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carolinesiede · 4 years

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My 2019 Writing Roundup

Not to get too New Age-y, but 2019 felt like a very ~transformative~ year for me. I turned 30, got a literary agent, and became a member of the Chicago Film Critics Association. After feeling like I’d hit a plateau in my late 20s, it was nice to experience a sense of forward momentum again, even if the lack of financial stability in this career is a constant background stress. Still, on the whole my sixth year as a full-time freelancer felt like a time where I kinda, sorta figured out what I’m doing. Instead of struggling in murky waters, I’m at least actively swimming in them.

I continued to write for The A.V. Club, The Spool, and Consequence of Sound, plus took on new outlets in The Verge and Polygon. I also had an article about romantic comedies published in Southwest Airline’s in-flight magazine and was asked to talk about Hallmark Channel Christmas rom-coms on Canadian radio. Speaking of rom-coms, 2019 was the second year (and first full-year) for When Romance Met Comedy, and I feel like the column really came into its own this year. It’s by far the biggest undertaking of my career (I’ve covered 47 films in total so far!), and I’m really excited to continue shaping its voice in 2020.

Beyond finding a regular fitness routine and seeing Cats onstage for the first time, the biggest personal project I undertook in 2019 was immersing myself in the world of film and film criticism—something I started in mid-2018 and really amped up this year. My goal was to watch 300 new-to-me movies this year, and I wound up watching 355! (Including 129 new releases.) Regular access to CFCA screenings and screeners allowed me to be a bigger part of the film critic conversation than I’ve been in the past, which was exciting. I also tackled a bunch of blindspots from the past decade and put together a list of my 50 favorite films of the 2010s, which you can see right here:

Over on the TV side of things, I bid farewell to the Netflix Defenders universe with binge-review coverage of the final seasons of The Punisher and Jessica Jones. Those Marvel binge-reviews were a big part of my early career, so seeing that universe come to a close was bittersweet. It’s always nerve-wracking when a semi-regular assignment ends, but I’m hopeful that new projects will pop up to take its place.

Putting together this year-end retrospective also made me realize I was on a lot of podcasts in 2019, including jumping in as a regular guest on the Cinematic Universe podcast in the latter half of the year. Podcasting is something I really enjoy (I find talking so much easier than writing!), and I’d love to do more of it in the future.

With that, I’ll leave you with wishes for a Happy New Year and a roundup of all the major writing I did in 2019. If you enjoyed my work this year, it would mean a lot if you would support me on either Kofi or PayPal. Or just share some of your favorite pieces with your friends!

My 15 favorite TV shows of 2019

My 15 favorite films of 2019

Op-eds and Features

“Rom-Com Revival” for Southwest The Magazine

Avengers: Endgame doesn’t earn its big “girl power” moment

An MCU breakup could be a terrific step forward for Spider-Man

“What is a weekend?”: A catch-up guide to Downton Abbey’s cast and characters

Nope, seeing Cats the musical will not help you understand Cats the movie

Let’s talk about the ending of Greta Gerwig’s Little Women

TV Coverage

Doctor Who’s 2019 New Year’s Special

The Punisher S2

Jessica Jones S3

The Crown S3

This Is Us S3 and S4

Supergirl S4 and S5

Rent: Live

Jane The Virgin fill-in

The Tony Awards

The Little Mermaid Live!

When Romance Met Comedy

27 Dresses doesn’t deserve your hate and neither does Katherine Heigl

Bride & Prejudice weaves an impressive cultural critique into a Bollywood-inspired Jane Austen update

How does the original What Women Want hold up two decades later?

In 1990, Pretty Woman changed romantic comedies forever

For one brief, wonderful moment, Eddie Murphy reinvented himself as a romantic-comedy star

20 years later, 10 Things I Hate About You remains a model for how to do the teen rom-com right

Lloyd Dobler is Cameron Crowe’s original manic pixie dream date

We're just not that into He’s Just Not That Into You

Romance is the weakest aspect of one of the most celebrated rom-coms of the ’90s

To All The Boys and Netflix reminded the world why it’s smitten with rom-coms

Imagine Me & You gives a lesbian love story the classic rom-com treatment

Queer resilience thrives in this rom-com about love in the time of the AIDS crisis

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes is bubbly and smart, just like Marilyn Monroe

The Best Man capped off one decade of black rom-coms and inspired another

Nicolas Cage romanced Cher in one of the weirdest rom-coms ever made

After a decade of discourse, (500) Days Of Summer is basically the Fight Club of rom-coms

It’s No Strings Attached versus Friends With Benefits in a rom-com showdown

Adam Sandler’s sweetness makes The Wedding Singer a rom-com worth growing old with

The Philadelphia Story delivered one of the most star-studded love triangles ever

13 Going On 30 made Jennifer Garner a rom-com star—and gave tween girls a sleepover staple

Celebrate Halloween with Warm Bodies, the film that tried to make zom-rom-coms a thing

In the 2010s, rom-coms went indie and saved themselves in the process

Sandra Bullock became a rom-com star with a cozy love story about crushing loneliness

With just two storylines, The Holiday paid tribute to the entire rom-com genre

The A.V. Club

The maudlin Five Feet Apart anoints a new pair of winning young stars

After thinks it’s beautiful, that’s what makes it tiresome

Teen Spirit has plenty of it

Ramy is a Muslim millennial comedy with impressively big questions on its mind

Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson’s new comedy The Hustle pulls an inelegant con

The Sun Is Also A Star turns a compelling premise into a lackluster teen romance

The Art Of Racing In The Rain is a doggone mess

You don’t need to love Springsteen to like the thoughtful crowd-pleaser Blinded By The Light

The well-meaning Brittany Runs A Marathon can’t quite go the distance

Renée Zellweger zings in a Judy Garland biopic that clangs

The Downton Abbey movie is as pleasant as a cozy cup of tea

Tall Girl’s familiar teen love story fails to reach new heights

The new Lady And The Tramp feels like a ’90s update of a ’50s classic

The Verge/Polygon

Tigers Are Not Afraid puts a Pan’s Labyrinth spin on a poignant Mexican drug war story

The gloriously surreal space epic Ad Astra is half a great movie

An AI affair fuels a midlife crisis in the eerie science fiction drama Auggie

The painfully generic new animated Addams Family deserves no snaps

Maleficent: Mistress of Evil is boldly bonkers

Netflix’s apocalyptic teen comedy Daybreak is an exhausting sugar rush

The Current War is basically Amadeus for electricity

Is Playmobil: The Movie just a reskinned Lego Movie?

The Spool

The LEGO Movie 2: Everything is About Half as Awesome

Isn’t It Romantic: An Instant Postmodern Rom-Com Classic

The Aftermath: Sumptuous but Surface-Level Melodrama

Late Night: A Sparkling Comedy With a Lot On Its Mind

Plus One: An Indie Millennial When Harry Met Sally

The Farewell is A Poignantly Funny Goodbye

Where’d You Go, Bernadette: A whimsical mid-life crisis

After the Wedding: A grown-up drama that doesn’t trust its own story

Falling Inn Love: Love, New Zealand Style

Paradise Hills: Harajuku Gossip Girls

Consequence of Sound

Brexit Takes An Engaging But Ultimately Shallow Look At the 2016 Vote

What Men Want Flips the Script and Finds Mixed Results

Dumbo Delights Without Ever Fully Taking Flight

Someone Great Continues Netflix’s Romantic Comedy Revival

Aladdin Has the Animated Classic’s Songs, But Less of Its Personality

MindMeet Interviews

Nadine Hack and Global Citizens Circle: Creating Connectedness

Podcast Appearances

Filmography: When Harry Met Sally

Filmography: Tim Burton’s mature films (Ed Wood, Sweeney Todd, Big Fish, Big Eyes)

Debating Doctor Who MCU Edition: Avengers: Endgame

Cinematic Universe: Alita: Battle Angel

Hall of Faces: Friends

Cinematic Universe: Joker

Hall of Faces: The West Wing

CBC Radio: Hallmark Christmas movies

Cinematic Universe: The Wolverine

Cinematic Universe: Awards Special—The Cuppies 2019 (Part One)

And here are similar year-end wrap-ups I did in 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, and 2013.

#Best Of #Year End

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twiststreet · 5 years

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Joaquin Phoenix’s “Joker” scored a record $13.3 million on Thursday night in North America. [...] The Joaquin Phoenix-starrer is now looking at a possible offshore weekend bow of $110M+. If that holds, along with domestic expectations, it is also looking at a $200M+ global opening, and further has a shot at overtaking Venom‘s 2018 record October global debut. [...] Weeks of speculation as to ‘Joker’s’ opening weekend performance and its status as one of the most talked about movies of the year have made the acclaimed (and controversial) film a must-see cinematic event,” Comscore senior media analyst Paul Dergarabedian said.

Feel like Rambling Instead of Doing My Chorin’ Dept.: I have zero interest in this Joker movie since I prefer cinema and/or low-grade Japanese pornography (which in my estimation is cinema in the Scorsese of sense of the word because you learn a lot about psychology, the punishing psychology of sempais). I have zero interest in like adult super-clown movies or whatever the fuck’s going on here-- and I don’t want to understand the psychology of someone who doesn’t have enough sex, I’m just too afraid that letting those kind of thoughts into my head might make me slightly less excellent at intercourse and the world would be robbed forever (Ladies). And add in even a remote chance of some shiny chrome War Boy blowing away my theater...? Imma pass. The only Batman villain I’m risking death for is Egghead...

