#sarah keaton universe

[hearsayhorizons]

Thinktober 2024 24: Change

I am the homeless veteran begging for change near the minimart. I am the protestors shouting for change outside the town hall—although, between my power and theirs as time-twisters—I’m sensing them a week before the demonstration.

I am the shapeless figure that no person and no camera in Acadia can see if I do not permit it. As I take the elevator to the penthouse, I become a different shape. The doors are guarded and locked; that doesn’t matter. The building is on my property.

There is a moment of tension as I slip inside, but—though the occupant is here, he remains facing the windows even when the doors shut behind me. I pass to the large desk on feet that might as well be soundless. The desk is built a little high; it’s meant to accommodate the owner’s wheel chair so that he doesn’t need to transition between seats. Few personal effects—a big bowl of fruit, a large computer screen. And a picture: two children standing before a church, hugging.

Sarah Keaton and Ben Silverlake.

The man at the window looks very little like his picture. Today, he has a lantern jaw, ink-black hair with a wave, and he bulges with muscles.

There is some flaw in the empowered of the third generation (although how a generation is measured here I do not know, because I am aware of several empowered older than humanity itself, some older than concepts... and yet this man in his thirties is the third generation). Whatever their appearance before their powers manifested, they slide toward the same generic template: strong jaw, dark hair, pale skin. The women or neuter have a similar phenotype, although perhaps the jaw gene for men becomes the breast gene in women. They could double for each other per their sex, and sometimes do, to preserve identities where needed. But the strangest thing about this slow transformation to some platonic, heroic build?

None of them seems to notice these changes as strange. The man I stand beside now has a picture of himself and his best friend as children and they are both blonde and skinny, and if you ask him when he started dying his hair—as I have asked her—he would only look at me in confusion. Even Ben Silverlake, owner of 3EMP, perhaps second in power in Acadia to myself... has no idea.

There are few things that scare a city, but this is one of them. And the fourth generation (however you count them) are, and remain, as varied as any other people of the racial makeup of the city can be.

I’m not sure why I came here. Maybe because between Silverlake and the picture I knew I’d see, again, the clearest example of this physical transformation. It hasn’t hurt anything, yet, although I wonder if the blindspot is a psychological problem.

It could be a warper. I wouldn’t be surprised if there were a warper strong enough to put this... curse? On an entire group of people, strong enough that no one notices. Strong enough that no one notices. The fact that, to my knowledge, I alone remark on it? If everyone in the city knows something one way, that should be it for me.

Out of impulse I snatch the picture and leave. He’ll notice after I’m gone, but I don’t know what he’ll do with that information. I don’t know what I’ll do with my information, this picture. I can’t leave the city and wouldn’t anyway, and there are no answers here.

I wear Sarah Keaton’s old face, and I do not hide myself, but it doesn’t matter. I don’t know why it doesn’t matter.

[gardenofedenuniverse]

2023 Vanity Fair Oscar Party Hosted By Radhika Jones - Arrivals

12 Mar 2023 - Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts - Beverly Hills United States.

[gggoldfinch]

Lonely Universe • fic playlist

AO3 fic link • spotify playlist link

Undone, Undress Marika Hackman // Brutus The Buttress // Poor Marionette Sarah Cothran // Watering Big Thief // Forget MARINA // Creator, Destroyer Angel Olsen // Paul Big Thief // Never Be Mine Angel Olsen // So Cold Cat Clyde // Lonely Universe Angel Olsen ★ Woe to All (On the Day of My Wrath) Lingua Ignota // Angst Rammstein // Body Terror Song AJJ // …Familiar Place Lucy Dacus // Montezuma Fleet Foxes // The Morning After MEG MYERS // I Love You But I’m Lost Sharon Van Etten // The Night We Met Lord Huron // Bygones Keaton Henson

Disclaimer: unedited photos found on Pinterest

[sodascherrycola]

Family Bios (The Rose Family)

Jack Mackenzie Rose

Job: Architect Fav Colour: Red School: UCLA Was almost named: Mackenzie First Celebrity Crush: Julia Roberts Ehnicities: Scottish & Russian Fav Band/Artist: Fall out Boy Fav Animal: Dogs Fav Movie: Pulp Fiction (1994) Fav Parent: Audrey Best Subject in School: Art High School Superlatives: Most likely to quietly take over the world Biggest Fear: Acrophobia (fear of heights) Languages: English, French, and Spanish Fav Childhood Memory: Going to his first concert with his dad when he was 9 years old

Sarah Mae Rose

Job: Fashion Designer Fav Colour: Green School(s): Berkeley Was almost named: Eloise First Celebrity Crush: Tom Cruise Ehnicities: Scottish & Russian Fav Band/Artist: *NSYNC Fav Animal: Dolphins Fav Movie: John Tucker Must Die (2006) Fav Parent: Axl Best Subject in School: Math High School Superlatives: Most likely to marry a millionaire Biggest Fear: Mottephobia (fear of butterflies) Languages: English, French, Russian, and Spanish Fav Childhood Memory: Going to the oscars with her mother every year

Hayden Love Rose

Job: Model Fav Colour: Purple School(s): UCLA Was almost named: Lola First Celebrity Crush: Justin Timberlake Ehnicities: Scottish & Russian Fav Band/Artist: Led Zeppelin Fav Animal: Monkey Fav Movie: The Wizard of Oz (1939) Fav Parent: Axl Best Subject in School: Science High School Superlatives: Fashionista Biggest Fear: Tokophobia (fear of childbirth/pregnancy) Languages: English and Spanish Fav Childhood Memory: Fashion shows in the living room

Keaton Brooke Rose

Job: Model Fav Colour: Orange School(s): Columbia University Was almost named: Brynn First Celebrity Crush: Usher Ehnicities: Scottish & Russian Fav Band/Artist: Backstreet Boys Fav Animal: Giraffe Fav Movie: The Silence of the Lambs (1991) Fav Parent: Audrey Best Subject in School: English High School Superlatives: Teacher’s Pet Biggest Fear: Gephyrophobia (fear of bridges) Languages: English, Spanish, and French Fav Childhood Memory: Going to the fire station with her class in Preschool

Lux Mirabella Rose

Job: Tattooist Fav Colour: Pink School(s): UCLA Was almost named: Wren First Celebrity Crush: Zac Efron Ehnicities: Scottish & Russian Fav Band/Artist: 2pac Fav Animal: Guinea Pig Fav Movie: The Virgin Suicides (1999) Fav Parent: Audrey Best Subject in School: Spanish High School Superlatives: Most Stubborn Biggest Fear: Arachnophobia (fear of spiders) Languages: English and Spanish Fav Childhood Memory: Drawing on her brothers cast after he broke his leg

Tatum Price Rose

Job: Soccer Player Fav Colour: Blue School(s): University of Southern California Was almost named: Abel First Celebrity Crush: Paris Hilton Ehnicities: Scottish & Russian Fav Band/Artist: Post Malone Fav Animal: Tiger Fav Movie: Iron Man (2008) Fav Parent: Audrey Best Subject in School: Gym High School Superlatives: Most athletic Biggest Fear: Coulrophobia (fear of clowns) Languages: English and Spanish Fav Childhood Memory: Sneaking out of the house to go to a Post Malone concert w/ his friends

[tabloidtoc]

Entertainment Weekly, December

Cover: Wandavision -- Elizabeth Olsen as Wanda Maximoff and Paul Bettany as Vision 

Page 1: Contents, Melissa Gilbert on the Little House on the Prairie Set in 1977 

Page 3: Sound Bites -- special holiday edition 

Page 4: Editor’s Note 

Page 6: The Must List -- Between the World and Me 

Page 8: The Orchard by David Hopen, Freaky 

Page 9: Chris Stapleton -- Starting Over 

Page 11: A Sky Beyond the Storm by Sabaa Tahir, Let Them All Talk 

Page 12: Batman/Catwoman 

Page 13: Nomadland 

Page 14: Soul, December Games -- Marvel’s Spider-man: Miles Morales, Star Wars: Tales from the Galaxy’s Edge, Immortals Fenyx Rising 

Page 16: My Must List -- Kenan Thompson 

Page 19: First Take -- Bob Odenkirk in Nobody -- the Better Call Saul star plays an unlikely action here complete with a bloody good makeover in this thriller about a family man who decides to seek revenge after a break-in 

Page 21: Pedro Pascal and Christian Slater -- We Can Be Heroes 

Page 22: Cover Story -- Wandavision a wonderfully weird send-up of sitcoms of the past is Marvel’s key to the future 

Page 30: Untold Stories: Holiday Movies Edition -- an oral history of The Family Stone -- Thomas Bezucha, Diane Keaton, Sarah Jessica Parker, Luke Wilson, Elizabeth Reaser, Dermot Mulroney, Tyrone Giordano, Brian White, Craig T. Nelson, Claire Danes

Page 36: Making the Scene -- The Muppet Christmas Carol -- fans of the Muppets’ 1992 take on Scrooge know a key scene is missing from the DVD version and it’s now the most beloved number ever left on the cutting-room floor, Closet Confidential -- Bridget Jones’ Diary -- Colin Firth and director Sharon Maguire reveal the secrets behind Darcy’s ugly sweater 

Page 37: The Merriest Movies Years Ever -- Jeremy Arnold the author of the TCM book Christmas in the Movies: 30 Classics to Celebrate the Season reveals why 1947 and 2003 were prime years for yuletide films 

Page 38: Role Call -- Mary Steenburgen -- the Oscar winner is a holiday movie MVP and here we look back at the roles that put the Mary in Christmas 

Page 39: Behind the Music -- The Preacher’s Wife -- Whitney Houston’s rousing 1996 film boasts one of the all-time great Christmas movie soundtracks and producer Mervyn Warren tells how it came together 

Page 40: Investigation: Is Die Hard a Christmas movie? It’s the debate that won’t die: does Bruce Willis’ 1988 action classic also qualify as a Christmas classic? With the help of some Die Hard alums we’re ready to settle this once and for all -- Bonnie Bedelia, Reginald VelJohnson, Dermot Mulroney, Zooey Deschanel, Mean Girls -- Christmas got a bit risque in the teen film’s memorial Jingle Bell Rock talent-show performance 

Page 41: 4 Things You Didn’t Know About Love Actually -- we actually unearthed some new tidbits from writer-director Richard Curtis about the much-discussed much-beloved Christmas rom-com 

Page 43: 3 secrets from Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer -- it’s aired every year since 1964 but there are still some things you don’t know about the stop-motion Christmas special, 5-minute oral history -- Elf -- you’d better scurry for the story behind the film’s Baby It’s Cold Outside shower scene by Zooey Deschanel 

Page 44: Shondaland makes its Netflix debut December 25 with the swoony Bridgerton a Regency-era drama inspired by a series of romance novels 

Page 48: The Kane maker -- David Fincher and an all-star cast inhabit Old Hollywood for Netflix’s Manx the riveting behind-the-scenes story of Citizen Kane 

Page 52: In an era of rampant reboots it’s been awfully quiet on the Prairie so EW investigates why it’s taken so long for Hollywood to return to Laura Ingalls Wilder’s beloved town on Walnut Grove in Little House on the Prairie 

Page 57: 2020 Gift Guide 

Page 66: News + Reviews  -- It has spurred sales and served as a balm for concert-starved fans but the best by-product of Verzuz is its celebration of Black excellence 

Page 70: Movies -- from modernized classics to fresh newcomers the Hollywood musical is back in style with a new inclusive look 

Page 73: Indie’s New Queen -- with another major and wild big-screen performance in Black Bear Aubrey Plaza is emerging as an art-house icon 

Page 74: Meet Your Maker -- Alan Ball -- the Oscar and Emmy winner behind American Beauty and Six Feet Under and True Blood brings his most personal project to the screen: the road movie Uncle Frank and here Ball shares his iconic cinematic and literary inspirations 

Page 76: Comedy of My Life: Melissa McCarthy -- the Oscar nominee and Emmy winner flaunts some Superintelligence in her fourth movie directed by husband Ben Falcone 

Page 78: The Shot -- Silver Linings Playbook -- inside the creation of a classic scene 

Page 80: TV -- after years as the grounding force on The Big Bang Theory Kaley Cuoco is now flying high as The Flight Attendant at the center of a juicy murder mystery 

Page 82: Class is back in session on Peacock where Saved By the Bell revival debuts 

Page 83: The Crown 

Page 84: Small Axe 

Page 85: Q+A with Bryan Cranston -- in the limited series Your Honor the Emmy winner is breaking bad again starring as a judge whose son is involved in a hit-and-run 

Page 86: Unwrapping Christmas TV movies -- wisdom gleaned from a flurry of winters in Tinseltown 

Page 87: Role Call -- William H. Macy -- as he heads into the 11th and final season of Shameless he looks back on his most iconic projects, epic sci-fi series The Expanse is back with more cosmic chaos in season 5 

Page 89: What to Watch 

Page 96: Music -- Angus Young and Brian Johnson explain how AC/DC are back on track with a new album that honors late bandmate and brother Malcolm Young 

Page 98: Sam Smith 

Page 99: Q+A with legendary P-Funk bassist Bootsy Collins sheds light on his new album and his enormous collection of top hats 

Page 101: The Playback -- Joni Mitchell Archives: Vol. 1: The Early Years -- before she became an icon Mitchell was performing at local radio stations and recording homemade demos 

Page 102: A Band You Need to Know -- Sault -- the mysterious U.K. group has dropped two timely album-of-the-year contenders, Stupid Questions with Josh Groban -- the multiplatinum-selling golden-voiced baritone returns with Harmony but can he sing his way out of this comedic jam

Page 103: Epitaph -- Eddie Van Halen 

Page 104: Books -- Ernest Cline returns with Ready Player Two the sequel to his 2011 blockbuster and 2020′s most secretive novel 

Page 106: Comedians Rachel Bloom and Michelle Buteau have new memoirs but first they chat about bullying and Dick Jones and how Julia Roberts likes her eggs 

Page 107: High Anxiety with Cazzie David -- the writer and daughter of OG angster Larry David broadcasts her own neuroses in the essay collection No One Asked for This and here shares her deepest fears 

Page 108: The weirdest year in publishing history wraps up with an all-virtual literary awards season and here we break down the titles with their eyes on the prize 

Page 110: Screenwriter and director ad novelist John Ridley offers an alternative perspective in The Other History of the DC Universe 

