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ziwe season 2 episode 10 - diversity training

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i’m about five years too late and nobody asked for this except me and i need to just get this out of my brain because it’s 2am so here’s a list of things i wish happened on glee that didn’t HERE WE GO:

- new directions being actual teenagers. just them hanging out. going to group sleepovers. giant study sessions (because school exists in this universe?) like remember in tpp when they were eating lunch together ? that’s what i wanted MORE of. just them being actual friends. a sleepover episode is all i wanted imagine all the abba songs we could have gained from that episode

- a halloween themed episode. the closest to this that we got was the ‘thriller/heads will roll’ mashup which YES was iconic but im greedy and it’s not enough. my idea for a halloween episode is that the gang gets trapped inside the school after staying behind to idk rehearse? or something? and then things get progressively worse as they start to go a little mad, thinking the school is haunted and they split up into pairs trying to find an escape and they think they’re seeing ghosts/someone lurking around the school and they’re getting real spooked but it turns out it’s just sue fucking with them lmao

- kurt and finn being brothers. THE POTENTIAL WAS THERE and sadly after furt we are left with crumbs. why ?? WHY?? little moments like finn saying that he’s driving back home with kurt or them saying they can’t do something because they have a family thing would have been good enough. more scenes of them hanging out in their home with their parents would have been *chefs kiss* but alas. it never happened because glee writers are bastards

- based off my last point: sam actually living at the hudson-hummel house because he actually did live there? but nothing is ever said like what’s the dynamic there why weren’t kurt and sam and finn close if they all lived together for what? like a year? was sam living in the mf shed? did he ever get close to carole and burt?? where tf did he live when everyone went off to college did he just stay in their house lol who knows not me LMAO

- blaine dealing with his trauma ? mental health was never dealt with very well on this show. emma’s ocd was just ignored after she got married or whatever and blaine mentioned his trauma once and then it was ignored until it was mentioned in passing a few seasons later and even he just brushed it off and it was never brought up again like wtf. i have no idea how they wrote a whole episode about hate crime in bash and they never once thought to have blaine and kurt have a single conversation together, let alone a conversation about how they’d both been victims of a hate crime. AND THE ONLY TIME BLAINE DOES MENTION IT IS IN TESTED WHERE ITS JUST USED AS A REASON FOR THEM TO FIGHT AAAAAAAA no wait im calm it’s okay. i just would have liked to have seen kurt and blaine have an emotional moment together in that episode that didn’t include blaine singing and kurt being knocked tf out. just sayin.

- kurt dealing with HIS trauma !! again, glee gets bad points for talking about mental health and it just is crazy that they had so much potential with kurt, ie: depression, anxiety, ocd (kinda?) his bullying, being literally assaulted (i see u ryan murphy taking that whole plot line so loosely mmhm) and then shoehorning in the fact that he was suicidal AT THE SECOND TO LAST EPISODE when they had a whole episode about suicide and they could have mentioned it at any time but ofc they didn’t because the writers just wanted to shove in as much as they could in the flashback episode AYE AYE AYE the potential!!!! oof.

- literally just more tina. jenna ushkowitz is a fantastic actor/singer/preformer and she was criminally underused. i like the episode props because of two reasons: one. everyone switching characters was amazing. and two. some actual tina scenes. even if she.. technically was rachel but also herself or something? either way. i digress

- this is just in general but MORE ABBA AND ALSO THE CARPENTERS and also some sound of music songs would have worked GREAT but they already had like a million songs and as the show progressed they veered away from old songs and more towards popular songs at the time to help chart numbers blah blah blah whatever it’s cool. but also how did they only do a few abba songs that is criminal

- a more fleshed out ending that wasn’t so rushed. like rachel won a tony and everyone else is just? there? why is sam at mr shue’s house ??? how did artie get up the stairs? did quinn graduate from yale? and where tf was kurt and blaine’s child during ‘i lived’ because burt and carole are vibing in the audience and rachel isn’t pregnant so like? is the baby just?? alone somewhere in the wings?! lmao where are u bby girl!! but once again i know they didn’t have the time to do it so idk it’s fine what they did it just sucks we didn’t get more! but again. fanfic exists so yah im all good

- more of blaine’s mum. or mom, in this case i guess. why cast gina gershon and then give her ONE line like ? ik there was a whole deleted script that explained why she was there but i love that up until that point blaine seemed like he genuinely murdered his parents, lived in their big house all alone and when people got suspicious he just told them that they were “out of town” :) either way pam is great i love her and i wish she had more to do in the one episode she was ever in. not even a moment with blaine?? wasted.

- more of cooper anderson, matt boomer is so fucking funny everytime i think of the emotion tornado i bust a lung laughing like it’s so fucking stupid but oh my good i love it. (and if you haven’t watched the special feature of cooper’s transformers audition tape please please watch it because it’s just so funny.) ik he was just a special guest but i wish they got him back for at least the wedding ep but guess my mans was just busy. boo ;(

- going back a couple of points, i wish they’d done a whole episode like props. every actor here just shines when they’re impersonating each other. finn and puck as kurt and blaine is beautiful and quinn and sugar is incredible. also idk why they refused kevin the right to wear the cheerios skirt; they could have put a little more effort into some characters but that’s glee for ya lmao but yeah. a whole episode like that would have been so much fun

- they should have let chris colfer write more episodes. purely for the fact that he wrote with his own bare hands the whole scene where lea michelle’s character gets dragged down a road by dogs. this guy. it’s a shame he only got to write one since he actually did a really good job! i would have loved to have seen what other episode ideas he had :)

- glee in the summer! obviously it only was centred around the school year but after season 3 who honestly gave a shit about the glee club and mckinley lmao i wanna see them in SHORT SHORTS and POOL PARTIES but nope we just got september - june so like rip all my hopes and dreams

- WHAT HAPPENED TO DALTON? bitch just burst into flames ?? and for WHAT?? oh yeah plot convenience smh this is so sad i wish they’d either written something better than “we need the warblers to team up with new directions so uhhh the school burnt down” like. it’s a private school. if the school is gone and they’re just staying at mckinley what are the parents paying for? they’re just cool with sending their kids off to public school now? every adult in this universe has been murdered by these kids, haven’t they? they’re just doing whatever they want jfc

- a wedding was a good episode. ish. and yknow, huge kudos to them because gay marriage wasn’t legal in the us at the time so im less harsh on the fact that they definitely threw up the rainbow flags and made it less about the characters getting married and more so “we have gay characters and look they’re getting married what a concept” but i do wish we could have gotten some more married!klaine since they don’t really have much to do after this understandably but a little moment alone together after the wedding would have been nice :) IT WOULD HAVE BEEN NICE IM TELLING YOU

- get rid of the hummelberry friendship and send mercedes to new york instead. i have nothing else to add to this other than the fact that i mourn the fact that kurt and mercedes went from bffs to just. school mates. this is tragic this is traaaaagic !! and all for more of the rachel berry show smh

- every day i wonder what was going through carmen tibideaux mind when she watched the kurt hummel preform not the boy next door and was like :) and then watched rachel berry have a breakdown on stage and then proceeded to give rachel the spot at nyada and kurt gets payed literal dust. and THEN she had the nerve to tell him it was because his performance had no heart. AND HOW DID ADAM GET IN THIS BABY GOT BACK MOTHERFUCKER?! nyada is a circus school oh my god !!!!! kurt deserved better im telling yall he deserved so much better

there’s so much more i could rant about but im going insane im so tired and i need psychological help after watching glee so im gonna leave it here and say peace out homies it’s been fun but i need to sleep so bad

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books read in 2018

hello! this year i tried to read as much as possible after i graduated my master’s program, so i started the goodreads reading challenge in june. i wish i’d read more/started earlier but i’m happy that i got to read what i did! here’s a list of some good stuff. i included some i read last december too. and also books i hated. faves are starred.

good fiction:

*americanah by chimamanda ngozie adichie

a nigerian woman grapples with western society & racism

*gone girl by gillian flynn

dick husband discovers his sociopath wife has vanished from a crime scene & is presumed dead

sharp objects by gillian flynn

journalist with a dark family history returns home to investigate serial murder of small girls in small hodunk missouri town

*circe by madeline miller

fantastical retelling of circe’s story from the odyssey

the hate u give by angie thomas

a black teenage girl witnesses her friend killed by the police, and has to decide whether or not to speak out at risk to herself and her family

a very large expanse of sea by taherah mafi

a muslim teenage girl in post-9/11 america contends with rampant islamophobia and also finds love

and then there were none by agatha christie

10 guests are invited to a creepy house and are killed off one by one

murder on the orient express by agatha christie

someone dies on a train! whodunit!

pet sematery by stephen king (horror)

i don’t even really know where to begin. it’s fucked y’all

*the haunting of hill house by shirley jackson (horror, queer-ish lit)

a few guests are invited to stay at a creepy mansion. plot twist: the mansion can possess people!

sweet and low by nick white (short stories) (queer lit)

a collection of stories about queer masculinity in the american south

*the handmaid’s tale by margaret atwood

dystopia where women are reproductive sex slaves in a theocracy

carmilla by j. sheridan le fanu (queer lit)

lesbian vampire falls in love with other lesbian who eventually is like “hey, what the fuck is going on here”

fangirl by rainbow rowell

painfully shy girl adjusts to college while also being a massively popular harry potter fanfic writer on the internet

*annihilation by jeff vandermeer

nature is sentient, and it’s Angry

the house of mirth by edith wharton

beautiful socialite discovers capitalism is bad

to the lighthouse by virginia woolf

for most of the book, the characters wonder if they should go to the lighthouse. do they? read and find out

the last report on the miracles at little no horse by louise erdich (queer-ish lit)

a former nun disguises herself as a male missionary to live on a native american reservation after she loses everything she has in a flood. over the course of 50 years, she becomes father damien and a member of the reservation.

home by marilynne robinson

sequel to gilead; midwestern gothic-ish story about homecoming and sibling relations

the road by cormac mccarthy

Hot Take: Everything Is Bad And We’re All Going To Die

no telephone to heaven by michelle cliff

a story of a jamaican family across three generations

never let me go by kazuo ishiguro (also sci-fi/fantasy)

i don’t want to give away the twist here but. clones?

the picture of dorian gray by oscar wilde (queer lit)

some older guys fall in love with a twink. the twink doesn’t age but has a portrait that reflects his transgressions

good queer lit:

*blanca & roja by anna-marie mclemore (also sci-fi/fantasy)

latinx retelling of snow white and rose red. one of the girl protagonists falls for a nb trans boy.

*carry on by rainbow rowell (also sci-fi/fantasy)

harry potter au where harry and draco are canon

*the miseducation of cameron post by emily danforth

lesbian coming of age story

the gentleman’s guide to vice and virtue by mackenzi lee (also sci-fi/fantasy + historical fiction + YA)

bisexual asshole from the victorian era falls in love with his male best friend and they go on a european adventure

the lady’s guide to petticoats and piracy by mackenzi lee (also sci-fi/fantasy + historical fiction + YA)

bisexual asshole’s younger sister has her own adventure with some pirates and it’s also Pretty Gay

*the song of achilles by madeline miller

sad whale sounds

peter darling by austin chant

about a trans!boy peter pan who falls in love with hook

*witchmark by c.l. polk (also sci-fi/fantasy)

steampunk-esque fantasy novel about persecuted magic-users

simon vs. the homo sapiens agenda by becky albertalli (young adult)

the movie love simon is based on this

leah on the offbeat by becky albertalli (young adult)

bisexual girl falls for hot girl friend

good sci-fi/fantasy:

*american gods by neil gaiman

the world isn’t big enough for the old gods and the new, and shadow gets caught in the middle of the madness

stardust by neil gaiman

fantasy story where a half-fairy boy journeys to find a fallen star

neverwhere by neil gaiman

london has a secret underground world and it’s london but much more unpleasant

the boneless mercies by april genevieve tucholke

a group of female assassins known as mercy-killers decides to leave the death trade to fight a monstrous beast. basically a gender-bent beowulf retelling.