But boy, watching people talk about and around this movie-- what a giant pile of yikes, which has ended exactly how all moral panics about art invariably end, with a giant pile of cash changing hands. And only “We want to generate TV ratings from normal people who hate arty shit we usually reward”-style award nominations no doubt await (aka the Black Panther slot).

What a stupid time to be alive... Its always been a stupid time to be alive because we’re not a really brilliant species, but I mean... moral panics over super-clown movies which are poised to make hundreds of millions of dollars where the moral panic isn’t just “oh my god it’s a billboard you can see from outer space about how we stopped funding our education system”... Boy...

I mean, I don’t think everyone was in bad faith, necessarily-- like if I were a lady who had to worry about incels coming and blowing away my yoga class or whatever, everytime I’m downward-facing my dogs, I’d probably be kinda not super-hot for a Joker movie either, like the world needs one more thing zooming-up the limp-dicks of this world. Or I mean, just generally, on the one hand, you want to talk about the world, right, because you live there or whatever? But on the other hand, it’s that thing you learn if you write about comics, especially-- being the guy talking about the thing just helps the thing, no matter what you say about it. I don’t know-- I never figured out how to square that circle. Like, I don’t know that I’m the audience for a lot of the moral panic, but it’s not like it was unreasonable for people to be like “can’t we just not”...

It just fucking got pretty wild in the last few days though-- because it got sucked into a second entirely different jetstream. You had the “Art is the exact same thing as an instruction manual for stupid people” elitism that kinda kicked off by that awful Mother Jones editor, or people who just want to childproof the entire world because they desperately think that’s a necessary response to living in a horror world (which I don’t think I sign up for but I can see my “we are all damned anyway and deserve to die” position not winning a lot of adherents)... but then thanks to the weird-ass marketing strategy (positioning Joker explicitly as a weapon in the Great American Culture War...? That’s how they sold Lady Ghostbusters, “come see this movie to send a message”, but it was just weird seeing a Reverse-Ghostbust)... it got sucked into the constant thriving secondary hum on the internet of unfunny people who are super-online and who have a constant axe to grind about comedy, because they don’t get jokes, don’t understand why people laugh at them or anything, and they’re narcissists who think we’re all actually laughing at them when we laugh at jokes because they’re so fucking insecure about their outsized-perception of themselves especially as victims?

At some point it just wound its way where a lot of people going “The Hangover wasn’t funny to begin with, even though it was one of the highest grossing R-Rated comedies ever made, because we’re all evolved now”-- arguing that movie’s half-billion dollars of revenue generated all magically rendered meaningless cause the director said some stupid-ass jackass shit...? Yeah, good luck with that. “Did you know the Hangover had Mike Tyson in it??? The internet’s going to win this fight against one of the biggest comedy hits of my lifetime, ten years later-- how dare people have laughed, according to me, someone who sounds totally normal and cool and fun to be around? I’m going to buy two tickets to the next movie by the Thor guy-- he’s making anti-hate satires-- why can’t you all be like a guy who makes fucking Thor movies?” Maybe I’m wrong, I’m on the side I’m on, but I just don’t think the internet’s going to win this nonstop war against jokes, no matter how many anti-hate satires the Thor guy’s got in him! (Anti-hate satire... go fuck yourself...)

And then the other side of things you had people who are like “nothing ever matters wheeee” where you just have to ignore, like, just the completely stupid world we’re stuck in full of absolute shitheads who obviously have us all surrounded and just are nontop dripping abject fucking brain-deadening bullshit into their ear, day after day, like Chinese Water Torture that these cretins are lining up to take part in, just salivating for to help make the world that much dumber and shittier, happy New York Comicon everybody! We really need Joker when there are 10 hour Youtube videos of guys complaining about a lady working the counter at Wendy’s who turned down their extra-large bottle of perfume they bought her or I don’t even know what the fuck’s going on with Youtube, nevermind games-- we really needed to make that avalanche of stupid any scarier or stupider..? I mean, “shit in, shit out” seems kinda like a reasonable proposition to me. You can’t feed people shit all day and then be like “why does this place smell?” It’s all the shit! I call it my Carl’s Jr. theory of human civilization.

But I mean, you look at the massive loneliness in the world, and even a cursory examination of what’s happening with men in this country statistically, at the same time as all kinds of people are getting stepped onby economic pressures and then you layer on climate change on top of everything else which kinda has to put some kinda dampener on human optimism generally, even if crazy people want to pretend it’s not happening... And then you’re going to tell people not to want entertainment that goes to a dark place, or that the movie they should see instead is Ad Astra (which was just Star Wars for men who hate their penises)??? “You should spend more time contemplating how being a man is bad, like Brad Pitt in Ad Astra.” A lot of people online (and not just Republicans) just seem angry and isolated and disconnected and sad, and I just don’t think “what if we tried to not have art or entertainment that speaks to that and instead gave them a DVD of Booksmart instead” is just even remotely realistic, or even worth contemplating, from a how-people-function standpoint. People who get upset about art being a valve, like ... I don’t understand how they comprehend the history of art in the 20th century, let alone modern day stuff...

Is there going to be a violent cost to it? I don’t know-- you go look at Falling Down’s wikipedia page and they mention a guy who shot up some folks whose favorite movie was Falling Down. But... I think there’s a gap between knowing that and then judging Falling Down for it, or that being a relevant data point when talking about Falling Down, that I don’t go over that gap and other people do. Maybe it’s my age or my own selfishness, I don’t know...

I don’t know. As usual, maybe I don’t know what I think. Anyways, it’s at least nice that it’s finally out and we just have to wait and see what the next bullshit-ass bullshit that causes some moral panic is going to be. There was cancelling Stephen Colbert because a hashtag inventor told people he hated Asians or some shit. There was people saying Isle of Dogs hated the Japanese. Bruce Lee’s daughter yelling at Once Upon a Time in Hollywood -- that was cute, I guess; I guess Bruce Lee’s no longer a public figure who we can comment on and re-purpose as artists have been doing since Warhol or before, because Bruce Lee came in his wife one time, good to know. I can’t remember all the panics with stand-up comedians, all that stuff, whoof. There was that time people got angry cause a guy on Youtube didn’t want to see the Lady Ghostbuster movie-- that’s not even an exaggeration there was like one youtube guy everyone got mad at. I don’t know. We’ve reached evil super-clowns. I don’t know how much stupider things can get, only that they will get infinitely, infinitely, infinitey stupider until the sun melts us because we’re definitely not surviving climate change, this isn’t a species built to last...

Anyways, felt like rambling.

#I am Pointless!

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thecomposerthatwaspromised · 5 years

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DIVYA KALA BHAVANI OCTOBER 17, 2019

Known for his Oscar-nominated work on ‘Inception’, composer Lorne Balfe is ready with a new stretch of scores in ‘Gemini Man’, BBC series ‘His Dark Materials’ and ‘Underground 6’... and for video games too!

Lorne Balfe is down with the flu, but that doesn’t stop him from detailing his experience on star-studded projects like Inception and His Dark Materials. Over the phone with MetroPlus, the British composer, who’s worked with directors such as Christopher Nolan, Ang Lee, Chris McQuarrie and Guy Ritchie, says it’s been a golden year for him.

Conversations with directors and reflecting on and referring to scripts for inspiration differ from project to project for most composers. “Many times, what’s in the script doesn’t make it to the film these days,” the 43-year-old points out, “and when you choose a job, you take it based on genre and whom you’re going to work with, if you believe in them. Ideally, it’s great to gain inspiration from the script, but when filming starts, characters and their journeys can change. Looking at some of the concept art for inspiration is helpful. His Dark Materials was like that, and as a fan of the books, I found myself trying to figure out that musical sound for 10 to 15 years, but concept art stepped in.” Recent concept art-heavy films include Inception (for which Lorne was nominated for an Academy Award), and Ad Astra (for which Lorne wrote additional music).

Similarly, Lorne, who is also known for composing for video games such as Assassin’s Creed III and Call Of Duty, has studio walls that are covered with the concept art of an in-production game that will release in two years. Then there’s the melding of sounds which will be felt in Underground 6, directed by Taika Waititi. “The canvas of instruments is so vast, we’ve got to be ready to use what’s necessary to bring out the story. There shouldn’t be any rules with music.”

A love for childhood influences

Scaling out a score for a series such as His Dark Materials, which airs in India in early November on HBO, made the experience a mammoth of project for Lorne and he’s proud to be working on something which has been a part of millions of people’s childhoods. “The sheer size and the legacy of it are special,” states Lorne, “and we’ve been recording all over world; we recorded Sarah Willis, a French horn player with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, in Havana, Cuba. Other locations included Los Angeles, Bulgaria, Vienna, Wales, to name a few.” The compositions, he says, are a melding of electronics and live instruments, all put together to push the envelope.

Has His Dark Materials author Philip Pullman heard the score? Lorne pauses before responding, “I’ve never spoken to Philip but while doing research, I found references he’d made regarding inspiration. I hope he likes it! I’m starting to panic now; it’d be horrible to think if he doesn’t like it.”

