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Last Song: Nyrkkitappelu's song Poliisiautossa (In a police car. A fun punk song how it's free to get a ride in a police car to any destination)
Last Movie: Snowpiercer. I heard that it was a decent movie but unfortunately, it wasn't. Too many loopholes and a really lousy ending for my taste.
Currently reading: Malcolm Gaskill's (awesome surname!) book "The Ruin of Witches - Life and Death in the New World". It was awarded as the History Book of The Year in UK after its release. It's a history book, inspecting how Salem witch craze became possible and it starts from the very beginning before anyone from England had moved a single hair to USA yet.
Currently Watching: Nothing at the moment. I gave up with Buffy so...
Currently consuming: I visited an Asian market today as day after tomorrow, my sister will come here and we're going to make sukiyaki. I happened to come across with Tokimeki brand's matcha cookie sticks - like Poki rip off. As I'm a matcha slut, I had to get them. Unfortunately, they don't take like matcha at all but like burnt cookie crust.
Currently craving: I have a horrible heartburn and would like to have some ice-cream to soothe it.
@nei-ning @murhamarsu @nmzuka @eleanorappreciates @starlling-writes @panimauser @reservoirmonks @delyth-thomas-art
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Consequences? For my actions?!
#Snowpiercer#Ruth Wardell#Our Answer for Everything#Alison Wright#snowpierceredit#GIF#my gifs#spoilers#Danny watches Snowpiercer
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FINNEY13S RECOMMENDS: FILMS
I was asked about my favourite film genre a while back. As I came up with great films I decided to make a separate post about them. These aren't definitely ALL the great films I've seen. I just can't remember all of them! So maybe I'll update this post whenever I do :D
My personal Top 21 films are in red. Because I just CAN'T choose any less :D
SCIFI
Gattaga (Ethan Hawke, Jude Law) - Equillibrium (Christian Bale) - The Adjustement Bureau (Matt Damon) - Upgrade - Oxygen - Archive - Self/less (Ryan Reynolds, Ben Kingsley) - eXistenZ (Jude Law) - Repo Men (Jude Law) - The Signal - 12 Monkeys (Brad Pitt) - Prospect (Pedro Pascal) - Star Wars (3 first ones) - Star Trek: the motion picture (William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy) - Downsizing (Matt Damon) - The Martian (Matt Damon) - Dune (Kyle MacClachlan) - District 9 (Sharlto Copley) - Sunshine (Cillian Murphy, Chris Evans) - Primer - Moon - Snowpiercer (Chris Evans, Tilda Swindon) - Edge of Tomorrow (Tom Cruise) - Vice (Bruce Willis, Thomas Jane) - Looper (Bruce Willis, Joseph Gordon-Levitt) - Inception (Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Tom Hardy, Cillian Murphy) - Coherence - THX 1138 - The 5th Element (Bruce Willis) - Fahrenheit 451 (1966) - Source Code (Jake Gyllenhaal) - The Abyss (Ed Harris) - Arrival (Jeremy Renner, Amy Adams) - Ex Machina (Oscar Isaac, Alicia Vikander) - Brazil - Clockwork Orange - 2001: A space Odyssey
SCIFI/ODD
Repo Man (Emilio Estevez) - Predestination (Ethan Hawke) - Dark City (Kiefer Sutherland) - Under the Skin (Scarlett Johansson) - Open your Eyes (Tom Cruise, Penelope Cruz)
SCIFI/FANTASY
Coma (a Russian film) - Upside Down (Kirsten Dunst)
SCIFI/ACTION
The Matrix (Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne) - Terminator & Terminator 2 (Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton) - Predator (Arnold Schwarzenegger) - Predator 2 (Danny Glover) - Boss Level (Mel Gibson, Frank Grillo) - Elysium (Matt Damon, Sharlto Copley) - Hardcore Henry (Sharlto Copley, Tim Roth) - Totall Recall (Arnold Schwarzenegger)
SCIFI/HORROR
Alien & Aliens (Sigorney Weaver) - Prometheus (Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender) - The Signs (Mel Gibson, Joaquin Phoenix. NOTE: pay attention to music ;) ) - Life (Ryan Reynolds, Jake Gyllenhaal) - The Thing (1982 version) - The Fly (Jeff Goldblum)
SCIFI/COMEDY
Idiocrazy - Galaxy Quest (Tim Allen, Sigourey Weaver, Alan Rickman)
ACTION
Lethal Weapon (Mel Gibson) - Kick-ass (Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Nicholas Cage) - Stretch (Chris Pine, Jessica Alba) - Fight Club (Brad Pitt, Edward Norton) - Unbreakable trilogy (Unbreakable, Split, Mr. Glass. Bruce Willis, Samuel L. Jackson, James McAvoy) - The Bourne trilogy (Matt Damon/Jeremy Renner) - Mission: Impossible (1st one from 1996) - Die Hard (Bruce Willis) - Lucky Number Slevin (Bruce Willis) - Red (Bruce Willis, Helen Mirren) - All Bonds with Sean Connery and Roger Moore - Smoking Aces (Ryan Reynolds, Chris Pine)
COMICBOOK FILMS
The Dark Knight (Christian Bale, Heath Ledger) - Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds) - The Crow (Brandon Lee) - Blade (1998 version) - Iron Man (Robert Downey Junior)
HORROR
The Shining (Jack Nicholson) - Saw (the first one) - Interview with the Vampire (Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt) - Bram Stoker's Dracula (Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder, Anthony Hopkins, Keanu Reeves) - The Martyrs (watch IF and only IF you want to lose your sanity. My hubs is the sanest person I've ever met and even he was disturbed) - The Machinist (Christian Bale) - Cube
HORROR/COMEDY
Shawn of the Dead
JUST PLAIN ODD FILMS THAT CAN'T BE PUT INTO A BOX (Almost guaranteed to make your head spin)
The Fountain (Hugh Jackman) - High-Rise (Tom Hiddleston, Luke Evans) - Black Swan (Natalie Portman) - Pi - Blue Velvet (Kyle MacLachlan) - The Congress - Edward Scissorhands (Johnny Depp) - Requiem for a dream (Jared Leto) - Mother! (Javier Bardem, Jennifer Lawrence)
DRAMA
Leon (Natalie Portman, Jean Reno) - Titanic (Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet) - Gambler (Mark Wahlberg) - Good Will Hunting (Matt Damon) - The Wrestler (Mickey Rourke) - 1492: Conquest of Paradise (Gerard Depardieu, Sigorney Weaver) - Only Lovers Left Alive (Tom Hiddleston, Tilda Swinton) - The Invitation (Michael Huisman) - Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind (Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet) - What's eating Gilbert Grape (Johnny Depp, Leonardo DiCaprio. Later makes the best performance of his life in this – THIS is the film he truly deserved and Oscar from) - Dangerous Liaisons (Glenn Close, John Malkovich, Michelle Pfeiffer, Uma Thurman, Keanu Reeves) - The Sixth Sense (Bruce WIllis)
COMEDY
Some like it hot (Marilyn Monroe) - Burn after reading (Brad Pitt) - Dogma (Matt Damon, Ben Affleck) - Wayne's World (Mike Myers)
OTHER
Moulin Rouge (Ewan McGregor, Nicole Kidman)
#finney13s recommends#films#my favourite films#not all of these are on top10 obvs but all are worth the watch#imo#Film rec
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Lunova-Rambles Fandom List
For the most part, anything listed here is a fandom I wouldn't mind making content for! Constantly updated, listed in alphabetical order!
