#todd berger

[movie-titlecards]

The Curse of Bridge Hollow (2022)

My rating: 4/10

The premise, while not terribly original, could've been fun (heck, I'm pretty sure it has been in like, half a dozen similar Halloween movies), but the dad character's constant obnoxious shtick just sucked all the joy out of this. Lauren Lapkus looked very cute in that little orange pumpkin outfit, though.

[burningmarsdenss]

From "amazonfreevee: Instagram.

[awardswatcherik]

FINAL 2023 Oscar Nomination Predictions: BEST DIRECTOR

FINAL 2023 Oscar Nomination Predictions: BEST DIRECTOR

[awardseason]

2023 Oscars — Nominees

Best Picture “All Quiet on the Western Front” “Avatar: The Way of Water” “The Banshees of Inisherin” “Elvis” “Everything Everywhere All at Once” “The Fabelmans” “TÁR” “Top Gun: Maverick” “Triangle of Sadness” “Women Talking”

Best Director Martin McDonagh (“The Banshees of Inisherin”) Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (“Everything Everywhere All at Once”) Steven Spielberg (“The Fabelmans”) Todd Field (“TÁR”) Ruben Östlund (“Triangle of Sadness”)

Best Actress Cate Blanchett (“TÁR”) Ana de Armas (“Blonde”) Andrea Riseborough (“To Leslie”) Michelle Williams (“The Fabelmans”) Michelle Yeoh (“Everything Everywhere All at Once”)

Best Actor Austin Butler (“Elvis”) Colin Farrell (“The Banshees of Inisherin”) Brendan Fraser (“The Whale”) Paul Mescal (“Aftersun”) Bill Nighy (“Living”)

Best Supporting Actress Angela Bassett (“Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”) Hong Chau (“The Whale”) Kerry Condon (“The Banshees of Inisherin”) Stephanie Hsu (“Everything Everywhere All at Once”) Jamie Lee Curtis (“Everything Everywhere All at Once”)

Best Supporting Actor Brendan Gleeson (“The Banshees of Inisherin”) Brian Tyree Henry (“Causeway”) Judd Hirsch (“The Fabelmans”) Barry Keoghan (“The Banshees of Inisherin”) Ke Huy Quan (“Everything Everywhere All at Once”)

Best International Feature Film “All Quiet on the Western Front” (Edward Berger, Germany) “Argentina, 1985” (Santiago Mitre, Argentina) “Close” (Lukas Dhont, Belgium) “EO” (Poland) “The Quiet Girl” (Ireland)

Best Adapted Screenplay Edward Berger, Ian Stokell, and Lesley Paterson (“All Quiet on the Western Front”) Rian Johnson (“Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery”) Kazuo Ishiguro (“Living”) Ehren Kruger, Christopher McQuarrie, and Eric Warren Singer (“Top Gun: Maverick”) Sarah Polley (“Women Talking”)

Best Original Screenplay Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (“Everything Everywhere All at Once”) Todd Field (“TÁR”) Tony Kushner and Steven Spielberg (“The Fabelmans”) Martin McDonagh (“The Banshees of Inisherin”) Ruben Östlund (“Triangle of Sadness”)

Best Animated Feature “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio” (ShadowMachine/Netflix) “Marcel the Shell with Shoes On” (A24) “Turning Red” (Pixar/Disney) “Puss in Boots: The Last Wish” (DreamWorks/Universal) “The Sea Beast” (Netflix)

Best Cinematography James Friend (“All Quiet on the Western Front”) Darius Khondji (“Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths”) Mandy Walker (“Elvis”) Roger Deakins (“Empire of Light”) Florian Hoffmeister (“Tár”)

Best Visual Effects “Avatar: The Way of Water” (20th Century/Disney) “All Quiet on the Western Front” (Netflix) “The Batman” (Warner Bros.) “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” (Disney/Marvel) “Top Gun: Maverick” (Paramount)

Best Editing “Elvis” (Warner Bros.) “Everything Everywhere All at Once” (A24) “Top Gun: Maverick” (Paramount) “TÁR” (Focus Features) “The Banshees of Inisherin” (Searchlight Pictures)

Best Production Design “Avatar: The Way of Water” (20th Century Studios/Disney) “All Quiet on the Western Front” (Netflix) “Babylon” (Paramount) “Elvis” (Warner Bros.) “The Fabelmans” (Universal)

Best Makeup and Hairstyling “Elvis” (Warner Bros.) “The Batman” (Warner Bros.) “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” (Marvel/Disney) “All Quiet on the Western Front” (Netflix) “The Whale” (A24)

Best Costume Design “Elvis” (Warner Bros.) “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” (Marvel/Disney) “Everything Everywhere All at Once” (A24) “Babylon” (Paramount) “Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris” (Focus Features)

Best Sound “Top Gun: Maverick” (Paramount) “Elvis” (Warner Bros.) “Avatar: The Way of Water” (20th Century/Disney) “All Quiet on the Western Front” (Netflix) “The Batman” (Warner Bros.)