The visuals in Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows were as memorable as the eerily modern score. Though the Robert Downey Jr-starrer released eight years ago, the music still lingers in the mind. “It’s not about formula, it’s about inspiration. A film like that has such an iconic character, you have that soundtrack in your head as a composer through your life. When you read those books, you live and breathe Holmes and Watson’s lives and their eccentricities — all of this becomes DNA. Getting to work on Mission Impossible: Fallout is like that too; I’d watched the TV show growing up and have been a fan of the movies for half my life. When you get to do a score of a film of which you’ve known the characters for so long, the inspiration is just endless.”

A fan of The Art Of Noise, a synth-pop from England, environmental sounds ingratiate much of his inspiration, Lorne says, adding, “Hans Zimmer and I considered Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows to be a steampunk genre; our inspiration came from Sherlock’s own travels. We also drew from the Roma community; the gypsy way of playing music and mixing that with elements from Ireland. So we created a fictitious musical map for Sherlock.”

Two for one

In Gemini Man, working with director Ang Lee was a win, and presenting the score for two characters played by one actor was a fun challenge. “The first time watching the film, I had to help the story musically in that each of Will’s characters had their own theme but both were of the same DNA. So I wrote melodies for them both but they’d play on top of each other so that, no matter what, they were connected.” This was one of the first things he showed to Ang whom he commends for being one of the most technologically revolutionary directors but also an organic storyteller.

As a composer, Lorne understands the value of a powerful orchestra. Tina Guo, a cellist who played for Wonder Woman, Gladiator and video games such as Skyrim and Final Fantasy VII, performed live for Ang while Lorne played, to present how the two themes can be intertwined.

Lorne agrees that working with other departments is integral to the storytelling process. “Mission Impossible: Fallout director Chris McQuarrie has a great sensibility in seeing where music is allowed to be prominent and where sound effects can take over. The bathroom fight sequence in Fallout was one of the best action sequences of all time, and there’s no music there, but the sound effects there are more powerful than music. So you’ve got to learn that music doesn’t necessarily have to be hard in intensity.” He affirms that a film like Inception where visuals are trippy, require a careful balance of sight and sound.

What set Ad Astra and Inception apart? “If there is a heart and soul to the story, inspiration follows naturally,” responds Lorne, “and it is very hard to be passionate about a character if there is no depth to them. Ad Astra is a visually beautiful film but the story is the interesting part. I love the film because of Roy McBride (Brad Pitt) and I relate to the film as a father and a son.”

#ad astra #His Dark Materials #Lorne Balfe #Mission Impossible: Fallout #Gemini Man #interview

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knightsims · 6 years

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Week 19 in Rosedale is over, so let’s do the weekly recap! :D Week 19 was the time of the great ‘Bandican folder failure’ so I lost quite a lot of pictures, so apologies that some of the recaps are so short!

Births: 13 Deaths: 6 (-1 for a genie revive)

SOMERSET:

Nicholas gave birth to his and Costel Couderc’s baby girl Sadie.

Costel moved in.

Sadie turned into a toddler.

EVANS:

Iola turned into an elder.

Bellamy turned into a teenager.

Vesuvia turned into a child.

They adopted two pets; a puppy named Jynx and an adult cat named Citrine.

Asher turned into an adult. He then entered a relationship with townie Vera Chambers, and they moved out on Monday morning.

RAY:

Tharen and Rigel turned into adults. Tharen entered a relationship with Sofia Bledel, and they all moved out at the end of the week.

Joseph’s alien abduction from the week before resulted in the birth of another son, Vega!

Leia turned into a teenager.

COUDERC:

They adopted a new kitten called Chai!

Socks ate some Kibble of Life.

Jason and Kelly went on a date. Kelly then immediately died, causing Jason to have a conflicting line of memories about her dying, the date being horrible and then inheriting some money.

Hera turned into a teenager.

Jason rolled some wants about finding a new girlfriend, so he went on a handful of dates with downtownie Davina Cofield.

Hera spawned a social bunny that made fun of her while she was sleeping.

Hera tried to fix the computer and started a fire! She then caught the whole room on fire and died as a result! Thankfully, Jason used the genie lamp and brought her back to life (successfully; no zombies this time!)

Jason rolled a want to propose to Davina, so they got engaged and quickly married in the kitchen.

ARBON:

Grimmy and the Hula Zombies came in a ‘two for one’ deal for Mae and Carlos!

Vivienne continued making robots until she reached the gold badge! She then made herself a robot girlfriend named Claire!

SWAFFORD:

Dean entered an informal relationship with Hayley Brewster!

Someone set the kitchen on fire again.

Grimmy came for Ronica one five consecutive nights, but she beat him at the game of chance every single time.

Hayley left Dean an ElectroDance Sphere after their date.

Teagan and Lane turned into teenagers.

Colt woohooed with Apple Brewster.

Lane got a womrat.

Dean and Colt turned into adults. Due to the ROS roll of needing to get someone pregnant, Colt invited over the most attractive townie he knew called Tameko Clarke, fell in love, asked her to move in and successfully got her pregnant.

Dean moved out with his cat Bella, and Colt moved out with Tameko and their unborn child.

COUDERC II:

Ethan got chased by bees.

Nova drank straight from the bottle at their new bar.

Evelyn turned into an adult. She then went on a blind date and fell in love with townie Candice Barnett! And when I wasn’t looking, Evelyn fell pregnant.

Kayla and Zenith turned into teenagers.

Evelyn and Candice moved out.

BREWSTER:

Gwyneth and Leland went to her restaurant to serve dinner to townies. Once again, Gwyneth and her max cooking skill burnt the cake slice.

Hayley turned into an adult. Thanks to ACR, Hayley saw Lirit Wheatley on the side of the street and immediately went to woo her. They made out, woohooed and got Hayley pregnant...

The quadruplets turned into teenagers.

Hayley gave birth to Lirit’s newest daughter, Cheyenne, to an audience of most of her siblings.

Someone set the kitchen on fire!

Apple turned into an adult.

Aeryn and Garrus got into a fight in the bathroom, then both glared at their older brother Saros like he’d done something...

Not wanting her sister to raise a daughter on her own, Apple moved out with Hayley and Cheyenne.

MAZZA:

Due to ROS, Bailey had to have a 2-day affair. Most of the two days was spent trying to get her to romantically interact with Ronica Swafford, local marriage-ruiner.

Emmett turned into an adult. He had a string of bad luck trying to find a girlfriend.

Ali the cat died!

Joel turned into an adult and went into immediate aspiration failure.

Bailey set the kitchen on fire.

The matchmaker left the family a genie lamp! Emmett then wished for beauty.

After his genie wish, Emmett went on a successful date with townie Jessica Ingham.

Grimmy came for Daryl!

HARRISON:

Danica used the treadmill to get fit.

Roman turned into a child and started painting.

VILLIERS II:

They lost §17,500 in a stock-market crash (thanks ROS).

Kaylyn turned into an adult.

She entered a relationship with townie Anya Colville, who ended up getting her pregnant.

Grace sold some paintings.

LAUPER:

Maximilian turned into a teenager.

They got another cat named Skittles.

Valentina got started on a novel.

DIRGE:

Alexis turned into an adult.

She entered a relationship with Joel Mazza and they got married at the end of the week.

Grimmy came a few times for Kit but as he’d wished for the ability to cheat death, he didn’t actually die.

GREEN:

Angelica turned into a toddler and then a child.

Rose turned into an elder.

Lirit was caught cheating with townie Marietta Sanna. She then rolled a want to get engaged to her, so she and Marietta moved out, leaving Rose and Angelica behind.

COUDERC III:

The ROS roll for the week was for good witchcraft, so Regina turned into a witch.

She and Bernie got married at the park.

HASSOURAS:

Lucas and Lucio moved into a tiny home after leaving Regina the week before.

Lucas entered a relationship with townie Leonie Olsen.

They got married, and Leonie fell pregnant and gave birth to a baby daughter named Astra.

AGUILERA:

They moved into a much larger home.

Deigo turned into a toddler and then a child.

Isaiah kept working at his toy shop and gained a few business levels.

TERRANOVA:

Kat and Kent moved out of the apartment and into a proper house.

Kent woohooed with townie Yvonne Ki.

Kat befriended local-high warlock Trey Girdler.

O’BRIEN:

Noah went into multiple aspiration failures.

Altair turned into a toddler then a child.

Jonathan gave birth to his second alien son, Vulcan. He then turned into a toddler later in the week.

Noah fell pregnant but didn’t give birth.

Jonathan sold some paintings.

NOYES:

Victor, Anthea and their young son James moved into their own house.

Grimmy came for Victor!

Anthea made money where she could, but spent most of her time looking after her son and the garden.

James turned into a toddler.

EVANS-SWAFFORD:

Sian Evans and Audrey Swafford moved into a small house together as roommates as neither of them could afford a house on their own.

Sian got into a poking match with a townie.

Sian angered the bees.

Audrey woohooed with townie Edward Wren.

Sian woohooed with townie Holly Goth, and also local evil witch Lyndsay Browne after Audrey wanted to learn the witchy ways from her.

Audrey then turned into an evil witch herself.

Sian and Audrey eventually woohooed with each other.