*his dark materials trilogy by philip pullman (the golden compass, the subtle knife, and the amber spyglass)

god is dead

*vicious by v.e. schwab

two college roommates discover they can possess supernatural abilities via near-death experiences, and they become arch-nemeses. xmen-esque but kinda noir

*vengeful by v.e. schwab

sequel to vicious!

*the shades of magic trilogy by v.e. schwab (darker shades of magic, a gathering of shadows, and a conjuring of light) (also queer lit)

there are three londons; one has magic, one is in our world, and one magic destroyed. kell the magician can travel between them with his feisty pirate friend

city of ghosts by victoria schwab (young adult)

cassie can see beyond the veil and the world of the dead; things go south when she ends up in edinburgh, one of the world’s most haunted cities

howl’s moving castle by diana wynne jones (young adult)

sophie gets cursed to look like an old woman and tags along with howl the magician, who has an interdimensional traveling castle

good omens by neil gaiman and terry pratchett

the apocalypse is coming, and an angel and a demon raise a nephilim baby. kind of

norse mythology by neil gaiman

fun retelling of norse myths

children of blood and bone by tomi adeyemi

fantasy novel set in an alternate africa; magic has been banished from the land, and magician zelie, former princess amari, and zelie’s brother tzain set out to restore it 

good nonfiction:

hunger by roxane gay

gay’s memoir of her experiences as a fat, black, queer woman with PTSD

it’s what i do by lynsey addario

a war photographer tells her stories of the frontlines

between the world and me by ta-nehisi coates

a black father writes to his son about “post-racial” america and police brutality

the devil’s highway by luis alberto urrea

half-fictional/half-biographical account of the wellton 26, a group of immigrants who failed to cross the us border in 2001

on edge: a journey through anxiety by andrea petersen

a detailed account of living with anxiety and panic disorder

ghostland: american history in haunted places by colin dickey

a small tour of america’s haunted places

the cambridge companion to american gothic

this is scholarship stuff for my ma thesis but it was good fun

the sun and her flowers by rupi kaur (poetry)

books i read that were meh and i’m dragging them here (did you think this was a rec list? it’s actually a self-indulgent chronicle of my year because i’m bored at work)

a head full of ghosts by paul tremblay (horror)

is this girl’s sister possessed by a demon or just schizophrenic? the answer may surprise you

a secret history of witches by louisa morgan

follows a family of french witches through like five generations

what if it’s us by adam silvera and becky albertalli (queer lit)

meet-cute between two gay boys in nyc; they struggle to make things work at first

the catcher in the rye by j.d. salinger

aaaaangst angst teenage angst. just go to school

wise blood by flannery o’connor

i really don’t even know how to summarize it. there’s a dead mummy child and also some blind prophets. some guy ends up pursuing life in a gorilla suit and it’s the pinnacle of ironic art

open city by teju cole

protagonist deserves a fitbit for walking the entire length of new york city and detailing it ad nauseam

kill creek by scott thomas (horror)

five famous horror authors are invited to stay in a haunted house. as authors of horror, you would think they would be aware of the dangers inherent in this, but apparently not! the house is pissed and also haunted! it’s also super laughably misogynistic

meddling kids by edgar cantero

scooby-doo spin-off but with more childhood trauma and darkness, set in the pnw. they fight lovecraftian horrors lurking in the deep

the house behind the cedars by charles w. chesnutt

biracial protagonists struggle to succeed in a racist post-slavery america

the portrait of a lady by henry james

ehhhhhh this woman marries an abusive toxic asshole and it’s bad

the confidence-man by herman melville

??? some guy cons the shit out of everyone and they’re on a boat

ruth hall by fanny fern

wealthy woman loses everything she owns and becomes a journalist/writer to pay the bills. she becomes famous and makes her own success!

the rise of silas lapham by william dean howells

is it obvious i had to read these for a class with a specific theme. insert something about the gilded age here

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...or as might be more appropriate to call them: “Books I still think about.” In order as I read them:

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

A book that could spread over 3000 pages with how much time and emotions it encompasses. Though humble in size, it explores one of the most painful and shameful topics in the world history. Literally each and every chapter made me cry. If you have not read this one yet..... why?

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

Surely you have noticed by now I am a Brontë trash. But can I help it when there are books like this? Remarkably readable, enagaging and wonderfully feminist. Even though to us the decisions taken in this story would seem hardly radical, one has to appreciate the courage of Anne when presenting them in her own time.

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

Angie Thomas came, published and conquered like the fantastic author she is. What can I say what has not been said? I tend to believe this is a classic in making, something students will be reading in the years to come.

The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber

This is the best book I have read in 2017, no competition. I had no expectations from this behemoth, that is filled with poverty, the most ugly human failings, foul language and naked emotions. One of the VERY rare instances when a male author writes women well. And not only that. He gives them distinct personalities and believable motivations. It is an adult book - as adult as it could possibly get - and I believe younger or more tender-hearted readers should be warned. Still: incredible.

The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge

This is a kind of book I would want my daughter to read if I had one! The book is beautifully, cleverly written. The atmosphere and settings, as well as characters are all interesting and feel extremely life-like. The main character goes through an evolution of her own throughout and we realize, together with her, that what we think may not always be true, and that people we wish to see in a certain light may not be who we wish them to be after all. In fact I am rather puzzled that this book is not more talked about in the bookish community.

Žítkovské bohyně (The Godesses of Žítková) by Kateřina Tučková

What a bummer this book has not been published in English, because this is one publication I would proudly recommend as an art from my own country. The whole tornado of raw emotions - the good and the bad ones - left me almost breathless. I found it difficult to put the book down and kept thinking about it when I absolutely had to. Depressing but brilliant.

Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys

Although I also read Between the Shades of Grey, it was this second book that fully sold me on the author.  Much like in her debut novel she uses her opportunity here to show the war from the point of view of those who suffered for it, even though they could not care less for any ideology and wanted just to live. She also has a gift of knowing how much of everything to include in her writing. She does not gloss over anything, she does not abuse the shock value (which, in this case, is considerable). It is not a fun and pleasant book to read, but I would recommend it to everyone.

The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Whooooo this was a wild ride! A perfect blend of mystery, horror, historical fiction and psychology. One of those book I feel everyone would love or find something in it that is to their taste. Furthermore, this books has a super secret library and lots of books in it.

HONOURABLE MENTIONS:

His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman

Though I will always be sour towards Mr. Pullman for shitting on my beloved Narnia books, I was, for most part, enchanted by this book and his imagination. I felt he ruined it a bit by his hatred of religion (because his aim at ruining it for everybody is too rampant in a story and it could have used more subtlety. On one hand he wants for his readers to be free in their actions and judgements. On the other hand most of his protagonists are shit people I would not sympathize with even if I were an atheist.) Still, a book I am definitely going to read again and marvel over it.

Uprooted by Naomi Novik

The Dragon is not a dragon, the girl is a dirty mess, trees abduct Queens and magic does not need any wand waving or rules because why should it, it´s magic after all. There is a lot to love about Uprooted, from its Slavic background to earnest and deep relationship between two teenage girls. A book that actually could - and should - have been at least 100 pages longer, for the second part felt a bit rushed.

Deathless by Catheryne M. Valente

Go to your nearest library and borrow THIS book. Then go again and read THIS book. And then go read Deathless. A perfect example of a book I found somehow flawed, but was fascinated by it completely.

Have you read any of these? What did you think? 

My favourite non-fiction books of the year HERE.

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Watch 20 Oscar-winning actresses in music videos

Hale Berry and Fred Durst in “Behind Blue Eyes” (Photo: YouTube)

Sure, we all know Angelina Jolie won an Oscar for Girl, Interrupted, or that Halle Berry made history Oscar history when she became the first African American to win a Best Actress trophy (for Monster’s Ball). But did you know that Angelina and Halle respectively starred in videos by… Meat Loaf and Limp Bizkit?

In honor of this weekend’s Academy Awards, here’s a look back at 20 music video cameos by Oscar-winning actresses. For some, these videos were career stepping-stones, or mere detours; for others, they were career lows. But all of them are recommended viewing.

20. Mecano, “La Fuerza del Destino”

No one could have predicted when 15-year-old Penelope made her acting debut, in this 1989 Spanish pop video, that she’d win a Best Supporting Actress Oscar 19 years later for her role in Vicky Cristina Barcelona. Incidentally, Mecano broke up in 1992.

19. Parachute, “The Mess I Made” (starring Jennifer Lawrence, 2009)

Silver Linings Playbook Best Actress winner J.Law was a total unknown when she starred in the 2009 video by these Virginia pop-rockers. Parachute frontman Will Anderson later told TeenMusic.com: “She was amazing… We could tell when we met her that she was going places. Here was this amazingly talented actress, and just an incredible person who also happened to be gorgeous. How could we not ask her to be in the video? Seeing her get nominated for the Oscar was amazing. No one deserves it more than her and it’s awesome to see her getting casted in such rad roles!”

18. Robbie Williams, “Something Stupid” (starring Nicole Kidman, 2001)

Robbie’s 2001 album of standards, Swing When You’re Winning, featured duets with Rupert Everett, Jane Horrocks, and Jon Lovitz, but its centerpiece was this adorable collaboration with Nicole — who’d win a Best Actress Oscar a year later for The Hours. Nicole held her own against the British pop star, which makes us wonder, when is her album coming out?

17. iRAWniQ, “ALIENPU$” (starring Tatum O’Neal, 2014)

Tatum holds the record as the youngest thespian to win a competitive Oscar (she won the Best Supporting Actress award in 1973, at age 10, for her role in Paper Moon). The former child star has had her career ups and downs, but has continued to take on challenging roles. Case in point: this dazzling 2014 clip, in which she danced alongside an “alien Rosa Parks” played by rapper iRAWniQ. Tatum even dissected the bizarre, JB Ghuman Jr.-directed video in a play-by-play article for Vice.

16. Roy Orbison, “I Drove All Night” (starring Jennifer Connelly, 1992)

This video starred not only the A Beautiful Mind Best Supporting Actress Oscar-winner, but also Beverly Hills, 90210 heartthrob Jason Priestley. It’s a true ’90s classic if there ever was one.

15. Dave Matthews Band, “Dreamgirl” (starring Julia Roberts, 2005)

The Erin Brockovich Oscar-winner and longtime DMB fan made her music video debut in this Alice in Wonderland-meets-Fringe clip; it was first acting job after giving birth to her twins. “I just need the work,” Julia joked to People magazine at the time of the video’s release. Dave Matthews added, “We thought we’d politely give her a hand up.”

14. Will Butler, “Anna” (2015)

Stone won an Oscar last year for the musical La La Land, but we think her casting may have been inspired by her star turn in this elegant Old Hollywood clip by the Arcade Fire multi-instrumentalist.

13. Massive Attack feat. Hope Sandoval, “The Spoils” (starring Cate Blanchett, 2016)

The two-time Oscar-winner shapeshifted from gorgeously dewy SK-II skincare spokeswoman to freaky decomposing zombie robot in this disconcerting clip. Imagine Sinéad O’Connor’s “Nothing Compares 2 U” mashed up with Lou Reed’s “No Money Down” for some idea of this video’s creepy impact. We need Blanchett to star in a horror flick!

