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jtownraindancer · 8 months

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No thoughts, only Toby Stephens giggling. 😌💕

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unicornletters · 6 months

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HEYYY i saw the ask for non ofmd stuff and almost fell to the floor when I saw Agatha Cristie stuff, I CAN NOT BE THE ONLY ONE WHO LOVES DETECTIVE BLORE FROM AND THEN THERE WERE NONE he literally has blore in his name what the fuck hes the og blorebo...... Literally anything to do with him would be great but would absolutley love to see his ass get pumeled by gay thoughts and have a hard time with them because its like 1940

ok this is before the book ofc, thank you for the ask!!

Blore regarded the gymnasium with some hesitation. There were precious few places he was unrecognizable as a police detective, and the gym was usually not one of them. He was here on a tip from a fellow member of the force, who swore no one would know, nor would they care if they did know, about his profession.

“Well,” Blore thought, “I’d better have a persona, hadn’t I?” Shades of detective work even as he was assured he could leave all that behind him for the moment and box. “I can’t be a gentleman boxer, as I am hardly a gentleman. Perhaps I’ll be a charity worker who teaches unfortunates pugilism.” He had just had a letter from his sister detailing her own charity work, which did not involve boxing.

As it transpired, no one asked him who or what he was at all. He stripped down and put on his gym kit, and parked himself at a speed bag. Blore loved the gym. The sights, the sounds, the smells of it – they all woke in him a fervent appreciation for masculine beauty that he was too incurious to realize wasn’t universal.

It was invigorating.

Blore was no slouch, and drew a small audience to himself. One man in particular smirked at him, which Blore thought was very odd; had he been made? He stepped back from the speed bag for a moment to breathe and investigate.

“Excellent form,” the smirking man said, looking Blore up and down and up again. “Where did you learn to box?”

He wasn’t being confronted about being a police officer, then. Just a friendly enquiry about his boxing skills.

“Oh,” Blore said, “I was taught as a child by charity workers in the slums.”

“I see,” the man said. “Do you come here often?”

“No,” said Blore, “it’s my first time.” He wiped some sweat away from his brow.

“Well,” the man said, “come find me when you’re done, won’t you?” With a wink, he was off.

What a friendly gym this was.

#william blore #and then there were none #agatha christie #agatha christie fanfiction #something lgbt just happened to me

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ariya-167 · 1 year

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a highly professional and academic analysis of burn gorman characters

#disclaimer i have not seen the show the picture on the top left comes from #so maybe he gets murdered in that too who knows #burn gorman #torchwood #owen harper #and then there were none #william henry blore

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alexanderpearce · 1 year

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and then there were none (2015), dir. craig viveiros

#ill do a webweave. one day.#something something sex violence homophobia homosexuality.#my film posts #and then there were none 2015 #william henry blore #burn gorman

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letterboxd-loggd · 1 year

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The Lady Eve (1941) Preston Sturges

November 18th 2022

#the lady eve #1941 #preston sturges #barbara stanwyck #henry fonda #charles coburn #eugene pallette #william demarest #eric blore #melville cooper #robert greig

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tcmparty · 1 year

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@tcmparty live tweet schedule for the week beginning Monday, February 20, 2023. Look for us on Twitter…watch and tweet along…remember to add #TCMParty to your tweets so everyone can find them :) All times are Eastern.

Tuesday, Feb. 21 at 8:00 p.m. THE LADY EVE (1941) A lady cardsharp tries to con an eccentric scientist only to fall for him.

Saturday, Feb. 25 at 5:45 p.m. THE LOVED ONE (1965) An Englishman in Hollywood moves into the funeral business.