ALLISON:

Lizbeth, Nathaniel and Marilyn moved into their own home.

Lizbeth gave birth to a son named Asra! He then turned into a toddler later in the week.

Marilyn turned into a toddler then a child.

Lizbeth proposed to Nathaniel!

SHAYE:

Micah and Joy moved into their own tiny home; one built by Micah’s own father Ethan many weeks before!

They went on an outing to Mountain Lake, where they saw Micah’s father and a couple of friends and extended family.

While Micah was at work, Joy woohooed with townie Benito Rossi!

LYE:

Andy and his fiancée Odette moved into their own house (there’s a lot of that this week).

Odette found some buried treasure!

Andy woohooed with local servo Claire Arbon while Odette was off saving people from fires!

Due to the ROS roll, Joseph Villiers came over and turned Andy into a werewolf!

Andy cheated again, but this time with the newly-married Davina Cofield!

Andy and Odette got their Garden Club application rejected.

BROWNE II:

Once again, Davina Cofield was involved in cheating drama as she and Toby woohooed multiple times while Gillian was at work.

Gideon turned into a toddler then a child later in the week.

Gillian gave birth to twins, Valentine and Tallulah! They turned into toddlers later in the week.

Gillian fell pregnant to risky woohoo literally seconds after giving birth. She went into labour a second time in one week and gave birth to another daughter, Demeter.

LAUPER II:

Uncle/nephew warlock/vampire combo Sawyer Couderc and Gabriel Lauper moved in together.

Gabriel nearly combusted in the sun twice.

Sawyer went on a date with townie Payton Dyer, and during the date rolled a want to fall in love with someone completely different - his best friend, townie Chantelle Dynamite! So after his date (and natural woohoo) with Payton, Chantelle was invited over for one.

After a couple of dates, Sawyer proposed to Chantelle and she moved in.

Chantelle opened Pleasant Post so that she could open up the Business career track. Pleasant Post was awarded a good review and the Best of the Best award on its first day.

Sawyer and Chantelle had their wedding party, with many family and friends attending. Toby Mazza was one of them, and naturally cheated on his absent girlfriend and mother of his four children (again) with Payton Dyer, Sawyer’s ‘ex’.

Newly married Sawyer and Chantelle moved out.

ST MARTIN:

Leia and Zephyr moved into a beautiful beach lot and built their house.

Leia gave birth to a baby girl named Brigitte, who turned into a toddler later in the week.

Leia then fell pregnant again and gave birth to a second daughter named Nadia.

NORTON:

Rachael and Bella moved into a house of their own.

Bella gave birth to a daughter named Amber, who turned into a toddler later in the week.

Due to the ROS roll, Rachael was abducted by aliens. She came back with a little green present and gave birth to another daughter, Alya, later in the week.

Bella’s uncle Frankie and her father Kit came over for visits. Kit spent most of the time watching sports on the TV and yelling, like most old men do.

Rachael went to work pregnant and in her underwear...

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"The Downing Street briefing room reveals this government's deep insecurities"

Designed to make the prime minister appear more presidential, the defunct Downing Street briefing room highlights Boris Johnson's insecurity, says Owen Hopkins.

The curtain came down before it was even raised on the Downing Street media briefing room as we learned this week that the government had abandoned its plans for White House-style press briefings.

We got our first glimpse of the much-heralded briefing room last month in photos leaked, somewhat ironically given the room's official status, to ITV News. Underwhelming didn't do justice to the astonishing mediocrity on show: more low-budget trade show than projection of governmental power.

Cheap stackable chairs, office-style raised floor, scraggy grey carpet tiles – the tackiness was all-consuming. What's more, the room's designers made the schoolboy error of putting a blue fabric screen behind the speaker – an absolute gift to meme artists.

Cheap stackable chairs, office-style raised floor, scraggy grey carpet tiles – the tackiness was all-consuming

Predictably social media was merciless with jokes and parodies, but also genuine astonishment that all of this had cost a whopping £2.6 million.

Of course, it's not cheap doing anything in a Grade I-listed building. Most of the sophisticated lighting, sound and network capabilities necessary for such a room are hidden. And the leaked images certainly didn't do it any favours. In one, a Henry vacuum cleaner appears discarded, leaning up against the wall, its famous friendly face turned away in apparent disapproval of what lies before him.

Aside from simply how bad the room looked, what underlay so many of the negative responses was the crudeness of how the room's message was manifested in its design.

It's almost as if there was a brief saying the room had to express power, permanence, solidity and confidence, with the designers then deciding to scour the history of political staging before settling on something that's part East Germany, part Middle Eastern dictator, part Donald Trump.

So we have those big blocks of royal blue expressing power, the oak panelling conveying permanence, the heavy podium with its faux gilding solidity and no less than four Union Flags projecting superabundant national self-confidence.

We might leave it there and chalk it up as another Johnsonian folly to go along with the ArcelorMittal Orbit, the Emirates Air Line and the Garden Bridge. This time it might even have been sponsored by Vladimir Putin, as in an another surreal twist the fit-out apparently involved a Russian firm that works closely with the state broadcaster (although there is no suggestion of Russian government interference).

Yet closer analysis reveals the ultimate irony embodied in the both the room's origins and its design: while conceived as an expression of the government's confidence, the Downing Street briefing room reveals its deep insecurities.

Despite the copious Union Flags that would have accompanied Stratton on the dais, the image presented would have been a decidedly American one

The briefing room originated as the centrepiece of a new media strategy formulated by former Downing Street communications director, Lee Cain, who actually left his job back in December.

Taking a leaf out of the playbook of his old Vote Leave mucker Dominic Cummings (who has also since left his post advising Boris Johnson), the idea was to centralise No 10 briefings, which would be delivered by a single spokesperson. Former journalist, Allegra Stratton, got the job in the autumn, before moving on this week to become the spokesperson for the COP26 climate summit.

Despite the copious Union Flags that would have accompanied Stratton on the dais, the image presented would have been a decidedly American one.

In concept and practice, the briefing room is a very obvious homage to the White House's James S Brady Press Briefing Room, where the President-appointed press secretary fields questions from a pool of assembled journalists. This is not simply a case of Cain having watched too many episodes of The West Wing, but reflects a deeper and longer-running obsession for US politics among British politicians.

The briefing is the logical conclusion of a decades-long process of prime minsters wanting to make themselves appear more presidential

Tony Blair was famously enamoured with Bill Clinton's third way, before falling for George W Bush, while Thatcher longed for the presidential powers and trappings enjoyed by her friend and ideological ally, Ronald Reagan.

So in this light, the briefing room is no real surprise, but the logical conclusion of a decades-long process of successive prime minsters wanting to make themselves appear more presidential, and less dependent on the whims and confidence of parliament, as they are in practice.

But there's also something that's different now and particular to this government, which is signalled most clearly by all those Union Flags.

It wasn't very long ago that one rarely saw the Union Flag in everyday life. For several decades it was the preserve of skinheads and the far right. Then in the 1990s Britpop happened, fuelling Cool Britannia and the broader feeling of renewed national optimism, refracted through the lens of 1960s nostalgia.

If there was an image that summed up this vision of a modern, confident Britain it was of the Spice Girls performing at the 1997 Brit Awards and Geri Halliwell's iconic Union Jack dress. All of a sudden it was OK, even cool, to be patriotic again, though in an ironic, knowing way.

But politically, the Union Flag remained the preserve of the unashamedly fascist British National Party, and eschewed by the mainstream. David Cameron's "detoxification" of the Conservative party brand famously saw its logo reborn as an oak tree squiggled with a marker pen – pitching the party as fresh, modern and green. So it was clear something was afoot when in the 2010s, the tree silhouette was suddenly emblazoned with the Union Flag.

The desire for total control very often reflects the fear of losing it

Fast forward to the present, no government minister is seen on TV without at least one Union Flag behind them, and maybe a photo of the Queen for good measure.

So important is the flag to the government's messaging that a few months back there were even rumours that an order had come down from on high demanding that the Union Flag be printed on the vials of the Oxford/Astra Zeneca covid vaccine, putting a distinct and very literal spin on vaccine nationalism.

This is clearly both the legacy and culmination of Brexit and the culture war it sparked and which is still being fought. Yet one doesn't need to be a psychoanalyst to discern that wrapping oneself in the Union Flag reflects not confidence but anxiety and insecurity.

Resorting to the power and solidity embodied in a symbol and its associated tropes is an almost clichéd way of making up for one's own weakness and instability.

It's the much same for the Downing Street media briefing room. In politics as in life, the desire for total control very often reflects the fear of losing it, while an overt expression of confidence frequently suggests the opposite. If there were any doubts about analysis, the simple fact the media room and the strategy it manifested has been abandoned before the briefings even began is surely all the evidence we need.

Image courtesy of Number 10.

Owen Hopkins is an architectural writer, historian and curator. He is director of a new centre for architecture and cities in Newcastle, UK opening in 2022 and was previously senior curator at Sir John Soane’s Museum and architecture programme curator at the Royal Academy of Arts. He is the author of books including Postmodern Architecture: Less is a Bore (2020), Lost Futures (2017) and Mavericks: Breaking the Mould of British Architecture (2016).