Best Original Song “Hold My Hand” — Lady Gaga (“Top Gun: Maverick”) “Lift Me Up”— Rihanna (“Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”) “Naatu Naatu”— Kaala Bhairava, M.M. Keeravani, and Rahul Sipligunj (“RRR”) “Applause”— Diane Warren (“Tell It Like a Woman”) “This Is a Life”— David Byrne, Ryan Lott, and Mitski (“Everything Everywhere All at Once”)

Best Original Score Justin Hurwitz (“Babylon”) John Williams (“The Fabelmans”) Volker Bertelmann (“All Quiet on the Western Front”) Carter Burwell (“The Banshees of Inisherin”) Son Lux (“Everything Everywhere All at Once”)

Best Documentary Feature “All That Breathes” “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed” “Fire of Love” “A House Made of Splinters” “Navalny”

Best Documentary Short Subject “The Elephant Whisperers” “Haulout” “How Do You Measure a Year?” “The Martha Mitchell Effect” “Stranger at the Gate”

Best Live Action Short “An Irish Goodbye” “Ivalu” “Le Pupille” “Night Ride” “The Red Suitcase”

Best Animated Short “The Flying Sailor” “The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse” “Ice Merchants” “My Year of Dicks” “An Ostrich Told Me the World Is Fake and I Think I Believe It”

[gotham-citys-third-finest]

Jason Todd and The Female Gaze: A Mini-Essay

I feel like DC still doesn't quite understand Jason Todd's appeal within the fandom. I know on some level they think it's because he's the DC version of the Punisher, and our mouths froth for revenge and guns in a world where the title character famously doesn't kill and detests them.

This post really opened my eyes to something I never considered in why I like Jason until I was on TV Tropes and saw that they described him as impulsive. It rubbed me the wrong way, like petting a cat backwards. Impulsive. He never felt impulsive to me and, in most iterations of his character, he is able to lie in wait for years before striking. But then it struck me that if he were a female character, he'd be called overly emotional instead of impulsive. Too sensitive, too feely to make rational decisions. On one hand, what the fuck is gender anyway? But on my hand, as an autistic woman who was taught to make myself more palatable (pretty) before making people uncomfortable, Jason is a familiar fantasy.

He feels the depths of wrath and envy, is forced to grin and bare the weight of every cardinal sin for some transgression he's made (being poor, being empathetic, being righteous). But he doesn't smile or carry them idly. He wields them.

There's a John Berger quote in Ways of Seeing about the hypocrisy of the male gaze:

You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting “Vanity,” thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for your own pleasure.

DC puts a gun in Jason's hand and makes him a moral parallel to Batman, an alternative. But when it comes time to actually do what Batman can't (refuses to) do and free Gotham from the tyranny of a domestic terrorist, he's now corrupt and can only prove his goodness by following the path of the man who's mislead him in every life he's lived. He is a survivor who has bloomed beyond the confines of Batman's shadow. He is a victim incapable of reason when in his murderer's presence. He is a prisoner of the panels DC boxes him into.

But Jason (to me, to us) is his own Pygmalion and he is an unapologetic master of his own image. And we yearn for his liberation.

[nightheartcomics]

Sandy Sunday🖤

The Sandman: Preludes & Nocturnes

Writer: Neil Gaiman

Penciller: Mike Dringenberg

Inker: Malcolm Jones III

Colourist: Daniel Vozzo

Letterer: Todd Klein

Editor: Karen Berger

[overthinkingbelle]

Aaron Tveit appreciation post.

Movie appearances/roles:

2008-Ghost Town (Anesthesiologist)

2010-Howl (Peter Orlovsky)

2011-Girl Walks into a Bar (Henry)

2012-Premium Rush (Kyle)

2012-Les Misérables (Enjolras)

2013-A Dream of Flying (The Young Man) Short film

2015- Big Sky (Pru)

2016-Undrafted (John "Maz" Mazzello)

2016-Better Off Single (Charlie) Previously named Stereotypically You

2017-Created Equal (Tommy Reilly)

2018-Out of Blue (Tony Silvero)

TV roles/appearances:

2009–2012 Gossip Girl (William "Tripp" van der Bilt III) 10 episodes

2010 Ugly Betty (Zachary Boule) Episode: "All the World's a Stage"

2010 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit(Jan Eyck) Episode: "Beef"

2011 Body of Proof (Skip) Episode: "Point of Origin"

2011 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (Stevie Harris) Episode: "Personal Fouls"

