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malignant (2021) didn’t make the best first impression for us here at spooky tuesday — so we were a lil nervous to revisit it on our latest episode. but with thanksgiving right around the corner, we could think of no better time to cover such a family-focused flick, and boy are we glad we did. now that we’ve done our horror homework by exploring more of director james wan’s oeuvre and cinematic influences, we may have finally built the right foundation to appreciate this bonkers batshit off-the-wall movie for the messy, camp realness it is.

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'Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom' (2023) film

-watched 3/18/2024- 2 [3/4] stars- on Max

Ingrid Bisu 🇷🇴

4th Sep 2018 – attending The Nun World Premiere at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, CA, USA

ingridbisu

Macabre Month 5 Part VIII: Malignant (2021)

In today's review, I find the deep horrors are buried deep in the mind As I attempt a #positive review of the film Malignant #AnnabelleWallis #MckennaGrace #MaddieHasson #GeorgeYoung #MicholeBrianaWhite #JeanLouisaKelly #MadisonWolfe #SusannaThompson

Our mind is a complex machine, one we can take for granted. Sometimes, the greater details are lost, buried deeps in the perpetually expanding archives. Other times it is conjuring up strange new worlds that we could almost live in. From the mundane to the theoretical, there is not a lot it cannot accomplish. In 2021, a horror film broke the internet with the discussion of its polarising merits.…

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Toni Erdmann (2016)

The Nun 2018 Movie Review Why Did You Open That DOOR!!

Hi! I'm not sure if you've talked about it on your tumblr before but do you have a facecast for Rebecca Barnes (either when she was a kid or as an adult in any of your AU's)? Thank you for sharing your fics as well as these WIP snippets 🤗

Hi Anon!

I think because Becca first arrived in my brain as the pure embodiment of "long suffering baby sister who's still up for shenanigans" vibes, I built out a lot of her personality in my head without thinking much about what she looked like.

I've got a pretty clear picture of her in my head now, but I don't really have a facecast for her as it is. The version of her that I envision when I write has dark hair like Bucky and the same blue eyes, but slightly softer/rounder features and curls. She's pretty average height, which makes it very impressive that in the Bake Off AU she fully threatened to tackle Steve and give him a noogie in spite of the fact that she is unquestionably smaller than him.

I threw this question over to Bake Off AU co-author extraordinaire @sesamestreep and they came up with a list of actresses who have the right vibe even if they don't exactly match how either of us sees Becca, which included Kate Siegel, Love and Other Drugs-era Anne Hathaway, and Katie Cassidy. I'd also probably add Yellowjackets' Sophie Nelisse. EDIT: my dear friend @avocado-moon has suggested the Romanian actress Ingrid Bisu, who also has objectively correct vibes for the character.

I hope that was helpful; I'm sorry there's not a clearer answer! Becca in my fics looks however you imagine her in your heart of hearts, and as far as I'm concerned her most important feature of all is her endless capacity to give her brother crap.

Happy 1st anniversary, Malignant!! :D

Here’s something special for today <3

It might be silly to say, but this movie made my life so much better, and it's absolutely insane to think that it’s been an entire year.

I know there's a good handful of people who don't like this movie, but that's okay. For me? I love Malignant for many reasons. For one, it's filmed beautifully, and the cinematography is top notch. The music is one of my favorite soundtracks ever. It's hauntingly beautiful.

Madison AND Gabriel are both characters I can really relate to and I love them both a whole lot.

The plot twist as well?? I was shocked and my jaw was on the floor in the theater.

I could go on and on, but that would make this post really long, so to keep things short, thank you so much James Wan and Ingrid Bisu (and literally everybody involved) for creating this movie. I couldn't be more grateful. 🦀❤️

Sandra Hüller and Peter Simonischek in Toni Erdmann (Maren Ade, 2016) Cast: Sandra Hüller, Peter Simonischek, Michael Wittenborn, Thomas Loibl, Trystan Pütter, Ingrid Bisu, Lucy Russell, Hadewych Minis, Vlad Ivanov, Victoria Cocias. Screenplay: Maren Ade. Cinematography: Patrick Orth. The nearly three hours -- well, two hours, 42 minutes -- of Toni Erdmann don't exactly fly by. It's more that they sometimes pause while we accustom ourselves to the eccentricity of the characters and begin to absorb some of the satire, build up another head of steam, and speed into another head-spinning but frequently funny episode. There's a feeling of improv about the film, and with improv there are often dead spots between outbursts of brilliance. The film is about a father and daughter, Winfried (Peter Simonischek) and Ines Conradi (Sandra Hüller). He's a shaggy old prankster who teaches music in a school; she's an intensely driven corporate consultant now working to land a contract in Romania that would help companies streamline -- mostly by jettisoning their unionized work force. The film is thus a satire on global corporate capitalism, with side glances at the pervasive sexism in that world. But writer-director Maren Ade has chosen not to weight the film in the direction of either character study or satire, and I think the film suffers from tone problems occasionally. Granted, it would be easy to slip into formula with such mismatched characters, a father who delights in comic disguises like fright wigs and false teeth to shake up his uptight daughter's aggressively workaholic ways. It's to the credit of the film that there are enough unexpected moments -- such as Ines's singing "The Greatest Love of All" at a Romanian family's Easter celebration that Winfried has crashed -- that it never sinks to the routine and conventional. Finally, the film does, I think, go too far, when Ines suddenly decides to host a corporate party in the nude, insisting that all the guests strip too, and claims that it's a "team-building" exercise. Winfried, of course, crashes this party as well, wearing a Bulgarian kukeri costume -- it almost literally turns the film into a shaggy-dog story. Toni Erdmann was a big critical hit, and was a major contender for the foreign film Oscar that went, I think correctly, to Asghar Farhadi's The Salesman.

James Wan

Wife: Ingrid Bisu

Girlfriend: Patrick Wilson

Side Chick: Leigh Whannell

Ingrid Bisu

Malignant BTS (2021)