12. Jenny Lewis, “One of the Guys” (starring Anne Hathaway and Brie Larson, 2014)

The former Rilo Kiley frontwoman convinced Les Miserables‘ Hathaway and Room‘s Larson (along with Kristen Stewart) to dress up in male drag for this colorful clip… but we’re more impressed by the Gram Parsons-inspired, red-carpet-worthy rainbow tuxedo that Jenny is wearing.

11. Limp Bizkit, “Behind Blue Eyes” (starring Halle Berry, 2003)

Halle made some major career mistakes following her Best Actress win for 2001’s Monster’s Ball. And making out onscreen with Fred Durst, in a video for a terrible Who cover from the Gothika soundtrack, may have been her most Razzie-worthy misstep — even if Durst, who directed the clip, told MTV it was “the greatest kiss you’ll ever see.” A decade later, this admittedly makes for fascinating viewing.

10. Renee Zellweger with Ewan McGregor, “Here’s to Love” (2003)

The Cold Mountain Best Supporting Actress winner showed off an entirely different side of herself in this playful ode to the great cinematic era of Doris Day and Rock Hudson, from the retro rom-com Down With Love. Here’s to Renee!

9. Meat Loaf, “Rock ‘N’ Roll Dreams Come Through” (starring Angelina Jolie, 1993)

The Girl, Interrupted Oscar-winner has also made appearances in music videos by the Rolling Stones, Lenny Kravitz, Korn, and the Lemonheads. But her most epic (and cinematic) music video appearance of all? The one in which she co-starred with Meat Loaf and played a teen runaway, of course!

8. The Rolling Stones, “Like a Rolling Stone” (starring Patricia Arquette, 1996)

Patricia won Best Supporting Actress honors for Boyhood and gave one of the most memorable acceptance speeches in years. Also memorable? Her harrowing depiction of a strung-out party girl in this Michel Gondry-directed, fisheye-lensed clip for the Stones’ fantastic Dylan cover.

7. David Bowie, “The Next Day” (starring Marion Cotillard, 2013)

Marion displayed her own musical chops portraying Edith Piaf in 2007’s La Vie en Rose, for which she won Best Actress honors. She has concurrently pursued a musical career, including an artsy collaboration with John Cameron Mitchell, Villaine, and Metronomy’s Joseph Mount titled “Snapshot of L.A.“ But her best music video cameo was in this controversial, banned-from-YouTube Bowie clip, in which she played a stigmata-stricken prostitute cavorting in a church brothel with a wayward priest played by Gary Oldman. This video definitely deserved an R rating!

6. Tom Petty, “Into the Great Wide Open” (starring Faye Dunaway, 1991)

The Network Oscar-winner joined an all-star cast that included Johnny Depp, Chynna Phillips, and, um, Richard Grieco to play an evil rock ‘n’ roll Svengali. It was clearly the role Faye was born to play. Just call this one Manager Dearest.

5. Devendra Banhart, “Carmensita” (starring Natalie Portman, 2007)

Back before she was a crazy Black Swan, Natalie was dancing in this crazy, Bollywood-inspired video by the eccentric singer-songwriter, who soon became her boyfriend. The relationship didn’t last; maybe Natalie was jealous that Devendra almost looked as pretty in sparkly Bollywood makeup as she did. A pregnant Portman starred last year in James Blake’s “My Willing Heart.”

4. Brandon Flowers, “Crossfire” (starring Charlize Theron, 2010)

This badass, action-packed video, in which the Monster actress rescued the Killers frontman from ninja kidnappers, was soooo much better than Aeon Flux.

3. Tom Petty, “Mary Jane’s Last Dance” (starring Kim Basigner, 1994)

Ah, the creepy “love story” between a morgue assistant and the beautiful corpse girl of his dreams. We’re still trying to decide who was the better actor here: Kim, or Tom himself.

2. Jay-Z, “Many Faced God” (starring Lupita Nyong’o, 2017)

The 12 Years a Slave Best Supporting Actress winner and Star Wars/Black Panther action heroine gave another awards-worthy tour de force performance in this stunning clip from 4:44.

1. David Bowie, “The Stars Are Out Tonight” (starring Tilda Swinton, 2013)

In a bit of inspired casting on the part of director Floria Sigismondi, this video by the late Thin White Duke co-starred thin white duchess Tilda Swinton as his dutiful wife. For years, the uncanny resemblance between Bowie and the Oscar-winning actress had been noted by observers — so much so that an entire Tumblr site was devoted to their separated-at-birth similarity. In 2003, fashion photographer Craig McDean orchestrated a shoot with Tilda during which she dressed up as Bowie, and in 2012, Hint Fashion magazine even published a rather convincing compare-and-contrast blogpost titled “Visual Proof That David Bowie and Tilda Swinton Are the Same Person.” The fact that Bowie and Tilda appeared onscreen on the same time here refuted Hint’s theory, of course.

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Book suggestions for a sci-fy fantasy hoe?

HELL YEAH

I haven’t read a TON of sci-fi but I did my best !!

Sci-Fi

THE ABYSS SURROUNDS US by Emily Skrutskie. Futuristic pirates, giant sea monsters, 2 girls falling in love. sooo original, quality gay content, buy it, read it, LOVE IT. I made a power point about it. 

THE SUPERNATURALIST by Eoin Colfer. an underappreciated fave tm. also futuristic, v difficult to explain, but original and weird in an awesome way. 

THE LUNAR CHRONICLES by Marissa Meyers it’s not SUPER sci-fi ish-- very much YA Sci-Fi, I would say-- but there are LOTS OF LADIES, cool representation, etc. it’s a good time. 

SAGA, by Brian Vaughan, IF you do graphic novels and are up for some Mature Content (nudity, violence, general... weirdness...) it’s about two soldiers from opposing planets falling in love and just trying to Live Their Lives and raise their baby while Literally Everyone tries to kill them 

Fantasy

SIX OF CROWS by Leigh Bardugo. MY #1. WILL STAN FOREVER. NECESSARY TO READ IF YOU WANT TO UNDERSTAND 50% OF MY BLOG CONTENT. I MADE A WHOLE POWERPOINT ON THIS JUST CHECK THAT OUT.  ALSO I MET LEIGH BARDUGO AND WILL BE CRYING ABT THAT FOREVER

CARRY ON by Rainbow Rowell. a Chosen One story that subverts all the tropes in the most fantastic ways, involves a mage boy falling in love with his vampire roommate????? precious & gay & good af?????

THE DARKEST PART OF THE FOREST by Holly Black. FAERIES and MAGIC and HORNED BOYS SLEEPING IN COFFINS and DARK MAGICAL WOODS and SIBLING RELATIONSHIPS and ANYWAYS THIS A FAVE 

13 TREASURES by Michelle Harrison is middle-grade and i’m not a fan of the whole trilogy, but the first book is dark and creepy af (esp for middle grade) involves fairies & a really creepy clever mystery and ahhhhhh I love it

DREAMER’S POOL by Juliet Marillier. adult fantasy. this book isn’t actually A Fave but the second book in the series is GREAT and I ADORE the main characters. also every book has a ~mystery~ and they’re all v interesting 

UPROOTED by Naomi Novik. can i get an UNDERAPPRECIATED FAVE SCREAM. this book.............. it’s like a fairy tale...... but it’s not..... and it’s better..... and the writing is incredible......... and i am not even worthy of trying to explain how good it  is 

THE DIVINERS by Libba Bray. This is more???? paranormal ish than fantasy BUT it’s SO GOOD. set in the 1920s but actually acknowledges the ISSUES of the 1920s (such as racism) in a great way, has characters of color, a disabled character, lgbtq+ characters, and is totally lit. 

BOOK OF A THOUSAND DAYS by Shannon Hale (or anything by Shannon Hale!) Middle grade but can totally be enjoyed by someone older. female characters written by a badass feminist author. obscure fairy  tale retellings. hell yeah. 

.........can u tell I read more fantasy than scifi?

THANKS FOR ASKING I LOVE ASKS HAVE FUN READING BLESS UP 

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9 Things We're Going To Need IF A Destiny’s Child Reunion Tour Really Is On Deck

Rumor has it that Destiny’s Child is planning a reunion tour for 2020! Nothing has been confirmed, but we hace some things we're going to need to see IF the ladies decide to hit the road together again....

That’s right!

Fans all over the world may have the chance to see Beyonce Knowles Carter, Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams back together again...if the rumor holds any water. While all of the reports are simply rumors and none of the group members have confirmed, we’ve compiled a list of things we would love to see IF a DC Reunion Tour was coming down the pipeline.

  Let's get into it: 

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                  It took me a minute to wrap my head around this milestone. I still remember the day the “advance” for this Destiny’s Child album landed on my desk, twenty years ago, with @mrmathewknowles saying, “This is going to make history.” He was right. Thank you Destiny’s Child for giving me a ticket on this historical journey.

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We know that Beyonce, Kelly and Michelle have become the household names of the group, but it would be fantastic to see a reunion including original members LeToya Luckett and LaTavia Roberson as well. LeToya and LaTavia were instrumental in some of our favorite early Destiny’s Child bops including “No No No,” “Bills Bills Bills,” and “Bug-A-Boo." The Houston tour stop would be a perfect place for this. Just throwing it out there.

  2. Mama Tina Originals

Tina Knowles Lawson, Beyonce's mother, served as Destiny’s Child stylist for many years and it would be cool to see her work on a few lewks for this tour. The ladies are grown grown and would definitely have different ideas about their looks, but it might be cute to let Mama Tina throw a little razzle dazzle in the mix for old times sake. Yall know she loved a bedazzling gun.

  2. New Music

There is no way this tour can happen without new music. Destiny’s Child has timeless music that we’ve all learned to love, however, hearing new music from the trio will always be a treat. We’ve been teased with both Kelly and Michelle’s solo albums that include collaborations with all three members, but it’s not quite the same. Get in the studio ladies!

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                  I CAN’T STOP LAUGHING!! How did he do? #swipeleft

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    3. The Vocals!

No matter who you are, you have to recognize that the DC girls can SANG! Their mics are on! While all of the ladies have proven time and time again to be powerhouses by themselves, there’s nothing like some good old DC harmonies. Alexa, play “If."

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                  Thank you, @casper for our gifts! WE LOVE EM!!!!!

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    4. Blue Ivy, Sir & Rumi, and Titan

Both Bey and Kelly are pretty private when it comes to their babies, but it would be fun to see some clips of Destiny’s Child's chil'ren.

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    5. The B-Sides

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last 20 years, you can probably name Destiny's Child hits like “Say My Name” and “Cater 2 U.” However, the real stans know that some of DC’s best tracks are the deep cuts. If you’re not familiar, check out “Confessions," “Is She The Reason," “Through With Love,” and “Bridges."

  6. The guys from the "Soldier" video

We know the ladies are (mostly) taken, but hear us out. Some of us are still looking for a soldier. Just watch the video for a reminder.

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                  I never went to college, because I was touring. Had I gone, it would have MOST DEFINITELY BEEN AN HBCU! For my highschoolers out there, who have the opportunity to, choose an HBCU! Everyone I know who has, BRAGS about the experience and I soak up every story and pretend I was there. I didn’t have to pretend in rehearsals, I had a glimpse of the feeling. Thank you sis, for an experience I WILL NEVER FORGET! I love you, genius! If you haven’t yet seen Homecoming, check it out! Let me know what you think! #BRILLIANT!! #HONEST #LOVE

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    7. The choreography

These girls dance down! This has been apparent since we first saw the girls dance in the "No, No, No" video. We were reminded last year during Bey’s historic Homecoming performance that the ladies have not fell off one bit.

