FIVE HELPFUL BLOG POSTS TO READ

FIVE HELPFUL BLOG POSTS TO READ

1. HOW TO DEFINE YOUR PERSONAL STYLE IN 3 EASY STEPS

https://www.notjessfashion.com/define-your-personal-style/

2. 11 *INCREDIBLY* EASY 5-INGREDIENT PASTAS FOR QUICK WEEKNIGHT MEALS

https://www.brit.co/five-ingredient-pasta-recipes/

3. 31 MIND-BLOWING HOUSE CLEANING TIPS THAT YOU NEED TO KNOW NOW

https://oflifeandlisa.com/house-cleaning-tips/

4. 25 NETFLIX HIDDEN TREASURES YOU REALLY SHOULD BE WATCHING

https://www.buzzfeed.com/eleanorbate/new-year-new-netflix?utm_term=.kvpZNRJxbK&bffbuk#.xlRenwa5BE

5. 19 WIKIPEDIA PAGES THAT'LL SEND YOU INTO A WEEK-LONG WIKIHOLE

https://www.buzzfeed.com/eleanorbate/list-of-lists-of-lists-of-lists?utm_term=.bxV1xJZza&bffbuk#.bfGXxN4ye

FILM 1958: BEHIND THE CURVE

FILM 1958: BEHIND THE CURVE

TRIVIA: There is only one piece of trivia on IMDB which is ‘The Earth is actually a spheroid and not "flat."’ 

CURRENTLY CRUSHING ON

CURRENTLY CRUSHING ON

I’m loving the new Netflix series ‘Sex Education’ – I especially love Gillian Anderson’s hair and style... if only I could get away with this...

FILM 1937: THE CAPTIVE

FILM 1937: THE CAPTIVE

TRIVIA: The film was booed when it debuted at the Cannes Film Festival.

This is Atom Egoyan's second successive film based on child abduction - the previous being Devil's Knot (2013). Both films starred Kevin Durand and Bruce Greenwood.

FILM 1936: ABDUCTED IN PLAIN SIGHT

FILM 1936: ABDUCTED IN PLAIN SIGHT

The twisting, turning, stranger-than-fiction true story of the Brobergs, a naive, church-going Idaho family that fell under the spell of a sociopathic neighbor with designs on their twelve-year-old daughter.

FILM 1933: VELVET BUZZSAW

FILM 1933: VELVET BUZZSAW

TRIVIA: When Dan Gilroy was asked by Vanity Fair what he wants audiences take away from the film, he said: "I hope people look at art in a slightly different way. Any time you listen to a piece of music or look at a sculpture or a painting or a film, you realize the artists behind that have invested what I believe to be their creative soul into the work. To me, that's a bit of a sacred thing and I think we've lost that a little bit. I would love it if we could return to that."

Dan Gilroy was struck by the idea for Velvet Buzzsaw after having visited the Dia contemporary-art gallery in Beacon, New York in 2017 and hours after came up with a rough plot. In an interview with Vanity Fair he described: "It was the Tuesday after Christmas, at about 5 o'clock in the afternoon, and no one was there. I was wandering around this huge, empty warehouse with all this rather disturbing contemporary art. And I wound up in the basement in a video installation with, like, dentist chairs and rats running around. And I just thought, 'Man, this would be a great place for a horror movie.' The idea that artists invest their souls in their work and it's more than a commodity--that has always interested me. I suddenly saw a way of incorporating it all, to explore how, when art and commerce are dangerously out of balance, bad things can happen. It clicked very quickly."

After Dan Gilroy's debut film Nightcrawler (2014), as well as his sophomore movie Roman J. Israel, Esq. (2017), this is his third feature film set in Los Angeles. Gilroy often praises the city for having such natural beauty to it, and even more importantly, people that have been working there for ages who are all experts on their various crafts.

FILM 1932: THE AMERICAN MEME

FILM 1932: THE AMERICAN MEME

THE AMERICAN MEME follows the journeys of four shocking social media disruptors, Paris Hilton (@parishilton), Josh Ostrovsky (@thefatjewish), Brittany Furlan (@brittanyfurlan) and Kirill Bichutsky (@slutwhisperer), as they hustle to create empires out of their online footprints. Although their paths to influencer status are distinct, their respective followings are akin to small armies.

