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Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl Teaser

"Gromit’s concern that Wallace is becoming too dependent on his inventions proves justified, when Wallace invents a “smart” gnome that seems to develop a mind of its own. When it emerges that a vengeful figure from the past might be masterminding things, it falls to Gromit to battle sinister forces and save his master… or Wallace may never be able to invent again!" (Netflix)

Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl is directed by Nick Park and Merlin Crossingham. The screenplay is written by Mark Burton from a story by Park and Burton. The film stars the voice talents of Ben Whitehead, Peter Kay, and Lauren Patel.

Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl hits Netflix on January 3, 2025.

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Norbot joins Wallace and Gromit for Vengeance Most Fowl

Norbot joins Wallace and Gromit for Vengeance Most Fowl

The BBC has revealed Norbot the smart gnome, the next creation to appear in Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl. Norbot is a pre-programmed smart gnome designed to do any kind of gardening task or “gnome improvement”. A quick learner, efficient, incredibly polite and cheerful – Norbot quickly becomes popular with the locals to help with their gardening needs. Until…. Earlier this year, the BBC…

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⚫ WHITEHEAD PRINT ⚫

Prints I made for a folk horror event I went to, now available in my shop for all!

A4 Size. 400gsm silk card.

Feel free to dm to work around using etsy.

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"-I shall chew up all the selfish scheming and ill intentions that men like you force upon men like me, and bury it in the stomach of this place!"

I will be selling exclusive prints of this work as part of @gullbones south west "Beyond Boundaries" film festival at the end of July!

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The Coward is here.

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A Field In England (dir. Ben Wheatley, 2013)

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V/A

"Tellus #25 : Site-less Sounds"

(CD. Tellus. 1991) [US]

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My Ode to A Field in England.

My favourite movie. Of all time. Ever.

I've seen it maybe 70 times at this point (since it was released). I watched it on film4 on its release and my daughter was maybe 2 years old and not sleeping. Kids do this thing where they don't like to sleep from time to time. Not sure if you've heard that before 😅 but she wouldn't sleep. I put this film on, cradling her and she just fell asleep. The musics hypnotic I guess.

I can't tell you how much, especially as a new mum, you fall in love with things/people/films that help you to sooth a restless or upset child. I LITERALLY love this film. She's nearly 15 now and It still reminds me of cradling her.

and each time I watch- it just becomes something else. I can't describe how much of a chameleon this film is. It fits each theory I have for it. It's just beautiful.

I'm no critic. Just my opinion below.

Despite the low-budgetness of the film it is also THE most beautifully made film I've ever seen. The black and white is so spectacular. We see only the characters and not the incidentals. To see it in any kind of colour would be a mistake.

I've watched the film forwards, backwards, with no sound, every which way.. it works.

The horror is real and gory. The violence (implied and physical) necessary but used sparingly and the cannibalism simply nodded at. We don't NEED to see them gnawing at a human leg to know... we just know.

The drug induced magic of the film is absolutely hypnotic. Every time I watch it I feel peaceful (which is at odds with what is happening on the field at the time, I know, but still, it does make me feel very much calmer. At peace.

I also must urge you to listen to the commentary (I love a commentary) for this film. It's very informative and funny. Ben Wheatley is hilarious.

All of the cast are perfect.

-Michael Smiley is genuinely terrifying and seductive. O'Neill is a monster, almost Dracula-like in his ability to manipulate.

-Reece Shearsmith meek and then strong and courageous is something else. He was robbed of EVERY award that he should have been nominated for and it really does annoy me just how snubbed this film is

"The coward is here" & "I am my own master" lines get me in my guts every time I hear them.

-Peter Ferdinando is something else in this film. Stoic but also remarkably sweet. As I understand it, (from the commentary) he is a method actor and really went all out to be

-Ryan Pope is genuinely menacing but clearly induced. His performance is chilling.

-Richard Glover's character of 'Friend' is spectacular.

I was reading Philippa Waring's - 'Dictionary of Omens and Superstitions' the other day. I've read it since I was a little girl and there is a passage in the book about idiots in the middle ages being seen almost as their own scrying mirrors.. they let their thoughts lead them and how to be an idiot was actually 'to be blessed'. He says very little but every sentence that comes out of his mouth is cogent, relevant and performed so beautifully.

