#please help me find this movie

[randomalistic]

Wait you guys are actually buying Disney products I thought it was a joke

(READ TAGS FOR FULL CONTEXT Sorry it’s long dies

[rumwik]

There's a movie I've been trying to find for years but I barely remember anything about it. It's hard to nail down a timeline, l probably watched it on TV sometime between 2001-2006 in the UK. It's about a boy going back in time (this I'm certain of) after following a border collie through the woods (I think). All I remember is that he time travels back to….???? (I don't actually know, I just remember old-fashioned farmy things, like milking cows by hand) and eats ham and he returns to the present and his mum asks him what he wants for dinner and he says "ham".

I've looked through the list of time travel films on wikipedia, and nothing sounds right : (

UPDATE: Corpsesoldier has come to my rescue and informed me that the movie is "An Angel for May" from 2002! HAM MOVIE DISCOVERED.

[jtl-fics]

Fluent Freshman - Part 07

PREVIOUS

The thing about Nicky knowing that FF knows Russian and therefore understands every single excruciatingly sweet, ear-reddingly spicy, or shockingly mundane thing that Andrew and Neil say to one another is that he is objectively the 3rd worst person to know this secret.

First place is, of course, Andrew Minyard the man who has now asked him about his family 3 times in the last week and a half. FF doesn’t really care if Andrew goes after the majority of his ‘family’ since it’s just his step brothers and step dad but Andrew might go after his Grandma too so he just says “We don’t talk” every time it comes up and deletes his entire chat history with his grandma that way Andrew won’t know how close they are. If that means that Andrew thinks that no one would look for him if he happened to disappear into a shallow grave FF doesn’t know. He’s already doomed so the least he can do is save his gran.

Second place is, of course, Captain Neil. Captain has mentioned quite a few times that a lot of people stay with friends or people they’re close with over Thanksgiving break. It’s meaner than Captain Neil usually would be off of the Court reminding FF that he has friends but none close enough who would want to spend a holiday with him. He plans to go see his Gran for Thanksgiving and she plans to feed him a truly ridiculous amount of food. It’s the same plan he’s had pretty much every year since he was 13.

Third place is Nicky Hemmick. Nicky is a very nice guy who got him a paperboy to hyperventilate into a couple times and would absolutely never intentionally OUT somebody and compromise their safety! Nicky’s talked with FF about some of his background so FF has full confidence that it’s never going to be something that Nicky intentionally outs to anyone. But there are two main reasons why Nicky is the third worst person to find out about this secret.

The first reason is that Nicky Hemmick just unabashedly loves gossip. FF has heard that with the graduation of the girls the previous year had gone Allison Reynolds who had multiple running bets on multiple teammates and a whole cache of gossip. Now Nicky has access to the ultimate accidental gossip magnet in the man who no one notices, who knows any language the Foxes speak and is too awkward to get up and leave when they start talking.

Nicky will never tell another soul his secret but he also HAS to know what Neil and Andrew are saying to one another and when Nicky lies to cover for him the charge is one free conversation translation.

He’s absolutely hooked on getting translations the since the first time he had asked what Andrew and Neil are hissing at one another one morning practice.

FF translated it awkwardly feeling like a creep and like he’s invading their privacy but Nicky had helped him eat the four slavic letter flashcards he had made up to help a friend study the language when Captain Neil and Andrew had come back early from a weekend alone in Columbia.

Nicky had even assured him afterwards that the ink was probably non-toxic and given him floss so he could get the flashcard wedged between his molars out.

So….

“Andrew’s mad that Captain Neil skipped breakfast because they’re working to make him eat something for every meal. Captain Neil’s mad because Andrew’s the one that kept him in bed so long that he didn’t have time to make anything.”

Nicky squeals in delight

The second reason, which is just compounded by the first, is the fact that Nicky had promised not to tell another Soul. However Nicky Hemmick, the romantic that he is, believes that he and his Fiancé Erik share one soul since they are soulmates. Therefore Nicky Hemmic had barely even registered FF’s tears of gratitude before he was calling Erik to tell him about FF.

The sheer number of close calls that have happened because Nicky HAS to tell Erik about something Andrew and Neil said to one another or something someone else is saying is the reason FF started getting ulcers.

Watching Nicky talk to Erik about him knowing Russian is like watching a member of the three stooges walk through a construction site blindfolded. FF nearly kills himself stopping Nicky from outing him numerous times and at the end Nicky’s smiling, unscathed and unaware of the sheer number of close calls he had sauntered through.

