#goodbye harriet the spy

[hislittleraincloud]

Writers, listen up. 💕🩷💖✨

[bebemoon]

“goodbye, Harriet the Spy.” 🕊️

[nichiperi]

"goodbye, harriet the spy"

[goddessedition]

“goodbye, harriet the spy.”

[fkyumerica]

she did not have a kid we do not know her

the eyes mean goodbye that

and they are joking with you so much they do not care about you

and jeff fucks zachy and makes him erin

and which one

bye harriet the spy/jeffery

and after a while brian/josh

and their dad nick/fred/taxi driver

[hazystrangers]

goodbye, harriet the spy <3

[brookstonalmanac]

Holidays 10.5

Holidays

Armed Forces Day (Egypt, Indonesia)

Bells Across America for Fallen Firefighters

Be Nice to a Lawyer Day

Bonn Phchum Ben (Ancestors’ Day; Cambodia)

Catherine Park Day

Checkers Appreciation Day

Chic Spy Day

Commemorating the Victims of Prohibition Day (Cannabis)

Constitution Day (Vanuatu)

Death of Prophet Mohammad (Iran)

Dirij Tereur (Elder Scrolls)

Do Something Nice Day

Education Day (Kiribati)

Engineer’s Day (Bolivia)

Feast of the Empire of Lies

Ganga River Dolphin Day (India)

Global James Bond Day

Goddard Day

International Charge Your Car Day

International Day of No Prostitution

Long Walk Day

Medicine Day (Peru)

Mignonette Day (French Republic)

Monty Python Day

Most Common Birthday Day

National Above the Bus Day

National Be Nice Day

National Caribbean Civility Day

National Dildo Trick Shot Day

National Depression Screening Day

National Family Fire Drill Day

National Get Funky Day

National Hackney Day

National Hypertrophic Olivary Degeneration Awareness Day

National Innovation Day (Thailand)

National Kiss a Wrestler Day

National Military Podcast Day

National Rhode Island Day

National Scissoring Day

National Storytelling Day

Nubaigai (Harvest Festival; Pagan Lithuanian)

Republic Day (Portugal)

Sea Serpent Day

Semana Morazánica (Honduras)

Stara Zagora Day (Bulgaria)

Teacher’s Day (Pakistan, Russia)

Territory Day (Christmas Island)

Unicorn Questing Season begins

Vranec World Day

Victims of Marijuana Prohibition Day

World Dyslexia Awareness Day

World Meningitis Day

World Teachers' Day (UN)

Food & Drink Celebrations

Brewing Industry Day

National Apple Betty Day

Noisy Munching Day

Pilsner Day

Rocky Mountain Oyster Day

1st Thursday in October

Bring Your Bible to School Day [1st Thursday]

Great American Beer Festival begins [thru Saturday]

Kid Lit Art Postcard Day [1st Thursday]

National Depression Screening Day [Thursday of 1st Full Week]

National Poetry Day (UK) [1st Thursday]

National Women-Owned Business Day [1st Thursday]

Independence Days

Outer Space Nation of Celestia (Declared; 1949) [unrecognized]

Portugal (from Kingdom of Leon, 1143)

Feast Days

Anna Schäffer (Christian; Saint)

Baptism of the Prophet (Mali)

Bartolo Longo (Christian; Blessed)

Bigmouth Fraggle (Muppetism)

Faustina Kowalska (Christian; Saint)

Francesco Guardi (Artology)

Francis Xavier Seelos (Roman Catholic Church; Blessed)

Galla (Christian; Saint)

Hor and Susia (Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria)

Hosanna Rabbah (Begins at Sundown; Judaism) [21 Tishri]

Mania Mundus (Festival to remember departed ancestors)

Mundus Patet (Ancient Rome)

Opening of the Mundus Cereris (Pagan)

Placid and Maurus (Christian; Saint)

Placidus (Christian; Martyr)

Pope Benedict IX (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Rossini (Positivist; Saint)

Slightly Naughty Day (Pastafarian)

Thesmorphoria begins (3-Day Women’s Festival to Demeter; Ancient Greece)

Thraseas (Christian; Saint)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Butsumetsu (仏滅 Japan) [Unlucky all day.]

Premieres

Abbott and Costello in Hollywood (Film; 1945)

The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (Disney Animated Film; 1949)

Age of Empires (Computer Game; 1997)

Alpalooza, by Weird Al Yankovic (Album; 1993)

Automatic for the People, by R.E.M. (Album; 1992)

Breakfast at Tiffany’s (Film; 1961)

Cats (Film; 1998)

Cleopatra (Film; 1934)

Crazy Little Thing Called Love, by Queen (Song; 1979)

The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (Animated Aardman Film; 2005)

Dr. No (UK Film; 1962) [James Bond #1]

The Fire Chaser or Bullwinkle Goes to Blazes (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S6, Ep. 307; 1964)

Flaming Arrows or Bullwinkle Meets His Match (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S6, Ep. 308; 1964)

Frankenweenie (Animated Film; 2012)

Gilmore Girls (TV Series; 2000)

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, by Elton John (Album; 1973)

Harriet the Spy, by Louise Fitzhugh (Novel; 1963)

Harrison Bergeron, by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (Short Story; 1961)

Henry & June (Film; 1990)

I’m the Man, by Joe Jackson (Album; 1979)

Jack and the Beanstalk (Disney Cartoon; 1922)

Laugh-O-Gram Studio’s Goldie Locks and the Three Bears (Disney Cartoon; 1922)

Led Zeppelin III, by Led Zeppelin (Album; 1970)

Little Miss Can’t Be Wrong, by the Spin Doctors (Song; 1992)

Love Me Do, by The Beatles (UK Song; 1962)

Michael Clayton (Film; 2007)

Millions of Cats, by Wanda Gág (Children’s Book; 1928)

Monty Python’s Flying Circus (UK TV Series; 1969)

¡Mucha Lucha!: The Return of El Maléfico (WB Animated Film; 2004)

Music Land (Disney Cartoon; 1935)

Music Land (Disney Animated Film; 1955)

Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats, by T.S. Eliot (Poems; 1939)

One-Punch Man (Anime; 2015)

Right Ho, Jeeves, by P.G. Wodehouse (Novel; 1934) [Jeeves #6]

The Saint Around the World, by Leslie Charteris (Short Stories 1956) [Saint #32]

Serendipity

Skyfall, by Adele (Song; 2012)

10 (Film; 1979)

The Ten Commandments (Film; 1956)

Tunnel of Love, by Bruce Springsteen (Album; 1987)

Venom (Film; 2018)

Today’s Name Days

Attila, Gallina, Herwig, Meinolf, Placidus (Austria)

Faustina, Mauro, Miodrag (Croatia)

Eliška (Czech Republic)

Placidus (Denmark)

Inga, Inge, Ingeborg, Inger, Ingi, Ingrid (Estonia)

Inka, Inkeri (Finland)

Camélia, Capucine, Daphné, Eglantin, Faustine, Fleur, Placide (France)

Gallina, Herwig, Meinolf (Germany)

Charitine, Charitini, Haritini (Greece)

Aurél (Hungary)

Placido (Italy)

Amālija, Male (Latvia)

Donata, Edvinas, Gilda, Palemonas, Placidas (Lithuania)

Bo, Boye, Brynjar (Norway)

Apolinary, Częstogniew, Donat, Donata, Faust, Fides, Flawia, Igor, Justyn, Konstancjusz, Konstans, Placyd (Poland)

Daniil, Haritina, Misail (România)

Viera (Slovakia)

Faustina, Froilán, María, Plácido (Spain)

Bror (Sweden)

Charita (Ukraine)

Chester, Cheston, Chet, Nia, Nyah (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 278 of 2024; 87 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 4 of week 40 of 2023

Celtic Tree Calendar: Gort (Ivy) [Day 3 of 28]

Chinese: Month 8 (Xin-You), Day 21 (Bing-Shen)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 20 Tishri 5784