2011 The Good Wife (Spencer Zschau) Episode: "Executive Order 13224"

2013–2015 Graceland (Mike Warren) Main cast; 38 episodes

2016 Grease Live (Danny Zuko) Television movie

2016 BrainDead (Gareth Ritter) Main cast; 13 episodes

2017–21 The Good Fight (Spencer Zschau) 3 episodes

2019 The Code (Matt Dobbins) 5 episodes

2020 One Royal Holiday (Prince James Gallant) Television movie

2021 American Horror Stories (Adam) Episode: "Rubber(wo) Man Part Two", (Jay Gantz) Episode: "Feral"

2021–present Schmigadoon! (Danny Bailey) Main cast; 6 episodes

Theatre works:

2003 Footloose (Garvin) Merry-Go-Round Playhouse [2003 Regional production]

2004 Rent (Steve, u/s Roger, Mark) US national tour [January – December 2004 National tour replacement]

2005–08 Hairspray (Link Larkin) US national tour [August 2005 – July 2006 First national tour replacement], Neil Simon Theatre [July 18, 2006 – January 18, 2007; April 1 – May 4, 2008 Broadway replacement]

2007 Calvin Berger (Matt) Barrington Stage Company: [July 3–14, 2007 Original regional production]

2007 The Three Musketeers (D'Artagnan) North Shore Music Theatre [August 21 – September 9, 2007 Regional production]

2008–10 Next to Normal (Gabe Goodman) Second Stage Theatre [January 16 – March 16,2008 Original Off-Broadway production], Arena Stage [November 21, 2008 – January 18, 2009 Original Washington, D.C. production], Booth Theatre [March 27, 2009 – January 3, 2010 Original Broadway production]

2008 Saved! (Dean) Playwrights Horizons

[May 10 – June 22, 2008 Original Off-Broadway production]

2008–09 Wicked (Fiyero Tigelaar) Gershwin Theatre [June 24 – November 9, 2008;

January 20 – March 9, 2009Broadway replacement]

2009–11 Catch Me If You Can (Frank Abagnale, Jr.) 5th Avenue Theatre [July 28 – August 16, 2009 Original Seattle production] Neil Simon Theatre: [March 11 – September 4, 2011 Original Broadway production]

2010 Rent (Roger Davis) Hollywood Bowl: [August 6–8, 2010 Limited engagement]

2014–15 Assassins (John Wilkes Booth) Menier Chocolate Factory: [November 21, 2014 – February 8, 2015 Off-West End revival]

2017Company (Robert) Barrington Stage Company: [August 10 – September 10, 2017 Regional revival]

2018–22; 2023 Moulin Rouge!(Christian) Emerson Colonial Theatre: [July 10 – August 19, 2018 Original Boston production] Al Hirschfeld Theatre: [June 28, 2019 – March 11, 2020, September 24, 2021 – May 8, 2022, January 17 – April 9, 2023 Original Broadway production; paused due to COVID-19 , Won 2020 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical, Returning for limited engagement in 2023]

Feb. 9-May 12, 2023 Sweeney Todd (title role) Broadway revival, Lunt-Fontanne Theater (replacement)

Source: Wikipedia

[autistpride]

How many of these famous autists do you recognize? And this isn't even a complete list!

So many amazing wonderful people are autistic. I will never understand why people hate us so much.

Actors/actresses/entertainment:

Chloe Hayden

Talia Grant

Rachel Barcellona

Sir Anthony Hopkins

Dan Akroyd

David Byrne

Darryl Hannah

Courtney Love

Jerry Seinfeld

Roseanne Barr

Jennifer Cook

Chuggaaconroy

Stephanie Davis

Rick Glassman

Paula Hamilton

Dan Harmon

Paige Layle

Matthew Labyorteaux

Wentworth Miller

Desi Napoles

Freddie Odom Jr

Kim Peek

Sue Ann Pien

Henry Rodriguez

Scott Steindorff

Ian Terry

Tara Palmer -Tomkinson

Albert Rutecki

Billy West

Alexis Wineman- Miss America contestant

Athletes:

Jessica- Jane Applegate

Michael Brannigan

David Campion

Brenna Clark

Ulysse Delsaux

Tommy Dis Brisay

Jim Eisenreich

Todd Hodgetts

John Howard

Anthony Ianni

Lisa Llorens

Clay Matzo

Frankie Macdonald

Jason McElwain

Chris Morgan

Max Park

Cody Ware

Amani Williams

Samuel Von Einem

Musicians:

Susan Boyle

Elizabeth Ibby Grace

David Byrne

Johnny Dean

Tony DeBlois

Christopher Dufley

Jody Dipiazza

Pertti Kurikka

James Jagow

Ladyhawke

Kodi Lee

Left at London

Red Lewis Clark

Abz Love

Thristan Mendoza

Heidi Mortenson

Hikari Oe

Matt Savage

Graham Sierota

SpaceGhostPurp

Mark Tinley

Donald Triplett

Aleksander Vinter

Comedians:

