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DREUX & ALYSSA One of Them Days

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i liked this movie a lot

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Mean Girls (2004) // Conclave (2024)

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I don't post much personal stuff here, but I'm proud of the work I've done for howmanycigarettes, so I want to recommend that people check it out.

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It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (2005-)

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A Real Pain (Jesse Eisenberg, 2024).

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i love kieran culkin

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An update:

I watched the remainder of National Theatre at Home's 'Frankenstein' starring Benedict Cumberbatch as The Creature. It was excellent and I highly recommend it!

Perhaps sadly my attempts to objectify Cumberbatch in what is arguable a natural manner almost completely failed. Which seems appropriate, given that his character is someone that was arguably in fact a series of objects that have been unnaturally personified (repersonified?) It's a testament to said actor's skill that I for one managed to mostly forget that he is in fact very attractive.

He did an extraordinary job of lolloping around the stage and speaking awkwardly, ultimately behaving as the monster that people expected him to of course. So much so that it struck me that just as it takes someone very intelligent to play "stupid", it's probably Cumberbatch's grace and incredible control of his movements and voice that allow him to consistently feign disjointedness (no pun intended) so very well. We do in fact see this underlying elegance in his Creature's exaggerated theatrical bows and rapid, fluid ascents and descents of the set.

And dear lord how he moves so constantly! I don't think I've used so much energy since ska nights in my youth, and probably not even then. As someone who can nolonger climb the stairs or shower without causing harm to my very cells, I did rather think "look at the mitochondrial function on THAT!"

Of course it had occured to me previously that Frankenstein himself is a slightly mad genius of science appearing arrogant and impervious to risk, not unlike many other characters played by Cumberbatch (though here by Jonny Lee Miller). What I had not predicted was what an excellent coat he would have and quite how often he would appear in it. It is really not at all dissimilar to the fantastic 'Sherlock' coat.

I gladly await watching the other version starring Cumberbatch as Frankenstein and Miller as The Creature. And periodically saying to my husband/narrative foil "that is so Sherlock" like I do when we're watching House MD.

Also, it did occur to me how obvious it is in Shelley's story that the pride, lack of care (giving and receiving) and reckless competitive exploits of men lead so easily and directly to women and children becoming collateral damage. I don't remember thinking this when I studied it during my degree, but then I don't remember much from my degree. I DO remember thinking that Frankenstein is the story of a man who makes one epicly terrible decision after another- which of course largely continues in the horror genre!

And in reflecting how absolutely idiotic it is to create a creature significantly larger and stronger than oneself, one might of course draw comparisons with AI in later sci-fi and... well... reality. My my.

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by Talos this can’t be happening

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I think every film critic review needs a footnote called the “fun-o-meter” where they ignore everything they said in the previous paragraphs and have to answer objectively. put it on a scale. good good to bad good to bad good to bad bad. for example. did venom get a 30% on rotten tomatoes? yes. but watching sweaty tom hardy sit in a fish tank and eat a live lobster was VERY fun. some movies aren’t meant to win awards. they’re just meant to be a hoot n a holler

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With severance season 2 around the corner it’s time for me to share the time I accidentally watched 4 minutes of an episode on mute and thought it was a brilliant way to show the sensory deprivation experienced by the innies

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"it's not my job to tell you that horse thieves are bad people"!!!

(Claire Mesud, interviewed by Publisher's Weekly (2013) [ID'd])

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What is going on in new york??