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Finally finished! Now on to try and make embroidery portraits of my own cats lol
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Die traumhaft wollige Begegnung
Der Anfang einer erotischen Geschichte
Episode 12
Vor Kälte zitternd wache ich zusammengerollt in meinem Zimmer auf.
Ich warte mit großer Sehnsucht auf meine Herrin mit der Hoffnung, dass sie mir gestattet, den Herrlich warmen Fuzzy und Fluffy Catsuit wieder anziehen zu dürfen.
Nach einiger Zeit kommen Michelle und Nadine in mein Zimmer.
Michelle trägt einen rosafarbenen extrem Fuzzy und Fluffy Angora Jumpsuit mit großem langem super Fluffy Rollkragen.
Nadine trägt eine lange grüne fuzzy und Fluffy angora Hose und dazu ein kurzen Fluffy und Fuzzy Angora Sweater.
Die beiden sehen wieder Hammer heiß und sexy in Ihrer wunderbaren Fluffy Kleidung aus.
Michelle Trägt auf Ihren Armen den frisch gereinigten und aufgebürsteten Black Panter Catsuit.
Michelle sagt: „Mein kleiner Sklave ich hoffe du bist jetzt endlich zur Vernunft gekommen und du wirst mir ohne weiteres Murren gehorchen und dienen.“
Alex springt freudig und gehorsam wie ein kleiner Welpe vom Bett und krabbelt auf allen vieren zu ihren Füßen.
Ich küsst ihre Füße und umarme auf Knien flehend ihre wunderbar Fuzzy und Fluffy Beine.
Eine wirkliche wohltat diese herrliche Wolle nach der kalten Nacht zu berühren, denke ich.
Ich sagt: „Ja Herrin, bitte lass mich dein Fluffy Sklave sein. Ich werde dir ab jetzt immer gehorchen und dienen, bitte, bitte lass mich wieder den Catsuit tragen.“
Michelle sagt: „So ist brav mein kleiner Fluffy Sklave, wie ich sehe muss ich etwas Strenger sein damit du auch anständig gehorchst. Nun gut, Fluffy Sklave du darfst wieder deinen Catsuit tragen. Nadine wird dir helfen Ihn anzulegen.“
„Danke, danke Herrin“, ich küsse dankend Michelles und Nadines Füße.
Michelle hält mir den Black Panter hin und ich schlüpfe wieder vollkommen nackt durch den großen, aber elastischen Rollkragen, ein unbeschreibliches Gefühl auf der nackten Haut echt traumhaft.
Ich zieh ihn hoch und gleite mit dem Penis in den im Schritt angestrickt Willywärmer, wieder einfach nur unbeschreiblich, und wieder das wohlige Gefühl.
Ich gleite noch in die Arme und Nadine, zieh den Anzug weiter hoch und „Klack“ verschließt in.
Nadine zieht den Anzug im Schritt mit dem Willywärmer und positioniert meine Eier wieder in das angestrickte Hodensäckchen.
Nun zieht sie noch das Säckchen mit den zwei Schnürchen stramm „Wooow!“, muss ich wieder aufstöhnen. Jetz wird noch die Balaclava befestigt. Nadine sagt: „So, fast fertig.“
Michelle winkt schon mit dem Foxtail Plag.
Ich beuge mich gehorsam vor und Michelle schiebt ihn mir langsam in den After. „Aaaaaah, Mmmmh“ muss ich leicht aufstöhnen.
Es fühlt sich so richtig und wunderbar an, dass ein erneutes Pulsieren bei mir beginnt.
Michelle befestigt wieder eine Leine an einem Ring am Hodensack, und führt mich nach oben.
Heute darf ich mit Michelle und Nadine am Tisch Frühstücken. Ich erfahre, dass Fuzzy Tom und Scratchy Sofia die Woche über nach Hause gehen durften und sich Freitag wieder hier einzufinden haben.
Nach dem Frühstück legt Michelle mir wieder Hand und Fußfesseln an, mit denen nur kleine Trippelschritte möglich sind die Hände an der Hüfte fixiert zusätzlich legt sie mir heute einen Fuzzy Wollknebel an.
Michelle sagt: „Heute machst du hier ordentlich sauber, ich will nachher keinen Krümmel Staub mehr sehen! Verstanden?“
Ich Antworte „ Mmmmpf, ja Herrin.“
Michelle sagt: „Ich werde dich, solange ich stricke vom Sofa aus im Auge behalten.“
Sie bindet die Leine vom Hodensäcken an einen Boden Staubsauger, und drückt mir den Griff in die eine Hand und einen Staubwedel in die andere.
Michelle setzt sich und sagt: „Fang endlich an, und schiebt die Regler am Schalter etwas hoch.“
Ich zucke beim Einsetzen des Foxtail Vibrators und des E-Stim kurz zusammen.
„Aaaahmmpf“ muss ich aufstöhnen. In Verbindung mit dem herrlichen Fluffy Catsuit, beginnt wieder das wohlige Gefühl und mein Penis beginnt zu Pulsieren.