Page 112: The Bullseye

[wordofrecall]

character playlists: ori

so. let’s do this. my playlists are long and scattered, but they make me happy, so i might as well share them and the thoughts behind song choices. so. here’s some songs for runaway knights & wannabe witches, and what have you.

something holy - childhood & riches & wonders

pearl diver - mitski - oh hunter, if you didn’t want the beautiful so badly, perhaps you would’ve found it in your spirit singing softly - look. it's on the nose, considering that her title is "the pearl hunter," but also, like, that rules. this is a song for wren, i think; ori in the present reflecting on her mother and the similarities between them.

icicles - the scary jokes - i can only be forgiven if i’m giving myself up to you on a silver serving tray / must i bare myself to the stabbing of your knife & gnashing teeth while our lovely company appears so entertained? - aaand a song for childhood. 99% of ori's socialization came from her parents having important guests over, so. uh. yeah. show off your reclusive child prodigy like a pageant whenever you have the opportunity. she probably won't grow to loathe you.

life: the cruel interlude (on god) - kilo kish - why do i dare believe in me when i bleed? - questioning was. always a big thing for ori. i don't think she ever believed that the mirzha was god, and i known that she never truster her father's patron, but. in her studies, in her passions, there's always this tiny sense of desperation for something to have faith in something. not herself.

bluejays & cardinals - the mountain goats - the stars come out of hiding for you, & i would too - there is. a lot, in ori's relationship with her brother. she was the favorite child, yeah, the one destined for great things in spite of her... troubles. but he never had those troubles! she didn't, doesn't understand how he went through life so unafraid. there's envy there. i also think that the line i quoted is terribly true, like, canonically. because. she sure did do that stupid shit.

be calm - fun. - take it from me, i’ve been there a thousand times--you hate your pulse because it thinks you’re still alive! - sometimes you have intense social phobia. and that's okay!

country death song - violent femmes - kiss your mother goodnight & remember that God saves, kiss your mother goodnight & remember that God saves - i think andrei is a much less pitiable or even sympathetic man than the narrator of this song, but. like. it's a country song about a father killing his daughter while preaching godliness. i had to.

i’m all bloody inside - liam lynch - inside me, well, it’s dark & gross as hell, i’m not a pretty sight - the family business!

the hazards of love 3 (revenge!) - the decemberists - but father, don’t you fear, your children are all here - fantasies. part of the fantasy is imagining a world where she doesn't feel terrible about the thought.

shankill butchers - sarah jarosz - they used to be just like me & you, they used to be sweet little boys - "blood hunters are ghost stories." "and also, they're fucking terrible. violent, cruel, zealous. the worst."

sparrow - st. vincent - & no eyes are on the sparrow, eyes are on the sparrow, how could that be the case? the lark keeps whistling his number, silly little number, as if he isn't prey - pity for the boy. sort of retrospective, but it's a thought that's been there since she was a child.

something burning - rituals & fire & running

starchild - ghost quartet - but i will transcend & vomit this loser out of me; i will become the next big thing, i will light myself on fire - maybe she is some kind of angel? bursting with radiance and terrifying to look upon.

arsonist’s lullabye - hozier - don’t you ever tame your demons, always keep them on a leash / when i was sixteen, my senses fooled me - oooor maybe she is a sixteen year-old who is having a panic attack and setting everything in sight on fire by accident.

blood - my chemical romance - i’m the kind of human wreckage that you love! - so she's broken.

girl anachronism - the dresden dolls - it’s not the way i’m meant to be, it’s just the way the operation made me - so she's failed and she's broken and she's sick, and there's no time to fucking think.

when the chips are down - anais mitchell - cast your eyes to heaven, you’ll get a knife in the back. - so she does what her mother did before her, and she runs from that which she has always known.

body terror song - ajj - i’m so sorry that you have to have a body / one that will hurt you, & be the subject of so much of your fear - feelings on being built Wrong; feelings on your mind's undue control upon your body.

in corolla - the mountain goats - & no one was gonna come & get me, there wasn't anybody gonna know, even though i leave a trail of burnt things in my wake every single place i go - very good as an ori song in general but this is her justification to herself in the water. under the docks, she says this to herself.

the harrowed & the haunted - the decemberists - will i be so brave? - just to get that oceanic vibe up.

luna - the mountain goats - rise through the flames & end again in flames at last - an inexplicable feeling.

unwhere - reeder - a song for leaving what you've always known.

something lonely - years & woods & dreaming

runs in the family - amanda palmer - run from their pity, from responsibility, run from the country & run from the city, i can run from the law, i can run from myself, i can run for my life, i can run into debt, i can run from it all, i can run 'till I'm gone - she is broken and all she can think to do is get as far away as possible

panic attack - liza anne - i hate that i can be seen like this

black eyes - david wirsig - my hammering heart hears the voices of spirits that tempt us, the scorn that they’ve spoken

for the departed - shayfer james - they will bury me alive, but i’m not inclined to care; i am too far gone now

hurt - johnny cash - everyone i know goes away in the end; you can have it all, my empire of dirt

my body’s made of crushed little stars - mitski - i work better under a deadline! i work better under a deadline!

blood in the cut - k. flay - guess i’m contagious; it’d be safest if you ran--fuck, that’s what they all just end up doing in the end

little pistol - mother mother - i think i might be scared of the world & the way it makes you feel afraid & how it gets in the way

villains pt. 1 - emma blackery - built to create, designed to destroy

the beer - kimya dawson - & the christians gave me comic books as if i would be scared of burning in hell while i was already there [...] i tried to scream fuck you but blood was pouring out my mouth

something safe - family & finding it & fighting together

haunted house - sir babygirl - i’m running just to hide & i’m hiding just to breathe & around every corner is the same night on repeat

your heart is a muscle the size of your fist - ramshackle glory - i love you & you make me glad to be alive; i promise that i’m gonna pay you back / you always know how funny everything is, even when i’m so serious that it’s gonna be the death of me

medicines - the taxpayers - o, but our rotting corpses lying there soon began to leak & grow these lesions that all smelled just like a rose / & all the blood & guts inside us germinated into timeless pages stained with lines of lovely prose

autoclave - the mountain goats - i am this great unstable mass of blood & foam

alligator skin boots - mccafferty - i’m cool to the touch, leap to my death, i’ll die for you all, i’ll die for my friends, it goes like this

100 years - florence + the machine - lord, don’t let me break this, let me hold it lightly, give me arms to pray with instead of ones that hold too tightly

tomorrow will be kinder - the secret sisters - but i feel warmth on my skin, the stars have all aligned

armour - rae spoon - you know i placed was to build a life for you

amy aka spent gladiator 1 - the mountain goats - play with matches if you think you need to play with matches; seek out the hidden places where the fire burns hot & bright / find where the heat’s unbearable & stay there if you have to--don’t hurt anybody on your way up to the light, and stay alive

curses - the crane wives - won’t you stay with me, my darling, when my walls start burning down?

something daring - islands & visions & loss

jane’s dream - janelle monáe

beekeeper - keaton henson - hear me, o woman that has gone astray, gone astray

fire - kimya dawson - i’m reading books about how they’re corrupt [...] as long as i’m burning, i’ll keep on yearning to save the world, not sure how, but i’m learning

cosmic hero - car seat headrest - i love you, but i can’t stand the touch, & of course i’m alright with death

turn the lights off - tally hall - everbody likes to get taken for turns to see how bright the fire inside of us burns [...] should be stronger, books abandoned

eat you alive - the oh hellos - child, i’m afraid for your soul; these things that you’re after, they can’t be controlled

cry for judas - the mountain goats - hallucinate a shady grove where judas went to die

o death - monica martin - no wealth, no land, no silver, no gold, nothing satisfies me but your soul

blood of angels - brown bird - and i would wage my soul to bet that there ain’t no one throwing lightning anyhow

the universe is going to catch you - the antlers - the arms of the universe kept you from falling [...] those arms did not come back

a burning hill - mitski - i am the fire & i am the forest & i am the witness watching it / i stand in the valley watching it

something terrifying - conversations & selfhood & divination

the lamb - dessa - but blood is blood, & what’s done is done; blood is blood, & its burden is a beast

going invisible 2 - the mountain goats - i’m gonna burn it all down today & sweep all the ashes away

the lion’s roar - first aid kit - she plays a tune for those who wish to overlook the fact that they’ve been blindly deceived by those who preach & pray & teach, but she falls short & the night explodes in laughter

the villain i appear to be - connor spiotto - even if you can’t see the good inside me, i don’t have the time to tell you why i do the things that i do, just please hold on & soon you’ll seem

up the wolves - the mountain goats - there’s bound to be a ghost at the back of closet, no matter where you live; there’ll be a few things, maybe several things that you’re gonna find really difficult to forgive

thursday girl - mitski - glory, glory, glory to the night that shows me what i am

at the bottom of everything - bright eyes - we must take all of the medicines to expensive now to sel; set fire to the preacher who is promising us hell

everybody does - julien baker - i know i’m a pile of filthy wreckage you will wish you’d never touched, but you’re gonna run when you find out who i am

tongues & teeth - the crane wives - i know that you mean so well, but i am not a vessel for your good intent 

a pearl - mitski - you’re growing tired of me and all the things i don’t talk about / sorry, i don’t want your touch--it’s not that i don’t want you

[classic-laugjhing-hollywood]

Harold Clayton Lloyd Sr. (April 20, 1893 – March 8, 1971) was an American actor, comedian, and stunt performer who appeared in many silent comedy films.

Lloyd is considered alongside Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton as one of the most influential film comedians of the silent film era. Lloyd made nearly 200 comedy films, both silent and "talkies", between 1914 and 1947. His bespectacled "Glasses" character[2][3] was a resourceful, success-seeking go-getter who matched the zeitgeist of the 1920s-era United States.

His films frequently contained "thrill sequences" of extended chase scenes and daredevil physical feats. Lloyd hanging from the hands of a clock high above the street (in reality a trick shot) in Safety Last! (1923) is considered one of the most enduring images in all of cinema. Lloyd performed the lesser stunts himself, despite having injured himself in August 1919 while doing publicity pictures for the Roach studio. An accident with a bomb mistaken as a prop resulted in the loss of the thumb and index finger of his right hand (the injury was disguised on future films with the use of a special prosthetic glove, and was almost undetectable on the screen).

He was far more prolific than Chaplin (releasing 12 feature films in the 1920s while Chaplin released just four), and made more money overall ($15.7 million to Chaplin's $10.5 million).

Lloyd was born on April 20, 1893 in Burchard, Nebraska, the son of James Darsie Lloyd and Sarah Elisabeth Fraser. His paternal great-grandparents were Welsh.[6] In 1910, after his father had several business venture failures, Lloyd's parents divorced and his father moved with his son to San Diego, California. Lloyd had acted in theater since a child, but in California he began acting in one-reel film comedies around 1912.

Lloyd worked with Thomas Edison's motion picture company, and his first role was a small part as a Yaqui Indian in the production of The Old Monk's Tale. At the age of 20, Lloyd moved to Los Angeles, and took up roles in several Keystone Film Company comedies. He was also hired by Universal Studios as an extra and soon became friends with aspiring filmmaker Hal Roach. Lloyd began collaborating with Roach who had formed his own studio in 1913. Roach and Lloyd created "Lonesome Luke", similar to and playing off the success of Charlie Chaplin films.

Lloyd hired Bebe Daniels as a supporting actress in 1914; the two of them were involved romantically and were known as "The Boy" and "The Girl". In 1919, she left Lloyd to pursue her dramatic aspirations. Later that year, Lloyd replaced Daniels with Mildred Davis, whom he would later marry. Lloyd was tipped off by Hal Roach to watch Davis in a movie. Reportedly, the more Lloyd watched Davis the more he liked her. Lloyd's first reaction in seeing her was that "she looked like a big French doll".

By 1918, Lloyd and Roach had begun to develop his character beyond an imitation of his contemporaries. Harold Lloyd would move away from tragicomic personas, and portray an everyman with unwavering confidence and optimism. The persona Lloyd referred to as his "Glass" character (often named "Harold" in the silent films) was a much more mature comedy character with greater potential for sympathy and emotional depth, and was easy for audiences of the time to identify with. The "Glass" character is said to have been created after Roach suggested that Harold was too handsome to do comedy without some sort of disguise. To create his new character Lloyd donned a pair of lensless horn-rimmed glasses but wore normal clothing; previously, he had worn a fake mustache and ill-fitting clothes as the Chaplinesque "Lonesome Luke". "When I adopted the glasses," he recalled in a 1962 interview with Harry Reasoner, "it more or less put me in a different category because I became a human being. He was a kid that you would meet next door, across the street, but at the same time I could still do all the crazy things that we did before, but you believed them. They were natural and the romance could be believable." Unlike most silent comedy personae, "Harold" was never typecast to a social class, but he was always striving for success and recognition. Within the first few years of the character's debut, he had portrayed social ranks ranging from a starving vagrant in From Hand to Mouth to a wealthy socialite in Captain Kidd's Kids.

On Sunday, August 24, 1919, while posing for some promotional still photographs in the Los Angeles Witzel Photography Studio, he picked up what he thought was a prop bomb and lit it with a cigarette. It exploded and mangled his right hand, causing him to lose a thumb and forefinger. The blast was severe enough that the cameraman and prop director nearby were also seriously injured. Lloyd was in the act of lighting a cigarette from the fuse of the bomb when it exploded, also badly burning his face and chest and injuring his eye. Despite the proximity of the blast to his face, he retained his sight. As he recalled in 1930, "I thought I would surely be so disabled that I would never be able to work again. I didn't suppose that I would have one five-hundredth of what I have now. Still I thought, 'Life is worth while. Just to be alive.' I still think so."

Beginning in 1921, Roach and Lloyd moved from shorts to feature-length comedies. These included the acclaimed Grandma's Boy, which (along with Chaplin's The Kid) pioneered the combination of complex character development and film comedy, the highly popular Safety Last! (1923), which cemented Lloyd's stardom (and is the oldest film on the American Film Institute's List of 100 Most Thrilling Movies), and Why Worry? (1923). Although Lloyd performed many athletic stunts in his films, Harvey Parry was his stunt double for the more dangerous sequences.

Lloyd and Roach parted ways in 1924, and Lloyd became the independent producer of his own films. These included his most accomplished mature features Girl Shy, The Freshman (his highest-grossing silent feature), The Kid Brother, and Speedy, his final silent film. Welcome Danger (1929) was originally a silent film but Lloyd decided late in the production to remake it with dialogue. All of these films were enormously successful and profitable, and Lloyd would eventually become the highest paid film performer of the 1920s. They were also highly influential and still find many fans among modern audiences, a testament to the originality and film-making skill of Lloyd and his collaborators. From this success he became one of the wealthiest and most influential figures in early Hollywood.

