#Allen & Colin interview

[jesuisgourde]

A list of all the books mentioned in Peter Doherty's journals (and in some interviews/lyrics, too)

Because I just made this list in answer to someone's question on a facebook group, I thought I may as well post it here.

-The Picture of Dorian Gray/The Ballad Of Reading Gaol/Salome/The Happy Prince/The Duchess of Padua, all by Oscar Wilde -The Thief's Journal/Our Lady Of The Flowers/Miracle Of The Rose, all by Jean Genet -A Diamond Guitar by Truman Capote -Mixed Essays by Matthew Arnold -Venus In Furs by Leopold Sacher-Masoch -The Ministry Of Fear by Graham Greene -Brighton Rock by Graham Green -A Season in Hell by Arthur Rimbaud -The Street Of Crocodiles (aka Cinnamon Shops) by Bruno Schulz -Opium: The Diary Of His Cure by Jean Cocteau -The Lost Weekend by Charles Jackson -Howl by Allen Ginsberg -Women In Love by DH Lawrence -The Tempest by William Shakespeare -Trilby by George du Maurier -The Vision Of Jean Genet by Richard Coe -"Literature And The Crisis" by Isaiah Berlin -Le Cid by Pierre Corneille -The Paris Peasant by Louis Aragon -Junky by William S Burroughs -Absolute Beginners by Colin MacInnes -Futz by Rochelle Owens -They Shoot Horses Don't They? by Horace McCoy -"An Inquiry On Love" by La revolution surrealiste magazine -Idea by Michael Drayton -"The Nymph's Reply to The Shepherd" by Sir Walter Raleigh -Hamlet by William Shakespeare -The Silver Shilling/The Old Church Bell/The Snail And The Rose Tree all by Hans Christian Andersen -120 Days Of Sodom by Marquis de Sade -Letters To A Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke -Poetics Of Space by Gaston Bachelard -In Favor Of The Sensitive Man and Other Essays by Anais Nin -La Batarde by Violette LeDuc -Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov -Intimate Journals by Charles Baudelaire -Juno And The Paycock by Sean O'Casey -England Is Mine by Michael Bracewell -"The Prelude" by William Wordsworth -Noise: The Political Economy of Music by Jacques Atalli -"Elm" by Sylvia Plath -"I am pleased with my sight..." by Rumi -She Stoops To Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith -Amphitryon by John Dryden -Oscar Wilde by Richard Ellman -The Song Of The South by James Rennell Rodd -In Her Praise by Robert Graves -"For That He Looked Not Upon Her" by George Gascoigne -"Order And Disorder" by Lucy Hutchinson -Man Crazy by Joyce Carol Oates -A Pictorial History Of Sex In The Movies by Jeremy Pascall and Clyde Jeavons -Anarchy State & Utopia by Robert Nozick -"Limbo" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge -Men In Love: Masculinity and Sexuality in the Eighteenth Century by George Haggerty

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-Crime And Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky -Innocent When You Dream: the Tom Waits Reader -"Identity Card" by Mahmoud Darwish -Ulysses by James Joyce -The Four Quartets poems by TS Eliot -Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare -A'Rebours/Against The Grain by Joris-Karl Huysmans -Prisoner Of Love by Jean Genet -Down And Out In Paris And London by George Orwell -The Man With The Golden Arm by Nelson Algren -Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates -"Epitaph To A Dog" by Lord Byron -Cocaine Nights by JG Ballard -"Not By Bread Alone" by James Terry White -Anecdotes Of The Late Samuel Johnson by Hester Thrale -"The Owl And The Pussycat" by Edward Lear -"Chevaux de bois" by Paul Verlaine -A Strong Song Tows Us: The Life of Basil Bunting by Richard Burton -Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes -The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri -The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling -The Man Who Would Be King by Rudyard Kipling -Ask The Dust by John Frante -On The Trans-Siberian Railways by Blaise Cendrars -The 39 Steps by John Buchan -The Overcoat by Nikolai Gogol -The Government Inspector by Nikolai Gogol -The Iliad by Homer -Heart Of Darkness by Joseph Conrad -The Volunteer by Shane O'Doherty -Twenty Love Poems and A Song Of Despair by Pablo Neruda -"May Banners" by Arthur Rimbaud -Literary Outlaw: The life and times of William S Burroughs by Ted Morgan -The Penguin Dorothy Parker -Smoke by William Faulkner -Hero And Leander by Christopher Marlowe -My Lady Nicotine by JM Barrie -All I Ever Wrote by Ronnie Barker -The Libertine by Stephen Jeffreys -On Murder Considered As One Of The Fine Arts by Thomas de Quincey -The Void Ratio by Shane Levene and Karolina Urbaniak -The Remains Of The Day by Kazuo Ishiguro -Dead Fingers Talk by William S Burroughs -The England's Dreaming Tapes by Jon Savage -London Underworld by Henry Mayhew

[denimbex1986]

'What happened to the days of asking movie stars about... oh we don’t know... the movie they actually starred in on the red carpet? Hollywood may be glamorous and more than a little sexy, but it’s also a workplace. No one should have to answer a question about their colleague’s naked body in their place of employment unless they’re a dermatologist scanning another dermatologist for moles or something. Which would still be kind of weird.

The latest offender to participate in this incredibly frustrating trend is the BBC, who subjected All Of Us Strangers star Andrew Scott to an icky and repeated line of questioning about Barry Keoghan’s penis while covering the BAFTA awards earlier this week. In a video that has since gone viral, BBC correspondent Colin Paterson asked Scott, who is gay, how well he knew fellow Irish actor Barry Keoghan before pressing him to comment on the latter’s naked dance scene at the end of Saltburn, a movie Scott had nothing to do with. Scott, visibly uncomfortable, eventually walks away from the interviewer while he continues to pepper him with questions. Warning: it’s a pretty rough watch.

After widespread backlash on Twitter/X in which fans accused Paterson’s questions of being homophobic, “cringe-worthy,” and generally creepy, BBC issued a statement this morning apologizing for the whole incident. Well, sort of. “Saltburn is a film which has had cultural impact, with Barry Keoghan’s scene at the end gaining a lot of attention in particular—something the actor has addressed himself,” they wrote. “Our question to Andrew Scott was meant to be a light-hearted reflection of the discussion around the scene and was not intended to cause offence.” The statement also acknowledges that Saltburn director, Emerald Fennell, and Sophie Ellis-Bextor, whose song “Murder On The Dance Floor” is used in the scene, were questioned about it as well. While this may also have been uncomfortable, at least the two women were actually involved in the film. Scott, again, just happens to be an actor with a movie out around the same time who shares a homeland with Keoghan.

The statement concludes: “We do, however, accept that the specific question asked to Andrew Scott was misjudged. After speaking with Andrew on the carpet, our reporter acknowledged on air that his questioning may have gone too far and that he was sorry if this was the case.”

Unfortunately, Scott isn’t the only actor who’s been subjected to this sort of overtly sexual and extremely uncomfortable line of questioning in recent months. In January, Ayo Edebiri was asked to comment on her The Bear co-star Jeremy Allen White’s sexy Calvin Klein ad by two separate interviewers on the Golden Globes red carpet—a subject she clearly had no interest in engaging with. Just this week, TikTok influencer Harry Daniels also received a lot of negative attention for videos from the People’s Choice Awards in which he asked stars like Billie Eilish and America Ferrera if they’d rather have a “gay son or thot daughter,” to their visible discomfort.

Not only is this trend gross and invasive, but it’s also just plain boring. Actors put an unbelievable amount of work into making the movies that get nominated for these awards, and that’s what they should get to talk about during the celebration of that effort. It’s not even hard to get them to talk about movies they weren’t involved in (at least in Edebiri’s case) as long as the conversation hinges on the actual movie itself. Everything else should stay off the carpet.'

