The Library of Unrequited Love by Sophie Divry. Translated by Siân Reynolds
Read time: 3 Days
Rating: 4/5
The quote: Actually, modern history can be summed up in three major events that altered our view of the world for good: the French Revolution, the bloodbath of the Great War, and the invention of the contraceptive pill.
I really recommend reading this in one sitting if you can. The librarian's perspective and take on the library changes throughout. From the glossy paraprofessional to near brutal honesty that will hit home for many in the industry. That said it is accessible to the non-librarian and to a lesser extent the casual reader but the topic is definitely pointed with lots of references and comments about the systems and policies of libraries. For the casual reader, the unusual writing style and some of the librarian’s opinions could be quite confronting.
But I do think this is worth reading even if just for the style. The whole book is a one-way conversation (a combination of a monologue and soliloquy) that takes place over 2 hours in the morning as the library is preparing to open. It is quite unlike anything I have ever read before. The one-way conversation with no breaks and many, many topic changes takes some serious getting used to as you read.
Just some of the topics covered by Divry in her book through her librarian protagonist. Dewey and his system, a bit of French history, a bit of library history, the library hierarchy, the type of person who never that never comes into the library, censorship is its softest form, the forcing of class onto readers and the traditional reserve shelves. As someone trained in the industry it all hit so close to home. Like reserve shelves are just awful, they are great for saving space but they are so intimidating for readers. The classics debate is horrendous but I am firmly of the opinion that let people read what they want and eventually that will likely include some classics. Forcing them upon readers just alienates them from reading period. I just enjoyed the Frend history section I’ve never looked at French history much. All the Dewey info is brilliant I couldn’t get over how well executed that was.
It feels like there are words from the reader we don't know. The librarian responds to unknown statements at times. But it's si effective because there is enough feedback to guess what was said. There is a smart reading choice to provide little to no background on the readers’ character, though there is some implication that they are on the younger side and are definitely a regular. After I reread the blurb we do know he is male. It is worth remembering the book is a translation of Divry’s French original. I’m guessing the gender comes through in French via the grammatical gender it uses.
The unrequited love of the title feels like it is twofold. The librarians’ non-relationship with Martin is told so well. The reader is drip-fed information and it all really only comes together at the end. There also seems to be something of an unrequited love for the library itself which more than seeps through by the end. She just wants to be acknowledged and respected by colleagues and patrons alike.
There really isn’t much more I can say about this other than to say it was an experience and I’m so glad I read it. It took weeks of waiting to get my hands on it (due to covid related issues) but the wait was worth it. Think this is a rather unique experience, particularly for those in the industry.
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Commons Vote
On: Opposition day: Winter Fuel Payment
Ayes: 214 (51.6% Con, 32.4% LD, 4.2% SNP, 2.3% Ind, 2.3% DUP, 1.9% PC, 1.9% RUK, 1.9% Green, 0.5% APNI, 0.5% UUP, 0.5% TUV)
Noes: 335 (99.7% Lab, 0.3% Ind)
Absent: ~101
Day's business papers: 2024-09-10
Individual Votes:
Ayes
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Independent (1 vote)
Rebecca Long Bailey
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My Week in Reviews: November 21, 2021
King Richard (Reinaldo Marcus Green, 2021)
Wow. This was a tricky film, with a tricky lead role. Becoming Richard Williams very easily could’ve fallen into an SNL parody impersonation, but Will Smith never lets it. Smith instead brings to life Williams’ stubborn resolve and simple optimism with a lived-in sense of ingrained confidence. Because of this performance, a supporting cast that never allow it to drown them out, and Green’s balanced and well-paced direction, King Richard never falls victim to any of the serious biopic issues despite otherwise being a fairly straight-forward biopic. - 8.5/10
Belfast (Kenneth Branagh, 2021)
Beautiful. A powerful coming-of-age story about change and what home and family truly mean. Ciarán Hinds and Caitriona Balfe are magnificent, Judi Dench steals many a moment with brilliant delivery, and newcomer Jude Hill shines, giving us the rare child performance that goes beyond precociousness and cute line delivery. Branagh’s direction is his best since 1996′s Hamlet, mixing a sense of nostalgia with the warped point-of-view of childhood and the harsh acceptance of reality, all while beautifully utilizing the transformative production design. - 9/10
Red Notice (Rawson Marshall Thurber, 2021)
Embarrassingly awful. I don’t know what’s worse... the fact that our three leads have a deficit of chemistry, making just about every supposed-to-be-funny exchange downright cringe-worthy, or the fact that each set-piece in this nearly $200-million ‘action-comedy’ feels like it was filmed on a soundstage. Every single set feels like a set; from the museum to the prison to the bunker to the beach, everywhere we find these characters delivering their mind-numbingly stupid dialogue in this mind-numbingly stupid movie feels fake. And worse, cheap. Beyond the lack of chemistry, the performances are just straight-up bad. Dwayne Johnson is never once believable as an FBI profiler, and even less believable as what he’s eventually revealed to actually be. Ryan Reynolds delivers all of his lines like he’s making fun of Ryan Reynolds. And Gal Gadot is so blatantly only there to look good. I can’t really hold any of this against them (except maybe Johnson, who was a major player behind the scenes, as well), as the screenplay plays out like it was written by a dorky 13-year-old with the IQ of a banana. Thurber is like Michael Bay if Michael Bay didn’t have a single fucking clue was he was doing. This was an exceedingly excruciating two-hours that I’ll never get back. - 1/10
tick, tick... Boom! (Lin-Manuel Miranda, 2021)
I’m not a fan of Jonathan Larson. Granted, the only production of RENT that I’ve seen is the film and that’s probably not the best example of his most lauded work (y’know, since it’s awful). And I’m not a fan of Lin-Manuel Miranda. Hamilton is absurdly overrated and he’s insufferable in every other role I’ve seen him in, yet. But despite all that, I was drawn to this film from the get-go. I blame that on the underrated Andrew Garfield (and probably the bit of theatre-geek in me), who’s about as close to a revelation, here, as I could expect in a musical chock-full of mostly forgettable songs (though there are two or three that are amazing) and direction that’s too ‘theatrical’, and distracts more than anything else. The structure of it all, however, is refreshing. Plus, Miranda clearly loves the subject and, despite some of his other issues behind the camera, brings this story to life with a contagious energy and an over-flowing abundance of heart. - 7.5/10
Respect (Liesl Tommy, 2021)
The formulaic biopic storytelling quickly becomes tiring and - worse than that - annoying, but Jennifer Hudson’s performance and the scenes that find her on stage or (better yet!) in the studio are enough to save this one from itself. - 6/10
CODA (Siân Heder, 2021)
A crowd-pleasing indie drama?!? With a star-making lead performance?!? And a shit-ton of heart?!? Yes, please. - 7/10
Passing (Rebecca Hall, 2021)
Interesting, but Hall’s direction is sluggish, and it drains anything the two fantastic leads are delivering. That ending should’ve been a nuclear bomb. Instead, it was a firecracker. - 4/10
Finch (Miguel Sapochnik, 2021)
A man, his dog, and their robot. Tom Hanks is unsurprisingly great. Sapochnik does great work, never resorting to unnecessary conflict or overly-edited action sequences to drive home the danger of the world created, here. But it all really comes down to that moment. Is there an Oscar for dogs, yet? Damn. - 7/10
The Protégé (Martin Campbell, 2021)
An enjoyable revenge action movie. Maggie Q is great and Samuel L. Jackson is as solid as always, but Michael Keaton steals every scene he’s in. Campbell’s action sequences are as badass and assured as we’ve come to expect from the man behind both Casino Royale & GoldenEye. However, the final act doesn’t go nearly as hard as it should have. - 6/10
Enjoy!
-Timothy Patrick Boyer.
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Apocalypse Baby by Virginie Despentes, translated from the French by Siân Reynolds, is a strange and fierce book, a novel about a quiet private eye who is tasked with finding a young teenage girl named Valentine who has disappeared. She enlists the help of the infamous Hyena, a lesbian in a leather jacket with a fiercely independent streak and an intense intuition that helps her solve the toughest of cases. Together, they dive into the case—which quickly becomes something more than either expected.
I really loved getting the chapters from the different points of view—the missing girl's father, a misogynist, mediocre author; the Hyena herself; even, eventually the tortured, misguided Valentine. It's a dark novel about manipulation and dark, white nationalist forces, radicalization of youth, the influence of neglectful parents, the internal and twisting politics of France. At times, I definitely felt it was a little longer than it had to be; but the writing was superb and I enjoyed the turns of narrative and perspective, the way each person's biased and very pointed outlook came together to form one concept of the larger truth.
Content warnings for rape, sexism, ableism, fatphobia, drug use, the 'R' slur, racism, radicalization.
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I was tagged by @brennisteinnexe to share what books I've read last year.
Unfortunately, I don't have a good recollection of the past. I remember there was a boat and it wasn't in a book, but in a canal.
Anyway, I thought I could share funny moments from a book I'm reading right now instead.
