#alex queen gonzález

[astridhoff03]

Dragons: A new Era

I‘m honest I still dislike this Show and the ending of it makes Me mad even more. For every Season I had hope But my hope got crushed immidiatly as it got forward. But the fact that this Show is so bad makes me want a good Dragons Show in modern day even more, because this Concept could work and its so interesting. I want a good Show for the Franchise and the Trilogy that I really love, we didn’t need a Hidden World Fix it Fic because the THW ends the way it should, read the Books (this ending was planned Years ago and there was a build up, don’t destroy years of Hard work). We want you @dreamworksanimation to move forward which is bascially the Message of the end of the Trilogy. So move forward and don’t be afraid to make something new, in a new Time Period. Listen to the Berk Cast Retrospektive of T9R they have really good Ideas. But Never Go again Against the ending of the Trilogy @dreamworksanimation and make Alex the Main Character, she’s awesome and a Queen. And stand to your desicion with This Show face the Konsequences.

And if I were Dean DeBlois or Cressida Cowell I were so mad because they just destroied brick By Brick the whole point of Httyd that was hard work for ten years, Even more if you count how long it takes to write every book.

[dollvi3e]

Laura Anderson

face claim • lyndsy fonseca

love interest • oliver queen

fic • songs of the darkness

Imogen Fraley

face claim • emma dumont

love interest • rip hunter

fic • foreigners of reality

Hadley Geis

face claim • skylar samuels

love interest • barry allen

fic • disruption of space

London Wade

face claim • poppy drayton

love interest • alex danvers

fic • controlling the ashes

Carmen Morton

face claim • maddison brown

love interest • cisco ramon

fic • birth of the void

Pansy Neel

face claim • anne hathaway

love interest • ray palmer

fic • songs of the darkness

Irena Ježková

face claim • eiza gonzález

love interest • john constantine

fic • accepting the demons

Sybil Hammond

face claim • emmy rossum

love interest • nate haywood

fic • scared of our future

[maaarine]

MBTI & Musicians

See also: SP and SJ musicians

INFP

Ryan ADAMS Armande ALTAÏ Tori AMOS Fiona APPLE AURORA Julien BAKER BAT FOR LASHES Rostam BATMANGLIJ (Vampire Weekend) Chester BENNINGTON (Linkin Park) BJÖRK James BLAKE Kate BUSH Anna CALVI Nick CAVE CHRISTINE AND THE QUEENS Kurt COBAIN (Nirvana) Jack CONTE Graham COXON (Blur) Ani DIFRANCO Peter DOHERTY (The Libertines) John FRUSCIANTE (Red Hot Chili Peppers) Laura Jane GRACE (Against Me) John GRANT Jonny GREENWOOD (Radiohead) Hildur GUÐNADÓTTIR Aldous HARDING PJ HARVEY Imogen HEAP Keaton HENSON Tyler JOSEPH (Twenty One Pilots) Adrianne LENKER (Big Thief) Lykke LI Tamara LINDEMAN (The Weather Station) LORDE Chris MARTIN (Coldplay) Sinéad O'CONNOR PERFUME GENIUS Michel POLNAREFF Trent REZNOR (Nine Inch Nails) Damien RICE Maggie ROGERS Paul SIMON (Simon & Garfunkel) Nina SIMONE Patti SMITH Salvador SOBRAL Regina SPEKTOR Michael STIPE (R.E.M.) Jeff TWEEDY (Wilco) Sharon VAN ETTEN Florence WELCH (Florence And The Machine) Brian WILSON (Beach Boys) Chelsea WOLFE Thom YORKE (Radiohead)

ENFP

Billie Joe ARMSTRONG (Green Day) Daniel BALAVOINE Emma BLACKERY COEUR DE PIRATE Pierre DE MAERE DODIE Lou DOILLON Girl in red / Marie ULVEN GRIMES Neil HANNON (The Divine Comedy) Matty HEALY (The 1975) Camélia JORDANA Jared LETO (Thirty Seconds To Mars) Patti LUPONE Freddie MERCURY (Queen) Lin-Manuel MIRANDA Tom MORELLO (Rage Against the Machine) Amanda PALMER Barbara PRAVI SIA Tupac SHAKUR SOKO Louis TOMLINSON (One Direction) Brandon URIE (Panic At The Disco) Gerard WAY (My Chemical Romance) Hayley WILLIAMS (Paramore)

INTP

Laurie ANDERSON David BYRNE (Talking Heads) Rivers CUOMO (Weezer) Serge GAINSBOURG José GONZÁLEZ MOBY ORELSAN Alex TURNER (Arctic Monkeys) Bill WURTZ

ENTP

Matthew BELLAMY (Muse) Jack BLACK (Tenacious D) David BOWIE Carrie BROWNSTEIN (Sleater Kinney) Jacob COLLIER Chilly GONZALES Josh HOMME (Queens Of The Stone Age) Ezra KOENIG (Vampire Weekend) John LENNON (The Beatles) Winston MARSHALL (Mumford & Sons) John MAYER Sara QUIN (Tegan and Sara) Tegan QUIN (Tegan and Sara) Frank ZAPPA (Mothers of Invention)

INFJ

Michel BERGER Joep BEVING Andrew BIRD Leonard COHEN Alexandre DESPLAT Brian ENO FEIST Jean-Jacques GOLDMAN Andrew HOZIER Byrne Jewel KILCHER Maxime LE FORESTIER Laura MARLING MORRISSEY (The Smiths) Tim RICE-OXLEY (Keane) ST VINCENT Sufjan STEVENS WEYES BLOOD

ENFJ

BONO (U2) Lara FABIAN Guy GARVEY (Elbow) Matthieu GONET (Star Academy) Josh GROBAN Alanis MORISSETTE Marcus MUMFORD (Mumford & Sons) Leslie ODOM

INTJ

Damon ALBARN (Blur, Gorillaz) Nils FRAHM Stephen SONDHEIM

ENTJ

Noel GALLAGHER (Oasis)

See also: SP and SJ musicians

[documentaryoncinema]

Making of, 1

’Doppelganger’ (‘Dopperugengâ'), Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2003, VO, SE en YouTube.

'El hobbit: Un viaje inesperado' ('The hobbit: An unexpected journey'), Peter Jackson, 2012, VE.

'El hobbit: La desolación de Smaug' ('The hobbit: The desolation of Smaug'), Peter Jackson, 2013. Vídeo blog, VOSE.

‘American graffiti’ (íd) George Lucas, 1973, VO, SE en YouTube.

'Lo que la verdad esconde’ ('What lies beneath’), Robert Zemeckis, 2000. ‘Construyendo un thriller perfecto: Lo que la verdad esconde’, VOSE.

'The making of Wilder and Brackett's Sunset Boulevard: Forum at SFU', VO, SE en YouTube.

[the-domestication-of-the-dog]

The 9th Annual L.A.O.K Awards

I’m no artist, but I did love art class growing up, and let’s just say I’ve won a few coloring contests in my day (God did I live for coloring contests). Let’s also say that in high school I did a watercolor of one of my stepmom’s nature photographs, and let’s say that it ended up in the yearbook. That watercolor was the crowning achievement of my many classes with Ms. Warren, our high school art teacher. Let me paint a picture of Ms. Warren for you: short spiky blonde hair, this pattern Gap button down every day, long denim skirt, and the unfaltering attitude of someone who was born to be an artist but instead ended up teaching ungrateful teenagers who called things “gay” around you even though you were clearly a lesbian.

Months after completing that watercolor, I began work on acrylic painting I’ll admit was uninspired, but I still gave it my best. The composition featured a bird on a branch in narrow focus, so that everything in the background was blurry, and I had planned on giving it to my mom as a Mother’s Day present. The problem was that I had no idea how to paint something out of focus, and instead of doing any research or asking my teacher how to do that, I just dove right in and painted from memory and tried to make the lines really soft. Here is that painting, which still hangs in my mother’s bedroom to my everlasting shame.

If you look closely, you might recognize that I cut my losses on this one. That’s because it was at this point in my progress when I fully realized I was in over my head and decided to ask Ms. Warren for some tips. She came over to my desk, looked at the painting for a good 10 seconds, and finally uttered two sentences I’ll never forget: “Garrett, sometimes in art you hit, and sometimes you miss. Your watercolor was a hit.” And she was off to the next student.