[killian-whump]

Some Work-from-Home Ideas for Cute Peanuts:

Make Your Own Patreon A lot of us bristled at paying Josh for Game Night. That was because the price was for access to ALL of Josh’s content - a bargain if you’re interested in all of it, but a major rip-off if you’re only interested in one or two things. We also bristle at paying Allen for interviews/podcasts, because it’s a nepotistic cash grab. He’s not a journalist. He’s not a fellow celebrity. His only “claim to fame” is being someone’s brother, and I’m not willing to financially support him for that feat. I think there would be very little bristling (and likely a lot of interest) in paying Colin for Colin content. He could share just about anything on there - drawings, podcasts, video tours of his silly sock collection (please?), storytime videos of him reading children’s books... Hell, literally anything. I’d gladly pay a subscription fee for any/all of it - and I say that as someone who doesn’t even have expendable income to spend on such things. To support Colin during a rough spot in his life and get new Colin content? I’ll get someone to buy me a year’s subscription for Christmas or something. I’ll find a way.

Join Cameo Likewise, Cameo allows actors to do commissioned videos for fans. The fan pays a set fee (determined by the actor themselves) and requests a video - say, “Could you say Happy Birthday to my friend Olivia?” The celebrity then records said video in the comfort of their own home, when/where/how they see fit, and uploads it to the site. Not only do they make the paying fan happy - but if the fan decides to be magnanimous, they can choose to let the video be public on the Cameo site - providing some content for all the star’s fans to enjoy at no cost at all :)

Be Someone Else He always says he’s more comfortable in front of an audience being someone else rather than being himself. Well.. Why not do that? Do either of the above... as Captain Hook! He’s got the outfit and he looks just like the guy! Captain Hook’s storytime? Birthday messages from Killian Jones? I mean, people would definitely pay for that stuff. Heck, some of us would even pay for content from other characters, too XD

Make a Go Fund Me Look, I don’t know exactly what’s going on or anything, but if it’s something serious that is causing financial strain (medical bills, legal issues, whatever), or something that prevents him from doing any of the above due to time/health constraints, then Go Fund Me is an excellent way to let one’s past work and the fandom that work acquired assist with present hardships. It also allows a way for his colleagues and friends to financially support him, as well. The major downside, of course, is that it requires putting one’s problems out there for public consumption - something we know Colin won’t want to do. Still, it IS an option available to him, should anything come to that.

At any rate... Colin’s got a loving and supportive fandom that desperately wants to share their love and appreciation with him and support him through whatever it is that’s going on in his neck of the woods. We just need a way to do so that lets us feel secure in the fact that we’re supporting HIM and not someone looking to profit off of him. All he has to do is give us some way to do that ❤️

[maximumwobblerbanditdonut]

Who has been nominated for a NTA Award?

The NTA longlist was unveiled on Tuesday 21st May.

New Drama

A Gentleman in Moscow

After The Flood

Baby Reindeer

Breathtaking

Coma

Criminal Record

Fallout

Fifteen-Love

Fool Me Once

Hijack

Interview with the Vampire

Mary & George

Masters of the Air

Mr Bates vs The Post Office

Murder Is Easy

One Day

Passenger

Red Eye

Renegade Nell

Shardlake

Shōgun

The Couple Next Door

The Long Shadow

The Marlow Murder Club

The Reckoning

The Sixth Commandment

The Tattooist of Auschwitz

The Woman in the Wall

Wilderness

Wolf

Drama Performance

Adeel Akhtar, DS Sami Kierce, Fool Me Once

Aidan Turner, Glenn Lapthorn, Fifteen-Love

Ambika Mod, Emma Morley, One Day

Anna Próchniak, Gita, The Tattooist of Auschwitz

Anne Reid, Ann Moore-Martin, The Sixth Commandment

Arthur Hughes, Matthew Shardlake, Shardlake

Ashley Jensen, DI Ruth Calder, Shetland

Ashley Walters, Dushane Hill, Top Boy

Austin Butler, Major Gale 'Buck' Cleven, Masters of the Air

Brenda Blethyn, DCI Vera Stanhope, Vera

Callum Turner, Major John 'Bucky' Egan, Masters of the Air

Cliff Parisi, Fred Buckle, Call the Midwife

Cosmo Jarvis, John Blackthorne, Shōgun

Cush Jumbo, DS June Lenker, Criminal Record

Danielle Macdonald, Helen Chambers, The Tourist

Daryl McCormack, Detective Colman Akande, The Woman In The Wall

David Tennant, The Fourteenth Doctor, Doctor Who

David Jonsson, Luke Fitzwilliam, Murder Is Easy

Dominic West, Charles, Prince of Wales, The Crown

Eleanor Tomlinson, Evie, The Couple Next Door

Ella Lily Hyland, Justine Pearce, Fifteen-Love

Ella Purnell, Lucy MacLean, Fallout

Emilia Fox, Nikki Alexander, Silent Witness

Ewan McGregor, Count Alexander Rostov, A Gentleman in Moscow

Gary Oldman, Jackson Lamb, Slow Horses

Gemma Whelan, Detective Sergeant Sarah Collins, The Tower

Georgie Glen, Miss Millicent Higgins, Call the Midwife

Idris Elba, Sam Nelson, Hijack

Imelda Staunton, Queen Elizabeth II, The Crown

Jacob Anderson, Louis de Pointe du Lac, Interview with the Vampire

Jamie Dornan, Elliot Stanley, The Tourist

Jared Harris, Hari Seldon, Foundation

Jason Watkins, Simon, Coma

Jenna Coleman, Liv Taylor, Wilderness

Jennifer Aniston, Alex Levy, The Morning Show

Jeremy Allen White, Carmen 'Carmy' Berzatto, The Bear

Jessica Gunning, Martha, Baby Reindeer

Jing Lusi, DC Hana Li, Red Eye

Joanne Froggatt, Dr Abbey Henderson, Breathtaking

Jonah Hauer-King, Lali, The Tattooist of Auschwitz

Julianne Moore, Mary Villiers, Mary & George

Kane Robinson, Gerald 'Sully' Sullivan, Top Boy

Katherine Kelly, Emily Jackson, The Long Shadow

Angela Van den Bogerd, Mr Bates vs The Post Office

Kris Marshall, Humphrey Goodman, Beyond Paradise

Leo Woodall, Dexter Mayhew, One Day

Lesley Sharp, DI Hannah Laing, Before We Die

Louisa Harland, Nell Jackson, Renegade Nell

Luke Newton, Colin Bridgerton, Bridgerton

Martin Short, Oliver Putnam, Only Murders in the Building

Michelle Keegan, Maya Stern, Fool Me Once

Monica Dolan, Jo Hamilton, Mr Bates vs The Post Office

Ncuti Gatwa, The Fifteenth Doctor, Doctor Who

Nicholas Galitzine, George Villiers, Mary & George

Nicholas Ralph, James Herriot, All Creatures Great and Small

Nicola Coughlan, Penelope Featherington, Bridgerton

Nicola Walker, DI Annika Strandhed, Annika

Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Will, Wilderness

Paapa Essiedu, George, The Lazarus Project

Peter Capaldi, DCI Daniel Hegarty, Criminal Record

Ralf Little, DI Neville Parker, Death in Paradise

Reese Witherspoon, Bradley Jackson, The Morning Show

Richard Armitage, Dr Matthew Nolan, Red Eye

Joe Burkett, Fool Me Once

Richard Gadd, Donny Dunn, Baby Reindeer

Robert Carlyle, Robert Sutherland, COBRA: Rebellion

Ruth Wilson, Lorna Brady, The Woman In The Wall

Sam Heughan, Danny, The Couple Next Door

Sam Reid, Lestat de Lioncourt, Interview with the Vampire

Samantha Bond, Judith Potts, The Marlow Murder Club

Selena Gomez, Mabel Mora, Only Murders in the Building

Siân Brooke, Grace Ellis, Blue Lights

Sonequa Martin-Green, Captain Michael Burnham, Star Trek: Discovery

Sophie Rundle, PC Joanna Marshall, After The Flood

Steve Coogan, Jimmy Savile, The Reckoning

Steve Martin, Charles-Haden Savage, Only Murders in the Building

Suranne Jones, Amy Silva, Vigil

Timothy Spall, Peter Farquhar, The Sixth Commandment

Toby Jones, Alan Bates, Mr Bates vs The Post Office

DCS Dennis Hoban, The Long Shadow

Tom Hiddleston, Loki, Loki

Ukweli Roach, DI Jack Caffery, Wolf

Vicky McClure, Lana Washington, Trigger Point

Wunmi Mosaku, DI Riya Ajunwa, Passenger

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Shows and individuals are nominated in the longlist for the 2024 National Television Awards. This year is so competitive 😉

