Oscar noms thoughts

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This is my first year in over a decade viewing the Oscar noms as something other than an entertainment journalist, and that bums me out. Still… I guess I still got thoughts.

  • I really hope Jacob Elordi wins for playing my boi the Creature, obv I’m biased now, Frankenstein was a downright religious experience for me
  • I’m so happy Wunmi Mosaku got nominated for Sinners! Representing us Brits! I’ve followed her since her In The Flesh days. I always hoped Doctor Who might snap her up, although for what role I don’t know.
  • Sinners is now I think the most nominated film in Oscars history and it does deserve it, it’s an amazingly well-made movie. With songs!
  • I haven’t seen Hamnet, even though it’s an area of history I’m interested in, because it looks TOO SAD. :( I remember the Upstart Crow episode about Hamnet’s death and that was very upsetting so I don’t think I could handle a whole movie of it.
  • I thought Weapons was kind of overrated but it was good to see Amy Madigan get a nomination, I don’t think she’ll win though admittedly.
  • I never get to watch the Oscars live cos I live in the wrong country. :(

28 Years Later: The Bone Temple

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IT’S BACK BABY! Loved it apart from the barn torture scene which was truly horrible. The opening scene was horrible too but felt more necessary? Definitely loved the appearance of you-know-who (is there even any point as marking that as a spoiler anymore, everyone knows). AMAZING musical number. God I fucking love movies that have unhinged musical numbers out of nowhere.

Really big spoilers and thoughts beneath the image:

  • I guessed from the trailer this movie would be about finding a cure and I WAS RIGHT!!
  • Chi Lewis-Parry is absolutely amazing in this. I’m naming him before any of the bigger actors because I think he deserves it, he carried like a third of the movie and had the most difficult job AND had to act while naked, I hope he gets a lot more attention after this.
  • The “moon” scene was my favourite, god I love monster-becomes-human narratives so much
  • DOCTOR KELSON THE CHARACTER THAT YOU ARE. Already my favourite fictional character of the year. I’m so sad he died.
  • Oh thank god they finally remembered that inhaling even a drop of zombie blood will infect you too!
  • So what happened to Selena? She’s probably dead isn’t she :(
  • I spent a lot of the movie wondering if ‘howzat’ was something the real Jimmy Savile used to say, but I don’t want to Google Jimmy Savile. Hope you’re in hell Jimmy!
  • This movie is very pro-NHS (how can you be anti-NHS??? Oh god never mind) and I’m really glad about it.
  • I’m looking SO forward to the third movie, you can’t imagine. There’s so many things in play now. Samson, the pregnant woman who escaped Jimmy, the notes on the cure hidden in Kelson’s bunker, Spike and Kelly’s journey, Jim and his daughter… I want to see Aaron Taylor-Johnson again too! Oh please let this movie do well enough to get a sequel, I know it probably will but I still worry

Stabbing

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There was a stabbing outside my workplace today which made the BBC news. All pretty shocking to be honest. I was one of the people standing around gawping at the aftermath, I sort of wish I hadn’t been, but I guess it would seem callous to go straight back to work in that scenario.

The victim is reportedly doing okay at least. Crazy day.

OCD

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I was told by a mental health professional today that although I still have a lot of anxiety, my OCD improvement has come on in leaps and bounds. And looking back over the past few years, I… see it? Blows my mind in some ways. You can barely tell I have it now. I just wish I could go back in time and erase all the horrible, gross situations it caused.

Graham Linehan thinks women should not vote

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I wondered what the British TERFs had to say about Renee Nicole Good, a bi woman shot down by ICE in broad daylight. They claim to be defenders of LGB women so they must be rightly furious, right?

I went to Graham Linehan’s page.

Oh, but it got worse. He reposted a tweet (with an ableist slur in the title) calling for women in America to be stripped of their right to vote.


I feel like I’m screaming into a void when I see people like Jonathan Ross (not the Jonathan Ross who killed Renee Good, the wildly popular British TV personality) and Richard Ayoade praise Linehan. It revolts me that these men coddle each other. Linehan is a very clear danger to women. His hatred for us is horrifying. What is it going to take for the British media to finally label him as the dangerous, disgusting misogynist he is, and how many women will he hurt before that happens?

More Frankenstein

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I am distracting myself from this terrible timeline with Frankenstein, my first new fandom in a while. I can’t believe such a great book was sitting out there all this time and I never read it! And that I probably wouldn’t have seen the movie if I wasn’t leeching off someone else’s Netflix!

I still write articles from time to time, contributing to the websites of folks I already know, even though obviously I don’t write for a living anymore. Here’s one I wrote about Frankenstein, book and movie. (Can’t embed it because WordPress still lacks that very basic functionality).

“After all, when the Creature rages and murders he’s only doing what monsters are supposed to do, but Victor very much wasn’t doing what humans are supposed to do when he made a living being out of corpses.”

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