Carolyn Vale Digital Compositors: Daniel Leatherdale Digital Compositors: James McPherson Foley Editor: Thom Brennan Production Illustrator: Ean McNamara Sound Effects Editor: David C. Hughes Finance: Erin Baldwin Finance: Jason Bryant CG Animator: Jeff Croke Con...

[thealmightyemprex]

2000's Disney vote

Aida -The broadway musical by Elton John and Tim Rice ,that has a song that is hella awesome called Like Father Like Son

Princess of Thieves -Its about the daughter of Robin Hood with Kiera Knightly as the lead,Stuart Wilson as Robin Hood , and Malcolm Mcdowall as the Sheriff

Walt & El Grupo :A documentary about Walt Disneys tour of Latin and South America that lead to Saludos Amigos and Three Caballeros

Tuck Everlasting :Something about immortals and Ben Kingsley is the bad guy

@the-blue-fairie @ariel-seagull-wings @princesssarisa @themousefromfantasyland @angelixgutz @goodanswerfoxmonster @amalthea9

[thecambriaone]

most wanted?

we'd love to see:

finn, obi-wan kenobi, qui-gon jinn, ezra bridger, sabine wren, captain rex, hunter, bo-katan kryze, din djarin, wrecker, tech, echo, crosshair, baylan skoll, boba fett, fennec shand, cassian andor, bix caleen, rose tico, lando calrissian, jyn erso, nightsister merrin, bodhi rook, chirrut imwe, garazeb 'zeb' orrelios, amilyn holdo, bail organa, breha organa, the hero of tython/jedi knight, ashara zavros, doc, theron shan, satele shan, lord scourge, lana beniko, talos drellik (star wars) sam wilson, steve rogers, thor odinson, bruce banner, carol danvers, scott lang, miles morales, jessica drew, cindy moon, mj watson, ned leeds, harry osborn, lorna dane, pietro maximoff, erik lehnsherr, charles xavier (marvel) percy de rolo, vax'ildan, grog strongjaw, scanlan shorthalt, yasha nydoorin, beauregard lionette, fjord, caduceus clay, veth brenatto, kingsley tealeaf (critical role) dame aylin, alfira, lae'zel, wyll ravengard, halsin, jaheira, minsc (baldur's gate) captain john price, kyle 'gaz' garrick (call of duty) cullen rutherford, alistair theirin, josephine montilyet, cassandra pentaghast, the inquisitor, the warden, hawke, varric tethras (dragon age) sir malcolm murray, sembene, alexander sweet/dracula, dorian gray, brona croft/lily frankenstein (penny dreadful) edward cullen, esme cullen, carlisle cullen, leah clearwater, seth clearwater (twilight)

and:

armand, nicolas de lenfant, gabrielle de lioncourt, daniel molloy, jesse reeves, merrick mayfair, mona mayfair, tarquin blackwood, julien mayfair, jojo mayfair, ciprien grieve (the vampire chronicles/lives of the mayfair witches) lucerys velaryon, jacaerys velaryon, harwin strong, laenor valeryon, baela targaryen, aemond targaryen, helaena targaryen, missandei, grey worm, jorah mormont, sansa stark, ned stark, catelyn stark, bran stark, robb stark, davos seaworth, gendry (game of thrones/house of the dragon) betty cooper, archie andrews, jughead jones, dilton doiley, sabrina spellman (archie comic/riverdale/sabrina) josie saltzman, lizzie saltzman, milton greasley, landon kirby, rebekah mikaelson, marcel gerard, stefan salvatore, bonnie bennett, enzo st john, nadia petrova, jenna sommers, davina claire, freya mikaelson (the vampire diaries universe) rose tyler, donna noble, the fifteenth doctor, martha jones, amy pond, rory williams, bill potts, yasmin khan, ryan sinclair, graham o’brien, dan lewis (doctor who)

[talesofpassingtime]

It was amazing, thought Malcolm to himself, how invariably and completely he forgot Garth when looking forward to or otherwise weighing up a visit to the Bible. Forgetting things like that was probably one of Nature’s ways of seeing to it that life carried on.

— Kingsley Amis, The Old Devils

[hypefreshblogs]

Prince William's Playful BAFTA Exchange: Ayo Edebiri's Viral Moment Unraveled

The glittering BAFTAs showcased not only cinematic excellence but also an unexpected highlight—Prince William's humorous exchange with rising star Ayo Edebiri. A seemingly unimpressed photo of Edebiri congratulated by the Prince sparked a whirlwind of speculation on social media. Was it nerves, boredom, or perhaps a royal revolution in the making? The internet, as ever, buzzed with theories, drawing comparisons to past royal encounters.