The score.

I can't even think about the music without getting a tear or two. Jim Williams IS a god.

'Flux of time' and 'Walk to still my beating heart' are SO beautiful. The whole score is and I LOVE Jim's version of 'Baloo my boy' at the end of the film. It's perfect.

Chernobyl by Blanck Mass is ridiculous. Ethereal, off, and rousing and used perfectly to show, not tell us, what has happened to Whitehead. We didn't need to see that. We know it's bad. The music and the performance TELL us everything we need to know.

A theory of mine (one of many) is that in the tent with O'Neill, Whitehead sees what is going to happen throughout the rest of the film. So he is in some kind of déjà vu loop. He knows that he will win which is why he is smiling despite also clearly being terrified.

Despite all it's horror, even at the end. It's an undeniably hopeful film. It's about friendship and certainly not in a cheesy way.

**I recommend everyone to watch it**

(except for epileptics because you'll probably die)

xksx

I shall consume all the ill fortune which you are set to unleash. I shall chew up all the selfish scheming and ill intentions that men like you force upon men like me, and bury it in the stomach of this place!

A Field in England (2013) dir. Ben Wheatley

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Der lange Schatten der Vergangenheit

Im Jahr der 60. Präsidentschaftswahlen taucht in der US-amerikanischen Gegenwartsliteratur vor allem die Sklaverei immer wieder auf.. Erzählerisch facettenreich und stilistisch vielfältig gehen aktuelle Romane dem langen Schatten der Geschichte nach.

Im Jahr der 60. Präsidentschaftswahlen in den USA taucht in der US-amerikanischen Gegenwartsliteratur vor allem ein Thema immer wieder auf: die Sklaverei. Erzählerisch facettenreich und stilistisch vielfältig gehen einige aktuelle Romane dem langen Schatten der dunklen Geschichte des Landes auf den Grund. Continue reading Der lange Schatten der Vergangenheit

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Twintig jaar geleden: "The worst week of my life"

The Worst Week of My Life is een Britse sitcom, voor het eerst uitgezonden op BBC One tussen maart en april 2004. Een tweede serie werd uitgezonden tussen november en december 2005 en een driedelige kerstspecial, The Worst Christmas of My Life, werd uitgezonden in december 2006. Het werd geschreven door Mark Bussell en Justin Sbresni en is mijns inziens de beste slapstick-comedy ooit. Continue…

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The 100 Best Books of the 21st Century.

As voted on by 503 novelists, nonfiction writers, poets, critics and other book lovers — with a little help from the staff of The New York Times Book Review.

NYT Article.

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Q: How many of the 100 have you read? Q: Which ones did you love/hate? Q: What's missing?

Here's the full list.

