#john glynn

[lgbtqreads]

October 2024 Deal Announcements

Adult Fiction Author of the Lambda Literary finalist MY GOVERNMENT MEANS TO KILL ME Rasheed Newson’s THERE’S ONLY ONE SIN IN HOLLYWOOD, an examination of race, masculinity, and sexual politics within the glamorous world of old Hollywood, following a Korean War veteran turned backlot fixer and a closeted Black actor who dies at the height of his fame under suspicious circumstances, to Nadxieli…

[dreamconsumer]

"The Morning of Clontarf".

[liaa--qb]

Need Ewan Mitchell, Tom GC n Harry collett to recreate this pose !

If outer bank guys did it for me then my HOTD boys also need to ! btw obx is exactly same as team Greens children vs team black children 😂 if you think clearly

[mydadlistenstothis]

New podcast episode is up! This week, we're going up on the roof whether George likes it or not because we're listening to the Beatles Let it Be...and oh boy do we have thoughts.

[bluemargotrobbie]

CAMARA ROLL | TREND| AEMMA VELARYON 📸

No puedo evitar hacer este trend con lo que sería que fotos tendría Aemma en sus teléfonos.

📚: 𝗔𝗘𝗠𝗠𝗔 (publicado)

🖋: LunaticaBlack (wattpad)

🌎: HOTD

💌: Aemond, Aegon T& Cregan Stark

👤: Aemma Velaryon

[queer-book-character-tournament]

Book names + authors under the cut

Lottie Pumpkin/Ellie Wolf- The Rosewood Chronicles by Connie Glynn

Ben de Backer/Nathan Allen- I Wish You All The Best by Mason Deaver

John Gaius/Augustine the First/Mercymorn the First- The Locked Tomb by Tamsyn Muir

Zhu Chongba/Ma Xiuying- She Who Became The Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan

[2ndaryprotocol]

Don Coscarelli’s clever cult curio ‘John Dies At The End’ opened in theaters this week 10 years ago. 🪓🏀💉

“𝚈𝚘𝚞 𝚍𝚘𝚗'𝚝 𝚌𝚑𝚘𝚘𝚜𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚂𝚘𝚢 𝚂𝚊𝚞𝚌𝚎; 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚂𝚘𝚢 𝚂𝚊𝚞𝚌𝚎 𝚌𝚑𝚘𝚘𝚜𝚎𝚜 𝚢𝚘𝚞!”

[duranduratulsa]

Up next on my Halloween movie 🎬 🎞 🎥 🎦 📽...Halloween 5: The Revenge Of Michael Myers (1989) on glorious vintage VHS 📼! #movie #movies #horror #Halloween #Halloween5 #halloween5therevengeofmichaelmyers #johncarpenter #michaelmyers #theshape #donaldpleasence #ripdonaldpleasance #danielleharris #elliecornell #donshanks #tamaraglynn #BeauStarr #wendykaplan #jeffreylandman #matthewwalker #bettycarvalho #troyevans #JonathanChapin #gregnicotero #GeorgePWilbur #vintage #VHS #80s

[kylaym]

My TCBS 🧡

[abs0luteb4stard]

W A T C H E D

I've seen my share of John Hughes movies. He was the most successful 80s-90s writer.

National Lampoon's Vacation, European Vacation, Christmas Vacation, Mr. Mom, Weird Science, Ferris Bueller, 'Planes, Trains and Automobiles', The Great Outdoors, Uncle Buck, Home Alone 1 & 2, Only the Lonely, Baby's Day Out, Dennis the Menace, Miracle on 34th Street (1994), Dutch...

I just haven't seen any of the MOLLY RINGWALD ones. Well, time to play catchup.

ANTHONY MICHAEL HALL is really clever young actor, more than I ever noticed previously.

[reppyy]

[pedroam-bang]

The King (2019)

[theoscarsproject]

The Trip to Bountiful (1985). In 1940s Texas, an elderly woman is determined to visit her childhood home one last time.

It's always a pleasure to have Geraldine Page on screen, and she delivers such a compelling, emotionally resonant performance in this solid, albeit slight film about a woman in her twilight years trying to visit her hometown - a town that by all accounts is long dead. Unfortunately, there's not really much else going on, and while her interactions with other characters are neat, they feel solely there to showcase Page, which diminishes the overall texture of the film. 6/10.