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Fall Movie Preview 2019

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Fall Movie Preview 2019

Fall movie season is here! This is always my favorite time of the year to see movies. There’s such a wonderful variety of films available to see in theaters. Everything from awards season contenders, indie darlings, and exciting space adventures! Get ready to make your way to the theater because this looks like it’s going to be a great season at the movies. Let’s take a look at what’s coming soon.

SEPTEMBER September 13th The Goldfinch Starring: Ansel Elgort, Oakes Fengley, Nicole Kidman, Finn Wolfhard Bring the tissues and prepare yourself for a rollercoaster of emotions because this is gonna be a wild ride. The Goldfinch is based on the Pultizer Prize winning novel by Donna Tart. This is one of the best books I’ve read recently, but it’s quite an emotional journey. It follows 13-year-old Theo Decker after the traumatic death of his mother in an art museum bombing. It’s a haunting and powerful story about the human condition once grief becomes a prominent force in one’s life. The film is directed by John Crowley with Roger Deakins as director of photography. That’s what I call must-see cinema.

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Hustlers Starring: Jennifer Lopez, Constance Wu, Cardi B, Lili Reinhart Based on a New York Times article, former strip club employees band together to hustle their Wall Street Clients during the late 2000’s financial crisis. This looks a bit like the heist of Oceans 8 meets the real world story of Molly’s Game. It has quite a star studded female cast of movie/TV/and music stars and is directed by Lorene Scafaria (Seeking a Friend at the End of the World, The Meddler.)

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September 20th Downton Abbey Starring: Michelle Dockery, Maggie Smith, Hugh Boneville, Jim Carter You love Downton Abbey, I love Downton Abbey. Everyone loves Downton Abbey. I can hear the theme song playing in my head just thinking of the movie being released. That’s right, the beloved TV series is coming to the big screen. Hopefully, it won’t be anything like the season 3 finale. (Real fans know the pain and struggle. We can’t go back to that time.) In the film, Downton Abbey will be visited by the royal family. I’m sure it will make for quite an impressive cinematic experience. As a fan of the show, I can’t wait to see it all on the big screen!

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Ad Astra Starring: Brad Pitt, Tommy Lee Jones, Liv Tyler Just two months after showing the world that he doesn’t age in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Brad Pitt is back and he’s going to space. It makes sense, fall is the only logical time to release a film in the space genre. (The Martian, Interstellar, First Man, Arrival, Gravity were all released in the fall,.) Ad Astra is all about an astronaut who takes on a mission to uncover the truth about his missing father. The film is directed by James Gray (The Lost City of Z, The Immigrant). I just hope Brad Pitt gets to wear his iconic Hawaiian shirt. Audiences demand to see it again.

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September 27th Judy Starring: Renée Zellweger, Finn Wittrock, Jessie Buckley, Rufus Sewell There’s nothing like a good biographical drama. Throw in musical numbers and it’s a hit in my eyes. Renée Zellweger stars as the iconic Judy Garland in this biopic that explores her life in 1969 as she arrives in London to perform a series of sold out concerts. Word from the Telluride Film Festival is that Renée Zellweger gives a very strong performance as Judy. Could she have an awards season run on her hands for Best Actress? We’ll see very soon!

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OCTOBER

October 4th Joker Starring: Joaquin Phoenix, Robert de Niro, Zazie Beets Joaquin Phoenix stars as the Joker in this standalone film that focuses on the origins of the DC villain. The film received an 8 minute standing ovation at the Venice Film Festival, which seems pretty excessive for any movie. I’m just not a movie applauder. It’s unnatural to me. I’m also not much of a Joker enthusiast so I can’t get too excited about this or the way it seemingly wants me to feel sympathy for the Joker. I don’t. He’s a terrorist. However, this is going to be a huge cinematic event. There are striking similarities to 70’s hit films The King of Comedy and Taxi Driver in the first trailers of the film. Director Todd Phillips clearly wanted to make a unique comic book film and this one will have people talking.

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Lucy in the Sky Starring: Natalie Portman, Dan Stevens, Jon Hamm Another space movie! Fall movie season demands it. After returning from space, astronaut Lucy Cola begins to feel withdrawn and disconnected from reality. The film is loosely based on Lisa Nowak, an astronaut who lost her grip on reality after returning to earth after space travel. One thing’s for sure, with a cast including Natalie Portman, Jon Hamm, and Dan Stevens, this one promises some impressive acting.

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October 11 Gemini Man Starring: Will Smith, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Clive Owen An assassin becomes the target of a mysterious government operative who can predict his every move. Soon he finds out that the mysterious operative is a clone of himself. Can Gemini Man help director Ang Lee (Life of Pi, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) find critical acclaim again after 2016’s underwhelming Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk.

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The King Starring: Timothée Chalamet, Robert Pattinson, Joel Edgerton Based on Shakespeare’s Henriad, The King follows Henry V as he takes the throne after his father’s death and navigates a kingdom filled with war, chaos, and political strife. While all of that is very interesting, I think we need to discuss the hair in this movie. First of all, there’s Timothée Chalamet’s bowl cut, which is quite a situation. So very round and tragic. Why Timothée? You know you have great hair, but the bowl cut is not your look! Then, there’s Robert Pattinson’s wig. It’s kind of amazing. The hair in this movie alone is going to keep me entertained for 2 hours. The King will be in limited release theaters on October 11th and begin streaming on Netflix November 1st.

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October 18th Zombieland: Double Tap Starring: Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone, Abigail Breslin This sequel comes 10 years after the popular zombie comedy first made its way to theaters. A lot has changed for the cast since 2009. Emma Stone has won an Oscar for La La Land, Jesse Eisenberg received a nomination for The Social Network, and Woody Harrelson has appeared in several projects including the Oscar nominated Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri and the critically acclaimed series True Detective. That doesn’t stop this cast for returning for a sequel! This time around, the team is back in the American heartland to face off against evolved zombies.

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The Lighthouse Starring: Robert Pattinson, Willem Dafoe I was initially indifferent towards this movie, but after watching the trailer I have to see it just to solve the mystery of who spilled those beans! Willem Dafoe is going INSANE over it. “Why’d ya spill your beans?” Someone please answer him before he turns into the Green Goblin! This movie is about two lighthouse keepers who try to maintain their sanity while living in seclusion on a remote island in Maine. (It’s also about beans, I think). The cinematography for The Lighthouse has a unique old Hollywood feel that is very intriguing.

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Jojo Rabbit Starring: Taika Watiti, Scarlett Johannson, Roman Griffin, Sam Rockwell Taika Waititi (Thor: Ragnarok, Hunt for the Wilderpeople) directs and stars in Jojo Rabbit, an “anti-hate satire” about a young German boy whose imaginary best friend is an idiotic version of Hitler. One day, he discovers that his mother is hiding a Jewish girl in their home and Jojo’s world is turned upside down. There’s no doubt this will be controversial, but the key word here is satire. Taiki Waititi is Jewish himself and the film is obviously making fun of Nazis.

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NOVEMBER

November 1st The Irishman Starring: Robert de Niro, Al Pacino, Joe Pesci Martin Scorsese’s long awaited gangster epic is finally premiering this November. The 3 1/2 hour crime drama (Scorsese loves a good 3-hour runtime!) focuses on the life of Frank “The Irishman” Sheeran a mob hitman who played a role in the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa. Netflix is distributing the film, but it will be available to see in select theaters on November 1st for cinematic purists. It will begin streaming on Netflix November 27th. (Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! Go ahead and watch a 3-hour mafia epic with your family for the holiday! It’s Martin’s gift to you.)

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Harriet Starring: Cynthia Erivo, Janelle Monet, Joe Alwyn The true story of Harriet Tubman and her harrowing escape from slavery that eventually led to the Underground Railroad. Cynthia Ervio is going to be amazing in this role! She was such a breakout star in Widows and Bad Times at the El Royale. Can’t wait to see her portrayal of Harriet Tubman.

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Terminator: Dark Fate Starring: Mackenzie Davis, Linda Hamilton, Arnold Schwarzenegger The Terminator is back. In yet another installment of the franchise that will last forever, Sarah Connor and a hybrid human must protect a young girl from a newly modified Terminator from the future.

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November 8th Doctor Sleep Starring: Ewan McGregor, Rebecca Ferguson, Jacob Tremblay 39 years after The Shining, it’s getting a sequel. Based on the novel by Steven King, Doctor Sleep focuses on an adult Danny Torrance as he meets a girl with similar “shining” powers and tries to protect her from a cult called The True Knot. There’s a lot of talent involved in this project, but The Shining is untouchable in terms of classic movies. There’s no need to make a sequel. Not to mention, this plot summary sounds kind of weak. Consider me very skeptical that this will be good.

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Last Christmas Starring: Emilia Clarke, Henry Goulding, Emma Thompson A Christmas rom-com! Let’s jump for joy because a Christmas rom com is making its way to theaters! Last Christmas is all about Kate, a depressed woman working as Santa’s elf in a department store. She keeps bumping into the same man, Tom, who may help her find happiness in the holiday season. Henry Goulding/Emilia Clarke romance+Christmas? Sounds like a recipe for the perfect holiday movie!