Posted 22nd May 2024

[piracytheorist]

Allen & Colin interview (pt.1) summary and tidbits

Because I know y’all are curious ;)

I’m not mentioning everything, because a) it’s in a foreign language for me and I miss stuff, b) I’m not sure what impact it has other than them simply mentioning that stuff in the interview and c) I’m just your average fan with her biases and preferences, some things draw my attention, some don’t. But it was an interesting insight into Colin’s inspirations and work ethic, so I’ll try to mention as much as possible. Also because c’mon it’s Colin and we all want a bit.

If you can and can afford it, I’d suggest supporting Allen on patreon. The work he’s offering is very important, especially in the times we’re currently experiencing.

In the intro, which was recorded after the interview, Allen says: “In this interview, Colin talks about his early life, growing up, having such a wonderful big brother to look up to... Maybe he doesn't say that. You'll have to wait and see.”

There's a lot of laughs in the beginning, as they start getting into the motion of brother interviewing brother. The room they were recording used to be Colin's old bedroom, and Allen asked him where his bed used to be, and almost immediately said "I'm pretty sure the listeners are loving this right now." Hahaha we are.

Colin kept a bit to himself when he was a teenager. He drew a lot and played the guitar, he was introverted when he got into the whole theater thing.

Real artistic, so, he wasn't sure if he wanted to be a musician or an artist, but when he started theater he eventually realized it was theater he wanted above all. Dude. If only we all were so widely talented and had so many opportunities to choose from XD

Honorable detailed mention: Allen mentions how amazed he was by Colin's talent. He remembers one time he was looking after Colin (he said it was about six months after Colin had started learning guitar, and iirc that was when he was 11) and he (Allen) had also recently started, and was trying hard to learn some chords. He heard some Led Zeppelin from Colin's room and was like "Oh he's listening to Led Zeppelin," then he went to his room and he realized it was actually Colin, playing Stairway to Heaven. And he still remembers! What a proud bro, we stan.

Colin learned a lot of music by ear. It was more practical than technical stuff that he worked on. He's very humble about his guitar playing, too.

They talked a bit about playing music with emotion and how sometimes people who concentrate a lot on technique don't use any emotion, and as a musician myself I've seen this a lot, where people focus too much on teaching technique that the result comes off completely emotionless. Though, I mean, I'm trained in classical music, and that's heavily based on building technique, so I can’t say you shouldn’t work on technique, but there are many ways of playing music and so many genres, and there is a healthy balance between technique and emotion, and depending on the style you're playing technique can be applied (or is needed) accordingly.

Colin talked about how he had piano lessons when he was young, and he remembers how the place where he had lessons creeped him out (he laughed at that), so that along with the heavy focus on technique discouraged him, but he wishes he was able to play it.

Don’t we all

He remembers Michael Jackson being one of his first inspirations for music. He remembers Thriller was the first vinyl he got, though the very first music that he bought was a cassette from Huey Lewis and the News - after he had his communion. Gotta say I appreciate the attention to detail XD

Colin: I used to listen to Michael Jackson non-stop. Allen: You did.

I can picture Allen nodding as he said that XD

The first concert he went to was of Jackson's Bad (I think), when he was seven! It was Allen's first concert too.

Their dad used to listen to a lot of Rory Gallagher, Led Zeppelin and Pearl Jam and those became Colin's favourite music to play. Especially Rory Gallagher. He and their mom also used to play in bands, and there was a lot of music in the house in general and Colin said all that contributed to his inclination in music.

He said how once he was an adult, Helen was his biggest supporter in what he did. WE STAN. That meant a lot to him, especially when as a starting actor there'd be times he wouldn't have a job for a long time, but the support from Helen and the rest of his family in general meant a lot to him.

Then they talked about people who used to tell him that he was lucky to have the band (The Enemies) as a job, but how that wasn't luck, it was based on work he did for years before he could go out on stage with them. And again, can confirm, there's a lot of work put behind any decent and above musical performance, it can be as hard as any job, especially when you have to pack up and go to a different place, set up, rehearse, perform, pack it all up and come home late. It's just that the crowd sees only the entertainment part it gets, and doesn't know the work behind it, so a lot of time they don't appreciate it as such.

It's just... I feel that, a lot, you know? Yes, music is fun and we love it, but performing it for a crowd ain't no game.

Colin compared that to acting, with how people see the end result as a snapshot of the entire work behind it, same way we don't see a lot of the work behind professions we don't know about - Colin mentioned an electrician, for example.

I think he’d shared this story before or something about it, but he talked about his very first touch with theater; he’d gone to the youth theater to meet with his friends - just to meet them, and they were rehearsing a play but one actor was missing, so they asked him to read in for him that day. At first Colin was like “No way” but eventually they convinced him.

That first experience made him realize he could pretend to be anyone he wanted to be and it gave him a newfound confidence. At the time he wasn't playing the guitar publicly, only in his room, and playing in the theater gave him the confidence he didn't have with the guitar at the time, because in the theater he was putting his character out there, not himself.

I think it's interesting how he talks about acting; he mentioned "putting on a skin". And I think, seeing the variety of characters he has portrayed, and how invested you can feel he is during filming, and then seeing him... "collected" in cons and interviews, and not very active in social media... I think "putting on a skin" fits perfectly the way he does it. And I think it's part of why I love his acting, and why his characters feel so different from each other; it's full-on becoming and feeling like another person, not simply acting like one.

His theater group went to the Olivier Theatre in London (for a competition, if I got that right), and they got a standing ovation for their play, and it was then that Colin thought that he could really invest and make a living out of acting. He was about 15-16 at the time.

Again, standing ovation => confidence goes through the roof, can confirm.

It was there that his group won an award, and it was Colin who received that from Anthony Minghella, the director of The English Patient, and Allen said that Minghella said Colin was amazing. a) bruh can you imagine and b) what a proud brother!

Colin said how he was already interested in animation and special effects, and the whole act of making a movie, so even as an actor he still likes wandering around sets and getting to see how they're all made and built, even sets he's not part of. Again he talked about how much is done behind the scenes that the audience never gets to see.

Even from his experience in the Olivier Theatre, Colin already had the ideology that in drama, it was about the group, the team, and not about himself, and he's followed that to the present. He talked about how acting is just one part of a production, and it takes hard work from many people of different professions working together to get to that.

Like, he's so conscious and so respectful of what is behind the scenes of a production and how important everyone is... and like, I feel that says a lot about the humility we see of him, the way he treats his job as any other job, and the way a lot of his co-workers talk with such respect about him. Like, when you respect everything, from the basis to every little cogwheel that make a film and always take the opportunity to learn anything you can from your co-workers...

I love him so much.

He mentioned how his grandmother was a big influence for him too, back in the fourties she’d gone to London to study producing, so he says subconsciously there was always an influence towards drama in his family.

