Steve Zahn, Paul Walker, Leelee Sobieski, Jessica Bowman, Jim Beaver
Review: Joy Ride was a fun movie! It's got the horror elements mixed just right with the thriller elements, and it makes for a good edge of your seat movie.
A man and his brother prank a trucker, and the trucker decides he wants some revenge. Honestly the plot is a pretty straightforward one, and they put a good spin on it with the trucker aspects of the movie. It takes a somewhat overused premise, and makes it a bit more interesting.
Paul Walker and Steve Zahn have some great chemistry together on screen, and I could absolutely buy that they were brothers. Just after a little bit of being together they were already back to the older brother convincing the younger brother to do something he knew he shouldn't.
Rusty Nail was a good antagonist. He's quite intimidating, and as soon as you start to hear his voice come over the radio you start to feel uneasy. The fact that they never do reveal his face makes it that much better too. That anticipation is still there, and it really works well in the movie.
I feel like the end could have used that little extra punch of one of the brothers dying at the end, but I'm never upset that a horror movie had a somewhat happy ending, even if Rusty Nail is still out there being a murderer.
Talking of iconic behind the scenes videos, literally can’t tell you how much I love this one - you know, just Louis XIV, midway through declaring himself head of the French church, encouraging his court to behave in a perfectly normal manner for the 1680s.
I don’t own the video - it belongs to Canal+ and everyone who made Versailles.
this is my 3rd attempt at culinary crucible and i'm still terrible at it. no idea if the food (?) increases the skill % bc i can't rmb and i don't want to waste my ingredients
it was a ton of fun and also got me all emotional to make this bc like... when i look at all these different actresses lined up like this... it really feels like they're working together to give elphaba a voice. they're all going to play her differently but each actress is doing her best to feel what elphaba is feeling and sing it. and sing it. so we hear it. yknow? to bring her to life. it's beautiful to me.
here it is with captions if you want
the actresses are, in order of appearance: julia murney, teal wicks, jessica vosk, mandy gonzalez, allison luff, eden espinosa, carmen cusack, shoshana bean, emmy raver-lampman, caroline bowman, christine dwyer, emma hunton, willemijn verkaik, jackie burns, alyssa fox
Figured I should make a proper post with all the name duplicates. I’ll update periodically as we get new casts. Just counting queens right now, but I’ll probably add LiW eventually.
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📖 Good evening, bookish bats! A lot happened in the publishing industry this month, but here are a few highlights you may have missed! Check below the cut for details.
Adaptations:
🗞️ Chloé Zhao will direct a film adaptation of Hamnet (Maggie O'Farrell) starring Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal
📖 HBO is adapting Dark Places (Gillian Flynn) as a limited series. Flynn will serve as co-creator, writer, and co-showrunner
🗞️ FX has ordered a limited series adaptation of Say Nothing (Patrick Radden Keefe), directed by Michael Lennox
📖 Taika Waititi will direct an adaptation of Klara and the Sun (Kazuo Ishiguro), potentially starring Amy Adams and Jenna Ortega
🗞️ The Terror will base season 3 on The Devil in Silver (Victor LaValle)
📖 The Man in My Basement (Walter Mosley), directed by Nadia Latif, will star Anna Diop, Corey Hawkins, and Willem Dafoe
🗞️ Dark Matter (Blake Crouch) has a trailer
📖 America Ferrera's feature directorial debut for I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter (Erika Sánchez) is in development
🗞️ The adaptation of Turtles All the Way Down (John Green) will stream on MAX this year
📖 Hook’s Daughter: The Pirate Princess Chronicles (R. V. Bowman) is getting a live-action adaptation
🗞️ Interview with the Vampire (based on Anne Rice's novel) is getting a second season
📖 Percy Jackson and the Olympians is getting a second season
🗞️ Seven Days in June (Tia Williams) is being adapted for Prime Video
📖 The adaptation of A Gentleman in Moscow, (Amor Towles) will star Ewan McGregor
🗞️ The Color Purple movie musical will stream on MAX (Feb. 16)
📖 Hulu’s adaptation of A Court of Thorns and Roses was axed
🗞️ The Alex Van Helsing YA books are being adapted for a television series
📖 Ryan Reynolds and Paramount are working on an adaptation of Starter Villain (John Scalzi)
🗞️ A Short History of Nearly Everything (Bill Bryson) will be adapted as an animated TV series
📖 The trailer for the film adaptation of Wicked is up
🗞️ Netflix renewed Survival of the Thickest for season 2
📖 The cast for Marvel’s Fantastic Four has been announced (July 25, 2025)
🗞️ The trailer for the new X-Men animated series is up (Mar. 20)
📖 The Oscar-nominated animated film Nimona is now available to watch for free on YouTube!
