#claire kiefer

[lexi-the-writing-geek]

WOAH! Art?! From me? No way!

Haha! All jokes aside, sorry for the lack of art lately. Life’s been stressful and leaving me rather uninspired. Been a pretty rough year for me, but I’m hanging in there. I drew and colored most of this all the way back in December but just never got around to finishing it. Tonight I decided to go ahead and finish it! I’m so happy with how this came out! So yeah, behold! The official reference sheet for Claire Kiefer!

[highflyartist]

DAY 18 - PARTNER'S SLUMBER PARTY

Context: Marina is having a slumber party, the girls brang their nutcrackers, Marie is gonna yeet a pillow at Marina as she's distracted reading about Foxes. Claire is tired and Clara just wanted to post something for her snapchat 🤣

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10-year-old Marina & Reuben (dream/cursed state) belongs to @toonyfando / @toony-nutcase

8-9 year old Marie & Saragona (dream/cursed state) belongs to me.

Child Claire & Prince Winter (dream/cursed state) belongs to @lexi-the-writing-geek

Child Clara & Crispin Snap (dream/cursed state) belongs to @shibible

[no children nor nutcrackers were harmed in this sleepover... Or were they?]

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Re the motorcycle comment, you are so fucking right cause Claire would fuckin kill Leon if he had a goddamn ducati and crashed it for any other reason than saving her brother

leon to chris on the plane ride home: please don’t tell claire about the ducati 😰

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tagged by @doomednarrative to make a fun little poll!! ty kiefer 🩷

Challenge: make a poll with five of your all time favorite characters, and then tag five people to do the same. See which character is everyone's favorite.

i'm mixing it up a little to include two of my fave duos because to me they literally cannot be separated or the world will end

tagging: @darlinghowl @hidingoutbackstage @empcrown @redactedgender @blueskiessss and @english-mace if y'all feel like playing!

[ayeshadhall]

This is the cover photo of the article in Marie Claire titled I Spent a Whole Week Without Looking in a Mirror—And Here's What Happened by Elizabeth Kiefer. Pixel Perfect and The Age of Instagram Face talk about how digital retouching and penetrative retouching like Botox and filler have created a completely false reality that appears in our magazines, newspapers, and phones. This forces people (mostly women) to look at their own mirrors and expect to see the perfection that is reflected in the ad campaigns of their favorite celebrity and when they do not, they are left with a “bottomless feeling” that Jia felt after she visited plastic surgeons to gather research. Thus, I was drawn to this image as it talks about the same idea of scrutinizing oneself in the mirror as being an after effect of all the content we consume today.

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Neutralised (1994) [3/?]: My Version of The Shared Universe

For those of you unfamiliar with 'Chicago Hope', it was actually set in a shared universe. Also, 'Suspiciously Similar' characters will be involved (Due to actors playing multiple roles). This is my take on that:

Shows:

Chicago Hope

Homicide: Life on the Street

Law & Order

Neutralised

Oz

Picket Fences

characters (I'm not listing anyone who was in 20 episodes or less) under the cut. Also technically these are not all the characters as I'm still writing stuff.

Chicago Hope - Characters (& Actors):

Doctor Aaron Shutt (Adam Arkin)

Doctor Phillip Watters (Hector Elizondo)

Doctor William 'Billy' Kronk (Peter Berg)

Doctor Dennis Hancock (Vlondie Curtis-Hall)

Doctor Diane Grad (Jayne Brook)

Doctor Keith Wilkes (Rocky Carroll)

Doctor Jack McNeil (Mark Harmon)

Doctor Daniel Nyland (Thomas Gibson)

Doctor Jeffrey Geiger (Mandy Patinkin)

Nurse Camille Shutt (Roxanne Hart)

Doctor Lisa Catera (Stacy Edwards)

Alan Birch (Peter MacNicol)

Doctor Joseph Cacaci (Bob Bancroft)

Doctor Robert Yeats (Eric Stoltz)

Doctor Gina Simon (Carla Gugino)

Doctor Jeremy Hanlon (Lauren Holly)

Doctor Francesca Alberghetti (Barbara Hershey)

Homicide: Life on the Street - Characters (& Actors)

Detective John Munch (Richard Belzer)

Detective Meldrick Lewis (Clark Johnson)

Lieutenant Alphonse Giardello (Yaphet Kotto)

Detective Tim Bayliss (Kyle Secor)