Bei jedem Schritt merke ich dazu einen ziehen an meinen Eiern, scheinbar wurden an dem schweren Sauger die Räder absichtlich blockiert. „Mmmpf“ Dazu das angenehme hin und her schwingen des Foxtails.
Nach dem ich einige Stunden saubergemacht habe ruft Michelle mich zu sich.
Michelle sagt: „Und mein Fluffy Sklave hast du nicht eine Stelle vergessen?“
Etwas fragend und mit Angst vor einer Bestrafung stehe ich vor ihr.
Michelle spreizt ihre Beine und durch den Fuzzy Fluff ihres unten offenen Jumpsuits wird ihre schöne Muschi sichtbar.
Michelle sagt: „Knie dich hin und leck meine Muschi, bis ich fertig gestrickt habe!“
Michelle nimmt mir den Knebel ab und ich verwohne sie mit der Zunge. Dabei tauche ich tief in ihren Fluffy Schoß ein. Es ist ein so herrliches Gefühl von ihrem Fluff umgeben zu sein, dabei die wunderbare Muschi vor Augen und die ununterbrochene Stimulation bewirkt, dass mein Penis unweigerlich wieder hart und steif ist.
Ich muss mich stark konzentrieren um nicht wieder zu geil zu werden, um auf keinen Fall ohne Erlaubnis zu kommen.
Michelle strickt, ohne mich weiter zu beachten, weiter mit ab und zu einem leisen Stöhnen, während ich vor ihr knie und ihre Muschi mit meiner Zunge ununterbrochen verwöhne.
Nach einer Stunde hört sie endlich auf zu stricken und kann ich etwas verschnaufen.
Doch Michelle sagt: „Habe ich was von aufhören gesagt, brav weiter machen.“
Michelle nimmt sich eine Strickzeitschrift ist ein paar Pralinen vom Beistelltisch und fängt an zu lesen ohne mich eines Blickes zu würdigen, wärend ich weiter ihre Muschi mit der Zunge verwöhne.
Nach einer weiteren halben Stunde steht Michelle auf und schickt mich in mein „Katzenkörbchen“, endlich kann ich mich etwas verschnaufen und lege mich entspannt in das herrliche Fluffy Pelzkörbchen.
Michelle sagt: „Warte hier brav, ich schaue kurz nach Nadine im Laden, und sage ihr Bescheid, dass ich mit dir gleich einkaufen fahre.“
Ich denke: „Was hat sie gesagt, ich soll mit ihr zum Einkaufen fahren? Hier könnte sich ja eventuelle eine chance Ergeben, bei der ich ihren Fängen entkommen kann. Ich wäre endlich wieder frei und könnte nach Hause.
Aber will ich das überhaupt?
Eigentlich gefällt mir meine neue Rolle hier und ich möchte meiner Herrin gefallen und dienen.“
Unter dem leisen Summen des Foxtail Plug warte ich im Pelzkörbchen auf meine Herrin.
Ende Episode 12
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i love your trans dragon embroidery!! i don’t know a lot about it yet, but i’ve been looking into techniques to learn and i was wondering if there was a name for the stitch you used to fill the body colours on the dragon? i love how it looks, so nice and flat and even
Hey there! Thank you so much. Sorry in advance this is long, i just really fucking like talking about the topic, and I'm actually really used to helping newbies get started.
The fill is entirely 'long and short stitch' throughout the entire piece. It's normally used the most in the technique called 'thread painting' which usually aims for photorealism and involves swapping out a lot of colors to achieve a smooth color transition. I instead do one solid color for my fills, and rely on the thread direction + refraction of light to give it depth. That's a style choice vs it being exactly normal or usual - like any art, embroidery artists develop a recognizable style even when using different stitches or approaches to their work.
I mention the above caveats because here's a guide from the Royal School of Needlework showing how long and short stitch is worked. It shows it as it's most normally used - very careful planning of the stitches to achieve closer to lifelike shading, and swapping out colors at junctions. Thread direction still matters even when you use different colors for shading as shown in that guide. The goal no matter what when using mercerized cotton or silk floss for this is to make it as smooth as possible so that it's glossy and reflects light. Back to my art style - without color changes, the animals or fabrics or whatever I'm embroidering long and short on, the end result of controlling the thread direction is that it looks far more lifelike and has depth, such as in this photo from the original post, where you can see how the light hits different twists and turns.
The light reflecting differently on different parts is a key part of my style - it's not a happy accident and that is why it looks as nice as it does, it's the most important part imo, because even if the long and short stitch was done correctly, it might look odd or not be the look I wanted if say, I made all my thread simply point up and down. I had to choose as I went how I wanted the components that make up the dragon to contrast and work with each other, since it is a very smooth and even surface, to provide the visual interest. The wings being entirely smooth and slick with their different color sections, the grip of the claws, the way the muscles work over each other on the legs, the scales being outlined and interrupting the flow - these all build within the composition of the piece to help direct the eye.