Islamic: 20 Rabi I 1445

J Cal: 8 Shù; Oneday [8 of 30]

Julian: 22 September 2023

Moon: 61%: Waning Gibbous

Positivist: 26 Shakespeare (10th Month) [Rossini]

Runic Half Month: Gyfu (Gift) [Day 9 of 15]

Season: Autumn (Day 12 of 89)

Zodiac: Libra (Day 12 of 30)

[brookston]

Holidays 10.5

Holidays

Armed Forces Day (Egypt, Indonesia)

Bells Across America for Fallen Firefighters

Be Nice to a Lawyer Day

Bonn Phchum Ben (Ancestors’ Day; Cambodia)

Catherine Park Day

Checkers Appreciation Day

Chic Spy Day

Commemorating the Victims of Prohibition Day (Cannabis)

Constitution Day (Vanuatu)

Death of Prophet Mohammad (Iran)

Dirij Tereur (Elder Scrolls)

Do Something Nice Day

Education Day (Kiribati)

Engineer’s Day (Bolivia)

Feast of the Empire of Lies

Ganga River Dolphin Day (India)

Global James Bond Day

Goddard Day

International Charge Your Car Day

International Day of No Prostitution

Long Walk Day

Medicine Day (Peru)

Mignonette Day (French Republic)

Monty Python Day

Most Common Birthday Day

National Above the Bus Day

National Be Nice Day

National Caribbean Civility Day

National Dildo Trick Shot Day

National Depression Screening Day

National Family Fire Drill Day

National Get Funky Day

National Hackney Day

National Hypertrophic Olivary Degeneration Awareness Day

National Innovation Day (Thailand)

National Kiss a Wrestler Day

National Military Podcast Day

National Rhode Island Day

National Scissoring Day

National Storytelling Day

Nubaigai (Harvest Festival; Pagan Lithuanian)

Republic Day (Portugal)

Sea Serpent Day

Semana Morazánica (Honduras)

Stara Zagora Day (Bulgaria)

Teacher’s Day (Pakistan, Russia)

Territory Day (Christmas Island)

Unicorn Questing Season begins

Vranec World Day

Victims of Marijuana Prohibition Day

World Dyslexia Awareness Day

World Meningitis Day

World Teachers' Day (UN)

Food & Drink Celebrations

Brewing Industry Day

National Apple Betty Day

Noisy Munching Day

Pilsner Day

Rocky Mountain Oyster Day

1st Thursday in October

Bring Your Bible to School Day [1st Thursday]

Great American Beer Festival begins [thru Saturday]

Kid Lit Art Postcard Day [1st Thursday]

National Depression Screening Day [Thursday of 1st Full Week]

National Poetry Day (UK) [1st Thursday]

National Women-Owned Business Day [1st Thursday]

Independence Days

Outer Space Nation of Celestia (Declared; 1949) [unrecognized]

Portugal (from Kingdom of Leon, 1143)

Feast Days

Anna Schäffer (Christian; Saint)

Baptism of the Prophet (Mali)

Bartolo Longo (Christian; Blessed)

Bigmouth Fraggle (Muppetism)

Faustina Kowalska (Christian; Saint)

Francesco Guardi (Artology)

Francis Xavier Seelos (Roman Catholic Church; Blessed)

Galla (Christian; Saint)

Hor and Susia (Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria)

Hosanna Rabbah (Begins at Sundown; Judaism) [21 Tishri]

Mania Mundus (Festival to remember departed ancestors)

Mundus Patet (Ancient Rome)

Opening of the Mundus Cereris (Pagan)

Placid and Maurus (Christian; Saint)

Placidus (Christian; Martyr)

Pope Benedict IX (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Rossini (Positivist; Saint)

Slightly Naughty Day (Pastafarian)

Thesmorphoria begins (3-Day Women’s Festival to Demeter; Ancient Greece)

Thraseas (Christian; Saint)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Butsumetsu (仏滅 Japan) [Unlucky all day.]

Premieres

Abbott and Costello in Hollywood (Film; 1945)

The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (Disney Animated Film; 1949)

Age of Empires (Computer Game; 1997)

Alpalooza, by Weird Al Yankovic (Album; 1993)

Automatic for the People, by R.E.M. (Album; 1992)

Breakfast at Tiffany’s (Film; 1961)

Cats (Film; 1998)

Cleopatra (Film; 1934)

Crazy Little Thing Called Love, by Queen (Song; 1979)

The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (Animated Aardman Film; 2005)

Dr. No (UK Film; 1962) [James Bond #1]

The Fire Chaser or Bullwinkle Goes to Blazes (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S6, Ep. 307; 1964)

Flaming Arrows or Bullwinkle Meets His Match (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S6, Ep. 308; 1964)

Frankenweenie (Animated Film; 2012)

Gilmore Girls (TV Series; 2000)

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, by Elton John (Album; 1973)

Harriet the Spy, by Louise Fitzhugh (Novel; 1963)

Harrison Bergeron, by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (Short Story; 1961)

Henry & June (Film; 1990)

I’m the Man, by Joe Jackson (Album; 1979)

Jack and the Beanstalk (Disney Cartoon; 1922)

Laugh-O-Gram Studio’s Goldie Locks and the Three Bears (Disney Cartoon; 1922)

Led Zeppelin III, by Led Zeppelin (Album; 1970)

Little Miss Can’t Be Wrong, by the Spin Doctors (Song; 1992)

Love Me Do, by The Beatles (UK Song; 1962)

Michael Clayton (Film; 2007)

Millions of Cats, by Wanda Gág (Children’s Book; 1928)

Monty Python’s Flying Circus (UK TV Series; 1969)

¡Mucha Lucha!: The Return of El Maléfico (WB Animated Film; 2004)

Music Land (Disney Cartoon; 1935)

Music Land (Disney Animated Film; 1955)

Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats, by T.S. Eliot (Poems; 1939)

One-Punch Man (Anime; 2015)

Right Ho, Jeeves, by P.G. Wodehouse (Novel; 1934) [Jeeves #6]

The Saint Around the World, by Leslie Charteris (Short Stories 1956) [Saint #32]

Serendipity

Skyfall, by Adele (Song; 2012)

10 (Film; 1979)

The Ten Commandments (Film; 1956)

Tunnel of Love, by Bruce Springsteen (Album; 1987)

Venom (Film; 2018)

Today’s Name Days

Attila, Gallina, Herwig, Meinolf, Placidus (Austria)

Faustina, Mauro, Miodrag (Croatia)

Eliška (Czech Republic)

Placidus (Denmark)

Inga, Inge, Ingeborg, Inger, Ingi, Ingrid (Estonia)

Inka, Inkeri (Finland)

Camélia, Capucine, Daphné, Eglantin, Faustine, Fleur, Placide (France)

Gallina, Herwig, Meinolf (Germany)

Charitine, Charitini, Haritini (Greece)

Aurél (Hungary)

Placido (Italy)

Amālija, Male (Latvia)

Donata, Edvinas, Gilda, Palemonas, Placidas (Lithuania)

Bo, Boye, Brynjar (Norway)

Apolinary, Częstogniew, Donat, Donata, Faust, Fides, Flawia, Igor, Justyn, Konstancjusz, Konstans, Placyd (Poland)

Daniil, Haritina, Misail (România)

Viera (Slovakia)

Faustina, Froilán, María, Plácido (Spain)

Bror (Sweden)

Charita (Ukraine)

Chester, Cheston, Chet, Nia, Nyah (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 278 of 2024; 87 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 4 of week 40 of 2023

Celtic Tree Calendar: Gort (Ivy) [Day 3 of 28]

Chinese: Month 8 (Xin-You), Day 21 (Bing-Shen)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 20 Tishri 5784

Islamic: 20 Rabi I 1445

J Cal: 8 Shù; Oneday [8 of 30]

Julian: 22 September 2023

Moon: 61%: Waning Gibbous

Positivist: 26 Shakespeare (10th Month) [Rossini]

Runic Half Month: Gyfu (Gift) [Day 9 of 15]

Season: Autumn (Day 12 of 89)

Zodiac: Libra (Day 12 of 30)

[furashuban]

“Goodbye, Harriet M. Welsch.” “The M will always stand for Myrtle. Harriet Myrtle Welsch.”