That said, sometimes a year in movies is a hit, and sometimes it’s a miss. 2017 was a hit. Now on to the next desk:  

Best Film Eighth Grade The Favourite First Man Mary Queen of Scots Sicario: Day of the Soldado

First off, anyone who didn’t like Mary Queen of Scots can meet me in a laundry cottage halfway between England and Scotland in negative 460 years for another asskicking. What is there not to like about this movie? According to Ben Friday, extreme historical inaccuracy. Okay, if anyone comes up with any non-nerd reasons, please let me know. The second film in my top five that you’re going “Guh, what?” to: Sicario: Day of the Soldado, was actually very good, and it turns out everyone is wrong for thinking it’s not. Wow, definitive proof here (https://letterboxd.com/g_baby9000/film/sicario-day-of-the-soldado/). I also loved First Man’s slow burn. La La Land was a misstep for me from Damien Chazelle, but now I’m right back on the Chazelle train. Bravo for making an unconventional, understated historical biopic, which drives through its seeming monotony with an ever building tension that keeps it compelling from start to finish. Then there’s The Favourite, which continues Yorgos Lanthimos’s reign over this annual list. I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall when the dictum came down to the Fox marketing department that they were going to go wide with this movie. 

And the Layokie goes to… Eighth Grade

In the lead up to Eighth Grade I thought two things: 1) I hope it’s not that good because Bo Burnham’s age and career make me feel inadequate, and 2) It probably isn’t that good because everyone’s talking about how good it is. In LA, if you don’t see a movie until after its release date you are a total loser, and I went even a few weeks after that, so it was already sufficiently hyped. I honestly didn’t expect much from it, and it totally blew me away with it’s humor and heartwarmingness in a way that no other film matched in 2018. I’ll talk more about this great film below.

Next Five The Ballad of Buster Scruggs Cold War First Reformed Roma Shoplifters

Also Great Avengers: Infinity War Beautiful Boy Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot. Outlaw King The Rider A Star is Born Vice (Why does everyone hate Vice? My thoughts on Vice.)

Best Original Screenplay The Ballad of Buster Scruggs - Joel Coen & Ethan Coen (1/6 adapted) Shoplifters - Hirokazu Koreeda Eighth Grade - Bo Burnham The Favourite - Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara First Reformed - Paul Schrader

And the Layokie goes to… Eighth Grade

Not to retread the obvious, but I think about Eighth Grade and its screenplay in much the same way as Avatar. Predictability and the use of stock plotting does not equate to bad writing, and even if you know exactly what’s going to happen (Kayla must end up with Gabe) it can be done in such a satisfying way that the story still sings (which is the reason why the same story lines continue to be retread). From early on, we can guess pretty much what Kayla’s arc will be, but the fact that it plays out in just the right way, so that you can’t really imagine it had the potential to be anything else, is what makes it such a high mark in screenwriting. Getting to this point in a screenplay is very difficult, because it’s usually only after figuring out the 50 paths not to go down that you realize the obviously correct one. When it finally clicks which Scene B should follow Scene A, the screenwriter too realizes that it couldn’t have been any other way, it just takes a lot of work to get there. I put Eighth Grade on for my second viewing while building an IKEA dresser a week or two ago, and it filled me with such glee. I was doubled over with laughter more than once and had to watch some scenes five times before I could move on.

Best Adapted Screenplay Annihilation - Alex Garland Beautiful Boy - Luke Davies and Felix van Groeningen Leave No Trace - Debra Granik & Anne Rosellini Mary Queen of Scots - Beau Willimon Sicario: Day of the Soldado - Taylor Sheridan

And the Layokie goes to… Mary Queen of Scots

Like I said above, I don’t really know anything about the historicity of this movie. Apparently the rabble-rousing preacher that everyone was supposed to hate actually was cool and founded my own church’s denomination? Anyway, I loved the way this was paced, only parsing out the information you absolutely needed and trusting you to catch up through its many jumps in time, expertly illustrated via cutbacks to Queen Elizabeth. The characters were complex (especially Elizabeth) and the dialogue was snappy. There’s nothing better than seeing someone in an authority position take someone’s shit just long enough before thoroughly dressing them down at the exact appropriate time, and Mary gets many such chances to shine thusly.

Best Director Damien Chazelle - First Man Alfonso Cuarón - Roma Yorgos Lanthimos - The Favourite Pawel Pawlikowski - Cold War Josie Rourke - Mary Queen of Scots

And the Layokie goes to… Alfonso Cuarón

Was tempted after another viewing to switch this to Damien Chazelle, but I had already written the following paragraph, and I’m too lazy to redo it. From the opening shot of Roma, two things are clear: you’re in the hands of a great director, and it’s a damn good thing you’re in a theater because it’s gonna be a long, slow ride. If you watched this on Netflix from start to finish without looking at your phone, I salute you (and I’ll say the same for The Ballad of Buster Scruggs). If you haven’t seen it on the big screen and live in LA, it’s currently playing at the Landmark and Vista, so check it out. Also how insane is it that Cuaron will likely win the Oscar in this category this year, making Mexican directors winners in this category 5 out of the last 6 years? Specifically, Cuaron, Alejandro González Iñárritu, and Guillermo del Toro, who were already known as the Three Amigos long before going on this stretch?

Honorable Mention Ari Aster - Hereditary Alex Garland - Annihilation Paul Schrader - First Reformed Stefano Sollima - Sicario: Day of the Soldado

Best Actress Emily Blunt - Mary Poppins Returns Lady Gaga - A Star is Born Joanna Kulig - Cold War Thomasin McKenzie - Leave No Trace Soarise Ronan - Mary Queen of Scots

And the Layokie goes to… Soarise Ronan

I’ve talked about this before, but it seems so many years I struggle to come up with a good list of best actresses (while supporting actress overflows with abundance). I had wondered if I was just a misogynist, but it became clear to me over time that there just weren’t nearly as many films with females in starring roles, let along female protagonists. However, not only did I have trouble paring down my favorites to five this year, there were many more female-driven films I could have drawn from. I really felt like this was a year for women in film, and it was great. The idea that women/minority leads can’t drive box office success seems finally to be a thing of the past, and it’s about damn time. This all probably comes across as liberal posturing, but if you know me well you’ll understand it’s really born from my own selfishness. First, I don’t want special treatment over anyone because I highly value fairness, and the reason highly value fairness is mainly because I don’t want anyone else to get special treatment over me. Second, I don’t care if a story is about women, black people, Asian people, aliens, some fish, or a fuckin’ toaster, a good story is a good story, and I don’t want to miss out one because some marketing executive wants to save his ass. Not once have I ever been not able to get into a film because the protagonist was a different age/race/gender than me. Even though some of them aren’t on this list, Annihilation, Ocean’s 8, Thoroughbreds, Suspiria, Roma, The Favourite, Widows, and Mary Queen of Scots not only had female leads, but fully female-centric casts, and all were either da bomb, fairly da bomb, or da bomb-ish.

Honorable Mention Yalitza Aparicio - Roma Claire Foy - Unsane Claire Foy - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Best Supporting Actress Olivia Colman - The Favourite Tyne Daly - The Ballad of Buster Scruggs Cynthia Erivo - Bad Times at the El Royale Nicole Kidman - Boy Erased Regina King - If Beale Street Could Talk

And the Layokie goes to… Tyne Daly

Pretty thrilled TBoBS is on Netflix, because I recently went back just to watch my favorite two segments: “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs” and “The Mortal Remains.” Still not really sure what “The Mortal Remains” is all about ‘cause I’m not that smart about that kind of stuff, but damn did all five of them chew up the scenery, and none more so than Tyne Daly.

Honorable Mention Zoe Kazan - The Ballad of Buster Scruggs Marina de Tavira - Roma Rachel Weisz - The Favourite

Best Actor Ethan Hawke - First Reformed Nicolas Cage - Mandy Ryan Gosling - First Man Viggo Mortenson - Green Book Christian Bale - Vice

And the Layokie goes to… Christian Bale

I didn’t hate Vice, but it seems like everyone else did. I also didn’t love The Big Short, but it also seems like everyone else did, somehow causing the people who loved The Big Short to hate the Vice. But I don’t think you can deny Christian Bale on this one, or at least I don’t think you can triumph Gary Oldman in The Final Hour or whatever it was called, but deny Christian Bale in Vice. (Scroll down to see that I didn’t triumph Gary Oldman last year, even though he might have deserved it.)

Honorable Mention Mahershala Ali - Green Book Bradley Cooper - A Star is Born Joaquin Phoenix - Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot

Best Supporting Actor Robert Pattinson - Damsel Linus Roache - Mandy Timothée Chalamet - Beautiful Boy Harry Melling - The Ballad of Buster Scruggs John Malkovich - Bird Box

And the Layokie goes to… Timothée Chalamet

It’s about this time that I get tired of trying to come up with something to write for everyone of these, so I’ll take my comments of the air. Timothée Chalamet was great!

Honorable Mention Jake Ryan - Eighth Grade

Best Documentary The Dawn Wall Minding the Gap RBG Three Identical Strangers Won’t You Be My Neighbor?