My original pattern I used doesn't have instructions on that, it's basically a stencil. However modern patterns aimed at teaching this technique do show where to direct and angle your floss in order to get the correct result: nice and flat and evenly shiny. If you're interested in the photorealism aspect of long and short stitch, check out Michelle Staub, who has a very excellent book that teaches both the stitch techniques and how to blend colors. Stitching animals with fur direction is a good way to get a handle on how rendering fur and muscles works.
#chatter#embroidery help#that should probably be a tag i guess! i do like talking about how the sausage gets made
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Billie Jean King Crab
KATHERINE HEIGL'S HAIR (MOTORCYCLE PASSENGER INJURED IN COLLISION WITH TWO- OR THREE-WHEELED MOTOR VEHICLE IN TRAFFIC ACCIDENT)
SIMON DOONAN'S FOOT (ANGIODYSPLASIA OF COLON)
KAT DELUNA'S NOSE (ACUTE APPENDICITIS WITH LOCALIZED PERITONITIS)
KATE BECKINSALE'S MOUTH (OTHER SPECIFIED DISORDERS OF LEFT EXTERNAL EAR)
JENNY MCCARTHY'S CHEEK (MIXED PEDICULOSIS AND PHTHIRIASIS)
CATE BLANCHETT'S TOE (VARICOSE VEINS OF LEFT LOWER EXTREMITY WITH INFLAMMATION)
MATTHEW BELLAMY'S BOTTOM (PHYSICAL RESTRAINT STATUS)
LISA BONET'S CALF (UNSPECIFIED CORNEAL DEPOSIT, UNSPECIFIED EYE)
EMMA ROBERTS'S EYEBROW (INHALANT USE, UNSPECIFIED WITH INHALANT-INDUCED PSYCHOTIC DISORDER WITH HALLUCINATIONS)
AMANDA SEYFRIED'S HAIR (SUPERFICIAL INJURY OF ANKLE, FOOT AND TOES)
KALEY CUOCO'S HIP (RHEUMATOID BURSITIS, WRIST)
BETTY WHITE'S BOTTOM (TOXIC EFFECT OF VENOM OF BLACK WIDOW SPIDER)
RONNIE ORTIZ-MAGRO'S EAR (HEREDITARY LYMPHEDEMA)
JESSICA CHASTAIN'S FOOT (TRAUMATIC AMPUTATION OF SHOULDER AND UPPER ARM)
CORY MONTEITH'S HAIR (INTERVERTEBRAL DISC DISORDERS WITH MYELOPATHY, THORACOLUMBAR REGION)
DANIELLE STAUB'S FINGER (MILITARY OPERATIONS INVOLVING UNARMED HAND TO HAND COMBAT, CIVILIAN)
TAYLOR SWIFT'S BACK (TRAUMATIC AMPUTATION OF SHOULDER AND UPPER ARM)
MAHENDRA SINGH DHONI'S HAIR (TRAUMATIC AMPUTATION OF SHOULDER AND UPPER ARM)
NICK CARTER'S FIST (ANGIODYSPLASIA OF COLON)
ETHAN HAWKE'S FOREHEAD (ANAPLASTIC LARGE CELL LYMPHOMA, ALK-NEGATIVE, UNSPECIFIED SITE)
GARY OLDMAN'S EYEBROW (OSTEOPHYTE, LEFT HAND)
ANNA FARIS'S SHOULDER (OTHER SPOTTED FEVERS)
ANNETTE BENING'S NOSE (TOTAL PERFORATIONS OF TYMPANIC MEMBRANE, RIGHT EAR)
COLIN FIRTH'S TOOTH (ENDOMETRIOSIS OF PELVIC PERITONEUM)
ADAM DURITZ'S BACK (PRIMARY CYST OF PARS PLANA, UNSPECIFIED EYE)
NATASHA BEDINGFIELD'S FOREARM (TORUS FRACTURE OF UPPER END OF HUMERUS)
SARAH MICHELLE GELLAR'S ELBOW (URTICARIA DUE TO COLD AND HEAT)
BROOKE SHIELDS'S EAR (OSSEOUS AND SUBLUXATION STENOSIS OF INTERVERTEBRAL FORAMINA OF ABDOMEN AND OTHER REGIONS)
MATT BOMER'S TOOTH (OTHER UNILATERAL SECONDARY OSTEOARTHRITIS OF HIP)
SHILOH JOLIE-PITT'S FIST (INFLAMMATORY POLYNEUROPATHY, UNSPECIFIED)
HILARY DUFF'S UPPER ARM (PHYSICAL RESTRAINT STATUS)
MADONNA'S BREAST (PARALYTIC LAGOPHTHALMOS UNSPECIFIED EYE, UNSPECIFIED EYELID)
KENDRA WILKINSON'S TOE (UNSPECIFIED VIRAL HEPATITIS C WITHOUT HEPATIC COMA)
SANDRA OH'S WAIST (ENDOMETRIOSIS OF PELVIC PERITONEUM)
BLAKE LIVELY'S BACK (STRIATONIGRAL DEGENERATION)
KATRINA BOWDEN'S LEG (OTHER INJURY OF UNSPECIFIED PART OF SMALL INTESTINE)
CHLOE MORETZ'S WAIST (LATE SYPHILITIC OCULOPATHY)
MATT LANTER'S HIP (CORROSION OF SECOND DEGREE OF UNSPECIFIED SHOULDER)
KATE WINSLET'S LIP (OTOSCLEROSIS INVOLVING OVAL WINDOW, OBLITERATIVE, BILATERAL)
ROSIE O'DONNELL'S WAIST (MAJOR LACERATION OF LEFT KIDNEY)
SARAH PALIN'S FINGER (JUVENILE ARTHRITIS, UNSPECIFIED, LEFT HAND)
SHAILENE WOODLEY'S WAIST (EXPOSURE OF IMPLANTED MESH AND OTHER PROSTHETIC MATERIALS INTO SURROUNDING ORGAN OR TISSUE)
KELLY OSBOURNE'S HIP (LYMPHOCYTOSIS (SYMPTOMATIC))