In 1924, Lloyd formed his own independent film production company, the Harold Lloyd Film Corporation, with his films distributed by Pathé and later Paramount and Twentieth Century-Fox. Lloyd was a founding member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Released a few weeks before the start of the Great Depression, Welcome Danger was a huge financial success, with audiences eager to hear Lloyd's voice on film. Lloyd's rate of film releases, which had been one or two a year in the 1920s, slowed to about one every two years until 1938.

The films released during this period were: Feet First, with a similar scenario to Safety Last which found him clinging to a skyscraper at the climax; Movie Crazy with Constance Cummings; The Cat's-Paw, which was a dark political comedy and a big departure for Lloyd; and The Milky Way, which was Lloyd's only attempt at the fashionable genre of the screwball comedy film.

To this point the films had been produced by Lloyd's company. However, his go-getting screen character was out of touch with Great Depression movie audiences of the 1930s. As the length of time between his film releases increased, his popularity declined, as did the fortunes of his production company. His final film of the decade, Professor Beware, was made by the Paramount staff, with Lloyd functioning only as actor and partial financier.

On March 23, 1937, Lloyd sold the land of his studio, Harold Lloyd Motion Picture Company, to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The location is now the site of the Los Angeles California Temple.

Lloyd produced a few comedies for RKO Radio Pictures in the early 1940s but otherwise retired from the screen until 1947. He returned for an additional starring appearance in The Sin of Harold Diddlebock, an ill-fated homage to Lloyd's career, directed by Preston Sturges and financed by Howard Hughes. This film had the inspired idea of following Harold's Jazz Age, optimistic character from The Freshman into the Great Depression years. Diddlebock opened with footage from The Freshman (for which Lloyd was paid a royalty of $50,000, matching his actor's fee) and Lloyd was sufficiently youthful-looking to match the older scenes quite well. Lloyd and Sturges had different conceptions of the material and fought frequently during the shoot; Lloyd was particularly concerned that while Sturges had spent three to four months on the script of the first third of the film, "the last two-thirds of it he wrote in a week or less". The finished film was released briefly in 1947, then shelved by producer Hughes. Hughes issued a recut version of the film in 1951 through RKO under the title Mad Wednesday. Such was Lloyd's disdain that he sued Howard Hughes, the California Corporation and RKO for damages to his reputation "as an outstanding motion picture star and personality", eventually accepting a $30,000 settlement.

In October 1944, Lloyd emerged as the director and host of The Old Gold Comedy Theater, an NBC radio anthology series, after Preston Sturges, who had turned the job down, recommended him for it. The show presented half-hour radio adaptations of recently successful film comedies, beginning with Palm Beach Story with Claudette Colbert and Robert Young.

Some saw The Old Gold Comedy Theater as being a lighter version of Lux Radio Theater, and it featured some of the best-known film and radio personalities of the day, including Fred Allen, June Allyson, Lucille Ball, Ralph Bellamy, Linda Darnell, Susan Hayward, Herbert Marshall, Dick Powell, Edward G. Robinson, Jane Wyman, and Alan Young. But the show's half-hour format—which meant the material might have been truncated too severely—and Lloyd's sounding somewhat ill at ease on the air for much of the season (though he spent weeks training himself to speak on radio prior to the show's premiere, and seemed more relaxed toward the end of the series run) may have worked against it.

The Old Gold Comedy Theater ended in June 1945 with an adaptation of Tom, Dick and Harry, featuring June Allyson and Reginald Gardiner and was not renewed for the following season. Many years later, acetate discs of 29 of the shows were discovered in Lloyd's home, and they now circulate among old-time radio collectors.

Lloyd remained involved in a number of other interests, including civic and charity work. Inspired by having overcome his own serious injuries and burns, he was very active as a Freemason and Shriner with the Shriners Hospital for Crippled Children. He was a Past Potentate of Al-Malaikah Shrine in Los Angeles, and was eventually selected as Imperial Potentate of the Shriners of North America for the year 1949–50. At the installation ceremony for this position on July 25, 1949, 90,000 people were present at Soldier Field, including then sitting U.S. President Harry S Truman, also a 33° Scottish Rite Mason. In recognition of his services to the nation and Freemasonry, Bro. Lloyd was invested with the Rank and Decoration of Knight Commander Court of Honour in 1955 and coroneted an Inspector General Honorary, 33°, in 1965.

He appeared as himself on several television shows during his retirement, first on Ed Sullivan's variety show Toast of the Town June 5, 1949, and again on July 6, 1958. He appeared as the Mystery Guest on What's My Line? on April 26, 1953, and twice on This Is Your Life: on March 10, 1954 for Mack Sennett, and again on December 14, 1955, on his own episode. During both appearances, Lloyd's hand injury can clearly be seen.

On November 6, 1956, The New York Times reported "Lloyd's Career Will Be Filmed." It said, as first step, Lloyd will write the story of his life for Simon and Schuster. Then, the movie to be produced by Jerry Wald for 20th Century-Fox, will limit the screenplay to Lloyd's professional career. Tentative title for both: “The Glass Character,” based on Lloyd wearing heavy, tortoise-shell glasses as a trademark. Neither project materialized.

Lloyd studied colors and microscopy, and was very involved with photography, including 3D photography and color film experiments. Some of the earliest 2-color Technicolor tests were shot at his Beverly Hills home (these are included as extra material in the Harold Lloyd Comedy Collection DVD Box Set). He became known for his nude photographs of models, such as Bettie Page and stripper Dixie Evans, for a number of men's magazines. He also took photos of Marilyn Monroe lounging at his pool in a bathing suit, which were published after her death. In 2004, his granddaughter Suzanne produced a book of selections from his photographs, Harold Lloyd's Hollywood Nudes in 3D! (ISBN 1-57912-394-5).

Lloyd also provided encouragement and support for a number of younger actors, such as Debbie Reynolds, Robert Wagner, and particularly Jack Lemmon, whom Harold declared as his own choice to play him in a movie of his life and work.

Lloyd kept copyright control of most of his films and re-released them infrequently after his retirement. Lloyd did not grant cinematic re-releases because most theaters could not accommodate an organist to play music for his films, and Lloyd did not wish his work to be accompanied by a pianist: "I just don't like pictures played with pianos. We never intended them to be played with pianos." Similarly, his features were never shown on television as Lloyd's price was high: "I want $300,000 per picture for two showings. That's a high price, but if I don't get it, I'm not going to show it. They've come close to it, but they haven't come all the way up". As a consequence, his reputation and public recognition suffered in comparison with Chaplin and Keaton, whose work has generally been more widely distributed. Lloyd's film character was so intimately associated with the 1920s era that attempts at revivals in 1940s and 1950s were poorly received, when audiences viewed the 1920s (and silent film in particular) as old-fashioned.

In the early 1960s, Lloyd produced two compilation films, featuring scenes from his old comedies, Harold Lloyd's World of Comedy and The Funny Side of Life. The first film was premiered at the 1962 Cannes Film Festival, where Lloyd was fêted as a major rediscovery. The renewed interest in Lloyd helped restore his status among film historians. Throughout his later years he screened his films for audiences at special charity and educational events, to great acclaim, and found a particularly receptive audience among college audiences: "Their whole response was tremendous because they didn't miss a gag; anything that was even a little subtle, they got it right away."

Following his death, and after extensive negotiations, most of his feature films were leased to Time-Life Films in 1974. As Tom Dardis confirms: "Time-Life prepared horrendously edited musical-sound-track versions of the silent films, which are intended to be shown on TV at sound speed [24 frames per second], and which represent everything that Harold feared would happen to his best films". Time-Life released the films as half-hour television shows, with two clips per show. These were often near-complete versions of the early two-reelers, but also included extended sequences from features such as Safety Last! (terminating at the clock sequence) and Feet First (presented silent, but with Walter Scharf's score from Lloyd's own 1960s re-release). Time-Life released several of the feature films more or less intact, also using some of Scharf's scores which had been commissioned by Lloyd. The Time-Life clips series included a narrator rather than intertitles. Various narrators were used internationally: the English-language series was narrated by Henry Corden.

The Time-Life series was frequently repeated by the BBC in the United Kingdom during the 1980s, and in 1990 a Thames Television documentary, Harold Lloyd: The Third Genius was produced by Kevin Brownlow and David Gill, following two similar series based on Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton. Composer Carl Davis wrote a new score for Safety Last! which he performed live during a showing of the film with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra to great acclaim in 1993.

The Brownlow and Gill documentary was shown as part of the PBS series American Masters, and created a renewed interest in Lloyd's work in the United States, but the films were largely unavailable. In 2002, the Harold Lloyd Trust re-launched Harold Lloyd with the publication of the book Harold Lloyd: Master Comedian by Jeffrey Vance and Suzanne Lloyd and a series of feature films and short subjects called "The Harold Lloyd Classic Comedies" produced by Jeffrey Vance and executive produced by Suzanne Lloyd for Harold Lloyd Entertainment. The new cable television and home video versions of Lloyd's great silent features and many shorts were remastered with new orchestral scores by Robert Israel. These versions are frequently shown on the Turner Classic Movies (TCM) cable channel. A DVD collection of these restored or remastered versions of his feature films and important short subjects was released by New Line Cinema in partnership with the Harold Lloyd Trust in 2005, along with theatrical screenings in the US, Canada, and Europe. Criterion Collection has subsequently acquired the home video rights to the Lloyd library, and have released Safety Last!, The Freshman, and Speedy.

In the June 2006 Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra Silent Film Gala program book for Safety Last!, film historian Jeffrey Vance stated that Robert A. Golden, Lloyd's assistant director, routinely doubled for Harold Lloyd between 1921 and 1927. According to Vance, Golden doubled Lloyd in the bit with Harold shimmy shaking off the building's ledge after a mouse crawls up his trousers.

Lloyd married his leading lady Mildred Davis on February 10, 1923 in Los Angeles, California. They had two children together: Gloria Lloyd (1923–2012) and Harold Clayton Lloyd Jr. (1931–1971). They also adopted Gloria Freeman (1924–1986) in September 1930, whom they renamed Marjorie Elizabeth Lloyd but was known as "Peggy" for most of her life. Lloyd discouraged Davis from continuing her acting career. He later relented but by that time her career momentum was lost. Davis died from a heart attack in 1969, two years before Lloyd's death. Though her real age was a guarded secret, a family spokesperson at the time indicated she was 66 years old. Harold Jr. died from complications of a stroke three months after his father.

In 1925, at the height of his movie career, Lloyd entered into Freemasonry at the Alexander Hamilton Lodge No. 535 of Hollywood, advancing quickly through both the York Rite and Scottish Rite, and then joined Al Malaikah Shrine in Los Angeles. He took the degrees of the Royal Arch with his father. In 1926, he became a 32° Scottish Rite Mason in the Valley of Los Angeles, California. He was vested with the Rank and Decoration of Knight Commander Court of Honor (KCCH) and eventually with the Inspector General Honorary, 33rd degree.

Lloyd's Beverly Hills home, "Greenacres", was built in 1926–1929, with 44 rooms, 26 bathrooms, 12 fountains, 12 gardens, and a nine-hole golf course. A portion of Lloyd's personal inventory of his silent films (then estimated to be worth $2 million) was destroyed in August 1943 when his film vault caught fire. Seven firemen were overcome while inhaling chlorine gas from the blaze. Lloyd himself was saved by his wife, who dragged him to safety outdoors after he collapsed at the door of the film vault. The fire spared the main house and outbuildings. After attempting to maintain the home as a museum of film history, as Lloyd had wished, the Lloyd family sold it to a developer in 1975.

The grounds were subsequently subdivided but the main house and the estate's principal gardens remain and are frequently used for civic fundraising events and as a filming location, appearing in films like Westworld and The Loved One. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Lloyd died at age 77 from prostate cancer on March 8, 1971, at his Greenacres home in Beverly Hills, California. He was interred in a crypt in the Great Mausoleum at Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California. His former co-star Bebe Daniels died eight days after him, and his son Harold Lloyd Jr. died three months after him.

In 1927, his was only the fourth concrete ceremony at Grauman's Chinese Theatre, preserving his handprints, footprints, and autograph, along with the outline of his famed glasses (which were actually a pair of sunglasses with the lenses removed). The ceremony took place directly in front of the Hollywood Masonic Temple, which was the meeting place of the Masonic lodge to which he belonged.

Lloyd was honored in 1960 for his contribution to motion pictures with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame located at 1503 Vine Street.[39] In 1994, he was honored with his image on a United States postage stamp designed by caricaturist Al Hirschfeld.

In 1953, Lloyd received an Academy Honorary Award for being a "master comedian and good citizen". The second citation was a snub to Chaplin, who at that point had fallen foul of McCarthyism and had his entry visa to the United States revoked. Regardless of the political overtones, Lloyd accepted the award in good spirit.

Lloyd's birthplace in Burchard, Nebraska is maintained as a museum and open by appointment.

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Upcoming DC Movies: Complete Release Calendar

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The DC Extended Universe is in full swing! With a healthy schedule of upcoming DC movies in development, the DCEU isn’t going away anytime soon, and there’s still lots to look forward to.

So, it’s time to take a look at all of the DCEU superhero movies that will be released over the next few years. And trust us, there are a ton of them on the way, and we expect more details will be announced as we go forward. We have all the release dates for every one of ’em right here, as well as official details, the most interesting rumors, and suggestions for further reading where appropriate.

Thanks to HBO Max, Suicide Squad 2 is on schedule for August 2021, with The Batman, Shazam 2, Aquaman 2, and more due in 2022. There’s a bright future for the newly revitalized DCEU movies!

Here’s how this works, because the schedule is getting a little weird. We’re starting with the DCEU movies that officially have release dates attached to them. Then we’ll get into the stuff that we know for 100% certain is in development, but that don’t have release dates yet. Then we’ll get into some of the long shots, the projects that are announced but quiet or seemingly dead, at the bottom.