Syeeeke. Did I say I was done coming up with things to write? ‘Cause I got lots to say about this. First let’s get it out of the way. Free Solo is a mediocre documentary about some excellent subject matter. Jimmy Chin made another one of my favorite documentaries, Meru, that definitely did not get the acclaim it deserved, so if he finds that acclaim with Free Solo, then super. And if it wins the Oscar, I won’t be sad about it. What I will be sad about, is that another documentary, also about climbing El Capitan, The Dawn Wall, got totally overshadowed be Free Solo. I watched The Dawn Wall first, and I think that may have something to do with shaping how I felt about Free Solo, but The Dawn Wall had a better, more interesting, more likable protagonist, with a more interesting story to tell about himself and his climbing attempt and way better climbing material! Now, there’s no denying that climbing the full height of El Capitan without a rope is riveting, awe-inspiring, and completely insane, and the 5-10 minutes of Free Solo that actually cover that feat are impossible to top, but if for the other 90 minutes (both films are exactly 1:40) you’d like to watch a doc about climbing El Capitan, it has to be The Dawn Wall. If you’d like those 90 minutes to instead be about a whiny guy who lives in van, then by all means, champion Free Solo. I don’t want to say too much more about why I think it’s better, because I want people to see it and experience it. Hopefully it starts streaming soon. (And if you did see and like Free Solo, please check out Meru, which is currently streaming on Netflix.) The other docs were also great, and what a shame that Won’t You Be My Neighbor? didn’t get nominated for an Oscar, which made me cry evertim.

And the Layokie goes to… Duh, The Dawn Wall -- (See how the wall below makes Alex Honnold’s Free Rider route look like the freaking Aggro Crag from Nickelodeon’s GUTS?)

Best Foreign Film I only saw: Border Capernaum Cold War Roma Shoplifters

And the Layokie goes to… Shoplifters

Now, as always, on to the fun stuff:

Refuse to Watch Any more Clint Eastwood Movies

The 15:17 to Paris was truly a straw-that-broke-the-camel’s-back-breakingly bad movie. Literally worse acting and writing than some student films I’ve seen. And I’m not talking about the Student Academy Awards, I’m talking about the ones I watched from my own peers in my own undergrad film classes. And I’m not talking about some USC or UCLA film classes, I’m talking about University of Oklahoma film classes, where they actively did not give us film equipment to use, because we were a studies program and not a production program, even though no one there wanted to do anything but be writer/directors, and they seemed to resent us all for that fact so we had an edit bay in like an old closet or something and it was on one of the original iMacs with the hockey puck mouse and everything. The last tolerable Clint Eastwood move was Mystic River don’t @ me.

Great in Everything Award Joaquin Phoenix - You Were Never Really Here, Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot, The Sisters Brothers, (and when do we get to see Mary Magdalene??) Cynthia Erivo - Bad Times at the El Royale, Widows

Best Lesbian Rachel Weisz

Deserves Discussion Damsel

Hmm, a New Wave Anit-Western starring Robert Pattinson with folk dancing and real-life weirdo non-actors, an obvious grand slam slam dunk, right? Wrong. Boy do I wish I had known the Zellner Brothers were also the ones behind Kumiko the Treasure Hunter before going into this. I could have at least prepared myself for all the meandering. I don’t really mind meandering if it serves a story/theme, say like in another seminal film in the genre, Meek’s Cutoff, but you can miss me wit dat meandering for meandering’s sake. The script for Damsel is a great example of an antithesis for what made Eighth Grade so great. The meandering here is not only in the physical sense, but also in the story sense, where no scene absolutely had to happen, and nothing in particular means anything. You would think that a character strapping dynamite to themselves and walking a few miles would fill a theater with Hitchcockian dread and similarly provide a Hitchcockian catharsis when that character eventually blows up. Instead, it’s just one more in a long line of things happening that never add up to what we would call a “story.” Like in Kumiko the Treasure Hunter, the interesting parts that never make up a whole are in themselves still interesting, and I’ll forever be grateful for that film’s gift of the discovery of the Yamasuki Singers. In the same way, I’ll forever be grateful to Damsel’s opening credits sequence, the chance for another stellar character performance from R Patt, the incredible mise-en-scène, and for giving Mia Wasikowska another opportunity to put a mediocre film on her back and carry it to the finish line (what if some day she starred in a good movie??). Perhaps my harshest criticism of Damsel is also one of my proudest film-watching moments. The film’s true lead isn’t even featured on the poster; it’s a character named Parson Henry, portrayed by David Zellner. About 3/4 of the way in, I thought to myself, this actor is so absolutely lacking of anything you could call charisma, I bet it’s the director and he cast himself in the lead role, and you know what? It was. *sunglasses emoji*

Best Song All of the Stars

Best Score Tie: First Man and Isle of Dogs

Many LOLs Avengers: Infinity War Eighth Grade The Favourite Mandy

Most Surreal Movie-Watching Moment When me and Becca and Joe and Natalie went to see Rampage kind of as a joke when we had our Moviepasses so it was like whatev, and the theater was PACKED even though it was a week or two after it came out, and at one point The Rock is going in for a pound with the big white gorilla that he trained, and the gorilla fakes the pound, then flips off The Rock and starts gorilla-laughing at its gorilla antics, and the audience went. fucking. NUTS. Like it was the purest moment of comedy that ever existed. It was a Sullivan’s Travels-level eye-opener for me. Give the dumb galoots what they want, and what they want, is to see a gorilla give The Rock the finger.

Most Non-Fun Fun Movie Ready Player One

Please Stop Giving Melissa McCarthy’s husband bit parts in Melissa McCarthy movies (didn’t hate The Happytime Murders btw)

The Something Award Sorry to Bother You

The Nothing Award Crazy Rich Asians

Best Scenes Annihilation - Watching the camcorder footage Aquaman - Escaping the trench creatures Bad Times at the El Royale - Any time Darlene sings The Ballad of Buster Scruggs - All of “The Mortal Remains,” which was basically a single-scene segment Eighth Grade - Chicken nugget dinner The Favourite - The dance (putting my fingertips to my mouth then and then giving it a chef’s kiss: “MWAH”) First Man - the m-er f-ing moon landing (damn that was good, had me on the edge of my seat in both viewings) Free Solo - Despite what I said above, for a stand-alone scene, you cannot beat the final climb Incredibles 2 - Jack Jack/racoon fight The Girl in the Spider’s Web - the motorcycle escape Mandy - So many, but it has to be the Cheddar Goblin Mission Impossible: Fallout - The bathroom fight The Old Man & the Gun - When John and Forrest meet Outlaw King - When they finally(!) had sex A Quiet Place - The very beginning when the whole theater went silent Roma - Fermin’s naked martial arts, Fermin’s denial (so sad!), and the fire A Star is Born - v basic of me, but you cannot deny the first “Shallow” performance The Strangers: Prey at Night - The pool scene Upgrade - The first upgraded fight Won’t You Be My Neighbor? - A lot of them, but it has to be “It’s You I Like” at the end

Best Visuals Annihilation Cold War Mary Poppins Returns The Ritual

Worst Movie of the Year

The 15:17 to Paris (turnoff)

A Wrinkle in Time (walkout)

The Nun

Fireworks

The Meg

Winchester

Rampage

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom

Hold the Dark

Fahrenheit 451

Sadly Missed/Haven't’ Watched Yet At Eternity’s Gate Blaze Burning Destroyer The Kindergarten Teacher Lean on Pete Madeline’s Madeline Mid90s Never Look Away Private Life Support the Girls We the Animals The Wife

Absent on Purpose BlacKkKlansman Black Panther Blindspotting Bohemian Rhapsody

[tuseriesdetv]

Guía de series: Estrenos y regresos de abril 2020

En abril llega Quibi (acrónimo de quick bites), donde las series tendrán episodios de menos de diez minutos de duración optimizados para su visionado en teléfonos móviles. El resto de cadenas y plataformas ya las conocéis. En principio. Y como creemos que tenéis más tiempo del habitual para ver series, esperamos que esta guía os sirva ahora más que nunca.

¡Feliz abril!

Leyenda:

Verde: series nuevas.

Negro: regresos de otras series.

Naranja: miniseries o series documentales.

Amarillo: tv movies, documentales, especiales o pilotos.

Morado: season finales.

Púrpura: midseason finales.