Meet the
Serious Crime Squad
Book: A Climate of Fear by Fred Vargas, 2015 (tr. Siân Reynolds, 2016)
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siân reynolds i am obsessed with you
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Doctor Foster - BBC One - September 9, 2015 - October 3, 2017
Drama (10 episodes)
Running Time: 60 minutes
Stars:
Suranne Jones as Gemma Foster
Bertie Carvel as Simon Foster
Clare-Hope Ashitey as Carly Williams
Cheryl Campbell as Helen Foster (episodes 1-3)
Jodie Comer as Kate Parks
Navin Chowdhry as Anwar (episodes 2–3, 5)
Victoria Hamilton as Anna Baker (episodes 1–3, 5)
Tom Taylor as Tom Foster
Martha Howe-Douglas as Becky Hughes
Adam James as Neil Baker (episodes 1–3, 5)
Thusitha Jayasundera as Ros Mahendra
Sara Stewart as Susie Parks (episodes 1–2, 4-5)
Neil Stuke as Chris Parks (episodes 1–2, 4-5)
Robert Pugh as Jack Reynolds (episodes 1–2, 4)
Ricky Nixon as Daniel Spencer (episodes 1,4)
Daniel Cerqueira as Gordon Ward
Megan Roberts as Isobel
Series two
Suranne Jones as Gemma Foster
Bertie Carvel as Simon Foster
Tom Taylor as Tom Foster
Jodie Comer as Kate Parks (episodes 1-4)
Victoria Hamilton as Anna Baker (episodes 1-4)
Adam James as Neil Baker (episodes 1-3)
Prasanna Puwanarajah as James (episodes 1–3, 5)
Sian Brooke as Siân Lambert (episodes 1–2, 4-5)
Hope Lloyd as Isobel (episodes 1, 3)
Frank Kauer as Max (episodes 1-3)
Thusitha Jayasundera as Ros Mahendra (episodes 1–3, 5)
Joanie Kent as Amelie Foster (episodes 1-4)
Daniel Cerqueira as Gordon Ward (episodes 1-2)
Helena Lymbery as Mrs Walters (episodes 2-3)
Martha Howe-Douglas as Becky Hughes (episode 1)
Sara Stewart as Susie Parks (episodes 1, 4)
Neil Stuke as Chris Parks (episodes 1, 4)
Clare-Hope Ashitey as Carly Williams (episode 4)
Philip Wright as Connor (episodes 1, 3, 5)
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Y Noson Agoriadol
Wedi’r llacio diweddar ar y cyfyngiadau sy’n ymwneud â’r Cofid mae Pwyllgor y Gymdeithas wedi penderfynu ceisio cynnal cyfarfodydd wyneb yn wyneb yn ystod y tymor nesaf gan ddechrau gyda’r cyfarfod nos Sadwrn 4 Medi am 7:00 yng Nghaffi Emlyn, Tan-y-groes
Yno byddwn ni’n trin a thrafod yr Eisteddfod Amgen a rhai o gyfansoddiadau buddugol, dathlu llwyddiant ein haelodau a chyfeillion eraill a fydd yn bresennol yn y cyfarfod a mwynhau peth lluniaeth wedyn (tua 9:00) yng nghwmni ein gilydd.
Dyma drefn y noson:
1. Croeso (gan Gwyndaf Tomos, ein llywydd newydd)
2. Trafod y Cyfansoddiadau (dan ofal y Prifardd Ceri Wyn)
Cystadleuaeth Enillydd Arweinydd y drafodaeth
Y Gadair Gwenallt Llwyd Ifan Terwyn Tomos
Y Goron Dyfan Lewis Glenys Roberts
Yr Englyn Philippa Gibson Idris Reynolds
Y Delyneg Terwyn Tomos Emyr Lewis
Y Stori Fer Menna Machreth Siân Wyn Siencyn
3. Yr Eisteddfod Amgen: Carol Davies yn pwyso a mesur y manteision a‘r anfanteision
4. Lluniaeth ysgafn
Am fod yr haint yn dal o gwmpas (ac i dawelu nerfau) gofynnir i chi:
· peidio â dod (wrth gwrs) os oes symptomau arnoch neu os ydych wedi cae l cyngor swyddogol i hunan-ynysu
· ac os ydych yn bwriadu bod yn y Caffi
- rhoi neges fach i Howard (erbyn 30 Awst os bosib) trwy e-bost neu
drwy adael neges ar ei ffôn symudol
- sicrhau eich bod wedi cael y ddau frechiad
- gwisgo mwgwd os nad oes ’da chi resymau cryf am beidio
- cadw pellter cymdeithasol rhesymol (fe fydd digon o le rhwng y cadeiriau ta beth)
Mae braslun o’r rhaglen ar gyfer gweddill y tymor isod.
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The Weekend Warrior 8/13/21 - CODA, FREE GUY, DON’T BREATHE 2, RESPECT, THE LOST LEONARDO, WHAT IF, and More!
Well, that was kind of a disappointing last weekend as James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad pretty much tanked at the box office, making less than Birds of Prey did back in February 2020 with all sorts of backseat analysis explaining why it didn’t do well as anyone, other than a scant, few thought. I mean, I’m still kind of stunned, even though COVID and the Delta variant seem to be losing steam as far as being news. It certainly didn’t help that HBO Max decided to release the movie concurrently on HBO Max on Thursday at 7pm.
The nice thing about this week is that we have three new movies, none of which are on streaming or On Demand at the exact same time, so if you want to see any of them, you’ll have to put on your N96 masks and get yourself to theaters. Two of the three movies are originals, while the third is a sequel to quite an original horror movie from about five years back. All of them are pretty good, actually. We’ll get to them soon...
But first, let’s start with this week’s “The Chosen One” and it’s gotta be Siân Heder’s CODA i.e. “Child of Deaf Adults,” which will play in select theaters and on Apple TV+ starting Friday. If you hadn’t heard, it was the belle of the ball at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, winning the Jury Prize and Audience Award alike. Heder previously directed Tallulah and is the showrunner on Apple’s Little America, but this really is a very special film that I’ve enjoyed on repeat viewings now.
It stars Emilia Jones as Ruby Rossi, the sole hearing person in her family of Gloucester fishermen, who are out every day on the sea making the latest catch in their nets. Ruby has other aspirations, and when she joins the school choir, the teacher, Mr. Villalobos (Eugene Derbez) sees talent in Ruby that he thinks might get her into the Berklee College of Music. Ruby has to weigh that with her family’s need to have her as an interpreter while dealing with the other fishermen of the town.
I didn’t know what to expect when I saw this at Sundance back in January, and it still surprised me when I rewatched it again, because it’s a movie that involves a lot of elements that shouldn’t necessarily work, between the fishing and the singing and all the ASL between the amazing ingenue, Ms. Jones, and the deaf actors playing her family, including the one and only Oscar-winning Marlee Matlin. If not for these disparate elements, Coda might be a fairly standard indie family drama, but Heder finds just the right balance of showing how these disparities in Ruby’s life make it hard for her to pursue her dreams.
Ferdia Walsh-Peelo from Sing Street plays the classmate who Ruby is set up with to perform a duet at their high school recital, and of course, he also becomes an unwitting love interest. Unfortunately that’s the aspect of the film that’s the weakest, because Jones’ scenes with Matlin and the other actors, including Derbez, as well as Troy Kotsur and Daniel Durant, as Ruby’s father and brother, are just so powerful and moving even if they’re all in ASL with no dialogue or even incidental score.
Coda is Heder’s second film after Talllulah, a movie starring Elliot Page that never really connected with me, but Coda is such a strong and exceedingly crowd-pleasing film that I have to imagine that this would connect with everybody. I’m not sure if Apple’s gonna be able to get this movie all the way to Oscar night, but I do like its chances for Adapted (?) Screenplay, and maybe Matlin and Kotsur Supporting? I don’t know, because it’s so early and hard to tell, but hopefully the decision to wait so long after the virtual Sundance won’t hurt this movie as it hurt other Sundance award-winning films. Coda is just a joy that I’m sure will be many people’s favorite movie.
You can read my interview with Ms. Heder over at Below the Line.
Incidentally, in last week’s column, I talked about the 20th New York Asian Film Festival, but I didn’t realize that it was only running at Film at Lincoln Center for a week before going down to the SVA Theater on 23rd Street, and you can check out the schedule of movies playing there at the official site. And of course, there’s still the Virtual Festival that’s running through August 22. Also, Fantasia is still going on in Montreal, and I still haven’t had time to watch very much. What can I say? I suck.
Let’s get to some wide releases, shall we?
First up and probably the most likely to win the weekend is Ryan Reynolds’ new action-comedy, FREE GUY (20th Century Studios), directed by Shawn Levy and co-starring Jodie Comer from Killing Eve. The high-concept comedy has Reynolds playing Guy, a bank teller, who actually is a non-player character in a video game called “Free City” that’s kind of a cross between Grand Theft Auto and Fortnite. When he meets Comer’s character in the game, he falls mady in love and decides to do whatever it takes to get on her level. (Get it?) In doing so, Guy ends up becoming a hero for Free City, as well as a viral sensation across the globe as gamers thrill to Guy’s adventures.