Keep in mind that many of these are the CURRENT release dates as of this update, and all of these are subject to change. We’ll keep updating this with more information as we get it…

Our first trailer. Warning: gore & adult language & supervillains & adventure & heart. Can't wait to see it in a theater with all of you on August 6. #TheSuicideSquad pic.twitter.com/HdqlGVP0lB

— James Gunn (@JamesGunn) March 26, 2021

Suicide Squad 2

Aug. 6, 2021

David Ayer going to be too busy with other projects until further notice, and none other than James Gunn (of Guardians of the Galaxy fame) has stepped in to write and direct Suicide Squad 2. This is now called The Suicide Squad, which indicates something of a soft reboot, but expect this to remain a DCEU movie.

The cast is positively bonkers.

Returning from the first film we have Viola Davis as Amanda Waller, Jai Courtney as Boomerang, Joel Kinnaman as Rick Flagg, and of course Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn Scheduling issues forced Will Smith to bow out of the project as Deadshot.

But then that new cast is wild! John Cena is Peacemaker, with Idris Elba as Bloodsport, David Dastmalchian will play Polka Dot Man. Daniela Melchor will play a genderswapped version of Batman villain Ratcatcher…and there’s more, including Sylvester Stallone as the voice of King Shark! We have a full breakdown of the cast right here.

Pandemic be damned, this one arrives on HBO Max AND in theaters simultaneously, so that August release date isn’t going anywhere.

The Batman

March 4, 2022

So, speaking of movies that had their release dates shifted because of the coronavirus pandemic, The Batman recently had to move from June to October of 2021 after its filming was put on hold fairly early on, and now it has had to vacate its October release slot for March of the following year, thanks to the aforementioned Dune reschedule, and also another production halt after star Robert Pattinson was diagnosed with Covid-19. Fortunately, principal photography has wrapped and this is now well on its way to meeting that release date!

The Batman solo movie has Matt Reeves as director. Robert Pattinson is the new Batman. Not only that, this movie will likely kick off a brand new trilogy of Batman movies. Expect a more low-key, detective focused approach to the Dark Knight than we’ve seen in previous movies.

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In addition to Pattinson as Bruce Wayne/Batman, Jeffrey Wright will play Commissioner Gordon. Jayme Lawson has a mystery role. Andy Serkis is Alfred Pennyworth. And then there are the villains to contend with! The Batman will feature an all-star rogues’ gallery of villains, with Paul Dano as the Riddler, Zoe Kravitz as Catwoman, and Colin Farrell as the Penguin.

DC Super Pets

May 20, 2022

OK, fine, this isn’t a DCEU movie project, and it’s an animated movie. But unless you have no soul, how can you resist Krypto, Streaky, Ace, Comet, and the rest of the amazing super pets? They had better be fighting the Brain Globes of Rambat in this movie, otherwise, we riot.

You can read more about DC Super Pets here.

Black Adam

July 29, 2022

Originally slated to be the villain of Shazam, Black Adam will instead be played by Dwayne Johnson in a solo movie. The character is certainly strong enough to sustain his own movie. Adam Sztykiel (Due Date, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul) is writing with Jaume Collet-Serra set to direct. 

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This is the kind of thing that could work as a nifty prequel to further flesh out the mystical world of Shazam if they choose to go that route. More importantly, this movie will feature the DCEU introduction of the Justice Society of America, including Aldis Hodge as Hawkman, Pierce Brosnan as Dr. Fate, Quintessa Swindell as Cyclone, and Noah Centineo as Atom Smasher!

We’re currently on the lookout for more info, but Black Adam is supposed to start filming in early 2021, which seems unlikely at this time because of the global coronavirus pandemic. This film had been scheduled for December of 2021, but lost that date with all of WB’s recent release date shuffles. It’ll happen, it’s just a question of when.

You can read a little more about the Black Adam movie here.

The Flash

Nov. 4, 2022

Andy Muschietti (of Warner Bros’ IT movies) is the latest director to try and get The Flash movie to the screen. This project has had a really rough road. Christina Hodson, who clearly made the studio happy with her Birds of Prey script, is writing.

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Ezra Miller will reprise his Justice League role as Barry Allen. Kiersey Clemons is Iris West. Ron Livingston will play Barry’s father, Dr. Henry Allen (replacing Billy Crudup who played the role in Justice League). But here’s where things get crazy…Ben Affleck will return to the role of Batman for this movie. And Michael Keaton will ALSO return to the role of Batman for this movie!

How is this possible? Because it’s based on the DC Comics Flashpoint story, which for the purposes of the movies will be used to create a big screen multiverse. Wow.

Oh, and it that’s not enough, this movie will introduce Supergirl to the DCEU, played by Sarah Calle!

This movie has had an extraordinary amount of trouble getting off the ground, so let’s see if the combination of Muschietti and Hodson keep this one on schedule for that release date. Or any release date. But pre-production is well underway, so it looks like Ezra Miller’s Barry will finally get his day in the sun.

Aquaman 2

Dec. 16, 2022

After it made a billion dollars at the box office, you bet your trident that Aquaman 2 is happening! Right now the plan is for James Wan to remain involved and start developing the movie, but he won’t decide whether or not to direct it until there’s a script in place. Fair enough. Patrick Wilson seems set to return, though, and of course, Jason Momoa will be back.

You can keep up with all our Aquaman 2 news right here.

Shazam 2: Fury of the Gods

June 2, 2023

Shazam 2 is now officially called Shazam: Fury of the Gods and…that’s about all we know about it right now.

One thing is for sure, though, this movie will retain the look, feel, and charm that made the first one so successful, since both director David F. Sandberg and writer Henry Gayden are returning. And this time we’ll have an entire Shazam family to help out!

Wait…did we mention the Sinbad cameo? No, really!

Now, let’s get into the projects that are in the works, but don’t have release dates yet. We’ve grouped these roughly in the order we expect to see them based on how far along they are.

Blue Beetle

There’s a Blue Beetle movie in the works. And unlike the character potentially appearing in the Booster Gold movie (more on that down below), this one would focus on Jaime Reyes, the magical tech powered teenage hero who wields the scarab of original Blue Beetle, Dan Garrett. Gareth Dunnet-Alcocer (Miss Bala) is writing the script, with Angel Manuel Soto (Charm City Kings) directing.

There’s no release date yet, but this is scheduled to begin production in fall 2021, so maybe we can pencil in a 2023 release date.

Read more about the Blue Beetle movie here.

Untitled Superman Project

Ta-Nehisi Coates is working on a Superman feature film with J.J. Abrams producing. No other info is currently available, but it appears to be a reboot.

“To be invited into the DC Extended Universe by Warner Bros., DC Films and Bad Robot is an honor,” Coates told Shadow and Act when the news was announced. “I look forward to meaningfully adding to the legacy of America’s most iconic mythic hero.”

Will this continue Henry Cavill’s time in the role, or will it take a new approach? Will this be a completely different take on the Man of Steel altogether? Time will tell!

Zatanna

One of the most powerful magicians in the DC Universe is getting her own film, with a powerful writer attached. Emerald Fennell, who wrote and directed the brilliant Promising Young Woman has signed on to write a Zatanna movie for Warner Bros. No other details are available at this time, but you don’t sign an Oscar hopeful for a movie like this unless you’re serious about getting it moving.

The New Gods

Ava DuVernay will direct a movie based on Jack Kirby‘s New Gods. It’s not clear yet whether this will fit into the continuity of the other DCEU movies, but really, it doesn’t need to. The New Gods is a cosmic story of such incredible scale that there’s no reason to try and connect this to earthbound concerns. Tom King, the DC Comics writer who has made waves with his work on the New Gods-centric (and Eisner Award-winning) Mister Miracle series, is co-writing the screenplay with DuVernay.

The New Gods is the story of two worlds, the warlike Apokolips and the peaceful New Genesis, each populated by immensely powerful beings with fantastic technology. Darkseid is the evil dictator of Apokolips, and he swaps sons with Highfather, the leader of New Genesis, and each child is raised on the opposite world. Darkseid’s son, Orion, becomes a troubled champion of New Genesis, while Highfather’s son (raised by Darkseid) revolts and becomes the super escape artist, Mister Miracle. This barely scratches the surface of what this movie is about. We tried to get into more detail about it here.

The Trench

Aquaman director James Wan and producer Peter Safran are working on developing other corners of Arthur’s world in addition to Aquaman 2. The Trench will focus on the terrifying piranha-like beasts seen briefly in the first film, and will be a smaller-scale, more horror-focused movie, and one that won’t feature any of the main characters from Aquaman. A different approach to superhero movie worldbuilding, for sure. Noah Gardner and Aidan Fitzgerald are writing.

Read more about The Trench here.

Supergirl

Oren Uziel is working on a script for a Supergirl movie. It’s not clear what kind of ties this will have to the currently dead Man of Steel franchise, especially given the uncertain state of Henry Cavill’s future as Superman.

But one thing is for sure, the DCEU does have their Supergirl! Sasha Calle will be introduced as Kara in The Flash movie, and presumably she’ll lead this one, as well.

Green Lantern Corps

Fairly or unfairly, Green Lantern has the most working against him. The 2011 film failed to kickstart the DC Universe as planned, and received a lukewarm (at best) critical and box-office reception. There are, of course, ways around this.

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One way is to simply not make Hal Jordan the central Green Lantern of the movie. Thisone may focus on as many as three Green Lanterns, with the main focus on a kind of buddy/cop movie with John Stewart and Hal Jordan. Geoff Johns is writing the script, but there’s no director in place yet, however Johns should be turning in his script soon and that will allow the director search to kick off in earnest. There’s also the recent announcement of an HBO Max Green Lantern TV show to consider. It remains to be seen what (if any) connection that will have to this movie.

We have more details on the Green Lantern Corps movie right here.

Plastic Man

This one is a little further off in the future as all they’ve done is hire a writer. But there is definitely a Plastic Man movie in the works, with Amanda Idoko (ABC’s The Mayor) working on a screenplay. We have some more details on it right here.

Blackhawk

Steven Spielberg has long wanted to make a Blackhawk movie, and he’s finally going to get his wish. And if it was your wish to see Steven Spielberg direct a DC movie, you’re also in luck. David Koepp is writing the screenplay. We have more details on this one here.

Batgirl

Joss Whedon was originally supposed to write, direct, and produce the Batgirl movie, one that was reportedly based on Gail Simone’s recent New 52 take on the character. He has exited the project and now Christina Hodson is writing. There is no director at the time of this writing, and rumor has it that this will be a project set to go direct to HBO Max.

Deathstroke

Joe Manganiello has long been cast as Slade Wilson, known to DC fans as Deathstroke. He even made a cameo in one of the Justice League theatrical post-credits scenes back when that was supposed to set up a Justice League 2 that never happened. But it turns out that the original version of that cameo in Zack Snyder’s Justice League was meant to set him up as the villain of The Batman solo movie (that is no longer the case), 

Deathstroke was also once set to get a solo film, written and directed by The Raid‘s Gareth Evans. Despite Manganiello returning for a brief scene as Deathstroke in Zack Snyder’s Justice League, it doesn’t seem likely that his solo film is happening anymore, which is a real shame as he would have been great in the role.

Justice League 2

Justice League 2 isn’t likely to happen at the moment given how the first film underperformed at the box office. It once had a release date, but that long since evaporated. Still, “The Snyder Cut” generated considerable buzz on HBO Max, and featured a teaser scene that was very much meant as a preview for what the director was looking for in his dark vision of Justice League 2.

Nightwing

The Lego Batman Movie director Chris McKay has been tapped to direct a Nightwing movie. Bill Dubuque (The Accountant) is working on a script. No other details are currently available, and this one doesn’t have a release date yet.

Justice League Dark

At one time this was called Dark Universe, until Universal came along and ruined that name with their failed horror movie shared franchise. This one will feature the supernatural characters from the DC Universe. Characters like Swamp Thing, Demon, Deadman, Zatanna, and even John Constantine.

Guillermo del Toro was attached to this one for quite some time, but had to leave the project. Then it was Doug Liman. Now J.J. Abrams is involved as producer for what will likely be an HBO Max series.

And now for the long shots…projects mentioned, rumored, or that haven’t had any movement in a while.

Man of Steel 2

Never officially announced, with no director or writer ever attached…another solo Superman movie starring Henry Cavill seems pretty unlikely at the moment. Especially considering that Henry Cavill appears to be finished as Superman, there’s an excellent Superman & Lois TV series on the air, and the aforementioned movie in the works from Ta-Nehisi Coates.

Cyborg

OK, to be perfectly honest, the Cyborg movie almost certainly isn’t happening. Ray Fisher made his first (very brief) appearance as Vic Stone/Cyborg in Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice, and played a crucial role in Justice League. At one point he was supposed to feature in The Flash solo movie, too, but it’s not clear if that’s still the case.

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Basically, though…let’s be completely real: this movie isn’t happening. There hasn’t been any movement on it in years, despite once having been assigned an April 3, 2020 release date. As far as we can tell there has been no additional movement on this movie in years. It’s probably dead. Too bad, since Ray Fisher was great in the role.

Harley Quinn

Yes, there’s also another Harley Quinn movie in development! Well, at least there was at one point. Whether this is a solo project or something else remains to be seen. Keep in mind that while very good, Birds of Prey didn’t set the world on fire at the box office, which means that Warner Bros. might be a little more wary than before about additional solo projects for Harley, even with Margot Robbie’s star power. As for what shape this movie was supposed to take in the first place, your guess is as good as ours!

Gotham City Sirens

David Ayer is looking to direct a Harley Quinn and friends “girl gang” movie. Geneva Robertson-Dworet is writing, with Margot Robbie producing. It’s not clear where this stands on anybody’s priority list these days. Ayer has moved on to other projects, and as mentioned above, Birds of Prey wasn’t quite the financial success that Warner Bros. had hoped for. It’s possible that Gotham City Sirens has been put in a drawer for the time being.

Booster Gold

Flash and Arrow executive producer Greg Berlanti is going to executive produce and possibly direct a Booster Gold movie. Zack Stentz (Thor, X-Men: First Class) will write the script.

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Joker: 6 Actors Who Have Played the Clown Prince of Crime

By David Crow

Early reports described this as a “superhero buddy cop movie” that would involve Blue Beetle. We’ll get you more updates on this as they become available, but keep in mind there hasn’t been any movement on this in a long time, and the Jaime Reyes Blue Beetle movie is probably taking priority for the studio.

Deadshot

Warner Bros. knows they have one of the biggest stars in the world already in costume, so they’re reportedly considering a Deadshot solo movie, as well. But with Smith now having left Suicide Squad 2 this project seems like it may not ever materialize. Unless, of course, switching Idris Elba’s role (he was originally intended as Smith’s replacement as Floyd) means they’re keeping the door open for him down the road.