[adamwatchesmovies]

Sahara (2005)

While I didn't enjoy this film, that doesn't mean you won't. No matter what I say, the people involved in this project did it: they actually made a movie. That's something to be applauded. With that established...

On paper, Sahara sounds like a slam dunk. It’s Indiana Jones meets James Bond with big stars like Matthew McConaughey and Penelope Cruz and armed with a budget to make all the stunt-filled adventure come to life. In practice, it’s devoid of any joy or excitement. Director Breck Eisner makes 124 minutes feel so much longer than two hours.

In 1865, the ironclad CSS Texas disappeared with the last of the Confederacy’s treasury gold. In present day, Dirk Pitt (Matthew McConaughey) has finally found a clue to its final resting place: Mali. With his longtime bud and fellow treasure-hunter Al Giordino (Steve Zahn), he investigates. Along the way, the meet WHO doctor Eva Rojas (Penelope Cruz) as she investigates a mysterious plague she fears will soon ravage the country.

Based on the novel by Clive Cussler, this film adaptation tries to do too much. Sahara is essentially two movies slammed together. The first is a swashbuckling adventure in the vein of Indiana Jones. Boat chases, car chases, fist fights, impromptu survival techniques in the desert and a long-lost treasure? There’s no mistaking it. The other movie has an inconspicuous, beautiful doctor embroiled in a plot that begins as a threat to Africa but could endanger the whole world and includes a solar-powered laser beam, a mad dictator and businessmen devoid of morals. The problem is that these two plots exist independently and are not well blended. In one scene, Dirk and Al are dodging entire clips’ worth of bullets with big smiles while coming up with crazy ways to take down the villains on their tail by blowing up their own boat. In the next, a single bullet is treated with enough gravitas to give you a headache.

Also problematic are the actors. Matthew McConaughey and Penelope Cruz are talented actors. Here? they’re awful. They’re even worse together. They have no chemistry whatsoever, which makes their plots feel even more akin to a mix of oil and water. You know they’re going to fall in love from the beginning but you’ll believe a metal boat from the American Civil War will make it across the ocean on no rations before you’ll believe that romance.

From the unfunny humor meant to endear you to the characters to the action scenes that prove the actors couldn’t throw a decent punch if their lives depended on it, Sahara suffers from major problems. It also gets the little things wrong. When Commander Rudi Gunn (Rain Wilson) approaches the United States Embassy for help, he's warned it’s unlikely aid will arrive in time because “No one gives a shit about Africa”. They're not wrong. Even this movie doesn't care about Mali or its people because moments later, we learn the thing that’s gruesomely killing en-masse will soon spread to the entire world. So it wasn’t enough that Mali would become the world's biggest graveyard; the entire human race has to be at risk? Yikes.

Then, there’s the climax. This is one of those movies where the villains must have the greatest employee benefits package of all time because the baddie's top bodyguard decides to get into a fistfight on top of a building that’s rigged to explode in a few minutes. How was he going to get out of there once he got the job done?

I can give a movie slack and accept a preposterous story but you’ve got to give me something in return. When your actors have no chemistry between them, the bad guys are completely forgettable, the humour falls flat on its face, the action scenes are badly shot & choreographed and none of what you see is interesting, you want to find some way to entertain yourself, perhaps by having some laughs at the film’s expense. You'd think it'd be easy when the Los Angeles Times listed this film as one of the most expensive flops of all time but you'd be wrong. Sahara is too dull to provide any form of entertainment. (Full-screen version on DVD, January 29, 2021)

[mariocki]

The Saint: The Gadget Lovers (5.23, ITC, 1967)

"Start at the beginning - Mr. Templar."

"Oh. So you recognised me."

"The moment you entered this compartment. I've a photographic memory, and in the Kremlin there are many files."

"Well, it's nice to be known and loved the world over."

"Known, perhaps."

[thedoctorwhocompanion]

Here's How Peter Howell Remixed the Doctor Who Theme Tune in the 1980s

Here's How Peter Howell Remixed the #DoctorWho Theme Tune in the 1980s

Fans of the Doctor Who theme (and who isn’t, eh?) should check out this BBC report from 1982 in which Peter Howell describes how he went about revamping the programme’s famous opening tune. The clip was originally screened on 2nd February 1982 as part of The Music Arcade: Electricity in Music. Peter gives a detailed run through of his use of polyphonic analogue synthesisers, a vocoder, and an…