*

Calendario de series

1 de abril: 

Save Me (2T) en Sky Atlantic

How To Fix A Drug Scandal en Netflix

The Magicians (series finale) en Syfy

2 de abril: 

Siren (3T) en Freeform

Man With a Plan (4T) y Broke (1T) en CBS

Maxxx (1T) en E4

How to Get Away with Murder (vuelve) en ABC

3 de abril: 

La casa de papel (4T completa), La casa de papel: El fenómeno y Coffee & Kareem en Netflix

Home Before Dark (1T) en Apple TV+

Tales from the Loop (1T completa) en Amazon

Future Man (3T y última completa) en Hulu

Hawaii Five-0 (series finale) en CBS

5 de abril: 

Atlanta's Missing and Murdered: The Lost Children en HBO

The Walking Dead (10T finale) en AMC

6 de abril: 

When the Streetlights Go On (1T), Most Dangerous Game (1T), Survive (1T) y Flipped (1T) en Quibi

Manifest (2T finale) en NBC

7 de abril: 

The Last O.G. (3T) en TBS

Alma's Not Normal (1T) en BBC Two

The Resident (3T finale) en FOX

Schitt's Creek (series finale) en Pop

8 de abril: 

La línea invisible (1T completa) en Movistar+

Modern Family (series finale) en ABC

9 de abril: 

The Good Fight (4T) en CBS All Access

Bloom (2T completa) en Stan

Grey's Anatomy (16T finale) en ABC

Superstore (5T finale) en NBC

10 de abril: Brews Brothers (1T completa), LA Originals, Tigertail, The Main Event y Love, Wedding, Repeat en Netflix

12 de abril:

Killing Eve (3T) en BBC America

Insecure (4T) y Run (1T) en HBO

13 de abril: 

The Baker and the Beauty (1T) en ABC

Paradise Lost (1T completa) en Spectrum

The Nest (1T finale) en BBC One

Briarpatch (1T finale) en USA Network

14 de abril: New Amsterdam (2T finale) en NBC

15 de abril: 

Mrs. America y What We Do in the Shadows (2T) en FX

Outer Banks (1T completa) y The Innocence Files en Netflix

16 de abril: 

In the Dark (2T) en The CW

Fauda (3T completa) en Netflix

Devs en FX

17 de abril:  

Bosch (6T completa) en Amazon

#blackAF (1T completa) y Sergio en Netflix

20 de abril: 

Vis a vis: El oasis (1T) en FOX España

Better Call Saul (5T finale) en AMC

22 de abril: 

Circus of Books y The Willoughbys en Netflix

Little Fires Everywhere en Hulu

23 de abril: 

La casa de las flores (3T y última completa) en Netflix

Will & Grace (series finale) en NBC

24 de abril: 

Defending Jacob (1T) en Apple TV+

After Life (2T completa) y Extraction en Netflix

25 de abril: Bad Education en HBO

26 de abril: 

Penny Dreadful: City of Angels (1T) en Showtime

Vida (3T) en Starz

Normal People (1T completa) en BBC Three

The Last Kingdom (4T completa) en Netflix

When Calls the Heart (7T finale) en Hallmark

27 de abril: 

Never Have I Ever (1T completa) en Netflix

Breeders (1T finale) en FX

29 de abril: 

A Secret Love, Murder to Mercy: The Cyntoia Brown Story y Summertime (1T completa) en Netflix

30 de abril: Dangerous Lies en Netflix

*

Estrenos de series

Broke (CBS)

La historia se centra en Javier (Jaime Camil, Jane the Virgin, La fea más bella), un hombre que, acostumbrado a vivir sin preocupaciones, ve como su padre decide cortarle el grifo y dejarlo sin dinero. Acto seguido, él, su mujer Elizabeth (Natasha Leggero, Another Period) y su leal asistente Luis (Izzy Diaz; Snowfall, Telenovela) se mudan al apartamento de Jackie (Pauley Perrete, NCIS), la hermana de ella, y su hijo Sammy (Antonio Corbo, Brooklyn Nine-Nine), forzando a las hermanas a reconectar.

Comedia multicámara creada por Alex Herschlag (Will & Grace, Hot in Cleveland) y producida por Jennie Snyder Urman (Jane the Virgin, Gilmore Girls) y Ben Silverman (The Office, Jane the Virgin). El piloto lo dirige Víctor González (Last Man Standing).

Estreno: 2 de abril

Maxxx (E4)

Comedia sobre una antigua y acabadísima estrella de boyband que intenta, con la ayuda de su prima/superfan/acosadora Rose (Helen Monks; Raised by Wolves, Upstart Crow) y de su antiguo mánager (Christopher Meloni; Happy!, Oz), volver a triunfar en la música para recuperar a su exnovia supermodelo (Jourdan Dunn). Con Pippa Bennett-Warner (Harlots), Javone Prince (PhoneShop) y Lucas Jones.

Escrita, producida, dirigida y protagonizada por O-T Fagbenle, actor de The Handmaid's Tale o Looking. Seis episodios.

Estreno: 2 de abril

Home Before Dark (Apple TV+)

Drama de misterio inspirado en la vida de Hilde Lysiak, que en 2016, a los nueve años de edad, expuso un asesinato que todo su pueblo quería enterrar. Protagonizada por Brooklynn Prince (The Florida Project), Jim Sturgess (Cloud Atlas, 21), Abby Miller (Justified, The Sinner), Louis Herthum (Westworld, True Blood), Michael Weston (Houdini and Doyle, House M.D.), Kylie Rogers (Collateral Beauty, The Whispers), Aziza Scott (The Fosters), Joelle Carter (Justified, Scandal), Adrian Hough (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina), Whitney Peak (The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina), Jibrail Nantambu (Halloween) y Deric McCabe (A Wrinkle in Time). Creada por Dana Fox (Ben and Kate) y Dara Resnik (Daredevil, I Love Dick) y dirigido por Jon M. Chu (Now You See Me 2, Crazy Rich Asians). Diez episodios. Ya está renovada por una segunda temporada. Estreno: 3 de abril

Estreno en España: 3 de abril en Apple TV+

Tales from the Loop (Amazon)

Basada en los cuadros futuristas del ilustrador distópico Simon Stålenhag y ambientada en unos años 80 alternativos, trata sobre la gente que vive bajo una máquina construida para descifrar y explorar los misterios del universo. Protagonizada por Rebecca Hall (The Prestige, Vicky Cristina Barcelona), Jonathan Pryce (Game of Thrones, Taboo), Paul Schneider (Chance, Channel Zero), Daniel Zolghadri (Scorpion, Eighth Grade) y Duncan Joiner (Waco, Camping).

Escrita por Nathaniel Halpern (Legion, Outcast) y dirigida por Mark Romanek (One Hour Photo, Never Let Me Go). Ocho episodios.

Estreno: 3 de abril Estreno en España: 3 de abril en Amazon España

When the Streetlights Go On (Quibi)

Tras el asesinato de una joven, su hermana y sus compañeros de instituto deben intentar volver a la normalidad durante la investigación. Con Chosen Jacobs (Castle Rock, It), Kristine Froseth (Looking for Alaska, The Society), Queen Latifah (Star, Chicago), Tony Hale (Veep, Arrested Development), Mark Duplass (Togetherness, The Morning Show), Sophie Thatcher (Chicago Med), Sam Strike (Nightflyers), Cameron Bancroft (Beverly Hills, 90210), Ben Ahlers (The Village), Julia Sarah Stone (The Killing, Aftermath) y Nnamdi Asomugha (Hello, My Name Is Doris) y David Lewis.

Escrita y producida por Eddie O'Keefe y Chris Hutton y dirigida por Rebecca Thomas (Limetown).

Estreno: 6 de abril

Most Dangerous Game (Quibi)

Desesperado por cuidar a su esposa embarazada antes de que una enfermedad terminal acabe con su vida, Dodge (Liam Hemsworth; The Hunger Games, The Last Song) acepta participar en un juego mortal en el que pronto descubre que no es el cazador, sino la presa. Con Christoph Waltz (Inglourious Basterds, Django Unchained), Sarah Gadon (Alias Grace, True Detective), Zach Cherry (You, Living with Yourself), Aaron Poole (Salvation, This Beautiful City), Christopher Webster (Turn, Cucumber), Billy Burke (Revolution, Zoo), Jimmy Akingbola (Arrow, In the Long Run) y Natasha Bordizzo (The Society, The Greatest Showman).

Escrita y producida por Nick Santora (Prison Break, Scorpion). Dirigida y producida por Phil Abraham (Orange Is the New Black, Daredevil).

Estreno: 6 de abril

Survive (Quibi)

Jane (Sophie Turner, Game of Thrones, Dark Phoenix) es una joven con tendencias suicidas que sobrevive a un accidente de avión en la montaña y allí se encuentra con Paul (Corey Hawkins; The Walking Dead, Straight Outta Compton), un desconocido que tendrá que ayudarla a sobrevivir al entorno salvaje y también a sus traumas personales. Basada en la novela de Alex Morel (2012). Escrita por Richard Abate (Witches of East End) y Jeremy Ungar (Ride) y dirigida por Mark Pellington (Blindspot, Cold Case).