Free Guy is Ryan Reynolds’ first live-action starring role theatrical release since…. Oh…. the action-comedy sequel The Hitman’s Bodyguard’s Wife a little under two months ago. Considering that barely made half of what its predecessor did, and that’s with Reynolds sharing the screen with Samuel L. Jackson and Salma Hayek, one wonders if his draw as an A-lister can be maintained during a pandemic. Before that, you’d have to go all the way back to 2018’s Deadpool 2 for a fully live Reynolds movie, because he wasn’t seen as himself for most of his role in and as Detective Pikachu. Of course, Reynolds’ unmistakable voice was back in DreamWorks Animation’s The Croods: A New Age, the sequel to the 2013 blockbuster that made the ballsy move to be one of the first movies to open during the pandemic. It grossed $58.6 million in theaters, which was slightly more than Christopher Nolan’s Tenet and even more than the Warner Bros. sequel, Wonder Woman 1984.
This is also a big movie for Jodie Comer, who won an Emmy and was nominated for two Golden Globes for Killing Eve, but hasn’t really been in too many movies, other than playing Rey’s Mum in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. Later this year, she’ll star in Ridley Scott’s The Last Duel and may possibly be back in the awards game again, we’ll see. The movie also stars Lil Rel Howery, who seems to be everywhere and in everything these days, as well as Taika Waititi who is super-hot right now due to 2019’s Jojo Rabbit, and his various television projects, as well as having a small role in James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad last week.
In some ways, Free Guy is gonna be a test for a lot of things, the first one being whether Reynolds is a big enough draw when not playing Deadpool to get people into theaters, just as people are starting to get skittish again about going into movie theaters. More importantly, it will show whether not having a movie on streaming or VOD means that people who want to see it will put aside their fears and return to theaters… like they did with F9 and Black Widow and Godzilla vs. Kong. Is an original non-franchise movie like Free Guy enough to get people interested in getting their butts off the couch and into a far more comfortable movie theater seat? (I’m being facetious, if you didn’t guess.)
After The Suicide Squad last week, I’m really not sure whether I can trust my own instincts, but I also don’t want to lower my prediction to something ridiculous out of fear that the pandemic really is destroying any chance of the box office fully recovering. One thing working in Free Guy’s favor, besides its PG-13 rating is that it’s not available on streaming and VOD. Anyone who has been intrigued by the film’s great reviews will HAVE to go out to a movie theater to see it or else, they’ll have to wait 45 days.
Maybe if this opened last month, I could see it open in the $30 million to $40 million range, but with things being the way they are, I’d probably go with high $20 million, so close to $30 million but not quite.
You can read my review over at Below the Line, and I’ll have an interview with the film’s Production Designer, Ethan Tobman, fairly soon.
Also opening Friday is the horror sequel DON’T BREATHE 2 (Sony/Screen Gems), starring Stephen Lang as the blind former Navy Seal who terrorized a bunch of kids who broke into his house in 2016’s Don’t Breathe.
The original movie, which starred Jane Levy, reuniting with director Fede Alvarez after the two remade Evil Dead for producer Sam Raimi, opened in late August, on the fourth weekend of the original Suicide Squad, in fact, and it knocked the movie out of the #1 spot. Its $26 million opening in 3,000 theaters was impressive for the time, partially because late August has never been great. It stayed #1 for a second weekend, over Labor Day, and it ended up grossing $89.2 million in North America, which is great for an R-rated horror film.
Levy isn’t around for the sequel and Alvarez has moved into a co-writer/producer role for his creative partner, Rodo Sagayes, to take over the directing reins, but honestly, I’m not sure how many people will know or care, because Lang’s character and the film’s violence and chills are it’s real selling point. Like many horror movies, there isn’t much in terms of star power other than Lang, but that has never really hindered the success of a horror movie in the past.
As with every movie I cover in this column, there’s the pandemic in the room and whether that might hold people back from going to theaters. I wish there was a way to calculate the effect that’s had on moviegoing, because it seems to affect movies differently. For instance, the recent The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It was able to open with $24.1 million just two months ago, although that was down from the $40 million of the previous two chapters. So that’s about a 40% drop-off in a similar five-year gap between movies. (Actually, it’s kind of strange that 2021 is replicating 2021 with three sequels to movies from five years earlier.) There’s no denying that the number of Covid cases are way up since June and movie theaters are still being painted as the “enemy” even though no significant cases have been traced back to the movies.
We also have to look at Sony’s last horror sequel, Escape Room: Tournament of Champions, which I quite enjoyed, but it ended up opening with about $10 million less than the original movie a few years back. We can probably expect Don’t Breathe 2 to have a similar pandemic drop-off even if it’s another movie that won’t be on streaming or VOD this weekend.
I think Don’t Breathe 2 should be good for around $15 million this weekend since it’s catering towards a young audience that’s a bit more devil-may-care about going out to theaters. It will also probably appeal more to older single guys than something like Free Guy, which seems different enough to pull in a different audience.
My review will be posted over at Below the Line later on Thursday, plus I have a bunch of interviews coming, including this one with Rodo Sayagues and Fede Alvarez.
Next up is RESPECT (MGM), the long-awaited Aretha Franklin biopic (for those that didn’t see Genius, like me, I guess), starring Oscar-winner Jennifer Hudson as the Queen of Soul. The movie directed by Liesl Tommmy was supposed to be released in January to take part in last year’s Oscars race, but I guess MGM wanted to make sure it got a proper theatrical release, which wasn’t possible since NYC and L.A. movie theaters didn’t reopen until March after the cut-off. But MGM had already decided to push the movie back to the summer in hopes of having more theaters able to play the movie, which is kind of true now?
It’s been a while since we’ve seen JHud in a high-profile theatrical release, and unfortunately, the last one was 2019’s Cats, a movie in which she probably was the best thing, although it still only grossed $27 million domestically, a flat-out bomb. Before that, she provided her voice for the animated blockbuster Sing in 2016, and then a bunch of smaller movies before that. She’s joined in the movie by the likes of Oscar winner Forest Whitaker, Marlon Wayans, Titus Burgess, Mary J. Blige, Marc Maron, and Audra MacDonald, quite an impressive array of talent that shows how many wanted to be involved with this project. Director Liesl Tommy is making her feature directorial debut after directing a ton of theater and TV shows like The Walking Dead and Jessica Jones.
Even so, it’s obviously that the ongoing popularity of Aretha Franklin, especially since her death in 2018, is going to go a long way into getting people into theaters, which includes a lot of older black women who really haven’t had much to get them out into theaters in recent months. Will this be enough?
Before Respect was delayed from its original January release, many thought that Hudson would receive another Oscar nomination for her performances. Having not seen the movie at the time of this writing, I can’t confirm or deny those chances. If that’s still the case, then releasing the movie towards the end of the summer (similar to The Help, successfully, and The Butler, not so much) is an odd decision rather than just holding the movie for festival season by holding until next month.
Either way, I think the love Aretha’s fans have for the Queen of Soul as well as Hudson’s fans, Respect should be good for between $8 and 10 million this weekend -- hard to pinpoint exactly without knowing how many theaters MGM is getting for it against the stronger summer movies.
Mini-Review: I wasn’t really sure what to expect from Respect, even after seeing the trailer a couple dozen times in front of other movies, but it’s a respectable biopic that cover 20 years in the life of the Queen of Soul from singing at a young age in her father’s church to returning to church for the gospel records as captured in the recently-released doc, Amazing Grace.
But first, we go back to 1952 where Aretha is a young girl (played by Skye Dakota Turner) is uncertain of her future as she’s being ordered about by her preacher father (Forrest Whitaker) and trying to find direction. The movie casually sets up the fact that young Aretha was sexually abused by a family friend, and maybe she got pregnant, too? It’s hard to tell and maybe a little odd since she would only have been 10 at the time, but it’s something that will be brought up (just as subtly) over the course of the film.
Jennifer Hudson takes over as Aretha as she turns 19 and goes to New York City to start recording, meets Marlon Wayans’ Ted White, makes him her manager and marries her, which basically has her going from one abusive man in her father to another one. It feels like the movie spends a long than normal time on the ‘60s, which is when Franklin’s career really took off with “Respect” and then a series of hits that took her all around the world. That whole time, she’s dealing with Ted’s abuses and jealousy while trying to write and record those hits, before her dark demons return and she starts drinking heavily.
As you might imagine, you go to see Respect to see how well Jennifer Hudson pulls off the Queen of Soul, and she’s an incredibly complex character that needs a nuanced performance, which Hudson tries to pull off by bringing different aspects of her life into different scenes.
There are some scenes that don’t work as well as others, and it feels like there’s a bit of time-crunching or futzing around so that at a certain point, her father seems to be de-aging, although I was just as impressed (possibly even moreso) with Forrest Whitaker, whose performance as Aretha’s father is more than just a full-on villain despite his violent treatment of his daughter. Wayans is also good and almost unrecognizable at first, and there are a few other nice performances in there as well, including Marc Maron as record label head Jerry Wexler.
But the performances Hudson gives as Franklin are goosebump-inducing, leading up to the recording of her record-selling gospel record as depicted in the aforementioned doc.
