#kirsten raymonde

[bluefiredesire]

I will never get over how Station 11 subverted the parent/child found family trope. They acknowledged resentment in a way I've never seen before. Jeevan literally told that kid to her face "I was only supposed to bring you home" implying that he didn't ask for this level of responsibility when her parents were nowhere to be found. Like he obviously loves her, but that scene was wild to me and so heartbreaking. I absolutely loved it.

[gael-garcia]

Station Eleven ep 4: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Aren't Dead

directed by Helen Shaver cinematography by Daniel Grant

[yorstudenttv]

Jeevan was really assigned Dad at pandemic and then a year later assigned doctor at kidnapping. What a man.

[magazinewankersworld]

Model Directory, Volume 7, Number 4

[shippingsincebeforeyouwereborn]

2022 was the year I reconnected with my inner fan. After several years of having been packed up and set in the corner, talking only to herself in hushed tones, she took one look at Bernie Wolfe and Serena Campbell on a windy roof. Suddenly with a great whoosh she was set free again.

Thankfully I remembered that that Tumblr thing was the place for fannishness and not evil birdsite. Maybe it was a google search that brought me here, I don’t know.

And here I found a wonderful set of fun, kind, witty and wicked smart, fannish humans.

Thank you for accepting me into the social circle around the fire of fannish discussion and creation.

And thanks to Serena and Bernie, and Catherine and Jemma for just being!

I can’t wait to see what 2023 will bring!

[kwebtv]

Kirsten Nelson, Matt Weinberg, Tania Raymonde, Judge Reinhold and Joseph Cross in "The O'Keefes"

[adamwatchesmovies]

Texas Chainsaw 3D (2013)

While I didn't enjoy this film, that doesn't mean you won't. No matter what I say, the people involved in this project did it: they actually made a movie. That's something to be applauded. With that established...

I keep returning to the Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise hoping someone will find something to do with it but all I get are zero-star movies. Texas Chainsaw 3D is the latest in a series of bad decisions. It’s a laughable slasher whose plot is so poorly conceived I wonder if you’ll believe me when I tell you about it or think I’m trolling.

Following the events of the original film, the people of Newt, Texas, burn down the Sawyer clan farmhouse, killing the entire murderous family. All except for baby Edith Rose Sawyer, who is adopted and raised without knowledge of her true family. Years later, the re-named Heather (Alexandra Daddario) receives a letter from her real grandmother, who has just passed away. Travelling to the mansion she’s inherited with her boyfriend Ryan (Trey Songz), best friend Nikki (Tania Raymonde), Nikki’s boyfriend Kenny (Keram Malicki-Sánchez) and a hitchhiker they pick up on the way (Shaun Sipos), they are unaware a surviving Leatherface (Dan Yeager) lives in the basement.

Where to begin? Firstly, this picture makes the catastrophic mistake of trying to make Leatherface into an anti-hero, asking us to ignore that whole cutting people in half with a chainsaw, chopping up innocents into stew and skinning travellers so he can wear their faces thing. It’s bewildering beyond words. Director John Luessenhop tries to make the killer sympathetic by introducing a bunch of new villains: a murderous troupe of rednecks who murdered the Sawyer family years ago. How many years ago? Even the film can’t get it straight. The original Massacre took place in 1974. That would make Heather roughly… 39 at the time this film was made, unless - of course - it was set in in the '90s, or earlier. Except it isn’t. We know because we see a police officer - the dumbest police officer in any slasher movie - brandish a smart phone so he can livestream his investigation to his peers at the police station. This means the “teens” in this slasher movie DO NOT have cellphones… but the adults do. We’re just getting started on how awful Texas Chainsaw 3D gets.

Entirely devoid of scares, this sequel ignores all other sequels (no big loss to anyone who managed to sit through Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation) and attempts to capture the raw terror of the original but fails miserably. Its cast of bad actors run around like fools and you can’t wait for them to get sliced. Anything to get this bore over with. Everything about the plot is so contrived it drains the life out of you. It makes you angry thinking someone wrote “but Heather decides NOT to read the letter detailing how the basement houses a hulking cannibalistic maniac with a fetish for gas-powered wood-cutting tools, setting up the grizzly events which followed” and thought “yes, this is good”.

You can take as many dives into the cesspool of waste that is Texas Chainsaw 3D as you want. You'll always find new things to complain about. We’re supposed to believe the first film took place by a small town? I always assumed it was in the middle of nowhere! Even if you separate it entirely from the original - which believe it or not is a good film, unlike all of these follow-ups - this 2013 slasher is a chore to get through, an ugly attempt to cash-in on a brand name that can't end soon enough. Texas Chainsaw 3D isn’t merely bad, it’s inexcusably bad. (2D version on DVD, March 30, 2019)

[sophs-style]

Jesse Plemons and Kirsten Dunst (both wearing Gucci) at the 2023 LACMA Art + Film Gala on Saturday (4th November) in LA, California.

[gael-garcia]

Station Eleven ep 10: Unbroken Circle

directed by Jeremy Podeswa cinematography by Steve Cosens

[brokehorrorfan]

Lionsgate and Bloody Disgusting are teaming up to release Wolf Creek, Hannibal Rising, I Spit on Your Grave, You're Next, Sinister, Texas Chainsaw, and Leatherface on Steelbook Blu-ray + Digital exclusively at Walmart.

Featuring artwork by Bond, all seven titles will be released on August 20 for $24.99 each. Existing special features are included.

Be sure to check your local Walmart now for a Bloody Disgusting shelf in the electronics section, where you'll find an exclusive edition of Broke Horror Fan's Terrifier 2 VHS.

