#ian mcintosh

[cliozaur]

Men like me can never change.

Some things remain stable. Don't get me wrong, Stewart Clarke is a good Javert, and I like him very much, but he must really enjoy the role to play it for years now.

Looking forward to seeing Ian McIntosh as Valjean.

[lesmiserabelles]

ian mcintosh as jesus / manchester palace, 23 september 2023 (evening)

[paradise-bi-the-dashboard-lightt]

Buddy, you're a young man, hard man Shouting in the street, gonna take on the world someday You got blood on your face, you big disgrace Waving your banner all over the place

[nerds-yearbook]

In 1892, on Christmas Eve, London wss plagued by deadly snowmen. The time traveling alien known as the Doctor was on sabbatical there, but was coaxed back into action by a barmaid named Clara, a Sontaran named Strax, and a Restac known as Madame Vastra. ("The Snowmen", Doctor Who, vlm 3, TV)

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Warren Mitchell, June Brown, Celia Imrie, Fiona Shaw, John Sessions, Ian Richardson, Christopher Lee, Lynsey Baxter, Neve McIntosh and Zoë Wanamaker in "Gormenghast"

Jonathan Rhys Meyers in "Gormenghast"

[giveamadeuschohisownmovie]

In case you don’t recognize the actors’ characters:

Ross = Aaron

Michael = Abraham Ford

Ian = Tomichi Okumura

Austin Abrams = Ron Anderson

Pollyanna McIntosh = Jadis/Anne

Xander Berkeley = Gregory

Alanna Masterson = Tara Chambler

[mychameleondays]

Talk Talk: It’s My Life

top: EMI 32 239-6, 1984 (Club Edition)

2nd: Parlophone 0190295792619, 2017

3rd: Parlophone 0190295195328, 2020 (coloured vinyl)

Originally released: February 1984

[themnmovieman]

Movie Review ~ Double Blind

Double Blind is an enjoyably slick thriller that microdoses the horror early on before giving the viewer the whole cocktail of terror in the final act.

Double Blind Synopsis: After an experimental drug trial goes awry, the test subjects face a terrifying side effect: if you fall asleep, you die. Trapped in an isolated facility, panic ensues as they try to escape and somehow stay awake.Stars: Millie Brady, Pollyanna McIntosh, Diarmuid Noyes, Akshay Kumar, Brenock O’Connor, Abby Fitz, Shonagh Marie, Frank BlakeDirector: Ian Hunt-DuffyRated:…

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DOUBLE BLIND (2023) Reviews of stay awake or die horror plus trailer and release dates

‘Side effects may include death’ Double Blind is a 2023 Irish horror film in which test subjects in an experimental drug die if they fall asleep. Trapped in an isolated facility, panic ensues as they try to escape and somehow stay awake… Directed by Ian Hunt-Duffy from a screenplay written by Darach McGarrigle. The FailSafe Films production stars Millie Brady, Abby Fitz, Pollyanna McIntosh,…

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Vijftig jaar geleden: Pier-Luigi Tagliavini wint de eerste Rapport Toer

De Rapport Toer is de oudste meerdaagse wielerwedstrijd in Zuid-Afrika. Ze werd voor het eerst betwist in 1973, maar alhoewel Cycling Archives vrij gedetailleerde informatie geeft, kom ik toch niet te weten op welke datum ze precies is aangekomen. De eerste winnaar was de onbekende Italiaan Pier-Luigi Tagliavini, wellicht op 12 oktober. In 2000 was het afgelopen met de Rapport Toer, maar toen was…

[narawn]

Jesus Christ Superstar UK Tour 2023: starring Ian McIntosh, Shem Omari James, & Hannah Richardson

Bonus:

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Alright, I promised to post about the JCS production I saw last night, so here are my thoughts on the highlights! Bear in mind that I don’t know the musical super well, as I’ve seen the film and the pro shot of the arena tour once each, so things that surprised me might not be exclusive to this production.

@the-reynolds-pamphlet and @purple-confusion you both post about JCS so you might like to read this!

Oh, and if anyone’s going to watch the current UK tour of Jesus Christ Superstar and hasn’t yet, don’t read this post until you’ve seen it, even if you already know the musical! Some things I’m going to mention shocked me, and I knew the musical.