Hannah Gatsby

Robert White

Bethany Black

Scientists/inventors/mathematians/Researchers:

Damian Milton

Bram Cohen

Michelle Dawson

Carl Sagan

Writers:

Neil Gaimen

Mel Bags

Kage Baker

Amy Swequenza

M. Remi Yergeau

Sean Barron

Lydia X Z Brown

Matt Burning

Dani Bowman

Nicole Cliffe

Laura Kate Dale

Aoife Dooley

Corrine Duyvus

Marianne Eloise

Jory Flemming

Temple Grandin

John R Hall

Naomi Higashida

Helan Hoang

Liane Holliday Willey

Luke Jackson

Rosie King

Thomas A McKean

Johnathan Mitchell

Jack Monroe

Caiseal Mor

Morenike Giwa- Onaiwu

Jasmine O'Neill

Brant Page Hanson

Dawn Prince-Hughs

Sue Robin

Stephen Shore

Andreas Souvitos

Sarah Stup

Susanna Tamaro

Chuck Tingle

Donna Williams

Leaders:

Julia Bascom

Ari Ne'eman

Sarah Marie Acevedo

Sharon Davenport

Joshua Collins

Conner Cummings

Kevin Healy

Poom Jenson

Amy Knight

Jared O'Mara

David Nelson

Shaun Neumeier

Master Sgt. Shale Norwitz

Jim Sinclair

Judy Singer

Dr. Vernon Smith

Artists:

Miina Akkijjyrkka

Danny Beath

Deborah Berger

Larry John Bissonnette

Patrick Francis

Goby

Jorge Gutierrez

Lina Long

Johnathan Lerman

Julian Martin

Haley Moss

Morgan Harper Nichols

Tim Sharp

Gilles Tehin

Willem Van Genk

Richard Wawro

Poets:

David Eastham

Christopher Knowles

David Miedzianik

Henriette Seth F

[bestmusicalworldcup]

2023 League of Musicals Alphabetized List of Musicals

Below is the full list of musicals in the League of Musicals sorted by Division.

Division A

Alice By Heart Annie Assassins Avenue Q The Band's Visit The Book of Mormon Cabaret Cats Chess Chicago A Chorus Line Come From Away Company Falsettos Fiddler on the Roof Firebringer Fun Home A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder Ghost Quartet Guys and Dolls Hadestown Hair Hairspray Hamilton Hello, Dolly! The Hunchback of Notre Dame In The Heights Into the Woods Jekyll and Hyde The King and I Kinky Boots Legally Blonde Les Misérables The Lion King Little Shop of Horrors Matilda Moulin Rouge Mozart, l'opéra rock The Music Man My Fair Lady Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812 Newsies Next to Normal Octet Once Once on this Island The Phantom of the Opera Pippin The Producers Ragtime Rent Ride the Cyclone The Rocky Horror Show Something Rotten The Sound of Music Spies Are Forever SpongeBob SquarePants: The Broadway Musical Spring Awakening Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Twisted: The Untold Story of A Royal Vizier Waitress West Side Story Wicked The Wiz

Division B

25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee 42nd Street 1776 Adamandi American Idiot American Psycho Anastasia Applause Bare: A Pop Opera Beetlejuice Be More Chill Billy Elliot the Musical Bonnie and Clyde Bye Bye Birdie Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Cinderella (Rodgers and Hammerstein) City of Angels Damn Yankees Dear Evan Hansen Death Note: The Musical Evita Fosse A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum Grease The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals Hallelujah, Baby! Heathers Holy Musical B@man! How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying Jersey Boys Jesus Christ Superstar Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat Kiss Me, Kate Kiss of the Spider Woman La Cage aux Folles The Lightning Thief A Little Night Music Man of La Mancha Memphis Monty Python's Spamalot The Mystery of Edwin Drood A New Brain Nine The Pajama Game Passion The Prom The Scarlet Pimpernel Singin' in the Rain Six South Pacific Starship A Strange Loop Sunday in the Park with George Sunset Boulevard Tanz der Vampire / Dance of the Vampires Thoroughly Modern Millie Tick Tick Boom Titanic The Trail to Oregon! Tuck Everlasting Two Gentlemen of Verona Urinetown The Will Rogers Follies The Wizard of Oz (1987)