100. Tree of Smoke, Denis Johnson 99. How to Be Both, Ali Smith 98. Bel Canto, Ann Patchett 97. Men We Reaped, Jesmyn Ward 96. Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, Saidiya Hartman 95. Bring Up the Bodies, Hilary Mantel 94. On Beauty, Zadie Smith 93. Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel 92. The Days of Abandonment, Elena Ferrante 91. The Human Stain, Philip Roth 90. The Sympathizer, Viet Thanh Nguyen 89. The Return, Hisham Matar 88. The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis 87. Detransition, Baby, Torrey Peters 86. Frederick Douglass, David W. Blight 85. Pastoralia, George Saunders 84. The Emperor of All Maladies, Siddhartha Mukherjee 83. When We Cease to Understand the World, Benjamin Labutat 82. Hurricane Season, Fernanda Melchor 81. Pulphead, John Jeremiah Sullivan 80. The Story of the Lost Child, Elena Ferrante 79. A Manual for Cleaning Women, Lucia Berlin 78. Septology, Jon Fosse 77. An American Marriage, Tayari Jones 76. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, Gabrielle Zevin 75. Exit West, Mohsin Hamid 74. Olive Kitteridge, Elizabeth Strout 73. The Passage of Power, Robert Caro 72. Secondhand Time, Svetlana Alexievich 71. The Copenhagen Trilogy, Tove Ditlevsen 70. All Aunt Hagar's Children, Edward P. Jones 69. The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander 68. The Friend, Sigrid Nunez 67. Far From the Tree, Andrew Solomon 66. We the Animals, Justin Torres 65. The Plot Against America, Philip Roth 64. The Great Believers, Rebecca Makkai 63. Veronica, Mary Gaitskill 62. 10:04, Ben Lerner 61. Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver 60. Heavy, Kiese Laymon 59. Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides 58. Stay True, Hua Hsu 57. Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich 56. The Flamethrowers, Rachel Kushner 55. The Looming Tower, Lawrence Wright 54. Tenth of December, George Saunders 53. Runaway, Alice Munro 52. Train Dreams, Denis Johnson 51. Life After Life, Kate Atkinson 50. Trust, Hernan Diaz 49. The Vegetarian, Han Kang 48. Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi 47. A Mercy, Toni Morrison 46. The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt 45. The Argonauts, Maggie Nelson 44. The Fifth Season, N.K. Jemisin 43. Postwar, Tony Judt 42. A Brief History of Seven Killings, Marlon James 41. Small Things Like These, Claire Keegan 40. H Is for Hawk, Helen Macdonald 39. A Visit from the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan 38. The Savage Detectives, Roberto Balano 37. The Years, Annie Ernaux 36. Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates 35. Fun Home, Alison Bechdel 34. Citizen, Claudia Rankine 33. Salvage the Bones, Jesmyn Ward 32. The Lines of Beauty, Alan Hollinghurst 31. White Teeth, Zadie Smith 30. Sing, Unburied, Sing, Jesmyn Ward 29. The Last Samurai, Helen DeWitt 28. Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell 27. Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 26. Atonement, Ian McEwan 25. Random Family, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc 24. The Overstory, Richard Powers 23. Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage, Alice Munro 22. Behind the Beautiful Forevers, Katherine Boo 21. Evicted, Matthew Desmond 20. Erasure, Percival Everett 19. Say Nothing, Patrick Radden Keefe 18. Lincoln in the Bardo, George Saunders 17. The Sellout, Paul Beatty 16. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Michael Chabon 15. Pachinko, Min Jin Lee 14. Outline, Rachel Cusk 13. The Road, Cormac McCarthy 12. The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion 11. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz 10. Gilead, Marilynne Robinson 9. Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro 8. Austerlitz, W.G. Sebald 7. The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead 6. 2666, Roberto Bolano 5. The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen 4. The Known World, Edward P. Jones 3. Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel 2. The Warmth of Other Suns, Isabel Wilkerson 1. My Brilliant Friend, Elena Ferrante

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Holiday Audio/Video Gifts!

For the holiday season, here are some audio gifts from various shows and one Phantom video! The link to them is here and the info is below the cut:

Happy holidays and I hope you are all having time for some rest!

Audios

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Jon Robyns, Paige Blankson, Joe Griffiths-Brown, Kelly Glyptis, Matt Harrop, Adam Linstead, Francesca Ellis, David Kristopher Brown, Maiya Hikasa August 22, 2023; London

Tim Howar, Harriet Jones, Nadim Naaman, Lara Martins, Nicholas Garrett, Arvid Larsen, John Ellis, Valerie Cutko, Kelsi Boyden March 19, 2023; Greece

Josh Piterman, Corinne Cowling (u/s), Danny Whitehead, Katy Hanna (u/s), Ross Dawes, Kris Manuel (u/s), Sophie Caton (u/s), Paul Ettore Tabone, Georgia Ware October 17, 2019; London ​Matinee.

Jeremy Stolle (u/s), Samantha Hill, Greg Mills (u/s), Michele McConnell, Richard Poole (u/s), Tim Jerome, Ellen Harvey, Christian Sebek, Kara Klein, Scott Mikita (u/s) March 9, 2013; Broadway Matinee performance.

John Owen-Jones, Deborah Dutcher, Matthew Cammelle, Bruce Montague, Charles Shirvell, Margaret Mary Kane (u/s), Janet Murphy, Jeremy Secomb, Lucy Middleton January 5, 2002; London

Love Never Dies

Tam Mutu, Celia Graham, David Thaxton, Daniel Dowling August 25, 2011; London Tam Mutu's last performance.