[thelittleboyfromloveactually]

Record Store (pt. 1)

Thomas Brodie sangster x reader

Prompt: Royal records is one of the best in the country, it’s also your favorite. On your weekly trip there you meet a friendly face. And later on you find you have a lot more in common than just your taste in music.

Warnings: some cussing (honestly it’s gonna be in every fic) fluff

Word count: 1640

Requests are still open yall!

You woke up early, the sun shinning through your sheer curtains. Your white bed sheets tangled in your legs. You reached over to your bed side table to grab your phone. 7:24. You dragged yourself out of your warm bed and into the shower. Today was Sunday, your day off. You were currently studying at Cambridge college med school. You had classes everyday except Saturday and Sunday. Saturday you normally spent at work and studying. Every Sunday you would wake up early, and then walk over to one of your favorite places in London, Royal Records. You had a great passion for music, you had an angel like voice and had learned to play piano from a young age. As you grew your taste in music got better and bigger. Royal records was your favorite record store around, it was small but you knew how to find hidden gems.

After you got out of your shower your blow dryed your hair, showing off your gorgeous layers. You did your make up and threw on a pair of black leather pants, a black shirt, your leather jacket, your black boots and some gold jewelry. You grabbed your bag and left your dorm room, quietly so as not to wake up your room mate. You walked down the hall and to the elevator. You pressed the main floor and felt it beggin going down. The doors opened and you stepped out, checking the time on the wall. 8:15. It was about a fifteen minute walk to the coffee shop and only five minutes from there to the store, you would be there just in time for opening. After grabbing your coffee you started on your short journey to your favorite record store. Getting there at exactly 9:00. Once you arrived you saw Felix, he was a good friend of yours who also happened to work here. You had met him in your first year of college, he was in your French class and was struggling, you offered to help. You were fluent and French, Italian and Spanish. Your mom was part French so you grew up being exposed to it.

“Bonjour Felix!” You said as you skipped up to him just as he was unlocking the door

“Hey Y/N! How are you ?” He said smiling at you

“Fine thanks, and yourself?” You asked, smiling once he finally opened the door escorting you inside

“Pretty good” he went behind the counter and opened a new box of records that they had ordered

“Ooo are those the new ones?” Personally you were a fan of older ish music, but you always kept an opened mind.

“That they are” he said looking up at you, you joined him on the other side of the counter and began to look through them. “Tell you what, you get a fee record if you help me organize these” he said

Your face lit up “deal!” You said already grabbing some carefully and going to put them into their sections.

After about 25 minutes you had finished, you were pretty fast. The bell rang as someone walked into the store, Felix greeted them and so did you. A few more people came in and you began your search, looking in every box there was. Then you found it. AC/DCs back in black album, for some reason this was hard to find, you reached for it. But when your hand was on it, so was someone else’s. You looked up, your face blushing a little for your fingers had touched each other’s.

“Oh I’m sorry” said the boy, he looks so familiar, he was tall and thin, blonde hair, your couldn’t put your finger on it.

“It’s fine, really.” You said smiling at him “you can have it”

“No no! You were here first” he said

“No really, my friend works here, I will know the second another one comes in” you said handing him the album

“A-are you sure?” He asked

“Yup” you said smiling, you had to admit, this boy was cute

You walked with him over to the desk

“So you like AC/DC?” He asked looking at you

“I would hope everyone does” you said

He laughed “there are quiet bloody amazing, what’s your favorite album?” He asked

You blushed “that one” you said pointing at the vinyl in his hand

“Oh no, well, take it!” He said, he tried to put it in your hands but you put them behind your back.

“No, like I said I can find another one” you said smiling politely at him

“They are hard to find though” he said hesitantly

“I’m good at finding things”

He smiled and nodded his head, “I’m Thomas” he said reaching his hand out for you to shake it

You put your hand in his “Y/N”

“Pleasure to meet you, Y/N” he said smiling an adorable smile at you

“The pleasure is all mine” you said blushing

He bought the album and you said goodbye

“It was nice meeting you Y/N” he said smiling

“You too thomas” you smiled back

He walked away, looking back at you and smiling to himself.

The next day you woke up at 9:00, got ready and headed to your first class. You only had one class on Monday but it was a long one. 2 hours and 15 mins of psychology. You wanted to be an OB/GYN but you had an interest in the mind too. It’s also nice to be able to understand people. Throughout the entire class though all you could think about was that boy you had met. Thomas. The familiarness was bothering you, why did he seem so familiar? He was also cute and had a good taste in music.

After class you went to your dorm and got ready for work, you grabbed some lunch on your way and arrived 5 mins before your 12:00 shift started. You had worked at this coffee shop for 4 years now. It was also one of your favorite places. You lived the smell of pastries and coffee. You loved the locals that you had become friends with, you loved the people you worked with, you loved seeing which new book Harriet was reading this week. Harriet was the old lady who came here every morning from 11:00 to 12:15, she would sit and drink her coffee, eat her brunch and read her book. They were always some sweet romance novel, mystery or classic. She owned your other favorite place, the book store. You stepped into the kitchen greeting everyone and grabbing your apron and your notepad.

“Y/N go help table 4 outside!” Your manager called

“Will do lizzy!” You called back

You made your way outside to table four, dodging the other waiters.

“Hi, uh what can I get for you today?” You asked nicely whilst taking out your pen from your pocket

“A black coffee please, love” you recognized the voice immediately, you looked up from your notepad and saw Thomas smiling up at you. He was wearing a coat and sunglasses. He looked as if he was a spy or something.

“Oh my god! Hey!” Your said

“Hi” he said smiling at you

“W-what are you doing here?” You asked

“Just getting my coffee”

“Ah I see, so I don’t need to file a restraining order?” You said jokingly

He laughed “I would hope not” he said “why don’t you sit with me for a second, my coffee can wait” he said gesturing to the seat across from him.

“I would love to but I’m working” you said with an apologetic smile

“Right well, I don’t think they will mind you being gone for one minute” he said

You sighed taking the seat across from him

“You know you look like your in disguise?” You mentioned to him

“Do I now?” He asked leaning toward you

“Yes you do”

“Well I’ll be honest, I need your help, I am investigating a murder and the killer is here in this cafe” he said, he seemed like he really ment it

You laughed, hoping it was a joke

He smiled “I’m joking with you, uh um I am actually an actor”

Of course he was! That’s where you had recognized him from!

“That makes so much sense! I knew you looked familiar, newt right?” You asked

“Yup” he said smiling

“So what is a hot shot actor like you doing here at this cafe?”

“Well if I’m being completely honest, I didn’t come just for the coffee, but rather the company. Yesterday I went back to the record store to see if you were there, you weren’t so I asked your friend, who is very nice by the way, for your number. He said he didn’t know me and he wasn’t going to give your number to a stranger. I convinced him to tell me where you worked, and then I ended up here.” He said smiling

“Well that’s quite a story” you said blushing

“Well I think fait just wants me to get your number so” he dragged off, nudging his phone over to you

You giggled “sure”

You typed your number into his phone and texted yourself

“There you go” you said handing it back to him

“Thanks love, you know sense I have you here, would you like to go to dinner sometime? Or to the movies? Or just ya know, hang out? Maybe?” He asked sweetly

“I think I would” you said, you could talk your face was red

“Uh well great then, shall I text you the details?” He asked

“Yes” you smiled, standing up

“Wait where are you going?” He asked grabbing your hand in his

“To get your coffee” you said winking and walking away

Part two :)

[aion-rsa]

HBO Max New Releases: October 2021

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The fall is usually the domain of television. September and October are the months in which networks (and increasingly some streamers) debut all their new series. With its list of new releases for October 2021, however, HBO Max has decided that fall works just fine for new movies as well.