  8. Black Girl Magic

Whether the rumors are true or not, one thing we know is that Destiny’s Child has always represented womanhood and empowerment and have always made us feel good and proud to be black girls. Many of us have watched them grow from the country girls from Houston to moguls and running empires of their own. To see what these women have become is inspiring and motivating, to say the least.

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  While nothing is set in stone, are we already practicing our “Lose My Breath” choreo just in case? We can certainly hope and wish for a miracle.

If DC decided to to do a Reunion Tour, what would YOU like to see in it?!

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CHARACTER SHEET: DAISY AUDREY ELOISE CANARD

And she's been living on the highest shelf... Oh, and they come unstuck Lady, running down to the riptide Taken away to the dark side

[TW: sexual assault mentions; eating disorder mentions]

STATS

Birthday: 14 January 1995

Hogwarts House (Primary): Ravenclaw

Hogwarts House (Secondary): Hufflepuff

Myers-Briggs: ESFJ

Enneagram: Type 3

Height:  5’4

BACKGROUND OVERVIEW

Mother: Lilian Ophelia Marie Harcourt Canard

Father: Jacques Didier Canard

Mother’s Occupation: lawyer—business law

Father’s Occupation: stockbrocker

Family Finances: quite wealthy—combination of old money on both ends, as well as parents’ own ambitions and finances

Birth Order: middle child

Siblings: Nicolas Etienne Jeannot Canard (24); Andre Leon Charles Canard (19)

Other Close Family: Aunt Cecile on her dad’s side (who has a girlfriend and is like super cool and a movie producer); she has another aunt on that side who has two kids her and Nic’s ages but I don’t have my notebook on hand so I cant look up their names oh well; Lilian is an only child

Best Friend: Clarke

Other Friends: Annette Grant, Hermes Petros, Toulouse Bonfamille, Stanley Schell, Abby and Tabitha

Enemies: Tito? Lol she thinks so :C

Pets: a cat named Sabrina! Her family also has two dogs named Gigi and Fifi

Home Life During Childhood: her parents were both very busy, but she and her siblings were very close and her dad made a huge insistence on family time when they were together; to this day they have a designated week in late July and winter where they go on vacations together; she’s very close with Nic and her dad; Andre can be a bit of a brat; she clashed with her mother a bit growing up but she’s starting to understand her more

Town or City Name(s): Paris, France

What Did Her Bedroom Look Like: very nice and spacious, big windows with a nice view, she has a canopy bed, everything is in pastel colors, lots of whites and pinks—nothing too loud, everything soft like a Rococo painting, a big walk-in closet, a nicely lit vanity, the artwork in there is carefully selected, everything has its place

Any Sports or Clubs: did newspaper also probably a creative writing club; used to fence and do ballet, but quite around 13/14 years old

Favorite Toy or Game: loved paper dolls

Schooling: one last semester at Pride U; probably did some pretty expensive private school in Paris

Favorite Subject: Composition, Art History

Popular or Loner: Popular!

Important Experiences or Events: was sexually assaulted at 17, her then-boyfriend lied about it and harassed her for months after

Health Problems: undiagnosed anxiety, lowkey makes herself throw up after eating sometimes also

Culture: French

Religion and beliefs: Raised Catholic, she wants to believe in a benevolent God but does not really like the Catholic church; she wants to believe in the goodness of people

 PERSONALITY

Bad Habits:  worries, limits her food intake a lot haha, has a tendency to keep her emotions inside before lashing out, cries a lot

Good Habits: uh, organized, keeps up with her fitness, ambitious, kind-hearted (in her own way), stylish

Best Characteristic: determined—once she sets her mind on something or someone, she will not quit

Worst Characteristic: scared—her number one limitation in life is that she is too scared to take chances/take risks/do anything without security

Worst Memory: the whole sexual assault thing and also the night she broke up with Tito

Best Memory: oh gosh, probably getting her bike back

Proud of: not much lol, uh maybe her fashion sense, she’s like really insecure though and attributes all her successes to other factors, poor bby

Embarrassed by: e v e r y t h I ng have you seen how much this girl blushes

Driving Style: she’s a fantastic driver—fast, daring, drives stick-shift in heels, cuts tight corners on her motorcycle, she’s fab, best driver of my characters (except maybe for Eva, but that’s cuz Eva has heightened reflexes lol); does have a tendency to speed, but doesn’t do it except on isolated roads

Strong Points: determined, hard working, kind-hearted, stylish

Temperament: gosh im not sure its like a mix of sanguine and melancholic

Attitude: outwardly, confident and determined; inwardly, really fuckin’ anxious and insecure about everything

Weakness: she’s so insecure and not good with criticism and she’s soft little flower it is easy to crush her

Fears: everything—not being good enough is the main one though

Phobias: see above lol

Secrets: not too open about the whole sexual assault thing for obvious reasons, also he like harassed her for months afterwards

Regrets: every romantic relationship she’s ever had because it makes her seem stupid and heartless and foolish

Feels Vulnerable When: uh always? When she’s being emotional, tbh, since she’s been told to restrict that

Pet Peeves: people who assume she’s dumb, people who assume she’s shallow

Conflicts: oh gosh where to begin—the fact that she wants the world to be this good, ideal place where she has the ability to help it, but the reality that class differences/prejudices in other areas are very real and very hard to overcome; her own desire to do more with her life, but knowing that rejecting her family’s values would not be good, and she really loves her family; navigating being a soft woman in a world that otherwise respects hard, sharp ones

Motivation: She wants to be successful and to make a change in the world.

Short Term Goals and Hopes: Graduate, get a good job somewhere in a big city.

Long Term Goals and Hopes: Rise to the top of her career, hopefully get married at one point.

Sexuality: bisexual

Exercise Routine: goes to spin class three times a week, does a barre class twice a week, weight training the other days, very committed exercise schedule

Day or Night Person — Day.

Introvert or Extrovert — Extrovert.

Optimist or Pessimist — Pessimist, though she tries to be optimistic to other people.

LIKES AND STYLES

Music: girly pop, MUSICALS—she’s a huge musical gal, sings in the shower all the time. Loves taylor swift, knows that its problematic to love taylor swift, but does so in that well #feminism way that’s also lowkey problematic ahaha. Her iTunes is mostly musicals and pop and some classical music too, she likes ballet music.

Books: classics and romance novels; also some trashy YA romance; went through a John Green phase in her high school years; her favourite book is The Bell Jar. She also reads those like “Oprah Book of the Month” club books and enjoys them. Gets most of her reading list from bestsellers lists.

Magazines: VOGUE aka the Bible; also Cosmo and Marie Claire and other high-fashion magazines; whatever the French equivalent of Time is, but also Time; started a subscription to the New Yorker whilst she was in NYC and keeps up with it

Foods: has a sweet tooth—loves chocolate. Chocolate-covered strawberries are her favorite. She thinks she can handle spicy, but she can’t really.

Drinks: Margaritas are her cocktail of choice; she loves champagne and lattes

Animals: cats! Also she loves swans and thinks its so romantic that they mate for life, but she won’t admit that lol

Sports: follows Formula One racing tbh and also fencing

Social Issues: Feminism! (she’s like lowkey a bit of a white feminist) Magick Rights! (lowkey also a bit of a problematic activist in everything; she’s trying though) Also involved in environmental issues!! (she works on a turtle fund thing with Stan)

Favorite Saying: “I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.” – Audrey Hepburn

Color: Pink!! Any and all shades! Also likes a nice rose-gold. Fond of pastel colors in decorating.

Clothing: Has a very classy, preppy style; lots of skirts and blazers; usually always in heels; most everything is designer and high-end; she takes pride in her style; she also dresses more on the conservative end, but does own a few sexier pieces

Jewelry: very classy, never overdoes herself with jewelry; simple pendants and studs

Games: played the Sims a lot, played racing games with her brothers, Mario Kart fan too

Websites: Instagram—also has a finsta bc she’s hip; tumblr; Pinterest

TV Shows: Downton Abbey, Sex and the City

Movies: The Devil Wears Prada!! (Also Titanic)

Greatest Want: To be successful and make a difference in the world

Greatest Need: To overcome her fears

CURRENTLY 

Home: lives in Castle Suites in a very luxurious one-bedroom flat

Household furnishings: everything is impeccably decorated, lots of pastels and golds, there’s a big window in the living room (which has like white furniture and soft lights everywhere, big white rug on the floor, lots of throw pillows), her room has a big bed with lots of pillows and her closet is organized by type of clothes and colour

Favorite Possession: her car

Most Cherished Possession: her motorcycle

Married Before: Nope.

Significant Other Before: Tito (rip); asshole French boyfriend, Michel

Children: n/a

Relationship with Family:  huge Daddy’s girl, but Daddy is also very busy and not super around all the time and she doesn’t really confide in him; very close to older brother, Nic, sometimes they feel like they are the only people in the world they can trust; younger brother has a strained relationship bc he can be kinda douche but they love each other; relationship with mother is---complicated, they are very similar and often butt heads because of their differences though and Lilian thinks she knows what’s best etc etc and Daisy is just starting to see her mom in a new light

Car: BMW, she also has a motorcycle

Career: journalism student, editor-in-chief of campus magazine: Social

Dream Career: editor in chief of a fashion magazine that also has like a huge philanthropy side

Dream Life: said career, has not given much thought to the like actual life part of it, but ideally she’d like to be married to the love of her life and have two kids as well

Love Life: uh imma get back to you on that

Hobbies : reading, dancing (she loves dancing), driving, sketching fashions, cleaning (lol), amateur baker, used to be a fencer, writing (she used to write short stories but has not in a while)

Guilty Pleasure : those trashy Harlequin romance novels….

Sports or Clubs: Social, PrideU’s premier campus lifestyle magazine; probably involved in like journalism clubs

Talents or Skills : she’s a great dancer and a fantastic driver; also a good writer

Intelligence Level : she is great auditory learner, very sharp and quick to pick up what she listens too; writes the best out of my characters; reads a lot too; not great at sciences or math, but she tries her best and the hard work pays off; a fan of history, but only as it relates to cultural stuff (wars bore her); the most emotionally aware of others of my characters, can read people well

Finances: wealthy—parents are wealthy each from their individual families and from their own careers, pay for their children

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Clayray Closeout 2018

Another momentous year has passed, and I am feeling reflective about my tastes and my year, so once again, clayray is closing out the year. Usually I don’t do this, but this year, I traveled a lot, like A LOT a lot, and I made the move across the country to LA, so before I reflect on my media consumption, here is a list of all the places I went to this year:

January - Baltimore for a baby shower February - San Francisco Sonoma for a wine tasting trip with college friends March - New York City to see musicals April - Las Vegas for PBS TechCon Two days after getting back - Sarasota for Roadshow Less then a week after - Tulsa for Roadshow May - San Francisco for CAAMFest Louisville for Roadshow Literally the day after - LA San Diego for Roadshow June - Detroit for Roadshow Toronto with mom Montreal to see Sarah July - Charlotte to meet up with Colleen and Katy Smoky Mountains for a bridal shower New Hampshire for a wedding September - Moved to LA! October - San Francisco for a wedding Boston Newport for a wedding November - Florida for Thanksgiving

Whew! As you can see, August and December were the only months that I didn’t travel, and that was because August was spent preparing for my big move and in December, my family came to me. What with layovers, I was on 33 flights plus 5 significant buses plus several “road trips” with friends/family, too. And some of these trips were so back-to-back that I barely spent any time sleeping in my own bed!

Now, I’m still in a weird period of transition, but soon enough, I will develop a routine and establish a place here. I moved across the country with no job, no apartment, and very few friends, and it was a humongous change to make. But as scary and hard as it can be, I think I have enough faith in myself that it will all work out and I will be okay. And with that, I’m looking forward to 2019!