🗞️ Reese Witherspoon is producing a film adaptation of Romantic Comedy (Curtis Sittenfeld)
📖 Photos are up for the adaptation of A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder (Holly Jackson)
Cover Reveals:
🗞️ When Haru Was Here - Dustin Thao (Sept. 3)
📖 Trick or Treat on Scary Street - Lance Bass (July 23)
🗞️ The Bletchley Riddle - Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin (Oct. 8)
📖 The Rules of Royalty - Cale Dietrich (Dec. 10)
🗞️ Colored Television - Danzy Senna (July 30)
📖 Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me - Whoopie Goldberg (May 7)
🗞️ House of Bone and Rain - Gabino Iglesias (Aug. 6)
📖 Rani Choudhury Must Die - Adiba Jaigirdar (Nov. 12)
🗞️ Night Owls - A.R. Vishny (Sept. 17)
📖 The Dixon Rule - Elle Kennedy (May 14)
🗞️ A Bánh Mì for Two - Trinity Nguyen (Aug. 27)
📖 The Hitchcock Hotel - Stephanie Wrobel (Sept. 24)
🗞️ In Want of a Suspect - Tirzah Price (Nov. 12)
📖 Memorials - Richard Chizmar (Oct. 22)
🗞️ The Empusium - Olga Tokarczuk (Sept. 24)
📖 Unsinkable Cayenne - Jessica Vitalis (Oct. 29)
🗞️ Cue the Sun! - Emily Nussbaum (June 25)
📖 We're Alone - Edwidge Danticat (Sept. 3)
🗞️ The Sherlock Society - James Ponti (Sept. 3)
📖 The Enchanted Hacienda by J.C. Cervantes (May 21)
🗞️ The Baby-sitters Club: Kristy and the Walking Disaster - Ellen T. Crenshaw (Sept.)
📖 The Baby-sitters Litter Sister: Karen’s Grandmothers - DK Yingst (Oct.)
🗞️ The Millicent Quibb School of Etiquette for Young Ladies of Mad Science - Kate McKinnon (Oct. 1)
📖 The Life Impossible - Matt Haig (Sept. 3)
🗞️ Ruin Road - Lamar Giles (Sept.)
📖 Yours Truly by Katie Shepard (Sept. 3)
🗞️ Wishbone - Justine Pucella Winan (Sep. 17)
📖 Haunt Your Heart Out - Amber Roberts (Oct. 8)
🗞️ The Dividing Sky - Jill Tew (Oct. 8)
📖 Heir - Sabaa Tahir (Oct. 1)
🗞️ Beautiful Dreamers - Minrose Gwin (Aug. 27)
📖 We Solve Murders - Richard Osman (Fall)
🗞️ Till the Last Beat of My Heart - Louangie Bou-Montes (Sept. 10)
📖 Aisle Nine by Ian X (Sept. 24)
🗞️ Warrior of Legend - Kendare Blake (Sept. 17)
📖 The Ancient’s Game - Loni Crittenden (Oct. 29)
🗞️ The Witch of Wol Sin Lake - Lega Jeong (Oct. 29)
Upcoming Releases:
🗞️ Tiny Reparations Books has secured North American rights to two new books by National Book Award–longlisted author LaToya Watkins. The first book, The Book of Chuck, will be published in spring 2026.
📖 Tia Williams has sold North American rights to two new novels to Grand Central.
🗞️ LeVar Burton is releasing two new books
Other News:
🗞️ The Dylan Thomas Prize 2024 longlist is up
📖 The finalists for the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Awards were announced
🗞️ The finalists for the 2024 Audie Awards were announced
📖 Pulitzer-winning author N. Scott Momaday passed away (first Native American author to win a Pulitzer)
🗞️ OCLC has filed a lawsuit against the shadow library search engine Anna’s Archive for allegedly stealing 2.2 TB of data from WorldCat
📖 The St. Paul Public Library launched a laser-eyed loon library card
🗞️ Writers Against the War on Gaza have written an open letter to PEN/America to release an official statement about the “225 poets, playwrights, journalists, scholars, and novelists killed in Gaza” by Israeli forces
📖 Andy Weir released a series of “lost” journal entries from Mark Watney to celebrate The Martian’s 10th anniversary
🗞️ Amazon removed multiple titles about King Charles’ recent cancer diagnoses amid concerns that they were written by AI
📖 This year’s winners and finalists of the Cybils Awards were announced
🗞️ Delacorte is launching a new YA romance imprint
Eigentlich waren es deren zwei, an die ich mit gemischten Gefühlen zurückdenke. Der erste bleibt mir nur mehr schemenhaft in Erinnerung, es war in einem Seitental Tirols, und wir nächtigten über einer Metzgerei.
