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[poirott]

A Haunting in Venice feature in TOTAL FILM September 2023 issue

James Prichard, Agatha Christie's great-grandson and executive producer of A Haunting in Venice, did a little teaser interview.

He talks about the characters, Christie's legacy, a possible 4th Poirot film (yes, they'll do another if Branagh and the screenwriter want to do it!), and the film's nods to the paranormal as per the book and that they're just what the franchise needs. "If we are going to continue to make these films, we can' t do the same thing over and over. Departure at this moment is possibly risky, but it also has the potential to keep it alive, bring in a different audience, and do something interesting that will hopefully surprise and delight."

He didn't want to share any spoilers but said: "In some ways the supernatural is a suspect." :)

[arealtrashact]

Blood of my blood

[strangestcase]

You remember that list of J&H movies that actually slap? I cannot find the post for the life of me and I NEED to watch that French one. Help a sister out! What was the name???

Alright SO!

Doc’s incredibly objective list of J&H films that fucking SLAP:

-Le Testament Du Docteur Cordelier (1959): obscure French TV film by Jean Renoir in which Mr. Hyde is a sex pervert played by a mime. Set in 1950s France but incredibly accurate to the book.

-I, Monster (1971): a British production with Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing as main characters. A more “realistic” science-y take on the story.

-Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920): with John Barrymore. It’s also an adaptation of The Picture of Dorian Gray. -Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931): a “talkie” version of the previous movie. Not the best writing wise but it’s gorgeous. The acting and SFX are the best I’ve seen so far.

-El Hombre y La Bestia (1951): Argentinian movie in which Jekyll is married with a four year old son. And it’s heartbreaking. Other than that is very similar to Le Testament in the ways it adapts the story and changes the setting.

-Nightmare Classics: Jekyll and Hyde: episode of the show Nightmare Classics which it is a very interesting retelling of Jekyll and Hyde.

-The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003): okay this one isn’t a J&H movie but Jekyll and Hyde are in it and they’re very well acted and characterized. Go on, sue me.

Might expand the list when and if I find more movies that are worthwhile or at least not mid.

[ladyswillmart]

Presenting: The Fellowship of the Auk

Group Motto: "Don't let Hivallion come up with the group name."

Formed: Late February, T.A. 3019

Roster (as pictured from left to right, top row to bottom):

Horn: A Rohirrim man and the group's designated Warrior-Skald; every fellowship needs one, after all. Originally from Eaworth, the others picked him up in rustic Stangard after he managed to get himself kicked out of there too (yes, he got banished from Rohan's designated "time-out corner", don't ask) for the frankly unforgivable crime of visiting Caras Galadhon and not bringing back enough souvenir lembas for everyone (this is a lie, sorry). A constant source of what we will politely describe as "musical merriment" for the group's paddle down the Anduin. Don't ask. ◾ Group Utility: Making campfires, also making other things. Don't ask.

Nona: A loud and proud Uch-lûth woman from Lhanuch; the daughter of Suvulch and the sister of Wadu, and will never let you forget it either. Befriended Hivallion first after he went through great lengths (or is it heights?) to help restore the honor of her fallen brother. Very stubbornly survived an edged weapon in the Rushgore (but thankfully not an Edged Weapon). Our melee Champion is also an endless font of bluntly asked questions about the behaviors and attitudes displayed by her Mannish rivals in Rohan, but surprisingly cool with elves. ◾ Group Utility: The feminine touch—usually involving a sword or an axe, but blunt weapons are fine too.

Corudan: A youthful elf of Lórien, trusted among his peers as a master of the Anduin and its surrounding lands; his epessë is "River-Walker", while the name Corudan translates to "Sigileth's Brother" (this is also a lie, sorry). Indeed, our fellowship's Hunter conducts himself with the typical poise and grace of any self-respecting Galadhrim, though he seems to hold a certain place in his heart for wagers, bets, pools, contests, games, raffles, etc. However, this habit did not erode Galadriel's opinion of the chap, as she saw fit to entrust him with some very sensitive knowledge in re a certain halfling (and we don't mean Bingo Boffin). ◾ Group Utility: Navigation; helping the group remember where they parked the Econoline.

Hivallion: One of Middle-Earth's literal handful of remaining Falathrim, a survivor of countless wars and world-changing events (and an Edged Weapon, capitalized); astronomically difficult to kill, despite appearing like a bit of a wet noodle. The fellowship became very pleased to hear they had a Lore-Master on their side, but their joy sublimated into nothing the instant they heard the words "blue track" come out of his mouth. Nevertheless, his gentle demeanor and bottomless patience are what earned him the role of group ambassador, though this was no doubt helped by the fact that nobody else wanted the job. ◾ Group Utility: Eidetic memory, something he uses almost exclusively to draw pictures of birds.

[thekimspoblog]

Is the video game really subverting its genre? Are you sure it's not just doing clever things within its genre, because otherwise the game would be boring and unchallenging and say nothing interesting? I'm just saying, it's cool and all that the internet allows horror game fandoms to overflow into eachother, but not EVERY 2 hour video essay needs to be spent breathlessly sucking off the devs. Sometimes a game is just REGULAR difficult and REGULAR high-quality.

Besides RPGs made over a decade ago, what is the thing supposedly subverting? Clearly not other contemporary indie horror games, because there is clearly a convergent ethos forming of cosmic horror and beginners' traps; that's just what the genre looks like nowadays.