"You can't complain about having a disillusioned bunch of teenagers or kids causing trouble if you're not willing to invest [in their future], to help them realize [their potential]." He said that as part of how that one evening in the youth theater changed his life, and how having the chance to have a safe space to express himself, that being the theater, played such an important part in his life and the lives of pretty much everyone who had taken part in it. And how things like that, giving children the chance to explore hobbies and things they like, can have such a positive impact on their lives and futures.

So that’s for the first part! I hope it was all clear :D

[colinodonoghuebrasil]

Relatos: entrevista com Allen O’Donoghue no Patreon

Como já noticiamos nessa postagem, o irmão do Colin o entrevistou e dividiu o resultado em duas partes. Ambas estarão disponíveis na plataforma Patreon, mas a primeira já foi disponibilizada.

Como o Patreon é uma plataforma paga e nem todos podemos pagar para ouvir, principalmente nessa época de pandemia/isolamento, (incluindo a equipe COBR), encontramos alguns relatos pelo Tumblr e Twitter e fizemos um resumo geral. Confira:

Reafirmamos que, se você pode pagar pelo serviço, apoiem o trabalho do Allen.

Nessa primeira parte da entrevista, Allen e Colin conversaram sobre a infância, influências artísticas e hobbies.

Colin começou falando sobre ter sido um adolescente muito reservado, como já contou diversas vezes em convenções, e que também não sabia se gostaria de ser músico ou se envolver com outro tipo de arte. Entretanto, quando começou o teatro, logo descobriu sua vocação.

Allen elogiou o talento do irmão para tocar violão e até mencionou que lembrava-se de um episódio que ouviu o som de Stairway to Heaven do Led Zeppelin e achou que Colin estava ouvindo o CD, mas na verdade era ele mesmo tocando. Sobre seu aprendizado musical, Colin disse que prefere as coisas mais práticas que técnicas, então aprende muito só de ouvir.

Os dois discutiram um pouco mais sobre música, a dificuldade que é se concentrar na técnica e transmitir emoção ao mesmo tempo, e a importância desse equilíbrio. Sobre essa observação, Colin contou que desistiu das aulas de piano pelo excesso de aulas técnicas.

Ainda no tema, os irmãos contaram que a família (pai e mãe) tem histórico musical, então Colin cresceu acostumado com isso. Sobre suas inspirações, a grande maioria veio por influência do pai, com Rory Gallagher, Led Zeppelin e Pearl Jam. E ele teve sua época Michael Jackson também.

Voltando a sua trajetória artística, Colin reafirmou a importância do apoio de sua família na jornada, especialmente de sua esposa, Helen. Não é uma profissão fácil, muito pela instabilidade e incerteza, então não teria conseguido sem esse suporte. E o mesmo aconteceu quando ele estava envolvido com a antiga banda, The Enemies.

Tudo começou quando ele tinha 15 anos e foi visitar alguns amigos em um ensaio de uma peça, mas um dos atores estava ausente e pediram para ele apenas ler as partes do roteiro. De início, Colin recusou de todo modo o pedido, mas acabou cedendo no final. E ele não parou depois disso, mesmo que ainda tenha muito interesse em animação e efeitos especiais.

Colin afirma gostar também do que acontece nos bastidores e que nem todos valorizam as pessoas que trabalham por trás das câmeras, para montar cenários, iluminação, vestuário, edição, e outras coisas. Os atores são só apenas parte disso.

Para finalizar, e voltando ao apoio familiar, Colin cita a influência de sua avó que estudou produção em Londres. E ter essas raízes, além da rede de suporte ao seu redor, foi crucial para sua carreia, em suas palavras:

“You can’t complain about having a disillusioned bunch of teenagers or kids causing trouble if you’re not willing to invest [in their future], to help them realize [their potential].”

TRADUÇÃO: “Você não pode reclamar de ter um grupo de adolescentes ou crianças desiludidos e causando problemas se você não está disposto a investir [em seu futuro], para ajudá-los a perceber [seu potencial].”

Em conclusão, Colin mostrou-se muito grato às suas raízes artísticas e bem orgulhoso de sua trajetória, partindo de um pequeno teatro de sua cidade natal, em Drogheda. Ele voltou a agradecer pelo apoio da família e, sem surpresa alguma, comentou novamente a importância da presença e participação desse “outro” - família, amigos ou colegas de trabalho.

Reizinho humilde e talentoso sim!

Créditos (com mais informações): clique aqui.

[nicequietgirlinclass]

An Analysis of Nate’s Rant to Ted

ive decided to break down nates rant from the end of season 2 of ted lasso becuase i have many thoughts

Spoliers to follow (obvi)

Okay. I'll tell you what you did. You made me feel like I was the most important person in the whole world. And then, you abandoned me. 

OKAY so starting with one of Ted best traits: his ability to make connections with people. Ted was constantly encouraging Nate to share his opinions, validating his ideas, making sure he was included. By the end of season 1, Nate doesn’t stutter, talks directly to the players, and starts getting treated as an equal. But in season 2, when he is ACTUALLY treated like an equal, he feels abandoned, because he became used to being validated by Ted.  

Ted, to be fair, has very little one-on-one time with most recurring characters. He gets time with Jamie helping him get back on the team, as well as Roy becoming coach, and some time with Rebecca at Christmas. But MOST of his one-on-one scenes are with Dr. Sharon because he’s going through his own journey. 

But Nate can’t see that. He takes this lack of attention personally.

Like you switched out a light, just like that. And I worked my ass off, trying to get your attention back. To prove myself to you. To make you like me again.

Nate and Ted don’t have a single one-on-one interaction in season 2 until this moment.  There are small things from the scenes they do share that Nate may take as a slight in addition to feeling abandoned: laughing when Nate says he’ll talk to Isaac, not telling him about hiring Roy, bringing Jamie back on to the team. Again, Ted is doing these things because he wants to do what is best for the team, but Nate takes these things personally.

But the more I did, the less you cared. It was like I was fucking invisible. 

Nate’s character arc reminded me of this interview with Orson Welles and this qoute about why he hates Woody Allen.

Now, I’m not trying to say Nate is like Woody Allen, because as much as I hate him right now, he’s not as bad as Woody Allen, who can rot. BUT I do think Nate has the struggle where he hates himself and yet believes he has not been recognized for how Nate the Great he is. 

This is part of the reason the Wonder Kid nickname bothers him. Even when he is recognized, he can’t stop noticing the part he hates -- the part of him the stutters and hesitates. Ted is constantly made fun of in the press and takes it all in stride, but Nate can’t handle it, because he already struggles to walk the line between hating himself and loving himself.

You haven't even got the photo I gave you for Christmas up in your office. Just a picture of dumb Americans. 

THATS BECAUSE ITS IN TED’S HOUSE NEXT TO THE PHOTO OF HIS SON. The writers are trying to kill me

Now you're gonna play Nate's false nine, so when the team fuck up, which they will, hey, you can blame it on me. 

In the previous episode, after Nate tells Ted about this play, he says, “Here we go again. Give Ted yet another idea he'll take all the credit for.” But now, when the play isn’t working, he is upset that Ted is giving him credit, because he can’t stand having negative perceptions of himself -- he only want to be recognized for the good things he does. (This is also why Ted not confronting him about the article wouldn’t work: Nate can not and will not acknowledge his mistakes because his ego is too fragile. He will not take accountability, as Keeley would say.) 

Well, no. Fuck that. Everybody loves you. The Great Ted Lasso. Well, I think you're a fucking joke. 

Nate struggles to feel power without tearing people down. This may be from being torn down by others before and now doing that to others so he won’t have to deal with it again. Abuse is a cycle and all that. We can see that here, but throughout the season with his interactions with Will, his conversation with Colin, and the way he generally interacts with the team when he wants results: aggression. I mean in episode 10 he literally says “I'd like to be reincarnated as a tiger... and then ravage anyone who looked at me wrong.” 