Estreno: 6 de abril

Flipped (Quibi)

Jann (Will Forte; The Last Man on Earth, Saturday Night Live) y Cricket (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, The Mick) creen que tienen lo que hace falta para convertirse en la próxima pareja que reforme casas en televisión. Desafortunadamente, un cártel mexicano les encarga renovar su mansión. Con Eva Longoria (Desperate Housewives, The Young and the Restless), Andy Garcia (The Godfather: Part III, Ocean's Eleven) y Arturo Castro (Broad City, Narcos).

Escrita por Steve Mallory (The Boss) y Damon Jones y dirigida por Ryan Case (Atypical, Modern Family).

Estreno: 6 de abril

Brews Brothers (Netflix)

Sigue a dos hermanos que habían perdido la relación y acaban abriendo juntos una fábrica cervecera. Ambos son genios de la cerveza pero muy distintos tanto en personalidad como en técnica. Protagonizada por Alan Aisenberg (Orange Is the New Black, Mozart in the Jungle) y Mike Castle (Clipped). Les acompañan Carmen Flood, Marques Ray (Dr. Ken), Inanna Sarkis (After) y Zach Reino.

Comedia creada por los hermanos Greg y Jeff Schaffer, escrita por Greg (That 70's Show, Mad About You) y producida por Jeff (Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm). Ocho episodios.

Estreno: 10 de abril

Estreno en España: 10 de abril en Netflix España

Run (HBO)

La monótona vida de Ruby (Merrit Wever; Unbelievable, Godless) da un vuelco cuando recibe un mensaje de su antiguo amor universitario (Domhnall Gleeson; Ex Machina, About Time). Hace diecisiete años pactaron que si uno de ellos escribía el mensaje "Run" y el otro contestaba lo mismo, lo dejarían todo y se reencontrarían en Nueva York para viajar por todo el país. Con Phoebe Waller-Bridge (Fleabag, Broadchurch), Rich Sommer (Mad Men, GLOW), Tamara Podemski (Coroner, Unsettled) y Archie Panjabi (The Good Wife, Blindspot).

Escrita y producida por Vicky Jones (Killing Eve, Fleabag). Producida por Phoebe Waller-Bridge (Killing Eve, Fleabag). Ocho episodios.

Estreno: 12 de abril

Estreno en España: 13 de abril en HBO España

The Baker and the Beauty (ABC)

Cuenta el improbable romance entre un panadero (Victor Rasuk; Stalker, Colony) y una estrella internacional (Nathalie Kelley; Dynasty, UnREAL) en Miami. Él trabaja en el negocio familiar y hace todo lo que su familia cubana espera de él, y ella es una magnate de la moda que, a raíz de esta nueva relación, va a probar el choque de culturas. Completan el cast Dan Bucatinsky (Web Therapy, Scandal), Lisa Vidal (Being Mary Jane, Rosewood), Carlos Gómez (The Glades, Gang Related), Belissa Escobedo, Michelle Veintimilla (Gotham, Seven Seconds), David del Río (The Troop, Grease Live!) y Georgina Reilly (Murdoch Mysteries, City on a Hill).

Basada en una serie israelí y adaptada por Dean Georgaris (The Brave, Bluff City Law). Producida por Keshet Studios, productora de la original. Dirigida por David Frankel (The Devil Wears Prada, Collateral Beauty).

Estreno: 13 de abril

Paradise Lost (Spectrum)

Una psiquiatra (Bridget Regan; Jane the Virgin, Agent Carter) de Palo Alto, California se muda con su marido (Josh Hartnett; Penny Dreadful, Lucky Number Slevin) y sus hijos al pequeño pueblo de Mississippi donde él creció y allí descubre varios secretos vergonzosos, muchos de ellos relacionados con la hermana fallecida de él, que cambian las vidas de todos los involucrados. Completan el reparto Nick Nolte (The Prince of Tides, Warrior), Barbara Hershey (The Portrait of a Lady, Once Upon a Time), Gail Bean (Snowfall, Games People Play), Danielle Deadwyler (Watchmen, The Haves and the Have Nots), Shane McRae (Sneaky Pete, The Following), Silas Weir Mitchell (Grimm, Prison Break) y Autry Haydon-Wilson (Interrogation).

Escrita por Rodes Fishburne (Blood & Oil) y Arika Lisanne Mittman (Dexter, Timeless). Diez episodios.

Estreno: 13 de abril

Mrs. America (FX)

Cate Blanchett (Carol, The Aviator) protagoniza esta limited series dedicada a Phyllis Schlafly (1924-2016), activista y política conservadora que se opuso al feminismo y tomó parte en la derrota de la enmienda de igualdad de derechos. Contará a través de los ojos de varias mujeres de la época, como la propia Schlafly o Gloria Steinem, cómo las luchas culturales de los años 70 desembocaron en el nacimiento de la organización ultraconservadora y fundamentalista cristiana Moral Majority.

Con Sarah Paulson (American Horror Story, Studio 60), Uzo Aduba (Orange Is the New Black), Rose Byrne (Damages, Bridesmaids), Margo Martindale (The Americans, The Good Wife), Niecy Nash (Claws, Scream Queens), Jeanne Tripplehorn (Big Love, Basic Instinct), Tracey Ullman (The Tracey Ullman Show), James Marsden (Westworld, X-Men), John Slattery (Mad Men, Desperate Housewives), Melanie Lynskey (Two and a Half Men, Castle Rock), Ari Graynor (I'm Dying Up Here, Fringe), Kayli Carter (Godless), Elizabeth Banks (30 Rock, Wet Hot American Summer), Bria Henderson y Olivia Scriven (Degrassi: The Next Generation).

Creada y escrita por Dahvi Waller (Mad Men, Halt and Catch Fire). Nueve episodios.

Estreno: 15 de abril

Estreno en España: 15 de abril en HBO España

Outer Banks (Netflix)

Trata sobre un grupo de adolescentes, conocidos como los Pogues, que buscan al desaparecido padre de su cabecilla, John B. (Chase Stokes; Tell Me Your Secrets, Daytime Divas), y por el camino encuentran un mapa que esconde un secreto. Con Charles Esten (Nashville, The Office), Madelyn Cline (Boy Erased), Madison Bailey (Black Lightning, Creepshow), Jonathan Daviss (Age of Summer), Rudy Pankow, Austin North, Drew Starkey (The Hate U Give; Love, Simon) y Caroline Arapoglou (Stranger Things, The Resident). Creada y producida por Jonas Pate (Believe, Blood & Oil), Josh Pate (Blood & Oil, Legends) y Shannon Burke. Diez episodios. Estreno: 15 de abril Estreno en España: 15 de abril en Netflix España

#blackAF (Netflix)

Comedia con una visión irreverente, muy defectuosa e increíblemente honesta de ser padre, las relaciones, la raza y la cultura. Protagonizada y producida por Kenya Barris y Rashida Jones (Angie Tribeca, Parks and Recreation). Completan el reparto Iman Benson (Alexa & Katie, Uncle Buck), Genneya Walton (Extant, Project Mc²), Scarlet Spencer (Cousins for Life, Shameless), Justin Claiborne (Marriage Story), Ravi Cabot-Conyers (The Artist's Wife, Tell Me a Story) y Richard Gardenhire Jr.

Escrita por Barris (Black-ish, Grown-ish) e inspirada en su propia vida. Ocho episodios. Estreno: 17 de abril Estreno en España: 17 de abril en Netflix España

Defending Jacob (Apple TV+)

En un pequeño pueblo de Massachusetts, un padre (Chris Evans; The Avengers, Knives Out) ha de lidiar con las repercusiones de la acusación de asesinato de su hijo de catorce años (Jaeden Martell; It, Masters of Sex). Con Michelle Dockery (Downton Abbey, Good Behavior), Cherry Jones (Transparent, Awake), Pablo Schreiber (Orange Is the New Black, American Gods), Paul Wesley (The Vampire Diaries, Tell Me a Story), Betty Gabriel (Get Out, Counterpart), Sakina Jaffrey (Timeless, House of Cards), Nathan Parsons (The Originals, Once Upon a Time), Leighton Meester (Gossip Girl, Single Parents), Kat Graham (The Vampire Diaries), Daniel Henshall (Turn, Lambs of God), Matt Lanter (Timeless, Heroes), Poorna Jagannathan (The Night Of, Gypsy), Jake Picking (Dirty Grandpa, Horse Girl) y William Xifaras. Basada en la novela de William Landay (2012). Escrita y producida por Mark Bomback (Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, The Wolverine) y dirigida por Morten Tyldum (The Imitation Game, Passengers). Ocho episodios. Estreno: 24 de abril Estreno en España: 24 de abril en Apple TV+

