I finished watching Unrelated this evening. It's the movie Tom Hiddleston made straight out of RADA, and his first with Joanna Hogg, who also directed him in Archipelago (which I'm also working through). He plays a snotty jerk named Oakley who's kind of the ringleader of the kids who are vacationing with their parents in this villa near Siena. The ( Read more... )

This is my last Wallander picspam, unless I find myself desperately wanting to go back and watch the pilot. It is also a short picspam, because Magnus is pretty much back to support lackey who, while pissy, generally has the right thing going at the right time. Then again, the shortness also demonstrates that there are three main modes for Mr. ( Read more... )

Yesterday my parents wanted to watch a movie. I was in the mood for Shakespeare, but since the library was closed and the local Blockbuster is a cultural wasteland, we were stuck with the DVDs my parents had picked out before I came. It turns out that Letters from Juliet is basically the most forcefully charmless movie I've ever seen, which is very ( Read more... )

So, Tom Hiddleston doesn't get terribly much to do in Wallander, which largely follows Kenneth Branagh being incredibly glum and not taking very good care of himself while people all around him get horribly murdered, BUT. Magnus Martinsson is pretty much the light of my life when he's onscreen. He has two modes: pissy and WHOA, COMPETENT, WHEN DID ( Read more... )

Oh my god, you guys. OH MY GOD.

You know how fun it is to rag on things people were told to wear back in the day?

MEN, WE ARE GOING TO DO SOME LAUGHING AT YOUR FASHIONS.

GET READY. ABOVE THE CUT IS ONLY A TASTE.


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There are few things I love more than lulzy facial expressions, and while the Band of Brothers cast is gorgeous, it also has more than its fair share of rubberfaces. Here are about 70 of my favorite caps from the "Making Of" feature, with a few boot camp stills thrown in -- and seriously, this is less than half of what I took. There are probably 50 ( Read more... )

I am filled with a great and overwhelming love for Easy Company today, guys. So, as I've been threatening to do for some time now, have the picspam to end all picspams, at least for a little while:

( Easy Company vets and the actors who adore them )