FIVE HELPFUL BLOG POSTS TO READ

FIVE HELPFUL BLOG POSTS TO READ

1. THE *ONLY* TOOLS TO PURCHASE FOR AT-HOME PEDICURES

http://coveteur.com/2017/07/22/shop-best-at-home-pedicure-tools/

2. THE 50 BEST INTERIORS WEBSITES

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/the-50-best-interiors-websites-8798668.html

3. 33 SCARY AS SHIT MOVIES YOU CAN WATCH ON NETFLIX

https://www.buzzfeed.com/eleanorbate/babashook?utm_term=.bxbP34XqQz#.jx1lbwJpVX

4. THE BEAUTY TOOL THAT WILL INSTANTLY UPGRADE YOUR CAT-EYE GAME

https://metro.co.uk/2017/07/28/the-beauty-tool-that-will-instantly-upgrade-your-cat-eye-game-6807306/#mv-a

5. A HANDFUL OF GREAT PODCASTS TO LISTEN TO THIS WEEK

http://meetmeatmikes.com/a-handful-of-great-podcasts-to-listen-to-this-week/

FILM 1929: FYRE

FILM 1929: FYRE

TRIVIA: Fyre Media began with the Fyre app, where users could go to book talent. The idea for the Fyre Festival came about as a way to promote the app.

McFarland claimed to have purchased a Bahamian island, Norman’s Cay, formerly owned by Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar. One of the conditions was that Escobar’s name could not be used in the marketing of the event. When it appeared in the initial promo video, the Fyre crew was kicked off and left begging for a location two months before the festival was supposed to take place.

Kendall Jenner received a reported $250,000 to post once on Instagram about Fyre Festival

Celebs and influencers were offered free tickets and lodging in VIP villas but received keys to the promised luxury accommodation. Most villas simply did not exist on the Bahamian island of Great Exuma, McFarland and his team lost the keys to the ones they did rent.

As ticketholders and local merchants found out that the festival was officially canceled and vendors would not get paid, Fyre organizers fled for their lives.

Bahamian restaurant owner Maryann Rolle — who runs Exuma Point Resort shelled out approximately $50,000 of her savings to pay workers who were stiffed by Fyre.  Since then, she’s raised over $160,000 via a GoFundMe page.

(Some information found here.)

FIVE HELPFUL BLOG POSTS TO READ

FIVE HELPFUL BLOG POSTS TO READ

1. WANT TO LEAD A HAPPY LIFE? SCIENCE SAYS TO FOCUS ON THESE 10 THINGS

https://www.becomingminimalist.com/science-happiness/?utm_source=bloglovin.com&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+becomingminimalistcom+%28becomingminimalist.com%29

2. THESE FACIAL EXERCISES WILL GIVE YOU PLUMP AND GLOWING SKIN

https://www.byrdie.co.uk/facial-exercise

3. 20 DINNERS YOU CAN MEAL PREP ON SUNDAY

http://theeverygirl.com/20-dinners-you-can-meal-prep-on-sunday-5/

4. 5 TIPS FOR KEEPING YOUR CLOSET ORGANIZED

http://theglitterguide.com/2016/10/10/5-tips-for-keeping-your-closet-organized/

5. 7 NETFLIX HACKS YOU WON'T BELIEVE YOU'VE SURVIVED THIS LONG WITHOUT

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FILM 1911: BLACK MIRROR: BANDERSNATCH

FILM 1911: BLACK MIRROR: BANDERSNATCH

TRIVIA: A Black Mirror (2011) interactive film, in which the viewer chooses the plot direction multiple times. Although the listed running time is 90 minutes, this is approximate depending how long the viewer decides to keep watching. The total amount of footage included to make all of the film's possible variations work is 5 hours 12 minutes 13 seconds, as revealed by the film's BBFC classification.

The fax sounds you hear at the end of Bandersnatch on Stefan's headphone translates to a QR code. That leads you to a website where you will find one of the games that's being shown in the movie.

In Colin's apartment there is a poster for Philip K. Dick's 'Ubik': a sci-fi story that deals with themes of free will and death much like Bandersnatch.