HBO Max’s new offerings this month are highlighted by two enormous Warner Bros. film releases. The Sopranos prequel The Many Saints of Newark opens things up on Oct. 1. The movie is getting a theatrical release as well but you can certainly just watch it via streaming to make Sopranos creator and film purist David Chase mad. Next up is the sprawling sci-fi epic Dune on Oct. 22. It’s long been thought that a faithful and suitably enormous Dune adaptation was impossible. Now it’s almost time to see if director Denis Villenueve pulled it off.

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Even if the movies are the big blockbusters here, HBO Max isn’t letting its TV offerings go to waste. Arguably HBO’s biggest running drama, Succession, returns for a long-awaited third season on Oct. 17. Also mixed in to the streamer’s TV offerings are docuseries like 15 Minutes of Shame (Oct. 7) and What Happened, Brittany Murphy? (Oct. 15).

October will also be a good month for movie fans looking to check out some recent heavy hitters without buying a ticket. It: Chapter Two (Oct. 10), The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It (Oct. 21), and In the Heights (Oct. 28) all arrive this month.

HBO Max New Releases – October 2021

October 1 Admission, 2013 (HBO) A Royal Affair, 2012 (HBO) After the Thin Man, 1936 All The President’s Men, 1976 (HBO) American Gigolo, 1980 (HBO) American Graffiti, 1973 (HBO) Argo, 2012 (Alternate Version) (HBO)  Bad Boys II, 2003 Bad Boys, 1995 Bad Words, 2013 (HBO) Ballet 422, 2014 (HBO) Being Flynn, 2012 (HBO) Best Man Down, 2013 (HBO) Beverly Hills Cop, 1984 (HBO) Beverly Hills Cop II, 1987 (HBO) Beverly Hills Cop III, 1994 (HBO) Bill And Ted’s Excellent Adventure, 1989 (HBO) Bill And Ted’s Bogus Journey, 1991 (HBO) Billy Elliot, 2000 (HBO) Black Christmas, 2019 (HBO) Black Hawk Down, 2001 (HBO) Blades Of Glory, 2007 (HBO) Blazing Saddles, 1974 Blood Father, 2016 (HBO) Bloodsport, 1988 (HBO) Blue Crush, 2002 (HBO) Bridget Jones: The Edge Of Reason, 2004 (HBO) Bridget Jones’s Diary, 2001 Broken City, 2013 (HBO) Caddyshack II, 1988 Cake, 2005 (HBO) Cats, 2019 (HBO) Child 44, 2015 (HBO) City of God, 2002 (HBO) Clash of Titans , 1981 Client 9: The Rise And Fall Of Eliot Spitzer, 2010 (HBO) Culpa, 2021 (HBO) Danny Collins, 2015 (HBO) David Lynch: The Art Life, 2016 Desperately Seeking Susan, 1985 (HBO) Dinner For Schmucks, 2010 (HBO) Doubt, 2008 (HBO) Down A Dark Hall, 2018 (HBO) Downhill, 2020 (HBO) Drop Zone, 1994 (HBO) Dying Young, 1991 (HBO) El Cantante, 2007 (HBO) El Profugo, 2020 (HBO) Emma., 2020 (HBO) Endless Love, 2014 (HBO) Entre Nos: The Winners 2, 2021 (HBO) Entre Nos: What She Said, 2021 (HBO) Family Matters Fifty Shades Of Black, 2016 (HBO) For A Good Time, Call…, 2012 (Alternate Version) (HBO)  Full House Gangs Of New York, 2002 (HBO) Gangster Squad, 2013 (HBO) Goodbye, Mr. Chips, 1969 Hacksaw Ridge, 2016 (HBO) Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay, 2008 He Said She Said, 1991 (HBO) Hearts In Atlantis, 2001 (HBO) Hitch, 2005 Hitman, 2007 (Alternate Version) (HBO)  Hooper, 1978 Hostage, 2005 (HBO) House of Wax , 2005 House, 2008 (HBO) Imagine That, 2009 (HBO) Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words, 2015 J. Edgar, 2011 (HBO) Johnny English Strikes Again, 2018 (HBO) Journey to the Center of the Earth, 2008 Just Mercy, 2019 (HBO) Kill Bill: Vol. 1, 2003 (HBO) Kill Bill: Vol. 2, 2004 (HBO) Kin, 2018 (HBO) Leap Year, 2010 (HBO) LEGO DC Shazam: Magic and Monsters!, 2020 Less Than Zero, 1987 (HBO) Like Water for Chocolate, 1992 (HBO) Little Man, 2006 (HBO) Lincoln, 2012 (HBO) Lottery Ticket, 2010 (HBO) M*A*S*H, 1970 (HBO) Mama, 2013 (HBO) Marathon Man, 1976 (HBO) Misery, 1990 (HBO) Monster’s Ball, 2001 (Alternate Version) (HBO)  Moonrise Kingdom, 2012 (HBO) National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, 1989 National Lampoon’s Vacation, 1983 Natural Born Killers, 1994 Never, Rarely, Sometimes, Always, 2020 (HBO) Night Catches Us, 2010 (HBO) Orphan, 2009 Parental Guidance, 2012 (HBO) Pariah, 2011 (HBO) Police Academy, 1984 Poltergeist II: The Other Side, 1986 (HBO) Poltergeist III, 1988 (HBO) Private Parts, 1997 (HBO) Proof Of Life, 2000 (HBO) Racing Stripes, 2005 (HBO) Reservation Road, 2007 (HBO) Say Anything…, 1989 (HBO) Sergeant York, 1941 Shaft, 1971 Shall We Dance?, 2004 (HBO) She’s All That, 1999 (HBO) Sherlock Holmes And The Great Escape, 2019 (HBO) Sherlock Holmes, 2009 Shrek The Third, 2007 (HBO) Six Degrees Of Separation, 1993 (HBO) Sliver, 1993 (Alternate Version) (HBO)  Snitch, 2013 (HBO) Speedway, 1968 Step by Step,  Stigmata, 1999 (HBO) Strange But True, 2019 (HBO) Superstar, 1999 (HBO) Super 8, 2011 (HBO) Talk To Me, 2007 (HBO) Teen Titans Go! vs. Teen Titans, 2019 The Banger Sisters, 2002 (HBO) The Blind Side, 2009 (HBO) The Bonfire of the Vanities, 1990 The Book Of Eli, 2010 (HBO) The Campaign, 2012 (Alternate Version) (HBO)  The Cider House Rules, 1999 (HBO) The Cincinnati Kid, 1965 The East, 2013 (HBO) The Eichmann Show, 2015 (HBO) The Internship, 2013 (HBO) The Invisible Man, 2020 (HBO) The Harvey Girls, 1946 The High Note, 2020 (HBO) The Hours, 2002 (HBO) The Legend Of Hercules, 2014 (HBO) The Many Saints of Newark, Warner Bros. Film Premiere, 2021  The Outsiders, 1983 The Perfect Storm, 2000 The Poseidon Adventure, 1972 (HBO) The Quarry, 2020 (HBO) The Rite, 2011 (HBO) The Running Man, 1987 (HBO) The Way Way Back, 2013 (HBO) The 15:17 To Paris, 2018 (HBO) Things We Lost In The Fire, 2007 (HBO) Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride, 2005 Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, 2011 (HBO) Trance, 2013 (HBO) Tully, 2018 (HBO) Twelve Monkeys, 1995 (HBO) Underwater, 2020 (HBO) Up In The Air, 2009 (HBO) Wall Street, 1987 (HBO) Warm Bodies, 2013 (HBO) Wendy, 2020 (HBO) XXX, 2002

October 3 Simmer, 2020

October 4  Laetitia, Limited Drama Series Finale (HBO) Niña Furia Sublet, 2020

October 5 American Masters: Mike Nichols, 2016 American Masters: Nichols and May: Take Two, 1996 El Verano Que Vivimos, 2020 Level Playing Field, Documentary Series Finale (HBO)