Even in season 1, when he roasts the players, or yells at Rebecca for hiring Will. “If Dani needs motivation, we could always just show him his goddamn paycheck.” (Ted: “Well, that’s a tad aggressive.”)

Without me, you wouldn't have won a single match. 

He hates himself, and he loves himself, a very tense situation. 

They would've shipped your ass back to Kansas, where you belong. With your son. 

Daddy Issues. I’m sorry but DADDY ISSUES. And if this isn’t daddy issues, then he is saying this specifically because he knows it will hurt Ted. Henry has nothing to do with Nate’s situation, so either Nate is projecting or he was trying to think of what would cut Ted the deepest, both of which are truly terrible. Considering Ted’s mental health journey this season in regards to his own father, I would actually prefer he were doing it bc daddy issues because OW!!!!

'Cause you sure as hell don't belong here... But I do. I belong here. This didn't just fall into my lap, all right? I earned this.

... did he tho? If Ted hadn’t encouraged Nate (a LOT) in season 1, I doubt Nate would have advocated for himself enough to become coach. And I think Nate knows that. And he hates that.  

Ted: I know you did, Nate. And if I didn't tell you how important you were to me enough, I'm sorry about that.

Nathan: No, no. You know what? You're full of sh1t. Just f*ck you, Ted.

Nate isn’t looking for a conversation, or an apology, or accountability. He is here to feel more powerful by being aggressive, which is the only way he knows. 

Anyways. Nate probably should have gotten therapy as much as Ted did this season. If he gets a redemption arc next season, he needs to figure out a way to build himself up without tearing people down. I do kind of hope he gets his shit absolutely rocked first though.

[clemsfilmdiary]

The Best of October 2021

Best Discovery: The Company of Wolves

           Runners Up: Apartment Zero, The Card Counter

Best Rewatch: Showgirls

           Runners Up: The 4th Man, Ace in the Hole, Commando

Most Enjoyable Fluff: Bloodsport

           Runners Up: Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: An Inheritance to Die For, The Blob, Falling for You, Interview with the Vampire, Lionheart, The Stuff, They Live, Truly, Madly, Sweetly, Under the Autumn Moon

Best Male Performance: Jeroen Krabbé in The 4th Man

           Runners Up: Hart Bochner and Colin Firth in Apartment Zero, Kirk Douglas in Ace in the Hole, Oscar Isaac in The Card Counter

Best Female Performance: Elizabeth Berkley in Showgirls

           Runner Up: Joan Allen in The Upside of Anger

Best Supporting Performance or Cameo: Gina Gershon in Showgirls

           Runners Up: Richard Benedict and Jan Sterling in Ace in the Hole, Renée Soutendijk in The 4th Man

Most Enjoyable Ham: Elizabeth Berkley in Showgirls

           Runners Up: Rae Dawn Chong, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Vernon Wells in Commando, Gina Gershon and Lin Tucci in Showgirls, Tyler Hynes in Falling for You, Bela Lugosi in The Black Cat, Dylan Neal in Truly, Madly, Sweetly, Deborah Rennard in Lionheart, Jean-Claude Van Damme in Bloodsport and Lionheart

           Honorable Mention: Greg Wayne Elam in Commando

Best Mise-en-scène: The Company of Wolves

           Runners Up: The 4th Man, Ace in the Hole, Apartment Zero, The Black Cat, The Card Counter, Ethereal Chrysalis, Extraordinary Tales, The Howling, The Hunger, Showgirls, Whisper of the Heart

Best Locations: The Howling (lush Pacific Northwestern forest and coast)

           Runners Up: Impulse (sleepy Northern California town), They Live (streets of Skid Row, Los Angeles)

Best Score:  Maddalena (Ennio Morricone)

Runners Up: Commando (James Horner), The 4th Man (Loek Dikker), Ace in the Hole (Hugo Friedhofer), Apartment Zero (Elia Cmiral), The Company of Wolves (George Fenton)

Best Cartoon: Snow-White

           Runners Up: The Golden Touch, You Don't Know What You're Doin'!

Best Leading Hunk: Niall Matter in Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: An Inheritance to Die For

           Runners Up: Gregory Harrison in Razorback, Jean-Claude Van Damme in Bloodsport and Lionheart, Daniel Stisen in Gain

Best Supporting Hunk: Donald Gibb in Bloodsport

           Runners Up: Larry Franco in They Live, Thom Hoffman in The 4th Man, Christopher Stone in The Howling

Assorted Pleasures:

- Whisper of the Heart's hilly suburban setting and parallel fantasy-world sister city

- Snow-White's splendid, hallucinatory cave sequence with Cab Calloway's rubbery ghost-dance

- The Card Counter's mesmerizing use of neon lights

- Showgirls' exquisitely comical dance sequences, its spicy dialogue, and its dizzying atmosphere of ecstatic aggression and hysteria

[hallmark-movie-fanatics]

HOLLY ROBINSON PEETE UNEARTHS A HIGH SOCIETY MURDER IN ‘MORNING SHOW MYSTERIES: MURDER EVER AFTER,’ A NEW ORIGINAL PREMIERING MAY 23, ON HALLMARK MOVIES & MYSTERIES

Colin Lawrence and Karen Robinson Also Star in the Sixth Installment of the Signature Mystery Franchise, Based on the Novels by Al Roker

STUDIO CITY, CA – May 5, 2021 – Holly Robinson Peete (“The Christmas Doctor,” “American Housewife”) returns as everyone’s favorite crime-solving TV host, Billie Blessings, in “Morning Show Mysteries: Murder Ever After,” premiering Sunday, May 23 at 8 p.m. (ET/PT), on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries. For this sixth installment of the Signature Mystery franchise – based on the novels by Al Roker – Colin Lawrence (“Christmas in Evergreen: Bells Are Ringing,” “Riverdale”) joins the cast as the new head of homicide and Karen Robinson (“Schitt’s Creek”) returns as Billie’s Aunt Cassandra.

Whether buttering up guests on-air or coaxing murderers to confess, no one gets people talking like morning show host Billie Blessings (Robinson Peete). Newly single and now the top- rated anchor on her show “Wake Up West Coast,” things are going well for Billie until family friend Maggie (Francesca Bianchi, “My Best Friend’s Bouquet”) seeks her help. When Billie makes a shocking find that implicates Maggie’s father in a murder, Maggie persuades her to help clear him. Billie finds it’s easier said than done when the city’s new head of homicide arrives on the scene and notices her involvement. Detective Sergeant Tyrell Price (Lawrence) is careful not to compromise his investigation yet can’t help being impressed by Billie’s track record. But Price’s eye isn’t the only Billie has caught – notorious ladies’ man and brash reporter Carlos (Jayce Barreiro, “iZombie”) ruffles feathers when he joins Billie’s morning show. He immediately tries to upend one of her segments but after seeing her remarkable interview skills in person, he takes an interest in her. Using her famed powers of persuasion to help clear Maggie’s father, Billie soon unearths a plot that implicates some of the city’s most powerful people and enlists her Aunt Cassandra’s (Robinson) help to get close to them. When Billie and Cassandra find themselves at a swanky, black-tie affair with Carlos, Detective Price and a guest list full of suspects, they discover the pressures of high society can really be murder.

“Morning Show Mysteries: Murder Ever After” is from Show Road Productions VI Ltd. Executive producers are Harvey Kahn, Al Roker, Orly Adelson and Allen Lewis. Charles Cooper serves as producer and Bianca Versteeg and Michael Shepard are supervising producers. Andy Mikita directed from a teleplay by Shelley Evans, based on the novels by Al Roker and Dick Lochte. 

LINK

[lyselkatzfandomluvs]

My edits - Masterpost

Making a MASTERLIST for my edits because I’m losing track of what’s done and what’s in my to-do folders.

EDIT: looks like the links aren’t working on mobile anymore. They point to results on the whole tumblr instead of just on my blog. I don’t kow how to fix this so I’m afraid the only solution is to seach for the film title on my blog. 

