#SHANNON V KYLO... FIGHT!

[jynzandtonic]

So, Ronnie’s a given for you! I can totally picture you both nerding out having a movie marathon in printed pjs. Teaching him about all the outdoorsy stuff you’re into would be so much fun too! He’d try so hard and be such a good sport, but be such an awkward klutz about it too! Then he’d gimp around the next day being sore and milking it for your attention lol.

I also see you with Clyde! Definitely a mountain man who would love to go hiking, camping, swimming, etc every weekend if you want. He’d be great at cooking over a campfire with you and one of the best of making the most of quiet evenings outdoors! He’d also have a chill energy that would always keep you grounded and an outlook that will always keep you beaming! He’s the best at doing all the little things just right.

I ship myself 100% with Flip. We’re both sarcastic jackasses who give people hell but are loyal and devoted. Both good under stress and pressure and would know how to unwind together. I think he could put up with me better than most and have a complimentary personality lol. He’d be down both for having some adrenaline junkie sort of fun if I’m in the mood, or just unwinding around a fire with some movies. I’d live for the teasing and banter and hot ass nights lol.

I love some Kylo AUs that I’d totally ship myself with too, but honestly the first time canon Kylo threw a tantrum, I would smack the shit out of him lol.

So, I’d say out of the canon guys, Clyde would definitely be my runner up. Even if I’d drive him nuts half the time, he’d probably be too laid back to say anything about it and he’d think of a more creative solution to keep me relaxed 🤣

Okay now I’m just imagining you slapping canon Kylo and him being like...

*wheezing*

I TOTALLY see you with Flip (obvs). Tossing back beers, bullshitting around a campfire, super hot sex. Yup.

MY HEART IS MELTING AT MOVIE MARATHONS IN PJS WITH RONNIE 🥺💘 also CLYDE COOKING ME BACKCOUNTRY DINNERS!? MY HEART! I won’t survive this...

#friends ship z #[streetfighter intro] #SHANNON V KYLO... FIGHT! #officer ronnie peterson #clyde logan #safarigirlsp

[starwarsnonsense]

Top 10 Most Anticipated Films of 2017

And here’s my list of the most anticipated films of 2017! There are loads of really exciting films coming out this year, and while my most anticipated film is a no-brainer I hope you find the rest of the list interesting. 

Honourable mentions: The Handmaiden, Okja, Mute, Beauty and the Beast, Manchester by the Sea, King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, Moonlight, Wonder Woman, Kong: Skull Island, Baby Driver, Split, The Book of Henry and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2.

n.b. I’m in the UK, so several of the films I include here have already has a release in the US. We’re always playing catch-up!

1. Star Wars Episode VIII

Director: Rian Johnson

Cast: Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Adam Driver, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher

Plot: Having taken her first steps into a larger world, Rey continues her epic journey with Finn, Poe and Luke Skywalker in the next chapter of the saga.

Why be excited? I could just write ‘because it’s Star Wars’, but since I believe in putting effort into these things I’ll try to be somewhat more articulate. I really adored The Force Awakens, and it filled me with a sense of wonder and joy I hadn’t experienced in the cinema for a long, long time. I loved the new characters it introduced (particularly Rey, Kylo and Finn) even more than the stalwarts of old, so the promise of seeing their stories continued in the next episode is thrilling in the extreme. I also happen to be a huge admirer of Rian Johnson’s work (I particularly love The Brothers Bloom), so I’m incredibly excited to see Rian’s “weird thing” (imo, the weirder the better!)

2. Silence

Director: Martin Scorsese

Cast: Andrew Garfield, Liam Neeson, Adam Driver, Issey Ogata, Tadanobu Asano

Plot: The young Portuguese Jesuit Sebastião Rodrigues is sent to Japan to succor the local Church and investigate reports that his mentor, a Jesuit priest in Japan named Ferreira, based on Cristóvão Ferreira, has committed apostasy.

Why be excited? I’ve long admired Scorsese and shamelessly stan his editor Thelma Schoonmaker, so am thrilled to see them collaborating on a film that tackles such an obscure and fascinating period of history. The cast is top flight, and the magnificent trailer does a fantastic job of evoking the tension of the scenario. Silence is also Scorsese’s passion project (he’s been trying to get it made since the 1980s), and suffice to say I happen to find passion positively infectious. 

3. La La Land

Director: Damien Chazelle

Cast: Emma Stone, Ryan Gosling, J.K. Simmons

Plot: The story of Mia, an aspiring actress, and Sebastian, a dedicated jazz musician, struggling to make ends meet while pursuing their dreams in a city known for destroying hopes and breaking hearts.

Why be excited? Whiplash hit me like a ton of bricks when I caught it on blu-ray last year, and it easily has one of the best endings of any film I’ve ever scene. The quality of Chazelle’s previous offering alone would have been enough to get me hyped for this, but it’s also a musical that honours the golden age of Hollywood. That, combined with the stellar reviews, makes this unmissable for me.

4. Mother

Director: Darren Aronofsky

Cast: Jennifer Lawrence, Javier Bardem, Michelle Pfeiffer, Domhnall Gleeson, Ed Harris, Brian Gleeson

Plot: Mother concerns a couple whose relationship is tested when uninvited guests arrive at their home, disrupting their tranquil existence

Why be excited? This will be Aronofsky’s first film since the batshit crazy biblical film that is Noah, and I’m fascinated to find out what the hell Mother even is (seriously - we know much more about Episode VIII than we know about this). All I know is that I will follow Aronofsky’s career for as long as he continues to make movies.