October 6 Muy Gay Too Mexicano (Short), 2020 The Republic of Sarah, Season 1 Rosa (short), 2020

October 7 15 Minutes of Shame, Max Original Series Premiere Craftopia, Max Original Season 2A Premiere The Not-Too-Late Show with Elmo: Amber Ruffin / Bebe Rexha

October 8 Voyagers, 2021 (HBO)

October 9 Birdgirl , Season 16 To Your Eternity , Season 1 (Subtitled) (Crunchyroll Collection)

October 10  It: Chapter 2, 2019 Nuclear Family, Documentary Series Finale (HBO) Scenes From A Marriage, Limited Series Finale (HBO)

October 11 We’re Here, Season 2 Premiere (HBO)

October 14 Aquaman: King of Atlantis, Chapter One: Dead Sea, Max Original Series Premiere Little Ellen, Max Original Season 1B Premiere Love Spells (aka Amarres), Max Original Series Premiere Teen Titans Go!, Seasons 1-6 The Missing, (aka Os Ausentes), Max Original Series Premiere The Not-Too-Late Show with Elmo: Jenna Bush Hager / Sophie Fatu Phoebe Robinson: Sorry, Harriet Tubman, Max Original Special Premiere Welcome to Utmark (aka Utmark) , Max Original Series Premiere What Happened, Brittany Murphy?, Max Original Series Premiere

October 15 In the Line of Fire, 1993 Point Break, 1991 (HBO) Tu Me Manques, 2019 (HBO)

October 17 Succession, Season 3 Premiere (HBO)

October 18 El Huésped Americano (aka The American Guest), Limited Drama Series Finale (HBO) Women is Losers, 2021

October 19 Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel (HBO)

October 20 Entre Hombres (aka Amongst Men), Limited Series Finale (HBO)

October 21 Aquaman: King of Atlantis, Chapter Two: Primordius Reign of Superwomen, Max Original Documentary Premiere The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It, 2021 (HBO) (Available in 4K UHD, HDR10, Dolby Vision and  Dolby Atmos in English Only on supported devices) The Not-Too-Late Show with Elmo: Ames McNamara / Leslie Odom Jr. Tuff Money (aka Bani Negri), Max Original Series Premiere

October 22 Dune, Warner Bros. Film Premiere, 2021

October 24 Insecure, Season 5 Premiere (HBO)

October 26 Maricon Perdido, Max Original Series Premiere The Mopes, Max Original Series Premiere The Truth of Dolores Vazquez (aka The Caso Wanninkhof), Max Original Series Premiere

October 28 Aquaman: King of Atlantis, Chapter Three: Tidal Shift In The Heights, 2021 (HBO) Love Life, Max Original Season 2 Premiere A Thousand Fangs (aka Mil Colmillos), Max Original Series Premiere The Not-Too-Late Show with Elmo: Dani & Dannah Lane / AJR

October 29 Victor and Valentino , Season 2

October 31 The Bachelorette, Season 16

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Leaving HBO Max – October 2021  

October 10 Malignant, 2021

October 11 Meatballs, 1979

October 17 Cry Macho, 2021

October 18 Sabrina: Magic of the Red Rose, 2015

October 20 HBO First Look: The Eyes of Tammy Faye, 2021 (HBO)

October 25 The Artist, 2011

October 27 The Hangover Part III, 2013

October 28 Tracey Ullman’s Show,  (HBO)

October 31 Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, 2012 (HBO) A Little Princess, 1995 (HBO) All Is Lost, 2013 (HBO) All-Star Superman, 2011 Alpha And Omega: Journey To Bear Kingdom, 2017 (HBO) Alpha And Omega: The Big Fureeze, 2016 (HBO) Antwone Fisher, 2002 (HBO) A Star Is Born, 1976 A Time To Kill, 1996 Backdraft, 1991 (HBO) Bad Education, 2004 Bandits, 2001 (HBO) Barefoot, 2014 (HBO) *Batteries Not Included, 1987 (HBO) Battleship, 2012 (HBO) Black Dynamite, 2009 Blood And Wine, 1997 (HBO) Broken Embraces, 2009 Cats & Dogs, 2001 Cesar Chavez, 2014 (HBO) Chasing Amy, 1997 (HBO) Christmas In Compton, 2012 Clerks, 1994 (HBO) Conspiracy Theory, 1997 Cool Hand Luke, 1967 Critters 4, 1992 Darkest Hour, 2017 (HBO) Dirt, 2017 Dirty Harry, 1971 Dreamcatcher, 2003 El Pacto (aka The Pact), 2018 (HBO) Empire Of The Sun, 1987 Eulogy, 2004 (HBO) Final Destination, 2000 Final Destination 2, 2003 Final Destination 3, 2006 Final Destination 5, 2011 Firewall, 2006 Flight Of The Intruder, 1991 (HBO) Flying Leathernecks, 1951 Frantic, 1988 Freaks, 1932 Ghoulies, 1985 (HBO) Ghoulies II, 1987 (HBO) Gone Baby Gone, 2007 Good Morning, Vietnam, 1987 (HBO) Gothika, 2003 Gun Crazy, 1950 High Fidelity, 2000 (HBO) House Of Wax, 2005 How To Be A Latin Lover, 2017 How To Be Single, 2016 (HBO) How To Make An American Quilt, 1995 (HBO) I’m So Excited!, 2013 Ice Age: Continental Drift, 2012 (HBO) Immigration Tango, 2011 (HBO) Irresistible, 2020 (HBO) It, 2017 (HBO) Jay And Silent Bob Strike Back, 2001 (HBO) Just Before I Go, 2015 (HBO) King Kong, 1976 (HBO) Lars And The Real Girl, 2007 (HBO) Lego Dc Batman: Family Matters, 2019 Lego Dc Shazam: Magic And Monsters!, 2020 Long Gone By, 2019 (HBO) Magnum Force, 1973 Man Up, 2015 (HBO) Mccabe And Mrs. Miller, 1971 Message Erased, 2019 (HBO) Monkey Shines, 1988 (HBO) Nitro Circus: The Movie 3D, 2012 (HBO) Norbit, 2007 (HBO) One More Time, 2016 (HBO) Pajaros De Verano (aka Birds Of Passage)2019 (HBO) Pale Rider, 1985 Pepi, Luci, Bom Y Otras Chicas Del Monton, 1980 Professor Marston & The Wonder Women, 2017 Red Dawn, 1984 (HBO) Risky Business, 1983 (HBO) Santa Buddies, 2009 (HBO) Save The Last Dance, 2001 (HBO) Save The Last Dance 2, 2006 (HBO) School Dance, 2014 (HBO) Serpico, 1974 (HBO) Snow Buddies, 2008 (HBO) Something To Talk About, 1995 Space Buddies, 2009 (HBO) Spawn, 1997 Stand Up Guys, 2013 (HBO) Sudden Impact, 1983 Summer Rental, 1985 (HBO) The Bucket List, 2007 The Color Purple, 1985 The Conjuring 2, 2016 The Dead Pool, 1988 The Debt, 2011 (HBO) The Family Man, 2000 (HBO) The Final Destination, 2009 The Five-Year Engagement, 2012 (Alternate Version) (HBO)  The Fugitive, 1993 The Great Caruso, 1951 The Human Voice, 2020 The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus, 2009 The Kingdom, 2007 (HBO) The Last Mimzy, 2007 The Lego Batman Movie, 2017 The Sand Pebbles, 1966 (HBO) The Shack, 2017 (HBO) The Shadow, 1994 (HBO) The Skin I Live In, 2011 The Switch, 2010 The Tuxedo, 2002 (HBO) The Voices, 2015 (HBO) The Quiet Ones, 2014 (HBO) The Witches, 1990 Thirteen Ghosts, 2001 Troy, 2004 Trust Me, 2014 (HBO) Volver, 2006 Wait Until Dark, 1967 Westworld (Movie), 1973 When Harry Met Sally, 1989 Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown, 1988 XXX: State Of The Union, 2005

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[ktquimby]

The idea of a personal canon is powerful. Mine would include:

Harriet the Spy. Louise Fitzhugh

Persuasion, Jane Austen

Goodbye Without Leaving, Laurie Colwin

Duino Elegies, Rilke

Complete Poems, Emily Dickinson

Beowulf, Seamus Heaney translation

Anansi Boys, Neil Gaiman

Godfather, Terry Pratchett

Good Omens, Pratchett & Gaiman

A collection of short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald, as long as it contained "Diamond as Big as the Ritz"

What about you?