But meanwhile, continuing to look back:

Music - Artists

La Luz

Joywave

Jesse McCartney

Younha

Saint Motel

30 Seconds to Mars

Betty Who

The Aces

BTS

Infinite

As always, artists that I saw live are a huge presence in this list: La Luz, Saint Motel, 30 Seconds to Mars, and Betty Who, and technically I was walking up to the venue when Joywave was playing (which I am still bitter about, for the record.) Other artists I saw live this year: MisterWives and Walk the Moon opening for 30 Seconds to Mars, Tamia, Duckwrth and Buyepongo at the Made in LA Festival literally my second day in LA, Gymshorts opening for La Luz, Vincent Vallières and Brigitte Boisjoli and Martha Wainwright and Michel Rivard and Klô Pelgag at the Fete in Montreal, Bleachers, Sara Bareilles at MisCast, Dionysia and Bazmati Vice, Gryffin, and I guess technically I saw Pregnant Boy.

I have been in love with Jesse McCartney since I was 11 and he released new music this year, which I adored (which you will soon see in the Top Tracks), so of course he’s that high up. Similarly, Younha released an excellent album this year and I’ve always loved her. I actually didn’t find Infinite’s album particularly thrilling, but I guess I liked it well enough that I wouldn’t skip their songs whenever they came up.

I had actually listened to The Aces before, but this year was when I really got into them. Their album is stellar and I love their sound and their look!

And as for BTS, my mom’s actually a huge fan and there was no escaping their immense worldwide popularity. I remember when they debuted! It’s great to see how they have grown to be the K-Pop group that has “made it” to the States.

This is the first time in a long time that my all-time favorites like Secret and McFly haven’t been in the top. Secret’s disbandment really hurt, even though we all saw it coming, and I’m still not over it.

Odesza didn’t make it up to the very top, but I also listened to them a lot with my boyfriend. :)

Music - Albums

Younha - RescuE

The Aces - When My Heart Felt Volcanic

Infinite - TOP SEED

Hamilton OBCR

Alexz Johnson - A Stranger Time

Dan Masterson - When Reality Calls

La Luz - Floating Features

Janelle Monáe - Dirty Computer

Eric Nam - Honestly

Anastasia OBCR

Unsurprisingly, my top artists are showing up in the top albums. I was surprised to see that the Hamilton OBCR was so high, but then I remembered that I featured it heavily in my 4th of July playlist that I played during my party. I’ve been fond of Alexz Johnson since Instant Star, even though I didn’t actually watch the show, and my friend Schuyler and I had a bit of a phase reminiscing about that era of “teen show” singers like her and also Drake Bell.

Dan Masterson is, full disclosure, a friend of mine from college, but his album is really excellent, and you should check it out if you’re interested in piano-based singer-songwriter tunes!

What is there to say about Janelle Monáe except that she is a beacon of brilliance, and we are lucky just to be able to witness it.

The other musical on this list is Anastasia, which is one of the musicals I saw this year. I saw it on Derek Klena’s last evening performance, which is actually one of two times that I saw him. I also saw him in Jagged Little Pill at the A.R.T (he is not the best part of that show, though, Lauren Patten’s “You Oughta Know” is hands down unequivocally the showstopper). The other musicals I saw this year were Allegiance, Hello! Dolly, and I saw the Genies’ Jukebox. Not a musical, but I also saw the off-Broadway show Puffs, which was hysterical.

I’m not sure why I didn’t pay attention as much, but Death Cab’s album this year is pretty great. I didn’t love the Arctic Monkeys’ album as much as I wanted to, though they actually just missed being in my Top Artists by 10 listens. Robyn’s album this year was also pretty stellar, but it was released pretty late in the year.

Movies

As always, subjective ranking and not numbers-based.

Won’t You Be My Neighbor? Okay, biased, what with my children’s media thing and PBS thing. Tbh I don’t even like documentaries that much, but this one. I wept. And we really needed this film right now.

Blindspotting I saw this at the Independent Film Festival Boston, with a Q&A with Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal afterwards, and just wow. This is an incredible tour de force. Brilliantly crafted and visceral and hilarious, too. I know a bunch of people were drawn to it because of Daveed Diggs and his Hamilton fame, but genuinely, he and Rafael Casal’s passion for this film and overwhelming talent shine through in this.

Searching Look, I love love loved Crazy Rich Asians and Asian August and Asian-American women bringing back the rom com. As an Asian-American woman, I have been waiting for so long for this to happen. But I picked Searching because as a film, Searching takes the screen footage tactic, heretofore only really used in horror films, and capitalizes on it to such amazing dramatic and emotional effect. John Cho is fantastic, of course in this very tense and very stressful film.

Black Panther I cannot believe it hasn’t even been a year since Black Panther. Can we start using the term BBP and ABP for Before and After Black Panther? I saw somewhere that Letitia Wright is the biggest box office star of the year, which is fabulous because she is fabulous (and a Disney princess!). The world-building is amazing, the action is amazing, the eye candy is amazing (Helloooooo Michael B. Jordan and Chadwick Boseman and Danai Gurira and Lupita Nyong’o and...you get the point).

Ralph Breaks the Internet I spent a lot of this film marveling at how only Disney could have pulled this off, this massive ambitious bringing together of so many brands and characters and, y’know, the internet. I also enjoy that this is not a romantic love story, and it is a story about love in other ways. Loving your friends and caring for them and respecting them is so important, and dealing with insecurity is as well. This is such a smart movie, and as somebody who cares about children’s media, that is the standard to which we should aspire.

Honorable Mentions: A Quiet Place (Though of the horror films this year, Hereditary and Annihilation were also very good), Madeline’s Madeline for Helena Howard’s performance, I Tonya because um duh figure skating but does not make the list because trying to pass off Margot Robbie as teenage was laughable, Three Identical Strangers

Movies I Want to See But Haven’t Yet: Eighth Grade, Sorry to Bother You, Support the Girls, Widows, Creed II, The Hate U Give, Halloween, Burning, RBG, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Dumplin’ (My roomie’s in it!)

Movies I Should See But Haven’t Brought Myself To Care About: A Star is Born, Mission Impossible: Fallout, Mary Poppins Returns, Green Book, Love Simon, Paddington 2

2020.12.02 EDIT: I was wrong about Paddington 2. It is an incredible film.

Television

Sharp Objects I’ve read the book (and own it somewhere...) but it had been a while, so Sharp Objects did what a good mystery does - even upon a revisit, the things you don’t remember are tantalizing and the discovery of new clues and revelations keep shifting your perspective and giving it a jolt each time. Amy Adams is phenomenal in this (as she always is) and Eliza Scanlen as Amma gives a piercing performance in this.

Queer Eye All of the remakes happening incessantly is tiring and also eyeroll-inducing (it’s cliche but honestly, where are the original ideas nowadays?), but then we get something like Queer Eye. Reality TV gets a hard rap, but with Queer Eye, you get the entertainment factor and also incredibly moving emotional heft as well. Also, I genuinely wonder at how Bobby gets all that house remodeling done and he doesn’t get enough credit for it!

The Haunting of Hill House I love the Shirley Jackson story and also the original movie (I have not watched the 90′s movie and I don’t think I ever will), so my only real gripe with this show is that I wish they didn’t call it The Haunting of Hill House because it really isn’t. But what it is, is a brilliant family drama launching off of the Hill House story. It is captivating and beautiful and spooky, and also the casting of the young kids is impeccable.

Nailed It! Sometimes you just need to guffaw over people’s ridiculous failures. This show doesn’t take itself too seriously and because it embraces the silly, it’s full of heart and joy.

Élite I love foreign teen dramas. I love murder...in my television/movies. Of course I was gonna love this show. But just because it has these two elements doesn’t mean that I automatically was going to think it’s a great show (It does probably mean I would automatically enjoy it, but that’s different). Both of these genres are rife with tropes, but this show takes them and executes them in such a way that it rings true and doesn’t distract from your enjoyment.

Honorable Mention: Memories of the Alhambra only because it’s still ongoing! It’s a brilliant way of looking at technology and combining it with all the elements of a K-drama that you could want. It’s kinda like if a good episode of Black Mirror (because goodness knows that quality varies) combined with a K-drama.

Also of mention are some excellent series that continued this year. I can’t believe I didn’t watch them when they first came out, but The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and Big Mouth are both so so good. Though I have strong feelings about the second season of Maisel and think the Paris bit was just an awkward flex and should have been cut, and the Catskills could have been an entire series of its own. Also, I actually saw Nick Kroll do some readings of all the characters in Big Mouth at the Vulture Festival this year!

In addition to the show-watches-from-the-beginning that I am still working through (Parks and Rec, The Wire, Gilmore Girls, Mad Men, etc.) I’ve also started watching Ugly Betty and Strong Woman Do Bong Soon from the beginning.

There are a few new shows from this year that I really have been wanting to watch but haven’t yet: Killing Eve, Kidding, Homecoming. Mostly Killing Eve for Queen Sandra Oh and also the girl from MMFD!

Okay, whew! That’s enough of that. Where do I even find the time to watch all this stuff??

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WHAT TO WATCH THIS WEEKEND  October 5, 2018  -  Venom, The Star Is Born, The Hate U Give

Going to change things up again this week as we get into October, because I want to give special attention to a film called THE HATE U GIVE (20thCentury Fox), which is opening in select cities this weekend but will expand nationwide on October 19.

In this adaptation of Angie Thomas’ book (which I haven’t read), Amandla Stenberg plays Starr Carter, a teen girl living a dual life with her family in the primarily black Garden Heights community and when hanging out with her bratty white high school friends who are always trying to act “ghetto” around her. At home, Starr has loving parents, Maverick and Lisa (Russell Hornsby, Regina Hall), a younger brother Sekani and half-brother Seven. When Starr sees her childhood friend Khalil (Algee Smith) shot by a white police officer, she’s unsure whether she should come forward and testify. Her police officer uncle Carlos (Common) doesn’t think so, especially since Khalil might have involved with Maverick’s old crime-boss King (Anthony Mackie), who wouldn’t want his business known to the police.

It seems like a fairly simple plot derived from the #BlackLivesMatter movement, but there’s so much more to the movie than the ongoing battle between the police and the poorer communities they patrol.  In many ways, Starr is dealing with an identity crisis that I imagine   many African-Americans must face, having to be one way around white friends and co-workers and another way at home or with their family.

Besides the fact that this is Stenberg’s third movie this year where she had a hunky white boyfriend, she is so much better in this than her other films because she brings a playful energy to Starr that makes you want to follow her story.

Audrey Wells adapted Thomas’ book into a fantastic screenplay and director George Tillman Jr., whose filmography includes oddities like the biopic Notorious and Dwayne Johnson’s Faster, really directs the hell out of this movie

There are so many great scenes including one between Stenberg and Common where they have an honest talk about the different sides of what might seem like a cut-and-dry case of police racism.

The Hate U Give (which is derived from Tupac’s “T.H.U.G. L.I.F.E” motto that “the hate u give little infants effs everyone) is a movie that shares an important message without hitting you over the head with it ala Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman or some of the other films in the oeuvre release this year.

I guess my only misgiving about the film is that it goes on a little long, offering a few satisfying scenes that could have easily ended things there, but then continuing with a full-scale riot when tempers explode after the trial of Khalil’s murderer.

In my opinion, this is up there with some of the best movies I’ve seen this year, and only slightly behind A Star Is Born (review below) this week. While on the surface, it might not seem like a movie that would appeal to everyone, it works on so many levels, including as a straight-up coming-of-age film (and by now, you all should know how much I love those).