Lobo

The Lobo movie may attempt to be the DCEU movies’ equivalent of Deadpool. Jason Fuchs must have impressed Warner Bros. with his work on Wonder Woman, because he’s on board to write the script for this one. Michael Bay might direct. But with Lobo appearing on Krypton season 2 and a TV series for the character that had once been put into development (but is probably dead), this might be less of a priority for the studio now.

We have some more info on the project here.

Joker & Harley Quinn Movie

At one point there was yet another Joker-centric flick in the works. This one, a Joker and Harley Quinn movie is absolutely part of the DCEU movie continuity would pick up where Suicide Squad left off. There are currently no additional details available on this one, either. This probably won’t happen, however.

Warner Bros. is very happy with how their R-rated, out of continuity Joker movie performed both critically and commercially, and with Joaquin Phoenix’s Oscar win, it’s a safe bet that they’re at least quietly hoping to make him their definitive Clown Prince of Crime for the foreseeable future…even though Joker was never intended to be part of the DCEU.

Not to be confused with…

Jared Leto Joker Movie

Honestly, we’re having trouble keeping track of all these, but yes, there was also yet another Joker solo movie in development focusing on Jared Leto’s version of the character in the works at one point. Apparently, this has long been canceled, but we’re keeping it here to be safe for a little longer.

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Power Rangers OCs

Teams based on ones in series:

Power Rangers: Jungle Fury: New Age: Summary of Series: It has been a long time since the jungle masters- Casey, Lily and Felix- defeated Dai-shi once and for all. But just because 'once and for all' appears to be the result, doesn't mean fate doesn't have plans for it to be all over. When student, William Smith, at Pai Zhuq academy, unleashes Dai-Shi once more, master Casey has no choice but to send 3 of his students- Kiara Wilson, Sydney Miles and Gabriel Johnson- to his former master, R.J James, to be trained as the next power rangers in order to defeat the old threat.But with the stakes rising, can the new power rangers do it? Or will the old threat win for the first time in centuries? Quotev Link

*Kiara Wilson- Orange Ranger- Faceclaim: Skai Jackson. *Sydney Miles- Teal Ranger- Faceclaim: Mackenzie Foy. *Gabriel Johnson- Pink Ranger- Faceclaim: Issac Ryan Brown. *Mallory Miles- Dark Green Ranger- Faceclaim: Laura Marano. *William Smith- host of Dai Shi- Faceclaim: Jedidiah Goodacre.  *Angelica Andrews- right hand of Dai Shi- Faceclaim: Sofia Carson. 

Power Rangers: The New Samurai: Summary of Series:  Years ago, the Samurai Rangers defeated Master Xandred, and the Nighlok were sealed away for good. Supposably. Now, a new leader rises with the Nighlok, and plan to flood the earth, and believe that no one will step up to stop them. But they are wrong- as the next generation of Samurai has now stepped up. Can the Rangers stop the Nighlok? Or will they fall? Quotev Link 

*Reese Shiba- Red Ranger- Faceclaim: Rowan Blanchard. *Jesse Barron- Pink Ranger- Faceclaim: Amir Mitchell-Townes.  *Morgan Barron- Blue Ranger- Faceclaim: Skai Jackson. *Caleb Parry- Green Ranger- Faceclaim: Robert Ochoa.  *Silas Parry- Yellow Ranger- Faceclaim: Xolo Mariduena.  *Aurora Garcia- Gold Ranger- Faceclaim: Siena Agudong. *Helia Garcia- Silver Ranger- Faceclaim: Alexys Nycole Sanchez. *Arianna Barron- Purple Ranger- Faceclaim: Millie Davis (present)-Navia Robinson (Future Self).

A New Age of Mighty Morphin: Summary of Series: Lord Drakkon was supposedly defeated in an event people refer to nowadays as Shattered Grid, universes moving on after the great battle, unaware though....some evils wont die that easily. Having risen from the ashes of his destroyed world, Lord Drakkon has fallen into a universe he considers weak and easy to take over first, unaware then that Kimberly Ann Hart with Ari has travelled to the universe to stop him at any cost, even if it means mentoring a new team of Rangers with their parents coins- will the new team be able to handle Drakkon or will they fail and lose everything they know and hold dear? Quotev Link 

*Sara Scott-Taylor- Red Ranger- Voiceclaim: Skai Jackson. *Myles Scott-Taylor- Black Ranger- Voiceclaim: Dusan Brown. *Nova Cranston- Blue Ranger- Voiceclaim: Rowan Blanchard. *Regina ‘Reign’ Kwan- Yellow Ranger- Voiceclaim: Selena Gomez.  *Ezra Ryder Oliver- Pink Ranger- Voiceclaim: Booboo Stewart. *Ruth Hope Oliver- Green Ranger- Voiceclaim: Sabrina Carpenter. 

Power Rangers: Return of Darkness: Summary of Series: TBA.

*Cyrena Russell- Red Ranger- Voiceclaim: Sabrina Carpenter. *Giselle Russell- Blue Ranger- Voiceclaim: Rowan Blanchard. *Harmonia Rocca-Thorn-Bly- Green Ranger- Voiceclaim: Meg Donnelly.  *Orion Rocca-Thorn-Bly- Yellow Ranger- Voiceclaim: Asher Angel. *Phoenix Rocca-Thorn-Bly- Pink Ranger- Voiceclaim: Milo Manhem.  *Aslan Russell- White Ranger- Voiceclaim: Mitchell Hope. *Cassiel- The Gatekeeper- Voiceclaim: David Faustino.  *Morgana Le Fay- Main Villain- Voiceclaim: Katie McGrath. *Mordred Le Fay- Side Villain- Voiceclaim: Tom Hiddleston. 

Power Rangers: Return of Venjix: Summary of Series: TBA. 

*Crystal Truman- Gold Ranger- Voiceclaim: Bresha Webb. *Carrie Truman- Red Ranger- Voiceclaim: Andrea Lioman.  *Riley McAllistair- Blue Ranger- Voiceclaim: Mitchell Hope. *Felix McAllistair- Silver Ranger- Voiceclaim: Milo Manhelm.  *Kai Landsdown- Yellow Ranger- Voiceclaim: Booboo Stewart. *Harper Landsdown- Black Ranger- Voiceclaim: Sabrina Carpenter. *Barbara Grover- Green Ranger- Voiceclaim: Rowan Blanchard. *Rachel Grover- Pink Ranger- Voiceclaim: China Anne McClain. 

Power Rangers: The Resistance:  Summary of Series: TBA. 

*Luciana ‘Luci’ Sanchez- Red Ranger- Voiceclaim: Sofia Carson. *Ryan Clarke- Pink Ranger- Voiceclaim: Josh Keaton. *Jai Adams- Black Ranger- Voiceclaim: Ben Schwartz. *Winona Grayson- Yellow Ranger- Voiceclaim: Hailee Steinfeld.  *Naia Amin- Blue Ranger- Voiceclaim: Kathreen Khavan.  *Ambrosia Adams- Green Ranger- Voiceclaim: Sarah Jeffery. 

Power Rangers: Dino Thunder’s New Roar:  Summary of Series: TBA. 

*Bella Clarke- Red Ranger- Voiceclaim: TBA. *Alice Horne- Blue Ranger- Voiceclaim: TBA. *Kayden Alvarez- Yellow Ranger- Voiceclaim: TBA. *Emilia Rush- Purple Ranger- Voiceclaim: TBA. *Onyx/Oliver Radcliffe- Villain- Voiceclaim: TBA. *Kron/Lily Abbotts- Villain- Voiceclaim: TBA. 

Power Rangers: Legacies: Summary of Series: TBA. 

*Holly Parry- Red Ranger- Voiceclaim: TBA. *Roselind ‘Rose’ Martin- Green Ranger- Voiceclaim: TBA. *Louis Ford- Yellow Ranger- Voiceclaim: TBA. *Timothy ‘Tim’ Hart- Pink Ranger- Voiceclaim: TBA. *Aria Rocca- Blue Ranger- Voiceclaim: TBA. 

Power Rangers: The Samurai Lives On:  Summary of Series: TBA. 

*Hestia Baker- Red Ranger- Voiceclaim: TBA. *Briar Hall- Green Ranger- Voiceclaim: TBA. *Kai Moore- Blue Ranger- Voiceclaim: TBA.  *Neo Edwards- Pink Ranger- Voiceclaim: TBA. *Terre Young- Yellow Ranger- Voiceclaim: TBA. *Dawn Hughes- Gold Ranger- Voiceclaim: TBA.

Power Rangers: The New SPD: Summary of Series: TBA. 

*Fern Williamson- Red Ranger- Voiceclaim: TBA. *Aimee Graham- Blue Ranger- Voiceclaim: TBA. *Jill Middleton- Green Ranger- Voiceclaim: TBA. *Archie O’Brian- Yellow Ranger- Voiceclaim: TBA. *Rory Bird- Pink Ranger- Voiceclaim: TBA. *Millie Reeve- Light Ranger- Voiceclaim: TBA. 

Power Rangers: A New Time Force:  Summary of Series:  TBA.

*Michelle Hyde- Red Ranger- Voiceclaim: TBA. *Tia Brooker- Blue Ranger- Voiceclaim: TBA. *Kelli Stephens- Green Ranger- Voiceclaim: TBA. *Joel McCarthy- Yellow Ranger- Voiceclaim: TBA. *Chuck Fox- Pink Ranger- Voiceclaim: TBA. *Nocturune/Zeke- Villain- Voiceclaim: TBA. *Specter- Villain- Voiceclaim: TBA. *Aide- Villain- Voiceclaim: TBA. 

Power Rangers: A New Team of Mystic Rangers: Summary of Series: TBA. 

*Nicola Shaw- Red Ranger- Voiceclaim: TBA. *Carly Harrison- Green Ranger- Voiceclaim: TBA. *Alison Bennett- Blue Ranger- Voiceclaim: TBA. *Austin Boyd- Pink Ranger- Voiceclaim: TBA. *Dean Fraser- Yellow Ranger- Voiceclaim: TBA. *Misty John- Purple Ranger- Voiceclaim: TBA. *Hortensia- Villain- Voiceclaim: TBA.

Power Rangers: Call of The Wild Force:  Summary of Series: TBA. 

*Ally McMohen- Red Ranger- Voiceclaim: TBA. *Bailey Walsh- Blue Ranger- Voiceclaim: TBA. *Gracie Bull- Black Ranger- Voiceclaim: TBA. *Lane Brown- Yellow Ranger- Voiceclaim: TBA. *Tanner Cliffard- White Ranger- Voiceclaim: TBA.  *Josie McMohen-Wolf Ranger- Voiceclaim: TBA. *Lilith- Villain- Voiceclaim: TBA. *Viper- Villain- Voiceclaim: TBA. *Vesper- Voiceclaim: TBA. 

Power Rangers: The Power Within Us: Summary of Series: TBA.

*Cindy Scott- Red Ranger- Voiceclaim: TBA. *Tina Cranston- Blue Ranger- Voiceclaim: TBA. *Nikki Taylor- Black Ranger- Voiceclaim: TBA. *Silena Kwan- Yellow Ranger- Voiceclaim: TBA.  *Craig Oliver- Pink Ranger- Voiceclaim: TBA. *Diana Oliver- Green Ranger- Voiceclaim: TBA. *Reign Repulsa- Villain- Voiceclaim: TBA. *Goldie- Villain- Voiceclaim: TBA.

Power Rangers: The Animals Within: Summary of Series: TBA. 

*Reyna Torres- White Ranger- Voiceclaim: TBA. *Stevie Holmes- Green Ranger- Voiceclaim: TBA. *Kane Carroll- Pink Ranger- Voiceclaim: TBA. *Brianna ‘Bri’ Rhodes- Crimson Ranger- Voiceclaim: TBA. *Calliope Martin- Navy Ranger- Voiceclaim: TBA. *Chaol- Villain- Voiceclaim: TBA. 

Made Up Teams: 

Power Rangers: Planetary Defenders: Summary of Series: TBA. 

*Sky Anderson- White/Moon Ranger- Faceclaim: Skai Jackson. *Zeb Watson- Purple/Saturn Ranger- Faceclaim: Riley Lio. *Everette Lawson- Blue/Mercury Ranger- Faceclaim: Tenzing Norgay Trainer. *Paige Wyatt- Pink/Mars Ranger- Faceclaim: Rowan Blanchard. *Florence ‘Flora’ Tracy- Green/Jupiter Ranger- Faceclaim: Olivia Rodrigo. *Ora- Mentor/Represents Pluto- Faceclaim: Katie McGrath. *Meteora- Villain- Faceclaim: Elizabeth Banks. 

Power Rangers: Greek Warriors: Summary of Series: Once there was peace within the Greek Gods and Goddesses, as they did their duties and protected the earth and aided it any way they can, but then one day, their king, Zeus, turned finally and begun a never-ending war on them, taking down any enemy in his path in the process and in the end, that included going against the goddesses and amazons. But when Zeus sets his sights on Earth instead, Two Amazons, entrusted with stones in bracelets, arrive to Earth with one entrusted mission: find champions who will become the Power Rangers that can hopefully defeat Zeus once and for all, after all, if the Earth falls then all are doomed afterwards. With their powers of the goddesses on their side, the team of power rangers find themselves in a war to save their planet from the wrath of the King of Gods himself, or it'll be all over if they lose..... Quotev Link

*Zoey Adams- Silver/Selene Ranger- Voiceclaim: Sofia Wylie. *Angela Peterson- Pink/Aphrodite Ranger- Voiceclaim: Sabrina Carpenter.  *Heidi Keyes- Blue/Hera Ranger- Voiceclaim: Elizabeth Peyton Lee. *Carmen Marin- White/Athena Ranger- Voiceclaim: Jenna Ortega. *Kora Dooley- Green/Artemis Ranger- Voiceclaim: Naomi Scott. *Parker Nickel- Purple/Zeus Ranger- Voiceclaim: China Anne McClain. *Iria- Amazon Mentor- Voiceclaim: Tessa Thompson. *Raluca- Amazon Helper- Voiceclaim: Sofia Carson. 

Power Rangers: Norse Force: Summary of Series: TBA.