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onenakedfarmer · 1 year

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Currently Watching

SULLIVAN'S TRAVELS Preston Sturges USA, 1941

#Eric Blore #Joel McCrea #Preston Sturges #The Criterion Channel #The Criterion Collection #Veronica Lake #watching #William Demarest #1941

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twittercomfrnklin2001-blog · 1 year

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The Ex-Mrs. Bradford

RKO had all the makings of a great mystery series with Stephen Roberts’ THE EX-MRS. BRADFORD (1936, TCM) — three fascinating recurring characters in a daffy divorcee (Jean Arthur), the ex-husband she keeps recruiting to solve crimes (William Powell) and his supercilious butler (Eric Blore). That alone was enough to make it one of their top grossers for the year. The only thing missing was a good script. Not that that would have helped, since the two stars were contracted to other studios, and RKO had enough trouble getting MGM to let them borrow Powell for one outing in a role that was basically Nick Charles with a less sophisticated wife. The Bradfords became exes because she was a wouldbe Agatha Christie who kept getting him pulled into cases about which she wanted to write. Arthur returns from her divorce honeymoon just in time to push Powell into investigating the sudden death by heart failure of a jockey riding the favorite in a big race. The script by Anthony Veiller (later one of the best writers of film noir) from a story by James Edward Grant (eventually a specialist in Westerns) doesn’t let Powell do much detecting. He sort of stumbles into clues. And when he assembles the suspects for a final confrontation, he proves his skills were more in spending the money to surveil everybody rather than making clever deductions. But Arthur is delightful, as usual, and she and Powell make a good team. There’s a gelatin dinner that would give Dylan Hollis a year’s worth of Tik Toks (look it up). And Blore is simply a gift from St. Genesius. When Powell asks him if he had to force Arthur back to her hotel room, he replies, “Only a little and with great tact,” and somehow makes the line sound as if it were filled with ‘s’es.

#jean arthur #william powell #eric blore #screwball comedy #murder mystery

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now-watching · 2 years

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Recommendations 81-85:

81. GOLD DIGGERS OF 1933 (1933), dir. Mervyn LeRoy, Busby Berkeley

“THE BIGGEST SHOW ON EARTH!

Things get tough for Carol and her showgirl pals, Trixie and Polly, when the Great Depression kicks in and all the Broadway shows close down. Wealthy songwriter Brad saves the day by funding a new Depression-themed musical for the girls to star in, but when his stuffy high-society brother finds out and threatens to disown Brad, Carol and her gold-digging friends scheme to keep the show going, hooking a couple of millionaires along the way.”

Availability: Can be rented via AppleTV, VUDU, Amazon, and GooglePlay.

82. LA BAMBA (1987), dir. Luis Valdez

“BORN INTO POVERTY. DESTINED FOR STARDOM. HE LIVED THE AMERICAN DREAM.

Los Angeles teenager Ritchie Valens becomes an overnight rock ’n’ roll success in 1958, thanks to a love ballad called “Donna” that he wrote for his girlfriend. But as his star rises, Valens has conflicts with his jealous brother, Bob, and becomes haunted by a recurring nightmare of a plane crash just as he begins his first national tour alongside Buddy Holly.”

Availability: Can be streamed via Starz with a subscription and also available for rental through VUDU, AppleTV, Amazon, and GooglePlay.

83. THE FOG OF WAR (2003), dir. Errol Morris

“Using archival footage, cabinet conversation recordings, and an interview of the 85-year-old Robert McNamara, The Fog of War depicts his life, from working as a WWII whiz-kid military officer, to being the Ford Motor Company’s president, to managing the Vietnam War as defense secretary for presidents Kennedy and Johnson.”

Availability: Can be rented via AppleTV, Amazon, and GooglePlay.

84. I AM A FUGITIVE FROM A CHAIN GANG (1932), dir. Mervyn LeRoy

“SIX STICKS OF DYNAMITE THAT BLASTED HIS WAY TO FREEDOM … AND AWOKE AMERICA’S CONSCIENCE!

A World War I veteran’s dreams of becoming a master architect evaporate in the cold light of economic realities. Things get even worse when he’s falsely convicted of a crime and sent to work on a chain gang.”

Availability: Available for rental via AppleTV, VUDU, Amazon, and GooglePlay.