Key: ♧ I don’t know this really well/I’m not fully in the fandom/haven't watched every episode
MOVIES
(♧ can also mean I haven't read the book/s)
Avatar
Big Hero 6
Coco
Coraline
DC Extended Universe (esp. Wonder Woman and Aquaman)
Detective Pikachu
Disney Fairies
♧ Divergent
Encanto
Enola Holmes
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Frozen
Harry Potter
Home
How to Train Your Dragon (haven’t watched 3rd film)
Justin and the Knights of Valour
Klaus
Kubo and the 2 Strings
Kung Fu Panda
♧ Legend of the Guardians: Owls of Ga'Hoole
Lord of the Rings
Luca
Marvel Cinematic Universe
Missing Link
♧ Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
Monster High
MonsterVerse
♧ Mortal Engines
Mr. Peabody & Sherman
Mulan
National Treasure
Now You See Me
Onward
Penguins of Madagascar
♧ Pinnochio (Guillermo del Toro)
Pirates of the Caribbean
Project Power
♧ Puss in Boots
Raya and the Last Dragon
Red Notice
Rise of the Guardians
Sing
Snowpiercer
Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse
Spirited Away
♧ The Bad Guys
The Book of Life
The Boxtrolls
The Great Wall
The Hobbit
The Incredibles
The Mitchells Vs the Machines
The Mummy
The Secret of NIMH
The Tale of Despereaux
The Tomorrow War
Tomb Raider (new & old)
Transformers
Turbo
Turning Red
♧ Uncharted
♧ Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
♧ Venom
Vivo
WALL-E
Watership Down
Wreck-It Ralph
Zootopia
☼ SHOWS
♧ Adventure Time
♧ Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
♧ Arcane
Avatar: The Last Airbender
Ben 10
Beyblade
♧ Boku no Hero Academia
Busted! (범인은 바로 너)
Carmen Sandiego (2019-2021)
Cheese in the Trap (haven’t read the Webtoon)
♧ Danny Phantom
Digimon
♧ Don't Hug Me I'm Scared
Ever After High
♧ Fairy Tail
Fate: The Winx Saga
Glitter Force
♧ Good Omens
♧ Gravity Falls
Hilda
Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous
♧ Maya and the Three
MCU Phase 4 shows
♧ Miraculous Ladybug
♧ Merlin
My Little Pony
MyStreet
NCIS/any crime tv show tbh
Ninjago/LEGO (haven’t watched 2nd half of s13)
♧ Saint Seiya
She-ra and the Princesses of Power
Sherlock
♧ Sonic the Hedgehog
♧ Squid Game
♧ Star vs the Forces of Evil
♧ Steven Universe
♧ Stranger Things
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance (haven't seen the last ep)
The Dragon Prince (haven’t watched s2~)
The Little Prince (French-Canadian show)
The Hollow
The Mandolorian
♧ The Owl House
♧ The Untamed (haven't watched a SINGLE episode but I LOVE the characters)
Tokyo Mew Mew (mY CHILDHOOD AKJAFJL)
Trollhunters (haven't watched s3~)
♧ Wednesday
W: Two Worlds Apart
Voltron Legendary Defender
VIDEO GAMES
☼ I play a lot of indie games!! So I’ll do art for any ones with nice character design
Animal Crossing (Nintendo in general tbh)
Bendy and the Ink Machine
Broken Age
Bugsnax
Cuphead
Dauntless
Death Stranding
Detroit: Become Human
♧ DOOM Eternal (SOLELY FOR THE SOUNDTRACK HELL YEAHHH)
Epistory
Firewatch
Five Nights at Freddy's
Genshin Impact
God of War (newer games)
Grounded
Half-Life: Alyx
Hitman
Inscryption
Inside
Journey to the Savage Planet
Minecraft
Monster Prom
Moving Out
♧ League of Legends (character designs!!)
Little Nightmares
Operation: Tango
Overcooked!
♧ Overwatch (character designs!!)
Pokémon
Portal
Poppy Playtime
Puppeteer
Raft
Resident Evil
Sky: Children of the Light
Skylanders (character designs!!)
Slime Rancher
Spiritfarer
Stardew Valley
Subnautica
The Gardens Between
The Last Campfire
♧ The Last of Us
The Sims
The Unfinished Swan
Tick Tock: A Tale for Two
Undertale
Untitled Goose Game
Valorant
♧ We Happy Few
What Remains of Edith Finch
MISCELLANEOUS
Beetle and the Hollowbones
EPIC: The Musical
Everything on a Waffle (by Polly Horvath)
Hamilton
Guile (by Constance Cooper)
John Mulaney (I don't really like him anymore but his old jokes are still funny)
SCP Foundation
Six: The Musical
Thea Sisters
Zodiac Star Force
♧ Warrior Cats (I mainly read about it)
Webtoons
Acception
Blades of Furry
Boyfriends
Castle Swimmer
Cursed Princess Club
Emmy the Robot
High Class Homos
Hooves of Death
My Weird Roommate
Subzero
Urban Animal (I am VERY behind)
I watch a variety of YouTubers too, but I probably won't make content for them so I won't include them here. Feel free to send in an ask about your favourite YouTubers tho!
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End of the year 2021 asks so I thought I’d do em all.
what did you learn about yourself this year?
I am very, very, very lazy and lack a lot of ambition. But that might just be my sick brain talking. But I think it’s true. I guess I learned what pain really feels like. And what it means to have a lot of it.
best moment of the year?
None come to mind. I watched some good TV I guess technically. I like leverage. Everything else is slipping my mind. I don’t know. Not really any.
worst moment of the year?
Whole year. But mostly the time I was out at the 10min away shops and the Badness hit me. The pain I felt was so sharp and unending. I went around the shops and asked to use the bathroom (all I needed) and none would let me despite me explaining, and my obvious pain. I started to cry. I could only move an inch at a time forward from the pain. I was a wreck who could barely talk. I just needed help. I asked them and no one helped. I walked past many people, waiting in line for the post office, sitting outside, standing around. They looked at me with suspicion and I kept walking. No one offered me help. I had to walk home. It took forty minutes but I’m not sure. I was in agony the entire time. The next time I had to go outside, across the street to the pharmacy, I had a panic attack and faux Bad Attack because I was so scared to be away from my house. I am still uneasy and ill to leave my house.
what was the biggest change you experienced this year?
I got sick.
best song of the year?
Cold, cold man by Saint Motel. Not out this year. It’s that or my dad is rich by danny gonzalez, evidently the most played song on my phone’s new music app.
best album of the year?
IDKHBTFM ‘s EP I guess, and their album Razzmatazz. Discovered them this year and really enjoy their stuff.
what’s one thing that happened this year that you want to change?
Everything
best book/book series of the year?
I read a book called Angelburn which looked like a generic YA angel book but I really enjoyed a lot. Released this year was the Shadow Wand, a black witch book, which I also liked. Angelburn was best though.
best television series?
Snowpiercer? We saw that. Really liked it, it’s on a train. Gotta love trains.
how was your love life this year?