*Francesca ‘Frankie’ Cason- Red/Thor Ranger- Voiceclaim: Elizabeth Peyton Lee. *Milo Valle- Blue/Ran Ranger- Voiceclaim: Issac Presley. *Rosalie Lance- Gold/Freyja Ranger- Voiceclaim: Navia Robinson. *Finn McCarty- White/Skadi Ranger- Voiceclaim: Shameik Moore.  *Jasmine Peace- Yellow/Sunna Ranger- Voiceclaim: Letitia Wright. *Evie Jaynes- Green/Loki Ranger- Voiceclaim: Sabrina Carpenter. *Magnhild- Valkyrie Mentor- Voiceclaim: Tessa Thompson. *Signy- Valkyrie Helper- Voiceclaim: Brenna D’Amico. 

Power Rangers of The Legendary Power: Summary of Series: TBA.

*Uma Barnes- Teal Ranger- Voiceclaim: China Anne McClain. *Anastasia ‘Phoenix’ Sullivan- Gold Ranger- Voiceclaim: Hailee Steinfeld.  *Jupiter ‘Jupe’ Hawkins- Pink Ranger- Voiceclaim: Mitchell Hope. *Bianca Knight- Red Ranger- Voiceclaim: Zendaya. *Orion Snyder- Yellow Ranger- Voiceclaim: Booboo Stewart. *Cassiopeia ‘Cass’ Bishop- Black Ranger- Voiceclaim: Sabrina Carpenter. *Sirius- Villain- Voiceclaim: Tom Hiddleston. *Ophelia- Villain- Voiceclaim: Dove Cameron. *Holmes- Villain- Voiceclaim: David Tennent. 

Power Rangers: Space Hunters: Summary of Series: TBA. 

*Ranger R/Clara Abernathy- Red Ranger- Voiceclaim: Sofia Carson. *Ranger B/Sebastian Abernathy- Blue Ranger- Voiceclaim:Josh Keaton. *Ranger Y/Jaxon Abernathy- Yellow Ranger- Voiceclaim: Ryan potter. *Ranger G/Poppy Abernathy- Green Ranger- Voiceclaim: Tania Gundai. *Ranger P/Aurora Abernathy- Purple Ranger- Voiceclaim: Sarah Jeffery. *Ranger S/Willow Abernathy- Silver Ranger- Voiceclaim: Naomi Scott. *Amelia O’Neil- Mentor in Some Sense- Voiceclaim: Freema Agyeman. *Charlotte ‘Charlie’ O’Neil- Helps the Rangers- Voiceclaim: China Anne McClain. *Belladonna Drabek- Villain- Voiceclaim: Angela Bassett. *Demonia Strain- Villain- Voiceclaim: Gina Torres. *Steele Argent- Villain- Voiceclaim: David Tennent. 

Power Rangers: Animal Guardians: Summary of Series: TBA. 

*Aiden Howell- Red Ranger- Voiceclaim: Sarah Jeffery. *Phoebe Stanley- Blue Ranger- Voiceclaim: Letitia Wright. *Mira Bridges- Green Ranger- Voiceclaim: Navia Robinson. *Draco Henry- Pink Ranger- Voiceclaim: Milo Manheim. *Gale Tulin- Yellow Ranger- Voiceclaim: Booboo Stewart. *Amethyst Digging- Purple Ranger- Voiceclaim: Sofia Carson. *Silverclaw- Villain- Voiceclaim: Tom Hiddleston. *Gamma- Villain- Voiceclaim: Dove Cameron. *Dominque- Villain- Voiceclaim: David Tennant. 

Power Rangers: Fairy Squad:  Summary of Series: TBA. 

*Julia Yost- Pink Ranger- Voiceclaim: TBA. *Piper Windsor- Green Ranger- Voiceclaim: TBA. *Hazel Chadwick- Orange Ranger- Voiceclaim: TBA. *Grayson Brightley- Blue Ranger- Voiceclaim: TBA. *Asher Vesper- Yellow Ranger- Voiceclaim: TBA. *Vivian Newton- Purple Ranger- Voiceclaim: TBA. *Queen Thalia- Villain- Voiceclaim: TBA. *Sahera- Villain- Voiceclaim: TBA. *Xenops- Villain- Voiceclaim: TBA.

Power Rangers: Guardian Force:  Summary of Series: TBA. 

*Pearl Price- Pink Ranger- Voiceclaim: TBA. *Layla Darwin- Light Blue Ranger- Voiceclaim: TBA. *Ezra Wolf- Yellow Ranger- Voiceclaim: TBA. *Axel Jonz- White Ranger- Voiceclaim: TBA. *Luna Crimson- Light Purple Ranger- Voiceclaim: TBA. *Hecate- Villain- Voiceclaim: TBA. *Lamia- Villain- Voiceclaim: TBA. *Seth- Villain- Voiceclaim: TBA.

Society of Thief Rangers: Summary of Series: TBA.

*Hanna Godfrey- Crimson Ranger- Voiceclaim: TBA. *Patricia Navin- Black Ranger- Voiceclaim: TBA. *Kiana Nolan- Maroon Ranger- Voiceclaim: TBA. *Sylas Burns- Purple Ranger- Voiceclaim: TBA. *Talon Whitty- Navy Ranger- Voiceclaim: TBA. *Dallon Tram- Mentor of Thief Rangers- Voiceclaim: TBA. 

Power Rangers: Music Force: Summary of Series: TBA. 

*Quinn Harris- Red Ranger- Voiceclaim: TBA. *Roman Woods- Pink Ranger- Voiceclaim: TBA. *River Fallon- Blue Ranger- Voiceclaim: TBA. *June Owens- Yellow Ranger- Voiceclaim: TBA. *Reagan ‘Rea’ Burke- White Ranger- Voiceclaim:TBA. *Liana Cassidy- Purple Ranger- Voiceclaim: TBA.  *Screech- Villain- Voiceclaim: TBA. *Sonic- Villain- Voiceclaim: TBA. *Wizzy- Villain- Voiceclaim: TBA.

Rangers in Disguise: Summary of Series: TBA. 

*O.P/Opal- Optimus Ranger- Voiceclaim: Daisy Ridley. *A.C/Jaycee- Arcee Ranger- Voiceclaim: Hailee Steinfeld. *R.T/Zak- Ratchet Ranger- Voiceclaim: Josh Keaton.  *B.H/Balto- Bulkhead Ranger- Voiceclaim: Booboo Stewart.  *B.B/Bee- Bumblebee Ranger- Voiceclaim: Sarah-Nicole Robles. *S.S/Capricorn- Starscream Ranger- Voiceclaim: Mark Hamill.  *A.N/Katrina- Airachnid Ranger- Voiceclaim: Grey DeLisle. *M.T/Jupiter- Megatron Ranger- Voiceclaim:Cameron Bowen. *B.C/Ursa- Barricade Ranger- Voiceclaim: Zelda Williams. *L.D/Kenwyn- Lockdown Ranger- Voiceclaim: Steve Blum. *B.W/Amon- Blitzwing Ranger- Voiceclaim: Mahershala Ali.  *K.O/Anetta- Knockout Ranger- Voiceclaim: Eden Espinasa.  *E.T/Wilma- Elita One Ranger- Voiceclaim: Ashley Eckstein.  *Michael Hayes- Aid of the Autobot Rangers- Voiceclaim: John Boyega. *Azalea ‘Aza’ Collier- Ally of the Autobot Rangers- Voiceclaim: Zendaya. *Aiden Holland- Ally of the Autobot Rangers- Voiceclaim: Issac Ryan Brown. *Ava Holland- Ally of the Auotbot Rangers- Voiceclaim: Navia Robinson. 

Power Rangers: The New Ninja Storm:  Summary: TBA. 

*Iris Zhao- Red Ranger- Voiceclaim: Peyton Elizabeth Lee.  *Carter Doyle- Blue Ranger- Voiceclaim: Issac Ryan Brown. *Varisha Saloh- Yellow Ranger- Voiceclaim: Kathreen Khavari.  *Alia Lamb- Navy Ranger- Voiceclaim: Sofia Carson.  *Angelina Hermandez- Crimso Ranger- Voiceclaim: Jenna Ortega  *Daiyu Liu- Samurai Green- Voiceclaim: Brenda Song. *Perceval- Leader of bad guys- Voiceclaim: Mark amill.  *Jasper- Assisstant of Perceval- Voiceclaim: Clacy Brown.  *Honest- Assisstant of Perceval- Voiceclaim: Tara Strong. 

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13 Not-So-Scary Movies to Get You in the Halloween Spirit!

Contributed by Kris Rustic, host of Obscure Anomalies podcast

Halloween is around the corner. Everywhere you look a horror movie is playing. For me, I love it. There is just something about being scared while knowing full well you are safe. But not everyone is into that sort of thing. My wife is one, so I tried to find lists of not-so-scary movies but was having trouble coming up with one, so I decided to write my own.

Please keep in mind, I did try to keep the list more kid and family friendly.

13. HOCUS POCUS

300 years have passed since the Sanderson sisters were executed for practicing dark witchcraft. Returning to life, thanks to a combination of a spell spoken before their demise and the accidental actions of Max, the new-kid-in-town, the sisters have but one night to secure their continuing existence. With the help of his younger sister Dani, his high school crush Allison, and a magical cat, it is up to Max to save the children of Salem.

A must see on any Halloween movie list. Full of light-hearted humour, this film is loved by people of all ages.

Watch it: Amazon Rent or Buy

12. CASPER (1995)

Furious that her late father only willed her his gloomy-looking mansion rather than his millions, Carrigan Crittenden makes a plan to burn the place to the ground. That is, until she finds a map leading to a treasure hidden under the house. But when she enters the rickety mansion to seek her claim, she is frightened away by the mansions ghostly inhabitants. Determined to get her hands on this hidden fortune, Crittenden hires afterlife therapist Dr. James Harvey to exorcise the ghosts from the mansion. Harvey and his daughter Kat move in and soon Kat befriends Casper, the ghost of a young boy, who is “the friendly ghost.” But not so friendly are Casper’s uncles--Stretch, Fatso and Stinkie--who are determined to drive all “fleshies” away. It is up to Harvey and Kat to help the ghosts cross over to the other side.

I may get some flack putting Casper this high up on the list, but hey, to each their own. Casper is a fun little film filled with the right amount of supernatural scares placed inside a package that every age can enjoy.

Watch it: Starz; Amazon Rent or Buy

11. THE WITCHES

While staying at a hotel in England with his grandmother, Helga, young Luke inadvertently spies on a convention of witches. The Grand High Witch reveals a plan to turn all children into mice through a magical formula. When they find that Luke has overheard, the witches test the formula on him. Now, with the help of his grandmother and new friend Bruno Jenkins, Luke the mouse must fight back against the evil witches.

Based on the book of the same name, The Witches is a classic. This may be one of the more frightening films on the list but is still children-friendly. Besides, who doesn’t want to save the world as a mouse.

Watch it: Amazon Rent or Buy

10. THE MONSTER SQUAD

The Monster Squad is a club of friends who idolize the classic monster-movies, especially their non-human stars. One day, Dracula, the Mummy, Frankenstein’s Monster, and other classic horror icons, all of which the club idolize, arrive in town in search of a magic amulet to destroy all the good in the world. It is up to the five friends to save the amulet from destruction and use it to cast the monsters into limbo.

One part The Goonies, one part Ghostbusters, and one part Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, the Monster Squad is a true cult classic that was way ahead of its time.

Watch for yourself and find out if the “Wolfman has nards.”

Watch it: Amazon Rent or Buy

9. BEETLEJUICE

Adam and Barbara are like every other happily married couple -- who just happen to also be dead! Before they died, Adam and Barbara had spent their vacation to decorate and make the house their own, that is, until the fatal car crash. Unfortunately, a new family is moving in, and not quietly as they make plans to redecorate the house with the help of an interior designer. Adam and Barbara try to scare them out, but end up becoming the main attraction to the money making family. They call upon Beetlejuice to help, but Beetlejuice has more in mind than just helping.

While having a special place in my heart for taking place in Connecticut, Beetlejuice is an all around classic starting Michael Keaton and a young Winona Ryder.

Watch it:: Amazon Rent or Buy

8. PARANORMAN

Norman Babcock has the ability to speak with the dead -- and he often prefers their company to that of the living. Norman learns from his estranged uncle that a centuries-old witch’s curse on their town is real and about to come true -- and only Norman can stop it. When zombies rise from their graves, Norman and his ragtag team must summon all their courage and compassion to the limit to save his fellow townspeople. Taking place in the fictional town of Blithe Hollow, this stop-motion film is a beautiful take on the Salem Witch Trials.

I have to admit, I slept on this movie when it first came out. I had no interest in it at all, but then I watched it and became an instant favourite. The humour is a little more blue for a “children’s” movie, but the lesson learned in the end is valuable for all involved. Did I mention it is also well known for being the first mainstream animated film with an openly gay character?

Watch it: Sadly it is not available for streaming on Amazon, Netflix, or Hulu at this time, due to licensing agreements

7. FRANKENWEENIE

Young Victor Frankenstein is a science nerd and an outsider at school, but he does have one friend, his dog Sparky. Sadly, tragedy strikes, taking Sparky away from Victor. Heartbroken, Victor is given an idea of how to bring Sparky back to life. The experiment is a success and everything goes fine, that is, until his fellow students learn of his secret and use it to resurrect their beloved lost pets. Frankenweenie is a heartwarming tale of a boy and his dog, and the lengths we would go to keep our beloved friend.

I consider Frankenweenie to be the sister movie to ParaNorman. Both are stop motion and came out in the same year. The difference is Frankenweenie takes you back to the classic universal horror icons in a brand-new way. Did I mention it is in black and white and has that classic monster movie feel?

watch it: Rent on Youtube

6. NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS

What happens to the Pumpkin King when he tires of being just that, the King of Halloween. Jack Skellington is bored of the same annual routine of scaring the people of the real world. One day, he stumbles upon Christmastown, full of bright colours and warm spirits, bringing a new lease to Jack’s life. He plots to bring Christmas under his control, only to find that the best-laid plans of mice and skeleton can go awry.

Originally I intended only one movie per director, but I don’t think you can begin to discuss family friendly Halloween without Tim Burton, especially because you cannot have a Halloween list without Nightmare Before Christmas. In all fairness, this is the perfect movie to finish out the year with.

Watch it: Amazon Rent or Buy

5. COCO

Miguel dream of becoming a musician, just like his idol, Ernesto de la Cruz. The problem, his family has a generations-old ban on music. Desperate to prove his talent, Miguel steals Ernesto’s guitar and finds himself in the colourful Land of the Dead. With the help of a charming trickster named Héctor and Miguel’s dog Dante, Miguel must find his way back home, meanwhile learning the truth about his family’s past.