Rating: 8.5/10

The Hate U Give is kind of the Hollywood version of the #BlackLivesMatter story, but if you’re looking for something a little more grounded in reality, you should check out Reinaldo Marcus Green’s Monsters and Men (Neon), which is now playing in select cities. I got a chance to rewatch it this past week, and I was just as impressed as when I saw it at Sundance.  BlacKkKlansman star John David Washington is particularly impressive, again playing a police officer.

We now return you to the regularly-scheduled movie preview column after the jump…

This might surprise some but not others that this coming October is offering some of what might be the best films of the year, between this week’sA Star Is Born and The Hate U Give to next week’s First Man and Bad Times at the El Royale. We’re living in exciting times!  

VENOM (Sony)

In what looks to be the second to last “superhero” movie of the year, Sony is finally making a movie dedicated to Spider-Man’s arch-nemesis who later became a hero, hoping the fans will forget all about the awful version of Venom from Spider-Man 3.  A big selling point for the movie is that it returns Tom Hardy to the comic book world after playing Bane in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises, and he better hope fans like his Eddie Brock/Venom more than they did his strange-sounding villain.

Hardy has been laying low recently, his last film being Nolan’s Dunkirklast year in which the actor was barely recognizable as a WWII jet pilot. It was two years before that when he appeared in Inarritu’s Oscar-winning The Revenant, the crime-drama Legendand George Miller’s long-awaited (and also multiple Oscar nominee) Mad Max: Fury Road.  In the years following The Dark Knight Rises, Hardy has also starred in a number of smaller films that haven’t gotten much traction, so it’s odd to see him returning to superheroes only six years after playing Bane.

Venomalso brings director Ruben Fleischer back into the Sony fold after directing the horror-comedy hit Zombieland and the comedy 30 Minutes or Less, although Fleischer has been focusing on television in the last five years since the Ryan Gosling crime-drama Gangster Squad. Neither of the latter two movies did as well as Zombieland, and it definitely feels like he has something to prove with Venom.

Unfortunately, people have already been vocally pessimistic about the movie ever since the first trailer didn’t bother to actually show Venom, and things got even more questionable after seeing Venom in a rather awkward longer trailer.  Much of the movie’s success is going to depend on whether reviews totally trash the movie or whether some critics actually like what Fleischer and Hardy are doing. So far, the RottenTomatoes reviews are at 28% Fresh, pointing more to the former, but one wonders if curious fans will still give the movie a chance.

Some have suggested Venom could open with over $60 million but I’m going a bit lower with around $55 to 57 million and $130 million or so total domestic. What’s interesting is that the opening range for the movie puts Venom into consideration to become the top October opening over Alfonso Cuaron’s Gravity, which opened with $55 million a few years ago. Regardless of whether it sets a new October opening record or not, I expect a fairly large drop after its opening weekend just because the fans will rush out to see it and then move onto other things.  Expect this to end up around $125 million domestic, which is not great, probably not enough for a sequel unless the movie surprises internationally.

Mini-Review: I’ve never been a huge fan of Venom as a comic book character. He always seemed a little one-dimensional to me, even as other writers/artists tried to flesh him and his host Eddie Brock out. (So far, Donny Cates’ take on Venom is well worth reading.)

I’m going to assume you know something about the character, his history as a Spider-Man costume-turned-villain and then how he became a hero. It’s obvious Tom Hardy and director Reuben Fleischer were making a movie for fans of the character who were disappointed with his handling by Sam Raimi in Spider-Man 3, and for the most part, it’s fairly faithful other than any references to Spider-Man.  In fact, the whole story has  been moved to San Francisco, as to avoid any other Spider-Man comparisons.

In this case, the symbiote comes down to earth in a space shuttle made by the Life Corporation run by an Elon Musk-type CEO named Carlton Drake (Riz Ahmed), and Drake does experiments on the homeless to try to make them hosts for the alien creatures. Tom Hardy plays investigative reporter Eddie Brock, a big-time loser who loses his lawyer girlfriend (Michelle Williams) when he snoops into a case against Drake. While investigating at the Life Corporation, one of the symbiotes takes to Brock, and you can probably guess what happens.

Although this is a straight-up origin story in the simplest terms, some things just don’t work and there are definitely issues, the first being the often silly screenplay that is constantly on the border of veering into campy Nicolas Cage territory. Much of that is due to Hardy, who plays off the silliness of the schizophrenic nature of the character,

On paper, Venom could have easily been a terrifying R-rated horror film with lots of gore, but trying to keep it at PG-13 means that Fleischer makes it more of an action-comedy, and there is enough decent action scenes and quirky humor to keep things entertaining.

Probably one of the things that makes or breaks any comic book movie is the CG visual FX and Fleischer’s hefty team of animators does a decent job making Venom watchable with long black tendrils that reminded me of the video game Prototype (one of my first Xbox games). Things do get a little messy when a counter-symbiote is introduced named “Riot” is introduce and the end battle has some of the same problems as the Ed Norton The Incredible Hulk in that it just doesn’t deliver.

Even so, if you ARE a fan of the comic character, you should be pleased with this incarnation just as those unfamiliar with the character from the comics will probably find the movie and Hardy’s performance to be off-putting. The film never deteriorates to the point of being a Catwoman or Fantastic Fourlevel trash fire, though. Despite some tonal issues, it’s often fun and entertaining, especially the action scenes, and if nothing else, there’s an end credits scene that will make people (esp. Venom fans) hope this movie does well enough to warrant a sequel. Rating: 6.5/10

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A STAR IS BORN (Warner Bros.)

This wasn’t even remotely one of my more anticipated movies of the year until it started getting rave reviews out of the early September festivals, but I’m sure it would have gotten a lot of attention for being Bradley Cooper’s directorial debut, even if it seems like a shoe-in to win lots of awards over the next few months.

Obviously, this is a remake of a movie that dates back to the 1937 movie starring Fredric March and Janet Gaynor, which was nominated for 8 Oscars, winning for its story (as opposed to its screenplay). It was remade in 1954 with Judy Garland, and that was nominated for six Oscars and then again in 1974 with Barbra Streisand and Kris Krisstoferson, and that also only won one Oscar out of four nominations. Can Bradley Cooper’s version possibly break the “jinx” and make a movie that wins more than one Oscar? I think so.

Cooper has mostly been taking time off of acting to direct A Star Is Born, merely providing the voice of Rocket in last year’s Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 and this year’s Avengers: Infinity War. He kind of hit a bit of a downturn in the years following his enormous hit American Sniper for Clint Eastwood, which grossed $350 million and got Cooper his third and fourth Oscar nominations. (Cooper has already been earmarked for a number of Oscar nominations for A Star is Born, for acting, directing and possibly even for writing some of the film’s songs.) Neither of Cooper’s 2015 movies with Jennifer Lawrence (Serena and Joy) did as well as their first two movies together with David O. Russell, Silver Linings Playbook and American Hustle. Cooper’s movies with Cameron Crowe (Aloha) and his cooking movie Burnt also didn’t do very well. Even so, Cooper had already been elevated to the A-list as an actor

The real ringer for Cooper’s debut is casting Lady Gaga in the role of Ally, the lounge singer who Cooper’s Jackson Maine discovers and falls for, because Lady Gaga has such an enormous diehard fanbase that even the younger girls might not be discouraged by the film’s soft-R rating. (Honestly, I still have to question the MPAA who gives this an R and Venom a PG-13 when there was WAY more swearing in that one.) Anyway, Lady Gaga is pegged to be nominated for an Oscar for her performance and probably one of her songs, too,

Another one of the films ringers is comedian Dave Chapelle, who basically just appears in one section of the movie but Warner Bros. wisely has cut a second trailer featuring him to play in movies like Night School in hopes of appealing to some of the African-American audiences that will see this movie as very white bread. More importantly, it stars Sam Elliot as Jackson’s older brother who has many great scenes with Cooper and is likely to be nominated for his first Oscar for it. (He should have been nominated for last year’s The Hero if you ask me.)

There are many easy comparisons for A Star is Born from Eminem’s 8 Mile ($51.2 million opening, $116m total) and the Johnny Cash biopic Walk the Line ($22.3m opening, $119m total). There’s certainly the hype that came with 8 Mile going into opening weekend and Cooper certainly has enough box office pull, but the fact that this is a remake might already make some older audiences wary. At the same time, Gaga and Cooper’s modern take on the age-old story is likely to appeal to younger audiences, as will the music that runs a wide gamut of country rockers and ballads, including a couple that will likely be nominated for Oscars.

The good news is that the movie has been receiving rave reviews since it premiered at Venice and then played Toronto shortly afterwards.

This is the thing. I think A Star Is Born is going to do very well this weekend, probably more than $40 million, but I think it’s really going to kill in the weeks to come as word-of-mouth and repeat viewings pushes the movie up over the $150 million mark. If the movie plays as well as I think it does, I wouldn’t even be surprised to see it approaching $200 million once it re-expands to take advantage of inevitable awards.

Mini-Review: It’s been more than a minute since I saw the Barbra Streisand/Kris Kristofferson A Star Is Born, so I’m not too adverse to a fourth remake, as much as I was concerned about a movie featuring an actor I’m so-so on and a pop singer whose work I never really cared for. Imagine my surprise when I found myself enjoying the film almost immediately as we see Bradley Cooper’s Jackson Maine performing on stage with the very loud live music coming from the Dolby sound system where I saw the movie.

Maine is an alcoholic so after the show he goes looking for a bar, winding up at a drag night of one local watering hole where it just so happens that Lady Gaga’s Ally is performing “La Vie en Rose” (maybe a nod to another Oscar-winning actress?). He’s immediately enthralled and goes backstage to meet her, and the two immediately hit it off, hanging out and learning more about each other. Ally immediately starts enjoying the perks of Jackson’s fame as he flies her to one of his concerts and pulls her up on stage to perform the song “Shallow.”

Things progress from there as Ally becomes famous from a video of her performance with Jackson. After one show, Ally is approached by a manager-type who wants to make her an even bigger star, and he proceeds to do what happens too many times in the music industry where he tries to transform her into some pop diva that’s

I really enjoyed seeing the romance and relationship between the two leads evolve, because Cooper’s Jackson Maine is quite a smooth-talker, even if he’s slurring most of his words. Gaga is also impressive, likely bringing some of her own struggles in the music business to the role. On top of that, the supporting cast, including Sam Elliot as Jack’s older brother and Andrew Dice Clay as Ally’s Dad brought a lot to the mix as Cooper ably balances the film’s tonal shifts from heavy drama to lighter moments.

Things do get a little bit predictable during the second act as Ally’s star begins to rise while Jackson’s starts to crash and burn, and he’s unable to accept how she’s becoming more successful than him, as his career begins to stagnate. He stops drinking, then starts drinking again and things just get worse and worse, as he seems to be hindering her career. The film’s last act is a stunner as Jack tries to get his alcoholism in check and Ally’s star continues to rise, making it obvious something’s eventually going to give.

A Star Is Born is an impressive debut from Cooper, not only for his direction but also how he elevates himself as an actor to keep up with his perfectly cast co-star. That’s not even considering that he co-wrote many of the film’s gorgeous songs. I enjoyed this film far more than I thought I would, and I know that I won’t be the only person seeing it multiple times.

Rating: 9/10

Venom shouldn’t have a problem taking the top spot although we’ll have to see whether negative reviews manage to keep the fans away. Either way, it will beat A Star is Born on Thursday/Friday but then the latter will pick up steam, bearing in mind that Monday is Columbus Day so there’s no school and government offices are closed, which could help some of the returning movies, as well.