5. The Shape of Water

Director: Guillermo del Toro

Cast: Sally Hawkins, Michael Shannon, Doug Jones

Plot:  A Cold War-era fairytale about a mute woman who falls for an amphibious man.

Why be excited? Much like Mother, we know very little about The Shape of Water. I’m very excited for this film for the same reason that I’m excited for Mother - I love del Toro’s work, from The Devil’s Backbone right through to Crimson Peak. Del Toro is fantastic at melding fantasy with real-world struggles (see: The Devil’s Backbone and Pan’s Labyrinth), so I’m extremely intrigued to see him returning to a theme that he’s handled with aplomb before. The delightfully surreal synopsis only compounds my excitement.

The list is continued below the cut!

6. Dunkirk

Director: Christopher Nolan

Cast: Fionn Whitehead, Kenneth Branagh, James D'Arcy, Tom Glynn-Carney, Tom Hardy, Barry Keoghan, Jack Lowden, Cillian Murphy, Mark Rylance

Plot: Allied soldiers from Belgium, the British Empire and France are surrounded by the German army and evacuated during a fierce battle in World War II.

Why be excited? I’m not exactly a huge Nolan-ite (though I respect him and enjoy his work, he’s not exactly one of my favourites), but the preview for Dunkirk that played before my IMAX screening of Rogue One blew me away. The scope and intensity of the preview literally made the auditorium shake, and the cast Nolan has lined up is simply fantastic. While war movies aren’t normally my thing, the spectacle promised by Dunkirk is enough to make me very excited to witness it on the big screen. 

7. Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets

Director: Luc Besson

Cast: Dane DeHaan, Cara Delevingne, Rihanna, Clive Owen, John Goodman, Ethan Hawke, Rutger Hauer

Plot:  In the 28th century, special operatives Valerian and Laureline  maintain order throughout the universe for the government of the human territories. Under orders from their commander, the duo embark on a mission to Alpha, an intergalactic city where diverse species share their technology and resources for the betterment of all. The ever-expanding metropolis is also home to sinister forces that jeopardize the future of mankind.

Why be excited? I expect and need Valerian to fill a Jupiter Ascending-shaped hole in my soul, and it looks set to deliver. The extravagant and bizarre alien worlds depicted in the trailer, along with the cheerfully gonzo pedigree of Luc Besson (the mind behind The Fifth Element and Lucy), make me optimistic that 2017 is going to mark a return to the weird and unrestrained big-budget filmmaking that helped make 2015 such a great year for cinema.

8. Jackie

Director: Pablo Larraín

Cast: Natalie Portman, Peter Sarsgaard, Greta Gerwig, Billy Crudup, John Hurt

Plot: Following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy fights through grief and trauma to regain her faith, console her children, and define her husband's historic legacy.

Why be excited? The trailers for this film have all been exquisite, and Natalie Portman’s performance has really struck me as powerful and compelling just in the brief glimpses I’ve seen of it so far - I’ve loved her as an actress since V for Vendetta (having previously loved her as a clothes horse in the prequels) and have been following her career closely ever since. The fairy tale of the Kennedys in the White House has always fascinated me, and I’m particularly drawn to this film because it promises a tightly focused examination of how that fairy tale fell apart.

9. Blade Runner 2049

Director: Denis Villeneuve

Cast: Ryan Gosling, Harrison Ford, Jared Leto, Robin Wright, Mackenzie Davis

Plot: Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K, unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what's left of society into chaos. K's discovery leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard, a former LAPD blade runner who has been missing for 30 years.

Why be excited? I love the original Blade Runner, and that love would normally make me avoid a film titled Blade Runner 2049 like the plague. However, everything seems to be aligned for this to be a great film: it was co-written by Hampton Fancher, who wrote the original screenplay; the cinematography is by the legend Roger Deakins (who filled the same position on the original); and the director’s chair is filled by the marvellous Denis Villeneuve, whose film Arrival was one of my favourites of 2016. With that team assembled, I have faith that this will be something special.

10. War for the Planet of the Apes

Director: Matt Reeves

Cast: Andy Serkis, Woody Harrelson

Plot:  Following the events of Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Caesar and the apes are embroiled in a war against an army of humans. As the apes suffer heavy losses, Caesar wrestles with his darker instincts as he resolves to avenge his kind. The war pits Caesar against the humans' leader, a ruthless Colonel, in an encounter that will determine the fate of their species and Earth's future.

Why be excited? This new Apes trilogy is shaping up to be one of the best cinematic trilogies we’ve had yet, taking a fascinating concept first visualised in the 1960s and bringing it bang up to date. These films also maximise the potential of mo-cap technology to its fullest extent, and one of the main reasons I’ve loved and admired the previous Ape films so much has been how they manage to get you rooting for the apes far more than the humans. I’m excited to see this story continued, especially with the promise of seeing the apes well and truly inherit the Earth.

#films #cinema #star wars: episode viii #silence #la la land #dunkirk #blade runner 2049 #jackie #valerian and the city of a thousand planets