Detective Frank Pembleton (Andre Braugher)

Detective / Sergeant Kay Howard (Melissa Leo)

Detective Mike Kellerman (Reed Diamond)

Officer/Detective/Lieutenant Stuart Gharty (Peter Gerety)

Detective Paul Falsone (Jon Seda)

Lieutenant/Captain/Detective Megan Russert (Isabella Hofman)

Detective Laura Ballard (Callie Thorne)

Detective Terri Stivers (Toni Lewis)

Captain/Colonel George Barnfather (Clayton LeBouef)

ASA Ed Danvers (Željko Ivanek)

J.H.Brodie (Max Perlich)

Detective Beau Felton (Daniel Baldwin)

Detective Stanley Bolander (Ned Beatty)

Dr Julianna Cox (Michelle Forbes)

FBT Agent/Officer Mike Giardello (Giancario Esposito)

Detective Rene Sheppard (Michael Michele)

Dr. Alyssa Dyer (Harlee McBride)

Detective/Captain Roger Gaffney (Walt MacPherson)

Law & Order - Characters (& Actors)

Sergeant Maxwell Greevey (George Dzundza)

Junior Detective Michael Logan (Chris Noth)

Captain Donald Cragen (Dann Florek)

Exex ADA Benjamin Stone (Michael Moriarty)

ADA Paul Robinette (Richard Brooks)

DA Adam Schiff (Steven Hill)

Sergeant Philip Cerreta (Paul Sorvino)

Dr Elizabeth Olivet (Carolyn McCormic)

Senior Detective Leonard W Briscoe (Jerry Orbach)

Lieutenant Anita Van Buren (S. Epatha Merkerson)

ADA Claire Kincaid (Jill Hennessy)

Exec ADA/DA John McCoy (Sam Waterston)

Junior Detective Reynaldo Curtis (Benjamin Bratt)

ADA Jamie Ross (Carey Lowell)

ADA Abigail Carmichael (Angie Harmon)

Junior/Senior Detective Edward Green (Jesse L. Martin)

Interim DA Nora Lewin (Dianne Wiest)

ADA Serena Southerlyn (Elisabeth Röhm)

DA Arthur Branch (Fred Thompson)

Neutralised - Characters (& Actors)

Abraham Machado (Alfred Molina)

Andreina Neri (Robin Wright)

Caleb Willow (Cary Elwes)

Dove Lewis (Alfre Woodard)

Esmé Verity (Janaeane Garofalo)

Faustus Sanchez (Hank Azaria)

Grayson Bryant (Harold Perrineau)

Hunter Kingsley (Chris Farley)

Ichabod Mortimer (Danny DeVito)

Jared Foster (Kirk Acevedo)

Kane Carter (Philip Seymour Hoffman)

Lance Carter (John Goodman)

Monday Duke (Patricia Arquette)

Noam Gold (Oliver Platt)

Omega Finch (Willem Dafoe)

Peyton Blythe (Regina King)

Russel Warszawski (Adam Sandler)

Sullivan Landon (Christopher Lloyd)

Tuesday Duke (Reese Witherspoon)

Victor Jamison (Mike Myers)

Winslow Warszawski (Brad Garrett)

Xavier Solomon (David Spade)

Yancy Haggard (Kiefer Sutherland)

Zoey Knight (Geena Davis)

OZ - Characters (& Actors)

Augustus Hill (Harold Perrineau)

Tobias Beecher (Lee Tergesen)

Ryan O'Reily (Dean Winters)

Kareem Saïd / Goodson Truman (Eamonn Walker)

Miguel Alvarez (Kirk Acevedo)

Vernon Schillinger (J.K. Simmons)

Simon Adebisi (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje)

Christopher Keller (Christopher Meloni)

Zahir Arif (Granville Adams)

Hamid Khan (Ernie Hudson Jr.)