Broke up with the GF and then pandemic hit so it’s not exactly a thing.
what made you cry the most this year?
I think I discussed this. Other crying incidents have just been random mood panic attacks. Once at the doctor I just started crying because I felt so hopeless and powerless in the face of my issues. He looked concerned.
biggest regret of the year?
I haven’t done jack shit
best movie of the year?
I haven’t been watching movies let alone new ones. I think I saw sonic. I didn’t like sonic. I saw onwards recently. That was fine. Watched all of the pirates of the carribean movies... the first three are pretty good.
favourite place you travelled this year?
Travel is illegal!
We went up to a hill through the woods where you can see the whole city a few times. Star gazed, watched fireworks, etc. Very nice.
did you make any new friends?
I think I’m closer with the mortal engines server. I certainly vent more about my medical issues and they listen kindly. I love them and that space.
did you learn anything about your sexuality this year?
Do people learn things yearly about this?
what are some hobbies that you developed?
I tried some new things, and then have had anxiety about them. Right now I’m trying to stay committed to miniture painting. I have a lot of unpainted minifigures I want painted. I’m not very good at painting.
what surprised you the most this year?
The horribleness of the USA’s pandemic response and also a frightening pandemic?
do you look different from the beginning of the year?
I bet I’ve gained even more weight and I look more tired. My hair is a LOT longer, it’s like to my shoulders now. Just really committing to growing it out. Interesting experience. Still messing with bleach and dye to.
how did this year treat you in general?
Bad and ill.
what message would you give yourself at the beginning of the year?
Buy more painkillers, don’t leave your house, talk to the GPs now.
has your fashion style changed this year?
I don’t wear bras anymore becuase I don’t leave my house.
one of the best meals you’ve had this year?
You think I eat food?
who has made the biggest impact in your life this year?
My flatmate. Since we’ve been trapped, homestuck together for this long, we’ve bonded incredibly and are now solidly in kahoots with each other. We play 2 player video games. We are best friends. True allies. She’s also been invaluable in terms of my medical problems and helping me through that and getting help.
what’s one thing that you hope will continue next year?
Being alive
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Reccomendations (V long sorry 😅)
I offer you all some shows to watch instead of hAzBiN hOtEL:
Epithet Erased (On YT I think. - Animation style is a little hard to get used to, but I love the chars and story line. Wholesome fun.)
Brooklyn 99 ( Netflix - please remember that real cops are not like this, it is a fictitious portrayal - the actors themselves donated 100,000 $ to support protesters against cops. Enjoy it but watch it as the fiction it is. Be aware that it’s copaganda.)
She-ra ( Netflix- we stan that lgbtq representation)
Avatar the Last Airbender (Netflix - Most of you have prbly already seen it but uh. If you haven’t, it’s pretty good. Definitely a lighthearted semi childish show.)
Daria (Crave - We stan unique poc representation. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/59kp45/daria-jodie-landon-suburban-black-girl)
Adventure Time (Dailymotion -free- or Google Play - Just google best episodes and watch those ones. The ones with Marceline + PB are my personal faves.)
Magic For Humans (Netflix - Basically an interesting magic show. Fun activity: when I watch this w/ other ppl we try to figure out how he did the tricks.)
The Fresh Prince (Netflix - A classic. Still know the theme song by heart.)
Hilda or Kipo and the Wonderbeasts (Netflix - these two animated shows are new unique takes on fantasy adventures. )
IZombie ( Netflix - Basically a zombie detective, but better. Think Veronica Mars. -also a good detective show y'all should watch. *trigger warning: it’s a zombie murder show so it has some semi-realistic depictions of gore/brains.)
Disenchantment ( Netflix -The closest thing to Hazbin on this list. An animated show with dark humour without being racist or homophobic. *some animated gore that some people might find triggering. It’s been a while since I watched so idk exactly what.)
Final Space ( Netflix -like disenchantment, an animated show with an intended audience older than your average animation show. *again, animated gore.)
Mods, if any of these shows are homophobic/racist/otherwise problematic -(ignoring B99 which is obvious copganda. Again: It’s fiction. Do not -I repeat, DO NOT- look at it as a real representation of cops. It’s not.)- please say so. We not here tryna recommend problematic shows. Or, if you have any other reccomendations?
ps: I’m Canadian, so some of these shows may not be on american Netflix, or some of the ones that aren’t may be on it. Idk. Stay safe y'all. Oof way too long submission finally over.
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if you like anime, here are things i watch:
blue exorcist - DEMONSSS (hulu and netflix im p sure)
scissor seven - its actually chinese animated, but its very well made and the production value goes up as the show goes on. i honestly rlly like the cliche anime backstory for the main char bc its also funny as hell (netflix)
saiki k - its like if one punch man was a teen who was also incredibly sarcastic. if you have adhd this shows p good for you too, it goes really fucking fast and you cant look away or youll miss something. its hilarious, go watch. (netflix)
also, some youtubers if youre feelin like that:
dream - minecraft youtuber, child friendly (not in the annoying way. just no cussing)!! hes like 5000 iq and holy shit his minecraft manhunts are insane. holds the mc speedrun world record POG. good coder, my fav youtuber right now.
hellfreezer - reading reddit stories youtuber. his voice is very nice, and videos are faily long. i use him as background noise when doing work.
TRO (the right opinion) - long commentary/rant videos on controversial topics/youtubers, like onision and yandere dev. sexy british voice ;)
mossbag - hollow knight lore and theories. i love hollow knight sm
penguinz0 - streams, commentaries, very short videos. one of the funniest men alive. absoultely incredicble. hes very quick witted and his insults make me scream laugh sometimes
joana ceddia - random life videos. full of personality! i love her honestly shes really chill but also gives off the energy of a thousand suns
pointcrow - gaming youtuber. makes a lot of insane challenge botw videos/zelda vids in general. he streams and then makes the videos.
jarvis johnson - makes videos like drew gooden/danny gonzalas do, but he is also a poc. his bids are entertaining and interesting!! i recommend greatly if you like shorter commentary videos.
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my current faves are:
dorohedoro - anime about humans and wizards coexisting during a war against each other. the wizards hate the humans and curse them to experiment with their magic. all-powerful demons control the magic world behind the scenes. very graphic in regards to gore, some nudity on occasion. anime not finished adapting from manga.
hunter x hunter - anime about hunters who do just that-- go out into the world and hunt for whatever it is they want. examples include justice for their clan killed by genocide, a new family because the old one is a toxic group of assassins who believe you can’t have friends, friends to fill in for an absentee father, and a phd. somewhat graphic in regards to gore, especially so later on in the series. anime not finished adapting from manga.
what we do in the shadows - tv mockumentary series about vampires living in staten island. very funny but also VERY NSFW... lots of sexual references/content, gore and blood.
snowpiercer - tv fantasy series about the apocalypse in which the government fucked up and sent the world into a total deep freeze. 1001 train cars are all the life that remains on earth. VERY NSFW... sexual references/content, gore and blood. there’s also a movie adapted from the comic series by the iconic and incomparable bong joon ho on netflix which is good.
