#Mark Hadfield

[brian-in-finance]

Caitríona, Colleagues, and Crossed paths

OUTLANDER (2014-2026) • Claire Fraser

LE MANS ‘66 / FORD v. FERRARI (2019) • Mollie Miles

BELFAST (2021) • Ma

THE AMATEUR (2025) • Inquiline

OUTLANDER

John Sessions • Arthur Duncan • S1

Gerard Horan • Quartermaster John O’Sullivan • S2 S3

Mark Hadfield • Archibald Campbell • S3

LE MANS ‘66 / FORD v. FERRARI

Jon Bernthal • Lee Iacocca

BELFAST

Gerard Horan • Mackie

John Sessions • Joseph Tomelty as Marley

Mark Hadfield • George Malpass as Scrooge

THE AMATEUR

Jon Bernthal • The Bear

Images: Outlander/Starz, Le Mans ‘66 / Ford v. Ferrari/20th Century Fox, Belfast/Focus Features, The Amateur/20th Century Studios

CROSSED PATHS 🛣️

Outlander ⚔️ / Belfast ☘️

Caitríona Balfe 🇮🇪

John Sessions 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Gerard Horan 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Mark Hadfield 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

LM66/FvF 🏎️ / The Amateur 🕵🏻‍♀️

Caitríona Balfe 🇮🇪

Jon Bernthal 🇺🇸

Remember… while the incidence of “crossed paths” is higher among the 🇬🇧 actors in Outlander, Caitríona’s and Jon’s co-starring in The Amateur rekindled my interest in her crossed paths. Just thinking out loud… so to speak…

Tumblr allows only 10 images, so I combined three of Caitríona’s into one. Later edited with Jon Bernthal’s character name.

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All the children... all the giants... no more.

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In the Bleak Midwinter (A Midwinter's Tale) (1995) Kenneth Branagh

December 10th 2023

[willstafford]

Window on the World

ACCIDENTAL DEATH OF AN ANARCHIST Theatre Royal Haymarket, London, 29th July 2023 In 1970, Dario Fo and Franca Rame presented this masterpiece in response to the real-life death by defenestration of a railway worker while in custody of Italian police.  Now revived for the London stage in this new adaptation by Tom Basden, the issues raised by the play could not be more pertinent.  You only have…

[unreesonable]

The League in Hadfield during pre-production of The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse. This pic was taken outside the location of H. Briss & Sons Butchers.

[ilovekbranagh]

Recorded on December 15th at The Picturehouse Central, London. Simon sits down to chat with Kenneth Branagh, the director of In The Bleak Midwinter, one of his favourite festive films. Also on stage, following a special sold-out screening of a new 35mm print were cast members Julia Sawalha, Nicholas Farrell, Gerard Horan and Mark Hadfield.

[masonhawthorne]

What I read in September

A good variety this month, though a lot of sci-fi, which I am enjoying a lot!

Time to Orbit: Unknown, Derin Edala ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️*

The Invincible, Stanislaw Lem ⭐️⭐️⭐️

The Prefect, Alastair Reynolds ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Myrtha (ss), Victoria Audley ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Archaeology: An Introduction to the World's Greatest Sites (nf), Eric H Cline ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Catching Teller Crow, Amberlin Kwaymullina & Ezekiel Kwaymullina ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Old Man's War, John Scalzi ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Don't Hang Up, Benjamin Stevenson ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Superluminal, Vonda N McIntyre ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

World War Z, Max Brooks ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Flight of the Fantail, Steph Matuku ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Cyteen, CJ Cherryh ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Regenesis, CJ Cherryh ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Mindfulness for Stress Management (nf), Dr Robert Schacter ⭐️⭐️⭐️