A fairly decent representation of Franklin’s little-known life leading up to her fame, Respect probably succeeds the most when Jennifer Hudson is performing as the Queen of Soul, but she’s also created a fairly moving portrait with strong dramatic moments that far outweigh any of the film’s issues. Rating: 8/10
With that in mind, this is how I see the weekend looking with two of the new movies bumping Suicide Squad down to third place where it will be facing off against Respect.
1. Free Guy (20th Century/Disney) - $28.5 million N/A
2. Don’t Breathe 2 (Sony/Screen Gems) - $15 million N/A
3. The Suicide Squad (Warner Bros.) - $10 million -62%
4. Respect (MGM) - $9.6 million N/A
5. Jungle Cruise (Walt Disney Pictures) - $8.7 million -55%
6. Old (Universal) - $2.5 million -36%
7. Black Widow (Marvel/Disney) - $2.4 million -39%
8. Stillwater (Focus) - $2 million -39%
9. Space Jam: A New Legacy (Warner Bros.) - $1.3 million -43%
10. The Green Knight (A24) - $1.1 million -56%
Donnie Yen stars in Bennie Chang’s RAGING FIRE (WELL GO USA), which premiered at the New York Asian Film Festival on Monday and at Fantasia in Montreal on Tuesday, and I’m not going to review this, because honestly, it’s such a cookie-cutter Hong Kong police action-thriller that I’m not sure I really have much to say about it, so I won’t.
On the other hand, I do have more to say about Andreas Koefoed’s documentary, THE LOST LEONARDO (Sony Pictures Classics), the Leonardo being Da Vinci, the master artist behind the Mona Lisa and many other works. Since I don’t really follow the world of art, I really didn’t know about the Salvator Mundi painting found about 10-12 years ago that was thought to be an original Da Vinci worth in the hundreds of millions, often dubbed “The Male Mona Lisa.” But it’s also a painting that was surrounded by controversy due to the 5-year restoring job that may have left very little of the original painting.
As the film began, I was groaning a little about sitting through another movie of art experts and historians talking about how important a find this is and why it’s either great or horrible, depending on who is being interviewed. Eventually, the film gets more interesting as it starts getting into the idea of selling it. After being sold to a wealthy Russian oligarch by an unscrupulous Swiss art dealer who made a nice profit on it, the painting ends up being auctioned by Christie’s, and the story just keeps getting more and more interesting as it goes along.
While I’m not one to go ga-ga over any painting by Da Vinci or otherwise, I do like a good mystery or suspense-thriller, so good on Koefoed for realizing about halfway through this movie that the talking heads will never be as interesting as actual footage. And that’s what happens here, too. I actually feel a little ignorant that I wasn’t aware this was going on as it was, maybe because I don’t really follow the art world in that respect. Maybe I just missed it, so it’s good that Sony Classics (who loves making movies about art) is giving this a fairly high-profile release following its premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival a few months back. In that sense, The Lost Leonardo is quite a gem.
Heinz Brinkman’s USEDOM: A CLEAR VIEW OF THE SEA (Big World Pictures) is a somewhat intriguing doc about the Baltic island of Usedom, the location of a number of imperial German health resorts, beaches and such, and how the Jews were kicked out by the Nazis before Usedom was split into a German and Polish half after WWII. I wish I could get into this more, but I just have a limited mental capacity for a lot of German talking heads.
Which brings us to Michael Tucker and Petra Epperlein’s THE MEANING OF HITLER (IFC Films), the new doc from the team behind Gunner Palace, which looks at the cultural fascination with Hitler and Nazism and the recent rise in white supremacy, antisemitism and the “weaponization of history itself.” I don’t know what that last part means, because I got so swamped this week that I didn’t get to watch this, and like another recent doc on the subject of Naziism and the Holocaust, I just couldn’t get into the right head space to hit play on this doc. Maybe I’ll watch it sometime down the road.
Similarly, I didn’t get around to watching Dutch filmmaker Jim Taihuttu’s THE EAST (Magnet Releasing), which I may like as a fan of Paul Verhoeven’s Dutch WWII films, and I probably should give this a look, but I just ran out of time this week. It’s about a young Dutch soldier who joins an elite unit led by a mysterious captain called “The Turk,” and it takes place in the Indonesian War of Independence after World War II.
As far as TV goes, Wednesday sees the debut of Marvel Studios’ WHAT IF...? on Disney+. I’ve seen the first three episodes, and I was a pretty big fan of the comics in the ‘70s (sadly, part of the giant collection that I sold a few years back), and I guess this is okay. The first episode is the one with Haley Atwell voicing “Captain Carter” i.e. Peggy Carter gets the Super Soldier Serum, which is one of the more obvious What Ifs that could possibly done, so that we can get another “women are as good as men, and they need to be heard” storyline that’s in 90% of the Marvel movies already. On the other hand, the first episode does include the voices of Sebastian Stan and others, so it’s quite a coup in that sense, but whoever wrote it, clearly doesn’t understand that people spoke differently in the ‘40s. I liked the 2nd episode, a mash-up of Black Panther and Guardians of the Galaxy, which is a fun idea that brings together a lot of great characters -- including Chadwick Boseman’s last voice performance -- but again, hearing the voices just isn’t the same when the writing isn’t as good as the movie. I feel like the animation for the show is okay, maybe not quite on par with some of the great Batman or Superman cartoons we’ve gotten over the years. On the other hand, the entire series features the great voice of Jeffrey Wright as The Watcher, acting kind of like the Rod Serling for the series, much like the Watcher does in the comics. I also dug the music by Emmy winner Laura Karpman (Lovecraft Country), and I’ll watch the rest of the series as it debuts, but I’m not sure it’s as much a rush to see each episode to avoid spoilers as with Loki or WandaVision.
Hitting Netflix this week is the limited series, BRAND NEW CHERRY FLAVOR (Netflix), starring Rosa Salazar, Eric Lange, and Catherine Keener. The tagline is: “Lisa Nova (Rosa Salazar) comes to LA dead set on directing her first movie. But when she trusts the wrong person and gets stabbed in the back, everything goes sideways and a dream project turns into a nightmare. This particular nightmare has zombies, hit men, supernatural kittens, and a mysterious tattoo artist who likes to put curses on people. And Lisa’s going to have to figure out some secrets from her own past in order to get out alive.”
Also, TITANS Season 3 debuts on HBO Max, but since I haven’t watched seasons 1 or 2 yet, it might be some time before I get to it.
Next week looks like it could be a bit of a dog with four or five new wide releases but nothing that really jumps out, plus I’ll be in Atlantic City all next weekend, so who knows how much I’ll be able to watch or write about?
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This 1 detail from the 'Detective Pikachu' trailer is enraging Pokémon fans
Who would have thought a trailer for a new Pokémon movie could be so divisive?
On Monday, the first trailer for a Ryan Reynolds-voiced Detective Pikachu movie dropped. At the time of writing the trailer has almost 12,000,000 views and over 475,000 likes on YouTube.
SEE ALSO: 'Pokémon Go' now has a bunch of new creatures and there's 1 runaway favourite
It hasn't all been plain sailing, though. There have been plenty of reactions on social media, and not all of them are from excited fans eager to see their favourite electric mouse fight crime.
The point of contention? Nope, it isn't the fact that Pikachu has the voice of a 42-year-old man. It's the aesthetic appearance of everyone's favourite pink puffball:
Bro this furry Jigglypuff is unforgivable pic.twitter.com/qb3j9edjDr
— WOLF IS FREE!!! (@shofu) November 12, 2018
Yep: furry Jigglypuff. Here's a close-up where you can literally see the individual fur strands protruding from Jigglypuff's ears.
I have a lot of questions about literally every single texturing decision being made in Detective Pikachu, but this one feels the most egregious. JIGGLYPUFF IS NOT FURRY!! pic.twitter.com/JEd8yxel7h
— Nick Bestor (@Bestorb) November 12, 2018
Quite a few people weren't big fans of Jigglypuff's new look.
I don’t really think “fur” when I think about a realistic Jigglypuff.. To me it’s more like
Wendy’s frosty pic.twitter.com/q60TX5OJEl
— Nuri (@actionhankbeard) November 12, 2018
idk how a jigglypuff with hair makes me feel pic.twitter.com/Om43D475Of
— siân into mystery 🌠 (@sianofhel) November 12, 2018
Why is this whole concept of Pokemon with realistic hair so scary for me?
— soffel (@soffel__) November 12, 2018
In fairness, the voices haven't all been dissenting. Some people have leaped to live-action Jigglypuff's defence.
Why is everyone mad about this???? You know the alternative is just, flesh right? Did you think the curl on its head was just a swirl of flesh? Imagine just a big fleshy jigglypuff, why would you want that https://t.co/fhnS5Q6wWD
— Despacito O’Rourke (follow @ShippedMyGame pls) (@jubear720) November 12, 2018
Mostly, though, people are just happy to keep cracking jokes.
The years have not been kind to lounge singer jigglypuff pic.twitter.com/nxtzMkuK54
— Sara Sorrentino (@SaraSorrentino) November 12, 2018
Jigglypuff: "We don't take requests"
Someone: "SING AFRICA BY TOTO!"