Band of Brothers cast

They are under the tag #My BoB cast edits (outsourced content and reblogs from other content creators, mostly for those with wider fan-base, are tagged #BoB cast) and with the actor’s name or the serie/movie title.

Feel free to send me an ask if there’s anything you’d like to see from BoB and its cast

Ensemble

Band of Brothers (obviously 😝)

Ron Livingston's bootcamp video diary

Wales Comic Con 2020 twitch panel

We happy few 506 zoom panels

Doug Allen

Sherlock (BBC)

Jamie Bamber

A Christmas in New York

Hornblower

Eion Bailey

Center stage

Covert affairs

Dawson's creek

Deliver by Christmas

FBI

Fight Club

Life of the party

Mindhunters

Nightmares and Dreamscapes

Stalker

Switched for Christmas

Philip Barantini

Ned Kelly

Ben Caplan

Leap year

New blood

The coroner

The lost honour of Christopher Jefferies

Whitechapel

Michael Cudlitz

21 Jump street

A river runs through it

Dark tourist

Dragon : The Bruce Lee story

Kings of con

SouthLAnd

Standoff

Dale Dye

44 minutes: The North Hollywood Shoot-Out

Michael Fassbender

Gunpowder, treason & plot

Dexter Fletcher

Below

Bugsy Malone

Caravaggio

Dramarama

Gentlemen in squalor

Hotel Babylon

Lock, stock and two smoking barrels

The Rachel papers

Music video - Kylie Minogue "Some kind of bliss"

Stephen Graham

Boardwalk empire

Ezra Godden

Dagon

Quarantine "Isolation" videos

Rick Gomez

Applebox

Daily Rick’s tips

Hawaii five-0

Law and order

Leave

The adventures of Pete & Pete

The millionaire Tour

The week

Three to tango

Interview - Your story interview with Christine Schneider

Scott Grimes

Critters

Colin Hanks

Parkland

Tom Hardy

Colditz

Nolan Hemmings

Black Book

Colour me Kubrick

Dive to the Bermuda Triangle

Heartbeat

Pump up the volume

Sharpe’s eagle

The Aryan couple

The Mahabharata

Frank John Hughes

Applebox

Blue lagoon: the awakening

Cover Me: Based on the True Life of an FBI Family

Homicide: Life on the streets

Leave

Legends

NCIS

Players

Righteous kill

The Funeral

The Guardian

The week

Viper

Lucie Jeanne

Central nuit

Joséphine ange gardien

L’été rouge

Relic hunter

Robin Laing

Beautiful creatures

Dive to the Bermuda Triangle

Doors open

Murder room

Taggart

The coroner

The lakes

The slab boys

Waking the dead

Matthew Leitch

AKA

Below

Mile high

Renford rejects

Strike back

Damian Lewis

Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker

A touch of Frost

Colditz

Life

The baker

Ron Livingston

44 minutes: The North Hollywood Shoot-Out

Addicted to Fresno

American crude

Applebox

Beat

Boardwalk empire

Body shots

Buying the cow

Defying gravity

Dice

Digging for fire

Dinner for schmucks

Nightmares and Dreamscapes

Drinking buddies

Fort bliss

Going the distance

James White

King of the ants

Kings of con

Leave

Little black book

Loudermilk

Music within

Office Space

Parkland

Players

Queens of country (trailer)

Relative strangers

Saints and strangers

Sex and the city

Shangri-La suite

Shimmer lake

Standoff

Straight talk

Swinger

The 5th Wave

The conjuring

The cooler

The long dumb road

The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then The Bigfoot

The Romanoffs

The sidekick

Timecop

Touchy feely

Tully

Interview - Off camera with Sam Jones

Interview - Alexander Valley Film Society

Misc - Keyboard cat

James Madio

Applebox

Hook

Leave

The week

Tim Matthews

Five children and It

Heartbeat

Judge John Deed

Music video - "Taking chances”

Ross McCall

A Christmas in New York

A country Christmas story

Crash

CSI: New York

Ghost whisperer

Hex

It’s not you, it’s me

Lucifer

Nature unleashed: Fire

Pie in the sky

Quarantine : Rome

Rome in love

Snake man/The snake king

Submerged

The beautiful ones

Waterland

White collar

Neal McDonough

Boomtown

Quantum leap

Jason O'Mara

Sons of liberty

The Agency

Peter O'Meara

Leap year

Strike back

Bart Ruspoli

Devil’s playground

David Schwimmer

Uprising

Matthew Settle

Beneath

Blue smoke

Criminal minds- Beyond borders

Divine secrets of the Ya-Ya sisterhood

I still know what you did last summer

Love, sick love

Marshall’s miracle

Ouija

So undercover

The Celestine prophecy

The in crowd

The mystery of Natalie Wood

U-571

Valentine

Douglas Spain

44 minutes: The North Hollywood Shoot-Out

Richard Speight Jr

3 Blind saints

American crude

Applebox

Driven

J.A.G.

Jericho

Kings of con

Life

Matlock

The agency

The sidekick

The week

Shane Taylor

Agriculture

Aura/The exorcism of Karen Walker

Devil’s playground

Hunter killer

Quirke

Sons of liberty

Strike Back

The day of the Triffids

Walking with the enemy

Music video - Stalker Miller "Jenny"

Donnie Wahlberg

Boomtown

Dead silence

Righteous kill

The sixth sense

Rick Warden

Shackleton

Marc Warren

Colour me Kubrick

Peter Youngblood Hills

AKA

Michel Vaillant

Submerged

The beach

The marksman

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MISC EDITS

James Badge Dale

Parkland

Scott Bakula

Quantum leap

Rob Benedict

Kings of con

The sidekick

Misha Collins

24

Dave Franco

interview GQ 2014

Misc - LG, It's all possible

Lena Headey

Waterland

Ilia Kulik

Center stage

Alessandra Mastronardi

Quarantine : Rome

Helen McCrory

Life

Ewan McGregor

Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker

Joe Mazzello

Wooly boys

Piper Perabo

Covert affairs

Norman Reduus

Beat

Zoe Saldana

Center stage

Michael Sheen

Music within

Brian J. Smith

World on Fire (BBC)

Sebastian Stan

Misc - Save with stories

Tom Wisdom

Mile high

[wyntereyez]

Has anyone been able to listen to Allen's interview with Colin yet?

[drawdownbooks]

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[piracytheorist]

"You can't complain about having a disillusioned bunch of teenagers or kids causing trouble if you're not willing to invest [in their future], to help them realize [their potential]."

- Colin O’Donoghue, during an interview with his brother Allen.

[thebryanandsilvergarbage]

The Silver Garbage Awards: Worst of the Decade

Like with the Bryan Awards, I went back and picked my worst of the decade.  Please note, the nominees were nominated as the way they were placed when I originally did these awards.  Apologies in advance to anyone that may be offended by certain category placements.

- Eligibility Period is January 1, 2010 to May 31, 2019; which means anything that aired over the Summer or Fall is ineligible. - Sharknado is being entered for ALL of their movies as one. - Lead and Supporting Actor and Actress will be regardless of Comedy and Drama, and if an actor was nominated for multiple shows in that category, they will be nominated for ALL of the shows in that category over the course of the last ten years. - “Winners” will be announced by Friday, as I pick the “Bottom 2″.

And the Unlucky Nominees Are (I archived everything this decade, unlike the 2000s, where a few years suddenly disappeared off the face of the Earth due to the technology I had back then)...