Les Miserables

Christopher Jacobsen (u/s Jean Valjean), Stewart Clarke (Javert), Katie Hall (Fantine), Will Callan (Marius), Lulu-Mae Pears (Cosette), Amena El-Kindy (Eponine), Luke Kempner (Thenardier), Claire Machin (Madame Thenardier), Dejan Van der Flyert (Enjolras), Alex Shaw (Gavroche), Clohe Sullivan (Little Cosette), Tom Hext (Grantaire/Majordomo), Adam Pearce (Bishop/Claquesous), Ellie Ann Lowe (Factory Girl), Jordan Simon Pollard (u/s Foreman/Bujon), Matt Dempsey (Bamatabopis/Lesgles), Annabelle Aquino, Hazel Baldwin, Emily Olive Boyd, Ben Culleton, Matt Hayden, Sam Kipling, Anouk Van Lake, Harry Lake, Ben Oatley, Jonathan Stevens, Phoebe Williams, Ollie Wray September 28, 2023; London 15,000th show in London and the 5th show for the new company.

Sunset Boulevard

Nicole Scherzinger (Norma), Tom Francis (Joe Gillis), David Thaxton (Max von Mayerling), Grace Hodgett Young (Betty Shaefer), Ahmed Hamaad (Artie), Tyler Davis (Sheldrake), Charlotte Jaconelli (Johanna), Jon Tsouras (Cecil B. de Mille) September 28, 2023; London

Rebecca

Laureen Jones (I), Richard Carson (Maxim de Winter), Kara Lane (Mrs Danvers), Sara Harlington (Beatrice), Neil Moor (Giles), Piers Bate (Frank Crewley), David Breeds (Ben), Alex James Ward (Jack Favell), Shrley Jameson (Mrs Van Hopper), Nicholas Lumley (Colonel Julian) September 27, 2023; Off-West End

POTO Video

Ian Jon Bourg, Olivia Safe (u/s), Kyle Gonyea 2001; Hamburg, Germany VOB files. One of the most legendary Phantom's opposite one of the youngest Christine's!

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Vengeance Most Fowl — Feathers McGraw returns this Christmas

Vengeance Most Fowl — Feathers McGraw returns this Christmas

The BBC has announced a new Wallace and Gromit for Christmas 2024 — and it’s the return of Feathers McGraw, last seen in The Wrong Trousers. It will premiere on BBC and BBC iPlayer this Christmas and will be available globally on Netflix this winter. Vengeance Most Fowl sees Gromit’s growing concern as Wallace becomes over-dependent on his inventions – which proves justified when Wallace invents…

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“I shall consume all the ill fortune, that you are set to unleash”

Well I’ve finally completed digital painting of Whitehead from Ben Wheatley’s amazing film ‘A field in England’. This piece has absolutely tested my resolve when it comes to perseverance with a piece, but I’m super chuffed with how it turned out. I hope you all like it!

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Friday 7th June 2024

WALLACE & GROMIT: VENGEANCE MOST FOWL

Feathers McGraw is BACK in Aardman’s new feature-length film in the Wallace & Gromit franchise. The iconic bird villain was last seen 30 years ago in the 1993 Wallace & Gromit film ‘The Wrong Trousers’ - which Aardman have been celebrating with many limited edition collaborations and releases - but his return was recently hinted at in a background cameo of the Chicken Run sequel ‘Dawn of the Nugget’.

‘Vengeance Most Fowl’ is directed by Nick Park, with the screenplay by Mark Burton (Curse of the Were-Rabbit, Early Man, Shaun the Sheep, Madagascar). It will star Ben Whitehead as the voice of Wallace, alongside Peter Kay as returning ‘Were-Rabbit’ character Albert Mackintosh, Lauren Patel, Reece Shearsmith, Diane Morgan, Adjoa Andoh, Muzz Khan, and Sir Lenny Henry.

The 70 minute film will first debut on BBC One & iPlayer this Christmas (2024) before getting a worldwide release on Netflix at a later date.

More on the release from BBC Media Centre.

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WHITEHEAD: I will not assist you in such an ungodly scheme, sir. O'NEILL: (CHUCKLES): Hmm. Oh, you will, Whitehead. You will.

A Field in England Film Script