85. INHERIT THE WIND (1960), dir. Stanley Kramer

“IT’S ALL ABOUT THE FABULOUS “MONKEY TRIAL” THAT ROCKED AMERICA!

Schoolteacher Bertram Cates is arrested for teaching his students Darwin’s theory of evolution. The case receives national attention and one of the newspaper reporters, E.K. Hornbeck, arranges to bring in renowned defense attorney and atheist Henry Drummond to defend Cates. The prosecutor, Matthew Brady is a former presidential candidate, famous evangelist, and old adversary of Drummond.”

Availability: Can be rented through GooglePlay, AppleTV, VUDU, and Amazon.

[The American Experience Film Recs]

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ulrichgebert · 11 months

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The Boys from Syracuse ist eine unseriöse Verfilmung einer unseriösen Musicalbearbeitung einer schrecklich albernen Schakespeare-Komödie voller Irrungen, Slapstick, Unfug und Kalauern über zwei Paare von identischen Zwillingen, die ständig verwechselt werden. Genau das richtige also für das Bildungsprogramm.

#The Boys from Syracuse #Allan Jones #Martha Raye #Joe Penner #Rosemary Lane #Charles Butterworth #Alan Mowbray #Eric Blore #Film gesehen #A. Edward Sutherland #Musical #Richard Rogers #Lorenz Hart #The Comedy of Errors #William Shakespeare

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jtownraindancer · 2 months

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gay dads judging you during brunch

#found another screenshot!#burn gorman #toby stephens #they both look so disappointed #and then there were none #attwn #sgt. detective blore #detective blore #william blore #dr. armstrong #doctor armstrong #edward armstrong #i didn't do anything with these aside from the cropping sorry :-/#man i need a tag for burn now fuck #queue and I are gonna end up bloody #blore/armstrong

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byneddiedingo · 1 year

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Henry Fonda and Barbara Stanwyck in The Lady Eve (Preston Sturges, 1941)

Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn, Eugene Pallette, William Demarest, Eric Blore, Melville Cooper. Screenplay: Preston Sturges, Monckton Hoffe, based on a story by Hoffe. Cinematography: Victor Milner. Art direction: Ernst Dreier, Hans Fegté. Film editing: Stuart Gilmore.

Preston Sturges, who was a screenwriter before he became a hyphenated writer-director, has a reputation for verbal wit. It's very much in evidence in The Lady Eve, with lines like "I need him like the ax needs the turkey." But what distinguishes Sturges from writers who just happen to fall into directing is his gift for pacing the dialogue, for knowing when to cut. What makes the first stateroom scene between Jean (Barbara Stanwyck) and Charles (Henry Fonda) so sexy is that much of it is a single take, relying on the actors' superb timing -- and perhaps on some splendid coaching from Sturges. But he also has a gift for sight gags like Mr. Pike (Eugene Pallette) clanging dish covers like cymbals to demand his breakfast. And his physical comedy is brilliantly timed, particularly in the repeated pratfalls and faceplants that Fonda undergoes when confronted with a Lady Eve who looks so much like Jean. Fonda is a near perfect foil for gags like those, his character's dazzled innocence reinforced by the actor's undeniable good looks. There's hardly any other star of the time who would make Charles Pike quite so credible: Cary Grant, for example, would have turned the pratfalls into acrobatic moves. The other major thing that Sturges had going for him is a gallery of character actors, the likes of which we will unfortunately never see again: Pallette, Charles Coburn, William Demarest (who made exasperation eloquent), Eric Blore, Melville Cooper, and numerous well-chosen bit players.

#The Lady Eve #Preston Sturges #Henry Fonda #Barbara Stanwyck

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womansfilm · 1 year

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#actually this is the only good poll ive made

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alexanderpearce · 1 year

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actually subtext fucking rules (this post is about the 2015 bbc adaptation of and then there were none)

#an adaptation which absolutely transcends its source material #and blore's queercoding is literally so fucking interesting and exquisite #shut up ulrike #and then there were none 2015 #william henry blore

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gracegrove · 1 year

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Ok...ok ok ok.