Nacim Bismilla (Re Hanna)

Huseni Mershah / James Monroe Madison (Roger Guenvuer Smith)

Leroy Tidd / Salah Udeen (Jacues Smith)

Jefferson Keane (Leon)

Kenny Wangler (J.D. Williams)

Arnold 'Poet' Jackson (muMs the Schemer)

Paul Markstrom (O.L. Duke)

Junior Pierce (Malé-Lexington Alexander)

Malcolm 'Snake' Coyle (Treach)

Johnny Post (Tim McAdams)

James Robson (R.E. Rodgers)

Mark Mack (Leif Riddell)

Jaz Hoyt (Evan Seinfeld)

Scott Ross (Stephen Gevedon)

Andrew Schillinger (Frederick Koehler)

Nino Schibetta (Tony Schibetta)

Peter Schibetta (Eddie Malavarca)

Antonio Nappa (Mark Margolis)

Chucky Pancamo (Chuck Zito)

Dino Ortolani (Jon Seda)

Don Zanghi (John Palumbo)

Joey D'Angelo (Goodfella Mike G)

Mario Seggio (Todd Etelson)

Salvatore DeSanto (Phil Campanella)

Raoul 'El Cid' Hernandez (Luis Guzman)

Carmen 'Chico' Guerra (Otto Sanchez)

Carlos Martinez (Carlos Leon)

Carlo Ricardo (Juan Carlos Hernandez)

Cyril O'Reily (Scott William Winters)

Rev. Jeremiah Cloutier (Luke Perry)

Timmy Kirk (Sean Dugan)

Alonzo Torquemada (Bobby Cannavale)

Richie Hanlon (Jordan Lage)

Shirley Bellinger (Kathryn Erbe)

Bob Rebadow (George Morfogen)

Agamemnin Busmalis (Tom Mardirosian)

Donald Groves (Sean Whitesell)

Jackson Vahue (Rick Fox)

Desmond Mobay / John Basil (Lance Reddick)

Richard L'Italien (Eric Roberts)

Nikolai Stanislofsky (Phillip Casnoff)

William Giles (Austin Pendleton)

Henry Stanton (Thomas G. Waites)

Colonel Edward Galson (John Doman)

Eli Zabitz (David Johansen)

Kipekemie Jara (Zakes Mokae)

Dean Alvah Case (Charles S. Dutton)

Sean Murphy (Robert Clohessy)

Claire Howell (Kristin Rohde)

Diane Wittlesey (Edie Falco)

Clayton Hughes (Seth Gilliam)

Karl Metzger (Bill Fagerbakke)

Eddie Hunt (Murphy Guyer)

Lenny Burrano (Skipp Sudduth)

Father Ray Mukada (B.D Wong)

Doctor Gloria Nathan (Lauren Veldez)

Governor James Devlin (Željko Ivanek)

Martin Querns (Reg E. Cathey)

Doctor Frederick Garvey (Milo O'Shea)

Warden Leo Glynn (Ernie Hudson)

Tim McManus (Terry Kinney)

Sister Peter Marie Reimondo (Rita Moreno)

Picket Fences - Characters (& Actors)

Sheriff James 'Jimmy' Brock (Tom Skerritt)

Doctor Jill Brock (Kathy Baker)

Kimberly Brock (Holly Marie Combs)

Matthew Brock (Justin Shenkarow)

Zachary 'Zach' Brock (Adam Wylie)

Deputy Kenny Lacos (Costas Mandylor)

Deputy Maxine 'Max' Stewart (Lauren Holly)

Carter Pike (Kelly Connell)

Ginny Weedon (Zelda Rubinstein)

Douglas Wambaugh (Fyvush Finkel)

Judge Henry Bone (Ray Walston)

DA John Littleton (Don Cheadle)

DA Barnaby Wood (Peter Frechette)

ADA Petrovic (Jason Beghe)

Father Gary Barrett (Roy Dotrice)

Laurie Bey (Marlee Matlin)

Howard Buss (Robert Cornthwaite)

Doctor Joanna 'Joey' Diamond (Amy Aquino)

Lisa Fenn (Alexandra Lee)

Frank (David Proval)

Rachel Harris (Leigh Taylor-Young)

Ed Lawson (Richard Masur)

Peter Lebeck (Michael Jeter)

Milton Lebeck (Chris Owen)

Reverend Henry Novotny (Dabbs Greer)

Principal Michael Oslo (Roy Brocksmith)

Cynthia Parks (Elisabeth Moss)

Bill Pugen (Michael Keenan)

Lydia Brock (Cristine Rose)

Aiesha Campbell (Bruklin Harris)

Brian Latham (Gregory Vignolle)

Agent Donald Morrell (Sam Anderson)

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WHAT COULD HAVE BEEN:

Back in 2013/14, Microsoft was looking to get in on the success of streaming with Netflix and Hulu having become break-out hits with their content, especially Netflix with its ORIGINAL content, through the XBOX system. For a while, they were looking for anything that could be XBOX original programming or that they could develop as. Yes, you all read that right, at one point Microsoft/XBOX were looking to start up and have their own original shows to compete or rather get in on the juicy Netflix/Hulu piece of pie. And what was originally going to be XBOX's first original series — a fifth season of the NBC superhero drama, Heroes.