// Mod Peach
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New from Every Movie Has a Lesson by Don Shanahan: MOVIE REVIEW: The Short History of the Long Road
(Image courtesy of FilmRise)
Official Selection of the 7th Chicago Critics Film Festival
THE SHORT HISTORY OF THE LONG ROAD— 3 STARS
When you watch the family drama The Short History of the Long Road, you would never guess Sabrina Carpenter is the same bubbly Disney Channel presence she is from Girl Meets World or Adventures in Babysitting. For this displaced character of Nola living off the grid and figuring out her life, there is no fizz. Only stern realities push this young woman. Equal to her privileged bully character in The Hate U Give, you would never guess Sabrina is also a vivacious pop star beyond the TV and movie screens in this type of film role requiring zero showy stages. This festival darling and award winner debuting June 16th on streaming platforms is a deeper test of potential magnitude.
When some charismatic personas go, as some would reductively call it, “unpretty” or “ugly” for a more natural or dramatic role, the results feel forced. With a little less makeup work and some shoddier clothes, the performer might put on the outer facade of adversity and expect the look to be enough. They will fail to exude the narrative hardship as if it manifested fully from within a true soul. For The Short Story of the Long Road, that is most certainly not Sabrina Carpenter. This film is a wonderful opportunity to celebrate her evolving talent.
LESSON #1: THE LOW BUDGET HIGH EXPERIENCE— The livelihood of Nola is one created by her father Clint, played by the silvered Steven Ogg of Snowpiercer and Westworld. They live off of the highways and by-ways inside of a 1984 Volkswagen Westfalia (van consultant Ryan Sellmeyer is a silent MVP of this movie). The familial duo does odd jobs and squats at parks and foreclosed houses. With skeptical takes on normal society, Clint values the practical, unrushed, and experiential as an education money can’t buy. Clint sees this personal culture as going back to the human roots as a migratory species and preaches “society would be much better off if we build an army of self-sufficient agitators.” He’s not wrong in many, many ways.
The ever-moving years of this rustic rambling have been formative for Nola. She couldn’t be closer to her father as they observe the world with different lenses and sing old road songs like “Come Along” by Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs without a cellular device in sight. The Short History of the Long Road does not always have the bounce of that song, but it does have the spirit.
The origin of this automotive adventure comes from Clint splitting away from Nola’s mother Cheryl (Maggie Siff of Billions and Sons of Anarchy), a woman Nola doesn’t remember and secretly longs to meet. As Clint laments “she zigged and we zagged.” There is most certainly freedom to be had under the stunning Southwest skies of New Mexico featured in the film and captured by cinematographer Cailin Yatsko, but Nola is at an inquisitive age to discover more traditions and personal history.
LESSON #2: THE ISOLATION AND HAZARDS OF TRAVELING OR LIVING ALONE— That said, living this way is not always easy and becomes much harder when Clint leaves the picture. Pearls of wisdom like “we wouldn’t get very far without knowing how to fix things” serve her only so far with an ancient and oil-bleeding motor home and her trusty makeshift jug-and-headlamp combo lantern. Soon, she is siphoning gas and trying to dine and ditch when the money runs out.
LESSON #3: THE ARRAY OF PEOPLE YOU MEET ON YOUR PERSONAL JOURNEY— At those challenging lows, beneficial people enter Nola’s life. They include the caring churchgoer Marie (Rusty Schwimmer) who offers an adoptive family, an auto mechanic named Miguel (Danny Trejo) who lets her trade work hours in his shop for vehicle repairs, and a potential peer in the abused fellow teen Blue (Jashaun St. John) who envies Nola’s freedom. Each of these intersections, from the one-time passersby to the long-term relationship attempts, become character-building experiences for Nola.
The performances from Schwimmer, St. John, and especially Trejo, a professional movie tough guy, become endearing treats. Thinking back to Lesson #2, most would expect a pretty girl like Nola to be an easy target for accosting violence straight out of urban legends and crappy road movies and, thankfully, writer-director Ani Simon-Kennedy never considers exploitativeness on that level. In this writer’s opinion, optimism that more people would help a traveler rather than abuse one is a fairer worldview and welcome stance.
LESSON #4: THERE ARE NO EASY ANSWERS— Each new human connection for Nola outside her father shows her slices of life beyond the looseness of her own. She can have a different way of doing things that others find reckless. New friends (and soon her own rediscovered mother) teach her a better course instead of taking momentary advantage of innocent and giving people. However, it’s not about fixing people, forced conformity, or removing brainwashing of any kind in Simon-Kennedy’s film. Forming empathy is the truer goal. Learning to accept charity and compassion doesn’t chip away at independence. They simply support and enhance the flexibility of that autonomy.
Guided by calm direction from Ani Simon-Kennedy, Carpenter, while green, never overacts. She’s not screaming for the balconies to show off. She nails the introverted pitch of her reserved Nola character. In scenes shared with the people Nola meets along the way, many of whom are more seasoned actors, Sabrina gives and takes with flow and patience. With a large enough reception, folks may come back to a film like this someday and point to it as a genesis point for Carpenter. She deserves that praise.
The title of The Short History of the Long Road is plain, simple, and true. This is but a small jaunt of a bigger journey for this broken family set to a steady score by M83’s Morgan Kibby. The flashbacks are just that: flashed for mere seconds. They show enough to throb the heart and that’s plenty. Any extended testimonials and cherished memories come out in small talk and stay small talk without a grand speech in earshot. What’s personal is personal and not for crowds. Big and lofty is the sky above it, not the grounded individual. Once again, that’s the wavelength: plain, simple, and true. Those are fitting and admirable qualities.