ROSARIO DAWSON'S UPPER ARM (RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS WITHOUT RHEUMATOID FACTOR, WRIST)
KELSEY GRAMMER'S FOREARM (UNSPECIFIED FRACTURE OF FOURTH METACARPAL BONE, LEFT HAND)
JULIETTE LEWIS'S THIGH (OSTEONECROSIS IN DISEASES CLASSIFIED ELSEWHERE, RIGHT THIGH)
MENA SUVARI'S ANKLE (EXPOSURE TO SMOKE IN UNCONTROLLED FIRE IN BUILDING OR STRUCTURE)
GABOUREY SIDIBE'S EYEBROW (SUBACUTE OSTEOMYELITIS, RIGHT TIBIA AND FIBULA)
ROBERT PATTINSON'S NOSE (MILITARY OPERATIONS INVOLVING FLAMETHROWER, CIVILIAN)
KRISTIN CAVALLARI'S FOREHEAD (SECONDARY LACRIMAL GLAND ATROPHY)
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Michelle Laff
for Vogue China | July 2021
shot by Bruno Staub
#michelle laff#model#vogue china#july 2021#ss21#ss2021#vogue magazine#vogue#fashion magazine#fashion photographer#bruno staub#fashion photography#style#beauty#fashion#details#fashion edit#editorial
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The Top 10 Most Popular Movies on Netflix Right Now
Now that Netflix has unveiled its new “Top 10” feature, we have an assessment of what people are actually watching on the streaming service. Each day, the “Top 10” feature shows the most popular films and TV shows as viewed by subscribers.
But if you’re looking for not only a quick rundown of the Top 10 most popular movies on Netflix, but also a little more information on what they’re about and who’s in them, we’ve got you covered. Below, we’ve assembled the current list of the most popular movies on Netflix in the U.S., along with more information about each film.
So peruse through the current Top 10 below, and be sure to check out our much longer, more curated list of the best movies on Netflix and the current Top 10 TV shows on Netflix.
10. 365 DNI
Image via Next Film
Directors: Barbara Bialowas and Tomasz Mandes
Writers: Tomasz Kimala, Barbara Bialowas, Tomasz Mandes, and Blanka Lipinska
Cast: Anna-Maria Sieklucka, Michele Morrone, and Magdalena Lamparska
Year Released: 2020
Genre: Erotic Romantic Drama
What’s It About?: In this Polish film, a young woman in a spiritless relationship falls for a dominant man who imprisons her and gives her 365 days to fall in love with him.
9. The Grinch
Image via Universal Pictures/Illumination Entertainment
Directors: Scott Mosier and Yarrow Cheney
Writers: Michael LeSieur and Tommy Swerdlow
Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Rashida Jones, Kenan Thompson and Angela Landsbury
Year Released: 2018
Genre: Animated Family Christmas Movie
What’s It About?: Illumination Entertainment’s new adaptation of the Dr. Seuss classic puts a bit of a modern spin on The Grinch while telling the story of a mean creature who attempts to steal Christmas from a town of Whos.
8. Devil's Gate
Director: Clay Staub
Writers: Peter Aperlo and Clay Staub
Cast: Amanda Schull, Shawn Ashmore, and Milo Ventimiglia
Genre: Supernatural Horror
Year Released: 2018
What’s It About?: When a federal agent goes to the town of Devil’s Gate to investigate the disappearance of a woman and her son, she discovers an extraterrestrial presence.
7. Milf
Director: Axelle Laffont
Writers: Jérôme L’hotsky and Stéphane Kramer
Cast: Marie-Josée Croze, Virginie Ledoyen, and Axelle Laffont
Genre: Comedy
Year Released: 2018
What’s It About?: This French comedy follows three best friends in their 40s who navigate loss and heartbreak while embarking on steamy affairs with much younger men.
Image via Universal Pictures
Directors: Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud
6. Despicable Me
Writers: Cinco Paul and Ken Daurio
Cast: Steve Carell, Jason Segel, Russell Brand, Kristen Wiig, and Miranda Cosgrove
Year Released: 2010
Genre: Family
What’s It About?: A supervillain’s quest to be the best supervillain in the world is thwarted when he becomes a parent to three young children.