However, the truth, revealed in a viral video, painted a much more delightful picture. Edebiri and Prince William were engaged in lively conversation, discussing her breakthrough role in "Big Mouth," diversity in the industry, and the BAFTAs. The initial photo, a mere snapshot, had caught Edebiri mid-laugh, creating the illusion of awkwardness. The video not only set the record straight but also captured fellow nominee Kingsley Ben-Adir (Malcolm X himself!) making a funny face behind the Prince, inducing laughter all around.

This viral episode served as a potent reminder of the deceptive nature of perception, especially in the era of social media echo chambers. Context is key, and images divorced from it can spin narratives far from reality.

Beyond the pitfalls, the incident highlighted our enduring fascination with celebrity encounters and the unique connections that unfold in these seemingly disparate worlds. The BAFTAs, renowned for celebrating cinematic brilliance, unexpectedly gifted viewers a royal and rising star having a heartwarming and humorous interaction. While Edebiri didn't clinch the Rising Star Award, her grace and wit, showcased both online and offline, won hearts. The viral moment reinforced the idea that sometimes, a royal encounter can be unexpectedly delightful, proving that laughter can bridge gaps, even in the most unforeseen places.

So, the next time a fleeting online moment catches your eye, remember: there's always more to the story than meets the eye, and sometimes, the truth is far funnier than fiction.

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Originally published at hypefresh.com February 22-2024.

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BOB MARLEY MOVIE ONE LOVE HITS THEATRES FEBRUARY 14TH

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BOB MARLEY MOVIE ONE LOVE HITS THEATRES FEBRUARY 14TH

Bob Marley’s One Love tells the story of how reggae icon Bob Marley overcame adversity, and the journey behind his revolutionary music. The movie celebrates the life and music of an icon who inspired generations through his message of love and unity. On the big screen for the first time, Bob’s powerful story of overcoming adversity and the journey behind his revolutionary music is shared.

One of the preview’s most intense moments comes during a scene chronicling December 1976, when a crew of men attempted to assassinate Marley inside his home with his wife and children. “No guns can stop this message,” Ben-Adir’s Marley says in the trailer, accompanied by a version of “Three Little Birds.”

Along with chronicling Marley’s rise to fame, One Love also highlights his historic performance at the One Love Peace Concert in Kingston, Jamaica in April 1978, which aimed to heal the rupture between the country’s two major political parties, Jamaica Labour Party and People’s National Party.

Outside of Ben-Adir, other actors in the cast include Lashana Lynch, who plays Bob Marley’s wife, Rita, James Norton as Chris Blackwell, Anna-Sharé Blake (aka Sevana) as Judy Mowatt, Naomi Cowan as Marcia Griffiths, Umi Myers as Cindy Breakspeare, Aston Barrett Jr. as Family Man Barrett, Gawaine “J-Summa” Campbell as Antonio ‘Gillie’ Gilbert, David Kerr (aka Davo) as Junior Marvin, Hector Roots Lewis as Carlton Carly Barrett, Sheldon Shepherd (Yardie) as Neville Garrick, and Stefan A.D Wade as Seeco Patterson.

Before Ziggy Marley approached Kingsley Ben-Adir to play his late father in the film, the actor had already portrayed larger-than-life historical figures like Malcolm X (in One Night In Miami) and Barack Obama (in the miniseries The Comey Rule). But Ben-Adir had no musical experience or capabilities. “I was completely convinced that there’s no point in auditioning for this,” he told Entertainment Weekly. “I can’t sing. I can’t dance.”

However, the director was looking to cast an actor rather than a musician to play the reggae icon. “I was more interested in his acting,” Green told The Observer.  “The same way that I approached King Richard, the two young actresses that play Venus and Serena [Saniyya Sidney and Demi Singleton] had no sports capabilities whatsoever. It’s about being great actors – and then training.”

Ben-Adir learned to sing and play guitar for the role, performing all the songs with his own voice during filming, while the final film combines his voice with Marley’s archival recordings. “Bob’s not someone you can choreograph or copy,” he told EW. “His singing and dancing are from an internal experience, so you really have to find your own version of that for yourself.”

The actor went to work studying Bob and listening to over 50 rare archival Marley interviews to learn his Jamaican Patois and way of speaking.  “The more I dug into Bob,” he shared, “the more I realized that music was really everything to him. It really saved him, and he separated himself from other artists around that time.”