No, seriously.

Here's all of the information that someone who used to work there around that time had given me on this piece of cancelled media since I devour these type of things or basically collect them like jewels:

• The little synopsis they gave at the time was it would feature "new stories and heroes, while mixing in cameos from the original series' cast". However the actual premise for the season was it was gonna be set a few years after "Volume Five: Redemption" and Claire Bennett having revealed the existence of evolved humans to the world with not only them being public knowledge but the number of them have been growing and growing every year all the while a new government-related threat arises.

• The new main protagonist of the series was to be Roger Deakins, a now worn-out police captain who wants to atone for his past mistakes (the main one ended up costing the life of his partner/close friend) in no one else's eyes but his own, only to learn that he's developed powers of his own. Clancy Brown, of all people, was considered for the role potentially.

• In terms of the "cameos", that was just something they said to get eyes looking and interest in it. Instead of cameos, they're would've been just photo appearances and references like "That story in the tabloids that that U.S. Senator was an evolved human". However, the only character and actor who was gonna return and this time be a part of the new main cast was Samuel Sullivan with Robert Knepper reprising his role.

• Actors and actresses that were considered for the season were Raymond Cruz, Bryce Dallas Howard, Luke Gross, Thomas Haden Church, Kate Mara and even Michael Madsen. The main goal for the season was to go back to the roots and grounded nature of Season 1 and have the new season be "a character drama WITH superheroes rather than a show ABOUT superheroes just like how that first season was".

• Series creator Tim Kring was (thankfully) not gonna come back and be the showrunner because at the time he was too busy with another show he created for Fox, Touch with Kiefer Sutherland.

• But the most interesting thing with this is that apparently they wanted to have a couple of references and easter eggs to the events of other media that established a shared universe for the sole purpose of expanding the Heroes universe, "one would've been to the events of Brad Bird's The Incredibles, one would've been to the events of J.J. Abrams' Cloverfield, one would've been to the events of The X Files' series finale and another would've been to the events of Buffy The Vampire Slayer's series finale".

Now as for the reasons it fell through are a couple of but the big one is mainly budget. From what I understand, they wanted the season to have the same budget and production value of not just other streaming shows such as Orange Is The New Black and that Netflix political show that shall not be named but also other cable shows at the time such as The Walking Dead and the HBO fantasy series that shall not be named either. But it just ended up getting too big and too ambitious for its own good.

There's other reasons but that's the big one that killed it and it all fell apart.

But hey, at least it sounds better than the abominable Heroes Reborn.

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Melancolia - Filmes Online Fácil

Um planeta chamado Melancolia está prestes a colidir com a Terra, o que resultaria em sua destruição por completo. Neste contexto Justine (Kirsten Dunst) está prestes a se casar com Michael (Alexander Skarsgard). Ela recebe a ajuda de sua irmã, Claire (Charlotte Gainsbourg), que juntamente com seu marido John (Kiefer Sutherland) realiza uma festa suntuosa para a comemoração.

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Evening (2007)

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dal 22 aprile a palermo (palazzo reale, sale duca di montalto): mostra "realtà reale"

dal 22 aprile a palermo (palazzo reale, sale duca di montalto): mostra “realtà reale”

 .Я∃ aprirà il 22 aprile a Palazzo Reale (Sale Duca di Montalto), a Palermo, con opere di 16 artisti: Alberto Burri, Saint Clair Cemin, Tony Cragg, Zhang Hong Mei, Anselm Kiefer, Jeff Koons, Sol LeWitt, Emil Lukas, Mimmo Paladino, Claudio Parmiggiani, Giuseppe Penone, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Tania Pistone, Andres Serrano, Ai Wewei e Gilberto…

[lexi-the-writing-geek]

Nutcracker Season 2022 Day 18 - Partners Sleepover Party

It’s the ladies! They were all so fun to draw!