Image via Sony Pictures
Director/Writer: James L. Brooks
5. How Do You Know
Cast: Reese Witherspoon, Paul Rudd, Owen Wilson, Jack Nicholson, and Kathryn Hahn
Genre: Romantic Comedy/Drama
Year Released: 2010
What’s It About?: The sprawling, meandering romantic dramedy How Do You Know follows a professional softball player recently cut from her team who finds herself in a love triangle with two men.
Director: Gina Prince-Bythewood
Writer: Greg Rucka
Cast: Charlize Theron, KiKi Layne, Marwan Kenzari, Luca Marinelli, Harry Melling, van Veronica Ngo, Matthias Schoenaerts and Chiwetel Ejiofor
4. The Old Guard
Genre: Supernatural Action Film
Year Released: 2020
What’s It About?: The actioner The Old Guard follows a team of immortal soldiers who are training a new recruit while running from pursuers.
Director: Peter Sullivan
Writers: Rasheeda Garner and Peter Sullivan
Cast: Nia Long, Omar Epps, Stephen Bishop and KJ Smith
3. Fatal Affairs
Genre: Psychological Thriller
Year Released: 2020
What’s It About?: In the thriller Fatal Affair, a lawyer is caught in a terrifying game of cat and mouse after a drink with an old friend turns into an obsession.
2. The Lorax
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Director: Chris Renaud
Writers: Cinco Paul and Ken Daurio
Cast: Danny DeVito, Zac Efron, Taylor Swift, Ed Helms, Rob Riggle, Jenny Slate, and Betty White
Genre: Animated Family Comedy
Year Released: 2012
What’s It About?: From the same studio that made Despicable Me, 2012’s The Lorax is an adaptation of the Dr. Seuss story that expands upon the original book to create a much larger tale.
Image via Mandarin Motion Pictures
Director: Wilson Yip
Writers: Edmond Wong, Dana Fukazawa, Chan Tai Lee and Jil Leung Lai Yin
Cast: Donnie Yen, Wu Yue, Vanness Wu, Scott Adkins, Kent Cheng, Danny Chan, and Ngo Ka-nin
1. Ip Man 4: The Finals
Genre: Action/Martial Arts
Year Released: 2019
What’s It About?: The fourth and final film in the Ip Man series finds the titular grandmaster suffering from throat cancer and traveling to San Francisco to look for study opportunities.
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Embroidery progress~ I'm such an impatient person yet all my new hobbies so far take so long lol
#embroidery#needle crafts#needlecraft#crafts#thread painting#silk shading#needle painting#michelle staub#stitchingsabbatical#domestika
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TIFF 2020: Days 5 & 6
Films: 5
Best Film of the Day(s): New Order
Good Joe Bell: Or, The Education of a Straight White Father. What Reinaldo Marcus Green’s film lacks in depth, it tries hard to make up for with earnestness. Mark Wahlberg plays the real-life father, who was in the process of walking across America in honor of his gay son, who committed suicide after being badly bullied in his smalltown Oregon high school, before he was accidentally hit on the road and killed in Colorado, six months into his planned two-year sojourn. The story is cut up between the present, with Joe on the road, doing terse speaking engagements (as Wahlberg plays him, the taciturn Bell isn’t much for public speaking), at local high schools and churches, and flashbacks to the past, as his son, Jadin (Reid Miller), attempts to get through his high school experience while being the subject of bullying, both in-person and via the Internet, until he reaches his breaking point. The message is certainly resonant, and Miller plays Jadin with the right amount of heartbreaking pathos, but Green’s film feels unnecessarily mechanized in order to put Joe front and center of the story (using a hallucination of Jadin at the beginning, which allows Joe to interact with him feels more than a little manipulative). Bell, with his quick temper, and impatience for anything that’s not directly to do with him, is a reasonable stand-in for exactly the type of straight white male who should be watching the film (but more than likely won’t). Wahlberg is gifted at playing this sort of character, who wants to have the full attention of everyone any point in time he chooses (“Did you hear what I said?” he asks incredulously after making an announcement and not receiving the proper praise for it). He’s a complicated dude, which the film alludes to without entirely capturing: He’s ready to fight at a moment’s notice, but shies away from directly confronting any of Jadin’s tormentors; has the good intention to take action to draw attention to the problem, but doesn't seem the least bit prepared to give a speech that really makes an impact (one detail the film does make work: His manner of saying “I love you” to his wife or sons, but only as a way of getting them to say it back to him). Connie Britton plays Lola, Jadin’s mother, a largely thankless role as the nurturer of the family, loving both her sons (Jadin’s brother Joseph is played by Maxwell Jenkins), and staying supportive no matter their father’s attitude. Near the end of his journey, as Joe begins to see the true folly of his ways, he meets a Sheriff (Gary Sinise), whose oldest son is also gay, which allows the two men to sit on the front porch of the sheriff’s house and contemplate the ways in which their lives didn’t go as expected. It’s clearly meant for the kick-ass Wahlberg audience (as Jadin says earlier in the film, they’re the actual problem), but I very much doubt they will be heading in droves to see it.