[whatisthiswitchcraft]

books I read in 2018! (not including rereads, favorites are bolded!)

Shortcomings - Adrian Tomine

Skim - Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki

Tina’s Mouth: An Existential Comic Diary - Keshni Kashyap

Turning Japanese: A Graphic Memoir - Marinaomi

Killing and Dying - Adrian Tomine

Take What You Can Carry - Kevin C. Pyle

The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue - Mackenzi Lee

Riotous Flesh: Women, Physiology, and the Solitary Vice in Nineteenth-Century America - April R. Haynes

Finder: Voice - Carla Speed McNeil

Witches Abroad - Terry Pratchett

Interpreter of Maladies - Jhumpa Lahiri

The Hate U Give - Angie Thomas

We Are Never Meeting In Real Life - Samantha Irby

Priestdaddy - Patricia Lockwood

What We Lose - Zinzi Clemmons

What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours - Helen Oyeyemi

Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard: The Ship of the Dead - Rick Riordan

Strange Practice - Vivian Shaw

The Best We Could Do - Thi Bui

Kindred: A Graphic Novel - Octavia Butler, Damian Duffy, John Jennings

Will Do Magic for Small Change - Andrea Hairston

Pachinko - Min Jin Lee

Her Body and Other Parties - Carmen Maria Machado

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil - John Berendt

Salt Houses - Hala Alyan

March: Book One - John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, Nate Powell

March: Book Two - John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, Nate Powell

March: Book Three - John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, Nate Powell

Sing, Unburied, Sing - Jesmyn Ward

The Power - Naomi Alderman

Darkroom: A Memoir in Black and White - Lila Quintero Weaver

Blood Justice: The Lynching of Mack Charles Parker - Howard Smead

Warriors Don’t Cry - Melba Pattillo Beals

Moonshot: The Indigenous Comics Collection - ed. Hope Nicholson

Monstress: Awakening - Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda

Boundless - Jillian Tamaki

The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South - Michael W. Twitty

Speak: The Graphic Novel - Laurie Halse Anderson and Emily Carroll

A Raisin in the Sun - Lorraine Hansberry

Surpassing Certainty: What My Twenties Taught Me - Janet Mock

Bingo Love - Tee Franklin, Jenn St-Onge, Joy San

Vietnamerica - G.B. Tran

Incognegro: A Graphic Mystery - Mat Johnson and Warren Pleece

Arab in America - Toufic El Rassi

Diary of a Reluctant Dreamer: Undocumented Vignettes from a Pre-American Life - Alberto Ledesma

Tell the Wolves I’m Home - Carol Rifka Brunt

The Immortalists - Chloe Benjamin

The Argonauts - Maggie Nelson

Little Fires Everywhere - Celeste Ng

The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley - Malcolm X and Alex Haley

All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes - Maya Angelou

The Fire Next Time - James Baldwin

Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body - Roxane Gay

Deer Woman: An Anthology - ed. Elizabeth LaPensée and Weshoyot Alvitre

Bloods: Black Veterans of the Vietnam War - Wallace Terry

The Merry Spinster: Tales of Everyday Horror - [Daniel] Mallory Ortberg

It’s All Absolutely Fine: Life Is Complicated So I’ve Drawn It Instead - Ruby Elliot

The Book of Unknown Americans - Cristina Henríquez

Through the Woods - Emily Carroll

The World Only Spins Forward: The Ascent of Angels in America - Isaac Butler and Dan Kois

Tributaries - Laura Da’

On the Bus With Rosa Parks - Rita Dove

Full-Metal Indigiqueer - Joshua Whitehead

Whereas: Poems - Layli Long Soldier

Not Your Villain - C.B. Lee

My Body is a Book of Rules - Elissa Washuta

Mis(h)adra - Iasmin Omar Ata

All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens Throughout the Ages - ed. Saundra Mitchell

This is Just My Face: Try Not to Stare - Gabourey Sidibe

Crazy Brave - Joy Harjo

Harriet the Spy - Louise Fitzhugh

The Lesser Blessed - Richard Van Camp

A Burst of Light: and Other Essays - Audre Lorde

The Mysterious Benedict Society - Trenton Lee Stewart

My Brother’s Husband, Vol. I - Gengoroh Tagame

When You Reach Me - Rebecca Stead

The Wicked and the Divine: Imperial Phase (Part 1)  - Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie

Honor Girl - Maggie Thrash

The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho

The Prince and the Dressmaker - Jen Wang

Leah on the Offbeat - Becky Albertalli

The Summer of Jordi Perez (and the Best Burger in Los Angeles) - Amy Spalding

How to be Black - Baratunde Thurston

Bury What We Cannot Take - Kirstin Chen

No Reservations: Around the World on an Empty Stomach - Anthony Bourdain

Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook - Anthony Bourdain

Our Dead Behind Us - Audre Lorde

The Wicked and the Divine: Imperial Phase (Part 2)  - Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie

The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell: Tales of a 6'4, African American, Heterosexual, Cisgender, Left-Leaning, Asthmatic, Black and Proud Blerd, Mama's Boy, Dad, and Stand-Up Comedian - W. Kamau Bell

There There - Tommy Orange

Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl - Andrea Lawlor

Jonny Appleseed - Joshua Whitehead

Just the Funny Parts: ... And a Few Hard Truths About Sneaking Into the Hollywood Boys’ Club - Nell Scovell

Perma Red - Debra Magpie Earling

Toil and Trouble - Mairghread Scott

Kissing God Goodbye - June Jordan

Wade in the Water - Tracy K. Smith

Reincarnation Blues - Michael Poore

Nepantla: An Anthology [Queer Poets of Color] - ed. Christopher Soto

Not Here: Poems - Hieu Minh Nguyen

Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession - Alice Bolin

Trail of Lightning - Rebecca Roanhorse

Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl’s Confabulous Memoir - Kai Cheng Thom

Taproot: A Story about a Gardener and a Ghost - Keezy Young

The Witch Boy - Molly Knox Ostertag

The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson

Don’t Call Us Dead - Danez Smith

Bright Dead Things - Ada Limon

The Poet X - Elizabeth Acevedo

Citizen Illegal - Jose Olivarez

American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin - Terrance Hayes

for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf - Ntozake Shange

The Carrying - Ada Limon

Mercury: An Intimate Biography of Freddie Mercury - Lesley-Ann Jones

Unclaimed Baggage - Jen Doll

A River of Stars - Vanessa Hua

We Have Always Lived in the Castle - Shirley Jackson

Spinning Silver - Naomi Novik

Barbie Chang - Victoria Chang

Corazon - Yesika Salgado

Chemistry - Weike Wang

Number One Chinese Restaurant - Lillian Li

Lucy and Linh - Alice Pung

My Favorite Thing is Monsters - Emil Ferris

The Plant Messiah: Adventures in Search of the World's Rarest Species - Carlos Magdalena

The Incendiaries - R.O. Kwon

Dirty River: A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home - Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Dumplin’ - Julie Murphy

How Long ‘Til Black Future Month? - N.K. Jemisin

My Sister, the Serial Killer - Oyinkan Braithwaite

Unapologetic: a Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements - Charlene Carruthers

[billdecker]

2018.

 Here we are with the films list again. Bold = watched first time. 