A poster that reads "METL HEDD" with a dog-like figure can be seen, a reference to the Black Mirror episode Black Mirror: Metalhead (2017), in which a woman is chased by robotic dogs after the unexplained collapse of human society.

FILM 1855: SURVIVORS GUIDE TO PRISON

FILM 1855: SURVIVORS GUIDE TO PRISON

Today, you're more likely to go to prison in the United States than anywhere else in the world. So in the unfortunate case it should happen to you - this is the Survivors Guide to Prison.

FIVE HELPFUL BLOG POSTS TO READ

FIVE HELPFUL BLOG POSTS TO READ

1. HOW TO DEFINE YOUR PERSONAL STYLE IN 3 EASY STEPS

https://www.notjessfashion.com/define-your-personal-style/

2. 11 *INCREDIBLY* EASY 5-INGREDIENT PASTAS FOR QUICK WEEKNIGHT MEALS

https://www.brit.co/five-ingredient-pasta-recipes/

3. 31 MIND-BLOWING HOUSE CLEANING TIPS THAT YOU NEED TO KNOW NOW

https://oflifeandlisa.com/house-cleaning-tips/

4. 25 NETFLIX HIDDEN TREASURES YOU REALLY SHOULD BE WATCHING

https://www.buzzfeed.com/eleanorbate/new-year-new-netflix?utm_term=.kvpZNRJxbK&bffbuk#.xlRenwa5BE

5. 19 WIKIPEDIA PAGES THAT'LL SEND YOU INTO A WEEK-LONG WIKIHOLE

https://www.buzzfeed.com/eleanorbate/list-of-lists-of-lists-of-lists?utm_term=.bxV1xJZza&bffbuk#.bfGXxN4ye

THE ALIENIST (2018)

THE ALIENIST (2018)

TRIVIA: Based on the novel "The Alienist" by Caleb Carr.

An alienist is a term for a psychiatrist who assesses the competence of a defendant in a law court.

The show takes place in 1896 New York City.

The full name of Luke Evans' character is John Schuyler Moore. Schuyler is an old New York Dutch family whose roots can be traced back to well before the founding of the nation and has close ties to the Roosevelt clan. A well-known descendant was Elizabeth Schuyler, wife of Alexander Hamilton.

Blackwell's Island was later named Welfare Island, and subsequently renamed Roosevelt Island. Due to the number of hospitals and asylums, the area was designated as a Hospital Park. By the mid-twentieth century, it became a mixed-use zone, through the introduction of residential developments, and by the twentieth-first century, a satellite campus of Cornell University and Franklin Roosevelt's Four Freedom Park was established at the Southern end of the Island.

The main titles for the series where created by the design studio "Elastic". The same studio responsible for the intro of True detective and Game of Thrones.

FILM 1780: THE RACHEL DIVIDE

FILM 1780: THE RACHEL DIVIDE

Rachel Dolezal becomes a social phenomenon when she passes herself off as an African American and becomes the head of her local N.A.A.C.P. chapter.

FILM 1747: THE CLOVERFIELD PARADOX

FILM 1747: THE CLOVERFIELD PARADOX

TRIVIA: The first trailer was released during Super Bowl LII (2018) the same night the actual film was released on Netflix.

A small figurine with the word Slusho can be seen in the first half of the movie. Slusho is a brand subtly featured in both of the earlier Cloverfield movies, as well as J.J. Abrams' earlier TV series Alias (2001). The viral online campaign for the first Cloverfield (2008), indicated that Slusho is a subsidiary of Tagruato Inc., the company behind the deep ocean drilling (and potential explosion) that woke up the monster in that movie.

John Krasinski was in talks to join the cast, but dropped out to lead Jack Ryan (2018).

FILM 1721: VOYEUR

Journalism icon Gay Talese reports on Gerald Foos, the Colorado motel owner who allegedly secretly watched his guests with the aid of specially designed ceiling vents, peering down from an "observation platform" he built in the motel's attic.

FILM 1720: MATT SHEPARD IS A FRIEND OF MINE

Friends and family reflect on the life and death of 21-year-old Matthew Shepard, who was murdered in a targeted homophobic attack in Wyoming in 1998.