Penny Dreadful: City of Angels (Showtime)

En esta nueva historia del universo Penny Dreadful ambientada en Los Ángeles en 1938, el detective Tiago Vega (Daniel Zovatto; Here and Now, Don't Breathe), primer detective mexicano de la ciudad; y su compañero Lewis Michener (Nathan Lane; Modern Family, The Good Wife), veterano que se convierte en su mentor; se ven envueltos en una peligrosa investigación de asesinato que navega por la compleja historia de Los Ángeles en un caso que mezcla el folclore, las profecías y el culto a la muerte y al diablo. Con Natalie Dormer (Game of Thrones, The Hunger Games), Rory Kinnear (Years and Years, Penny Dreadful), Piper Perabo (Coyote Ugly, Covert Affairs), Jessica Garza (The Purge, Six), Jonathan Nieves (See You Yesterday), Adriana Barraza (The Strain, Babel), Kerry Bishé (Halt and Catch Fire, Narcos), Amy Madigan (Carnivàle, Gone Baby Gone), Brent Spiner (Star Trek: The Next Generation, Outcast), Lin Shaye (Insidious, There's Something About Mary), Adam Rodriguez (Criminal Minds, CSI: Miami), Thomas Kretschmann (Wanted, Berlin Station), Dominic Sherwood (Shadowhunters), Ethan Peck (Star Trek: Discovery), Michael Gladis (Mad Men, Feed the Beast), Lorenza Izzo (Feed the Beast, The House with a Clock in Its Walls), Sebastian Chacon (Tales of the City, Pose), Adan Rocha (Brockmire, Murphy Brown), Hudson West (American Crime Story, Grace and Frankie) y Julian Hilliard (The Haunting of Hill House).

Escrita por John Logan (Penny Dreadful, Gladiator) y producida por Sam Mendes (1917, Penny Dreadful) y Michael Aguilar (Kidding, I'm Dying Up Here). Dirigida por, entre otros, Paco Cabezas (Penny Dreadful, Into the Badlands). Ocho episodios.

Estreno: 26 de abril Estreno en España: Abril en Movistar+

Normal People (BBC Three)

Marianne (Daisy Edgar-Jones; Cold Feet, Gentleman Jack) y Connell (Paul Mescal), ambos del mismo pueblo de Irlanda pero de orígenes muy distintos, empiezan su esporádica y complicada relación antes de acabar el instituto, pero la serie se centra en sus vidas en la universidad. Sally Rooney adapta su propia novela (2018) junto a Alice Birch (Succession). Dirigida por Lenny Abrahamson (Room, Adam & Paul) y Hettie McDonald (Fortitude, Doctor Who). Doce episodios. Estreno: 26 de abril

Never Have I Ever (Netflix)

Comedia sobre la complicada vida de una adolescente india (Maitreyi Ramakrishnan) que vive en Estados Unidos y ha perdido recientemente a su padre (Sendhil Ramamurthy; Heroes, The Office). Con Poorna Jagannathan (The Night Of, Big Little Lies), Ramona Young (Legends of Tomorrow, Santa Clarita Diet), Benjamin Norris (The Pregame), Adam Shapiro (Sense8, The Affair), Lee Rodriguez y Richa Shukla. Narrada por el tenista John McEnroe. Creada y escrita por Mindy Kaling (The Mindy Project, The Office) e inspirada en su propia vida. Diez episodios. Estreno: 27 de abril Estreno en España: 27 de abril en Netflix España

Summertime (Netflix)

Ambientada en la costa adriática en verano, sigue a Summer (Coco Rebecca Edogamhe) y Ale (Ludovico Tersigni, SKAM Italia), dos jóvenes de mundos muy distintos que se sienten innegablemente atraídos. Él es un excampeón de motociclismo decidido a retomar las riendas de su vida y ella sueña con volar lejos pero sabe que es quien mantiene unida a su familia. Con Andrea Lattanzi (Sulla mia pelle), Amanda Campana, Giovanni Maini y Alicia Ann Edogamhe. Inspirada en la novela 'A tres metros sobre el cielo' de Federico Moccia (1992). Escrita por Anita Rivaroli (Grand Hotel, SKAM Italia), Francesco Lagi, Daniella Delle Foglie (Maggie & Bianca Fashion Friends), Mirko Cetrangolo (The Young Pope, 1993), Enrico Audenino (Maggie & Bianca Fashion Friends) y Sofia Assirelli (La porta rossa, Tutto può succedere). Ocho episodios. Estreno: 29 de abril Estreno en España: 29 de abril en Netflix España

[cambridgewritersworkshop]

For those writers, editors, and lit fans traveling to the 2020 AWP Conference (March 4-7) in San Antonio, TX this week, come stop by the Cambridge Writers’ Workshop’s AWP Bookfair Table at T2164! Also, check our CWW Creative Director Rita Banerjee’s panel “Dismantling the White Imagination: On Intimacy in Creative Nonfiction” featuring our Summer in Paris Nonfiction Faculty David Shields on Saturday, March 7 from 9-10:15 am in Room 205, Henry B. González Convention Center, Meeting Room Level (San Antonio, TX).

Course registration for our 2020 Spring in New Orleans Writing Retreat (March 19-22) and Summer in Paris Writing Retreat (July 16-21) is now live! Apply by March 10 for our NOLA Retreat and May 30 for our Paris Retreat on cww.submittable.com.

Our 2020 award-winning faculty includes essayist David Shields, playwright Stephen Aubrey, poet Diana Norma Szokolyai, and poet and essayist Rita Banerjee. 

Join the Cambridge Writers’ Workshop for our offsite reading at Rosella Coffee House (203 E Jones Ave, Suite 101) in San Antonio, TX! Featured readers include Rita Banerjee, Madeleine Barnes, Alex Carrigan, Kristina Marie Darling, Charlene Elsby, Adilene Hernandez, Tim Horvath, Samuel Kóláwọlé, Rachel Kurasz, and Mari Pack! Come celebrate with a gorgeous night of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and speculative writing!  More info on the reading & featured authors below!

  Featured Readers:

Rita Banerjee is the Executive Creative Director of the Cambridge Writers’ Workshop and editor of CREDO: An Anthology of Manifestos and Sourcebook for Creative Writing (C&R Press, May 2018).   She is the author of the poetry collection Echo in Four Beats (Finishing Line Press, March 2018), which was nominated for the 2019 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize at the Academy of American Poets, featured on the Ruth Stone Foundation podcast, and named one of Book Riot’s “Must-Read Poetic Voices of Split This Rock 2018”, and was selected by Finishing Line Press as their 2018 nominee for the National Book Award in Poetry.  Banerjee is also the author of the novella “A Night with Kali” in Approaching Footsteps (Spider Road Press, 2016), and the poetry chapbook Cracklers at Night (Finishing Line Press, 2010).  She is the co-writer and co-director of Burning Down the Louvre (2020), a documentary film about race, intimacy, and tribalism in the United States and in France.  She received her doctorate in Comparative Literature from Harvard and her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Washington, and she is a recipient of a Vermont Studio Center Artist’s Grant, the Tom and Laurel Nebel Fellowship, and South Asia Initiative and Tata Grants.  Her writing appears in the Academy of American Poets, Poets & Writers, PANK, Nat. Brut., The Scofield, The Rumpus, Painted Bride Quarterly, Mass Poetry, Hyphen Magazine, Los Angeles Review of Books, Electric Literature, VIDA: Women in Literary Arts, AWP WC&C Quarterly, Queen Mob’s Tea House, Riot Grrrl Magazine, The Fiction Project, Objet d’Art, KBOO Radio’s APA Compass, and elsewhere. She is the Director of the MFA in Writing & Publishing program at the Vermont College of Fine Arts and an Associate Scholar of Comparative Literature at Harvard.  She is currently working on a novel, a book on South Asian literary modernisms, and a collection of lyric essays on race, sex, politics, and everything cool.  Her writing is represented by agents Jeff Kleinman and Jamie Chambliss of Folio Literary Management.

Madeleine Barnes is a poet and visual artist from Pittsburgh living in Brooklyn. She is a doctoral fellow at CUNY’s Ph.D. Program in English, and the recipient of a New York State Summer Writers Institute Fellowship, two Academy of American Poets prizes, and the Princeton Poetry Prize. Her second chapbook, Light Experiments, is forthcoming from Porkbelly Press this year, and her protest embroideries were recently featured in Boston Accent Lit. She serves as Poetry Editor at Cordella Magazine.