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Honey Boy Starring: Shia Labeouf, Lucas Hedges, Noah Jupe It’s no secret that Shia LaBeouf has had a chaotic lifestyle in his post-Disney days. It looks like audiences are about to find out what has gone on behind-the-scenes in Honey Boy. The film is written by LaBeouf and follows his own experiences with fame and the strained relationship with his dysfunctional father. Noah Jupe and Lucas Hedges will be playing Shia LaBeouf as a child and teen actor, while Shia LaBeouf will play his own father for a meta twist. As someone who grew up watching Even Stevens and saw Shia LaBeouf’s career progress, this is one of my most anticipated films of the fall.

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November 15th Ford v. Ferrari Starring: Christian Bale, Matt Damon, Catriona Balfe American car designer Carroll Shelby and driver Ken Miles attempt to build a revolutionary race car for Ford to battle Ferrari at the 24 hours of Le Mans in 1966. The premise of this movie reminds me a little bit of Ron Howard’s Rush which is a very underrated movie that should be watched if you haven’t seen it.

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The Report Starring: Adam Driver, Jon Hamm, Tim Blake Nelson The Report is a political drama about an FBI agent’s investigation into the CIA’s torture practice on suspected terrorists after 9/11. Adam Driver stars in the film and he’s about to have a major fall movie season. The Report and Marriage Story (more on that one a little later) could easily get him awards buzz. In fact, I predict he’ll be nominated for an Oscar for one of those roles. Plus, he’ll be in Star Wars in December. You’ll be seeing a lot of him in the next few months.

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Charlie’s Angels Starring: Kristen Stewart, Naomi Scott, Ella Balinska, Elizabeth Banks Did we need another Charlie’s Angels reboot after the 2000’s movie trilogy and the ABC TV show? No. Yet there’s nothing Hollywood loves to more than to reboot a franchise we’ve just seen! This time around the angels are played by Kristen Stewart, Naomi Scott, and Ella Balinski. Elizabeth Banks is directing and co-starring in the project.

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November 22nd Frozen 2 Starring: Kristen Bell, Idina Menzel, Josh Gad Anna, Elsa, Kristoff, and Olaf go on an adventure to an enchanted autumn forest to find the origin of Elsa’s powers and save their land. Just when everyone finally got Let it Go out of their heads, Disney is gonna hit us with another Frozen movie. I have to admit, I’m intrigued by the concept of the autumn forest. We need more movies that take place in the fall! It should be it’s own sub-genre.

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A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood Starring: Tom Hanks, Matthew Rhys, Susan Kelechi Watson He’s already played Walt Disney, Captain Phillips, and Sully so it’s fitting that Tom Hanks would play Mr. Rogers on the list of “America’s favorite people” up next. The movie is all about the friendship between Fred Rogers and journalist Tom Junod. I cannot wait to see this. If you haven’t watched the documentary about Fred Rogers called Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, do it before this is released! It’s going to add so much depth to the cinematic experience.

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November 27th Knives Out Starring: Daniel Craig, Chris Evans, Jamie Lee Curtis, Toni Collette When a famous crime novelist is found dead on his estate, a detective is enlisted to investigate the family. Knives Out is directed by Rian Johnson (Looper, The Last Jedi) and packed with stars. It looks a bit like Bad Times at the El Royale meets the style of a Wes Anderson movie. I’m very interested in the central mystery at play here, but I can’t lie, Chris Evans is the reason I’ll go to the theater for this.

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December 6th Marriage Story Starring: Scarlett Johansson, Adam Driver, Laura Dern This one is gonna be majorly sad, so let’s all take some time to prepare ourselves. A stage director and his actress wife struggle as their marriage falls apart and they proceed with a difficult coast-to-coast divorce. Noah Baumbach (The Squid and the Whale, Frances Ha) directed the film which has already been receiving high praise from early festival screenings. This will definitely draw comparisons to Kramer vs. Kramer and Baumback’s The Squid and the Whale based on the trailer’s tone. The juxtaposition of the couple’s happy memories vs. the court scene at the end of the trailer is just heartbreaking. Marriage Story will be available to stream on Netflix December 6th.

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December 13th A Hidden Life Starring: August Diehl, Valerie Pachner, Matthias Schoenaerts Few movies have affected me the way Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life have. It’s certainly not a movie for everyone, but it works for me. The unconventional narrative, epic cinematography, and orchestral score are unforgettable. Critics from festival screenings have said that A Hidden Life is his best work since The Tree of Life meaning I’ll need to see it ASAP. The film is based on a true story about an Austrian farmer named Franz Jaggerstatter who refused to fight for the Nazis in World War II. The trailer looks beautiful and poetic.

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December 20th Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Starring: Daisy Ridley, Adam Driver, Oscar Isaac, John Boyega The latest Star Wars trilogy will complete with The Rise of Skywalker. Taking place after The Last Jedi, the members left in the Resistance will face the First Order once again. The conflict between the Jedi and the Sith reaches a breaking point bringing the Skywalker saga to an end. I have so many questions about this movie! Was Kylo Ren actually lying to Rey about her parents in The Last Jedi? Could they really be important people? Will she turn to the dark side like this preview suggests? (I hope not). Why is Palpatine (the villain who died in Return of the Jedi) talking in all of the trailers? Thankfully, J.J. Abrams is returning as director for The Rise of Skywalker to answer all of my questions and hopefully deliver a great Star Wars film.

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Jumanji: The Next Level Starring: Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, Jack Black, Karen Gillan Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle was one of the biggest surprise box office hits in recent years, appealing to people of all age groups. It’s no surprise that The Next Level is being released so quickly after the massive success of Welcome to the Jungle. This time around, the group goes back into the game, but a few of their grandfather’s are sucked in as well. That means Kevin Hart will be playing Danny Glover and Dwayne Johnson will be portraying Danny DeVito.

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Cats Starring: Francesca Hayward, Jason Derulo, Judi Dench, Jennifer Hudson, Taylor Swift Forget Star Wars, forget A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, forget A Hidden Life. Disregard everything on this list. Cats is going to be the cinematic moment of 2019! That CGI? Legendary! The actors could have worn cat suits or make up like the stage play, but director Tom Hooper decided that this is the 21st century…time to try out a new technique called digital fur technology! So now this movie exists. It’s difficult to describe what this digital fur technology looks like, but it’s not cats. I will say the trailer was released with plenty of time before the movie gets to theaters so there’s hope that the finished product will look way better than the original trailer. If I’m being totally honest, I love anything musical, so I’m totally going to see this.

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December 25th Little Women Starring: Saoirse Ronan, Timothée Chalamet, Meryl Streep, Laura Dern Greta Gerwig’s highly ancitipated second film is a remake of the beloved Louisa May Alcott novel, Little Women. You all know the story, but I’ll do a quick plot recap anyway. Little Women is told through the eyes of Jo March as she recounts her life growing up with her 3 sisters: Meg, Amy, and Beth. Each have their own distinct personalities, but have a very strong bond with each other. The film reunites Saoirse Ronan and Timothée Chalamet as Jo March and Laurie for a mini-Lady Bird reunion. It also contains a little Big Little Lies reunion with Meryl Streep and Laura Dern. What a great Christmas day release!

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That concludes this Fall Movie Preview! As you can tell, there are tons of movies releasing this season in all genres. What are you most excited to see this fall?

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National Enquirer, March 4

Cover: Scientology Leader David Miscavige’s Missing Wife Shelly Found After 13 Years

Page 2: Heidi Klum pregnant at 45

Page 3: Former stoner Brad Pitt has relapsed on the set of space flick Ad Astra to help him get into character

Page 4: Golf nut Will Ferrell driving his wife crazy after he spends all his days on the golf course after Holmes & Watson flop

Page 5: Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton to secretly say I Do in a private backyard wedding, former reality TV star Jack Osbourne is now trained and working as a reserve police officer near the Mexican border

Page 6: Ricki Lake’s new guy has a dark past

Page 7: Skin cancer destroys Priscilla Presley’s beauty

Page 8: Julia Roberts and Danny Moder run away to Rome and Alaska to save marriage

Page 9: Damaged Demi Lovato unseen since backlash over online joke about 21 Savage, former child star Chloe Grace Moretz has turned into a party monster at age 22

Page 10: Hot Shots -- Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott, Jennifer Lopez, Prince William

Page 11: Crumbling con Bill Cosby fears there’s a target on his back

Page 12: Straight Shuter -- Julie Chen thought her return to Big Brother would be fine even after her husband Les Moonves was fired over sexual misconduct allegations but she was wrong as staff that Julie once considered friends are no longer nice to her, Adam Levine won’t be going shirtless after his appearance at the Super Bowl halftime show because he’s worried the criticism he received might affect his job on The Voice, Josh Duhamel bowling, Taylor Swift is being wooed to perform at next year’s Super Bowl halftime show because they need a superstar after this year’s Maroon 5 disaster, Jimmy Fallon got VIP treatment at BFF Justin Timberlake’s Madison Square Garden concert

Page 14: True Crime

Page 16: Jayme Closs kidnapper Jake Patterson reveals sick love for teen

Page 18: Real Life

Page 20: El Chapo Joaquin Guzman has been found guilty and will spend the rest of his days in a prison that’s a living hell

Page 22: Cover Story -- Shelly Miscavige, unseen in 13 years, spotted on a church ship

Page 24: Fleetwood Mac’s Lindsey Buckingham is not doing well since emergency open heart surgery in early February and pals hope he’ll end his bitter feud with former love Stevie Nicks before it’s too late