Claire belongs to me

Marie belongs to @highflyartist

Loraine belongs to @inkabelledesigns

And Clara belongs to @shinyzango

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[ Kiernan Shipka Family Template ]

Birthplace: United States | Ethnicity: Slovak, Irish, German, English, Scottish, distant Italian and French

Mother: Claire Danes (40-46)

Father: Kiefer Sutherland (48-56)

Same age sister: Sophie Thatcher (16-22)

Older brother: Charlie Plummer (16-23)

Younger brother: Matt Lintz (15-21)

Younger sister: Mckenna Grace (12-16)

Cousin (m): Ross Lynch (18-27)

Cousin (f): Willa Fitzgerald (24-32)

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Who am I: Freja

Person I would like to switch places with: Yuri Gagarin, but only whilst he orbited earth.

Person I admire the most: (Hero in life) Women who are strong and determined whilst remaining vulnerable and open.

Events I wish i’d witnessed: The entire year of 1969.

My idea of happiness: (Area of interest) A quiet morning perched in my reading chair in the library with a cup of tea after having walked the dog, a few hours of reading, lunch with a friend, an afternoon spent at a museum, a well-curated exhibition, drinks and dinner with people I love, travel and exploration.

My biggest fear: Stagnation.

Games I play: Shuffleboard, darts, pool, cornhole, axe and knife-throwing, heads up, air hockey, wordfeud, backgammon, ping-pong, edging, cards against humanity, 500…

My greatest adventure: This entire magnificent ride is quite the adventure.

Something I’d like to change: Gender inequality.

Things I’ll be remembered by: Pictures.

One thing I’d like to forget: I’d like to forget to forget.

Something I’d like to accomplish: To always remain open.

Things that inspire me: Virginia Woolf’s writings, Claire-Louise Bennett’s ‘Pond’, visually pleasing rooms, Anselm Kiefer’s fields and flower paintings, New York, you.

Questions I can’t answer: There are oh so many and multiple answers to this question.

One last favor I’d like to ask: For everyone to be generous, give away smiles, hugs and kisses every day to those you know and those you don’t.

Who I’d like to be: Myself in a year, developing step by step

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OK, February 10

Cover: At Home With New Mom Cameron Diaz and the Story Behind the Name Raddix 

Page 1: Big Pic -- In Paris for Haute Couture Week Kaia Gerber closed Givenchy’s show in a wedding gown and matching veil 

Page 2: Contents 

Page 3: Contents 

Page 4: Happy and healthy and hard at work Demi Lovato is all set for her return to the spotlight 

Page 6: Varsity Blues Bombshells -- an explosive documentary about the college admissions scam sheds new light on the scandal that rocked Hollywood 

Page 8: Tarek El Moussa’s daughter Taylor is pushing him to propose to Heather Rae Young, Kate Hudson’s gearing up to spill her diet and workout secrets in a tell-all, amid reports that Fox is in preliminary talks for a revival of 24 Kiefer Sutherland will only do it for $60 million for one season 

Page 10: Red Hot on the Red Carpet  -- Screen Actors Guild awards -- Jennifer Lopez, Jennifer Aniston, Lupita Nyong’o 

Page 11: Lili Reinhart, Michelle Williams 

Page 12: Who Wore It Better? Clemence Poesy vs. Thandie Newton 

Page 13: Gwyneth Paltrow vs. Jasmine Tookes 

Page 14: News in Photos -- Duchess Kate Middleton at Ely & Caerau Children’s Centre 

Page 15: Rami Malek and Lucy Boynton, as part of the Greenpeace Campaign Gustaf Skarsgard and Marion Cotillard trekked to Trinity Island

Page 16: SAG Awards -- Jane Lynch, Jamie Foxx and daughter Corinne, Reese Witherspoon and Meryl Streep

Page 17: The cast of Stranger Things -- Cara Buono and Finn Wolfhard and Noah Schnapp and Millie Bobby Brown and Priah Ferguson and Gaten Matarazzo, Helena Bonham Carter, Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro 

Page 18: The stars of A Soldier’s Play -- Jerry O’Connell and David Alan Grier and Nnamdi Asomugha and Blair Underwood, Liv Tyler, Candace Cameron Bure shows off her latest children’s book on GMA 

Page 20: Brody Jenner at the opening of S Bar, Matthew McConaughey meets some of the child stars of Cirque du Soleil’s Beatles show Love, Jennie Garth

Page 21: Dolitte costars Harry Collett and Robert Downey Jr. autograph a vibrant statue