Films.

The English Patient

The BFG

Anna Karenina [1967]

King Kong [2005]

54

Henry VIII and his Six Wives [1972]

The Disaster Artist

Napoleon Dynamite

The Addams Family

Kong: Skull Island

Justice League

The Addams Family Values

Johnny English

Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle

Wayne’s World

Lady Bird

Westworld

Carol

Green Lantern 

England is Mine

Rush Hour

Pride and Prejudice [2005]

Call Me By Your Name

The Greatest Showman

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Dante’s Peak

Only Lovers Left Alive

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Blade Runner

Moonrise Kingdom

Clue

Get Smart

Darkest Hour

Blade Runner 2049

Lost in Translation

The Talented Mr. Ripley

The Lego Movie

Anchorman

The Shape of Water

Get Out

San Andreas

The Beguiled

Lady Chatterley’s Lover [1981]

Interview With a Vampire

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Song to Song

Atonement

La La Land

Drop Dead Fred

Attack the Block

Another Mother’s Son

I, Tonya

The Sense of an Ending

Forgetting Sarah Marshall

Cold Mountain

Step Up

The Founder

The Fugitive

The Promise

Papadopoulos and Sons

Rob Roy

The Florida Project

Professor Marston and the Wonder Women

Head in the Clouds

Crooked House

Miami Vice [2006]

Miss Sloane

Molly’s Game

Battle of the Sexes

Half of a Yellow Sun

A Quiet Passion

Lady Jane

Anne of a Thousand Days

Mars Attacks!

Zoolander

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Nina

Pele: Birth of a Legend

2001: A Space Odyssey

A Futile and Stupid Gesture 

The Mask

Phantom Thread

Black Panther

Eyes Wide Shut

The Death of Stalin

Baywatch

Paddington 2

Wonder Woman

Star Trek [2009]

Star Trek Into Darkness

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

Star Trek Beyond

Denial

Chariots of Fire

Captain America: The First Avenger

Iron Man

The Incredible Hulk

Borg vs McEnroe

Iron Man 2

Thor

Avengers Assemble

Iron Man 3

Thor: The Dark World

Captain America: The Winter Soldier

Avengers: Age of Ultron

Guardians of the Galaxy

Guardians of the Galaxy: Volume 2

Ant-Man

Captain America: Civil War 

Doctor Strange

Spider-Man: Homecoming

Thor: Ragnarok

War Horse

God’s Own Country

In Bruges

The Big Sick

The Towering Inferno

Magnolia

Our Souls at Night 

Dog Day Afternoon

Willow

Roman Holiday

Sabrina

Annihilation 

North by Northwest

The Emoji Movie

Coco

Grease

Dirty Dancing

Captain Fantastic

The Wicker Man

This is Spinal Tap

Magic Mike XXL

Come Sunday

The Dark Tower

Bill

Avengers: Infinity War

Loving Vincent

Mansfield Park

Three Men and a Little Lady

Oliver!

Rough Night

Avatar

One Last Dance

Girls Trip

Alex and the List

The Dambusters

The Mummy [2017]

London

The Damned United

The Wedding Video

Deadpool

Enter the Dragon

Atomic Blonde

The Red Shoes

The Great Gatsby [2013]

Bram Stoker’s Dracula

South Park: Bigger, Longer, Uncut

Morris: A Life With Bells On

Boss Baby

Solo: A Star Wars Story

Kenny

All About Eve

Lethal Weapon

Lethal Weapon 2

Final Portrait

The Little Mermaid

The Huntsman: Winter’s War

Men in Black 3

Lara Croft: Tomb Raider

Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life

Tomb Raider [2018]

Crocodile Dundee

Jabberwocky

Legend

Lethal Weapon 3

The Witches

Down With Love

Clash of the Titans [1981]

Clash of the Titans [2010]

I Give it a Year

Terminal

Where the Wild Things Are

The Handmaiden

The Muppet Movie [1979]

Brakes

Ready Player One

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom

A Wrinkle in Time

Breathe

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets

Eagle vs Shark

Farenheit 451 [2018]

Picnic at Hanging Rock

Mission Impossible

Mission Impossible II

Mission Impossible III

The Saint [2017]

JFK

Ocean’s 8

Deadpool 2

Falling Down

Duck Butter

Peter Rabbit

44 Inch Chest

You Instead

The Deep Blue Sea

Not Another Happy Ending

Punch Drunk Love

The Fast and The Furious

2 Fast 2 Furious

The Fast and The Furious: Tokyo Drift

Fast & Furious

Fast Five

Fast & Furious 6

Furious 7

The Fate of the Furious

Geostorm

Ant-Man and the Wasp

Escape to Victory

Porcupine Lake

The Snowman

The Incredibles

Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again

Daphne

Ingrid Goes West

One Day

My Neighbor Totoro

There Will Be Blood

Rampage

Goodbye Christopher Robin

Incredibles 2

To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before

Belle de Jour

Mission Impossible - Fallout

The Spy Who Dumped Me 

The Meg

Little Ashes

Meet Joe Black

The King of Comedy

Jason and the Argonauts

Flash Gordon

Odette

Strictly Ballroom

Into the Woods

Cars 3

The Book of Life

Murder on the Orient Express [2017]

Kath & Kimderella

Madame Bovary

X-Men: First Class

X-Men: Days of Future Past

X-Men: Apocalypse

All the Money in the World

Quincy

The Post

Becoming Bond

Early Man

Little Women [1994]

Dangerous Liaisons

The Party

Operation Finale 

Nappily Ever After

What’s New Pussycat?

Saved!

A Star is Born [1976]

Modern Life is Rubbish

Jaws

The Mercy

Swept from the Sea

Permission

Venom

A Star is Born [2018]

Far and Away

Heat

Jane Eyre

Braveheart

Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool

Juliet, Naked

First Man

Christopher Robin

Vincent and Theo

Pollock

Bohemian Rhapsody

One More Time With Feeling

Interlude in Prague

The Mask of Zorro

The Legend of Zorro 

You, Me, and Him

The Nutcracker and the Four Realms 

Crazy Rich Asians

Bobby [2016]

Outlaw King

Space Jam

They Shall Not Grow Old

The Grinch [2018]

The Big Lebowski 

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald

Mulan

The Battle of the River Plate

They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead

My Generation

Batman Begins

Being John Malkovich

Harry Potter and The Philosopher’s Stone

Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets

Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban

Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire

Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix

Harry Potter and The Half Blood Prince

Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows - Part One

Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows - Part Two

Widows

Immortal Beloved

Basquiat 

Goya’s Ghosts

The Madness of King George

Charade

Star Wars: A New Hope

Stars Wars: The Empire Strikes Back

Star Wars: Return of the Jedi

Star Wars: The Phantom Menace

Stars Wars: Attack of the Clones

Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Star Wars: Rogue One

The Polar Express

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Dr. No

From Russia With Love 

Goldfinger

Thunderball

You Only Live Twice

On Her Majesty’s Secret Service

Diamonds Are Forever

Live and Let Die

The Man With the Golden Gun

The Spy Who Loved Me

Moonraker

For Your Eyes Only

Octopussy

A View to a Kill

The Living Daylights

Licence to Kill

Goldeneye

Tomorrow Never Dies

The World is Not Enough 

Die Another Day 

Casino Royale

Quantum of Solace

Skyfall

Spectre

Superbob

Greenfingers

Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle

A Christmas Prince

Aquaman

Love, Cecil

A Christmas Prince: The Royal Wedding

The Man Who Invented Christmas

Copying Beethoven

The Party’s Just Beginning 

Point Break

Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa

The Sound of Music

The Muppet Christmas Carol

The Muppets

Cars 2

The Holiday

A Bad Moms Christmas

The Holiday Calendar

The Christmas Chronicles

Nativity

Nativity 2: Danger in the Manger

Arthur Christmas

Bobby Robson: More Than a Manager

Zootropolis

Mary Poppins

The Good Dinosaur

Trolls

Rise of the Guardians

Bros: After the Screaming Stops

The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years

Get Carter [1971]

Bottle Rocket

Turbo

Closer

Nothing Like a Dame

Bolt

Make Us Dream

Die Hard

How to Train Your Dragon 2

Porridge

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

Books.

