#set and costumes of this movie are beautiful

[the-kr8tor]

okay I have a very very stupid idea for your 2yr anniversary

acting AU where gn!R gets thrown into a medieval/fantasy old Camelot type movie with Hobie and they just go nuts and start speaking in Ye Olde English on and off set for no reason and it's just crack and fluff

Not a stupid idea my love! On the contrary it's very adorable!!! I hope you like it ❤️

Pairing: Hobie Brown x fem! Reader/ Spider-Punk x fem! Reader

Tags: no use of Y/N, no specific physical description of the reader except for clothing, Actor au, actor! Hobie, actress! Reader, established relationship, fluff!

Second anniversary celebration 🎉

My requests are open!

Hobie was never the one for method acting. Hell, he doesn't even take his role the second he steps out of the set. He takes the saying, “don't take your job home,” seriously. Until he got a prestigious and coveted role as Lancelot himself. Well not, method acting per se, he doesn't trot around the movie lot riding a horse or wear his chainmail to sleep. No, what he does is speak in a very specific type of way that is just like his character, the reason why? Well, he finds your smile the prettiest thing he has ever seen and that's saying something since he's currently in the most beautiful castle in all of the UK. Despite the connotations surrounding the ancient place, he has to hand it to the beautiful craftsmanship.

Add your adorable laughter and the way your eyes crinkle in joy, he speaks in the same way every time he sees you, in costume or not, he finds the movie's Guinevere beauty and grace comparable to the lady of the lake. Especially the way you snort as you giggle.

“Say it again, please!” Your loud guffaw echoes around the hallowed halls of the castle like chiming bells.

Everyone else has decided to bask in the rare sunshine outside during the brief break, except for you and Hobie as the two of you indulge in the quiet of the set.

Hobie clears his throat, metal armour clinking against the other as he takes the plate of bagel from the snack table. The plastic folding table, baked goods that are inside pink boxes, and instant coffee, looks like it fell in time as they're all placed in the backdrop of a thousand year old stone wall and five hundred year old woven tapestry. The harsh stage lights, boom mics and monitors are a direct contrast to all the actual medieval artifacts laid around the room.

“Thou hast churned milk from a cow's udder for thine bread?” He lifts his bagel, showing the lack of spread inside the plain wheat bread.

“Thy…” your giggles makes him smile even more. “Thy humours will be unbalanced if you consume churned milk, sir Lancelot.” You stay in character, almost making Hobie break with laughter.

“That is true, lady Guinevere…” nodding, using his Emmy nominated acting chops as he pretends to think about his choices. Gesturing in a come hither motion, you lean closer, floor length dress brushing along the hardwood floor. Once you're all ears, he looks back and forth around the empty throne room like he's about to tell you the king's secret. “...but I don't give a flyin’ fuck, love.”

With thunderous laughter that could wake the various ghosts inhabiting the castle, he holds onto your elbow as you tilt back in laughter, snorting and clutching your stomach. It has Hobie absolutely endeared by your giddy and wholesome laugh.

“Oh!” Your foot gets caught on the hem of your dress, almost plummeting backwards on the harsh ground if not for him already holding onto you.

“Shit, careful.” Chuckling, his smile ebbs as he realizes that he's cradling you in place. Hand on the small of your back, and the other right under your nape. As if someone hit pause while dipping you into place.

The two of you look like you belong in the front cover of a cheesy romance novel.

Your hands reach the back of his head, staying there as you intertwine your fingers above his skin. Eyes glancing around Hobie's handsome features, his knight armour— with all its dents and scratches, makes your heart leap in place.

“Hi,” smiling, you feel his breath stagger in his throat. “I like the view from here.”

“You should see mine.” A gentle yet flirtatious smile appears on his lips, honeyed eyes glancing down to your lips then over to your shining eyes.

You know acting, and the way he gazes at you isn't it.

“Sometimes I think you should've been Arthur.” Whispering as he slowly straightens you up in place, still gentle and careful while his hands stay on your bodice. With a palm resting above his chest, you feel how cold his armour is, and you wonder if he could feel how warm you are under the corset.

“Why? You told me how well I play Lancelot.” His brow raises teasingly, thumb brushing along the intricate embroidery of your dress.

“You're a great Lancelot.” You sigh longingly, staring right into his eyes.

“Why do you want me to play Arthur then?” His voice lowers an octave, hand pushing you further against him as you let him hold you.

You inhale deeply, palm rising from his chest over to his warm cheek. “...So you'll be the one I get to kiss over and over again with each take.”

His eyes smile as he lets out a chuckle. Acting nonchalant as if you didn't pierce his heart with a heart shaped arrow. “Don't think I have to play as Arthur jus’ for that, love.”

“Thou shall kiss me then?” Moving closer, thumb hovering above his lips, you smile through it all.

“As my lady commands me to.” With a flutter of lashes, he leans in for the Oscar winning kiss.