Jigglypuff: pic.twitter.com/No3YLev6pB
— Andrien 🔜 PAX Unplugged (@EscoBlades) November 12, 2018
Oh, Jigglypuff. When did those big eyes lose their sparkle?
WATCH: This grandpa plays Pokemon Go with 11 phones attached to his bike
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Commons Vote
On: Social Fund Winter Fuel Payment Regulations 2024 (SI, 2024, No. 869): motion to annul
Ayes: 228 (49.3% Con, 31.7% LD, 4.4% Ind, 4.0% SNP, 2.2% DUP, 2.2% RUK, 1.8% PC, 1.8% Green, 0.9% SDLP, 0.4% Lab, 0.4% APNI, 0.4% UUP, 0.4% TUV)
Noes: 348 (100.0% Lab)
Absent: ~74
Day's business papers: 2024-09-10
Individual Votes:
Ayes
Conservative (112 votes)
Alan Mak
Alberto Costa
Alec Shelbrooke
Alicia Kearns
Alison Griffiths
Andrew Bowie
Andrew Griffith
Andrew Mitchell
Andrew Murrison
Andrew Snowden
Aphra Brandreth
Ashley Fox
Ben Obese-Jecty
Ben Spencer
Bernard Jenkin
Blake Stephenson
Bob Blackman
Bradley Thomas
Caroline Dinenage
Caroline Johnson
Charlie Dewhirst
Chris Philp
Christopher Chope
Claire Coutinho
Damian Hinds
Danny Kruger
David Davis
David Mundell
David Reed
David Simmonds
Desmond Swayne
Edward Argar
Edward Leigh
Esther McVey
Gagan Mohindra
Gareth Bacon
Gareth Davies
Gavin Williamson
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown
George Freeman
Graham Stuart
Greg Smith
Gregory Stafford
Harriet Cross
Harriett Baldwin
Helen Grant
Helen Whately
Iain Duncan Smith
Jack Rankin
James Cartlidge
James Cleverly
James Wild
Jeremy Hunt
Jeremy Wright
Jerome Mayhew
Jesse Norman
Joe Robertson
John Cooper
John Glen
John Hayes
John Lamont
John Whittingdale
Joy Morrissey
Julia Lopez
Julian Lewis
Julian Smith
Karen Bradley
Katie Lam
Kemi Badenoch
Kevin Hollinrake
Kieran Mullan
Kit Malthouse
Laura Trott
Lewis Cocking
Lincoln Jopp
Luke Evans
Mark Francois
Mark Garnier
Matt Vickers
Mel Stride
Mike Wood
Mims Davies
Neil Hudson
Neil O'Brien
Neil Shastri-Hurst
Nick Timothy
Nigel Huddleston
Oliver Dowden
Patrick Spencer
Paul Holmes
Peter Bedford
Peter Fortune
Priti Patel
Rebecca Paul
Rebecca Smith
Richard Fuller
Richard Holden
Rishi Sunak
Robbie Moore
Robert Jenrick
Roger Gale
Saqib Bhatti
Sarah Bool
Shivani Raja
Simon Hoare
Steve Barclay
Stuart Anderson
Stuart Andrew
Suella Braverman
Tom Tugendhat
Victoria Atkins
Wendy Morton
Liberal Democrat (72 votes)
Adam Dance
Al Pinkerton
Alex Brewer
Alison Bennett
Alistair Carmichael
Andrew George
Angus MacDonald
Anna Sabine
Ben Maguire
Bobby Dean
Brian Mathew
Calum Miller
Cameron Thomas
Caroline Voaden
Charlie Maynard
Charlotte Cane
Chris Coghlan
Christine Jardine
Claire Young
Clive Jones
Daisy Cooper
Danny Chambers
David Chadwick
Ed Davey
Edward Morello
Freddie van Mierlo
Gideon Amos
Helen Maguire
Helen Morgan
Ian Roome
Ian Sollom
James MacCleary
Jamie Stone
Jess Brown-Fuller
John Milne
Josh Babarinde
Joshua Reynolds
Layla Moran
Lee Dillon
Lisa Smart
Liz Jarvis
Luke Taylor
Manuela Perteghella
Marie Goldman
Martin Wrigley
Max Wilkinson
Mike Martin
Monica Harding
Munira Wilson
Olly Glover
Paul Kohler
Pippa Heylings
Rachel Gilmour
Richard Foord
Roz Savage
Sarah Dyke
Sarah Gibson
Sarah Green
Sarah Olney
Steff Aquarone
Steve Darling
Susan Murray
Tessa Munt
Tim Farron
Tom Gordon
Tom Morrison
Victoria Collins
Vikki Slade
Wendy Chamberlain
Wera Hobhouse
Will Forster
Zöe Franklin
Independent (10 votes)
Adnan Hussain
Apsana Begum
Ayoub Khan
Ian Byrne
Iqbal Mohamed
Jeremy Corbyn
John McDonnell
Richard Burgon
Shockat Adam
Zarah Sultana
Scottish National Party (9 votes)
Brendan O'Hara
Chris Law
Dave Doogan
Graham Leadbitter
Kirsty Blackman
Pete Wishart
Seamus Logan
Stephen Flynn
Stephen Gethins
Democratic Unionist Party (5 votes)
Carla Lockhart
Gavin Robinson
Gregory Campbell
Jim Shannon
Sammy Wilson
Reform UK (5 votes)
James McMurdock
Lee Anderson
Nigel Farage
Richard Tice
Rupert Lowe
Plaid Cymru (4 votes)
Ann Davies
Ben Lake
Liz Saville Roberts
Llinos Medi
Green Party (4 votes)
Adrian Ramsay
Carla Denyer
Ellie Chowns
Siân Berry
Social Democratic & Labour Party (2 votes)
Claire Hanna
Colum Eastwood
Labour (1 vote)
Jon Trickett
Alliance (1 vote)
Sorcha Eastwood
Ulster Unionist Party (1 vote)
Robin Swann
Traditional Unionist Voice (1 vote)
Jim Allister
Noes
Labour (348 votes)
Abena Oppong-Asare
Abtisam Mohamed
Adam Jogee
Adam Thompson
Afzal Khan
Al Carns
Alan Campbell
Alan Gemmell
Alan Strickland
Alex Baker
Alex Ballinger
Alex Barros-Curtis
Alex Davies-Jones
Alex Mayer
Alex McIntyre
Alex Norris
Alex Sobel
Alice Macdonald
Alison Hume
Alison McGovern
Alison Taylor
Alistair Strathern
Allison Gardner
Amanda Hack
Andrew Cooper
Andrew Gwynne
Andrew Lewin
Andrew Pakes
Andrew Ranger
Andrew Western
Andy MacNae
Andy Slaughter
Angela Eagle
Angela Rayner
Anna Dixon
Anna Gelderd
Anna Turley
Anneliese Dodds
Anneliese Midgley
Antonia Bance
Ashley Dalton
Baggy Shanker
Bambos Charalambous
Barry Gardiner
Bayo Alaba
Becky Gittins
Ben Coleman
Ben Goldsborough
Bill Esterson
Blair McDougall
Brian Leishman
Bridget Phillipson
Callum Anderson
Calvin Bailey
Carolyn Harris
Catherine Atkinson
Catherine Fookes
Catherine McKinnell
Catherine West
Charlotte Nichols
Chi Onwurah
Chris Bloore
Chris Bryant
Chris Curtis
Chris Elmore
Chris Evans
Chris Hinchliff
Chris Kane
Chris McDonald
Chris Murray
Chris Vince
Chris Ward
Claire Hazelgrove
Claire Hughes
Clive Betts
Connor Naismith
Connor Rand
Damien Egan
Dan Aldridge
Dan Carden
Dan Jarvis
Dan Norris
Dan Tomlinson
Daniel Francis
Danny Beales
Darren Jones
Darren Paffey
Dave Robertson
David Baines
David Burton-Sampson
David Lammy
David Pinto-Duschinsky
David Smith
David Taylor
David Williams
Debbie Abrahams
Deirdre Costigan
Derek Twigg
Douglas Alexander
Douglas McAllister
Ed Miliband
Elaine Stewart
Ellie Reeves
Emily Darlington
Emily Thornberry
Emma Foody
Emma Hardy
Emma Reynolds
Fabian Hamilton
Feryal Clark
Florence Eshalomi
Frank McNally
Fred Thomas
Gareth Snell
Gareth Thomas
Gen Kitchen
Georgia Gould
Gerald Jones
Gill German
Gordon McKee
Graeme Downie
Graham Stringer
Gregor Poynton
Gurinder Singh Josan
Hamish Falconer
Harpreet Uppal
Heidi Alexander
Helen Hayes
Helena Dollimore
Henry Tufnell
Ian Murray
Imogen Walker
Irene Campbell
Jack Abbott
Jacob Collier
Jade Botterill
Jake Richards
James Asser
James Frith
James Murray
James Naish
Janet Daby
Jas Athwal
Jayne Kirkham