The Orange Eats Creeps, Grace Krilanovich ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Kushiel's Dart, Jacqueline Carey ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Aye, and Gomorrah (ss), Samuel R. Delany ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Carnage (nf), Mark Dapin ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Blue Mars, Kim Stanley Robinson ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Unknown, Jordan L Hawk ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Chocky, John Wyndham ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Sword of Empire: Praetorian, Richard Foreman ❌

Revival, Stephen King ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

The Apollo Murders, Chris Hadfield ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

ss= short story

nf= non-fiction

*Time to Orbit: Unknown is hosted online [HERE] and is currently still updating twice a week

Lately I've been actively trying to read more older sci-fi, especially written by women. I found CJ Cherryh and Vonda N McIntyre by searching back through Hugo award lists from the 70s and 80s. There's a fantastic vibe to a lot of these books that I don't really find in a lot of more recent sci-fi, though I'd definitely like to find it.

If I ever pin down exactly what it is, I'll probably have more luck.

I finished Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy this month, I had been eking the series out over a few months to savour it. It really is a masterful hard sci-fi series, managing to dig deep into the scientific concepts, but also to carry a huge, gripping, and deeply human story.

The other notable read this month was Carnage, by Mark Dapin, which is a true crime book, doing a deep dive on Jack Karlson (of Succulent Chinese Meal fame). It's a really fascinating take on Australian crime from the 60s-2010s, and is also a really nuanced character portrait of someone who is largely known as a meme.

And that's September!

[1337samtheman]

after some rudimentary googling i have found that mark kelly and chris hadfield might have overlapped on the iss. that monkey might be high

Astronaut Mark Kelly smuggled a gorilla suit into the ISS, without telling the rest of the crew

[movies-to-add-to-your-tbw]

Title: Hamlet

Rating: PG

Director: Gregory Doran

Cast: David Tennant, Patrick Stewart, Penny Downie, Oliver Ford Davies, Mariah Gale, Edward Bennett, Peter de Jersey, Sam Alexander, Tom Davey, Mark Hadfield, John Woodvine, Ryan Gage, Jim Hooper, Samuel Dutton, David Ajala

Release year: 2009

Genres: drama

Blurb: A prince is visited by his father's ghost, with orders to avenge his murder by killing his usurper uncle.

[sappymix1]

hi sappy i just saw the chris hadfield vanity fair video you posted about some time back really amazing watch really!! just have to say something abt him speaking on the martian btw (im obligated to coz im a huge fan): the dust storm scene at the start of the book is the only one where andy weir has admitted to taking artistic liberty, and im glad chris also talked about it. also yeah weir kinda did outsource his science at the time. he used to publish this book chapter by chapter on his blog when he wrote it long back, with people who read it via mailing lists would sometimes correct. if u remember the 'fuel burning to create water in the hab' scene, that was one where he fucked up a bit and a chem phd guy told him that with much combustion, mark would def blow up (this was an interview but ive seen so many now idk where it is). so um. uhhhhh soz ig for nerding out in your ask box abt this but you saying that youve read the martian recently has given me brain worms apparently. ima stop rambling now :) byee

omg i forgot i posted that the other day it’s so good isn’t it!!!

but omg that’s epic thanks for sharing :0 i didn’t know he posted it chapter by chapter that’s such a cool way to get it like. peer reviewed i guess lmao

[thediaryofatheatrekid]

I absolutely loved this production. Especially with that second verse of “Children Will Listen”

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what do you leave to your child when you’re dead? only whatever you put in its head.

[ulrichgebert]

Jetzt haben wir für unsere Verhältnisse recht lange nicht mehr Into the Woods angeschaut. Da kommt uns das Geburtstagsfeiern als Ausrede doch gerade recht. Wir wählen die abenteuerliche Variante aus dem Open Air Theatre Regen’s Park, mit den schönen Prinzen und den echten Bäumen (vergleiche hier).

[faye-marsay]

Director John Tiffany and the cast of Road talk The importance of Road

[fairleyandmanville]

The cast of “Road” behind the scenes of the promo photoshoot.