Page 26: John Cusack mistakenly invited all the women in his little black book to the same group chat and earned their fury, Jon Bon Jovi is quitting the charity spaghetti sauce business

Page 30: New gal Sara Dinkin in Kristen Stewart’s revolving door of romance that includes Robert Pattinson, Chris Pratt visited a seedy London strip club days after giving bride-to-be Katherine Schwarzenegger a five-carat engagement ring

Page 31: Hollywood Hookups -- Blac Chyna and Soulja Boy make a controversial couple, Melissa Benoist engaged to co-star Chris Wood, Jennie Garth and Dave Abrams call off divorce

Page 32: Cruel Kris Jenner shuns crippled sister, career-obsessed Christian Bale is killing himself with his yo-yo dieting for roles in his chase for Hollywood glory

Page 34: How to create healthy habits

Page 36: Red Carpet Stars & Stumbles -- Grammy Awards -- Kacey Musgraves, Alicia Keys, Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, Jada Pinkett Smith

Page 38: Health Watch -- Yoga works magic on arthritis, Ask the Vet

Page 45: Spot the Differences -- Chris Pratt and Tiffany Haddish

#tabloids #scientology #david miscavige #shelly miscavige #robert pattinson #rob pattinson #kristen stewart #sara dinkin #rupert sanders #soko #st. vincent #stella maxwell

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Final Edit

Introduction to Doctor Jane Healy’s Essay on the Ian McKinnon Logs.

The daily logs of Doctor Ian McKinnon were found among the rubble of the Astra 27 three days after it plummeted to earth in the April of 2067 after a failure in the electrical wiring. These logs, since then, have been heralded the most convincing piece of evidence supporting the movement to end solo space travel since the first Astra took flight in 2037. The logs support the argument that ships as technologically complex as the Astra model can not be manned alone, and that machine failure cannot be overcome alone. But I believe the logs provide substantially darker evidence as to why solo space travel should be abolished for good.

Log 1.

I think that I should perhaps do a little introduction. Hello, my name is Ian and I’m 34 years old. Goodness, this I’ve made this sound like school. Hi, I’m Ian and I’m 34 and I like TV and the colour yellow, when I grow up I’d like to fly to space. I’m rambling. They don’t make it clear what we’re meant to be reporting in these logs. I suppose some sort of progress report. Right, well, I’m heading to space and that seems to be going rather well so far. Astra 27 all intact, no malfunctions yet, at least none that the Astra deems necessary to warn me of. It’s all quite exciting. Until tomorrow!

23rd May 2067, Post-Mortem

Upon careful examination of the body of Doctor Ian McKinnon it has been discovered that the cause of death was electrocution. It has been deduced that the most likely cause of this was the deceased’s attempt to correct the faulty wiring of the ship. This deduction is being contested due to the unlikelihood of the scenario, due to each astronaut’s teachings not to touch the motherboard of the ship. Further tests are being run.

Log 61.

It seems horrifically ungrateful, doesn’t it, to say that space can get boring. I spend each morning staring down at the Earth in the same way I would stare at the stars as a boy. I could name every constellation, pull out all the important stars and attempt to make friends by listing them off to any poor child that made the faux-pas of standing too close to me at Scout Camp. Sirius, of course, was my favourite. But if anyone asked it was Vega, for it’s blue. But I knew it was Sirius, quite simply because it was big and in the dog constellation, two things that excited my prepubescent brain. And now, I stare at the Earth. I watch as it turns and each day I wait to see the tiny slice of Europe and wonder at all the little boys and girls who are just getting to sleep after spending the night looking up into the sky. How many, I wonder, will tell their friends they had seen a shooting star? I’m sure they knew, as I did, that it was really a helicopter, but their friends didn’t need to know that. But here, there is no one to tell about the slice of Europe I can see every day.

There were no malfunctions in the Astra today.

20th April 2067, The Telegraph

A night of speculation and panic has reached a devastating end this morning as the bright lights that streaked the sky in the early hours of the morning are revealed by NASA to be the Astra 27 plummeting back home. After a severe malfunction in the wiring, it appears that British astronaut Doctor Ian McKinnon tried to return the rocket to the plains of Colorado, USA, to save the £25 million machine and his own life. Yet, terribly, to no avail. Though the atmospheric shields remained secure through both the Thermosphere and Mesosphere, saving the Astra from combustion, it shut down entirely just a cruel 55km from the Earth’s surface. In a plead posted on the NASA website as dawn broke, we are asked to take a minute’s silence at midday to honour the deceased Doctor Ian McKinnon.

Log 76.

Outside the right window, you can see nothing. A static screen through the rectangular glass. It reminds me of being young again, the black with white flecks, often curtained with soft grey. But this time without the potential mystery of a unidentified flying helicopter. Perhaps, from this window, nothing is a bit harsh. In the clean, unaffected glass I can see myself. The grounding reminder that I still exist.

Log 80.

You left me a booklet that I consult every single day. It tells me about the importance of routine in maintaining your sanity. So I read it every morning as soon as I wake up. It stresses the importance of remembering your past self, your self on earth. Little tics, little habits you have to maintain. As well as new routines to integrate into your new life. So, after checking the booklet, and my pocket-watch, I go to the motherboard.

2nd June 2034, NASA interview posted to their website

We are honoured to reveal today the next revolution in battling the final frontier. After decades of innovation, experimentation and exploration, Professors Amelia Hudson and Alijaz Guildenstern can now reveal their Astra, a rocket that can not only fly itself to and through the universe, but can also repair itself if it should encounter any technical malfunction.

‘It will completely change our idea of space,’ says Hudson, ‘No longer will it be an unattainable image, but a reachable destination that any person can visit.’

That is not to say, however, that the Astra can be flown by your average man. But this is a solid step paving the way to the human race’s conquering of the stars as space travel becomes more accessible and safer by the day.

Log 95.

I woke up to bright blue lights. Small, glowing beams of iridescence, burning onto my eyelid. As I closed my eyes the image of them glowered on my eyelid from the clinical blue to a fuzzy red and when I opened my eyes again they were gone. But when I closed my eyes again they were there, but fading quickly. And the more I blinked the quicker they left, until I was quite unsure whether they really existed in the first place. I wish there was someone here, to make sure I’m not going crazy. I have checked the Astra status and there has been no reported malfunction. I have reasoned with myself and have come to the conclusion that when my eyes went from black to this sterile white interior my brain must’ve confused itself, forgot its function, forgot how to process. This makes sense to me.

As for space, it remains the same. When I stare out the window I can see the same stars, and they all look the same. Until tomorrow.

Log 129.

It doesn’t quite make sense anymore. My theory doesn’t quite play out. The blue lights are here in the day. And god how they taunt me. They dance around me but I can’t follow them. They burn onto my eyes and I can’t blink to make them run away. I think they’re maybe in my brain now. It is cruel. But who can I tell? I can look down onto the earth and see the piece of my home and scream at them, hoping that my cries will make it through the machine, the vacuum, the spheres, air, bricks, into home. But I’m not that crazy yet. There has been three alerts in the rocket today, the wiring has been damaged but it is being fixed.

Log 135.

I have spent the day investigating the blue fairies. They’re just how I imagined the sprites in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Puck a whirl of blue, causing mischief and praying on those who are alone, changing their psychology and their desires. Now when I wake up I don’t really see him, but I can hear him a little, his clanging in the engine room echoing into my room. I see him later though, when I check the motherboard. Not properly, of course, just a quick flash. The machine is working hard to repair the wiring.

A clipping from James Goodwin’s 2086 award winning non-fiction novel on Ian McKinnon.

On a small metal spaceship, with thin, empty corridors, sharp corners and smooth walls, any sound you might hear, you will hear. Sometimes, Ian would tap one of the metal pipes and listen as the sound reverberated through the hallways, bouncing off the sterile, steel walls until it reached him again. It was nice, for Ian to have those little conversations with the walls. It made him forget quite how alone he was. And for hours at a time he would tap, sometimes a little pattern, occasionally the tune to a simple song from home, but mostly just single taps, waiting for them to come back before he’d reply again. It became part of his routine. He would wake up to the bright blue lights, check the motherboard, then talk.

Sometimes, if Ian was lucky, he wouldn’t have to start the conversation himself. He would hear a knock, or a pattern, or a little song from home, and stop what he was doing and knock back. It never particularly crossed his mind who he was talking to, it was just nice to have someone there. In fact, it wasn’t until Ian heard him talk that he had even considered meeting him.

“Hello?” Ian said, when he heard the voice. “Who’s there?”

The man was sitting in the control centre. His hand, which was resting on his lap when Ian first saw him, was now gliding over to the motherboard. He didn’t speak when Ian saw him, although he did hear him on several occasions after though he only saw him once more after this day. He was older than he was, with receding hair and deep lines on his forehead. He wore a well-fitting grey suit, and he had with him a briefcase. He made Ian feel small, in a lovely way. Ian quite liked looking at him, he was comforting and he liked having someone there with him so he wasn’t quite so alone. His hand, which had a few freckles covered with long, curling grey hairs, ran over the buttons and wires. He ran over them in a circle, like he was memorising the pattern. He gave Ian a comforting smile, picked up his briefcase and left.

2nd June, 2067, The Telegraph.