FF can’t wait to go home and bury his face in his grandma’s lap, stress eat two apple pies, and tell her about how he thinks he might just become an electrician or a plumber or an underwater welder because one of his language professors wants him to come and speak to a lower level class (a gen-ed with over a hundred people in it) about the usefulness of LATIN for all their majors since they can parse the meaning via root word and he had panicked and said ’Sure’.

***

The thing about being the only person on the team that knows that FF speaks Russian and is riddled with social anxiety is that it’s absolutely hilarious most of the time.

Every once in a while he has to step in to help the guy.

So sometimes he’ll eat flashcards. Sometimes he’ll distract his cousin with a salacious comment so FF can escape a dangerous conversation with his drunk friend. Sometimes he pushes FF to go talk to Abby about his tummy troubles. Sometimes he’ll hand over one of the brown paper bags he keeps in his backpack nowadays so FF can wheeze into it and sometimes he’ll assure his cousin that FF’s passing out after he offered to teach him how to use a knife was probably because of his stomach ulcers not because FF is terrified of Andrew stabbing him.

Nicky is the only member of the Foxes that FF regularly seeks out on his own to hang out with and Nicky just loves how hard Andrew and Neil are trying not to be jealous about it.

“I want to ask Smith if he wants to come spend Thanksgiving Break with us.” Andrew says out of the blue a week before the aforementioned break when it’s just Aaron, Neil, Nicky and himself in Nicky’s dorm room.

Nicky thinks about FF talking about going back to his hometown in Washington State and how he waxed poetic about spending Thanksgiving Break with his Grandma and how he was going to eat his weight in pie and Macaroni and Cheese.

“He’s planning on going and seeing his grandma. He won’t shut up about it.” Nicky says still glad that FF has a family member like his grandma.

Everyone else in the room look at him.

“He won’t shut up about it?” Aaron asks with an eyebrow raised. Aaron likes FF just fine and appreciates how FF has helped Katelyn start to grasp the fundamentals of the German language so quickly so she can understand what’s being said. “So what he said it twice?” He continues.

Nicky remembers FF’s ability for catastrophizing every conversation with the Foxes into one where it comes out that he speaks Russian and Andrew stabs him. As far as the other Foxes are concerned he’s a man of few words.

“He’s been talking about it all month. If I hear about his grandma’s apple pie recipe one more time I might demand he sneak a slice back for me through TSA.” Nicky loves stoking the flames, especially when the fire is harmless. He watches Aaron shrug and the skin around both Neil and Andrew’s mouths tightens. “You can ask him, the worst he can say is No.” Nicky shrugs.

Nicky is there when Andrew does ask him and he can see the prolonged internal scream of terror on the utterly blank face (or maybe he just imagines it.) and in a way Nicky is a little sad when FF shakes his head and says “No, I have plans with my Grandma.” In an utterly blank voice that means he has functionally blue-screened before turning and walking towards the nearest door so he can reboot in solitude.

“The offer stands if you change your mind.” Neil says and Nicky is impressed with the seemingly very casual thumbs up FF gives as he power walks away.

A little less than a week later Nicky finds Andrew next to FF and FF looking down at a cancelled flight notification after coming in from a truly monumental storm.

Andrew offers Thanksgiving in Columbia again.

Nicky tries to stop it from happening he can see that FF is a little lost in his disappointment over not being able to see his grandma and not thinking clearly but before he can snap him out of it.

“Sure.”

NEXT

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[its-starlight-art]

I love doing unfinished sketches, someone bless me with motivation to make a full piece.

[prosebushpatch]

In my humble opinion, the successful retellings of Snow White take the relationship between Snow and the Wicked Queen and really dig into why the queen is so desperate to be beautiful and why Snow is still the fairest because of her kindness.

My favorite examples of this are Gail Carson Levine's Fairest, and the movie Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarves. In both of these retellings, Snow White is conventionally unattractive. And how society views Snow White in these stories is drastically different from how they view the Wicked Queen. There is a privilege to being beautiful. Both Snow White and the Wicked Queen know this. But the Wicked Queen will do anything to have that privilege--that power--over her subjects. Whether it's to use her beauty to manipulate people or because she's desperate for love is what makes her such an interesting character. Snow White, on the other hand, gets a taste of how people would treat her if she was conventionally attractive, at least in these stories. And when she realizes that people are finally able to appreciate her or praise her or HELP HER because of her looks, she's forced to ask herself the question whether she'll choose to keep being "beautiful" or if she'll go back to being herself because society's definition of beauty isn't worth the cost.

Snow White and the Wicked Queen are foils. They represent how conventional beauty standards can pressure woman and pit them against each other. They represent how a mother, related by blood or not, can become jealous because the simple act of growing older makes her less attractive than her daughter in society's eyes and that means she's going to be treated differently as a result.