Alex Carrigan is an associate editor with the American Correctional Association. He has edited and proofed the anthologies CREDO: An Anthology of Manifestos and Sourcebook for Creative Writing (C&R Press, 2018) and Her Plumage: An Anthology of Women’s Writings from Quail Bell Magazine (2019). He has had fiction, poetry, and media reviews published in Quail Bell Magazine, Life in 10 Minutes, Realms YA Fantasy Literary Magazine, Mercurial Stories, Lambda Literary Review, Stories About Penises (Guts Publishing, 2019) and the forthcoming anthologies Closet Cases: Queers on What We Wear (Et Alia Press, 2020) and Whale Road Review (Summer 2020). He currently lives in Alexandria, VA.  

Kristina Marie Darling is the author of thirty books, including Look to Your Left: The Poetics of Spectacle (University of Akron Press, 2020); Je Suis L’Autre: Essays & Interrogations (C&R Press, 2017), which was named one of the “Best Books of 2017” by The Brooklyn Rail; and DARK HORSE: Poems (C&R Press, 2018). Her work has been recognized with three residencies at Yaddo, where she has held both the Martha Walsh Pulver Residency for a Poet and the Howard Moss Residency in Poetry; a Fundación Valparaíso fellowship; a Hawthornden Castle Fellowship, funded by the Heinz Foundation; an artist-in-residence position at Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris; three residencies at the American Academy in Rome; two grants from the Whiting Foundation; a Morris Fellowship in the Arts; and the Dan Liberthson Prize from the Academy of American Poets, among many other awards and honors. Her poems appear in The Harvard Review, Poetry International, New American Writing, Nimrod, Passages North, The Mid-American Review, and on the Academy of American Poets’ website, Poets.org. She has published essays in The Kenyon Review, Agni, Ploughshares, The Gettysburg Review, Gulf Coast, The Iowa Review, and numerous other magazines. Kristina currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of Tupelo Press and Tupelo Quarterly, an opinion columnist at The Los Angeles Review of Books, and a contributing writer at Publishers Weekly.

Charlene Elsby, Ph.D., is the Philosophy Program Director at Purdue University Fort Wayne. Her first novel, HEXIS, was published by CLASH Books. Her second novel, AFFECT, is forthcoming with The Porcupine’s Quill.

    Adilene Hernández is a queer, Latina writer and educator with roots in Atlanta, GA. She earned her B.A. in Creative Writing from Knox College, and she aspires to continue her studies through an M.F.A. program. She is an alumna of the Winter Tangerine Workshop and Cambridge Writers’ Workshop. She is currently at work on her first two novels, both of which focus on family ties and identity in the Latinx culture.

              Samuel Kọ́láwọlé was born and raised in Ibadan, Nigeria. His work has appeared in AGNI, Gulf Coast, Washington Square Review and Consequence amongst other literary journals. Samuel was a finalist for the 2018 Graywolf Prize for Africa and winner of the 2019 Editor-Writer Mentorship Program for Diverse Writers. His fiction has been supported with fellowships, residencies, and scholarships from the Norman Mailer Centre, International Writing Program at the University of Iowa,  Columbus State University’s Carson McCullers Center for Writers and Musicians, Clarion West Writers Workshop, Wellstone Centre in the Redwoods California, and Island Institute. Samuel was educated at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria and holds a Master of Arts degree in Creative Writing with distinction from Rhodes University, South Africa and an MFA in Writing and Publishing at Vermont College of Fine Arts, USA. His debut novel The Road to Salt Sea is forthcoming from Amistad/Harper Collins.

        Rachel Kurasz is a PhD student at Northern Illinois University where she is studying rhetoric/composition and Graphic Novels/Comic Books.  Rachel earned her MFA in Creative Writing from Roosevelt University under the guidance of Christian TeBordo and Kyle Beachy. Rachel also was a Fall 2017 AWP writer to writer under mentor Laura Creedle.  Rachel is currently querying and writing her first graphic novel series entitled “weirdos”.

  Mari Pack is a poet and writer from the suburbs of Washington, D.C. She has an MA from the University of Toronto, and is a current MFA candidate at Hunter College.

        We look forward to seeing you at AWP 2020!

Join the Cambridge Writers’ Workshop at AWP 2020!! For those writers, editors, and lit fans traveling to the 2020 AWP Conference (March 4-7) in San Antonio, TX this week, come stop by the…

[metropolisanluis]

Con pop, rock y jazz, la OSSLP cierra sus festejos por 18 aniversario

Con pop, rock y jazz, la OSSLP cierra sus festejos por 18 aniversario

La Secretaría de Cultura presenta en concierto a la Orquesta Sinfónica de San Luis Potosí interpretando versiones sinfónicas de grandes clásicos de las décadas 50’s, 60’s, 70’s, 80’s, 90’s y hasta nuestros días con la agrupación Gatos Rojos, comandada por el maestro Vadim Galinsky, este viernes 13 de julio a las 7 de la noche en el Teatro Carlos Amador del Parque Tangamanga I.   En este concierto, que marca además el final de la Temporada de Conciertos Primavera-Verano 2018, la OSSLP y Gatos Rojos, bajo la batuta de José Miramontes Zapata, abarcará canciones como “Around the Clock”, que interpretara en 1954 Bill Haley y sus Cometas y que se convirtiera en la catapulta del rock and roll. De esa misma década se interpretará además, la pieza clásica de rock and roll (y único hit de la banda The Champs): “Tequila”. La historia de esta canción comienza en 1957, Dave Burgess, vocalista de The Champs, presionado por su disquera necesitaba al menos un éxito. En víspera de la Navidad de 1957, contrata a la banda “The Flores Trio” para que acompañara sus nuevas canciones. Les faltaba una melodía para incluir en el lado B. Mientras esperaban la canción, los músicos empezaron a tocar una pieza que había escrito el saxofonista Daniel Flores titulada “Tequila!”, única palabra que se pronunciaba dentro de la llamativa instrumentación, lo que vino después todos lo sabemos, pues hasta nuestros días la escuchamos en fiestas, programas de TV, películas, etc.   De la década de los 60’s escucharemos canciones éxito de Los Rolling Stones (Satisfaction. 1965); Los Beatles (Pepper’s Lonely Heart Club Band. 1966); James Brown (I Feel Good. 1966); y Shoking Blue (Venus. 1969), canción que en 1986 regresara a escena el trio Bananarama y convirtiéndose en una de las más reconocidas de los años setentas y ochentas.   Del álbum “Nothing Like the Sun”, de Sting, escucharemos “Englishman in New York (1987), canción inspirada en Quentin Crisp, escritor, modelo artístico, cuenta historias e icono gay de los años 70’s.   Con ritmo “funny”, “Another One Bites The Dust” (1980) sencillo de Queen del álbum “The Game” y de la que Bryan May y Roger Taylor cuentan que en un principio no iba a incluirse en el álbum y luego no la iban a usar como sencillo por no considerarla “lo suficientemente buena”, pero Michael Jackson los convenció  de hacerlo y se convirtió en su primer número uno en Estados Unidos. En esta canción Queen abandona su estilo típico de rock duro y experimental para dar paso asonidos más Disco y Dance.   Del Rey del Pop, Michael Jackson, se interpretarán “Bad” (1987) y “Smooth Criminal” (1988), ambas canciones incluidas en el álbum “Bad”, álbum sacado cinco años después de su monumental “Thriller” y que marcó un giro en la vida artística del cantante al crear un nuevo sonido, siempre en evolución y convirtiéndose en influencia masiva de los más grandes artistas de la actualidad.   Considerada el clímax del movimiento “Grunge” e himno de los 90’s de la llamada Generación X, “Smells Like Teen Spirit”, de Nirvana, será otra de las canciones que escucharemos en esta velada. De esta misma década se interpreta “Californication”, del grupo de rock alternativo y funk rock estadounidense Red Hot Chili Peppers.   Y para cerrar este recuento por la música, los Gatos Rojos y la OSSLP interpretarán el primer sencillo del álbum “1000 Forms of Fear”: “Chandelier”, de la australiana Sia, considerada por algunos la mejor canción pop de 2014.   Los Gatos Rojos está integrada por el violinista Vadim Galinsky, Alex Guajardo en la guitarra, Alfredo Martínez Bacio en el bajo y en la batería, Rolando González y Guillermo Pérez.   Los boletos para este concierto ya están a la venta en las oficinas de la OSSLP (Constitución esq. Galeana, Centro) de 8am a 3pm y en la taquilla del Teatro Carlos Amador del Parque Tangamanga I el viernes 13 de julio a partir de las 5 de la tarde. -

[astridhoff03]

I had a Little Idea 💡

A rough Rewirte Idea I have, that I want to Share with you.