Jeevun Sandher
Jeff Smith
Jen Craft
Jess Asato
Jess Phillips
Jessica Morden
Jessica Toale
Jim Dickson
Jim McMahon
Jo Platt
Jo Stevens
Jo White
Joani Reid
Jodie Gosling
Joe Morris
Joe Powell
Johanna Baxter
John Grady
John Healey
John Slinger
John Whitby
Jon Pearce
Jonathan Brash
Jonathan Davies
Jonathan Hinder
Jonathan Reynolds
Josh Dean
Josh Fenton-Glynn
Josh MacAlister
Josh Newbury
Josh Simons
Julie Minns
Juliet Campbell
Justin Madders
Kanishka Narayan
Karin Smyth
Karl Turner
Kate Dearden
Katie White
Katrina Murray
Keir Mather
Keir Starmer
Kerry McCarthy
Kevin Bonavia
Kevin McKenna
Kim Leadbeater
Kirith Entwistle
Kirsteen Sullivan
Kirsty McNeill
Laura Kyrke-Smith
Lauren Edwards
Lauren Sullivan
Laurence Turner
Lee Barron
Lee Pitcher
Lewis Atkinson
Liam Byrne
Liam Conlon
Lilian Greenwood
Lillian Jones
Linsey Farnsworth
Lisa Nandy
Liz Kendall
Liz Twist
Lizzi Collinge
Lloyd Hatton
Lola McEvoy
Louise Haigh
Louise Jones
Lucy Powell
Lucy Rigby
Luke Akehurst
Luke Charters
Luke Murphy
Luke Myer
Luke Pollard
Margaret Mullane
Marie Tidball
Mark Ferguson
Mark Hendrick
Mark Sewards
Mark Tami
Markus Campbell-Savours
Martin McCluskey
Martin Rhodes
Mary Creagh
Mary Glindon
Matt Rodda
Matt Turmaine
Matt Western
Matthew Patrick
Matthew Pennycook
Maureen Burke
Maya Ellis
Meg Hillier
Melanie Onn
Melanie Ward
Miatta Fahnbulleh
Michael Payne
Michael Shanks
Michael Wheeler
Michelle Scrogham
Michelle Welsh
Mike Amesbury
Mike Kane
Mike Reader
Mike Tapp
Natalie Fleet
Natasha Irons
Navendu Mishra
Neil Coyle
Nesil Caliskan
Nia Griffith
Nicholas Dakin
Nick Smith
Noah Law
Oliver Ryan
Olivia Bailey
Olivia Blake
Pam Cox
Pamela Nash
Pat McFadden
Patricia Ferguson
Patrick Hurley
Paul Davies
Paul Foster
Paul Waugh
Perran Moon
Peter Dowd
Peter Kyle
Peter Lamb
Peter Prinsley
Peter Swallow
Polly Billington
Preet Kaur Gill
Rachel Blake
Rachel Hopkins
Rachel Reeves
Rachel Taylor
Richard Baker
Richard Quigley
Rosie Wrighting
Rupa Huq
Rushanara Ali
Ruth Cadbury
Ruth Jones
Sadik Al-Hassan
Sally Jameson
Sam Carling
Sam Rushworth
Samantha Dixon
Samantha Niblett
Sarah Champion
Sarah Coombes
Sarah Hall
Sarah Jones
Sarah Owen
Sarah Russell
Sarah Sackman
Satvir Kaur
Scott Arthur
Sean Woodcock
Seema Malhotra
Shabana Mahmood
Shaun Davies
Simon Lightwood
Simon Opher
Siobhain McDonagh
Sojan Joseph
Sonia Kumar
Stella Creasy
Stephanie Peacock
Stephen Kinnock
Stephen Morgan
Stephen Timms
Steve Race
Steve Reed
Steve Witherden
Steve Yemm
Sureena Brackenridge
Taiwo Owatemi
Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
Terry Jermy
Tim Roca
Toby Perkins
Tom Collins
Tom Hayes
Tom Rutland
Tony Vaughan
Torcuil Crichton
Torsten Bell
Tracy Gilbert
Tristan Osborne
Tulip Siddiq
Uma Kumaran
Valerie Vaz
Vicky Foxcroft
Warinder Juss
Wes Streeting
Will Stone
Yasmin Qureshi
Yuan Yang
Yvette Cooper
Zubir Ahmed
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Commons Vote
On: King's Speech (Motion for an Address): Amendment (d)
Ayes: 103 (63.4% LD, 7.9% SNP, 6.9% Lab, 5.9% Ind, 4.0% DUP, 4.0% Green, 3.0% PC, 2.0% SDLP, 1.0% APNI, 1.0% UUP, 1.0% TUV)
Noes: 363 (99.7% Lab, 0.3% Con)
Absent: ~184
Individual Votes:
Ayes
Liberal Democrat (64 votes)
Adam Dance
Al Pinkerton
Alex Brewer
Alison Bennett
Andrew George
Anna Sabine
Ben Maguire
Bobby Dean
Brian Mathew
Calum Miller
Cameron Thomas
Caroline Voaden
Charlie Maynard
Charlotte Cane
Chris Coghlan
Christine Jardine
Claire Young
Clive Jones
Daisy Cooper
Danny Chambers
Ed Davey
Edward Morello
Freddie van Mierlo
Gideon Amos
Helen Maguire
Ian Roome
Ian Sollom
James MacCleary
Jamie Stone
Jess Brown-Fuller
John Milne
Josh Babarinde
Joshua Reynolds
Layla Moran
Lee Dillon
Lisa Smart
Liz Jarvis
Luke Taylor
Manuela Perteghella
Marie Goldman
Martin Wrigley
Max Wilkinson
Mike Martin
Monica Harding
Munira Wilson
Olly Glover
Paul Kohler
Pippa Heylings
Rachel Gilmour
Roz Savage
Sarah Gibson
Sarah Green
Sarah Olney
Steff Aquarone
Steve Darling
Susan Murray
Tessa Munt
Tom Gordon
Tom Morrison
Victoria Collins
Wendy Chamberlain
Wera Hobhouse
Will Forster
Zöe Franklin
Scottish National Party (8 votes)
Brendan O'Hara
Chris Law
Dave Doogan
Graham Leadbitter
Pete Wishart
Seamus Logan
Stephen Flynn
Stephen Gethins
Labour (7 votes)
Apsana Begum
Ian Byrne
Imran Hussain
John McDonnell
Rebecca Long Bailey
Richard Burgon
Zarah Sultana
Independent (6 votes)
Adnan Hussain
Alex Easton
Ayoub Khan
Iqbal Mohamed
Jeremy Corbyn
Shockat Adam
Democratic Unionist Party (4 votes)
Carla Lockhart
Gavin Robinson
Jim Shannon
Sammy Wilson
Green Party (4 votes)
Adrian Ramsay
Carla Denyer
Ellie Chowns
Siân Berry
Plaid Cymru (3 votes)
Ann Davies
Liz Saville Roberts
Llinos Medi
Social Democratic & Labour Party (2 votes)
Claire Hanna
Colum Eastwood
Alliance (1 vote)
Sorcha Eastwood
Ulster Unionist Party (1 vote)
Robin Swann
Traditional Unionist Voice (1 vote)
Jim Allister
Noes
Labour (361 votes)
Abena Oppong-Asare
Abtisam Mohamed
Adam Jogee
Adam Thompson
Afzal Khan
Alan Campbell
Alan Gemmell
Alan Strickland
Alex Baker
Alex Ballinger
Alex Barros-Curtis
Alex Davies-Jones
Alex Mayer
Alex McIntyre
Alex Norris
Alice Macdonald
Alison Hume
Alison McGovern
Alison Taylor
Alistair Strathern
Allison Gardner
Amanda Hack
Amanda Martin
Andrew Cooper
Andrew Gwynne
Andrew Lewin
Andrew Pakes
Andrew Ranger
Andrew Western
Andy MacNae
Andy Slaughter
Angela Eagle
Angela Rayner
Anna Dixon
Anna Gelderd
Anna McMorrin
Anna Turley
Anneliese Midgley
Baggy Shanker
Bambos Charalambous
Barry Gardiner
Bayo Alaba
Beccy Cooper
Becky Gittins
Ben Coleman
Ben Goldsborough
Bill Esterson
Blair McDougall
Brian Leishman
Bridget Phillipson
Callum Anderson
Calvin Bailey
Carolyn Harris
Cat Eccles
Cat Smith
Catherine Atkinson
Catherine Fookes
Catherine McKinnell
Catherine West
Charlotte Nichols
Chi Onwurah
Chris Bloore
Chris Bryant
Chris Curtis
Chris Elmore
Chris Evans
Chris Hinchliff
Chris Kane
Chris McDonald
Chris Murray
Chris Vince
Chris Webb
Claire Hazelgrove
Claire Hughes
Clive Betts
Clive Lewis
Connor Naismith
Connor Rand
Damien Egan
Dan Aldridge
Dan Jarvis
Dan Tomlinson
Daniel Francis
Daniel Zeichner
Danny Beales
Darren Jones
Darren Paffey
Dave Robertson
David Baines
David Burton-Sampson
David Pinto-Duschinsky
David Smith
David Taylor
David Williams
Dawn Butler
Debbie Abrahams
