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facetsofthejewel · 8 months
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A Loving Tribute, A Terrible Loss: Sinead O'Connor premiered at the right time for me; in high school. Her look, strength, voice and demeanor reflected how I wanted to be and I saw an unwavering ally. I understood her struggles as time went on, as her music continued to give me strength. That won't change. Please rest in peace, powerful lady.
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sainzcaleruega · 2 years
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No offense but if the wilds doesn't get a season 3 I will r i o t
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rookie-critic · 1 year
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Rookie-Critic's Film Review Weekend Wrap-Up - Week of 3/26-4/2/2023
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This was a bit of a short week. I'm really winding down from my big run of pre-Oscars binge-watching, and have been enjoying the last couple weeks of casual theater outings and video games. This was an interesting and eclectic trio of indie films, though.
Rodeo (2022, dir. Lola Quivoron)
This was a character study that showed a lot of promise. A deeply flawed protagonist that you still wanted to succeed. A very interesting niche subculture as the main subject matter of the film in the form of a group of underground motorbike and ATV riders, and a gripping handheld-camera shooting style all showed so much promise for this French drama from last year. However, I was massively disappointed in the film's ending, which seemed to throw away all of it's potential for something wildly and unnecessarily abstract. It felt like we were coming up on a climax that was going to be a great payoff for all of the film's plot threads, only for the film to fizzle out within a matter of five minutes instead. Roll credits, go home, nothing to see here. It's not as egregious as something like Smile, which not only threw away it's character development, but actively shattered a very pro-healing-from-trauma message in the process. This is relatively harmless in comparison, and the rest of the film was quite good up to that point, so I'll just say that I didn't hate it.
Score: 6/10
Currently available for pre-order on Blu-ray & DVD through Music Box Films.
The Lost King (2022, dir. Stephen Frears)
This was a harmlessly good time. Sally Hawkins, as always, is an absolute delight and commands the screen with her every movement. She is convincing and demands that you empathize with her character Philippa Langley. I am aware that this film has a fair bit of controversy wrapped around it in how it handles fact vs. fiction in this true story. The film paints a very villainous picture of the University of Leicester, and there are claims that this portrayal is wildly hyperbolic and inaccurate. Granted, everyone I've seen complaining about the portrayal is either a graduate or an employee of the University of Leicester, but on the flip side Philippa Langley is an executive producer on this film. I'm choosing to believe the way the film portrays things as accurate. It is a little on the nose, and I'm sure they weren't as cartoonishly evil as the film conveys, but I can see academia treating a woman suffering from ME as horrendously as they do in this film, and I can't see a director as seasoned as Stephen Frears (whose directed movies like Philomena and High Fidelity) making a film that's blatantly propaganda. I enjoyed The Lost King, it maybe wasn't the best, but people interested in the history of it will surely find a lot to like here.
Score: 7/10
Currently Only in theaters.
A Good Person (2023, dir. Zach Braff)
This a very mediocre film that is saved by two spectacular performances. I've never seen either of Zach Braff's other films (I consider Garden State to be a pretty big blind spot in my viewing history), but man, just based off of this, I'm not super impressed in his ability as a writer/director. The dialogue in the film is packed with filler and faux-drama, and the whole thing just seemed so unforgivably on the nose that I just couldn't get behind the characters for most of the film. The movie is obsessively concerned with you sympathizing with both of its central characters that at two separate spots in the film they each say the actual line "I'm a good person." It's would be eye-roll inducing if Morgan Freeman and Florence Pugh weren't acting their asses off, and they do act their asses off. It might honestly be the best performance I've seen out of Pugh, and I'm so bummed that she delivers it in a film that is so undeserving of it. I'm being incredibly harsh on this, so I will point out that I didn't hate it, and if the script wasn't sabotaging the film so often, it would be great, even. Braff touches on a lot of important, timely topics here, and occasionally gets you to care about what he's saying. I'll even admit to falling for some of the emotional manipulation and tearing up a couple times. Would I watch it again? Absolutely not, but I'm positive there's an audience for this out there. Maybe you're one of them.
Score: 6/10
Currently only in theaters.