Division C

& Juliet 21 Chump Street 35MM: A Musical Exhibition 1789: Les Amants de la Bastille Aida Allegiance Amélie Annie Get Your Gun Anything Goes The Art of Pleasing Princes Bandstand Beauty and the Beast Big Fish Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson Carousel Carrie The Color Purple Contact The Count of Monte Cristo Dogfight Dracula, the Musical Dreamgirls Elisabeth Evil Dead: The Musical Finding Neverland Frankenstein: A New Musical The Frogs Funny Girl Godspell Groundhog Day Gypsy Hedwig and the Angry Inch Jane Eyre The Last Five Years Lizzie The Lord of the Rings Love in Hate Nation Love Never Dies The Mad Ones The Magic Show Mary Poppins Mean Girls Merrily We Roll Along Miss Saigon Mozart! Oklahoma! Oliver On the Town Ordinary Days Parade The Pirate Queen Preludes Pretty Woman The Prince of Egypt Priscilla, Queen of the Desert Rebecca Roméo et Juliette: de la Haine à l'Amour The Secret Garden Seussical She Loves Me Shrek the Musical Starry Wonderland You're A Good Man Charlie Brown

Division D

13: The Musical Ablaze The Act Ain't Misbehavin An American in Paris Anne & Gilbert Anyone Can Whistle Av. Larco Back to the Future the Musical The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas Big River Bran Nue Dae Bright Star Bring It On Calvin Berger Caroline, or Change Clown Bible Crazy for You De 3 Biggetjes The Dolls of New Albion Dorian Gray The Drowsy Chaperone The Fantasticks Fiorello! Fly by Night Follies Frankenstein (Wang Yeon Beom + Brandon Lee) Hans Christian Andersen Hoy no me puedo levantar In Transit Jagged Little Pill Jerome Robbins' Broadway Kimberly Akimbo King's Table Kismet Lady Bess La Légende du roi Arthur Le Passe-Muraille / Amour Le Roi Soleil Les Parapluies de Cherbourg The Light in the Piazza Made in Dagenham Magic Tree House: The Musical Mentiras el musical Notre-Dame de Paris Once Upon A Mattress On Your Feet! The Story of Emilio & Gloria Estefan Phantom (Yeston & Kopit) Raisin Redhead Sarafina! School of Rock The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1964) Seven Brides for Seven Brothers Show Boat Sidd Siete veces adios Soldaat van Oranje The Spitfire Grill Starlight Express Starmania / Tycoon Tarrytown The Threepenny Opera / Die Dreigroschenoper Timéo Wiedzmin The Wild Party (Lippa) The Woman in White Wonderful Town [title of show] Émilie Jolie

[chwedout]

✨films i watched for the first time in 2023 that i think everyone should watch at least once in their lifetime✨

favourites are listed in bold

20th Century Girl (2022, dir. Bang Woo-ri)

All Quiet on the Western Front (2022, dir. Edward Berger)

Asteroid City (2023, dir. Wes Anderson)

Audition (1999, dir. Takashi Miike)

The Banshees of Inisherin (2022, dir. Martin McDonagh)

Barbie (2023, dir. Greta Gerwig)

Beau Is Afraid (2023, dir. Ari Aster)

Better Days (2019, dir. Derek Tsang Kwok-Cheung)

Bottoms (2023, dir. Emma Seligman)

Canola (2016, dir. Chang)

Columbus (2017, dir. Kogonada)

The Darjeeling Limited (2007, dir. Wes Anderson)

Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009, dir. Wes Anderson)

Grave of the Fireflies (1988, dir. Isao Takahata)

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023, dir. James Gunn)

The House (2022, dir. Paloma Baeza, Niki Lindroth von Bahr, Emma De Swaef, Marc James Roels)

House of Hummingbird (2018, dir. Kim Bora)

I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020, dir. Charlie Kaufman)

In Bruges (2008, dir. Martin McDonagh)

Infinity Pool (2023, dir. Brandon Cronenberg)

Isle of Dogs (2018, dir. Wes Anderson)

Killers of the Flower Moon (2023, dir. Martin Scorsese)

Memories of Murder (2003, dir. Bong Joon-ho)

Lady Vengeance (2005, dir. Park Chan-wook)

May December (2023, dir. Todd Haynes)

The Menu (2022, dir. Mark Mylod)

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984, dir. Hayao Miyazaki)

Next Sohee (2022, dir. July Jung)

No Country for Old Men (2007, dir. Joel Coen, Ethan Coen)

Oldboy (2003, dir Park Chan-wook)

Past Lives (2023, dir. Celine Song)

Paprika (2006, dir. Satoshi Kon)

Perfect Blue (1997, dir. Satoshi Kon)

Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019, dir. Céline Sciamma)

Priscilla (2023, dir. Sofia Coppola)

Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (2022, Joel Crawford)

The Quiet Girl (2022, dir. Colm Bairéad)

Ramen Shop (2018, dir. Eric Khoo)

Saltburn (2023, dir. Emerald Fennell)

Shiva Baby (2020, Emma Seligman)

Sing Street (2016, dir. John Carney)