All this to say, if you turn Snow White's story into Snow White becomes a "Strong Independent Female Who Doesn't Need Any Prince And Is Growing Into the Leader She was Born to Be" then you lose that commentary about what true beauty is. You lose the chance to ask what makes someone the fairest and why. If you aren't asking why the Wicked Queen wants to be the fairest to the point of having a huntsman cut out a child's heart, then you're missing out on the entire point of the fairy tale.

[sunnywalnut]

Can anybody tell me where I can find the anime "Wolf Children" ?

I saw a preview for it once when I was a kid on one of my DVDs and was just memorized by the art style and the idea of a human mother deliberately trying to wrangle up her seemingly human children all while they turn into wolves and run laps around her.

I remember one scene in the preview very vividly. One of the kids was climbing on a dresser for some reason or another and it just collapsed on top of them and while the mother dove to save them, they were already bolting out the door in their wolf form having the time of their lives

I really would love to watch it in full since I've already watched Howl's Moving Castle(though admittedly through separate parts on TikTok) and now I'm just wondering on if this anime can be found anywhere or if it was just an indie film bound to be cast away to the wind(I hope not. Because it looked EXTREMELY entertaining and I would love to continue to find animes like this and Ponyo and all the classics in order to fuel my inner child)

Thank you!

[inezrable]

Mmkay back to talking about Blackpool. IVE SEEN THE SERIES BUT WTF THERES A MOVIE??? There is no info about it online, but people have talked about it in older Tumblr posts. Please OMG find this for me. Any help would be appreciated greatly

[pa-pa-plasma]

one of the things that will always destroy me is people believing that good story = darker/more mature/more sexual. this belief has ruined so many stories that could have been amazing & has prevented almost everyone from enjoying other really good stories simply because the age range it's aimed at is one they believe can't have complex themes, characters, plot, etc etc. they don't believe they can be moved by something a publisher or studio decided is for kids & so write it off without even thinking about it. biggest curse of being a writer who actually loves stories & telling them is that literally no one else cares in the most pessimistic, higher-than-thou, capitalism brainrot way you can imagine. & it's all automatic. because that's just what you're taught.

[kindlythevoid]

Y'all help I'm trying to find this tumblr post about lady jessica's characterization and her relationship with paul. It was in paragraph format and the first sentence is the typical tumblr picture-being-in-x's-shoes while the rest of it is in the second person. It talks about how/why she pushed paul into the prophecy (something about it ending up with him killing a ton of ppl while she did it so that he would stay alive but it really messed him up, etc., etc.) and idk if it's book accurate (haven't read them yet, on the tbr) but it popped up on my Pinterest feed a few days back and I didn't save it but I just rewatched the first dune to prep for watching the second later this week and the post popped into my head (I really liked the wording) and I went to show it to someone (it was supporting a thematic point I wanted to make I think I can't know for sure) and I've been looking for like an hour now pls help.

[lightningjo58]

I am in dire need of help! There was this movie or short that I watched as a kid, it was older, drawn, and I cannot remember what it was called. In it, there was a lion who was afraid of loud noises, so he was given earmuffs. Another animal was afraid of the dark, another animal was afraid of high places, another animal, of tight spaces, and I believe one was afraid of water. However, I just cannot remember what that movie was called! Does anybody have any idea? Please help me, this is gonna drive me insane, I cannot find it anywhere!

[definition-of-bigbrown-eyes]

Trying to find an early mcu Avengers fandom video—I’m at my wit’s end and afraid it’s offline for good…

Like the title says, I’ve been trying to find a specific fanvid from the early Avengers era. It was one of the many 30 Seconds to Mars “This is War” videos, and I’ve been combing through YouTube’s search but their filters are kinda garbage when looking for videos this old without specifics. This was a video that I ended up using for a dance solo my senior year of high school—I have photos on stage and the performance vid somewhere so I KNOW IT HAPPENED. It was special to me and I just wanted to watch it again and share it with a friend recently. And now I feel crazy bc I can’t find it anywhere—so please if anyone remembers this too I’d love y’all’s help esp because I think I found it here first maybe.

I think there’s enough specificity to narrow own the search(watched it probably 100s of times back in the day). Here’s what I remember:

Uploaded after Avengers premier in May 2012 and before Spring 2013 (this is when performances)—potentially before Dec. 2012

Title was classic all lowercase “avengers this is war” and nothing else (unique I know)

Full song runtime ~5ish minutes

Pretty confident there was no text in the video overlayed for lyrics

Unique Bits

Opens with Loki dialogue audio “How desperate are you? That you call on such lost creatures to defend you?”

