#Melissa Jaffer

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Women of Farscape

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Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

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Three Thousand Years Of Longing (2022) Review

Idris Elba's Djinn is just the tonic that jaded Tilda Swinton needs in Three Thousand Years Of Longing #Review

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Rookie-Critic's Top 25 Films of 2022: Honorable Mentions - Three Thousand Years of Longing (dir. George Miller)

A bit of a departure from Mad Max director George Miller's normal fare, this modern fable told in 5 chapters is surprisingly heartfelt and slower-paced when compared to the breakneck pace and zany tones of films like The Road Warrior and Fury Road. I was genuinely impressed with Idris Elba's performance as the djinn in a way that I am normally not with him, and I found myself very emotionally moved his journey. Elba plays the character with a depth and vulnerability that surprised me, and the softness of the film's central love story blended with Miller's frenetic camerawork made for a unique theater experience. I loved it.

Currently streaming on fuboTV & MGM+.

Read my full review of Three Thousand Years of Longing here.

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Farscape: The Complete Series will be released on Blu-ray on November 21 via Shout Studios. The 22-disc box set contains all 88 episodes of the science fiction series along with the miniseries Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars.

Created by Rockne S. O'Bannon (SeaQuest DSV, Alien Nation), the show was produced by The Jim Henson Company and Hallmark Entertainment. It ran for four seasons between 1999 and 2003.

Ben Browder, Claudia Black, Virginia Hey, Anthony Simcoe, Gigi Edgley, Paul Goddard, Lani Tupu, Wayne Pygram, Jonathan Hardy, Tammy MacIntosh, Raelee Hill, Melissa Jaffer, David Franklin, and Rebecca Riggs star.

Special features are in progress and will be announced at a later date, but Shout promises hours of extras.

John Crichton. Astronaut. Flung through a wormhole and lost in a galaxy far from home. He finds himself in the middle of a prison break, surrounded by hostile aliens, soaring through space inside a glorious living spaceship called Moya. Hunted by the relentless Peacekeepers, he allies himself with his unimaginably alien fellow refugees and searches for a way home. So begins the epic sci-fi classic Farscape.

Pre-order Farscape: The Complete Series.

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So what should we do in the meantime?

We get married.

What?

Now.

You will make a beautiful bride. I will see to it.

The Peacekeeper Wars 

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Brides of Christ  -  ABC  (Aus)  -  September 4, 1991  -  October 9, 1991

Drama / Miniseries  (6 episodes)

Running Time:  60 minutes

Stars:

The Nuns:  

Brenda Fricker as Sister Agnes

Sandy Gore as Mother Ambrose 

Josephine Byrnes as Diane/Sister Josephine

Lisa Hensley as Veronica/Sister Paul

Melissa Jaffer as Sister Attracta

Penny Stehli as Sister Patrick

Joy Hruby as Sister Polycarp

Caroline Gillmer as Sister Philomena

Beth Champion Sister Clare

Michelle Pettigrove as Sister Francine

The Girls:  

Naomi Watts as Frances Hefferman

Kym Wilson as Rosemary Fitzgerald

Melissa Thomas as Bridget Maloney

Pippa Grandison as Bernadette

Kirsty McGregor as Caroline

Vanessa Collier as Jacinta

Others:

Simon Burke as Jack Delahunty

Philip Quast as Ian MdGregor

Mary MaloneyPat Bishop as Mary Maloney

Russell Crowe as Dominic Maloney

Anne Tenney as Liz Hefferman

Michael Winchester as Martin Tierney

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Farscape Deck

Jack of Diamonds - Noranti Pralatong played by Melissa Jaffer

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Les Voitures qui ont mangé Paris / Des emblèmes de Jaguar sont assemblés pour former un carillon.

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I plant one, every chance I get.

Ink & Watercolor, 9 x 12 inches JoJo Seames, 2017

[rookie-critic]

Three Thousand Years of Longing (2022, dir. George Miller) - review by Rookie-Critic

Three Thousand Years of Longing, the first film Miller has directed since the widely-acclaimed Mad Max: Fury Road, is a much slower-paced, meticulously crafted tale, and a beautiful one at that. Told largely through a series of flashbacks, those segments of the film still have that frenetic energy we've all come to love from Miller. Even the modern-day pieces have touches of his signature camerawork, but it largely doesn't feel like his typical fare. This might sound absolutely crazy for those who have seen the works of this director, but this almost felt like George Miller by way of classic Jim Jarmusch, with just a touch of that Guillermo del Toro fairy tale flair. I'm not sure if the Jarmusch connection is just coming from the fact that Tilda Swinton, a frequent collaborator of Jarmusch's, is the lead of the film or if it legitimately feels like one of his, but I was getting strong Jarmusch vibes from the movie.

Tilda Swinton was excellent, as she almost always is, and Idris Elba, dare I say, gives the best performance of his career so far as the Djinn. A truly emotionally resonant, vulnerable performance that makes the movie and stands out as one of this year's best so far. I've been seeing very mixed reviews for this, which I can sort of understand. People may have gone into this expecting a true-to-form George Miller experience, and this definitely was not that, but I like when directors try at an off-type movie. Results are varied, but in Three Thousand Years' case, I am of the opinion that it undoubtedly worked. My one complaint with the film, and it's a complaint that I have with a lot of films, is that a certain aspect of it that I will not spoil here felt a little rushed, and by virtue a little unearned. It's by no means the next Fury Road, but it is, in a much different way from that film, an incredibly journey, and one well worth taking.

Score: 9/10

Currently available to rent or purchase on digital (iTunes, Amazon, Vudu, etc.) or on DVD & Blu-ray through Warner Bros.