Deirdre Costigan
Derek Twigg
Diana Johnson
Douglas Alexander
Douglas McAllister
Ed Miliband
Elaine Stewart
Ellie Reeves
Elsie Blundell
Emily Darlington
Emily Thornberry
Emma Foody
Emma Hardy
Emma Lewell-Buck
Emma Reynolds
Euan Stainbank
Feryal Clark
Fleur Anderson
Florence Eshalomi
Frank McNally
Gareth Snell
Gen Kitchen
Georgia Gould
Gerald Jones
Gill German
Gordon McKee
Graeme Downie
Graham Stringer
Grahame Morris
Gregor Poynton
Gurinder Josan
Hamish Falconer
Harpreet Uppal
Heidi Alexander
Helen Hayes
Helena Dollimore
Henry Tufnell
Hilary Benn
Ian Murray
Imogen Walker
Irene Campbell
Jack Abbott
Jacob Collier
Jade Botterill
Jake Richards
James Asser
James Frith
James Murray
James Naish
Janet Daby
Jas Athwal
Jayne Kirkham
Jeevun Sandher
Jeff Smith
Jen Craft
Jenny Riddell-Carpenter
Jess Asato
Jess Phillips
Jessica Morden
Jessica Toale
Jim Dickson
Jim McMahon
Jo Platt
Jo Stevens
Jo White
Joani Reid
Jodie Gosling
Joe Morris
Joe Powell
Johanna Baxter
John Grady
John Slinger
John Whitby
Jon Pearce
Jonathan Brash
Jonathan Davies
Jonathan Hinder
Jonathan Reynolds
Josh Dean
Josh Fenton-Glynn
Josh MacAlister
Josh Newbury
Josh Simons
Julia Buckley
Julie Minns
Juliet Campbell
Justin Madders
Kanishka Narayan
Karin Smyth
Karl Turner
Kate Dearden
Kate Osamor
Kate Osborne
Katie White
Keir Mather
Kenneth Stevenson
Kerry McCarthy
Kevin Bonavia
Kevin McKenna
Kim Leadbeater
Kirith Entwistle
Kirsteen Sullivan
Kirsty McNeill
Laura Kyrke-Smith
Lauren Edwards
Lauren Sullivan
Lee Barron
Lee Pitcher
Leigh Ingham
Lewis Atkinson
Liam Byrne
Liam Conlon
Lilian Greenwood
Lillian Jones
Linsey Farnsworth
Lisa Nandy
Liz Kendall
Liz Twist
Lizzi Collinge
Lloyd Hatton
Lola McEvoy
Lorraine Beavers
Louise Haigh
Louise Jones
Lucy Powell
Lucy Rigby
Luke Akehurst
Luke Charters
Luke Murphy
Luke Myer
Luke Pollard
Margaret Mullane
Maria Eagle
Marie Rimmer
Marie Tidball
Mark Ferguson
Mark Hendrick
Mark Sewards
Mark Tami
Markus Campbell-Savours
Marsha De Cordova
Martin McCluskey
Martin Rhodes
Mary Creagh
Mary Glindon
Matt Bishop
Matt Rodda
Matt Turmaine
Matt Western
Matthew Patrick
Matthew Pennycook
Maureen Burke
Maya Ellis
Meg Hillier
Melanie Onn
Melanie Ward
Miatta Fahnbulleh
Michael Payne
Michael Shanks
Michael Wheeler
Michelle Welsh
Mike Amesbury
Mike Kane
Mike Reader
Mike Tapp
Mohammad Yasin
Natalie Fleet
Natasha Irons
Naushabah Khan
Naz Shah
Neil Coyle
Neil Duncan-Jordan
Nesil Caliskan
Nicholas Dakin
Nick Smith
Nick Thomas-Symonds
Oliver Ryan
Olivia Bailey
Olivia Blake
Pam Cox
Pamela Nash
Pat McFadden
Patricia Ferguson
Patrick Hurley
Paul Foster
Paul Waugh
Paula Barker
Paulette Hamilton
Perran Moon
Peter Dowd
Peter Kyle
Peter Lamb
Peter Prinsley
Peter Swallow
Phil Brickell
Polly Billington
Preet Kaur Gill
Rachael Maskell
Rachel Blake
Rachel Hopkins
Rachel Taylor
Richard Baker
Richard Quigley
Rupa Huq
Rushanara Ali
Ruth Cadbury
Ruth Jones
Sadik Al-Hassan
Sally Jameson
Sam Carling
Sam Rushworth
Samantha Dixon
Samantha Niblett
Sarah Champion
Sarah Coombes
Sarah Edwards
Sarah Hall
Sarah Russell
Sarah Sackman
Sarah Smith
Satvir Kaur
Scott Arthur
Sean Woodcock
Seema Malhotra
Shabana Mahmood
Sharon Hodgson
Shaun Davies
Simon Lightwood
Simon Opher
Sojan Joseph
Sonia Kumar
Stella Creasy
Stephanie Peacock
Stephen Doughty
Stephen Morgan
Stephen Timms
Steve Race
Steve Reed
Steve Witherden
Steve Yemm
Sureena Brackenridge
Tahir Ali
Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
Terry Jermy
Tim Roca
Toby Perkins
Tom Collins
Tom Hayes
Tom Rutland
Tonia Antoniazzi
Tony Vaughan
Torcuil Crichton
Torsten Bell
Tracy Gilbert
Tristan Osborne
Tulip Siddiq
Uma Kumaran
Valerie Vaz
Vicky Foxcroft
Warinder Juss
Wes Streeting
Will Stone
Yuan Yang
Yvette Cooper
Zubir Ahmed
Conservative (1 vote)
John Hayes
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Commons Vote
On: King's Speech (Motion for an Address): Amendment (k)
Ayes: 85 (75.0% LD, 6.0% Ind, 6.0% RUK, 4.8% PC, 4.8% Green, 2.4% SDLP, 1.2% APNI)
Noes: 382 (97.9% Lab, 1.0% DUP, 0.3% SDLP, 0.3% Ind, 0.3% UUP, 0.3% TUV)
Absent: ~183
Individual Votes:
Ayes
Liberal Democrat (63 votes)
Adam Dance
Al Pinkerton
Alex Brewer
Alison Bennett
Andrew George
Anna Sabine
Ben Maguire
Bobby Dean
Brian Mathew
Calum Miller
Cameron Thomas
Caroline Voaden
Charlie Maynard
Charlotte Cane
Chris Coghlan
Christine Jardine
Claire Young
Clive Jones
Daisy Cooper
Danny Chambers
Ed Davey
Edward Morello
Freddie van Mierlo
Gideon Amos
Helen Maguire
Ian Roome
Ian Sollom
James MacCleary
Jess Brown-Fuller
John Milne
Josh Babarinde
Joshua Reynolds
Layla Moran
Lee Dillon
Lisa Smart
Liz Jarvis
Luke Taylor
Manuela Perteghella
Marie Goldman
Martin Wrigley
Max Wilkinson
Mike Martin
Monica Harding
Olly Glover
Paul Kohler
Pippa Heylings
Rachel Gilmour
Richard Foord
Roz Savage
Sarah Dyke
Sarah Gibson
Sarah Green
Sarah Olney
Steff Aquarone
Steve Darling
Susan Murray
Tessa Munt
Tom Gordon
Tom Morrison
Victoria Collins
Wera Hobhouse
Will Forster
Zöe Franklin
Independent (5 votes)
Adnan Hussain
Ayoub Khan
Iqbal Mohamed
Jeremy Corbyn
Shockat Adam
Reform UK (5 votes)
James McMurdock
Lee Anderson
Nigel Farage
Richard Tice
Rupert Lowe
Plaid Cymru (4 votes)
Ann Davies
Ben Lake
Liz Saville Roberts
Llinos Medi
Green Party (4 votes)
Adrian Ramsay
Carla Denyer
Ellie Chowns
Siân Berry
Social Democratic & Labour Party (2 votes)
Claire Hanna
Colum Eastwood
Alliance (1 vote)
Sorcha Eastwood
Noes
Labour (373 votes)
Abena Oppong-Asare
Abtisam Mohamed
Adam Jogee
Adam Thompson
Afzal Khan
Alan Campbell
Alan Gemmell
Alan Strickland
Alex Baker
Alex Ballinger
Alex Barros-Curtis
Alex Davies-Jones
Alex Mayer
Alex McIntyre
Alex Norris
Alice Macdonald
Alison Hume
Alison McGovern
Alison Taylor
Alistair Strathern
Allison Gardner
Amanda Hack
Amanda Martin
Andrew Cooper
Andrew Gwynne
Andrew Lewin
Andrew Pakes
Andrew Ranger
Andrew Western
Andy MacNae
Andy Slaughter
Angela Eagle
Angela Rayner
Anna Dixon
Anna Gelderd
Anna McMorrin
Anna Turley
Anneliese Midgley
Apsana Begum
Baggy Shanker
Bambos Charalambous
Barry Gardiner
Bayo Alaba
Beccy Cooper
Becky Gittins
Bell Ribeiro-Addy
Ben Coleman
Ben Goldsborough
Bill Esterson
Blair McDougall
Brian Leishman
Bridget Phillipson
Callum Anderson
Calvin Bailey
Carolyn Harris
Cat Eccles
Cat Smith
Catherine Atkinson
Catherine Fookes