Directly into guitar/drum intro—none of the crowd roar intro

Closing slate is classic black with white comic sans-adjacent text reading “I still believe in heroes” quote from Nick Fury

These are a little shakier

Soldier = Cap (obv)

Pariah = Tony (potentially Bruce—unhelpful I know 😭)

Victim = Natasha (the only one that hits solidly in my head)

Pretty sure martyr was Phil

Audio+Shot Cues

At 3:01 in the song when the snares kick in I remember it showing Tony grabbing and flying the nuke into the wormhole

At 4:03 as the chant of “fight fight fight” falls off audibly, Tony is falling through the portal and right as the drum beats(3-4 distinct hits) hit before the chorus, is the shot of Hulk catching Tony and hitting the building to slide down

At 4:35 during one of the final long scream holds of “brave new world” is the iconic full team rotating fight shot from the battle of New York

At the end around 5:04-ish as it trails off into the soft violin and guitar the video holds on the black slate for a bit before the “I still believe in heroes” quote comes up

These are two (both fantastic) that are SO CLOSE but they don’t have the Loki opening but I do remember them from the era:

DuskyPheonix’s https://youtu.be/Vw5rRCCGZhc?si=rJPApiRTupip8cim

And Pacific Orcas(now Karly)’s pretty iconic vid—again SO CLOSE but no Loki and no quote at the end slate

[transsexula]

Every year for the month of October I make a movie calander- one horror movie a day, every day, for the entire month. My problem now, is that after three years of doing this- I'm starting to..... well, run out isn't the right way to put it... but it's starting to feel like I've seen most of the big hitters.

So the question I'm throwing out there is:

Fans of horror, what movies would you reccomend for this year's October watch?

I'm looking for anything and everything. I will watch silent black and white films. I read subtitles and I'm not opposed to hunting down a niche foreign horror/thriller. PLEASE DO NOT GIVE SPOILERS I would like to go into the movies blind (trigger warnings are very welcome, though)

[violentdevotion]

wait do you have a fav boys character yet ?

i really like butcher but i feel like that's a basic answer and also the wrong answer. in another world id like frenchie but i can't get over how much i hate the actor. I love maeve theres never a moment she's on screen where im thinking get this woman outta here she's always entertaining to me. i like starlight but (and this is probably a bit nasty to say) there's smth a little uncanny valley about her sometimes where when she's talking im not listening but staring at her face trying to see what features throwing me off. I hate ashley but the actress played an insufferable character in jessica jones too and I really appreciate her ability to play The Most annoying woman you know.

centrist answer i like them all (except stormfront. hated her before i even knew she was a nazi. she was on insta live and i was waiting for her to explode and die) but my fave would have to be butcher bc i find im rooting for him the most and constantly justifying his actions. but sometimes karl urbans accent pisses me off. also black noir but he doesn't Do anything so it's hard to have him as a fave bc he's barely there.

[giantkillerjack]

The cool thing about a horror movie that takes place in a mental hospital and, shockingly, actually turns out to be on the side of mentally ill people is that it avoids all the common disgusting pitfalls of mocking, demonizing, and infantilizing mentally ill people.

The downside is

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!

[It's much scarier.]

[captain-crowfish]

Happy Fourth (4th) Birthday to the movie that started my whole obsession with this studio in the first place

(Based on this vine) And if anyone doesn't believe they are married I have some news for you [It's The last clip of the video here]

"They're called Kardashians, Mr. Link" Is a real line that came out of LAIKA studios and I couldn't be happier

Happy Birthday, Missing Link!

[lesbiancolumbo]

Let’s say I have never seen a movie made before 1965. Is there a list of Baby’s First Classic Movies?

this is actually a tough question! but fun of course. i've made a list about the 20s/30s but if you wanted like, a quick syllabus spanning all those decades and genres... well, i am up for the task. note that these are not always my favorite films (though i would never recommend a film i don't love or at least appreciate greatly) but like. if you wanted me to say these are the 10-15 films you should start with, well,

sherlock jr. citizen kane jewel robbery his girl friday singin' in the rain bride of frankenstein (this was, in fact, the first film i ever watched on tcm) the ox-bow incident double indemnity and/or out of the past now voyager rear window

films like these get tossed around a lot because they are, for better or worse (better! it's for better!) blueprints. i tossed a couple sydney favorites in there just because, but now i'm gonna give you a list of some counter-programming so to speak. honestly wouldn't those be some fun double features.

show people sweet smell of success mandalay the rules of the game the pajama game or bells are ringing the night of the hunter westward the women in a lonely place magnificent obsession bad day at black rock

let me know if you end up watching any of these and what you think!