Sound of Metal (2019, dir. Darius Marder)

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023, dir. Joaquim Dos Santos, Justin K. Thompson, Kemp Powers

Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002, dir. Park Chan-wook)

The Tale of Princess Kaguya (2013, dir. Isao Takahata)

TÁR (2022, dir. Todd Field)

Theater Camp (2023, dir. Molly Gordon, Nick Lieberman)

The Truman Show (1998, dir. Peter Weir)

Weathering with You (2019, dir. Makoto Shinkai)

Women Talking (2022, dir. Sarah Polley)

2021 | 2022

[insomniac-jay]

DC OC Reading Lists

Billie Sunday | Faerie

Titania Knights: Faith, Trust, & Fairy Dust: The debut of DC's newest all girl team, the Titania Knights, and their newest heroes: Faerie, Hermia, Emerald, and Witchbane. Released around the same time as the first Blue Beetle comic.

Faerie - Billie's solo comic. It's an overall character study and exploration into her life as a Metahuman, relationships, and her future as she prepares to head off to Miami for college. It is confirmed that her and Jaime are in a long distance relationship.

Faerie: Miami Vices - Billie starts her journey as a nursing student, but not before she gets a message from Zatanna Zatara about malevolent magical forces in the city.

Fatale: Bloody Paradise - Billie makes a cameo as the nurse helping Jahzara recover from a car accident

Faerie & Blue Beetle - Billie and Jaime, now at a comfortable point in their lives, get married and settle down into a domestic life with each other in El Paso...or as domestic as one can be when they're a superhero

Faerie: All Haill the Queen - An Elseworlds comic where Titania names Billie as her successor to the throne of Fairyland

Jahzara Nwadike | Fatale

The Watchers: Public Enemies - The debut of Jahzara, daughter of a Nigerian business mogul, as the elusive Watcher Fatale in her quest to eliminate Bruce Wayne.

The Watchers: Watchers vs Owls - Jahzara joins the Watchers in the fight against the Court of Owls after Duchess (Serilda von Meier-Berger) is attacked in her home after refusing to join them

Fatale: Sins of Star City - After being framed for a crime she didn't commit, Jahzara flees from Gotham and hides in Star City

Fatale: Black Paradise - Now a successful lawyer living in Florida, Jahzara's work as Fatale isn't done when enemies from her past come back and new ones emerge

The Watchers: Future is Ours - Jahzara, now in her late 30s, trains the next generation of Watchers alongside Vicia

The Watchers: Who Watches the Watchers? - Jahzara's backstory and how she came to join the Watchers

Fatale: Corporate Espionage - An Elseworlds story where Jahzara and Duke meet later in life as adults

Vicia Lopez | Crimson

The Watchers: Honor Among Rogues - Vicia's debut alongside the rest of the Watchers. She has a few volumes dedicated to her character development

The Watchers: Public Enemies - Major supporting character since this series is mainly about Jahzara

Crimson & Pantheress - Duo series of Crimson and Pantheress (Imani Javiera) as they fight crime in Gotham's underground to keep their communities safe

The Watchers: Watchers vs Owls - Vicia joins the war after the attack on Duchess. A major moment is when she kills Talon

The Watchers: Future is Ours - An older Vicia helps Jahzara train the new Watchers, which includes her daughter Sanai Sheila Todd

The Watchers: Who Watches the Watchers - Exploration into Vicia's life before joining the vigilante organization, her relationship with Madame Nightshade, and how she joined

Blood Mary & the Final Girls - Elseworld story where Vicia never joins the Watchers; instead escaping juvie and becoming Bloody Mary, a murderous antiheroine

Crimson: Deadly Venom - Another Elseworlds where Vicia stayed with the Black Widows as an assassin

Greynasha Wiley | Crypt

Crypt: Back From the Dead - Greynasha's debut series. Based off the Static Shock cartoon, a major theme of the series is Greynasha learning how to live with her powers and the remorse that comes with being a survivor of the Big Bang

Midwest Titans (@punkeropercyjackson) - Greynasha is a member of the Midwestern branch of the Teen Titans alongside Blue Beetle, Miss Martian, and Static, Greynasha's love interest

@floof-ghostie @calciumcryptid @peachyblkdemonslayer @theautisticcentre @moonage-gaydream

[iwanttocreateagod]

... What lesson?

