#bryan izzard

[mariocki]

New Scotland Yard: Fire in a Honey Pot (1.8, LWT, 1972)

"You make it sound very convincing."

"I beg your pardon?"

"Your Mr. Logan was seen at the club on the afternoon before it burnt."

"Oh, now, don't ask me what could have taken him there, to a place like that."

"You mean you've never heard of the protection business?"

"Isn't that what you're in?"

[hannibalstills]

Mukōzuke 2x05

[letterboxd-loggd]

Valkyrie (2008) Bryan Singer

August 4th 2024

[11ersfilmkritiken]

Valkyrie [2008] oder der Versuch einer Kehrtwende

Continue reading Valkyrie [2008] oder der Versuch einer Kehrtwende

[roosterbox]

Update: did not, in fact, puke. Still feel a bit like I might though, so who knows. I won’t blame Hannibal for it if I do, lol.

Speaking of which, that’s two more episodes down. At this rate it’s gonna take me a damn year. Fucking executive dysfunction.

I didn’t take notes, but I have Thoughts(tm). Cut for spoilers, of course.

RIP Beverly. You were a real one.

And mad respect (even more than before) to Raul Esparza (and kinda Bryan Fuller too I guess) for making Chilton so damn… likable? Like Frederick Chilton is a douchebag of the highest order. So much so in fact that the general reaction to the ending of Silence of the Lambs, wherein Dr. Lecter not so subtly implies that he’s going to kill and consume him, is met with some variation of “well damn, couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy.” AND YET, here I am rooting for him. Fucking shit, Bryan.

Hannibal and Alana. Hannibloom? Ech, no thanks.

Took me a hot minute to remember where I’d seen Johnathan Tucker before (The Ruins). I was expecting him here though - I knew about Matthew Brown. Recall that I’m not going into this series completely blind. In fact, I noticed him before in an earlier episode. I was taking notes, and I almost thought to bring it up (“hey wait a minute was that Matthew Brown???”) but I didn’t.

These two gay losers outsourcing their murder of each other. Hanni’s gonna get his own chance at it in a couple episodes. Jesus Christ can’t you assholes just awkwardly flirt with each other like the rest of us?

And it’s always a pleasure to see Eddie Izzard. Especially in this - she’s wonderful in this show.

Next episode, my baby boy will finally be free, lol. And then… the honeytrapping can begin in earnest.

[laresearchette]

Sunday, April 14, 2024 Canadian TV Listings (Times Eastern)

WHERE CAN I FIND THOSE PREMIERES?: GO! GO! LOSER RANGER! (Disney + Star) BEACON 23 (MGM+) BLUEY: THE SIGN (Disney Junior) 7:00am/(Disney Channel Canada) 7:30am WWE’S MOST WANTED TREASURES (A&E Canada) 8:00pm THE 100TH: BILLY JOEL AT MADISON SQUARE GARDEN (Global) 9:00pm 24 IN 24: LAST CHEF STANDING (Food Network Canada) 9:00pm THE SYMPATHIZER (HBO Canada) 9:00pm SECRETS OF THE HELLS ANGELS (A&E Canada) 10:00pm

WHAT IS NOT PREMIERING IN CANADA TONIGHT?: 2024 CMT MUSIC AWARDS (CBS Feed) MR BATES VS THE POST OFFICE (PBS Feed)

NEW TO AMAZON PRIME CANADA/CBC GEM/CRAVE TV/DISNEY + STAR/NETFLIX CANADA:

CRAVE TV THE SYMPATHIZER (Season 1, Episode 1) MUPPETS FROM SPACE SURF’S UP

GOLF (TSN5) 10:00am: 2024 Augusta National Masters Golf: Final Round - Amen Corner (TSN4) 10:00am: 2024 Augusta National Masters Golf: Final Round (TSN3) 10:00am: 2024 Augusta National Masters Golf: Final Round - Featured Groups (TSN3/TSN4) 2:00pm: 2024 Augusta National Masters Golf: Final Round (TSN/TSN3/TSN4/TSN5) 8:30pm: 2024 Augusta National Masters Golf: Final Round (TSN/TSN3/TSN4/TSN5) 11:30pm: 2024 Augusta National Masters Golf: Masters Primetime

CURLING (SN) 10:00am: Grand Slam of Curling: Players' Championship: Women’s Final (SN360) 2:30pm: Grand Slam of Curling: Players' Championship: Men’s Final

2024 IIHF WOMEN'S WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP (TSN) 1:00pm: Bronze Medal (TSN) 4:30pm: Pre-Game (TSN) 5:00pm: Gold Medal

MLB BASEBALL (SN) 1:00pm: Rockies vs. Jays (SN Now) 4:00pm: Cubs vs. Mariners (TSN2/TSN4) 7:00pm: Padres vs. Dodgers