Catherine McKinnell
Catherine West
Charlotte Nichols
Chi Onwurah
Chris Bloore
Chris Bryant
Chris Curtis
Chris Elmore
Chris Evans
Chris Hinchliff
Chris Kane
Chris McDonald
Chris Murray
Chris Vince
Chris Webb
Claire Hazelgrove
Claire Hughes
Clive Betts
Clive Lewis
Connor Naismith
Connor Rand
Damien Egan
Dan Aldridge
Dan Jarvis
Dan Tomlinson
Daniel Francis
Daniel Zeichner
Danny Beales
Darren Jones
Darren Paffey
Dave Robertson
David Baines
David Burton-Sampson
David Pinto-Duschinsky
David Smith
David Taylor
David Williams
Dawn Butler
Debbie Abrahams
Deirdre Costigan
Derek Twigg
Diana Johnson
Douglas Alexander
Douglas McAllister
Ed Miliband
Elaine Stewart
Ellie Reeves
Elsie Blundell
Emily Darlington
Emily Thornberry
Emma Foody
Emma Hardy
Emma Lewell-Buck
Emma Reynolds
Euan Stainbank
Feryal Clark
Fleur Anderson
Florence Eshalomi
Frank McNally
Gareth Snell
Gen Kitchen
Georgia Gould
Gerald Jones
Gill German
Gordon McKee
Graeme Downie
Graham Stringer
Grahame Morris
Gregor Poynton
Gurinder Josan
Hamish Falconer
Harpreet Uppal
Heidi Alexander
Helen Hayes
Helena Dollimore
Henry Tufnell
Hilary Benn
Ian Byrne
Ian Lavery
Ian Murray
Imogen Walker
Imran Hussain
Irene Campbell
Jack Abbott
Jacob Collier
Jade Botterill
Jake Richards
James Asser
James Frith
James Murray
James Naish
Janet Daby
Jas Athwal
Jayne Kirkham
Jeevun Sandher
Jeff Smith
Jen Craft
Jenny Riddell-Carpenter
Jess Asato
Jess Phillips
Jessica Morden
Jessica Toale
Jim Dickson
Jim McMahon
Jo Platt
Jo Stevens
Jo White
Joani Reid
Jodie Gosling
Joe Morris
Joe Powell
Johanna Baxter
John Grady
John McDonnell
John Slinger
John Whitby
Jon Pearce
Jon Trickett
Jonathan Brash
Jonathan Davies
Jonathan Hinder
Jonathan Reynolds
Josh Dean
Josh Fenton-Glynn
Josh MacAlister
Josh Newbury
Josh Simons
Julia Buckley
Julie Minns
Juliet Campbell
Justin Madders
Kanishka Narayan
Karin Smyth
Karl Turner
Kate Dearden
Kate Osamor
Kate Osborne
Katie White
Keir Mather
Kenneth Stevenson
Kerry McCarthy
Kevin Bonavia
Kevin McKenna
Kim Johnson
Kim Leadbeater
Kirith Entwistle
Kirsteen Sullivan
Kirsty McNeill
Laura Kyrke-Smith
Lauren Edwards
Lauren Sullivan
Lee Barron
Lee Pitcher
Leigh Ingham
Lewis Atkinson
Liam Byrne
Liam Conlon
Lilian Greenwood
Lillian Jones
Linsey Farnsworth
Lisa Nandy
Liz Kendall
Liz Twist
Lizzi Collinge
Lloyd Hatton
Lola McEvoy
Lorraine Beavers
Louise Haigh
Louise Jones
Lucy Powell
Lucy Rigby
Luke Akehurst
Luke Charters
Luke Murphy
Luke Myer
Luke Pollard
Margaret Mullane
Maria Eagle
Marie Rimmer
Marie Tidball
Mark Ferguson
Mark Hendrick
Mark Sewards
Mark Tami
Markus Campbell-Savours
Marsha De Cordova
Martin McCluskey
Martin Rhodes
Mary Creagh
Mary Glindon
Matt Bishop
Matt Rodda
Matt Turmaine
Matt Western
Matthew Patrick
Matthew Pennycook
Maureen Burke
Maya Ellis
Meg Hillier
Melanie Onn
Melanie Ward
Miatta Fahnbulleh
Michael Payne
Michael Shanks
Michael Wheeler
Michelle Welsh
Mike Amesbury
Mike Kane
Mike Reader
Mike Tapp
Mohammad Yasin
Nadia Whittome
Natalie Fleet
Natasha Irons
Naushabah Khan
Naz Shah
Neil Coyle
Neil Duncan-Jordan
Nicholas Dakin
Nick Smith
Nick Thomas-Symonds
Noah Law
Oliver Ryan
Olivia Bailey
Olivia Blake
Pam Cox
Pamela Nash
Pat McFadden
Patricia Ferguson
Patrick Hurley
Paul Foster
Paul Waugh
Paula Barker
Paulette Hamilton
Perran Moon
Peter Dowd
Peter Kyle
Peter Lamb
Peter Prinsley
Peter Swallow
Phil Brickell
Polly Billington
Preet Kaur Gill
Rachael Maskell
Rachel Blake
Rachel Hopkins
Rachel Taylor
Rebecca Long Bailey
Richard Baker
Richard Burgon
Richard Quigley
Rupa Huq
Rushanara Ali
Ruth Cadbury
Ruth Jones
Sadik Al-Hassan
Sally Jameson
Sam Carling
Sam Rushworth
Samantha Dixon
Samantha Niblett
Sarah Champion
Sarah Coombes
Sarah Edwards
Sarah Hall
Sarah Russell
Sarah Sackman
Sarah Smith
Satvir Kaur
Scott Arthur
Sean Woodcock
Seema Malhotra
Shabana Mahmood
Sharon Hodgson
Shaun Davies
Simon Lightwood
Simon Opher
Sojan Joseph
Sonia Kumar
Stella Creasy
Stephanie Peacock
Stephen Doughty
Stephen Morgan
Stephen Timms
Steve Race
Steve Reed
Steve Witherden
Steve Yemm
Sureena Brackenridge
Tahir Ali
Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
Terry Jermy
Tim Roca
Toby Perkins
Tom Collins
Tom Hayes
Tom Rutland
Tonia Antoniazzi
Tony Vaughan
Torcuil Crichton
Torsten Bell
Tracy Gilbert
Tristan Osborne
Tulip Siddiq
Uma Kumaran
Valerie Vaz
Vicky Foxcroft
Warinder Juss
Wes Streeting
Will Stone
Yuan Yang
Yvette Cooper
Zarah Sultana
Zubir Ahmed
Democratic Unionist Party (4 votes)
Carla Lockhart
Gavin Robinson
Jim Shannon
Sammy Wilson
Social Democratic & Labour Party (1 vote)
Colum Eastwood
Independent (1 vote)
Alex Easton
Ulster Unionist Party (1 vote)
Robin Swann
Traditional Unionist Voice (1 vote)
Jim Allister
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CYMDEITHAS CEREDIGION: CYFARFOD TACHWEDD
Cafodd aelodau dyfal Cymdeithas Ceredigion adloniant dwbl wrth fentro mas ar noson wyllt a glawog. Siaradodd Daniel Davies, yr awdur treiddgar a chrafog o Lanarth, am y traddodiad llenyddol digrif yng Ngheredigion ac yn enwedig am gyfraniad Idwal Jones, Llambed (1895 -1937) ato. Dyfynnwyd yn helaeth o waith Idwal Jones yn enwedig o’i gerddi digrif i ddangos pa mor dalentog ydoedd yn hyn o beth. Olrheiniwyd ei ddylanwad ar lenorion comig diweddarach o Geredigion megis Jacob Davies ac Eirwyn Pont-siân. Mwynhaodd y gynulleidfa’r sgwrs. Yn y sesiwn holi wedyn datblygwyd trafodaeth frwd ac ehangach am wendidau’r traddodiad digrif yn llenyddiaeth Gymraeg yn gyffredinol gan esgor ar bynciau megis pam nad oedd awdl, gwirioneddol lon ei chywair, erioed wedi ennill y Gadair yn yr Eisteddfod Genedlaethol.
Cawsom ragor o hwyl wedyn wrth i’r casgliad o farddoniaeth, Cerddi Dydd Mercher, gael ei lansio. Lluniwyd y cerddi gan fynychwyr dosbarth wythnosol y Prifardd Idris Reynolds, golygydd y llyfr, dros y blynyddoedd. Wrth farnu ar sail y cerddi a adroddwyd gan aelodau o’r dosbarth yn ystod y lansiad nid oedd y traddodiad digrif, o leiaf yno, mor farwaidd â hynny wedi’r cwbwl! Rhoddir yr elw o’r llyfr i goffrau’r Eisteddfod Genedlaethol 2020 yn Nhregaron.
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From The Library of Unrequited Love by Sophie Divry; translated from the French by Siân Reynolds.
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