An analysis of Three Septembers and a January from Fables & Reflections by Neil Gaiman, Shawn McManus, Daniel Vozzo, Todd Klein, Alisa Kwitney and Karen Berger. (I, unfortunately, do not own The Annotated Sandman; everything I mention will be a part of my personal interpretation of this story)

What this short story does really well is illustrating the sibling dynamics between the Endless. Something that before was only shown at the start of Season of Mists. While the storyline itself can truly be seen as a stand-alone, it possesses many examples of how the interpersonal relationships interfere with how the siblings rule their realms. Dream shoves his principles aside as soon as Despair plays into Destruction's disappearance. A united front is constructed between the youngest siblings to compete against Dream. Death stands outside this, and her part in the Emperor's life is taken to be unwavering. Desire's attempts to claim the Emperor, is the action most connected to the continuing storyline; "But I'll make him spill family blood, I'll bring the Kindly Ones down on his blasted head...". This proclamation foreshadows in retrospect the conclusion of The Doll's House as it is takes place chronologically before the events in that comic, but this issue was released later. The reference to the Kindly Ones also gives a great example of how the amazing storyline planning can be seen, even in stand-alone short stories. Desire bringing a dead man back to life for this competition, also shows that they have the strongest drive to win from Dream and the least respect for Death's dominion.

On a deeper layer, the Endless' interactions are used to illustrate the interplay between the concepts they personify. This is not done subtly: "Dreams are 'nothing,' sister? Without dreams, there could be no despair."; An echo of Dream's defeat of Lucifer in A Hope in Hell. Very clearly, the ability to dream trumps despair, delirium and desire. In this story, it only yields to death and destiny. Yet the citation above shows that without dreams, the youngest three would not even have a realm. Dreams, apparently, have the capability to both create despair, delirium and desire, and to destroy them. This pattern can be taken much broader than shown in Three Septembers and a January.

The order that exists within the Endless suggests a power dynamic. As they are written, Gaiman seems to have presented them in order from most to least powerful. One can only exist because of its former. Death is bound by destiny, dreams would not exist if nothing was alive, despair/desire are fuelled by dreams, delight/delirium can be a direct consequence of achieving or rejecting the things that cause you desire or despair. Destruction was purposefully omitted in this list, his position between Dream and the twins seems strange. Destruction could have existed outside the Endless altogether; even without life, destruction is inevitable. He can be interpreted as an aspect of the second law of thermodynamics, which means that even without his actual presence, destruction would continue. A conclusion taken directly from Brief Lives. His complete existence and placement as part of the Endless serve as motivation for leaving, for abandoning his realm. The fact that he exists makes the fact that he leaves inevitable, creating the tragedy surrounding him; no other choice could have ever been made, him existing as himself is what damns him.

What still needs to be pointed out, is the capitalization of the word Lesson in Dream's speech bubble. This was an active decision by Klein, no other words starting with the letter 'L' are capitalized. Capitalization usually implies an (additional) importance connected to the word. In this case, it could imply the dual interpretation of the lesson learned within every Sandman comic: The lesson connected directly to the world of the Endless and the implications of the lesson on the "real" world. The conclusion about which lesson is learned in this story will therefore depend on who you are asking. The one I have taken away from it is told above. Despair might have missed it entirely. As with every good piece of literature, ultimately it is up to you.

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Oscars 2023 — Winners

Best Picture “All Quiet on the Western Front” “Avatar: The Way of Water” “The Banshees of Inisherin” “Elvis” “Everything Everywhere All at Once” — WINNER “The Fabelmans” “TÁR” “Top Gun: Maverick” “Triangle of Sadness” “Women Talking”

Best Director Martin McDonagh (“The Banshees of Inisherin”) Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (“Everything Everywhere All at Once”) — WINNER Steven Spielberg (“The Fabelmans”) Todd Field (“TÁR”) Ruben Östlund (“Triangle of Sadness”)

Best Actress Cate Blanchett (“TÁR”) Ana de Armas (“Blonde”) Andrea Riseborough (“To Leslie”) Michelle Williams (“The Fabelmans”) Michelle Yeoh (“Everything Everywhere All at Once”) — WINNER

Best Actor Austin Butler (“Elvis”) Colin Farrell (“The Banshees of Inisherin”) Brendan Fraser (“The Whale”) — WINNER Paul Mescal (“Aftersun”) Bill Nighy (“Living”)

Best Supporting Actress Angela Bassett (“Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”) Hong Chau (“The Whale”) Kerry Condon (“The Banshees of Inisherin”) Stephanie Hsu (“Everything Everywhere All at Once”) Jamie Lee Curtis (“Everything Everywhere All at Once”) — WINNER

Best Supporting Actor Brendan Gleeson (“The Banshees of Inisherin”) Brian Tyree Henry (“Causeway”) Judd Hirsch (“The Fabelmans”) Barry Keoghan (“The Banshees of Inisherin”) Ke Huy Quan (“Everything Everywhere All at Once”) — WINNER

Best International Feature Film “All Quiet on the Western Front” (Edward Berger, Germany) — WINNER “Argentina, 1985” (Santiago Mitre, Argentina) “Close” (Lukas Dhont, Belgium) “EO” (Poland) “The Quiet Girl” (Ireland)