Spoilers for this production (and the musical in general if you don’t know the story of the crucifixion) under the cut!

So, I’m going to go through this as chronologically as I can, but I have so many thoughts!!

• Firstly, I want to say the alternate Jesus was on last night, and he was brilliant!! His name is Charlie McCullagh, and I’m shouting him out first of all because 1) he was brilliant as I said, and 2) alternates and understudies don’t get enough love!

• Jesus and co. (and ensemble) were all in modern costumes. I’ve seen/heard of it being done in 60s/70s costumes (originally performed in 1971) and in biblical costumes, and even a mix of the two, but the costumes being this modern was new to me.

• Jesus was played as a pop star, which made me think of how people today worship celebrities. He had a guitar which he appeared to be playing during Heaven On Their Minds. I wasn’t sure whether he was miming playing a song for his followers or whether he was actually accompanying Judas (Shem Omari James). He also had a microphone for some songs - I’ll come back to that!

• Looking at the programme, Shem Omari James is very new to theatre - this seems to be his first production! - which really shows as he’s placed next to Ian McIntosh (Jesus who I didn’t see) who’s done a lot. Well, let me tell you, he absolutely proved himself in Heaven On Their Minds and continued to be brilliant throughout the show!!

• During Everything’s Alright, when Judas sings about how the ointment could have been used to help the poor, and then Mary (Hannah Richardson) sings the chorus again (“Try not to get worried, try not to turn onto problems that upset you”…), usually she doesn’t acknowledge him and sings the chorus to Jesus (particularly in the Arena Tour, they’re face to face and she moves in between them to face Jesus, basically shutting Judas out) but in this production she sung the lines I’ve typed TO Judas! This was a lovely touch, especially as we rarely see them being nice to each other… usually too busy vying for Jesus’s attention however far they’d each like that attention to go and generally not seeing eye-to-eye, so I really loved seeing her try to comfort him despite their differences.

• The Pharisees (Jad Habchi as Caiaphas and Matt Bateman as Annas) had microphones that served double purpose as staffs. Also, they weren’t in modern dress but in shiny versions of biblical period costumes.

• Ryan O’Donnell accompanied himself on guitar for Pilate’s Dream.

• As always, I Don’t Know How To Love Him was very moving. It’s probably the part of the show I know best, as my mum’s a singing teacher and taught it to me for my grade 6 singing exam (I’m going to convince her to teach me some of the boys’ songs now!) and I think if you’re still moved by a song you know that well, the performer must really be doing something right. So, well done to Hannah Richardson for doing that for me!

• Now for the part that absolutely stunned me! Look at the poster/programme cover again. That’s Judas. At the end of the first act (the end of Damned For All Time) the Pharisees presented him with a treasure chest. He put his hands in to take the silver, and when he took them out, they were stained silver!! The symbolism of the blood money/blood on his hands just shocked me! There was this moment just before the curtain fell where he just looked at his hands stained with silver, it had me speechless!!

• Onto Act 2. GETHSEMANE WAS STUNNING!!! It was the only time the ensemble fully left the stage, which I think represents how those we idolise often have no privacy. The one time Jesus really wants someone to hear him is the one time he’s truly alone. Charlie McCullagh started by accompanying himself with the guitar and standing at the mic, but as the song went on, he moved away from the mic and discarded the guitar, mic, and part of his costume. Jesus didn’t want to be the superstar any more! He wanted a way out of this, of going through with his death! The staging, combined with the way he sang the song, took my breath away and was just so moving!!!

• He also let his natural accent come through in Gethsemane (he grew up in Northern Ireland).

• The kiss… MY HEART!! It was quite slow, very tender, like it was an apology at the same time as the betrayal. Like “this is the only way I can protect you, I don’t know if I’ve done the right thing, and I really wish it hadn’t come to this, I hope one day you can forgive me.” Judas (at least the musical version of him) didn’t want Jesus dead, he thought handing him over would protect him by stopping him from going too far, he really thought this was the only way!

• I’ve tried asking why, out of all the ways to betray someone by identifying them, you’d choose a kiss. No-one can give me a straight answer… (get it?)

• I was quite far back in the audience, and my eyesight isn’t great over long distances, but I think he went for the lips. (Anyone else who saw the tour, can you either confirm or correct me?)