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List of films watched in 2017
You Get Me (Brent Bonacorso, 2017)
The Poughkeepsie Tapes (John Erick Dowdle, 2007)
The Fall (Tarsem Singh, 2006)
The Thing (John Carpenter, 1982)
Snowpiercer (Bong Joon Ho, 2013)
Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer (Nick Broomfield, 1994)
Crude (Joe Berlinger, 2009)
Okja (Bong Joon Ho, 2017)
III: The Ritual (Pavel Khvaleev, 2015)
Scary Movie (Keenen Ivory Wayans, 2000)
28 Days Later (Danny Boyle, 2002)
Saw II (Darren Lynn Bousman, 2005)
Saw (James Wan, 2004)
Jug Face (Chad Crawford Kinkle, 2013)
Hail, Caesar! (The Coen Brothers, 2016)
Disturbing Behavior (David Nutter, 1998)
Compliance (Craig Zobel, 2012)
Session 9 (Brad Anderson, 2001)
Days of Heaven (Terence Malick, 1978)
The Midnight Swim (Sarah Adina Smith, 2014)
The Invitation (Karyn Kusama, 2015)
They Call Us Monsters (Ben Lear, 2016)
Atonement (Joe Wright, 2007)
Secreto Matusita (Doran Ferandez-Moris, 2014)
mother! (Darren Aronofsky, 2017)
Strangers on a Train (Alfred Hitchcock, 1951)
Ghost in the Shell (Mamoru Oshii, 1995)
Hellraiser: Bloodline (Kevin Yagher & Joe Chappelle, 1996)
Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth (Anthony Hickox, 1992)
Dogtooth (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2009)
Darling (Mickey Keating, 2015)
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (Robert Enrico, 1962)
Dark Night (Tim Sutton, 2016)
I’m Still Here (Casey Affleck, 2010)
H.H. Holmes: America’s First Serial Killer (John Borowski, 2004)
A Movie (Bruce Conner, 1958)
Havenhurst (Andrew C. Erin, 2017)
Shark Lake (Jerry Dugan, 2015)
Dig Two Graves (Hunter Adams, 2014)
Life (Ted Demme, 1999)
Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children (Tetsuya Nomura, 2005)
The Factory (Morgan O’Neill, 2012)
Taking Lives (D. J. Caruso, 2004)
Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer (Nick Broomfield & Joan Churchill, 2003)
Snow on Tha Bluff (Damon Russell, 2011)
V/H/S: Viral (Nacho Vigalondo & Marcel Sarmiento & Gregg Bishop & Justin Benson & Aaron Scott Moorhead, 2014)
The Stanford Prison Experiment (Kyle Patrick Alvarez, 2015)
The Midnight Meat Train (Ryuhei Kitamura, 2008)
Hypersomnia (Gabriel Grieco, 2016)
Blazing Saddles (Mel Brooks, 1974)
Dreamcatcher (Lawrence Kasdan, 2003)
Mercy (Peter Cornwell, 2014)
Sun Choke (Ben Cresciman, 2016)
The Mist (Frank Darabont, 2007)
Hellbound: Hellraiser II (Tony Randel, 1988)
Los Inocentes (Mauricio Brunetti, 2015)
It Follows (David Robert Mitchell, 2014)
Valhalla Rising (Nicolas Winding Refn, 2009)
Woyzeck (Werner Herzog, 1979)
Bronson (Nicolas Winding Refn, 2008)
Fruitvale Station (Ryan Coogler, 2013)
Control (Anton Corbijn, 2007)
On the Road (Walter Salles, 2012)
Shut In (Farren Blackburn, 2016)
Panic Room (David Fincher, 2002)
A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night (Ana Lily Amirpour, 2014)
A Beautiful Mind (Ron Howard, 2001)
Only God Forgives (Nicolas Winding Refn, 2013)
The Neon Demon (Nicolas Winding Refn, 2016)
Accidental Courtesy (Matthew Ornstein, 2016)
Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick, 1975)
Foxy Brown (Jack Hill, 1974)
Richard Pryor: Live in Concert (Jeff Margolis, 1979)
Cube Zero (Ernie Barbarash, 2004)
Sketches of Frank Gehry (Sydney Pollack, 2006)
The Usual Suspects (Bryan Singer, 1995)
Cube 2: Hypercube (Andrzej Sekula, 2002)
Crawlspace (David Schmoeller, 1986)
Wild Strawberries (Ingmar Bergman, 1959)
Running Fence (Charlotte Zwerin & Albert Maysles & David Maysles, 1977)
Through a Glass Darkly (Ingmar Bergman, 1962)
Cube (Vincenzo Natali, 1998)
Split (M. Night Shyamalan, 2016)
Hannibal Rising (Peter Webber, 2007)
*Important note: A Serbian Film (Srdjan Spasojevic, 2011) is supposed to appear after Crude but I did not include it in this list due to how extremely controversial the film is
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I have become a fan of South Korean film over the past few years. One of my favorite directors, in fact, is Bong Joon-ho. The Host (2006), Mother (2009), Snowpiercer (2013), and Okja (2017) vary in style or genre but all are great.
I mention him here because I love his work but he didn’t make this countdown. The Host is science fiction/horror, but I decided it wasn’t clearly enough a horror film for my purposes here; I tried to stick with movies that fall more clearly within genre lines. If I’d included The Host, I would also have wanted to include Gojira (1954, dir. Ishiro Honda) and Silence of the Lambs (1991, dir. Jonathan Demme), so I just simplified my list by cutting them out. If I have any regrets about my list, this is where to find them.
The South Korean films I did include here are Train to Busan (2016, dir. Sang-ho Yeon) and Thirst (2009, dir. Chan-wook Park). Beyond their origin, these two films don’t have too much in common, however.
Train to Busan is a well-executed zombie film that takes place largely on a train and in train stations. It reflects some interesting cultural values and ideas about community and about fatherhood and has some impressive action sequences. It also uses sentiment in a way that worked for me, and it made me cry.
Thirst is much slower and very bloody. I want to watch it again – I need to in order to be able to say much about it – but I remember it as being very intense and very good.
Earlier countdown entries:
Night of the Living Dead, dir. George Romero (1968)
Dawn of the Dead, dir. George Romero (1978)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers, dir. Philip Kaufman (1978)
Get Out, dir. Jordan Peele (2017)
Hellraiser, dir. Clive Barker (1987)
Psycho, dir. Alfred Hitchcock (1960)
The Birds, dir. Alfred Hitchcock (1963)
Jaws, dir. Steven Spielberg (1975)
Teeth, dir. Mitchell Lichtenstein (2007)
Candyman, dir. Bernard Rose (1992)
Creep, dir. Patrick Brice (2014)
The Wicker Man, dir. Robin Hardy (1973)
Texas Chainsaw Massacre, dir. Tobe Hooper (1974)
Cabin in the Woods, dir. Drew Goddard (2012)
Suspiria, dir. Dario Argento (1977)
The Witch, dir. Robert Eggers (2015)
Rosemary’s Baby, dir. Roman Polanski (1968)
The Babadook, dir. Jennifer Kent (2014)
It Follows, dir. David Robert Mitchell (2014)
Carrie, dir. Brian de Palma (1976)
Ginger Snaps, dir. John Fawcett (2000)
American Werewolf in London, dir. John Landis (1981)
The Thing, dir. John Carpenter (1982)
The Fly, dir. David Cronenberg (1986)
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, dir. Ana Lily Amirpour (2014)
It Comes at Night, dir. Trey Edward Shults (2017)
Shaun of the Dead, dir. Edgar Wright (2004)
28 Days Later, dir. Danny Boyle (2002)
Countdown, Days 29 & 30: South Korean horror I have become a fan of South Korean film over the past few years. One of my favorite directors, in fact, is Bong Joon-ho.