The First thing I would do is, outwrite the disrespectful Connection to the Trilogy. Then I would give all the characters emotional backgrounds. (Jun & D’Angelo wouldn’t exist in My rewirte Universe, because I don‘t know what to do with These two.) Tom has no Connection to Hiccup and Astrid and his Dad is ahead of a research station That Researches Old civilisations. His Mum is ahead of a archilogy Team there. Because his parents Are divorced but still forced to work with each other, the releationship between them is Not the best because they Part ways on bad terms. The bad releationship between his parents affects Tom, because they Are always fighting and hating at each other. One day it all becomes too much for him and he runs away. He hides in an Old Ruin where he finds an old Journal with Stories about Hiccup and his Family and their life on New Berk. (There you could put Flashbacks in a respectful way where we See for example the Wedding Party from Hiccstrid, Pregnant Astrid, Zephyr and Nuffink as babys, their first steps,…). Then he could find Alex and Eugene who also hide in there. Alex because she needs some alone time and Eugene because he had a terrible fight with his Mum. (The Background-Stories of These two were: Alex was bullied in School because she has two Mums and also because she‘s very shy and different than the others. Eugene on the other Hand loses his Dad on Cancer and he and his Mum Haven’t the best releationship after his dead, they also weren‘t on the best terms before.) In one of the Old Ruins they found the old Dragon Book and Stoicks Notes about the hidden World. The three decide to search for this secret world, because they wanted to Go on a Adventure to forget which Troubles they have. They three Happen to find the Hidden World After a Long Journey. First they Are very afraid of this gigantic World and the Dragons they first encounter with. But soon they became Friends. For the three their Dragon-Friends became a Escape from the Reality of Life. The Kids thinking about to stay in the Hidden World But have to relealize that its untamble for humans. So they have to Go Back to face their demons. But they decide they will come back to their new found Friends to Visit them. However, the more often they visit the dragons, the more skeptical their parents become. And not just them, some scientists too. One day, one scientis follow Them and Discover the Dragons. He/She kills one and brought it back to the Research Station, where other scientist want to find More Dragons. Now the Kids most Protect the Dragons from the Scientist, to keep Hiccup and Toothless‘ Legacy but also most learn to face their issuse they have in their lifes.

The whole massage would stick true to the Trilogys ending But the overarching theme for this would be the importance of Family, Friendship, to face your Troubles and that you can‘t run away from your Problems.

I still wish someday we get something good out of this Spin-off Show because I want so badly Httyd in modern day. It would be so cool and interesting.

[vicentagarciabernal]

Luis Miguel, la Serie, los protagonistas y 10 cosas que podrás ver de El Sol

¿Quién no recuerda a ese LuisMi bronceado, con sexy sonrisa y disfrutando de su casa en Acapulco? Canciones como "La Incondicional", "La chica del bikini azul", "Ahora te puedes marchar"... son iconos de toda una generación. 

 Hijo del cantautor español, Luisito Rey y de la actriz italiana Marcela Basteri, a los 11 años comenzó su carrera musical y en noviembre del año pasado lanzó su disco de estudio número 22. Con más de 36 años de carrera artística, una estrella en el paseo de la fama en Hollywoood y seis premios Grammy, estrena por Netflix su única serie oficial y autorizada.

 Escrita por Daniel Krauze y dirigida por Humberto Hinojosa, "Luis Miguel, La Serie" cuenta con la producción ejecutiva de Mark Burnett, Carla González Vargas y Pablo Cruz, en esta producción de Gato Grande Productions en unión con MGM.

 Los protagonistas: Diego Boneta, Óscar Jaenada, Camila Sodi, Juan Pablo Zurita, Paulina Dávila, Izan Llunas, Axel Madrazo, Andrés Almeida y Kevin Holt.

 Mejor conocido por su participación en exitosas producciones mexicanas y de Hollywood incluyendo "Rock of Ages" y "Scream Queens", Diego Boneta protagoniza la serie como Luis Miguel. 

 Oscar Jaenada, interpreta al papá de Luis Miguel, Luis Rey, es un galardonado actor español ganador del premio Goya que ha estelarizado exitosas películas como "The Shadow" y "Snatched" The Shadow y próximamente "Chaos Walking" al lado de Tom Holland, actor que interpreta al superhéroe Spider-Man en "Spider-Man Homecoming" y la película dirigida por Terry Gilliam, "The Man Who Killed Don Quixote", al lado de Adam Driver (Kylo Ren en "Star Wars El despertar de la fuerza" y "Los últimos Jedi").

 Camila Sodi, es actriz y cantante quien ha participado en numerosas películas, será la novia de Luis Miguel. 

 Paulina Dávila, ha trabajado en importantes películas y producciones televisivas, le da vida al primer amor de Luis Miguel. 

 Juan Pablo Zurita, uno de los influencers más importantes de América Latina, será Alex, hermano de Luis Miguel. 

 La serie también contará con el actor argentino César Bordón como Hugo López; la actriz mexicana Vanessa Bauche, como la directora de prensa Rosy Esquivel y el actor Andrés Almeida como el contador Armando Serna.

 Lo que debes saber de la serie...

Es la versión oficialmente autorizada y basada en la vida de Luis Miguel.

Fue grabada en la Ciudad de México. 

Verás como Micky (como lo llaman sus familiares) encuentra un gran apoyo y seguridad al lado de su mamá Marcela (Anna Favella) y su hermano menor Alex (Juan Pablo “JuanPa” Zurita). 

Sabrás que a los 11 años, con un talento natural como cantante, su papá, Luis Rey (Oscar Jaenada) desarrolló una campaña obsesiva para convertir a su hijo mayor en una superestrella, contrario al fracasado sueño de su propio éxito. 

Conocerás las tragedias personales de las que nunca ha hablado, como la misteriosa desaparición de su mamá y el doloroso rompimiento con Luis Rey, su papá y manager, de quien Luis Miguel descubre detalles siniestros. 

Hablarán de los sacrificios que tuvo que hacer para alcanzar el éxito.

Verás un recorrido desde su infancia a través de los años 80 y su gran éxito como artista en la década de los 90. 

Conocerás al hombre detrás de la estrella y cómo se convirtió  en la estrella del pop. 

Cómo la fama y la fortuna pueden cambiar a una familia.

  ¿Qué más podrás ver en la serie? Sus amores, excesos, conquistas y su mayor pasión: la música. 

 Se estrena hoy a las 10 PM en Netflix en México, Latinoamérica y España y podrás verla cada domingo a las 9:00 pm #LuisMiguelLaSerie

 POR: MAYRA RODRÍGUEZ

   Lee el articulo completo en: Padres e Hijos México via http://www.padresehijos.com.mx

[astridhoff03]

My overrall thoughts on T9R

I Never thought that I get a tantrum from a TV-Show who some how „should conncet“ to my Favorite Franchise of all the time. That is the Greatest Movie-Trilogy of all time, has an poweful, emotional Story behind it, breathteaking and stunning Animation, a Beautiful Soundtrack and complexe, funny, releateble Characters with Great Voice-Actors.

And some how this Show managed it to destroy the Main Character of the OG Franchise. Which is my Favorite Protagonist of all Movies. Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the third would never Go Back to the hidden World, would Never lock up a Dragon because he loves Dragons and knows he has a responsel for Berk. His entire speech in the end of the third Movie was about, That there Are places were humans shouldn‘t Go because they would destroy it. And By the way fuck Tom that he feed Hiccups leg to a Dragon. He doesn’t deserve the Name Haddock, Not only for that, also he is a fucking Idiot who never Learns. His Dragon is really stupid too, he doesn’t understand that the needs of the many, outweigh the needs of the few, ergo he doesn’t deserve being the Alpha in the end of the series. This Fuckboy and his Cow doesn’t earn anything in this Show. He should be the descandant of One of the Villains in the Movies, maybe Grimmel. And it would make the Show better. His love intrest Jun is a totally bitch, there is no other word to describe her. D‘Angelo, I have no Idea what I should think about him. The only two Good Characteres Are Alex, who is the Queen of this entire Show and is unlike the other Characters intelligent and releatable. Eugene, Fun Character I like him, he shouldn‘t be Juns Brother. He is way to good for her and he reminds Me a little bit of Kenji from Camp Createous, which I personally really like but Kenji has the better design and is better written.

And I‘m really happy That This Show had come Finally to an end, which is the Best thing ever happen in this Show, except for Alex & Eugene. In My opinion this Show is Not Canon because what it does to the Original. Yeah, they’ve been some good Ideas Here and there But its Not an exucese to damage the whole Story of our beloved Hiccup and replace him and Toothless with two Motherfuckers like Tom and Thunder. I‘m honest I don‘t trust DreamWorks in Relation to the Httyd-Franchise anymore. What the hell are they doing with the Canon? It would be better if Dean DeBlois were in carge of the Franchise he created.