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Putting The Endless and A Dark Song on my watchlist immediately.
The dreams in The Ritual were the creepiest part, and so well done.
I'm so excited for We Have Always Lived in the Castle! I really hope it's good, because it is one of my all-time favorite books -- Merricat's cool, dreamy narration with the touch of ghoulish smeared over it and the creaking, nook-and-crannied old house in the woods...
Speaking of dreary and depressing, I ended up feeling that way about The Haunting of Hill House (series, not movie). I loved it, it was well-written and the cast was incredible, but the heart of the story was really about grief and love and mental illness, and it overshadowed the scary parts for me.
Wait wait wait - Sansa Stark is Jean Grey?
That's kind of perfect.
Amy, if you can, watch The Endless completely unspoiled. I couldn't find any spoilers beforehand, and I'm actually glad about that, even tho' the movie left me uneasy for days.
Uh, megan walker, [link]
Uh, megan walker, [link]
Like I haven't already seen that!
I'm using it for rage and stress management.
In other news, I finally got a Roku. It was too annoying to do the HDMI computer hookup for Criterion. I hadn't realized how cheap or small they were! And now my Blu-Ray player can go back to just being a DVD player.
Unfortunately, now Amazon, Criterion, Hulu, Kanopy, Mubi, and Netflix are all in the same place and I'm a bit overwhelmed by choice.
I'm a bit overwhelmed by choice.
Sometimes I just default to cooking and baking shows.
I saw We Have Always Lived in the Castle last night, and adored it. There were a few changes from the novel: Cousin Charles became physically violent toward Merricat, which is what prompts her to start the fire. When he comes back to the house after the fire, he attacks Constance and Merricat bashes his head in.
While I'd rather that they kept Cousin Charles as more subtly controlling and creepy so that Merricat's actions had a less "obvious" trigger, it still works.
As soon as we got to the first scene of Merricat burying things in the forest as spells to protect them, my big brother by proxy looked at me and said, "How old were you when you read this and imprinted?" Which, fair comment.
Vanity Fair just put up their big Star Wars Ep IX spread.
Main cover story including an interview with JJ Abrams: [link]
In what has turned into a SW/Vanity Fair tradition over the years, set photos by Annie Leibovitz: [link]
Predictably, there isn't much of plot related info, but I am both intrigued and kinda worried about what they are doing with the Carrie Fisher footage from TFA they have retrofitted to this movie.
The photos are great as usual. The one with Finn and Naomi Ackie's character on space horses in particular looks fucking awesome.