A Book For Her - Bridget Christie

Hickory Dickory Dock - Agatha Christie

Bright Star - John Keats

The Oberon Book of Comic Monologues for Women - Katy Wix

The Oberon Book of Comic Monologues for Women: Volume 2 - Katy Wix

Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut

Division Street - Helen Mort

The Victorian Guide to Sex - Fern Riddell

A Woman’s Work - Harriet Harman

Help - Simon Amstell

The Princess Diarist - Carrie Fisher

Selected Poems - Sylvia Plath

Ariel - Sylvia Plath

The ‘If You Prefer a Milder Comedian Please Ask For One’ EP - Stewart Lee

The Rachel Papers - Martin Amis

Parker Pyne Investigates - Agatha Christie

Bone - Yrsa Daley-Ward

Pages For You - Sylvia Brownrigg

The Sun and Her Flowers - Rupi Kaur

Different for Girls: A Girl’s Own True-Life Adventures in Pop - Louise Wener

A Single Man - Christopher Isherwood

A Room of One’s Own - Virginia Woolf

Repeal the 8th - Una Mullally

Why Not Socialism? - G.A. Cohen

The Chaos of Longing - K.Y. Robinson

High-Rise - J.G. Ballard

Animal Farm - George Orwell

Fully Coherent Plan - David Shrigley

The Lesser Bohemians - Eimear McBride

The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13 3/4 - Sue Townsend

Hera Lindsay Bird - Hera Lindsay Bird

Submarine - Joe Dunthorne

In the Penal Colony - Franz Kafka

Babette’s Feast - Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen) 

The Expelled - Samuel Beckett

Youth - Joseph Conrad

The Life of Rylan - Rylan Clark-Neal

Autumn - Ali Smith

The Cornet-Player Who Betrayed Ireland - Frank O’Connor

Two Gallants - James Joyce

Teaching my Mother How to Give Birth - Warsan Shire

Selected Poems - Edgar Allan Poe

Casino Royale - Ian Fleming

Frankenstein - Mary Shelley

The Door in the Wall - H.G Wells

Terra Incognita - Vladimir Nabokov

Dirty Pretty Things - Michael Faudet

Women  & Power: A Manifesto - Mary Beard

Dear Illusion - Kingsley Amis

Bitter Sweet Love - Michael Faudet

Smoke & Mirrors - Michael Faudet

Girl Meets Boy - Ali Smith

Pre-Raphaelites - Heather Birchall

Conspiracy - Charlotte Greig

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray

Sex and Rage - Eve Babitz

Scoop - Evelyn Waugh

The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh - edited by Mark Roskill

Role Models - John Waters

The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald

How Not To Be a Boy - Robert Webb

Animal - Sara Pascoe

Absolute Pandemonium - Brian Blessed

Eileen - Ottessa Moshfegh

A Discovery of Witches - Deborah Harkness

A Handful of Dust - Evelyn Waugh

Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters - Jane Austen and Ben H. Winters

Normal People - Sally Rooney

Feminists Don’t Wear Pink - Scarlet Curtis and Others. 

Parsnips, Buttered - Joe Lycett

The Humans - Matt Haig

The Machine Stops - E.M. Forster

Ivanhoe - Sir Walter Scott

Poems for a World Gone to Shit - Various

[lgbt-ya]

The Pearl Thief (Code Name Verity 0) by Elizabeth Wein 

Published by Bloomsbury/Disney in May 2017

Genres: Detectives, Period drama, Nobility, social classes, LGBT, YA 

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 Blurb:  Sixteen-year-old Julie Beaufort-Stuart is returning to her family's ancestral home in Perthshire for one last summer. It is not an idyllic return to childhood. Her grandfather's death has forced the sale of the house and estate and this will be a summer of goodbyes. Not least to the McEwen family – Highland travellers who have been part of the landscape for as long as anyone can remember – loved by the family, loathed by the authorities. Tensions are already high when a respected London archivist goes missing, presumed murdered. Suspicion quickly falls on the McEwens but Julie knows not one of them would do such a thing and is determined to prove everyone wrong. And then she notices the family's treasure trove of pearls is missing.

Review:  Oh GOSH, I think this might be my favourite book of the year. Calling it in June, I know, I know. I'm a huge fan of thirties detective novels like Agatha Christie and Dorothy L Sayers, and this is my perfect spin on that - there's murder, rich people living frivolously, dogs, Bronze age marine archaeology, bisexual characters exploring both sides of their sexuality, castles, cross-dressing Cabaret shows, TREASURE-HUNTING, pearls, buried treasure (did I mention the treasure?), river trawling and Harriet Vane mentions. I'm so into it in every way. Ellen and Frank are brilliant love interests, and Lady Julia Lindsay MacKenzie Wallace Beaufort-Stewart must be the most iconic female character in YA history. She's smart and sassy and always says the unexpected, she goes off to fight in World War II in Code Name Verity as a spy, she kisses whoever she pleases, and as Ellen put it, takes whatever she wants. She had a really brilliant character arc in this book - you really see her blossom from an unsure fifteen year old into the person she's going to become in Code Name Verity. Reading this has made my heart ache all the more for her and what happens in the next book, and I'm very afraid that I'll never be able to read CNV again for fear of my heart quite literally exploding in sadness. Video review posted at https://youtu.be/CFZNwCj4jEA

5 stars

[fromdirectorstevenspielberg]

There's a film festival taking place where I live this weekend and, as luck would have it, two Spielberg stars were appearing: Karen Allen (of Raiders of the Lost Ark) and Olivia Cooke (who we'll soon be seeing in Ready Player One).

Cooke is appearing with her new film Katie Says Goodbye, and sadly I can't make it to that screening. Allen, meanwhile, is in attendance with her first directorial effort, the short A Tree. A Rock. A Cloud.

The film played on Friday night and while I missed it, I did get the chance to see Allen appearing on a Women in Film panel today. Alongside her were Stef Dawson (Hunger Games actress), Tori Butler Hart (Keeping Rosie actress), Alicia Slimmer (Creedmoria director) and Bronwen Hughes (Harriett the Spy and Stander director).

It was a fascinating panel with lots of interesting areas touched upon, but below are the things that struck me the most.

- The Power of No. Allen mentioned how she'd come to realise the power (and difficulty) of simply saying no. Opportunities are so scant for women in film that it can be tempting to take anything and everything comes along. However, Allen insisted that it's vital to be able to say no to a project if it doesn't meet your standards, and explained how she'd explored but ultimately rejected a directing gig on the TV show Law and Order as it didn't seem right for her.

- TV is as difficult to crack as film. I'd always assumed that TV would be an easier medium for women to break into, simply because there are multiple episodes of a TV series (and therefore more opportunities). Sadly, this isn't the case. Hughes (who's directed episode of Breaking Bad) stated that coming onto a TV show as a director is particularly tricky because the cast and crew is already established and set in their way of working. This isn’t the case on a film, so it’s easier to make your mark on those you’re working with.

- Marketing fears films about girls. Hughes also recounted an experience she had with her film Harriet the Spy. She was developing the movie at the same time as a similarly themed film featuring a boy was being made. Hughes explained that while the boy film had a sky high marketing budget, Harriet had to make do with a much smaller one. The reason? Films with girls are less popular. Hughes called this a self-fulfilling prophecy (if a film doesn't have enough marketing budget of course it won't be seen) and sadly it's still true today. I thought back to the toy marketing for The Force Awakens and how Rey seemed sidelined. I hope that changes for The Last Jedi.

All in all, it was a fascinating and revealing discussion. Check out more about Karen Allen's A Tree. A Rock. A Cloud. on its website and watch the trailer above.