This week’s Top 10 should look something like this…

1. Venom  (Sony) - $55.6 million N/A 2. A Star is Born  (Warner Bros.) - $42.5 million N/A 3. Night School  (Universal) - $15 million -46% 4.Smallfoot  (Warner Bros.) - $14.5 million -37% 5. The House with a Clock in its Walls  (Universal) - $7.3 million -40% 6. A Simple Favor (Lionsgate) – $4 million -38% 7. The Nun  (New Line) - $3 million -54% 8. Crazy Rich Asians  (New Line) - $2.7 million -35% 9. Hell Fest  (CBS Films/Lionsgate) - $2.2 million -57% 10. The Predator (Fox) – $1.7 million -57%

LIMITED RELEASES

Other than The Hate U Give, this weekend is kind of a mixed bag for limited releases, since I haven’t watched as many of these as I probably should.

Almost a year after it premiered at the Toronto Film Festival, Fernando Leon de Aranoa’s LOVING PABLO (Universal Pictures Home Entertainment) starring Javier Bardem as the Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar as it follows his rise to power while in a love affair with Colombian journalist Virgina Vallejo, played by Penelope Cruz. The film is based on Vallejo’s book, and it’s opening at around 15 theaters across the country.

Filmmaker Peter Bogdonavich pays tribute to the great silent film Buster Keaton with Buster Restored (Cohen Media Group), which combines footage from Keaton’s silent comedies with interviews by those he’s inspired including Mel Brooks, Quentin Tarantino and Johnny Knoxville. It opens at the Quad Cinemaon Friday along with a small Buster Keaton retrospective and then opens at the Landmark Nuarton Oct. 19

Matt Tyrnauer follows his recent doc Scotty and the Secret of Hollywood with Studio 54, opening at the IFC Center Friday. It looks at the New York nightclub that was the place to be seen between 1977 and 1980 but was exceedingly hard to get into as its popularity and notoriety rose. Tyrnauer was given incredible access to the man-behind-the-club Ian Schrager, who tells the story of Studio 54 for the first time. After a number of showings at IFC Center with Tyrnauer in attendance, Studio 54 will then open at the Landmark Nuart in L.A. on Oct. 12.

Opening at the Film Forum in New York is Joseph Dorman and Toby Perl Freilich’s Moynihan (First Run Features), a portrait of former New York Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan who tried to contend with poverty and racism in the greatest city in the world. (The latter bit is my own personal opinion. I haven’t seen the movie.)

Not to overshadowed by Bradley Cooper, Cuba Gooding Jr. stars and makes his directorial debut in Bayou Caviar (Gravitas Ventures), which stars Richard Dreyfuss as a Russian gangster who hires Gooding’s former boxer to take down an associate’s son-in-law with a scandalous tape. It also stars Famke Janssen, Katherine McPhee, Ken Lerner and Lia Marie Johnson.

Bella Thorne and Jessie Usher star in Jeremy Ungar’s Ride (RLJE Films) with the latter playing James, a struggling actor who drives people around L.A. for a ride-sharing service. The job gets slightly better when he hits it off with the beautiful Jessica, but the two of them are then taken on a crazy joy ride by another fare.

Following its run on DirecTV, Trevor White’s A Crooked Somebody (Vertical/DirecTV) stars Rich Sommer as a medium who goes against the advice of his minister father (Ed Harris) trying to call forth the dead, only to be idnapped by someone who desperately wants to make contact with the dead.

Terence Stamp and Ann Demetriou stars in David LG Hughes’ Viking Destiny (Saban Films/Lionsgate), the latter playing a Viking princess who is forced to flee her kingdom after her king father (presumably Stamp) is murdered, so she travels the world building an army to get revenge. In case you’re wondering what Game of Thrones has inspired…. wonder no more!

Michael Ironside stars in Michael Peterson’s horror film Knuckleball (Freestyle Digital Media) about a 12-year-old who finds himself alone on an isolated farm after his grandfather dies. (I assume Ironside plays the latter.)

I also don’t know a ton about Eugene Kotlyarenko’s Wobble Place (Breaking Glass Pictures), which has an exclusive run at Metrograph starting Friday with the filmmaker in attendance for a few screenings. Best I can do to describe this is to share the odd trailer…

This week’s Yash Raj Films offering is Abhiraj K. Minawala’s Loveyatri, a love story set during the 9-day festival of Navrati, starring Aayush Sharma and Warina Hussain, a romance which almost comes to an end as she travels back to the UK leaving him in India.

Filmmakers Jukka Vidgren & Juuso Laatio’s Scandinavian cult-comedy Heavy Trip (Doppelgänger Releasing/Bloody Disgusting) will open in select theaters Friday before going to VOD on Oct. 12. It stars Johannes Holopainen as a guy stuck in a small Finnish village who is also the lead singer of metal band Impaled Rektum, a band who hasn’t played a single gig in 12 years until they’re booked to play a Norwegian festival.

And speaking of which, Bloody Disgusting’s Retro Nightmares continues with a double feature of Amityville: The Evil Escapes & Amityville: It’s About Time on Thursday Oct. 4 in select cities.

Lastly,  Anthony Nardolillo’s Shine (Forgiven Films/GVN Releasing), which won the Best Feature award at the 2017 Urbanworld Film Festival, comes out Friday, starring salsa dancersJorge Burgos and Gilbert Saldivar as two brothers who find themselves on opposite sides of the gentrification hitting East Harlem.

STREAMING

The only major new film streaming on Netflix is Tamara Jenkins’ new film PRIVATE LIFE, which premiered at Sundance and just played the New York Film Festival. It stars Kathryn Hahn and Paul Giamatti as a married couple who have been trying to have a baby and start looking at alternative methods after fertility treatments aren’t working. Jenkins is the Oscar-nominated screenwriter of 2007’s The Savages, starring Laura Linney and the late Philip Seymour Hoffman. (The movie also opens at the IFC Center in New York and at a theater in L.A.)

REPERTORY

METROGRAPH (NYC):

I’m pretty excited about my local theater’s latest series, an Albert Brooks retrospective that runs between Friday and Tuesday and including some of his classics like Modern Romance, Lost in America, Mother, Defending Your Life,Real Life and a program of SNL shorts.

FILM FORUM (NYC):

Alain Resnais’ 1974 film Stavisky, featuring music by Stephen Sondheim, gets a restoration, which opens here on Wednesday.

EGYPTIAN THEATRE (LA):

Beyond Fest 2018 continues with a double feature of Flash Gordon and the West Coast premiere of the doc Life After Flash. Thursday sees a double feature of The Monster Squad and the new documentary about the movie called Wolfman’s Got Nards. Beyond Fest will then wrap on Saturday with a TRIPLE feature of Black Christmas and Halloween from 1978, as well as the brand-new Halloween weeks before its nationwide release.

AERO  (LA):

American Cinemateque’s other L.A. theater continues its own Beyond Fest Tribute to Cronenberg with a double feature of the director’s Crash and Spider on Thursday night. It also begins the series The Life of Reilly, as in John C. Reilly, with a double feature of Chicago and Step Brothers on Friday, and then a free screening of Reilly’s new film The Sisters Brothers on Saturday. Saturday also sees a screening of PT Anderson’s Magnolia with Reilly in person and a screening of A Grin Without a Hat (1977) to celebrate Icarus Films’ 40th anniversary.

QUAD CINEMA (NYC):

To help celebrate last week’s retrospective recipient Peter Bogdonavich’s new doc The Great Buster: A Celebration (see above), the West Village theater will also show a trio of Buster Keaton shorts, The General and other Keaton classics.

LANDMARK THEATRES NUART (LA):

Along with a program of Jean Vigo shorts, the Hollywood theater will show the new 4k restoration of the director’s L’Atalante that screened at Film Forum last week.

MOMA (NYC):

The Unknown Jerry: Home Movies and More from the Jerry Lewis Collection at the Library of Congresscontinues with  Come Back Little Shiksa (1962) and The Re-Inforcer (1951) on Friday, Fairfax Avenue (1951), and a couple features on Gar-Ron Productions on Saturday and The Bellboy (1960) on Sunday, as it continues into next week. The month-long Modern  Matinees: Vincent Price will show Edward Scissorhands on Friday afternoon.

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Google Family Link Now Lets iPhone Users Monitor Their Kid’s Android Device

Google introduced its new Own family Link app ultimate month. The parental control software permits mother and father to display their children with Android gadgets. But, the app become only to be had on Android, which means that that dad and mom with an iPhone did not have this feature available. That is now modified as the business enterprise has updated the app to work on iOS devices. Allow’s dive in to look a few greater info on the brand new Google Family Hyperlink app on iPhone.

Google Circle of relatives Link Lets mother and father monitor Your Child’s Android, Tool

If you’re yet now not familiar with the Own family Link app, it allows mother and father to perform a bevy of capabilities in their Child’s Android Tool. As an example, you could approve or block app download, block hooked up apps and also provides parents with weekly or monthly reviews. Similarly to this, Circle of relatives Link also lets in mother and father to fasten their Kid’s Android Tool through setting a “bedtime” lock. Other than this, parents additionally set time regulations and look at what apps is your Youngster the use of.

Own family Hyperlink unlocks the door to Google’s wide ecosystem of services, whilst assisting you to:

• Manage the apps your children can use – Approve or block the apps your Kid wants to download from the Google Play store.

Google’s Family Hyperlink is without a doubt a first rate app If you’re interested in maintaining an eye on your youngsters and their activities. Now that the app is available on iOS, iPhone users can take benefit of it as nicely. However, the simplest downside is that the child must have an Android Tool at this factor. Probably within the close to destiny, Google will update the app in choose of iOS gadgets at the receiving quit.

That is it, for now, parents. What is your notion on the Google Circle of relatives Hyperlink app? Proportion your mind with us within the feedback.

Why You SHOULDN’T Use Google Translate

Google Translate is a great aspect!

It’s miles such an incredible tool that is unfastened for everyone and anyone to use. If you don’t use it then please start!

Whether or not you are a vacationer in a unique use or a hotel in Thailand wanting to commit ate with your visitors… It is an existence line whilst seeking to talk with those who use distinctive languages.

The problem is – it is now not as accurate because it needs to be!

Take this short example…

“I love Google Translate, however, it’s just not accurate enough for me. It lacks the human aspect of translation this is greater private and additionally accurate when it comes to grammar and sentence shape. Come on Google, do a piece higher!”

Step 1 – put that phrase into Google

If you kind the above phrase into the tool and translate it to Thai you get the interpretation. Lamentably I can not show you the translation of this article due to the characters but deliver it an attempt and you’ll see!

The translation would not suggest anything to me however I’m guessing It is a really perfect translation…

Step 2 – translate this returned to English

You get…

I love Google Translate, but it become not sufficient for me, it lacks the human aspect of the translation is private. And still extra on the subject of grammar and sentence shape in Google do a bit better!”

See… It’s so near being correct, but just no longer perfect! placed them one after another and you can see the variations.

Original

I love Google Translate but it is just not correct enough for me. It lacks the human side of translation that is more private and additionally correct in relation to grammar and sentence structure. Come on Google, do a piece better!”

Translation

I like Google Translate, but it became no longer sufficient for me, it lacks the human side of the interpretation is personal. And still extra in terms of grammar and sentence shape in Google do a chunk better!”

Conclusion

So that you can see that It’s far fantastic for translating phrases but it nonetheless needs evidence studying!

I strongly suggest that everybody from a distinct u. S ., who wants to translate their language into English need to do it one among ways:

use Google for easy translations however then run it past an evidence reader or English native and ask them to ensure it reads successfully use a full provider available to you – Whether It’s miles online or someone It is so essential to get your translations perfect!

Need to make certain your translations are best?!

Of direction you do, and Google Translate is a long way from ideal.