Silver Garbage Awards - The WORST of the Decade

Eligibility Period: January 1, 2010 to May 31, 2019

Worst Comedy Series of the Decade: Animal Practice (NBC) Camping (HBO) Kevin Can Wait (CBS) Living Biblically (CBS) The McCarthys (CBS) Mulaney (Fox) The Muppets (ABC) Son of Zorn (Fox) White Famous (Showtime) Work It (ABC) Worst Drama Series of the Decade: Doubt (CBS) Here and Now (HBO) Ironside (NBC) Lone Star (Fox) Made in Jersey (CBS) Magnum P.I. (CBS) The Mysteries of Laura (NBC) The Playboy Club (NBC) Roadies (Showtime) 24: Legacy (Fox)

Worst Actor in a Series of the Decade: Eddie Cibrian - The Playboy Club (NBC) Andrew Dice Clay - Dice (Showtime) Corey Hawkins - 24: Legacy (Fox) Kevin James - Kevin Can Wait (CBS) Justin Kirk - APB (Fox) & Animal Practice (NBC) Ashton Kutcher - The Ranch (Netflix) & Two and a Half Men (CBS) John Mulaney - Mulaney (Fox) Charlie Sheen - Anger Management (FXX) & Two and a Half Men (CBS) Blair Underwood - Ironside (NBC) James Wolk - Lone Star (Fox) 

Worst Actress in a Series of the Decade:

Jenna Elfman - Accidentally on Purpose (CBS) & Imaginary Mary (ABC)

Jennifer Garner - Camping (HBO)

Amber Heard - The Playboy Club (NBC)

Katherine Heigl - Doubt (CBS)

Ben Koldyke - Work It (ABC)

Debra Messing - The Mysteries of Laura (NBC)

Janet Montgomery - Made in Jersey (CBS)

Adrianne Palicki - Lone Star (Fox)

Leah Remini - Kevin Can Wait (CBS) & Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath (A&E)

Frankie Shaw - SMILF (Showtime)

Worst Supporting Actor in a Series of the Decade:

Elliott Gould - Doubt (CBS)

David Keith - Lone Star (Fox)

Ben Koldyke - Mr. Robinson (NBC)

David Krumholtz - Living Biblically (CBS) & The Playboy Club (NBC)

Josh Lucas - Mysteries of Laura (NBC)

Kyle MacLachlan - Made in Jersey (CBS)

Amaury Nolasco - Deception (ABC) and Telenovela (NBC)

Stephen Tobolowsky - Californication (Showtime) & White Famous (Showtime)

Jon Voight - Lone Star (Fox) 

Daniel Zovatto - Here and Now (HBO)

Worst Supporting Actress in a Series of the Decade:

Sosie Bacon - Here and Now (HBO)

Laura Benanti - The Playboy Club (NBC)

Crystal the Monkey - Animal Practice (NBC)

Spencer Grammer - Ironside (NBC)

Natasha Leggero - Dice (Showtime) & Free Agents (NBC)

Juliette Lewis - Camping (HBO)

Amaury Nolasco - Work It (ABC)

Rosie O’Donnell - SMILF (Showtime)

Nasim Pedrad - Mulaney (Fox)

Perdita Weeks - Magnum P.I. (CBS)

Worst Special Class Program of the Decade:

A Christmas Story LIVE! (Fox)

The Bad Seed (Lifetime)

CBS News Presents the Gayle King Interview with R. Kelly (CBS)

The Decision (ESPN)

Dirty Dancing (ABC)

Flowers in the Attic/Petals In the Wind (Lifetime)

The Maya Rudolph Show (NBC)

The Passion (Fox)

Sharknado: ALL of Them (SyFy)

True Detective: Season 2 (HBO)

Worst Reality Program of the Decade:

Chrisley Knows Best (USA)

Dating Naked (VH1)

Here Comes Honey Boo Boo (TLC)

Jersey Shore (MTV)

The Job (CBS)

Keeping Up With the Kardashians (E!)

Kocktails with Khloe (FYI)

Million Dollar Mile (CBS)

3 (CBS)

Utopia (Fox)

Worst Special Class Actor of the Decade:

Woody Allen - Crisis in Six Scenes (Netflix)

Johnny Depp - Funny or Die Presents Donald Trump: The Art of the Deal (Netflix)

Colin Farrell - True Detective: Season 2 (HBO)

LeBron James - The Decision (ESPN)

R. Kelly - CBS News Presents The Gayle King Interview with R. Kelly (CBS)

Rob Lowe - The Bad Seed & Beautiful & Twisted (both Lifetime)

Navi - Michael Jackson: Searching for Neverland (Lifetime)

Tyler Perry - The Passion (Fox) 

Colt Prattes - Dirty Dancing (ABC)

Ian Ziering - Sharknado (SyFy)

Worst Special Class Actress of the Decade:

Natasha Bassett - Britney Ever After (Lifetime)

Abigail Breslin - Dirty Dancing (ABC)

Agnes Bruckner - The Anna Nicole Story (Lifetime)

Ashley Jones - The Secret Sex Life of a Single Mom (Lifetime)

Lindsay Lohan - Liz & Dick (Lifetime)

Rachel McAdams - True Detective: Season 2 (HBO)

Tara Reid - Sharknado (SyFy)

Maya Rudolph - A Christmas Story LIVE (Fox) & The Maya Rudolph Show (NBC)

Zoe Saldana - Rosemary’s Baby (NBC)

Paz Vega - Beautiful & Twisted (Lifetime)

Worst Special Class Supporting Actor of the Decade:

Fred Armisen - The Maya Rudolph Show (NBC)

Chris Daughtry - The Passion (Fox)

Chris Diamantapoulos - A Christmas Story: LIVE! (Fox)

James Franco - Mother, May I Sleep With Danger? (Netflix)

Bruce Greenwood - Dirty Dancing (ABC)

David Hasselhoff - Sharknado (SyFy) 

Taylor Kitsch - True Detective: Season 2 (HBO)

Matt Lauer - Leaving Neverland (HBO)

Seal - The Passion (Fox)

Christopher Walken - Peter Pan LIVE (NBC)

Worst Special Class Supporting Actress of the Decade:

Ellen Burstyn - Flowers in the Attic/Petals On the Wind (Lifetime)

Miley Cyrus - Crisis in Six Scenes (Amazon Prime), A Very Murray Christmas (Netflix), & 2013 MTV VMA Awards (MTV)

Heather Graham - Flowers in the Attic/Petals On the Wind (Lifetime)

Carla Hall - The Passion (Fox)

Kylie Jenner - Michael Buble’s Christmas In Hollywood (NBC)

Debra Messing - Dirty Dancing (ABC)

Nicole Scherzinger - Dirty Dancing (ABC)

Tori Spelling - Sharknado: The Last One (SyFy)

Jillian Walchuck - Britney Ever After (Lifetime)

Trisha Yearwood - The Passion (Fox)

Worst Ensemble of the Decade:

Dirty Dancing (ABC)

Doubt (CBS)

Here and Now (HBO)

Ironside (NBC)

Jersey Shore (MTV)

Lone Star (Fox)

The Muppets (ABC)

Mulaney (Fox)

The Passion (Fox)

The Playboy Club (NBC)

Worst Screen Duo of the Decade:

Animal Practice - Justin Kirk & Crystal the Monkey (NBC)

Charlie’s Angels - Any TWO or More Angels (ABC)

Flowers In the Attic - Kiernan Shipka & Mason Dye (Lifetime)

Free Agents - Hank Azaria & Kathryn Hahn (NBC)

The Muppets - Kermit the Frog and either Miss Piggy or Denise (ABC)

Petals On The Wind - Rose McIver & Wyatt Nash (Lifetime)

The Playboy Club - Any TWO Bunnies or Mobsters (NBC)

The T.Ocho Show - Chad “Ochocinco” Johnson & Terrell Owens (Versus)

Two and a Half Men - Jon Cryer & Ashton Kutcher/Charlie Sheen (CBS)

Work It - Ben Koldyke & Amaury Nolasco (ABC)

Worst Remake, Sequel, or Spin-Off of the Decade:

Blue Lagoon: The Awakening (Lifetime) - Remake/Sequel of 1980 Film

Dirty Dancing (ABC) - Remake of 1987 Film

Heroes: Reborn (NBC) - Spin-Off of the 2000s Action Series

Ironside (NBC) - Remake of 1960s/1970s Raymond Burr Cop Show

Jersey Shore: Family Reunion (MTV) - Spin-Off of the 2010s Reality Show Jersey Shore

Mockingbird Lane (NBC) - Remake of 1960s Sitcom The Munsters

The Muppets (ABC) - Spin-Off of the 1970s Variety Sketch Series

Murphy Brown (CBS) - Revival of 1990s Sitcom

24: Legacy (Fox) - Spin-Off of 2010s Action Show

Work It (ABC) - Rip-Off of 1980s Sitcom Bosom Buddies

[stainedglassgardens]

Watched in February

Matangi/Maya/M.I.A

Pride & Prejudice

The Brain Hack

Vazante

Tanglewood

Outfall

Pigskin

The Funspot

April and the Devil

Smithereens

Can You Ever Forgive Me?