[blueskittlesart]

i am an athena cykes defender forever and ever until the day i die but god. somewhere out there there is a universe where apollo justice got actual follow through and it kills me that i am not living in it

[otaku553]

can I ask what ur summer research was about?!!! :0 (u absolutely don't have to answer if ur not comfortable, I'm just a giant nerd and loves to hear about research dhdnfjdmdjfng)

Of course!!! I’d be glad to talk about it!!

In short, my research over the summer was putting mice in mazes and looking at how well they remember mazes, how quickly they learn the maze, and how learning one maze can help them learn other mazes faster. More detailed under the read more!

Previous maze studies with mice have shown that mice can actually learn very quickly when they’re learning behaviors that are in line with their own evolutionary advantages rather than arbitrary associations. It’s the difference between telling a mouse “go around these tunnels and try to find water to survive” vs telling it “do these very specific and completely useless 5 things and then you’ll get water”. Maze navigation for mice is already a natural complex behavior: mice are burrowing rodents and already have the predisposition for running around tunnels. We set up a maze and cameras and infrared lights around it to record it doing its thing, so that we can look at its natural behaviors with no human interference.

The unique thing about this project is less the behavior and rapid learning of the mouse and more the maze that we use for the study, called the Manhattan Maze. I think my mentor created it but I’m not too certain? But the basic concept of it, as shown in the figure above, is that there are two boxes of parallel tunnels and one layer of acrylic in the middle. Through holes in the acrylic, the mouse can climb between the two layers and make a “turn”. Essentially, this maze is the most reconfigurable setup for studying mouse behavior in mazes possible, because the middle layer of acrylic, which we call a mask, can be changed 2^(n^2) ways (n being the number of channels in a layer) to make completely different mazes. For the figure above, a 4x4 Manhattan maze, we have 2^16 possible different configurations, but we were actually running it on an 11x11 maze, so there were 2^121 different possible configurations! This way, we can look at the mouse in tons of different mazes without actually having to make a new maze altogether and transfer the mouse every time.

And they learn extremely fast! The mazes we used were pretty much linear paths with small dead ends that weren’t far off from the main path, and required 9 turning decisions to get from starting point to end point. There were 3 of these different masks, and after training for one day on one of them, the next day, almost all mice that completed the training managed to learn completely new 9-decision masks in 3 hours or less!

[revvethasmythh]

The score for Veilguard is actually so cool, because obviously it's a departure from the originating themes that were loosely shared between DAO and DA2, but it really stands against the sweeping orchestrals and pounding drums that drove you in Inquisition (perhaps more than the story itself was driving anything). In comparison, Veilguard leans much more toward synths, electric instruments, and there's even a track with western inspired strings and a harmonica (and it SLAPS). It's varied and reads as more modern, but also carries with it this cacophonous sense of apocalypse as well as, perhaps, presenting an idea that this world is moving on and forward, that I think fits very well thematically and musically

[knifearo]

who up thinking about moses sumney doomed. "am i vital if my heart is idle? am i doomed?" "if lovelessness is godlessness, will you cast me to the wayside?" moses sumney 2017 album aromanticism save me... moses sumney 2017 album aromanticism... save me moses sumney 2017 album aromanticism...

[moe-broey]

You know Henriette is lowkey kind of anime (like the SuMo anime) Lusamine-core. To me

[vorbarrsultana]

What have you done? I was blind...

Maxim Rakovsky as Curufin | Finrod Rock Opera

[demigod-of-the-agni]

Art vs Artist 2023!! 💥 I didn't expect the year to be so colourful... but there is a Severe lack of purples. Anyway, it was a literal struggle trying not to add Pavitr art because he keeps infiltrating every month T-T

Happy to say I'm proud of the art evolution! Thank you Spider-Verse for pushing me outside the box and really embracing the fun and whimsical style of Mumbattan. Who knew mimicking old timey comics would be so much fun?

high quality versions of the above images under the cut!!

i fuckin love this clip i want it tattooed on my soul

[greenduty]

        ✷ as i've now been in the rpc for over a week, for clarity's sake on my portrayal, i've added the following to my carrd! i've made some tweaks since i first wrote my carrd in general, but since this is especially relevant as I continue writing, following, and interacting with various portrayals, i'm also putting it on the dash as an fyi.

        currently, this blog is show-based with headcanon influences. this applies to my portrayal of alicent, but i do not necessarily expect the same from all of my writing partners — if i follow you, this means i am both willing to learn, adapt, and consider your changes and modifications to your muses' canon within our writing together, and i am interested in doing so! as long as i can find them, i read a person's rules and portrayal notes before even following.

        i've never been in an rpc before with as many headcanon-based and canon-divergent portrayals, so it's a bit new to me — nevertheless, follows are still a genuine sign of interest. despite being show-based, i don't co-sign everything the writers have ever done, and if i acknowledge a show event that your portrayal does not in a thread with someone else, or meta / headcanon post of my own, you can interact (or not) with that as you see fit.

[rogueorbit]

i don't read a ton of fic but i do wonder what people's expectations are going into rhaenicent aus. do you automatically expect the relationship to be toxic in the same vein as the show? if the relationship is healthy do you see it as unfaithful to the characters? i find people are so obsessed with the toxic element that i do wonder if people are disappointed when they open a fic and see that they're actually nice to each other lmao

[robertsbarbie]

ya know she has a point

[thebreakfastgenie]

I genuinely love seeing everyone's different takes but I've gotten multiple tags now that assume Hawkeye was involved in gay culture in some way and I am the hard opposite. I think his gay encounters have happened by accident and word of mouth and that's it.