New Order: Meet the new boss, only in Michel Franco’s damning portrait of a society locked forever in cycles of oppression, revolution, and new oppression, it makes no difference who you are, what your belief system is, or whether or not you subscribe to a moral set of ethics. After an ominous opening montage of imagery largely taken from the film to come, we shortly begin at a resplendent wedding held at the city manse of a wealthy businessman for his daughter, Marianne (Naian Gonzalez Norvind), and her betrothed, Alan (Dario Yazbek Bernal). As Marianne’s mother, Pilar (Patricia Bernal) happily secrets away the envelopes carrying the new couples’ gift money in her safe, and rich and powerful families co-mingle, the distant danger of a furious revolution, lead by violent rioters raising up against the economic disparities of the city, seems at first to be light-years away. Until it isn’t. As rioters infiltrate the house, with the help of an insider, chaos reigns and bullets fly. The next morning, many people have been shot, the house has been utterly pillaged, and Marianne has been taken hostage by a rogue group of military, who snatch up wealthy-seeming refugees and hold them for ransom at an undisclosed outpost. By film’s end, Franco, working from his own screenplay, leaves no man, woman, or child unmarked. The wealthy are callous and vain, the rioters bloodthirsty and cruel, the hostage takers unbelievably greedy and horrible, and the righteous vanquished by further corruption at even higher levels of power. It’s a bit like the ending of a Coen brothers picture (Burn After Reading comes to mind), in which all loose ends are closed, and few, if any, people are any the wiser for it; only, there’s nothing the least bit arch in Franco’s thrown gauntlet: We aren’t spared the worst of it by indelible Coens’ proxies. We are all to blame, it would seem, and it has nothing to do with original sin: Our conniving, violent nature will undo any and all attempts to curb it. Insatiable avarice is our continual undoing, washing over us like the green paint the rioters hurl at passing cars and pedestrians, marking them as the enemy. In Franco’s thunderous film, nobody emerges unscathed; we’re all set on fire.
Wildfire: It’s a hoary Hollywood staple to substitute individuals as emotional stand-ins to capture the direness of historic catastrophic events, scaling everything down so we care more about the couple in star-crossed love than the war going on all around them. In Cathy Brady’s Irish drama, however, a pair of sisters are reunited after a year’s absence in the North Ireland bordertown in which they grew up, products of the uneasy peace, post-Troubles, in which everyone is meant to get along as one country, though hard feelings still abound. Kelly (Nika McGuigan) returns to the staid home of her sister, Lauren (Nora-Jane Noone), after taking off on her own the year before, and, by all appearances, living as a vagabond. Initially thrilled to have her sister back, Lauren is also still angry with her for taking off suddenly and not making any contact since. When the girls were little, their father was killed in a political bombing, and their mother might have committed suicide as a result (the car accident that killed her was, apparently, suspicious). Left to their own devices, then, they developed a fierce protective shell against any outsiders, including, it turns out Lauren’s increasingly concerned husband (Martin McCann), and longtime family friend Veronica (Joanne Crawford). The film changes gears when Lauren finally accepts Kelly again, and the two reform their partnership as intense as it was before. As the film points out, in a real sense, they are all each other truly have in the aftermath of their tragic childhood. The film clicks better into focus as well in its final act, when the sisters are reunited against all comers, and the world around them is better revealed for what it is: They represent the schism still very much a part of their community that no one else wants to see. Instead, people hang about in bars, or at work, nursing the bitternesses and hurts of the Troubles in private, and putting their public energy to getting along. Kelly, with her wildnesses and significant impulse control issues (trying to teach a young boy how to hold his breath underwater is, perhaps, not best accomplished by holding him down until he begins to panic), is at least honest with her feelings, open to her various wounds, and refusing to put the past behind them. Their mother gets referred to as “crazy” in the town’s estimation, but it’s more likely she, like her two daughters, represents the clear-eyed view of someone who refuses to live in denial.
Concrete Cowboy: Philadelphia as an open prairie has a nice vibe, and Ricky Staub’s film about a troubled teen who mother takes him from Detroit to where his father, an urban cowboy, lives in North Philly in hopes to setting the kid straight, is made with genuine care and gets solid performances from its mixture of professional and amateur actors. If this sounds like faintly damning praise, it’s only because despite its strengths, it still feels like a great set-up in search of a suitable story. Based on the real-life Fletcher Street stables (and the novel from Greg Neri), in which locals on the rough streets of the city shelter and take care of a group of horses for the sheer love of riding, the story follows the difficult maturation of Cole (Caleb McLaughlin), a decent enough kid, but searching for his place in the world, and the tough-love tactics of his dad, Harp (Idris Elba), a longtime cowboy, who hasn’t been in his son’s life in more than a decade. Cole starts out hating everything about his new situation, from Harp’s barebones lifestyle (not only are the cupboards empty, and the fridge filled with nothing but Coke and Bud Light, Harp keeps one of his horses in the living room, sharing it with his son), to being forced to muck the stalls out at the stables to earn his chance to ride, takes up with an old friend, Smush (Jharrel Jerome), a charismatic kid caught up in the drug life. Naturally, Cole’s choice comes down to which sort of life he wants to have, his father’s hardscrabble but honest approach (made more attractive when Cole develops a bond with his own horse, Boo), or Smush’s push for increased market share and more money to buy his own piece of land out West. Shot on location in North Philly, and around the city — one shot, in which Cole sits astride boo in full silhouette against a mottled purple sky, the lampposts standing in for saguaros, hits just the right note -- Staub’s film has a properly gritty texture, and the use of some of the real Fletcher cowboys adds further verisimilitude, but the story moves predictably enough, beat-by-beat, that it doesn’t hit with the potency it might have been capable of with a less predictable narrative arc.