Bus Stop

Pink Plastic Flamingos

The Breaker Upperers

Amanda Knox

Holy Hell

Shoplifters

Skin

A Night at the Garden

Give Up the Ghost

Last One Screaming

The Katy Universe

Roma

Did You Hear About the Morgans?

End Game

Behind the Curve

Our Daily Bread

92MARS

Construct

Invaders

So this month I watched “only” fifteen feature films, and the rest were short films, for no other reason than the fact that I started thinking I don’t watch nearly enough short films, and I complain all the time about how this or that ninety-minute film is boring and clumsy as fuck whereas it would have made a great twenty-minute short – so I started doing some digging. As it turns out, most short films out there are (legally) available on some platform or other – all the more reason to watch them all.

I also watched all of Russian Doll (pretty cool), Nightflyers (pretty boring, although I would die for Lommie), Flavorful Origins (fantastic), and of course the latest season of my fave Chef’s Table, which I binged in one day (skipping, of course, the one about that butcher guy).

Did not like

Outfall (Suzi Ewing, 2018): I watched it because it was directed by a woman, and also because I had just seen Joe Wright’s Pride & Prejudice and the idea of Kelly Reilly getting hurt was very appealing, but oh man, this was terrible. Just half-assed, muddled, going nowhere, mediocre and boring

Bus Stop (Joshua Logan, 1956): 1950s misogyny at its worst, not even funny, just frankly infuriating

Give Up the Ghost (Nathan Sam Long, 2018)

Roma (Alfonso Cuarón, 2018): This purports to have the maid, Cleo, as its main character, and yet… I found it barely less obvious than Victorian stories about starving children in its clueless fascination for poverty and the “servant class”. I kept waiting for some sort of a turnaround, but no, it really is a story about an indigenous live-in maid who is just that devoted to the white family she works for. I mean, yes, the film is very beautiful and yes, Yarlitza Aparicio is fantastic, but come on

92MARS (Ricardo Bernardini, 2018)

Construct (Kevin Margo, 2018)

Okay short films

Pink Plastic Flamingos (Colin West, 2017): I’m saying okay because I really enjoyed the aesthetics

Last One Screaming (Matt Devino, 2017): Pretty boring, although the ending was nice

The Katy Universe (Patrick Muhlberger, 2018): So much potential in this one. Will definitely watch out for more by Muhlberger

End Game (Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, 2018)

Short films I really enjoyed

The Brain Hack (Joseph White, 2014): Always a slut for Ex Machina-type science fiction

Tanglewood (Jordan Prosser, 2016): Always a slut for a good zombie story also, tbh

Pigskin, The Funspot, April and the Devil (Jake Hammond, 2015, 2015 and 2018): Out of the three, April and the Devil was my favourite, but really all three of them are perfect little gems in their own way

Skin (Jordana Spiro, 2015): Soooooo creepy

A Night at the Garden (Marshall Curry, 2017): Frighteningly timely

Invaders (Daniel Prince, 2018): This is so cute and inventive and perfect

Feature films I really enjoyed

Matangi/Maya/M.I.A. (Steve Loveridge, 2018)

Pride & Prejudice (Joe Wright, 2005)

Smithereens (Susan Seidelman, 1982)

Amanda Knox (Rod Blackhurst and Brian McGinn, 2016): I went into this not knowing much about the story and having a lot of preconceptions, and I’m so glad I finally watched this

Holy Hell (Will Allen, 2016)

Shoplifters (Manbiki Kazoku, Hirokazu Kore-eda, 2018): I really liked it but I’m just tired of those very formulaic films that seem to be made with a certain… kind of film festival in mind…

Did You Hear About the Morgans? (Marc Lawrence, 2009): It is the silliest rom com I have ever seen and I loved it

Behind the Curve (Daniel J. Clark, 2018): I was already pissing myself with laughter a minute in, and this documentary about flat-Earthers is a wild ride from start to finish, but what I especially enjoyed was the compassion shown by the scientists interviewed towards the end instead of the usual contempt.

Favourites of the month

Vazante (Daniela Thomas, 2017): A masterpiece… I don’t know what I can really say about this film without spoiling it. Just, take your time, watch it, I swear the devastating ending is worth it

Can You Ever Forgive Me? (Marielle Heller, 2018): I love Melissa McCarthy, I love books, I love stories about complicated women, and this was a treat

The Breaker Upperers (Madeleine Sami and Jackie Van Beek, 2018): I haven’t laughed this much in a long, long, long time

Our Daily Bread (Unser täglich Brot, Nikolaus Geyrhalter, 2005): Aaaand for the second time in a row, this month’s film-that-fucked-me-up is a documentary! This one’s about the modern food industry and since I saw it I can’t stop thinking about that scene in Michel Faber’s Under the Skin where the vodsel writes the word “mercy” in the dirt. There are several things I think which make this documentary truly exceptional – amongst them the lack of commentary and the purposeful inclusion of industry workers.

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fave books :D (in no particular order!)

I’m a slut for the ancient and american classics, horror, black comedy, satire, and the Sad Guy Plays

Party Monster - James St. James

Death of a salesman - Arthur Miller

On cats - Charles Bukowski

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Candide - Voltaire

Democracy in America - Tocqueville

Black Cat - Edgar Allen Poe

The Murders in the Rue Morgue - Poe

Masque of the Red Death - Poe

Farenheight 451 - Ray Bradbury

Where the sidewalk ends - Shel Silverstein

The Giving Tree - Shel Silverstein

War of the Worlds - H.G Wells

The Art of War - Sun Tzu

The Daemon - Shirley Jackson

Monsters of Morley Manor - Bruce Coville

Importance of being Ernest - Oscar Wilde

The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde

Watchmen - Alan Moore

Catcher in the Rye - J. D Salinger

WTNV - Joeseph Fink and Jeffery Cranor

The Secret History - Donna Tartt

Macbeth - Shakespeare

King Lear - Shakespeare

Pet Semetary - Stephen King

Penderwick Series - Jeanne Birdsall

Darius the great is not ok - Adib Khorram

The Mafia - Nigel and Colin Cawthorne

Persepolis - Marjane Satrapi

Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Tool

Wiseguy- Nicolas Pileggi

The Iceman Cometh - Eugene O’Neil

The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Martian - Andy Weir

Interview with a vampire - Anne Rice

Meditations - Marcus Aurelius

Dracula - Bram Stoker

Coriolanus - Shakespeare

Julius Caesar - Shakespeare

The Oedipus Cycle - Sophocles

On the Nature of Things - Lucretius

The Iliad - Homer

The Aeneid - Virgil

The Georgics - Virgil

King Lear - Shakespeare

The Institute - Stephen King

Re-Animator - H.P. Lovecraft

Long Days Journey into Night - Eugene O Neil

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead - Tom Stoppard