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When it comes down to onscreen presence, I don’t think anyone is more fascinating than Tilda Swinton. The Academy Award-winning actress has quite the resume when it comes to working with acclaimed directors. Swinton has collaborated with Danny Boyle, Cameron Crowe, Spike Jonze, Luca Guadagnino, Jim Jarmusch, Bong Joon-ho, Lynne Ramsay, The Coen Brothers, Wes Anderson, and David Fincher. But Swinton is surely best known for being transformative. Let’s just take a few seconds to go through some of Swinton’s films and marvel at the fact that these characters are somehow played by the same actress. They are very nice! And very just and merciful. You’re a man looking at the world through a keyhole and you’ve spent your whole life trying to widen that keyhole. Something’s come up at work and I’m gonna have to leave you alone a little more than I would like. You know, the clothes, the telephones, the trains… I fear this may be the last time we ever see each other. Why on earth would that be the case? Well, I can’t put it into words, but I feel it. Swinton seems to be drawn to roles that allow her to fully disappear. To the point that we may not even recognize her if we blindly enter a film. In fact, I remember watching Snowpiercer and The Grand Budapest Hotel without any prior knowledge. It wasn’t until the end credits that I realized Swinton was portraying these characters. And Swinton is fully aware of things like this.. Take the 2018 remake of Suspiria where she plays three different characters, but is only billed for playing two. Under hours of make up and prosthetics, Swinton wanted to play the elderly Dr. Klemperer in secret, going as far to create a fake actor that she claimed portrayed him. You’re Madame Blanc. I play Madame Blanc, yes. And I assumed that you played Dr. Klemperer. As you will see from the credits and all the posters, Dr. Klemperer is played by Lutz Embersdorf, who sent a message that I read just now. Swinton thrives off her air of unusual mystery. This is reflected in the roles that she takes on. Everything from a rocker vampire, to a psychic pug. It may snow tonight. Really? Thank you very much. Wow. To whom it may concern. She sees the future. In fact, her mere presence in a film is enough to lend a rather unique tone. Even if her role is rather straightforward, her pre-established persona lends a certain abnormal quality to her scenes. Of course your subconscious can always play tricks on you. The subconscious is a very powerful thing. When Swinton isn’t pulling off outlandish transformations, filmmakers still tend to throw her a bit of a curveball, forcing her to use her mystifying skillset. The wrinkle can be as simple as playing multiple roles like in Hail, Caesar!, but often, it’s much more complex. In A Bigger Splash, she plays a rockstar who is recovering from vocal surgery, leaving her almost voiceless. You can’t talk or won’t? Therefore, Swinton is forced to act with merely through whispers and expressiveness. I will always be grateful to you. In We Need to Talk About Kevin, Swinton plays one character, but she is essentially playing two different roles. There is the mother in the flashbacks and the mother in present day. The mother in the flashbacks is struggling, but there are glints of hope and happiness. We can see this in the way she carries herself or even just by observing her eyes. There is life in them. But in present day, after a devastating tragedy, she is a shell of her former self. She walks with caution and uneasiness. Her eyes are vacant and hollow. She is dead inside. Even when Swinton isn’t being transformative, she still applies her unmatched transformative abilities. And that’s why she is one of the most unique and fascinating talents in Hollywood.
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According to the main streaming platforms, what we are experiencing at the moment generates intense interest in films where there are no utopias, just dystopia. In descending order of devastation, here is a guide where you can currently find the best of the worst that could happen. So check your temperature, check the locks and keep checking the headlines to make sure what you're watching is "just a movie". THE ABSOLUTE BRINK THE ROAD (Foxtel & for rent) In the aftermath of a global disaster, a father and son (Viggo Mortensen, Kodi Smit-McPhee) travel the United States. The fundamentals of nature - animals, plants, clean water - are only distant memories. Food is all you can get your hands on. And tears up. This robust experience is difficult and uncompromising. Viggo Mortensen and Kodi Smit-McPhee are living a dystopian hell in The Road. Seems familiar? Image: supplied CHILDREN OF MEN (For rent only) In 2027, there is only one pregnant woman on the face of the planet, and the modest office worker Clive Owen must protect her until delivery. An unconventional and disturbing future shock thriller that hits the nail on the head with its sharp punches on today's world. Co-stars Julianne Moore, Michael Caine. Clive Owen must protect the only pregnant woman left on earth in the children of men. Image: supplied I AM LEGEND (Foxtel & for rent) After a virus has destroyed almost all of civilized life, the last man to stand in New York is working on a cure. A scary, confrontational and immersive action film. Smith outdoes himself here - not only by carrying the entire image alone, but by keeping the audience by his side throughout. A QUIET PLACE (Netflix) Brilliant thriller where those who are still alive remain strictly observing a vow of silence. The slightest noise is a certain death sentence. A close-knit family (led by John Krasinski and Emily Blunt) is about to face a day of absolute math. You may be able to manage what you see, but what you hear will take some time to overcome. SNOWPIERCER (Netflix, Stan) If you're new to the quirky visions of Parasite director Bong Joon-ho, try this sly innovative action image. Everyone died in a new ice age, except for the passengers on a high-speed train that is still in service. in thein the years that followed, each car became a nation in its own right. Stars Chris Evans. WITH THE BIGGEST ILLNESS CONTAGION (for rent only) The 2011 film that has disappeared since the start of COVID-19. In just over 100 minutes, just over 100 million people perish with sweaty hands from a deadly flu. While it's not so entertaining or informative, there's no denying that it's strangely relevant right now. Stars Matt Damon, Kate Winslet. Jude Law plays in Contagion, about a virus that threatens the human race. So ok. Image: supplied CARGO (Netflix) A strangely effective Australian apocalyptic odyssey. Martin Freeman plays a man who has 48 hours to put his little girl back in safety before an irreversible infection never deprives him of his humanity forever. The film's unique mastery of humor - between the sorry and the delicate - is undoubtedly deployed. In the Australian film Cargo, Martin Freeman plays a man who must give birth to his baby before an irreversible infection can forever deprive him of his humanity. IT COMES NIGHT (rent only) A highly contagious plague surrounds a heavily fortified cabin in the woods. Paul (Joel Edgerton, superb) follows. His wife and son follow suit, knowing that their lives depend on it. The always thoughtless promise of what can (and will) go wrong gives this intimidatingly intimidating affair its raw intensity. 28 DAYS LATER (Foxtel) A sparse and harshly malicious cooler about an England on its last legs after a zombie-infested leprosy strain sweeps the nation. Directed by Danny Boyle (Trainspotting) from a script by Alex Garland (Ex machina). Kevin Spacey and Dustin Hoffman hatching. Image: supplied EPIDEMIC (rental only) A monkey virus that started in an African rainforest triggers a race against time for a team of scientists led by Professor Dustin Hoffman. The American government does not really intervene in social isolation in response, it begins to threaten to bomb entire cities! YOUTH REBELLION THE HUNGER GAMES COLLECTION (Netflix) The compelling series depicting a future where poor young people have to fight to the death as television entertainment for the rich. The portrait of Jennifer Lawrence of the renegade adolescent heroine Katniss Everdeen is a belter. You will follow it every hurried, chased and haunted stage of the path. The Hunger Games made Jennifer Lawrence a movie star. Image: AP Never let me go (Foxtel) An unmistakable shadow of misfortune - never imminent, but always inevitable - creeps into each frame here. Carey Mulligan, Andrew Garfield and Keira Knightley play the pupils of a mysterious British boarding school which secretly prepares its customers for a terrifying fate once in the outside world. THE MAZE RUNNER (rental only) A tribe of teenagers is trapped in an enclosed field. The exterior is a complex labyrinth that changes configuration every day and hosts a collection of vicious creatures every night. A fascinating premise that lives up to most of the potentials promised. Just avoid the two failed sequels that followed. The maze Runner. Image: supplied TOMORROW, WHEN WAR BEGINS (Foxtel, Amazon, Stan) John Marsden's 1993 novel has been enjoyed by a generation of young Australians. A simple and accessible story tells of a group of teenagers fighting for their lives after Australia was invaded and conquered by foreign attackers. Caitlin Stasey stars. DIVERGENT (Netflix) A cheaper and less cheerful cousin of The hunger Games. We are in the 22nd century and society is divided into five factions. Those who do not correspond do not delay in this world. Shailene Woodley plays the gritty teenage heroine Tris, who has to keep her multi-factional pedigree a well-kept secret. All suites are also based on Netflix. 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I'm travelling somewhere, like Australia again. Both backpacks bit easier. Theres a big train like bus, and its cslled the Hollyford Trek bus but its not the same. Big crowds of people, I take bus and it's something like a two hour journey. I had flown in and booked an Airbnb but had a day/night first si I took this.