Best Adapted Screenplay Edward Berger, Ian Stokell, and Lesley Paterson (“All Quiet on the Western Front”) Rian Johnson (“Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery”) Kazuo Ishiguro (“Living”) Ehren Kruger, Christopher McQuarrie, and Eric Warren Singer (“Top Gun: Maverick”) Sarah Polley (“Women Talking”) — WINNER

Best Original Screenplay Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (“Everything Everywhere All at Once”) — WINNER Todd Field (“TÁR”) Tony Kushner and Steven Spielberg (“The Fabelmans”) Martin McDonagh (“The Banshees of Inisherin”) Ruben Östlund (“Triangle of Sadness”)

Best Animated Feature “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio” — WINNER “Marcel the Shell with Shoes On”  “Turning Red”  “Puss in Boots: The Last Wish”  “The Sea Beast” 

Best Cinematography James Friend (“All Quiet on the Western Front”) — WINNER Darius Khondji (“Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths”) Mandy Walker (“Elvis”) Roger Deakins (“Empire of Light”) Florian Hoffmeister (“Tár”)

Best Visual Effects “Avatar: The Way of Water” — WINNER “All Quiet on the Western Front” “The Batman” “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” “Top Gun: Maverick”

Best Editing “Elvis”  “Everything Everywhere All at Once”— WINNER “Top Gun: Maverick”  “TÁR”  “The Banshees of Inisherin”

Best Production Design “Avatar: The Way of Water” “All Quiet on the Western Front” — WINNER “Babylon”  “Elvis” “The Fabelmans”

Best Makeup and Hairstyling “Elvis”  “The Batman”  “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”  “All Quiet on the Western Front” “The Whale” — WINNER

Best Costume Design “Elvis” “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” (Ruth E. Carter) — WINNER “Everything Everywhere All at Once”  “Babylon”  “Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris”

Best Sound “Top Gun: Maverick” — WINNER “Elvis”  “Avatar: The Way of Water”  “All Quiet on the Western Front”  “The Batman”

Best Original Song “Hold My Hand” — Lady Gaga (“Top Gun: Maverick”) “Lift Me Up”— Rihanna (“Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”) “Naatu Naatu”— Kaala Bhairava, M.M. Keeravani, and Rahul Sipligunj (“RRR”) — WINNER “Applause”— Diane Warren (“Tell It Like a Woman”) “This Is a Life”— David Byrne, Ryan Lott, and Mitski (“Everything Everywhere All at Once”)

Best Original Score Justin Hurwitz (“Babylon”) John Williams (“The Fabelmans”) Volker Bertelmann (“All Quiet on the Western Front”) — WINNER Carter Burwell (“The Banshees of Inisherin”) Son Lux (“Everything Everywhere All at Once”)

Best Documentary Feature “All That Breathes” “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed” “Fire of Love” “A House Made of Splinters” “Navalny” — WINNER

Best Documentary Short Subject “The Elephant Whisperers” — WINNER “Haulout” “How Do You Measure a Year?” “The Martha Mitchell Effect” “Stranger at the Gate”

Best Live Action Short “An Irish Goodbye” — WINNER “Ivalu” “Le Pupille” “Night Ride” “The Red Suitcase”

Best Animated Short “The Flying Sailor” “The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse” — WINNER “Ice Merchants” “My Year of Dicks” “An Ostrich Told Me the World Is Fake and I Think I Believe It”

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Miss Scarlet & The Duke - Season 4 DVD Pre Order

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Miss Eliza Scarlet (Kate Phillips, Peaky Blinders) has taken over the business of Nash & Sons (not that he has any sons) and while things are not going entirely smoothly, help comes from some familiar sources.

Outside of work, her relationship with William Wellington, aka the Duke (Stuart Martin, Jamestown), builds towards a looming decision that will shape both their lives.

Producer: Patty Lenahan Ishimoto, Erin Delaney, Jim Duggan Executive Producer: Kate Phillips, Stuart Martin, Todd Berger, Ben Edwards, Harvey Myman, Susanne Simpson, Jin Ishimoto, Patrick Irwin, Patty Lenahan Ishimoto, Rachael New, Emma Ayech Production Company: Element 8 Entertainment; Masterpiece; Eighty Seven Films; PBS Distribution; Work in Progress Copyright Year: 2024 Director: Nimer Rashed, Rachael New Actors: Kate Phillips, Stuart Martin Writers: Rachael New, Ben Edwards, Sarah-Louise Hawkins, Dan Muirden

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Sandy Sunday🖤

The Sandman: Season of Mists

Writer: Neil Gaiman

Penciller: Kelley Jones

Inker: Malcolm Jones III

Colourist: Daniel Vozzo

Letterer: Todd Klein

Editor: Karen Berger