Page 22: Karolina Kurkova at Sean Penn’s annual Core gala, Channing Tatum amped up in the crowd at the Magic Mike Live premiere in Berlin, Lily Tomlin and Jane Fonda filled in as guest hosts on Ellen with their Grace and Frankie costars Sam Waterston and Martin Sheen as guests 

Page 24: Inside My Home -- Britney Spears’ stunning villa 

Page 26: Channing Tatum and Charlize Theron dating 

Page 27: Liam Hemsworth’s loves ones are happy to see him put the drama with ex-wife Miley Cyrus in the past but they’re equally concerned that his new romance with Gabriella Brooks is just a distraction for his heartache and he should just be single for a while but he’s not listening, Chris Pratt’s time-consuming new project The Tomorrow War has put a damper on his marriage to Katherine Schwarzenegger, after nine months of dating Florence Pugh and Zach Braff have decided to live together

Page 28: Hours after photos were published of Jesse Metcalfe cozying up to multiple women it was announced that he and his partner of 13 years Cara Santana had called it quits, it’s been two months since Justin Timberlake was caught holding hands with Alisha Wainwright but Jessica Biel is still reeling over his actions, Baby Boom -- Ashley Graham and Justin Ervin, DJ Khaled and Nicole Tuck, Christina Milian and Matt Pokora, Bar Refaeli and Adi Ezra 

Page 29: Now that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have relinquished their royal duties Meghan is taking advantage of their newfound freedom by revamping Harry’s look so he looks the part of a Hollywood husband 

Page 30: Cover Story -- Cameron Diaz’s baby joy 

Page 34: Pink Comes Clean -- the pop star is opening up about fame, family and those early-aughts feuds 

Page 38: 10 most Epic Super Bowl Halftime Shows of all time

Page 42: Nicole Scherzinger’s body secrets -- she dishes on overcoming her insecurities and adopting a healthy approach to fitness 

Page 46: Style Week -- How Charlize Theron’s hairstylist Adir Abergel got the $15,500 Tiffany bracelet down the part of her hair for the SAG Awards 

Page 49: Color of the Year -- Classic Blue -- Jordana Brewster 

Page 50: Style -- Romantic ruffles and soft colors and feminine florals -- Sophie Turner 

Page 52: Game On -- Maria Menounos and Ciara 

Page 54: Entertainment 

Page 55: Q&A -- Jade Catta-Preta 

Page 58: Buzz -- Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston’s touchy reunion at the SAG Awards sent these celebs into a frenzy -- Brittany Cartwright, Rumer Willis, Ellie Kemper, Jerry O’Connell, Hilary Duff, Jamie Lynn Spears 

Page 60: Hollywood Heat Meter -- Kelly Ripa quit drinking around the time Ryan Seacrest became her cohost, Rihanna rebounding with A$AP Rocky and Drake, NeNe Leakes is quitting RHOA, Pamela Anderson and Jon Peters secretly wed in Malibu, Jamie Foxx’s parents divorced 25 years ago but they both live with him, Sound Bites -- Ken Jeong, Sarah Hyland, Emilia Clarke, Claire Danes 

Page 62: Aquarius -- Harry Styles 

Page 64: By the Numbers -- Joshua Jackson

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My Top Ten Movies Of All Time

To elaborate on a previous reblog, I wanted to go a bit more in depth on the movies I chose.

This list will be in order.

10. The Lost Boys (1987)

This movie is pretty amazing. It’s wild and crazy and so completely and utterly 80s in all of its 80sness. It’s about a family who moves to Santa Carla (The Murder Capital Of The World) only for the eldest son to be considered for “recruitment” by a flock of hip and happening bad boy vampires led by a very young Kiefer Sutherland. This movie is great; from the comic book store employees who act with the seriousness of F.B.I agents, the oiled up musclebound saxophone player with way too much or way too little (depending on who you ask) screentime, to what may be the greatest movie dog to ever exist. Watch it, you’ll have fun.

9. Bumblebee (2018)

This movie is pretty recent, but it rules. Despite the boundless cliches, I found myself really enjoying myself while watching Bumblebee (and this is coming from someone who never really got into Transformers). There’s a lot of heart and joy in it, and so much humor AND drama. The movie is CARRIED by Hailey Steinfeld, who gives an incredible and powerful performance as Charlie Watkins. I also really loved the chemistry between her character and literally everyone she meets (most especially Bumblebee). It had some fun villains and a GREAT third act. Love it a lot.

8. Carrie (1976)

Ahhhh...this movie...