All bite. Coco is a Dia de los Muertos movie. I know some of you will complain that it is not a Halloween movie. Truth is, the spirit of Dia de los Muertos and Halloween are close enough for me to warrant inclusion into the list. The scenery and background is gorgeous, the story will tug at the heartstrings, and you will get to learn a little about the culture behind Dia de los Muertos, even if a bit Disneytized.

Watch it: Netflix

4. HALLOWEENTOWN

On Halloween, while Marnie is arguing with her mother Gwen, the kids’ grandmother Aggie comes to visit. Aggie wants to start Marnie’s witch training before her 13th birthday or Marnie will lose her powers forever. But there is another reason for Aggie’s visit. Something dark and evil is growing in Halloweentown, and Aggie wants help to defeat it. While Aggie and Gwen are arguing, Aggie uses magic, which Marnie observes. After Aggie leaves to return to Halloweentown, Marnie, Dylan and, unknown to Marnie and Dylan, Sophie follow her onto the return bus. Soon afterwards, Gwen follows the children to Halloweentown. While there, Aggie and Gwen are attacked by the dark force. Marnie, Dylan and Sophie have to race to get the ingredients to activate Merlin’s Wand to stop the evil and save Halloweentown.

A classic made for TV Disney movie, this film (and all sequels) are a perfect Halloween movie for all ages, and albeit a little cheesy at times. But who doesn’t love the occasional cheesy movie?

3. SCOOBY DOO AND THE WITCH’S GHOST

When the Master Gang Scooby meet a famous horror writer Ben Ravencroft (who may or may not be based off of Stephen King) during their last mystery, he invites them to his small hometown of Oakhaven, Massachusetts to join in the annual Autumn Fest. Ravencroft tells the Mystery Gang about the history of his ancestor, Sarah Ravencroft, who happened to be an evil witch and is supposedly haunting the town of Oakhaven. The gang decides to help the town and solve the mystery of the Witch’s Ghost.

This was tough to pick. We have Scooby Doo and the Ghoul School, Scooby Doo and Zombie Island, I mean honestly any Scooby Doo movie could fit. But I picked Witch’s Ghost for three simple reasons: takes place during the fall, witches, and the Hex Girls, a fictional all-female Goth Rock Band.

Watch it: Amazon Prime, Boomerang Channel on Amazon

2. MONSTER HOUSE

13-year-old DJ is obsessed with his creepy neighbour, Nebbercracker, and his eerie house. After all, rumours of his past have run rampant in the town. But one day, DJ and his friends witness the house come to life. Unable to find an adult that will believe him, and with Halloween vastly approaching, it is up to DJ and his friends to find a way to destroy the house before innocent trick-or-treaters meet their end.

At times, this film is a little on the frightening side, at least for the younger ones. The characters are well thought out and put together. While the animation is not ground breaking, it looks great and fits the movie perfectly. A perfect film for those looking for a fun, clean movie this Halloween.

Watch it: Amazon Rent or Buy

1. GOOSEBUMPS 2: HAUNTED HALLOWEEN

While collecting junk from an abandoned house, best friends Sonny and Sam come across an unpublished “Goosebumps” book. Opening it, they release Slappy, a mischievous talking dummy. Hoping to start a family, Slappy kidnaps Sonny’s mother and brings fourth all of his ghoulish friends (creatures and monsters from the Goosebumps novels) to life, just in time for Halloween. The sleepy town becomes overrun with monsters, witches, and other mysterious creatures. It is up to Sonny, his sister Sarah, and Sam to save their town, his mother, and foil Slappy’s plans.

Goosebumps (2015) is a pure nostalgia ride with a brand new feel and Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween is no different. Trading in some of the humor for a little more horror feel, the movie has a little bit to offer for everyone.

Watch it: Netflix

The truth of the matter is, this list is not perfect and may never be complete, but it is a great starting point to the ever growing list of the Not-So-Scary Halloween movies. I feel in writing this, I have left so many great films off, so I have a list of some runner up films that just barely missed being on my top 13.

RUNNER UPS

HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA

Dracula and the classic horror monsters are afraid of humans. In an attempt to take a vacation away from humanity, Dracula operates a hotel way off in the woods. One day, a brave human makes his way to the castle, where the human and Dracula’s daughter “Zing”.

ADDAMS FAMILY (1991)

A man claiming to be Uncle Fester, the missing brother of Gomez Addams shows up at the Addam’s household. The family is thrilled, however Morticia begins to suspect the man is a fraud as he cannot recall details of Fester’s life. With the help of a lawyer, Fester manages to get the Addams evicted from the home. Can the Addam’s family save Uncle Fester? Can they get their home back?

DOUBLE DOUBLE TOIL AND TROUBLE

The Farmer family is in debt and might lose their house. The Farmer Twins discover the somebody mean and shrewd is responsible for all the family problems. The determined twins try to trick at their evil aunt out of her magic moonstone to save their family home.

THE ADVENTURES OF ICHABOD AND MR. TOAD

Two animated adaptations of classic literature adapted by Disney make up this film, which is the only reason it made the runner up list as Mr. Toad, while good, has nothing to do with Halloween. However, in the “Legend of Sleepy Hollow” the gangly schoolmaster, Ichabod Crane, falls for the beautiful Katrina Van Tassel. Caught in a love triangle with Katrina and Brom Bones, Ichabod fears the local legend of the Headless Horseman. Is the legend more truth than lore?

ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS MEET THE WOLFMAN

Alvin loves monsters and monster movies, though he is terrified of them. Stuck with Werewolves on the mind, he believes his next door neighbour is one. Reluctantly, Simon helps Alvin investigate the neighbour. Meanwhile Theodore is bitten by a strange dog, and finds his inner “inner monster” and starts behaving like a werewolf himself.

Did I miss your favourite Not-So-Scary Halloween movie? Let me know what it is in the comments below.

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Thinktober 2024 21: Ghost

My psych “advisor” is soooo upset with “the regression on your mental state regarding your powerset” or something like that. I think I’m doing well for Grabbag Woman... or Lady PickandMix. I dunno, code name pending. Do I get a code name? The advisor said it was a medley of powers. That sounds nice.

Anyway! Everything is all cool and good and I’m getting a sense of things—everything still comes in the three pack and I still can’t predict which I’m going to get, but we did some tests. Whatever I get, I know how to use it (basics, anyway) for as long as I’m using it. I can throw that chakram and hit like three targets. I felt like Xena!

Three stationary targets, at ideal range, which I instinctively knew. But I wouldn’t be able to give you a number on that, and... god, embarrassing. After I threw a bunch of knives, they GAVE  me one, and I stabbed the shit out of myself. Thankfully my “helpy” power was healing at that point, so that fixed it.

So yeah, making improvements, learning cool things. Maybe shaping up to be... part of a team? If they’re okay with “random item girl” on their team.

And then my mom died.

Which happens. Everything was... It was fine. We got everything done, and she fell in love with Marie Kondo a few years ago so there wasn’t much STUFF, just... you know.

And then the next time I hit the “ghostie” part of my powerset—there she was! Just... like, waiting? Like I’m Allison Dubois. My handlers are looking at me all crazy as I’m talking to her, crying, SHE’S TALKING TO ME, loves me,  I think I almost got committed, and then—

That ended. And I haven’t been able to hit the ghostie subpower again. I’ve tried so hard my bones ache, but I just can’t manifest powers that often anyway. And I just get the healy or the force field, again and again. They’ve been taking knives away from me but I just keep manifesting more. At some point I gotta see her?

I keep talking to her. Talking to her like we’re seeing the same shit, dealing with it. It’s helping, actually, but I really think they’re going to flunk me out now. What do they do with confirmed empowered with crazypants?

Love you, mom. Hope to see you soon.

[pendesvoyage]

Movies to Look Forward to in March!

March is going to be a good month for movies. Not only is the first female-led feature film from Marvel finally here, but March offers laughs, scares, and edge-of-your-seat action. Here are the movies I’m looking forward to this month.

The Hole in the Ground

Sarah and young son Chris move to the fringes of a backwood rural town, but a terrifying encounter with a neighbor uncovers disturbing changes in her little boy. Is this connected to an ominous sinkhole buried deep in the forest that borders their home?

Release Date: March 1st

Genre: Horror

Starring: Seána Kerslake, James Quinn Markey, Simone Kirby 

Director: Lee Cronin

Apollo 11

A look at the Apollo 11 mission to land on the moon led by commander Neil Armstrong and pilot Buzz Aldrin. 

Release Date: March 1st

Genre: Documentary

Stars:  Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins

Director: Todd Douglas Miller

Greta

A young woman befriends a lonely widow who's harboring a dark and deadly agenda towards her.

Release Date: March 1st

Genre: Drama/Horror

Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Chloë Grace Moretz, Maika Monroe

Director: Neil Jordan

The Wedding Guest

A story centered on a mysterious British Muslim man on his journey across Pakistan and India to kidnap a guest from a wedding. 

Release Date: March 1st

Genre: Thriller

Stars:  Dev Patel, Radhika Apte, Jim Sarbh

Director: Michael Winterbottom

Climax

French dancers gather in a remote, empty school building to rehearse on a wintry night. The all-night celebration morphs into a hallucinatory nightmare when they learn their sangria is laced with LSD.

Release Date: March 1st

Genre: Thriller

Stars: Sofia Boutella, Romain Guillermic, Souheila Yacoub 

Director: Gaspar Noé

Captain Marvel

Carol Danvers becomes one of the universe's most powerful heroes when Earth is caught in the middle of a galactic war between two alien races.

Release Date: March 8th

Genre: Action/Adventure

Stars: Brie Larson, Gemma Chan, Ben Mendelsohn 

Director: Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck

Gloria Bell

A free-spirited woman in her 50s seeks out love at L.A. dance clubs.

Release Date: March 8th

Genre: Drama/Romance

Stars: Julianne Moore, Sean Astin, Michael Cera

Director: Sebastián Lelio

Triple Frontier

Five former Special Forces operatives reunite to plan a heist in a sparsely populated multi-border zone of South America.

Release Date: March 13th

Genre: Action/Adventure

Stars: Ben Affleck, Charlie Hunnam, Adria Arjona 

Director: J.C. Chandor

Captive State

Set in a Chicago neighborhood nearly a decade after an occupation by an extra-terrestrial force, Captive State explores the lives on both sides of the conflict - the collaborators and dissidents.

Release Date: March 15th

Genre: Sci-Fi/Thriller

Stars: Machine Gun Kelly, Vera Farmiga, John Goodman

Director: Rupert Wyatt

Five Feet Apart

A pair of teenagers with life-threatening illnesses meet in a hospital and fall in love.

Release Date: March 15th

Genre: Drama/Romance

Stars:  Haley Lu Richardson, Cole Sprouse, Claire Forlani

Director: Justin Baldoni

Wonder Park

Wonder Park tells the story of a magnificent amusement park where the imagination of a wildly creative girl named June comes alive.

Release Date: March 15th

Genre: Family/Animation

Stars: Brianna Denski, Jennifer Garner, Ken Hudson Campbell 

Director: David Feiss

The Aftermath

Post World War II, a British colonel and his wife are assigned to live in Hamburg during the post-war reconstruction, but tensions arise with the German who previously owned the house.

Release Date: March 15th

Genre: Drama/War

Stars: Alexander Skarsgård, Keira Knightley, Jason Clarke 

Director: James Kent

Superpower Dogs

Join an immersive IMAX adventure to experience the life-saving superpowers and extraordinary bravery of some of the world's most amazing dogs. (Narrated by my- not mine, I don’t own him- man, Chris Evans.)

Release Date: March 15th

Genre: Documentary

Stars: Chris Evans, Dayna Hilton, Matt Abrams 

Director: Daniel Ferguson

Hotel Mumbai

The true story of the Taj Hotel terrorist attack in Mumbai. Hotel staff risk their lives to keep everyone safe as people make unthinkable sacrifices to protect themselves and their families.

Release Date: March 22nd

Genre: Drama/Historical

Stars: Dev Patel, Armie Hammer, Nazanin Boniadi 

Director: Anthony Moras

Us

A family's serenity turns to chaos when a group of doppelgängers begin to terrorize them.

Release Date: March 22nd

Genre: Horror

Stars: Elisabeth Moss, Lupita Nyong'o, Anna Diop

Director: Jordan Peele

The Dirt

The story of how Mötley Crüe came to be one of the most notorious rock 'n roll groups in history.

Release Date: March 22nd

Genre: Biopic

Stars: Machine Gun Kelly, Iwan Rheon, Douglas Booth

Director: Jeff Tremaine

Maze

Inspired by the true events of the infamous 1983 prison breakout of 38 IRA prisoners from HMP, which was to become the biggest prison escape in Europe since World War II.

Release Date: March 22nd

Genre: Drama/Historical

Stars: Tom Vaughan-Lawlor, Barry Ward, Martin McCann 

Director: Stephen Burke

Dumbo

A young elephant, whose oversized ears enable him to fly, helps save a struggling circus, but when the circus plans a new venture, Dumbo and his friends discover dark secrets beneath its shiny veneer.

Release Date: March 29th

Genre: Family/Musical

Stars: Eva Green, Colin Farrell, Michael Keaton 

Director: Tim Burton

Unplanned

One of the youngest Planned Parenthood clinic directors, Abby Johnson used her passion to help women to become a spokesperson for PP, until the day she saw something that changed everything.

Released Date: March 29th

Genre: Drama

Stars: Ashley Bratcher, Brooks Ryan, Robia Scott

Director: Chuck Konzelman, Cary Solomon

The Highwaymen

A pair of police officers come out of retirement to catch the infamous outlaws Bonnie & Clyde.

Release Date: March 29th

Genre: Drama/Historical

Stars: Kevin Costner, Woody Harrelson, Kim Dickens

Director: John Lee Hancock

A Vigilante

A vigilante helps victims escape their domestic abusers.

Release Date: March 29th

Genre: Drama/Crime

Stars: Olivia Wilde, Morgan Spector, Betsy Aidem

Director: Sarah Daggar-Nickson

These are just the ones that caught my eye. March has a near endless offering of movie to pick one. There is something for everyone on this list so take some time and enjoy a flick! 