2005's Wolf Creek is written and directed by Greg McLean. John Jarratt, Nathan Phillips, Cassandra Magrath, and Kestie Morassi star.

2007's Hannibal Rising is directed by Peter Webber and written by Thomas Harris, based on his own novel. Gaspard Ulliel, Gong Li, Rhys Ifans, and Dominic West star.

2010's I Spit on Your Grave is directed by Steven R. Monroe and written by Stuart Morse. Sarah Butler, Jeff Branson, Daniel Franzese, Rodney Eastman, Chad Lindberg, Tracey Walter, and Andrew Howard star.

2011's You're Next is directed by Adam Wingard and written by Simon Barrett. Sharni Vinson, A.J. Bowen, Nicholas Tucci, Wendy Glenn, Joe Swanberg, Barbara Crampton, and Rob Moran star.

2012's Sinister is directed by Scott Derrickson from a script he co-wrote with C. Robert Cargill. Ethan Hawke, Juliet Rylance, Fred Thompson, James Ransone, Clare Foley, and Michael Hall D'Addario star.

2013's Texas Chainsaw is directed by John Luessenhop and written by Adam Marcus, Debra Sullivan, and Kirsten Elms. Alexandra Daddario, Dan Yeager, Tremaine Neverson, Tania Raymonde, Thom Barry, Paul Rae, and Bill Moseley star.

2017's Leatherface is directed by Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo and written by Seth M. Sherwood. Stephen Dorff, Vanessa Grasse, Sam Strike, and Lili Taylor star.

[there-is-no-before]

[ncytiri]

fave female characters poll!

make a poll of your favourite female characters (no limits - as many or as little as you want) and see which your followers like the most!

tagged by: @ruvviks and @deadrlngers (not explicitly but i wanted to do this anyways :D)

tagging: @hollytanaka, @esmecarmona, @skapediem, @mojaves, and anyone else who wants to do this! (no pressure ofc if i tagged you and you don't wanna do it <3)

[readerbookclub]

The Show Must Go On - A February Book List

Hello everyone :) A new month is fast approaching, and that means a new book list! This list is all about performance and the theatre 🎭 I hope you like it! And as always, please make sure to vote for your favourite using the link at the end of this post. 

On to the books...

Black Snow - Mikhail Bulgakov

Maxudov is a failed novelist who, after contemplating suicide, adapts his novel into a play that—seemingly at random—is chosen to be produced at the renowned Independent Theatre. As it so often does in theater, chaos ensues—including bloodthirsty battles between the show’s two co-directors (modeled on Stanislavsky, the famed inventor of Method Acting, and his co-director) over control of the production; near-constant drama brewing between the actors; and the playwright’s own growing host of misgivings and insecurities about his place in the theatrical community. With each rehearsal turning more disastrous than the last, it becomes less and less clear whether Maxudov’s play will ever be performed at all…

Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel

Kirsten Raymonde will never forget the night Arthur Leander, the famous Hollywood actor, had a heart attack on stage during a production of King Lear. That was the night when a devastating flu pandemic arrived in the city, and within weeks, civilization as we know it came to an end. Twenty years later, Kirsten moves between the settlements of the altered world with a small troupe of actors and musicians. They call themselves The Traveling Symphony, and they have dedicated themselves to keeping the remnants of art and humanity alive. But when they arrive in St. Deborah by the Water, they encounter a violent prophet who will threaten the tiny band’s existence. And as the story takes off, moving back and forth in time, and vividly depicting life before and after the pandemic, the strange twist of fate that connects them all will be revealed.

The Lesser Bohemians - Eimear McBride

Upon her arrival in London, an 18-year-old Irish girl begins anew as a drama student, with all the hopes of any young actress searching for the fame she’s always dreamed of. She struggles to fit in—she’s young and unexotic, a naive new girl—but soon she forges friendships and finds a place for herself in the big city. Then she meets an attractive older man. He’s an established actor, 20 years older, and the inevitable clamorous relationship that ensues is one that will change her forever. A redemptive, captivating story of passion and innocence set across the bedsits of mid-1990s London, McBride holds new love under her fierce gaze, giving us all a chance to remember what it’s like to fall hard for another.

Morality Play - Barry Unsworth

The time is the fourteenth century. The place is a small town in rural England, and the setting a snow-laden winter. A small troupe of actors accompanied by Nicholas Barber, a young renegade priest, prepare to play the drama of their lives. Breaking the longstanding tradition of only performing religious plays, the groups leader, Martin, wants them to enact the murder that is foremost in the townspeoples minds. A young boy has been found dead, and a mute-and-deaf girl has been arrested and stands to be hanged for the murder. As members of the troupe delve deeper into the circumstances of the murder, they find themselves entering a political and class feud that may undo them. Intriguing and suspenseful, Morality Play is an exquisite work that captivates by its power, while opening up the distant past as new to the reader.

The Phantom of the Opera - Gaston Leroux

When the new managers of the Paris Opera House ignore their predecessors' warnings about the hideous 'Opera ghost' stalking the theatre, it is a fatal mistake. The Phantom haunts the imagination of the beautiful and talented singer Christine Daaé, appearing to her as the 'Angel of Music' - a disembodied voice, coaching her to sing as she never could before. When Christine is courted by a handsome young Viscount, the Phantom is consumed by jealousy and seeks revenge. And when Christine suddenly disappears after a triumphant singing performance, it becomes clear that the Phantom's time has come.

Please vote for our next book here.

[magazinewankersworld]

Club Pour Hommes, 1989

[nicollekidman]

oh if only ellie williams could meet kirsten raymonde :((