NBA BASKETBALL (SN1) 1:00pm: Raptors vs. Heat (SN Now) 1:00pm: Bucks vs. Magic (SN1) 3:30pm: Lakers vs. Pelicans (TSN4) 10:00pm: Timberwolves vs. Lakers

MLS SOCCER (TSN2) 2:30pm: Atlanta vs. Philadelphia (TSN2) 4:30pm: St. Louis vs. Austin

NHL HOCKEY (SN) 6:00pm: Hurricanes vs. Chicago (SNWest) 8:00pm: Coyotes vs. Flames

ESCAPE TO THE CHATEAU: DIY (CBC) 7:00pm (SEASON PREMIERE): Brits run a chateaux in France with help from Dick Strawbridge and his wife, Angel.

BIG BROTHER CANADA (Global) 8:00pm

JUST FOR LAUGHS (CBC) 9:00pm: The legendary Eddie Izzard hosts this gala, featuring Nimesh Patel, Josie Long, Brandon Ash-Mohammed, Ophira Eisenberg and Tom Ballard.

SULLIVAN'S CROSSING (CTV) 9:00pm (SEASON PREMIERE): Maggie Sullivan returns to the Crossing to find Sully in the hospital, struggling with the feeling that he's forgotten something; Cal Jones is confused when Maggie gives him the cold shoulder, unaware that Lola pocketed his goodbye letter.

INTO THE DARK: I'M JUST F…ING WITH YOU (T&E) 9:00pm: A man and his sister endure a night of increasingly frightening practical jokes during a stay at a secluded motel.

BODY CAM: ON THE SCENE (Investigation Discovery) 9:00pm (SEASON PREMIERE): The streets turn deadly when the driver of a stolen vehicle tries to flee; a sheriff's K9 is let loose on its first pursuit; a spree of home invasions leads to a three-day manhunt.

WHEN CALLS THE HEART (Super Channel Heart & Home) 9:00pm: Elizabeth and Allie plan a birthday party for Nathan; Lee and Rosemary weigh business responsibilities against family time; Lucas settles into his role as governor.

PROSPER (Super Channel Fuse) 9:00pm: Moses is put into the hospital after a tragic accident, and the family prays for a miracle; Issy confronts Benji about his secret, and Dion and U Star are in hot water with Maddox's latest scandal.

THE CURSE OF OAK ISLAND (History Canada) 10:00pm: While the team uncovers a surprising find on Lot 5, members of the Fellowship arrive in Europe and immediately discover more Templar connections.

BRYAN'S ALL IN (HGTV Canada) 10:00pm: After successfully owning and operating three breweries, Rob and Taras want to expand their business to bring more jobs to their local community. With big dreams of creating a Brewer's Village to become a tourist destination and events venue.

THE CURSE OF OAK ISLAND: DRILLING DOWN (History Canada) 11:00pm: Matty Blake heads to Oak Island to dig deep on the scientific method that may solve the Oak Island mystery.

[baronvonkrieger]

Let’s not be silly!...Mockingbird Lane.

When it came to Rob Zombie’s “The Munsters”, a often heard complaint was how silly it was. Of course, even when it was in first run, that was a complaint that Mad Magazine had about the original show, when they included it and the original Addams Family as television garbage. To be honest, it was a silly show, and for me, that’s part of it’s charm. They were based on the old Universal Horror films. People back then, didn’t find them silly, they found them terrifying. Even with “Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein”, one parent informed Universal she took her kids to see an Abbott Costello film as a comedy, and adding monsters to the film horrified her children. Back then, people took their movie monsters seriously! 

That’s the magic of television. The old monsters that once scared people on the big screen, weren’t as scary as what people had gone through in a world war, and police action in Korea. Also, the ever growing popularity of Television was hungry for material to serve a growing audience. Universal found this new media to be a perfect marketplace for their film library, since a diminishing movie theater audience would make rentals to theaters far less lucrative. Because of these showings on television, the monsters became less to be feared by audiences, and more like old friends to the kids. Model kits, soakies, masks, and magazines became increasingly popular with kids. So, with Monsters becoming more family friendly, 1964 was just about the right time for Universal to give us a series about a family of monsters. Something Animator Bob Clampet had tried to get off the ground in 1945, with a series about a family of monsters.

in all honesty, there was no way that this could be a serious show. The whole idea of a man constructed from dead people, a vampire who was involved in insane experiments using magic, a reanimated corpse having a werewolf son with a vampire, was just too silly to make a decent drama. However, put the same creative team that gave us the show “Leave it to Beaver”, with the comic talents of Fred Gwynne and Al Lewis, plus have Yvonne DeCarlo play the Vampire mother like Donna Reed, and of course that will be a comedy. Of course you wouldn’t take it as a serious drama. There’s no way anybody would attempt this seriously!