[husn-e-bahar]

Lal Patthar (1971)

[zorangezest]

gliss✨my gorjus girl who will do anything it takes to stay alive.

[ilovemesomevincentprice]

Vincent Price as Clifford Pyncheon --

The House of the Seven Gables (1940) dir. Joe May

[lunaoblonsky]

Anya Taylor-Joy in a deleted scene of Emma. (2020)

[agnesandhilda]

the barbie movie was an extended commercial that was unfortunately feminist enough to infuriate misogynists while also being too hampered by its need to be profitable to satisfy Actual Feminists, but I watched it as a pink-loving drag-enjoying teenage girl while adjusting to living independently as an adult for the first time as well as the terrifying realization of my own mortality, so, like. it's got a special place in my heart

[immediatebreakfast]

The worst part of the Coppola movie is that Ryder endured actual abuse during the filming. Coppola told the actors to yell misogynistic slurs at her to make her cry ''realistically''. Keanu Reeves and Antony Hopkins refused to do it. She also ended up hating Gary Oldman: "Coppola stated, "they got along and then one day they didn't—absolutely didn't get along. None of us were privy to what had happened." Ryder has referred to the "trauma" of the experience and said that she "felt there was a danger" while working with Oldman." When they showed the ending they had filmed (Mina and Jonathan exiting the church together) it was received negatively. So Coppola called them back to ''fix'' it, with Mina mercy-killing Dracula. It was joked that the only way to bring Ryder back was due to the promise that she'd "stab" Oldman in the scene.

That is absolutely horrible. What is wrong with that director?!? I'm so sorry for the actress that played Mina because she looked up to par for the role.

Like, You can feel that Ryder is doing what she can with that steaming pile of shit for a script. But to scream at her so she can cry """better""""? Maybe it's the fault of that Coppola fucker for having his shitty boring fanfiction as a script, and giving Dracula every single fucking scene to the point that everyone else becomes an one dimensional background character.

I hope that the job at least was good paying for her because enduring the cinematic equivalent of a turd covered in gold paint, for the mininum would make me snap.

[horrorcrawl]

Two on a Guillotine (1965) 🪄

Director: William Conrad (William Conrad Productions)

Genres: Mystery, Horror

Notes: Spooky Mansion, 1960s costuming and fashion, Magician, Stage Magic, Beautiful Interiors and Great Set Design, Romance buildup, Dream Sequence, Madness, Black/White Film 🤍🖤

Review: This is a great film with a compelling and great story about the daughter of a magician who moves into his trap filled manor and haunted by her estranged parents. It's a bit exposition especially in the beginning but the visuals of the manor, dream sequence along with the romantic buildup of the two love interests was a very enjoyable combo with the horror. I love the cute audio gag with the magic rabbit as well, keep your ears open for that one!

Overall I give Two on a Guillotine(1965): Must Watch 🐇

-Warnings for Folks-

Mental Health: Character in the film goes mad from grief

[scaryhagmother]

I think the MCUification of Wicked is what really fucked it

[adam-scott]

so i just came back from Poor Things and... yorgos lanthimos go to therapy challenge!

[panzycraze]

my actual wicked review that cynthia’s very obvious coloured contact lenses made her eyes look so fucking scary when she cried

[lindensea]

Watched The Wolves of Willoughby Chase movie and what WAS that final act?? That was a little insane! The book is already pretty crazy, but the movie has a weirdly high body count?? And a steam-powered sleigh???

[ilovemesomevincentprice]

Vincent Price - Up in Central Park (1947)

[hibiscus02]

I could make a serious Wicked review and talk about the vocals and the choreography and the costumes and the sets, which are all great, but this is tumblr, and I know that all of these aspects will not matter nearly as much as me reviewing the movie by how much gay subtext they put into it, so that's exactly what I'm gonna do.

Elphaba and Glinda are either holding hands or have their arms linked for about 70% of this movie. Literally, after they officially become friends these girls are attached at the hip.

'What Is This Feeling?' remains about as gay as it usually is, but I will highlight that they lie awake at night thinking about each other which. I know what you are etc etc

The scene where they dance together is. I have no words. That was beautiful. Both actresses put so much emotion into the sequence. And there's a moment where Glinda puts her hand on Elphaba's face, almost like she's brushing away the tears there, and that shit made me cry as well.

'Popular' is insanely homosexual. There's a scene where they're laying down on the bed looking into each other's eyes, and Glinda shifts to basically be on top of Elphaba. My jaw was on the floor. Just lots of touching and Looks all throughout.

When they go to see the Wizard all that casual touching I mentioned previously is multiplied by tenfold, and there are several moments where Elphaba looks at Glinda for reassurance, which was very sweet.

'Defying Gravity' made me just as emotional as I knew it would. I do wish they had hugged but honestly with all the handholding and the staring into each other's eyes, and Glinda wrapping the cloak around Elphaba, they gave us plenty. Once again the acting caught me by surprise (specially from Ariana), both of them communicate so much with just looks.