In a year of bizarre happenings, and altered realities, TIFF has shifted its gears to a significantly paired down virtual festival. Thus, U.S. film critics are regulated to watching the international offerings from our own living room couches.
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10 Songs on my mind at the end of this decade
Thank you @dreamlikeapsycho and @miss-indigodaisies for tagging me, it warms my heart. So great to get familiar with everyone’s music taste!
Usually my playlists have focused on film or instrumental music, but over last few months there has come along bands. Especially the band from my teenage-hood have made a gorgeous new record recently.
These 10 songs I’ve looped or they’ve had a big influence on me during this year:
1. Hatari Feat. Bashar Murad: Klefi (2019)
2. Chemical Brothers: Hey Boy Hey Girl (1999)
3. Fat Boy Slim: Right Here, Right Now (1998)
4. Stelvio Cipriani: Too Risky A Day For A Regatta (1977)
5. Ennio Morricone: Il Grande Silenzio (Restless) (1968)
6. Paul Mauriat: Last Summer Day (Adieu l'été, adieu la plage) (1972)
7. Suede: The Invisibles (2018)
8. Thom Yorke: Suspirium (2018)
9. Severija - Zu Asche, Zu Staub (Psycho Nikoros) (2018)
10. Bad Boys Blue: A World Without You (Michelle) (1988)
I'd like to get to know your music lists and anybody’s who is willing to join: @missholson, @wohlbruecks, @friggingaround73, @intimate-comrade, @onaperduamedee and @fuckjagermanexpressionism!
Welcome the New Year 2020 with new music (and tv + movie) discoveries!
#10 songs on my mind at the end of this decade#top ten list#music#personal things#hatari#chemical brothers#fat boy slim#stelvio cipriani#ennio morricone#paul mauriat#suede#thom yorke#severija#bad boys blue#main titles music from tv series das boot and got are lacking from the list#own gif#own post
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1. AMY WINEHOUSE'S COOKED MOUTH
2. SPENCER PRATT'S COOKED BREAST
3. JAMIE-LYNN SIGLER'S COOKED EYEBROW
4. BECKI NEWTON'S COOKED TOOTH
5. JAMES RODRIGUEZ'S COOKED FINGER
6. AMBER PORTWOOD'S COOKED FOREARM
7. JORDIN SPARKS'S COOKED CHEEK
8. ANDERSON COOPER'S COOKED FOOT
9. KEVIN DURANT'S COOKED THIGH
10. ELIZABETH OLSEN'S COOKED ELBOW
11. JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE'S COOKED NOSE
12. PENELOPE CRUZ'S COOKED NECK
13. CHRIS KLEIN'S COOKED FINGER
14. SARAH JESSICA PARKER'S COOKED HIP
15. MARIA SHARAPOVA'S COOKED EAR
16. VANESSA HUDGENS'S COOKED NOSTRIL
17. LEA MICHELE'S COOKED WAIST
18. TERRENCE HOWARD'S COOKED SHOULDER
19. DR. PHIL MCGRAW'S COOKED WAIST
20. HELEN MIRREN'S COOKED BREAST
21. ALEXIS BLEDEL'S COOKED EYELASH
22. DANIELLE STAUB'S COOKED EYELASH
23. ROGER FEDERER'S COOKED ANKLE
24. MICHAEL BUBLÉ'S COOKED EYE
25. DAVID SPADE'S COOKED HIP
26. RUSSELL CROWE'S COOKED WRIST
27. ALI LARTER'S COOKED TOOTH
28. EVAN RACHEL WOOD'S COOKED NOSTRIL
29. COBRA STARSHIP'S COOKED ELBOW
30. BARBARA WALTERS'S COOKED BACK
31. TONI COLLETTE'S COOKED FOREHEAD
32. TREVOR DONOVAN'S COOKED TOOTH
33. PAM ANDERSON'S COOKED EYELASH
34. ROBERTO MARTINEZ'S COOKED CALF
35. THE BACHELORETTE'S COOKED BREAST
36. BRUCE JENNER'S COOKED MOUTH
37. HILLARY CLINTON'S COOKED SHOULDER
38. RACHEL MCADAMS'S COOKED MOUTH
39. CHRISTY TURLINGTON'S COOKED HEAD
40. LISA MARIE PRESLEY'S COOKED HAND
41. ADRIEN BRODY'S COOKED NOSTRIL
42. KELLY OSBOURNE'S COOKED UPPER ARM
43. GARY SHIRLEY'S COOKED BACK
44. IAN SOMERHALDER'S COOKED FOREHEAD
45. JOEL MADDEN'S COOKED BOTTOM
46. TERI HATCHER'S COOKED HEAD
47. JENNIFER LAWRENCE'S COOKED SHOULDER
48. USHER'S COOKED NOSE
49. DJIMON HOUNSOU'S COOKED UPPER ARM
50. HEATHER GRAHAM'S COOKED MOUTH
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Life & Style, May 13