In a disturbing progression of events, Doctor Ian McKinnon’s Captain’s Logs have been found amongst the rubble of the Astra 27. Doctor Ian McKinnon has now been honoured and mourned by the nation for his tragic death two months ago, but the public now has a new tragedy to adjust to as the logs reveal the leading weeks up to his demise were not spent in the jovial state we had all naively but rather a state of increasing paranoia and insanity.

Last Log.

I have finally accustomed to life on the Astra. I had a moment of enlightenment this morning, about the loneliness that I think eats at us throughout our lives. I have spent over 100 days staring at the Earth, the Earth in it’s entirety and I think that this gives me rather broad understanding of the people that mill there below. They’re all alone. Every one of us is alone. And here, if I make no noise, all I can here is my little pocket watch, a token from home. It’s rhythmical ticking, dimmed by time. But it reminds me that I’m alone. I can remember the moments in my life when that was all I could hear. Moments when I was physically alone. But I have come to the realisation that it doesn’t matter whether I can hear that ticking or not. We are all alone. Alone in our heads, in our thoughts. I think that maybe these are what these solo missions on the Astra are about. I think I understand it all now.

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So this weekend in Hollywood, there was another bit of a shocker. Downton Abbey pulls in a huge score with over $31 million, and Rambo: Last Blood landing the third spot, behind Ad Astra – a movie no one knows anything about.

Rambo seems to be getting quite the backlash review-wise and I think maybe it has hit a nerve. I have yet to see it, but Rambo fighting Mexicans probably isn’t the way to go right now, with basically every YouTube video being a mini-Rambo movie against minorities.

Besides the fact that Rambo is like 78 years-old, I think this last movie hits too close to home for everyone right about now.

What’s even more odd is that Downton Abbey is eating up the profits! A BBC television show making a huge splash in theaters – who knew?!

This week also saw the Emmy Awards – another host-less television event. The big winner of course was HBO again, with Game of Thrones and its swan song; and BBC’s show Fleabag which won Outstanding Comedy series.

What I find really weird is that RuPaul won again for his Drag Race show – but it’s in a division called Best Competition Program. I mean his main competitor is America Ninja Warrior – where nobody says anything!! Of course he’s gonna win!

HBO had two really good strong shows this year – Chernobyl and Game of Thrones – that both came up very big. Veep, in it’s final season, didn’t really bow out with a bang as hoped. Veep garnered 9 noms instead of the usual 17 it normally gets. I guess it kind of puttered out. I still laughed though, that’s all that matters.

Netflix is quickly yipping at HBO’s heels and with the money they spend on original programming, rightfully so. HBO struck 137 nominations, Netflix struck 117. Not bad at all for a relative newcomer who doesn’t even have a channel on your tv.

Amazon Prime seems to be breaking through with its 47 noms this year – not quite at Netflix’s level but I’m sure it will achieve that number given time. Remember, they started out as a library.

AMC Networks which includes AMC, BBC, IFC, and Sundance got 26 nominations, so things could be worse for Amazon.

What really is disturbing, is that without a host, this year’s Emmy telecast was the lowest rated show in history with 6.9 million viewers. Last year was 10.17 million, the year before that was 11.30 million. So yea, the Emmy’s have a problem, and they better fix it fast, or they may not even be televised for much longer – and then who’s gonna watch RuPaul sashay down the red carpet.

Honestly with all these platforms, and YouTube videos, television is just getting lost among the mix, and with so much quantity now, I fear quality is plummeting quickly. I mean, American Ninja Warrior was nominated for an Emmy! It’s an obstacle course!!

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Wentworth’s Nicole Da Silva fights for abused women and more!

Wentworth is a remake the classic Aussie drama “Prisoner: Cell Block H.” The show ran from 1979-1986.

The television drama is set in a women’s prison in Australia. The drama tells the story of the women who have been sentenced for life or awaiting parole for their crime. Seasons 1-5 are impressive, brilliant characters that the audience can relate to in one way or another. Especially, the dangerously quiet Bea, and fan-favorite Franky Doyle.

Each of the prisoners have a story to tell and really gives you the ‘feels.’ Even the guards have a story to tell and their characters grow in so many bad ways and good ways. I have to say the writers, cast and crew were brilliant. And we can’t wait to see what they will bring is in 2018.

Wentworth doesn’t make jail look like kicks and giggles, it’s raw and doesn’t stray from the truth about Prison being harsh. Many fans were shocked to find that on the very first episode there are children in Prison with their mothers.

Interesting fact: Children and infants should be allowed to reside with their primary caregiver in prison only after the Administering Depart is satisfied that it’s actually in the best interest of the child to be with their mother.

The Australian prisons are different than what we are used to seeing in the United states because they tend to focus on rehabilitation while incarcerated, than punishment. Apparently, if the child is not yet school aged (about 5-6-years-old) then the child can stay with the mother full time. And the have opportunities for kids that are school aged to join in a “Holiday Program.”

The show continues to build and build with each character. The writers are so talented you never know when the episode’s climax will hit because it tends to happen at the most unpredictable times. (On a side note: If you love “Orange is the New Black,” then let me just assure you, this one is an addicting roller coaster and some would even argue this series has it’s strengths above OITNB).

The writers, cast and crew are always ready to show the good, the bad and the very ugly. Wentworth has flashes of humor here and there but the harsh realities of Prison include violence, rapes, mutilations, revenge murders and even making dirty deals with the Prison guards to get ahead behind bars and possibly stay alive.

The fan-favorite character seems to be “Franky Doyle,” played by Nicole da Silva. She’s one of the prisons most notable offenders and is spot on with her portrayal of ‘Franky Doyle.” The sexy ‘top dog,’ in the prison. And while we know she’s nothing like Franky Doyle in real life, every emotion she’s had to feel shows perfectly within her actions and facial expressions while acting on the show. And it would make sense she’s won awards for her performance including the ASTRA Awards for “Most Outstanding Performance by an Actor (female).” She was also nominated for a few other awards, check them out below.

YearAwardCategoryTV showResult 2008Logie AwardGraham Kennedy Award for Most Outstanding New TalentDangerousNominated 2014ASTRA AwardMost Outstanding Performance by an Actor (Female)WentworthWon 2015ASTRA AwardMost Outstanding Performance by an Actor (Female)WentworthNominated 2015Logie AwardMost Outstanding ActressWentworthNominated

Outside of acting Nicole’s striving to make the world a better place through charity and helping women who have been abused in the past or present. She has been raising money and awareness about the violence women will (mostly likely) encounter in their life. Spreading the message that it’s never okay to be abused is important, don’t you agree?

“There is one universal truth, applicable to all countries, cultures and communities: Violence against women is never acceptable, never excusable, never tolerable.” Ban Ki-Moon, UN Secretary General.

Nicole da Silva was first announced as the “National Champion of UN Women NC Australia,” in February of 2014. She’s continued to work very hard raising awareness about the violence 1 and 3 women around the world will encounter in their life. Un Australia confirmed the news with excitement. They wrote:

“The Australian National Committee for UN Women is pleased to announce that Australian actor Nicole da Silva has agreed to become the first national Champion for the organisation, supporting our efforts to promote women’s empowerment and gender equality. As a Champion, Nicole will support the UN Women National Committee Australia by attending events in March to mark International Women’s Day on March 8. Nicole will also help to educate her growing audience about women’s empowerment issues, and encourage donations to UN Women through the UN Women National Committee Australia website and social media platforms.”

Silva has already raised $24,362 for the UN Women according to her birthday wish on “everydayhero.com.”

The other option is checking out “unwomen.org.au., and get involved on their official page. A simple share on social media can go a long way, so even if you can’t donate you can help spread the word.

I think it’s fantastic that Nicole has devoted so much time in making a difference, don’t ya think? She’s quite the loving person and has such a great time during interviews.

Nicole opened up about the entertainment industry and what she would change about it, her dream role and her superhuman power on YouTube.

On changing something in Hollywood:

“I would love to wave my magic wand and for there to be more diversity and representation. And I’m talking across the board, I’m talking gender representation, LGBT representation–I just think we too often play it safe. If I’ve learned anything about playing Franky it’s that actually audiences wanna see themselves reflected in the stories we watch.”

On what her favorite character is to play?

“Ummmm, I always find this question really tricky because it’s so changeable for me. I’m currently really obsessed with sociopaths. I do kind of take an interest in psychological stuff. Sociopaths are like really interesting to me. So I would love to play a character like that but if I had to just name a role or just chuck it out there I would say “Wonder Woman,” or “Carmen Sandiego.” She continued “I just want to play a spy who gets to run around the world and people chase her and she’s kinda doing naughty things. I think that would be super fun. And if anyone’s listening out there I’m your girl.”

On what question would you love an interviewer to ask you and they never do?

“I would love an interviewer to ask me what my super power is? What my human super power is”

What is your human super power?

“I’m really good at naming a lot of cheeses.”

Lol, Okay, you have to admit that was a fun one. I would love to get her on PCG and quiz her on specific cheeses, then we could eat some, lol.

Nicole, we are very proud of you and all the hard work you’ve put into your work. You truly do inspire so many fans and it’s great to see them following their dreams because you followed your dreams.

Thanks for being a positive example, loving everybody around you and entertaining us with your talents.

Blessed be.

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