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A Good Person
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Summary: After a car accident, Alison (Florence Pugh) tries to rebuild her life and overcome her resulting drug addiction with the help of her mother (Molly Shannon) and other surprising figures in her life.
JESUS FUCKING SHITTING ASS-BLEEDING BALL-CRUSHING CHRIST no!
Rating: 0.25/5
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charlesalexanders · 2 years
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Charles & the boys, behind the scenes of The Wilds season 2.
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letterboxd-loggd · 10 months
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A Good Person (2023) Zach Braff
June 3rd 2023
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mattachineparty · 3 months
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Those were the days: In 1975, Norman Lear created the character of Beverly LaSalle (played by San Francisco performer Lori Shannon, née Don Seymour McLean). Appearing in a trilogy of "All In The Family" episodes, Beverly proved to be a formidable foil to lovable bigot Archie Bunker (Carroll O'Connor) and a dear friend to his just-plain-lovable wife Edith (Jean Stapleton). In her final appearance in 1977, Beverly's senseless murder inspires a crisis of faith in Edith.
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garudabluffs · 8 months
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Sharon Shannon feat. Sinéad O'Connor - Anachie Gordon
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A PILLER OF THE COMMUNITY
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A Good Person--In the opening scenes, Allison is smart, funny, talented, beautiful and on the verge of marrying an adoring guy. A year later, in the aftermath of a horrible car accident, she's bereaved, single and deeply in denial about her addiction to painkillers. She scoots around her New Jersey town on a bicycle, understandably unable to drive or ride in a car, trying to score pills and using her caustic wit to evade the truth about her situation.
The story focuses on the improbable bond that develops between Allison, played by Florence Pugh, and Morgan Freeman as Daniel, the widower who was going to be her father-in-law. A retired cop, Daniel is a distant man with a troubling family history of his own; he's now raising his sweet and smart but angry and rebellious teenage granddaughter Ryan.
Considering how great Morgan Freeman is, it's odd how rarely we see him in a role worthy of him. Daniel isn't such a role either, really, but compared to what he gets to do, probably much more lucratively, in stuff like Dolphin Tale and Angel Has Fallen and The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard this seems like Eugene O'Neill.
He appears to barely need to bestir himself to bring the role his unerring authority. He's given some passages of voiceover at the beginning and the end, delivering them in those beautiful, measured tones that call to mind his narration in The Shawshank Redemption. This is perhaps a duty he should avoid in the future; it threatens to tame him into a sage old duffer when much of his power, going all the way back to his early days, lay in his coiled potential for righteous wrath.
Still, in A Good Person, when we see Freeman's face register bad news in the presence of someone from whom he wants to hide it, it's hard to imagine a current actor who could manage the same level of emotion without telegraphing. Similarly, Daniel's anger and guilt and sadness are tempered by age and hard-won perspective, but they haven't left him by a long shot, and Freeman makes them palpable, which in turn makes Daniel's compassion all the more touching.
Florence Pugh is a marvel. She stole 2019's Little Women and 2021's Black Widow; here she's the leading lady and nobody steals the movie from her. Her sly wit keeps Allison from being a drag to watch even when actually spending time with her certainly would be. Her scenes opposite Molly Shannon as her browbeating, wine-sipping, desperately loving mother have a ring of long history to them, and above all she and Freeman together generate an atmosphere of hushed, mutually grateful shared grief.
Braff, a blessedly and fearlessly silly comic actor, is less assured when it comes to creating serious drama; there are cluttered scenes here where he overplays his hand. But his dialogue is robust and speakable, and he's helped by a unifying theme: the ubiquity of addiction in modern life. From the first minutes of the film on, we're reminded of the central role in our lives of everything from pot to pills to booze to tobacco, but Braff makes a point of emphasizing one more: smartphones. They're treated as one more pill, one more pipe, one more flask from which we take multiple hits every day.
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billybibbits · 2 months
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A sampling from my stamp collection, 2024
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crymeariveronceagain · 11 months
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River's English Major Summer TBR list(to encourage you to read new things):
because holy heck, i'm done with school already??? Anyways these are in no particular order tbh.
Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy. I've started it before but lost track halfway through. I've got my own copy now so it should be easier.
Persuasion, by Jane Austen. I'm already halfway through this, and ANNE MY BELOVED---
The Only Problem, by Muriel Spark. I ordered it while i was at college and never got around to it, and I LOVE the satire of this woman.
Wise Blood, by Flannery O'Connor. You all know how much I adore her. I haven't read this novel yet!!! I'm so excited!!!
Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley. I've never actually read it. I only sort of know how it goes, so this should be really good. I love gothic literature.
Cursed, by Marissa Meyer. I got it for Christmas and still have not read it. Curses on a reading-intense degree.
Providence Blue, by David Pinault. I also got this for Christmas, and have been looking forward to it.
Plague Journal, by Michael O'Brien. Dystopia or something. It should be really good.
The rest of Paradise Lost by John Milton. I'm not one for poetry, so this might be a last ditch effort when I'm at the end of my rope. I studied the parts about Satan and his fall, but I don't really know what happens in the rest of the book, so I'm very curious.
And last, but not least, Before Austen Comes Aesop: The Children's Great Books and How to Experience Them, by Cheri Blomquist. Another Christmas Present that may not be something most people would enjoy, but I think I really will enjoy it. I'm a nerdy nerdy Lit major at heart, and like. These kind of commentaries are really enjoyable to me.
Anyways, I hope you all have fun watching me get repeatedly broken apart by various classics and newer novels, as I tend to walk a strange line between fangirling and critical analysis, I suppose as any good literature lover does. I know last summer I started re-reading the KOTLC Series, and I'm not going to lie when I say I honestly think I'm tired of Shannon Messenger's style for now. I read a ton of her work last summer, and now I kind of want to go everywhere with my reading. I hope y'all don't mind that I'm gonna randomly post quotes from all over the place. :P
Then again, you're still here. Perhaps this is the kind of thing you've signed up for.
Happy Summer to every College kid who's almost free, and everyone else who still thinks it's only spring!!!!
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ltwilliammowett · 2 years
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Signal book of USS CHESAPEAKE and was taken from her after her capture by HM ship SHANNON, 1st June 1813
iT is a Printed signal book "A set of signals presented to the Navy of the United States by John Barry, esq. Senior Officer. Norfolk, Virginia. Printed by Willett & O'Connor, 1800 " , with hand drawn and coloured flags and manuscript additions.
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charlesalexanders · 2 years
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dear-indies · 3 months
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hey there, i hope you're taking care & doing well despite everything that is happening right now. i'm looking for some alternative face claims for jessica sula, someone who is younger and able to pass as a character in their early 20s, if you are able to give any suggestions? thank you so much
Trinidadian or Afro Asian to match ethnicity-wise:
Samantha Logan (1996) Afro-Trinidadian / Irish.
Shannon Destiny Ryan (1996) Afro-Trinidadian, African-American, Unspecified Native American / Irish, German.
Zhong Fei Fei (1996) Chinese / Congolese.
MK xyz (1998) African-American / Filipino - is queer.
Zoë Love Smith (2000) Indonesian / Afro-Curaçaoan.
Bae Yujin (2002) Korean / Nigerian.
Vibe wise:
Ruby Barker (1996) Afro Montserratian and Irish.
Zuri Reed (1996) African-American.
Antonia Gentry (1997) Afro Jamaican / White.
Quintessa Swindell (1997) African-American / White - is non-binary (they/he) - is pro Palestine!
Bethany Antonia (1997) Afro Jamaican and English.
Lovie Simone (1998) African-American / Ghanaian.
Erin Kellyman (1998) Afro Jamaican / Irish - is a lesbian.
Celeste O'Connor (1998) Kenyan - is non-binary (they/them).
Alycia Pascual-Pena (1999) Afro Dominican.
Sofia Bryant (1999) African-American and Finnish.
Halle Bailey (2000) African-American.
Chandler Kinney (2000) African-American.
Rainbow Wedell (2001) African-American.
A lot of her resources are when when she was younger but I hope these suggestions are useful!
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