I get on, and three people strike me. Theres a tall man with dark hair and a smooth face, kind of looks like Avalon, initially very """"'Man'""" like. He sits in my car. (His name is Johnathan.) Theres a disabled woman with short hair and a twitchy face in the next car up who keeps looking st me with bright eyes. And a woman with long curly hair and a perky attitude sitting next to me.
At first our car is the first or second on the bus. The bus driver, an old man maybe named Bob???? Martin??? absolutely hits it off with me, and so I ensure with everyone else. Best friends. Absolute chums. Love each other dearly.
On the way there, I think the three people are originally a blonde woman with long hair and a woman with short orange hair and the man in the background. Lots of standing a d watching transit and hitting it off. I flirt with them a bit. We all bond. I have to get off first. Bc my airbnb. So I tell them my name as we approach the stop and insist they find me on fb, please. Their names are Holly and.... something like Astrid.
I get off the bus track marked purple on my phone, transfer on the long bus, the true Hollyford Trek bus, marked a light sage green on my map. Same driver, the updated versions of those people. We take the bus all the way to the end, which means all the way into the country and a big country lodge. We spend the rest of the whole day and the night here. We take silly photos together (I see one of me, finger guns at the camera, in navy and pink and with long hair in a ponytail), we sit around the fire singing songs and making s'mores, theres some sexy and not tension about sleeping with folks in the house, a hike. Reminiscent of Grand Canyon with Abigail and Danny and Laity Lodge and Pecos. The bus driver stays with us too. We all bond A LOT. Technically one overnight, felt like a lot longer. When we are all on the bus the next day, our car is in the back and we're packing slowly and sadly. Holly friended me on FB, I see that she wrote a poem about being gay for me. She includes the photo of me making finger guns (which were directed at her) and a photo of her doing finger guns as if to say back at me. I want to pursue that but I'm unsure how to yet. As I told them all when I told them to friend me, I'm here for longer, what are they doing on Friday, i very genuinely would love love love to hang out.
Blonde woman is super into Jonathan. He is mildly into her, a little awkward around me. I need to pee badly so when we pull into the station for bus drivers break, I duck in. There's a toilet with glass doors that may very well be a ceremonial toilet, not a real one. I use it anyway. Someone tries to come in, making me unsure if the glass is one way or two ways, but they wait outside after I yell. I get back outside just in time to see the last cargo bay start to move, and I start running, knowing that my friends would be letting Martin know I was in the bathroom. Sure enough, it stops almost immediately and I jump on. My clothes fall off, I jump off and get them and the train stops again. One falls, I almost dont get it, but they all encourage me to do it, I run all the way back and then all the way up the train, swimsuit in hand. This time, I catch a handle and jump all the way in, into a car full of people kind of like Snowpiercer. A little kid grabs my face and seriously yells "who is your favorite person on this train?" As I start to jog back through the cars, people recognize and cheer, I wave, and completely forget names, except "Johnathan!" feels as though it is being pulled or is just falling unconsciously out of me and I'm shook.
I get back to my car, they all cheer, mention the incident where the kid asked and I forgot everyone's names. Dont mention that I said Johnathans. We all sit with each other patiently as our stops come up. Orange haired gay disabled lady gets off first, after only light but purposeful flirting. I decide I'll text her and ask her out. Other people trickle off. I start haphazardly packing and realize I should text my Airbnb. Johnathan is up next, one of the few of the original bus load admist all the strangers who had been getting on and off like a normal bus since we left the end. He had helped me back in the first time I caught up to the bus. He hugs the blonde lady and she makes it long and romantic and tries to kiss him, which he avoids. I ignore them and keep packing. He gathers up the last of his stuff and turns to me, we hug. He kisses my cheek and buries his face in my neck, hugs me tight but gentle. I cup the back of his neck and hold him tight. He tightens. The bus pulls up to his station. I cannot describe the depth of tenderness and gentleness and intensity of this hug. It felt like were communing, from sadness to soul bond understanding to the edge of something else. We pulled away, softly. I kissed his cheek. We almost kissed but didnt. I returned to packing, and he left. My stop was in two stops but I got so phased out by that experience and the train stopped for so long at that stop that I gathered my stuff and got off, reminding everyone else to friend me on fb. May have gotten them to write it down, then written down theirs. Had this thought about wanting to hang out, hadn't told Johnathan like I'd told everyone else, then thought about it and thought no, I felt confident knowing he would hang out with me within the next few days. We would be going on a date. I knew. I just -- we understood.
Stop I got off at is packed packed packed, busy and full. I get confused briefly, then decide to walk the two stops I accidentally stopped short of, so I can grab the purple bus briefly to my airbnb/walk right to my Airbnb. I walk to the sidewalk I need and a middle aged woman from the train is there and we start talking. She says I'm basically a local now, "well, not an indigenous local, you know, you ever think about that? About them? I do. Makes me real sad." And talked about their tattoos kind derogatorially, made a joke about it I didnt laugh at (which wasnt as hard as I thought, she just kept going). Then she asked where I was going/what I was doing. I told her I was walking the two stops I missed and she wouldn't hear anything of it, started to call me a cab or an uber as I thought about and miss and was nervous about Johnathan and then that lady.
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The future of the James Bond franchise is once again up in the air, as Danny Boyle, who was set to direct the 25th installment, has dropped out due to “creative differences.” The announcement, made by producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, and current star Daniel Craig, didn’t offer any more details, which has left the question of who will fill the director’s chair open to speculation.
Michael G. Wilson, Barbara Broccoli and Daniel Craig today announced that due to creative differences Danny Boyle has decided to no longer direct Bond 25. pic.twitter.com/0Thl116eAd
— James Bond (@007) August 21, 2018
Over 50-plus years of Bond films, 18 directors (all of them men, all of them white) have sat in the director’s chair, most recently Sam Mendes and Marc Forster. Boyle, an Oscar-winner (for directing Slumdog Millionaire) with a highly recognizable style, would not only have been a big-name addition to that lineage, but also capable of bringing a fresh angle to the Bond film.
However, Boyle’s exit from Bond 25 has a silver lining: It invites another round of the always-entertaining “who should direct James Bond” game, which has been almost as popular a pastime as “who should play James Bond?” For your consideration, we’ve rounded up seven candidates for the job who are well-positioned to bring something fresh to this long-in-the-tooth franchise.
It’s hard to name a more versatile, more proven director in the industry right now than Wan, James Wan. He’s been the director-of-the-moment for, like, 15 years at this point, since he dropped into our lives with Saw in 2004 and then proceeded to follow that up with The Conjuring, Insidious, and even better installments of Saw. In between turning the horror industry on its head, he hopped over to churn out arguably the best installment of the Fast and Furious franchise, Furious 7, no big deal — and, oh, yeah, he’s just directed Aquaman. He’s definitely got the action movie chops, and the atmospheric chops, to pull off Bond. Hell, he could pull off Bond before lunch and then toss in another groundbreaking horror film by 5. Seriously, just let this dude make all the blockbusters already. —Aja Romano
Though Bong Joon-ho’s signature facility for mixing genres and tones may not seem like an obvious fit for Bond, that awareness is actually what makes Bong perfect for the job. The franchise’s politics haven’t exactly aged well, and in Craig’s outings as 007, a certain willingness to recognize what’s inherently ridiculous about the character has made the films more than just relics of the time in which Bond was originally conceived.