Anyway my overall thoughts are, these bitches gay, good for them. They did not tone down the subtext at all (like I know some people were worried would happen), and while they didn't make anything explicit either (which I never expected them to*), I'm confident that both Cynthia and Ariana understood the assignment in regards to the kind of relationship Glinda and Elphaba have in canon, and that was enough for me.

*I will admit that a secret corner of my little lesbian heart hoped beyond hope that they would include the scene from the book where Elphaba canonically kisses Glinda (iirc it's supposed to be during Defying Gravity), but like, I always knew they wouldn't.

[ophelialoveshandsomemen]

Say what you will about Van Helsing 2004; hate it, love it, be indifferent, But the All-Hallow's masquerade ball went sooooo hard and it had zero right to do so! It's a fun, campy, monster mash movie with wonderfully dated ( and expensive) cgi and non-stop action meant to be a popcorn flick one takes out to watch around spooky season. And it has this* chef's kiss* GORGEOUS 6 minute sequence plopped arbitrarily in the second act, which unexpectedly surpasses nearly every other ball in the last 30+ years of film( notable exception being the Cinderella 2015 ball) for literally no reason other than to be dramatic af.

Like feast your eyes on this Gothic masterpiece!!! Who doesn't want to immediately live in this picture?!??

They used those candles with oil in them so that they would have real candles, real string orchestra( I believe), probably around 100 real life extras( something which is tragically absent in modern film), said extras are all in beautiful fully decked-out costumes( which are in luxuriously dark colours, but nearly no fully black, another thing you cannot say for much modern cinema), REAL CIRQUE DU SOLEIL PERFORMERS for all the acrobatics!!!! Hell, instead of filming in a sound stage, where they could control the reverb and the acoustics and the size of the set and the bloody lighting ( they apparently had a heck of a time emulating the firelight for this sequence) and the temperature( it's very cold in stone churches!) better, they filmed in a Baroque church in Prague! As I said, peak dramatic splendour, jfc...

Think about that a second...They filmed a vampire masquerade in a Baroque Catholic Church( St. Nicholas' in Lesser Town, if you were curious) with amazing over-the-top acoustics and marble statues and real, tiled floors and marble pillars and a choir loft which they very much utilized, covered the pipe organ and the altar with a grand brocade curtain so it wouldn't be so obviously a, you know, a church! And there's a gold gilt elevated and canopied pulpit into which they put two vampire kiddies for, again, the sake of being dramatic.

And the costumes! They remind me of the 25th anniversary Phantom of the Opera Masquerade costumes. Same quality, like they're old, well-cared-for costumes pulled out of a warehouse, instead of fast industry churn-outs. With lots of trim and colour and masks and lace and feathers and..just...ugh.. they are all perfect! Just look at all the head pieces on the ladies and the hats on all the gentleman ( save Dracula of course) and the powdered wigs on the musicians. ANNNNDD! The dresses are historically correct!!!!!! It's the 80's bustle era! Nobody does the 80's bustle era in film anymore and it's a bummer. Oh and one other thing! Anna's ( and other women's) hair, at least here in the ball, is also historically accurate because it's all pinned up! None of those fucken modern beachwaves at a ball! Everybody's got updo's!

Gah, I swear, Dracula in his gold cloak really does things to me in this scene!

By the way, the acrobatics are bonkers in here for just background stuff!! Especially the random guys on unicycles and the dude playing the violin whilst standing on a ball...Like....WHAT?

Anyways, all this to say, that this masquerade ball feels sooo real and tangible and because of that it blows every other film out of the water, and no, I will not change my mind!!!!!

Here's a few more gifs, bcuz, why the hell not, this scene is sexy as fuu*ck?

Alright I need to go to bed now.

[kazz-brekker]

saw nosferatu and it was a freaky good time! some non-spoiler thoughts:

robert eggers watching bram stoker's dracula (1994) and noticing the story has dracula look like a normal dude when interacting with mina: hm. cowardly. rotting corpse or nothing.

bill skarsgard is unrecognizable in extremely creepy prosthetics but i do actually think the scariest thing in this movie was lily-rose depp's tongue in that one scene. was unfamiliar with her before this movie but she was really giving it her all.

the sound design in this movie was absolutely IMPECCABLE, especially during the sequence when thomas hutter arrives at orlok's castle. the creeping sense of dread!

perfect way to spend christmas night is watching nicholas hoult, terrified, run around a vampire's castle.

also very happy that a large amount of this movie takes place at night and it's not only visible but also looks great, lots of blue and silver shades.

gonna be honest i did forget the name of two of the side characters and was just mentally referring to them as van helsing and seward because everyone in this movie lines up perfectly with the characters from dracula.

i really do see why there are so many articles about the number of rats on set in this movie because that was. a LOT of rats.

beautiful costumes, especially the dresses and hair.

not sure i've ever seen a character in a film roll their r's as much as count orlok in this one.

could have used more of the cat!