Der Geräuschpegel war dementsprechend, und als ein kopfloses Huhn durch den Garten lief, bekam meine Freundin, mit der ich das Doppelbett teilte (schon wieder so eine Andeutung, aber das war halt damals so), einen hysterischen Anfall. Ehrlich, nicht gelogen, und das ist meine einzige Erinnerung.
Die zweite wäre schon umfangreicher. Das Ereignis spielte sich ziemlich weit oben im Gebirge ab und schon im April, und wir bekamen fast alle trotz zentimeterdicker Creme einen Sonnenbrand, der sich gewaschen hatte, manch einer sogar Fieber. Am ersten Tag musste jeder vorführen, wie er das Material beherrschte, dann wurde er in der jeweils ihm passenden Gruppe zugeteilt. (Wie peinlich, vor aller Augen halbwegs passable Schwünge zu ziehen).
Ich fuhr absichtlich ein bisschen schlechter (geschwindelt, ich hatte keinen guten Tag), damit ich nicht in die erste Gruppe kam, denn die musste die steilsten Hänge und übelsten Buckel bewältigen. Aber so war es etwas bequemer. Ich wollte auch um halb zehn in die Federn hüpfen, was in einem Fünfbett-Zimmer (oder gar noch mehr) und Stockbetten gar nicht so einfach war, denn den anderen stand mehr der Sinn nach Gemeinschaftsabenden.
Des Nachts fand man auch nicht die erwünschte Ruhe, bei fünf schnarchenden Individuen, im Nachhinein betrachtet wundert es mich, dass ich die Woche überstanden habe.
Am meisten gefreut hat mich, dass ich beim Abschluss-Skirennen meine damalige Konkurrentin, eine erstklassige Skiläuferin, geschlagen habe. Es war zwar ein wenig unfair, weil Mädels und Burschen gemischt an den Start gingen, aber ich hatte einen reschen Zieleinlauf ohne Einfädler, wurde sechste, die andere wurde mit einem Torfehler disqualifiziert, was sie mir lange nachtrug.
Was sich sonst beim Schulskikurs abspielte, fällt unter die Rubrik verschweigen und vergessen. Wie gesagt, wir waren ein wilder Haufen......
von G.B. Bowman aka LadyAislinn
"Non vitae sed scholae discimus" (Seneca)
Perlen aus dem schulischen Alltag .
pics by Jessica Smith 🖤
Clint and Kate use to cook together; do Hawkeye family dinners. When they did nights like this, it was kind of important to leave their hangs up at the door and just be friends, family, with each other
Clint consider picking up / trying cigarettes and smoking when he was going sober and quitting alcohol; he ultimately never adopted the habit which is probably good for him
While he doesn't really read much anymore, he still collects books from certain authors and genres. Pulp fictions, westerns, mysteries and romance are the notable genres. He has a few of the gothic and horror classics too. There is in fact a small section of cowboy erotica on his shelves. He's choosy about the books and covers though, he liked used books best.
Dogs are his favorite animal; absolutely spoils dogs the most, any dog he sees is getting a snack but Clint is actually just an animal guy. He liked to play with frogs and toads, always gentle with them, liked being around the horses and animals at the circus. Can be a sweet to a kitty or two. He's been known to pick up a stray or few and find them a home, or take them somewhere safe.
Clint likes to fish and hunt but he does it cleanly and respectful. Not a trophy hunter, but if he kills any game than he uses as much as he can; always cooks and eat all of it. So if he's hunting, it's typically a one kill and he is choosy. (hawkeye 1994 / he literally lives off the land in canada for months)
three things your character regrets:
How he handled things with Bobbi
Killing Bruce Banner
Not going with Barney when he left the circus
three things your character likes doing in their free time:
Cooking, trying new recipes, barbecuing
Hikes // getting out of the city and into nature
Get coffee and jelly donuts (find the best place in all five borough of new york and new jersey)
two phobia your character has:
Becoming his father
Not being enough
Tagged by: sniped from the dash and adjusted some things