Cover: Sandra Bullock just married in Wyoming
Page 1: Photo Flash -- Prince Harry and Kate Middleton mending fences at Britain’s Anzac Day service
Page 2: Contents
Page 4: Top 10 Brie Larson looks
Page 6: Twinning -- Rita Ora vs. Cobie Smulders, Elsa Hosk vs. Danielle Campbell, Elizabeth Banks vs. Elizabeth Chambers
Page 8: Jennifer Aniston dissed in Seth Rogen and Charlize Theron film Long Shot
Page 9: Kate Beckinsale and Pete Davidson split, Throwback -- Reese Witherspoon, Biggest Spenders of the Week -- Jonathan and Drew Scott, Jennifer Lopez, Katy Perry, Kid Cudi, Victoria Beckham
Page 10: Meghan Markle is convinced her new home Frogmore Cottage is haunted, Melissa McCarthy is relocating from L.A. as her daughters enter their tween years
Page 12: Demi Lovato and Selena Gomez making a comeback together
Page 13: Only a middleman can speak directly to diva Beyonce, RHONJ star Danielle Staub’s wedding doomed, VIP Style -- Ashlee Simpson and Evan Ross, Kenan Thompson, Kane Brown, Ashanti, The Roots, Angela Amezcua, La La Anthony, Rachel and AnnaLynne McCord
Page 14: The Week in Photos -- Avengers:Endgame stars Kevin Feige, Chris Hemsworth, Chris Evans, Robert Downey Jr., Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner and Mark Ruffalo
Page 15: Kylie Jenner and Travis Scott and daughter Stormi, John Legend and Kelly Clarkson
Page 16: Jennifer Garner, Andy Cohen and son and dog, Ryan Seacrest, Rosario Dawson
Page 18: Kids Rule -- Dwayne Wade and Gabrielle Union and daughter Kaavia, Liev Schreiber and son Sasha, Gisele Bundchen and daughter Vivian, Eva Longoria and son Santiago
Page 20: The Time 100 Gala -- Jimmy Fallon, Taylor Swift and Emilia Clarke, Joanna and Chip Gaines and Julianne Moore, Glenn Close
Page 22: Katy Perry and Luke Bryan and Lionel Richie, Ashley Greene and Ashlee Simpson-Ross, Martha Stewart
Page 24: Stars Behaving Badly -- Pink, Cardi B and Offset, Dax Shepard and Jimmy Kimmel
Page 26: Say What?! Kendall Jenner on her early insecurities, Eva Mendes on why she changed her mind about becoming a mom, Tim Gunn on Tidying Up with Marie Kondo, Laurie Metcalf on George Clooney on Roseanne, Anne Hathaway on her hangovers
Page 28: Inside Arie Luyendyk Jr. and Lauren Burnham’s babymoon
Page 29: Jennifer Lawrence ready to start a family, what went wrong between Michelle Williams and Phil Elverum
Page 30: Cover Story -- Sandra Bullock’s dream wedding
Page 34: Miranda Lambert and Brendan McLoughlin cracks in the marriage
Page 36: Kate Middleton and Prince William’s son Prince Louis turns one
Page 38: Liam Hemsworth and Miley Cyrus’ public tiff
Page 40: Stars and their stunt doubles -- Samuel L. Jackson, Chris Hemsworth
Page 41: Dwayne Johnson, Nicole Kidman, Keanu Reeves, Brad Pitt
Page 42: Who Lives Here? Orlando Bloom
Page 44: Entertainment
Page 45: Star Review -- Hayes MacArthur, As Seen On-Screen -- Jenna Bush Hager’s Red Valentino’s Rainbow Stripe Shift dress
Page 48: Beauty Beat -- Lucy Hale
Page 50: Style Crush -- Olivia Culpo
Page 52: Diva or Down-to-Earth -- Gigi Hadid, Justin Bieber, Brooke Burke
Page 54: Social Stars Posts of the Week -- Vanessa Hudgens and Shelley Buckner and sister Stella and Ashley Tisdale, Courteney Cox and Lisa Kudrow, Ariana Grande and ‘NSync, Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Page 55: Josh Groban, Kate Hudson, Jessica Alba and kids, Gwyneth Paltrow
Page 56: Horoscope -- Taurus Rosario Dawson, They’re Not Together But They Should Be -- Sagittarius Charlie Puth and Leo Demi Lovato
Page 58: Made Ya Look! -- Kristin Cavallari
Page 60: What I’m Into -- Luann de Lesseps
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