This may be the best adaptation of a Stephen King book. Ever. No really.

The eponymous Carrie White is a teenage outcast, bullied and belittled at school and abused emotionally, verbally, and physically by her religiously fanatical mother. Carrie discovers she also has telekinetic powers. Her horrible life seems to soon get better when popular girl Sue, in an attempt to make amends with Carrie, asks her boyfriend Tommy to take Carrie to the prom. This leads to a wonderful night at prom, with Carrie being crowned Prom Queen. This one truly shining moment of pure happiness is shattered to pieces by a viciously cruel prank, giving the audience one of the most famous scenes in cinematic history. A tragic take on the classic Cinderella story, this movie manages to be heartwarming and tearjerking oftentimes simultaneously.

7. Spider Man: Into The Spider-Verse (2018)

This movie is objective perfection, fight me.

6. Mean Girls (2004)

What can I possibly say about this movie that hasn’t been said before? It’s fetch.

But seriously, this movie rules. Not only is it the most quotable movie of ALL TIME, it’s also a great cautionary tale about the dangers of popularity (thank you Musical Adaptation) that makes sure to remember to treat the “mean girls” as actual human beings who have their own hopes and feelings that drive them. It showcases high school social structures in a way that makes it relevant even now. Like its predecessors Heathers and Clueless, Mean Girls made sure to craft its own identity and how to properly approach the theme of popularity. Ironically, though, its success has led other filmmakers and producers to try and replicate it; make the next “Mean Girls” instead of crafting a movie with love and care. This is why I think we haven’t gotten an intensely quotable movie about popular girls that would define a generation like Heathers, Clueless, and, yes, Mean Girls did. This movie still rules, though.

5. The Little Mermaid (1989)

Yes.

Beautiful animation, great songs, and a terrific villain. What more could you ask for? (I could talk about the opinions some people have with this movie that makes them not like it, but that’s for another day I think)

4. Evil Dead 2 (1987)

This is a great horror movie. Bruce Campbell and Sam Raimi are just pure condensed awesomeness. I would’ve put the entire Evil Dead franchise in this spot if I could have but if I had to pick just one for my list, this is the one I would pick.

3. Wonder Woman (2017)

My favorite live action comic book movie. While it took a long time to get here, it definitely made it worth the wait.

Wonder Woman tells the story of the character it’s based on so wonderfully (yeah I know, lame pun), because it takes aspects from almost every writer she’s ever had—from George Perez to Greg Rucka to way way back to William Moulton Marston, her creator—while giving it their own unique spin. It keeps true to the key traits of Diana, and makes sure to keep her in character all throughout. And while I have some issues with the third act, I love the message: no one is solely good or evil, we all have a choice to do either. And it’s not about deserving, it’s about what you believe that makes the difference.

2. Tangled (2010)

My favorite animated Disney film. Tangled is a masterpiece of storytelling (I have talked about this before), wonderful animation, and compelling characters. It adapts the classic fairytale while also making smart and interesting changes that elevate it and perfect it. The characters are all amazingly acted; Zachery Levi breathes life into dashing thief Flynn Rider (a.k.a Eugene Fitzherbert), Donna Murphy is simultaneously hilarious and frighteningly realistic in how terrifying she is, while Mandy Moore is Rapunzel. It’s ironic, actually, that this movie has such a...tangle-free story.

...I’ll show myself out.

1. Stardust (2007)

I feel like Belle put it best.

“It’s my favorite! Far off places, daring sword fights, magic spells, a prince in disguise!”

While it’s honestly amazing and terrifying how well that quote describes this movie and why I love it, there’s a lot of reasons besides that. It has an amazing cast—Mark Strong, Sienna Miller, Claire Danes, Robert DeNiro, Michelle Pfeiffer, a young Charlie Cox (which, fun fact: because this movie didn’t propel him into A-List status as intended, he was able to work way more on his craft which probably allowed him to nab his role as Daredevil), and not to mention Henry Cavill in a hi-larious early role. So yes...this movie has Daredevil fighting Catwoman/Wasp, Dr. Sivana, and Superman.

But it also has a lot of cool scenes and action, great set design and lighting, and a timeless feel to it. It’s The Princess Bride of my generation. I remember when I first saw this movie I wanted to see Daddy Day Camp for some odd reason (11-year old me had horrible taste in movies), and I spent the next few years hating this movie because Michelle Pfeiffer traumatized me for such a long time. It’s only now that I’ve matured a lot more since 2007 that I’ve been able to appreciate this movie.