• He still had the silver on his hands for all of this, by the way.

• Jesus sounded so sad when he said “Judas… must you betray me with a kiss?” and that was heartbreaking! He sings it quite angrily in some other versions, but in this one he just seemed heartbroken. I think I prefer it this way, with him sounding sad rather than angry.

• Maybe it was my imagination, but I feel like with the sadness in the above line in particular (as well as the caring touches throughout), they were leaning into the Jedas angle. He seemed to be saying “I hoped you would kiss me one day, but not like this…” (Or maybe I just spend too much time on Tumblr!)

• For the rest of the show, Jesus just looked so defeated, it was really sad to see.

• During the lashes, they were throwing gold glitter at Jesus while making it look like they were whipping him, making it look like he was bleeding gold. I wonder if that was just for aesthetics or if it was deliberately connected to the silver staining Judas’s hands (Jesus’s blood on his hands, gold and silver both represent money, blood money).

• Talking of the silver! When Judas came on stage to sing Superstar, he still had the silver staining his hands, which made me really sad. In direct contrast to the Arena Tour, in which he was lowered on from the flies (that’s above the stage for non-theatre people) and dancing with ensemble in angel costumes, implying he’d gone to Heaven and therefore implying that Jesus had forgiven him, this production had him come on from the wings (the sides of the stage for non-theatre people) rather than from either above or below. They didn’t choose either way, to imply that Jesus had forgiven him or that he hadn’t, but the silver still being on his hands showed that, even in death, Judas hadn’t forgiven himself.

• The crucifixion always upsets me. I’m very much NOT Christian (no disrespect if you are, I’m just not) but a man existed who taught people to be kind to each other in a way that he knew how to reach them, and he was brutally murdered for it.

• On a happier note, albeit not exactly part of the show, the cast were really nice! There weren’t many people at stage door, so they were able to spend a bit more time with those of us who did come to meet them, and they seem to be lovely people. I had particularly nice conversations with Charlie McCullagh (Alternate Jesus) and Jad Habchi (Caiaphas). He has a great sense of humour, he joked about how he gets to kill Jesus (and when I said something like “Not everyone can say they’ve done that!” he responded “And I get to do it 8 times a week!”) and jokingly bragged about how great he was, though I don’t think we’d have objected if he’d been serious!

A brilliant production that made me love the show even more than I already did!!!

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I've paid my dues Time after time I've done my sentence But committed no crime And bad mistakes I've made a few I've had my share of sand Kicked in my face But I've come through

[tinyreviews]

With a title of Double Blind, they shoulda at least kept the mystery going as to who had the placebo, or complicate the plot with this.

Double Blind is a 2023 horror thriller film, directed by Ian Hunt-Duffy, written by Darach McGarrigle, and stars Millie Brady, Pollyanna McIntosh, Diarmuid Noyes, and Akshay Kumar.

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Gormenghast - BBC Two - January 17, 2000 - February 7, 2000 / PBS - June 27 - 28, 2001

Fantasy (4 episodes)

Running Time: 60 minutes

Stars:

Jonathan Rhys Meyers as Steerpike

Celia Imrie as Gertrude, Countess of Groan

Ian Richardson as Sepulchrave, Earl of Groan

Neve McIntosh as Lady Fuchsia Groan

Christopher Lee as Flay

Richard Griffiths as Swelter

Andrew N. Robertson as Titus, Earl of Groan (17 years)

Cameron Powrie as Titus, Earl of Groan (12 years)

John Sessions as Dr. Alfred Prunesquallor

Fiona Shaw as Irma Prunesquallor

June Brown as Nannie Slagg

Olga Sosnovska as Keda

Zoë Wanamaker as Lady Clarice Groan

Lynsey Baxter as Lady Cora Groan

Stephen Fry as Professor Bellgrove

Warren Mitchell as Barquentine

Windsor Davies as Rottcodd

Eric Sykes as Mollocks

Spike Milligan as Headmaster De'Ath

Gregor Fisher as The Fly

Mark Williams as Professor Perch

Martin Clunes as Professor Flower

Steve Pemberton as Professor Mule

Phil Cornwell as Professor Shred

James Dreyfus as Professor Fluke

Sean Hughes as Poet