Well, go forward to 2012, and that is exactly what “Mockingbird Lane” was. An attempt to give more weight to what had been previously treated as lighthearted comedy. Bryan Fuller, who had produced some likable series, such as “Pushing Up Daisies” and “Dead Like Me”, thought it might be right to do a series about the family of monsters living in a creepy Victorian house, but jettison the silliness. This gave us “Mockingbird Lane”. The series never developed, but we did get a pilot that was broadcast. In this version, the Munsters are looking for a new home after Eddie ( Mason Cook), becomes a werewolf, and attacks the Scout troop he is part of. Since he becomes a werewolf, I have no idea how moving is going to fix things, since come the next full moon, he’s just going to attack again. So Marilyn (Charity Wakefield), finds a house for the family to live in. When the realtor points out that the house has been condemned, because it is the “Hobo Murder house”, because of all the bodies of the homeless that are there, Marilyn assures him that’s alright, because since their bodies are there, they’re no longer homeless. The family moves in, with spiders creating a lovely dress for Lily (Portia de Rossi), since she moved in au-natural, As the family becomes acquainted with their neighborhood, Grandpa (Eddie Izzard) feeds the neighbors cookies containing his blood, to insure their acceptance, A problem develops for Herman (Jerry O’Connell), as his heart is about to give out, as it is the only part of his that hasn’t been replace. Grandpa, ever resourceful, helps a guest to their home have an accident, which insures Herman has the needed replacement heart. It’s all so heart warming. This may be the most charming gathering of a family homicidal killers since “A Manson Family Christmas”.

So why was this only a pilot, and not a regular series? It had great production values, good performances from the performers, and the writing was good. Well, as good as it was, it really wasn't the Munsters.  NBC chief Robert Greenblatt said of their decision to pass on the series: "We just decided that it didn't hold together well enough to yield a series. It looked beautiful and original and creative, but it just all ultimately didn't come together... it just didn't ultimately creatively all work. We felt great about that cast, but we tried to make it not just a sitcom. We tried to make it an hour, which ultimately has more dramatic weight than a half-hour. It's hard to calibrate how much weirdness vs. supernatural vs. family story. I just think we didn’t get the mix right"

It might have worked better, if they had made a show about a supernatural family, that wasn't the Munsters. Eddie Izzard was great playing a ruthless Vampire, willing to kill to get what he wanted, but he wasn't Grandpa Munster to me, I also prefer Universal doing a Frankenstein Monster, that looks like the iconic character created by Jack Pierce. As good as Mockingbird Lane was, to me, it wasn’t “The Munsters” If more people had felt differently, maybe they could have gotten a more serious Munster show.

[cormancatacombs]

People on Twitter bitching about the trailer for Rob Zombie’s Munsters clearly never suffered through the 2012 reboot attempt (Bryan Fuller’s Mockingbird Lane)

[genevieveetguy]

We have to show the world that not all of us are like him. Otherwise, this will always be Hitler's Germany.

Valkyrie, Bryan Singer (2008)

[spockvarietyhour]

I've already made my decision. I'm here to help others make theirs.

10 Caps from Valkyrie (2008) directed by Bryan Singer

[freddiekluger]

I am reminded of a young man, telling a story to his friend as those who share a bond so often do. The telling of tales is a part of human nature, a time in which we can choose to show the best, or worst, parts of ourselves to another, and hope that we will be received, that we will be seen- after all, to share stories is to find the connection that we so deeply yearn for, but to experience what will later become just another story is what forges our character. Moments where anything is possible, and one has everything to lose, are the fractions of an instant in which our character is forged, when the millions of cells and atoms and neuroses that make up our very being are rearranged to create a unique picture of the self. Tell me, Will, what will you do when you are sitting there, barbecue sauce on your titties?

[amatesura]

Mockingbird Lane (2012)

[thegrimeygremlin]

Eddie Izzard as Grandpa “D” Munster in Mockingbird Lane (2012)

[persephonesiren]

Abel Gideon - Funko Pop!

Funko Pop! of Abel Gideon (Eddie Izzard) of Hannibal (2013-2015) (by Bryan Fuller)

• Funko Pop! Custom – D.I.Y. Pop Male • Funko Pop! Hershel Greene (The Walking Dead) • Super Sculpey Original • Acrylic paint • Matte varnish

Funko created for shouldvehopped, as part of the Fannibal Festival 2

[fullerology]

Eddie Izzard, British comedian introduces Australian-British romantic drama - The Flip Side - which he stars in, as part of cinema's Australia Day celebrations. Regent Street Cinema, London Featuring: Eddie Izzard Where: London, United Kingdom When: 27 Jan 2019