Lost in dictation,

Jess

[vickiabelson]

Today, Live! I can’t wait to sit down with actor, comedian, writer, Fred Melamed. When last we did I was unprepared for his brutal humility, fierce self-reflection, and unflinching honesty. A fascinatingly unique conversation focused on how life affected his work, and his work affected his life. I so look forward to catching up on his life and work events and get his take on current events. He may have starred in A Serious Man, but Fred possesses great warmth and humor.

Appearing in more Woody Allen movies (when that was a blessing) than any other actor besides Diane Keaton and Mia Farrow (and Woody himself), Fred’s featured in Hannah and Her Sisters, Radio Days, Another Woman, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Shadows and Fog, Husbands and Wives, and Hollywood Ending. He’s also appeared in Suspect, The Good Mother, The Mission, and The Pickup Artist to name a few.

With hundreds of film and television credits, and literally thousands of commercials and promos on the air as a voice actor, Fred starred in Lady Dynamite, Emmy Award-winning Fargo, Golden Globe Award-nominated Casual, New Girl, and Now We're Talking. He’s had recurring guest-starring roles on Benched, House of Lies, Girls, Children's Hospital, Blunt Talk, Married, and Trial & Error. He played Larry David's smug psychiatrist on Curb Your Enthusiasm, tough-guy jurist Judge Alan Karpman on The Good Wife, and played himself in the CBS situation comedy The Crazy Ones with Robin Williams and Sarah Michelle Gellar.

Recently named by New York Magazine's survey of top critics and film professionals as one of The 32 Greatest Character Actors Living Today, Fred is a Yale Drama School graduate, has won both the Independent Spirit and Voice Lifetime Achievement acting awards, and was short-listed for an Oscar for his performance in the before-mentioned, Coen Brothers’ classic, A Serious Man. Fred was named by Harry Domenico Rossi as one of The 25 Greatest Screen Villains of All Time.

Fred currently stars in American Crime Story: Impeachment, upcoming seasons of Barry, WandaVision, and Mysterious Benedict Society. His slate of current and soon-to-be-released films includes breakout hits Shiva Baby, Together Together, Marzipan, and Cat Person.

He’s starred on Broadway, written and produced screenplays, and has taught at Yale University, The University of Minnesota, and New York University. Hmm… Samantha?

We’ve got what to talk about, and I want Fred’s take on Sunday’s Hollywood trauma drama. Fun!

Fred Melamed on Game Changers With Vicki Abelson

Wednesday, 3/30/22, 5 pm PT, 8 pm ET

Streaming Live on my Facebook

http://bit.ly/2y47ZCi

Daily by Toni Vincent & @peter_and_paul_ Cartoons

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National Examiner, March 29

You can buy a copy of this issue for your very own at my eBay store: https://www.ebay.com/str/bradentonbooks

Cover: The Jayne Mansfield only her daughter Mariska Hargitay knew

Page 2: They're Aging Like Fine Wine -- celebs reflect on the wonders of getting older -- Candice Bergen, Anthony Hopkins, Halle Berry, Diane Keaton, Jennifer Lopez, Sandra Bullock, Bette Davis, Reese Witherspoon, Sally Field

Page 3: Helen Mirren, Jamie Lee Curtis, Madonna, Sigourney Weaver, Michael Caine, Jennifer Aniston, Goldie Hawn, Diane Lane

Page 4: Warren Beatty's roles and costumes

Page 6: Since her 2016 split from Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie has had to keep calm and carry on with six growing kids to think about and she admits the past few years have been pretty hard and she's been focusing on healing her family -- the six kids she shares with Brad, who range in age from 12 to 19, have been looking out for her too -- the 45-year-old is looking forward to her 50s and she feels that she's going to hit her stride in her 50s

Page 7: Canine Cuisine -- simple home-cooked fare for Fido

Page 9: Reach for at-home antibiotics

Page 10: When a Texas grocery store lost power during the devastating recent storm, they did something unimaginably generous -- they allowed all the customers to leave with whatever was in the shopping carts without paying for anything -- the shoppers at an H-E-B supermarket in Leander didn't even have to cough up a dime as they proceeded through the checkout lanes, even if they had hundreds of dollars' worth of food and supplies weighing down their wagons

Page 11: Your Health -- crying is healthy

* If you suffer from insomnia, try wearing socks to bed

Page 12: Hollywood Cemetery Shockers -- Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe, Whitney Houston, John Wayne

Page 13: James Brown, Michael Todd, Princess Diana, Sammy Davis Jr., Judy Garland, Steve Irwin

Page 14: Dear Tony, America's Top Psychic Healer -- the secret of life is so simple and attainable -- Tony predicts movie and TV star Robin Wright's move to being a director will be very successful and there will be many more films to come

Page 15: A Florida man just received the biggest surprise of his long life at the party to celebrate his 100th birthday -- someone had found and returned his wedding ring that he lost five years earlier while shopping at an Aldi's in Minnesota

Page 16: Kathie Lee Gifford: It's never too late to go after your dreams

Page 18: Happy Days mom Marion Ross is 92 now, but she still holds a memory about the legendary Cary Grant close to her heart -- back in 1959, when she was married to Freeman Meskimen, the actress was working on a film with the handsome star when she discovered she might be pregnant but she wasn't absolutely sure and so she didn't share her suspicions with anyone until one day, when a scene called for her to do something she wasn't sure a possibly pregnant woman should be doing, she revealed her secret to Cary Grant -- he sat down next to her, put his arm around her and said sweetly You're pregnant! and when she looked up at him, he had tears in his eyes; he was so excited for her and they had this marvelous moment together -- Marion said her husband was less than thrilled when her pregnancy was confirmed and they divorced a few years later

Page 19: An Indiana middle-school principal made the cut when he helped a kid out of a hairy situation -- when an eighth-grader at Stonybrook in Warren Township confided in Jason Smith he couldn't take his hat off because he was embarrassed about his uneven haircut, Jason offered to really straighten things out if he promised to return to class -- Jason has been cutting hair most of his life and he played college basketball and cut his teammates' hair before games, and he's been cutting his son's hair for 17 years and he had professional clippers and edgers at home, so he said if he went home and got his clippers and lined the student up, would he go back to class? and the student said yes, so Jason gave the kid a buzz and the happy student went back to class -- Jason says he knows a bad haircut may sound like a small thing, but to a boy that age, grappling with peer pressure, a bad 'do is a real don't

Page 20: Cover Story -- My mom Jayne Mansfield -- Mariska Hargitay reveals bombshell truths about the beloved sex symbol

Page 22: Use your noodle -- pool toy swims to the rescue

Page 24: Back when Calvin Tyler was in college in the early 1960s, he had such a hard time scraping together tuition money that he had to drop out before finishing his senior year and take a job as a UPS driver -- fast-forward a few decades: Calvin has just donated $20 million to Morgan State University in Baltimore, his alma mater

Page 25: A wounded veteran in Temecula, California, got the surprise of his life when he received a mortgage-free home courtesy of the Gary Sinise Foundation -- Josue Barron, who had joined the Marines at age 17, lost both his left leg and his left eye while serving in Afghanistan in 2010

Page 26: Dreamy hunk Patrick Swayze fell for one of his co-stars while filming the romantic movie Ghost, but the object of his affection wasn't on-screen love Demi Moore; it was Whoopi Goldberg

Page 28: 20 things you didn't know about James Bond actor Daniel Craig

Page 30: Spunky Hayley Arceneaux won a battle with bone cancer when she was 10 years old, and grew up to become a physician assistant in child oncology at St. Jude's Children's Hospital, where she was treated and if that wasn't enough, Hayley is going to blast off on a space flight -- the super survivor, who's now 29, was selected by the St. Jude's staff from hundreds of other employees to represent the famous hospital on the first-ever civilian spaceflight, arranged by the company SpaceX, to take place at the closing of 2021

Page 40: It's crystal clear -- the healing starts here -- crystals are very effective when it comes to healing, especially with one's emotion and they have special energies in different ways

Page 42: How to lower your COVID risk -- with new variants of the virus documented in the U.S., it's important to stay vigilant

Page 44: Eyes on the Stars -- Rebecca Holden of Knight Rider (picture), Lou Diamond Phillips of Prodigal Son in NYC (picture), Katharine McPhee admitted she was concerned with what people would think early on during her romance with 71-year-old David Foster, the daughter of John Travolta and Kelly Preston named Ella Blue Travolta is following in the footsteps of her actor parents by starring in Get Lost which is a modern-day retelling of Alice in Wonderland, Sarah Silverman recently apologized for mocking Paris Hilton at the 2007 MTV Awards, Nicolas Cage has tied the knot for the fifth time to Riko Shibata, Metallica have donated $75,000 to Feeding America via their All Within My Hands nonprofit and the funds are earmarked to aid folks in Texas who were affected by deadly winter storms

Page 45: Orlando Bloom running on the beach while vacationing in Hawaii (picture), Antonio Banderas (picture), Tom Jones takes the stage in the U.K. (picture), Robin Roberts near ABC's NYC studio (picture), Aaron Carter and fiancee Melanie Martin say they have a baby on the way nearly 10 months after she'd suffered a miscarriage, Dustin Diamond was never married to his galpal Jennifer Misner according to his death certificate, Liam Neeson attended a NYC screening of his new movie to thank viewers for coming to the theater on the first day Big Apple cinemas reopened after being shuttered by COVID-19 last year

Page 46: A single mom of three was struggling to do everything on her own, but there was one problem she lacked the skills and money to handle -- her house in Sudbury, Massachusetts was falling apart and that's when some kindly Good Samaritans stepped in with their toolbelts and performed the extensive home repairs she need at no charge

Page 47: Parenting Advice From the Stars -- Reese Witherspoon, Busy Philipps, Mark Consuelos and Kelly Ripa, Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively, Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Jennifer Garner

[marias-studyblr]

Hello , do you know any studyblrs related to physics, math or engineering? Thank you :)

Hi! You’re welcome! Here are the active ones I was able to find:

Physics:

@mathmaticat - Nadine, currently a college freshman studying physics

@studying-in-the-clouds - Physics student in university

@physicists-need-love-too - studying theoretical physics

@matheinated - Perth, aspiring physics student

@physicist-to-be - Jovana, theoretical and experimental physics student at University of Belgrade, Serbia and also a junior system engineer at IT center of Pirate Technologies in Belgrade

@ingeniouslywitty - Keaton, aspiring physicist

@justagirltryingtostudy - studying a levels Physics and Maths 

also check the astronomy studyblrs list.

Math:

@chemathetics - Rebecca, a level maths, further maths, physics and chemistry

@mathsicalstudies - currently a levels, wants to study maths at university

@vlvere - Emily, college senior studying math

@coffee-and-pi - math major

@mathematicool -  studying maths at university

@pianoandstudy - studying a-levels maths

@khloestudies - Khloé, studying math

@pineapple-command-center - minoring in computer science

@howtosurvivecollege2020 -  computer science major, math and business minors sophomore year

Engineering:

@wendystudies - Wendy, university freshman majoring in chemical engineering 

@mvthemvtics - Antoine, engineering student

@physicallymath - Carissa, biomed engineering

@prettynotesmakesmehappy - Elin, engineering student from Sweden

@studyeng - engineering student

@studying-engineering - Civil Engineering Major

@00sodium - Liz, Mechanical Engineering Student

@sparkstudy - Sarah, Electrical and Biomedical Engineering

And check this engineering studyblrs masterpost from last year by @studying-engineering even though I haven’t checked any of those but I’m willing to bet some aren’t active anymore.

Any blog who can relate please tag yourself so I can add you!

[lastsonlost]

YEAH IT IS A LITTLE OLD BUT IT’S NEWS TO ME AND FUCKED UP AS HELL.

i’M HONESTLY SURPRISED i DIDN’T SEE THIS SOONER.

University of Tennessee Investigating Student Accused of Sexual Harassment for Writing Wrong Name on Quiz

By Tyler Coward October 11, 2016

Last week, several news outlets reported that a student at the University of Tennessee (UT) received a zero on a quiz—a grade his professor justified because he viewed an answer as sexual harassment under Title IX. Now he’s being investigated by campus officials after unidentified faculty saw the absurd interpretation being mocked by entertainment website Total Frat Move.

How might one violate Title IX on a quiz? The first question on the quiz asked “What is your Lab instructor’s name?” and invited students to “make something good up”—that is, a joke—if they don’t remember his or her name. The student, Keaton Wahlbon, couldn’t remember his lab instructor’s name, so he wrote a generic first name, Sarah, and a common last name, Jackson. Writing Sarah Jackson—an altogether ordinary name—landed Wahlbon in hot water with his lab instructor and his professor. In fact, the quiz was returned to Wahlbon with the word “inappropriate” next to his Sarah Jackson answer.

As it turns out, Sarah Jackson happens to be the name of a Canadian actress and lingerie model. It is also a name shared by thousands of other people across the world. Wahlbon tried to explain to his professor that he wrote what he thought was a generic name on the quiz and did not intend to be crass. According to an email screenshot obtained by Total Frat Move, his professor wrote:

I have no way of determining your intention. I can only consider the result. The result is that you gave the name of Sarah Jackson, who is a lingerie and nude model. That result meets the Title IX definition of sexual harassment. The grade of zero stands and will not be changed.

As our readers know, the Supreme Court defined peer-on-peer harassment in the educational context as conduct that is so “severe, pervasive, and objectively offensive that it can be said to deprive the victims of access to the educational opportunities or benefits provided by the school.” No reasonable person could believe that a student giving an incorrect quiz answer rises to the level of harassment defined by the Court. Its absurdity is what led to sites like Total Frat Move covering the story.

That coverage, unfortunately, appears to have led UT officials to—without a complaint by the student or TA—open a Title IX investigation because faculty saw the post on Total Frat Move. As if it wasn’t enough for Wahlbon to be censured for sexual harassment for an incorrect answer on a quiz, apparently publicly pointing out the absurdity of such an interpretation has subjected him to a formal investigation by the university. Investigations, as we’ve said before, can have a chilling effect on speech.  

FIRE is watching UT’s investigation closely and hopes that it will be promptly closed with no charges against Wahlbon. We also caution UT faculty against setting such a low bar for what constitutes a Title IX violation (which, again, this clearly is not), given the ease with which professors can find themselves the targets of prolonged Title IX investigations for what they say or write, even when the claims against them are baseless.  

For those interested in reading more about recent Title IX trends, check out the new book Twisting Title IX by FIRE’s Robert Shibley. In it, Robert shares stories from college students and faculty from across the country who have seen their free speech and due process rights violated in the name of Title IX.

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