Bands With Family In Their Names, But No Members Who Are Related

Before it brings the ones proverbial Might also plant life, the month of April will convey a present day studio album from one of today’s maximum popular recording artists. Father John Misty is about to launch his 0.33 record, Natural Comedy, on April 7, and he’s already streaming a twenty 5 minute video relating to the album.

Further to his eclectic amalgamation of diverse musical genres, Father John Misty is likewise specific in another way. he is one of the rare artists whose stage call functions a member of the family, which in his case is the male head of the household.

The most bands named after fictional circle of relatives participants is the Blues Brothers,

An act that originated from a skit on the early days of Saturday Night Stay Within the 1970s. Fictional siblings Jake and Elwood (played by John Belushi and Dan Ackroyd) no longer only hit the Pinnacle Ten with Soul Guy, but they went on to make a success self-titled film approximately their band.

Here are seven different rock groups with a family of their names however whose members aren’t associated.

Mamas and Papas

John and Michelle Phillips teamed with Cass Elliott and Dennis Doherty to form a quartet that created the enduring traditional Monday, Monday as well as California Dreaming. They are still considered to be one of the catalysts for the people rock revival of the late nineteen sixties and early Nineteen Seventies.

Sister Hazel

Those pop rockers stormed into the mainstream In the mid-Nineties when Excited by You and its Someplace Extra Acquainted album reached the Billboard Top Ten.

Twisted Sister

Makeup and girl clothing gave These men an uncommon appearance, however, their hard rock hits can still be heard on FM stations a few thirty years later.

Uncle Tupelo

Two of the most well-liked indie bands these days owe their roots to this people rock ensemble fronted via Jeff Tweedy and Jay Farrar. After its death, Tweedy formed Wilco, and Farrar based Son Volt.

The Moms of Invention

As though their affiliation with Frank Zappa had been no longer sufficient to immortalize this band, Deep Red assured their repute by using citing the Moms in verse one of the big hit Smoke on the Water.

Punch Brothers

Those contemporaries of the Lumineers and Avetts are generating hits not with their fists, but with their music.

Tips to Fix Cracks on Your iPhone Screen

Do you still agree with within the myth that fixing a broken iPhone is not possible? Then study via the content material and give the opportunity. Sure, you study it right! You could make that not possible happen by means of setting a bit effort and with the aid of spending a minimum quantity.

You could repair your iPhone both in your personal or via professional help. Right here we’re giving you a few professional advice on fixing the damages in your iPhone that is damaged or shuttered. There are 3 predominant methods via which You could replace or restore your iPhone to a regular or unique state. You could use any of the below referred to hints to restore the authentic country of your mobile.

Let us observe the hints now,

• Replacement: In case you want your iPhone to be replaced, then you definitely ought to buy an Apple iCare+ package. If you very own that package deal, do not worry approximately the damage as You can get your tool changed or constant within a minimal price. To get it repaired or replaced you have to contact the Apple’s authorized purchaser care center and they might guide you thru a right channel of restore and Alternative. The executives help you out both in meeting a nearby carrier outlet or mailing the iPhone to respectable carrier outlet; whichever is out there and simpler for you. But, the costs and costs for fixing the harm could range depending on the version of your iPhone.

• Get it fixed domestically: Now, allow’s study the second trick of solving your damaged iPhone. If you have not opted for the iCare+ package deal, then You could touch a nearby servicing outlet who can restore it at a lesser price and time.

• Do it on your own: You can do away with above points If you are an professional in imitation.

Yes, you heard it proper! If You could imitate the works of others by means of looking them, then this tip is for you. by the use of severe on-line resources which are available on the internet, You could fix your broken iPhone for your own. You just got to discover the proper video which could take rarely an afternoon’s time after which start imitating the video. This is the quality idea as it would not value you plenty and might no longer waste much of some time.

Whilst the primary suggestions might make certain that your iPhone gets repaired nicely, however they pinch your pocket a touch bit. But, the 0.33 tip might get your iPhone repaired properly with minimal time and money. On the identical, you must be suitable for it. Otherwise, you’ll come to be destroying your smartphone.

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Google Family Link Now Lets iPhone Users Monitor Their Kid’s Android Device

Google introduced its new Own family Link app ultimate month. The parental control software permits mother and father to display their children with Android gadgets. But, the app become only to be had on Android, which means that that dad and mom with an iPhone did not have this feature available. That is now modified as the business enterprise has updated the app to work on iOS devices. Allow’s dive in to look a few greater info on the brand new Google Family Hyperlink app on iPhone.

Google Circle of relatives Link Lets mother and father monitor Your Child’s Android, Tool

If you’re yet now not familiar with the Own family Link app, it allows mother and father to perform a bevy of capabilities in their Child’s Android Tool. As an example, you could approve or block app download, block hooked up apps and also provides parents with weekly or monthly reviews. Similarly to this, Circle of relatives Link also lets in mother and father to fasten their Kid’s Android Tool through setting a “bedtime” lock. Other than this, parents additionally set time regulations and look at what apps is your Youngster the use of.

Own family Hyperlink unlocks the door to Google’s wide ecosystem of services, whilst assisting you to:

• Manage the apps your children can use – Approve or block the apps your Kid wants to download from the Google Play store.

Google’s Family Hyperlink is without a doubt a first rate app If you’re interested in maintaining an eye on your youngsters and their activities. Now that the app is available on iOS, iPhone users can take benefit of it as nicely. However, the simplest downside is that the child must have an Android Tool at this factor. Probably within the close to destiny, Google will update the app in choose of iOS gadgets at the receiving quit.

That is it, for now, parents. What is your notion on the Google Circle of relatives Hyperlink app? Proportion your mind with us within the feedback.

Why You SHOULDN’T Use Google Translate

Google Translate is a great aspect!

It’s miles such an incredible tool that is unfastened for everyone and anyone to use. If you don’t use it then please start!

Whether or not you are a vacationer in a unique use or a hotel in Thailand wanting to commit ate with your visitors… It is an existence line whilst seeking to talk with those who use distinctive languages.

The problem is – it is now not as accurate because it needs to be!

Take this short example…

“I love Google Translate, however, it’s just not accurate enough for me. It lacks the human aspect of translation this is greater private and additionally accurate when it comes to grammar and sentence shape. Come on Google, do a piece higher!”

Step 1 – put that phrase into Google

If you kind the above phrase into the tool and translate it to Thai you get the interpretation. Lamentably I can not show you the translation of this article due to the characters but deliver it an attempt and you’ll see!

The translation would not suggest anything to me however I’m guessing It is a really perfect translation…

Step 2 – translate this returned to English

You get…

I love Google Translate, but it become not sufficient for me, it lacks the human aspect of the translation is private. And still extra on the subject of grammar and sentence shape in Google do a bit better!”

See… It’s so near being correct, but just no longer perfect! placed them one after another and you can see the variations.

Original

I love Google Translate but it is just not correct enough for me. It lacks the human side of translation that is more private and additionally correct in relation to grammar and sentence structure. Come on Google, do a piece better!”

Translation

I like Google Translate, but it became no longer sufficient for me, it lacks the human side of the interpretation is personal. And still extra in terms of grammar and sentence shape in Google do a chunk better!”

Conclusion

So that you can see that It’s far fantastic for translating phrases but it nonetheless needs evidence studying!

I strongly suggest that everybody from a distinct u. S ., who wants to translate their language into English need to do it one among ways:

use Google for easy translations however then run it past an evidence reader or English native and ask them to ensure it reads successfully use a full provider available to you – Whether It’s miles online or someone It is so essential to get your translations perfect!

Need to make certain your translations are best?!

Of direction you do, and Google Translate is a long way from ideal.

Bands With Family In Their Names, But No Members Who Are Related

Before it brings the ones proverbial Might also plant life, the month of April will convey a present day studio album from one of today’s maximum popular recording artists. Father John Misty is about to launch his 0.33 record, Natural Comedy, on April 7, and he’s already streaming a twenty 5 minute video relating to the album.

Further to his eclectic amalgamation of diverse musical genres, Father John Misty is likewise specific in another way. he is one of the rare artists whose stage call functions a member of the family, which in his case is the male head of the household.

The most bands named after fictional circle of relatives participants is the Blues Brothers,

An act that originated from a skit on the early days of Saturday Night Stay Within the 1970s. Fictional siblings Jake and Elwood (played by John Belushi and Dan Ackroyd) no longer only hit the Pinnacle Ten with Soul Guy, but they went on to make a success self-titled film approximately their band.

Here are seven different rock groups with a family of their names however whose members aren’t associated.

Mamas and Papas

John and Michelle Phillips teamed with Cass Elliott and Dennis Doherty to form a quartet that created the enduring traditional Monday, Monday as well as California Dreaming. They are still considered to be one of the catalysts for the people rock revival of the late nineteen sixties and early Nineteen Seventies.

Sister Hazel

Those pop rockers stormed into the mainstream In the mid-Nineties when Excited by You and its Someplace Extra Acquainted album reached the Billboard Top Ten.

Twisted Sister

Makeup and girl clothing gave These men an uncommon appearance, however, their hard rock hits can still be heard on FM stations a few thirty years later.

Uncle Tupelo

Two of the most well-liked indie bands these days owe their roots to this people rock ensemble fronted via Jeff Tweedy and Jay Farrar. After its death, Tweedy formed Wilco, and Farrar based Son Volt.

The Moms of Invention

As though their affiliation with Frank Zappa had been no longer sufficient to immortalize this band, Deep Red assured their repute by using citing the Moms in verse one of the big hit Smoke on the Water.

Punch Brothers

Those contemporaries of the Lumineers and Avetts are generating hits not with their fists, but with their music.

Tips to Fix Cracks on Your iPhone Screen

Do you still agree with within the myth that fixing a broken iPhone is not possible? Then study via the content material and give the opportunity. Sure, you study it right! You could make that not possible happen by means of setting a bit effort and with the aid of spending a minimum quantity.

You could repair your iPhone both in your personal or via professional help. Right here we’re giving you a few professional advice on fixing the damages in your iPhone that is damaged or shuttered. There are 3 predominant methods via which You could replace or restore your iPhone to a regular or unique state. You could use any of the below referred to hints to restore the authentic country of your mobile.

Let us observe the hints now,

• Replacement: In case you want your iPhone to be replaced, then you definitely ought to buy an Apple iCare+ package. If you very own that package deal, do not worry approximately the damage as You can get your tool changed or constant within a minimal price. To get it repaired or replaced you have to contact the Apple’s authorized purchaser care center and they might guide you thru a right channel of restore and Alternative. The executives help you out both in meeting a nearby carrier outlet or mailing the iPhone to respectable carrier outlet; whichever is out there and simpler for you. But, the costs and costs for fixing the harm could range depending on the version of your iPhone.

• Get it fixed domestically: Now, allow’s study the second trick of solving your damaged iPhone. If you have not opted for the iCare+ package deal, then You could touch a nearby servicing outlet who can restore it at a lesser price and time.

• Do it on your own: You can do away with above points If you are an professional in imitation.

Yes, you heard it proper! If You could imitate the works of others by means of looking them, then this tip is for you. by the use of severe on-line resources which are available on the internet, You could fix your broken iPhone for your own. You just got to discover the proper video which could take rarely an afternoon’s time after which start imitating the video. This is the quality idea as it would not value you plenty and might no longer waste much of some time.

Whilst the primary suggestions might make certain that your iPhone gets repaired nicely, however they pinch your pocket a touch bit. But, the 0.33 tip might get your iPhone repaired properly with minimal time and money. On the identical, you must be suitable for it. Otherwise, you’ll come to be destroying your smartphone.