But....

Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None AU starring the older Hawkins kids.

In which the teens, now adults in their mid-30s, return to Hawkins each having received a cryptic invitation and a promise that the event will be one to remember.

When the teens arrive, the hosts are not present. They are instead greeted by two stand-ins. And a tape is played, accusing each guest of having committed a murder. The doors are locked. They are shut in.

The first guest dies shortly after the tape plays.

With each supposedly a murderer, and now one body dropped, can they figure out who the killer is before there will be none?

Starring:

Steve as General John Gordon MacArthur

Billy as Phillip Lombard

Eddie as Thomas Rogers

Johnathan as Dr. Edward George Armstrong

Argyle as William Henry Blore

Jason as Anthony James Marston

Robin as Judge Laurel Wargrave

Nancy as Emily Caroline Brent

Chrissy as Ethel Rogers

Heather as Vera Elizabeth Claythorne

@every-dayiwakeup

#hawkins teens #stranger things au

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popentertainment-moviereviews · 1 year

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EMPIRE OF LIGHT (2022)

Starring Olivia Colman, Micheal Ward, Monica Dolan, Tom Brooke, Tanya Moodie, Hannah Onslow, Crystal Clarke, Toby Jones, Colin Firth, Sara Stewart, Ron Cook, Justin Edwards, Roman Hayeck-Green, Brian Fletcher, Dougie Boyall, William Chubb, Spike Leighton, Jacob Avery, Jamie Whitelaw, Dylan Blore, Adrian McLoughlin, D.J. Bailey and Tom Colley.

Screenplay by Sam Mendes.

Directed by Sam Mendes.

Distributed by Searchlight Pictures. 113 minutes. Rated R.

This winter seems to be the time where Oscar-winning directors want to explore the magic of the cinema. First there was Steven Spielberg’s fantastic The Fabelmans. Coming soon is Damien Chazelle’s Babylon (more about that in a week or two…). And in between is this sweet tale from Sam Mendes (American Beauty, Skyfall, 1917).

Now unlike the other two movies, which celebrate the act of making films, Empire of Light revolves around the showing of those same movies. (Although, in fairness, both The Fabelmans and Babylon each have at least one segment celebrating the magic of simply watching a movie in a theater.)

Empire of Light is the story of the crew that works in The Empire, a slightly rundown but grand cinema on the British coastline, circa 1981. It is an odd mix of types and situations, but it is filled with outcasts who truly love film – and each other. (In a family way…)

And honestly, Empire of Light is a very nice film, although it could have been even better. (For the record, of the three films mentioned above, it’s worse than The Fabelmans, but much better than Babylon.)

Empire of Light has a sepia-toned nostalgia for the world it inhabits; the grandeur of the giant movie houses, the tail end of the 70s (culturally, if not chronologically), arguably the last great era of filmmaking. (Among the movies which are referenced significantly in the film are Being There, Chariots of Fire and Stir Crazy.)

In fact, in some ways, in its better moments, Empire of Light is reminiscent to that old beautiful Italian love song to theaters – Cinema Paradiso.

Unfortunately, there is a tendency to try to stuff too many storylines into the confines of the Empire of Light. We are dealing with mental health issues, adultery, racism, May/December romance, interracial romance, and more. All of these issues are important and worthy of examination but piling so many together makes everything feel a bit overstuffed.

Still, as usual Olivia Colman is just breathtaking in her role as the brittle manager of the theater, and the mostly unknown Micheal Ward is pretty much her equal as a new usher who becomes her best friend – and maybe more. And Toby Jones steals every scene he is in as the soulful projectionist at the theater.

You expect a lot when you get a film starring Colman and directed by Oscar-winning director Mendes. Honestly, Empire of Light doesn’t quite live up to that pedigree, however it is a very sweet, wistful film and a true love note to the old-fashioned theater going experience. It’s definitely an experience worth revisiting.

Jay S. Jacobs

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#Empire of Light #2022 #Movie Reviews #Olivia Colman #Jay S. Jacobs

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