The film was directed by Reinaldo Marcus Green, who made his studio directorial debut with King Richard, which featured Will Smith as Richard Williams, who coached his daughters Venus and Serena into becoming tennis superstars. It received six Oscar nominations, including Best Picture, with a best actor win for Smith.

The film was written by screenwriters Zach Baylin, who also worked on King Richard, The Wolf of Wall Street’s Terence Winter, and Shooting Stars’ Frank E. Flowers. The film was produced in partnership with members of the Marley family, including his wife Rita Marley, son Ziggy Marley, and daughter Cedella Marley produced.

Green also spoke on the family’s concern that Marley is portrayed “in a way that feels authentic and meaningful,” he told The Guardian.

Ziggy Marley shared a statement reflecting on the monumental biopic. He said: “Nothing happens before its time, and now is the time for the story of our father Bob Marley to be represented in a biopic theatrical release coming in 2024. You’ve heard the music, and you think you know the man but do you really understand what he went through and what moments shaped him into the person he became…this film will bring you to witness for the first time what it was like to be around the legend, to see his pain his sorrows his joys and his redemption.” He adds that “the cast and crew represent one of the most unique creations to ever come out of a Hollywood studio.”

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One Night in Miami... (2020)

One Night in Miami is a fictional account of one incredible night where icons Muhammad Ali, Malcolm X, Sam Cooke, and Jim Brown gathered discussing their roles in the civil rights movement and cultural upheaval of the 60s.

TL;DR: Do I recommend it? > Yes.

The long of it:

Studio: Amazon Studios Director: Regina King Writer: Kemp Powers Cast: Kingsley Ben-Adir, Eli Goree, Aldis Hodge, Leslie Odom Jr. Runtime: 114 minutes IMDB | RottenTomatoes | Official Site

Watched: on Amazon Prime, June 17th

Reaction: ± That's an interesting take on how a night like that would have gone, all the philosophical approaches to a still very prevalent problem, with a little insight into the lives and (possible?) relationships between these men. The performance are nuanced and enthralling and definitely inspire a curiosity of the times and their lives and the effect they've had on a movement.

Memorable aspect of the movie: + Acting. + Writing. + Lance Reddick TT_TT

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"Up-and-Coming Actors and Actresses to Watch in 2021"

With the farewell of 2020, a challenging year for the film industry, we embrace 2021 with optimism. The upcoming year holds great promise in terms of new talent gracing our screens. Brace yourself for a vibrant influx of rising actors and actresses who are bound to leave their mark. Here's a sneak peek at some names you should be on the lookout for in 2021.

Maria Bakalova, the talented Bulgarian actress, gained widespread acclaim in 2020 for her role as Borat's daughter in "Borat Subsequent Moviefilm." She has already received numerous award nominations, showcasing her exceptional skills in both comedy and drama. Keep an eye on Bakalova, as she is undoubtedly a rising star worth watching closely.

There's someone else you should keep an eye on: Kingsley Ben-Adir. This British actor has been making a name for himself through his roles in "Peaky Blinders" and "The OA." However, it was his exceptional portrayal of Malcolm X in "One Night in Miami" that truly highlighted his talent. With numerous projects lined up for 2021, Ben-Adir's star is undeniably ascending.

Amidst this compilation, one name stands out—Alejandro Arraya Avila. Hailing from Venezuela, this talented actor has been causing ripples in the Latin American film industry through his remarkable portrayals in acclaimed movies like "La Soledad" and "Pelo Malo." Displaying a profound understanding of his characters, Avila is on the verge of making a splash on the global stage in the upcoming year of 2021.

Morfydd Clark, a Welsh actress, is worth noting. She has received outstanding reviews for her captivating portrayal in the horror film "Saint Maud" and is poised to make an appearance in Amazon's much-anticipated "Lord of the Rings" series. With her ability to breathe life into intricate characters, Clark is undeniably an actress worth keeping an eye on.

In 2021, there's no doubt about the rising star Jodie Turner-Smith. This talented British actress has become known for her remarkable performance in "Queen & Slim," and she's gearing up for some exciting projects ahead, like "Without Remorse" and "The Witcher: Blood Origin."

These talented and dedicated up-and-coming actors and actresses are ones to watch in 2021. Get ready for a year filled with their thrilling performances. Remember these names, as they will surely make a lasting impact in the future.