This movie is amazing and I love it!

Since I did NOT tag anyone else on the reblog that I’m expanding on (cause I’m an idiot), I will do it now.

The rules are simple:

10 gifs of your 10 favorite movies without the movie title. Then tag or don’t tag (it’s not mandatory to do it) others to do the same.

I’ll tag @thefingerfuckingfemalefury @lilmeier @night-gem-shit @bethanyleerose edit*@captain-shannon-becker.

[seaselkie]

7 Comfort Films

So @singt0me​ tagged me to do this and I’m finally catching up on tags and messages I haven’t had a chance to do. so here we go I guess?

1. The Maze Runner (2014). I just...I first watched this so many years ago, and its the fandom I’ve been active in for the longest. I love what the movie is; the cast, the circumstances of making it, the direction and feel of it, the finished look, story and pacing. But outside of it I also love the characters and the world and how much potential it has. It’s through this film that I’ve met and made some of my best friends and grown a lot, too so i guess it’s always going to be a soft spot for me.

2. Fly Away Home (1996). I always remember this as being just a really fun and beautiful wish fulfilment movie (I saw it when I was really young and even today I would still really love to hand raise a flock of baby geese). But as I got older the complexities of the human relationships also really shine. Mostly though, it’s the soundtrack and cinematography. Some of the shots are beyond stunning; they’re some of my all time favourites, and the music is incredible. I don’t really cry at movies but this one gets to me without fail in the best way and its because of those two things.

3. The Three Musketeers (1993). This one, starring Oliver Platt and Kiefer Sutherland is my favourite version of this film of all time. It’s just such a fun movie. I’m fairly easily entertained but the comedy all just hits so well with this one whilst still telling a nuanced story.

4. Pet Sematary (1989). I love a good horror movie, and this book of Stephen Kings was always my favourite. It’s an old movie and it’s aged (and I realise its probably a bit odd for a horror flick to be comforting) but it’s nostalgic, maybe.

5. Bambi (1942). My favourite Disney movie so this is mostly nostalgia but also the artists and style choices of this film I particularly love. They employed a chinese artist, Wong, to do impressionist paintings for many of the woodland scenery backgrounds to help focus the eye and remove unnecessary detail, and brought live animals into the studios for the animators to study. It’s a lovely story with a beautiful soundtrack and with the art too, it just brought a lot of things together so well.

6. The Italian Job (1969). The remake is good fun, too, but I enjoy that in a different way. The original was just a classic heist/scheme film with a great motley crew and ended one one of the best very literal cliffhangers I can think of. Some incredible lines and iconic moments came out of it.

7. Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004). Another horror movie, though to be honest, I never thought of this series as horror. This is the second and it’s always been my favourite of them - a little less claustrophobic and more dynamic than the first, but set before the franchise got a little too exaggerated for my tastes. It’s got a good cast, that motley collection of survivors that seems to be a trope I enjoy, and it dug a bit into the science behind the viral outbreak which of course was going to interest me. Some kick ass fight scenes and female characters, too. (Just a shame they didn’t introduce Claire until the next movie).

(Its interesting to me that so many of these are older films? I mean, I guess for me it takes time to embed in my mind as something casual and comfortable so it would be ones that have been out longer that I’d have seen over the years, but its just interesting..)

Movies that didn’t quite make the cut: Peter Pan (2003). I loved this for the longest time but I wouldn’t say its something I’d just put on the tv for comfort any more. Still one of my favourite versions, though. Serenity (2005). I love this film, and the firefly series that preceded it, but it doesn’t make the list because it’s also sadder than the series and I like to pretend certain things didn’t happen. Star Wars - ESB and ROTJ ( 1980/1983). I love the original trilogy, not so much the prequels and sequels, but much as I love these two films especially, sometimes I’m just not in the mood for space movies so on that count this doesn’t always apply. Black Beauty (1994). A stunning, incredible film that I absolutely recommend to anyone, even if you’re not a really horsey person because it can show you so much of their sentience as well as the cruelty so prevalent around them. Another gorgeous soundtrack and beautifully acted with some amazing equine stars, but not on the list because it’s just too heart-wrenching to really be comfort tv for me.

I think most people have been tagged for this now but if you haven’t, and you want to do it - consider yourself listed here :)