Bong’s films are chock full of that sort of self-awareness, not just on a metatextual level but also when it comes to little details that make his work feel true to life. Take the funeral scene in 2006’s The Host, for instance: though the family’s grief is piercing, there’s also a touch of humor to the way they all fall to the floor together. Or the demented cheerfulness of the classroom car in 2013’s Snowpiercer, which mixes devilish glee with the horror of the train’s totalitarian regime.
He’s also proven to be one of the most compelling action directors around, with a show-stopping chase sequence in 2017’s Okja, as well as a cliffside setpiece that wouldn’t be too out of place in a Bond film if not for the giant super-pig. —Karen Han
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With the triumph of Black Panther at his back, there’s absolutely zero question that Ryan Coogler could deliver a stunning, sumptuous take on Bond — and it’d probably be a lot more fun than Bond films have been lately. Coogler is an ideal candidate to help deconstruct the patriarchal fantasies of postcolonial escapism that make the Bond movies so simultaneously irresistible and frustrating. But he’s also got the skills to toss in some killer action sequences and dazzling scenery porn, and maybe we’d even get a little gratuitous Michael B. Jordan. There’s no downside here, is what we’re saying. —AR
So far, veteran director Lesli Linka Glatter is mainly known for TV. But what a pedigree! She’s directed everything from Twin Peaks to E.R. to True Blood, which are all influences I think we can agree the Bond films need more of. Her first film ever was straight-up nominated for an Academy Award for Best Short Film, and she’s since been nominated for three Emmys for directing — for one of the most famous Mad Men episodes ever, and for several of the best episodes of Homeland. We have no idea why Hollywood hasn’t called upon her to ascend to the director’s chair of a major film franchise by now. She clearly has the expertise, and she definitely has the range. Let her do Bond; let her do whatever the hell she wants. —AR
The Snowman was a bit of a disaster, but anyone familiar with Tomas Alfredson’s body of work knows that, between Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and Let the Right One In, he’s a master at balancing the tension and action that a great spy movie requires. There’s also a moodiness to his style of directing that fits with the slightly darker bent that Craig’s Bond has taken, not to mention his talent for injecting even the grimmest scenes with pathos. Knowing that Bond is human, instead of some unstoppable, mythical force, has become part of the appeal of watching him go globetrotting, and I can think of no one better to pull apart Bond’s heart and psyche than the man responsible for the best and most heartbreaking John le Carré adaptation in recent memory. —KH
With Girlfight, Aeon Flux, Jennifer’s Body, and The Invitation, Karyn Kusama has proved that she’s capable of doing just about anything — including directing a James Bond film. Kusama’s eye for action is just as present in the slow-burning The Invitation as it is in Aeon Flux, and her talent for excavating old tropes is on full display in Jennifer’s Body (which, incidentally, is one of the best movies about young women and female friendships to ever grace the screen). If we’re going to get some fresh blood for Bond 25, there are few better choices than Kusama to do the series justice as well as shake it up. —KH
Can we just take a few seconds to imagine how delightfully unhinged, how purely raw and adrenaline-spiking (and probably deranged) a Bond film through the eyes of Takashi Miike would be? Giving the director of Audition and Ichi the Killer a giant budget and a bunch of really nice guns? Let’s be real, it’d probably be at least a little like doing meth and LSD at the same time. True, Miike doesn’t really do English-language films — so set Bond in Japan, and let’s do this already. —AR
Original Source -> Danny Boyle has exited Bond 25. Here are 7 directors who could take his place.
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Great Zombie/Train movies
So having claimed that Undead movies were long (un)dead, I watched TRAIN to BUZAN last night and my faith was resurrected. Leon Sung Ho’s 2016 Action thriller is superb jaw dropping entertainment in every way. All the elements are present, from the subtle hunts that outbreak is imminent (revived deer, roadside quarantine, bloodied hand on a train carriage) to the emotive story line wherein a negligent father takes his cute 6 year old daughter by Train to see his Ex-wife. It’s a visitation rights weekend with a difference as the train from Seoul to Buzan is somewhat plagued by the Undead - and it’s the running jumping clawing biting Undead too. We have long lost the shambling (’They’re coming to get you Barbara’) undead of the George Romero 1968 classic. What makes this great - apart from stunning effects (in particular when the dead just POUR out of smashed train windows, like rats or lice) is character. Gong Yoo is a Fund manger - a bad guy who needs to learn a lesson about treating people like cattle. The CEO of a train company is on there too - and the pure selfishness of Capitalism is ably illustrated right to the mournful bittersweet ending. There are flashes here of 28 Days later (Danny Boyle) and of course, all those other great train movies. (excepting Snowpiercer, which, despite its flashy set pieces is just plain silly)
Why I love train movies is that you have a contained environment for the human drama to function, whilst at the same time we are plummeting toward our destination. Burt Lancaster in The Train (1964) is a good place to start. As a French resistance Train worker, he is instrumental in re-routing a Nazi train that is trying to get all the purloined paintings from the Louvre back to Germany before the war ends. The French rather cutely mock up station names and banners to fool the pesky Huns that they are back in Naziland, when really they are still in France. It’s a cracking movie with a strong moral finish, loosely based on fact and mined later for Monuments Men with G. Clooney.
There is of course the First Great Train Robbery with Sean Connery and later adaptations, all good in their own ways. This was back in the day when the mail was transported by train from Edinburgh to London. A shout out here to the classic poem ‘The Night Mai’l and its accompanying documentary footage, also to ‘Buster’, which features the 1963 robbery and proves Phil Collins can act when he’s not banging on about his divorce.
Then you have Agatha Cristie’s Murder on the Orient Express, a classic of its era, with (spoiler alert) what is now the old saw of ‘they all done it’ The movie, with Ustinov, Mason et al showboating and grandstanding, does capture the idea of the Grand Tour, along with a sense of speed, pace, entrapment and danger. We pull exhausted into Venice.
Continuing the thrill of speed, there is the original ‘The Taking of Pelham 123′, which has Walter Matthau as the Droopy Jawed controller faced with a crazed loon who has taken a New York Subway Train Hostage. It’s out of control and heading for Coney Island with a squishy death for all inside: A cracking (1974) nail biting thriller only minutely improved in the remake starring Denzil Washington.
In Horror there is Terror Train, the brilliant Amicus portmanteau (forget which one it was) where each passenger tells his/her tale only to discover in the end that they are on a....train to hell mwah ha haaaaaa....
Two personal favourites are 1972′s Death Line (Minaaadooors) with an outstanding performance against type by Donald (I can see that pin) Pleasance and and Chris Smith’s debut movie CREEP with sterling performances by Franke Potenta and Sean Harris (never more scary).
There are others, for example, HOWL: Sean Pertwee and werewolves), but if you really want a terrifying train experience then just book a ticket on Southern Trains.
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