I promise the episode title makes sense in context. 

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Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood by Mark Harris

“The Legend of Keanu Reeves” in GQ and “Whoa After Whoa: The Best of Keanu Reeves” in The Ringer

Robert Pattinson Batman

“The Land of Exclusion” in Kommersant

Kayleigh’s The Mister recap on Pajiba

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Check out the other podcasts we mentioned:

This Had Oscar Buzz

That Book Was Bonkers

The Hollywood Read

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Click here for Outlander’s recaps.

And here to read Kayleigh’s review of Outlaw King on Pajiba.

We are one fille short, so are taking this opportunity to let you get to know one of us a little better. Get ready to hear about fancy dress, fancy food, harp playing, and a hungry cat.

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The SCA’s website is here.

There is jousting! On real horses!

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Here’s the link to Cleolinda’s live-tweet of her epic “watch the entire series in chronological order” project.

Here are the SF Debris specials looking at George Lucas’s journey to make the films: the original trilogy and the prequel trilogy.

And, as we wandered briefly into the topic, here is a collection of F/F and transgender romances, here’s a Twitter thread to check out.

We’ll talk about the Olympics first, the post-Oscar wrap-up begins at around 1 hour 5 minutes into the episode.

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Full team ready for Japan! #teamdeutschland #roadtopyeongchang #pairskating

A post shared by Bruno Massot (@bruno_massot) on Dec 3, 2017 at 9:47am PST

“How a skier who can hardly jump made it to the Olympic halfpipe”, The Globe and Mail

Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente

At your own peril, click here to see the photo of Putin with Alina Zagitova that Kayleigh mentions.

Kayleigh was a guest on TIFF Long Take and it’s a fantastic episode!

“‘They Got the Wrong Envelope!’: The Oral History of Oscar’s Epic Best Picture Fiasco”, The Hollywood Reporter

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The movie we’re talking about is Murder on the Orient Express with Kenneth Brannagh. Other versions include the 1974 with Albert Finney and the 2010 with David Suchet.

Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma is on Crunchyroll and if you’re into cooking, battle anime, and a more literal (but PG-13) interpretation of “food porn”, then check it out.

The Big Family Cooking Showdown is something to watch if you like The Great British Bake Off and Nadiya. If you’re outside the UK, it may be on Netflix.

The Good Place is currently airing its second season, but the first may be available on your local streaming service.

P.S. Alina’s headset has finally put her, itself, and you, dear listeners, out of its misery and broke for good. A new one is in the mail and hopefully brings better quality with it.

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The Anglo-Filles tip on visiting Edinburgh: when you go to The Real Mary King’s Close, ask for Mark.

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No show notes this month, except for this one: How Hollywood’s Favorite Juice Bar Owner Eats Every Day about Amanda Chantal Bacon.

“I usually wake up at 6:30am, and start with some Kundalini meditation and a 23-minute breath set—along with a copper cup of silver needle and calendula tea—before my son Rohan wakes.”

And it only gets better from there.

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Jim Sterling’s Jimquisition

Coyote Peterson’s Brave Wilderness

Binging With Babish

VlogAfterCollege (aka The Corgi Guy)

Cocktail Chemistry

Gentle Whispering ASMR, one of the most popular ASMR channels.

Lofi Hiphop Radio

Buzzfeed’s The Try Guys, a real time-sink.

YouTube Red

SFDebris.com started as a Star Trek reviewer on YouTube, but has since branched out, although the channel is still updated with some of the content. I would strongly recommend any of his film reviews and the recent special on the making of the Star Wars franchise.

Press Buttons ‘n Talk – I forgot to mention it during the episode, but this is a particularly fun let’s play channel in which the games are played by two voice actors who do very entertaining voice work while playing the games.

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The Wikipedia page for reference

RIP Kayleigh’s mentions

Carrie Fisher refused to leave this world without letting everyone know she fucked young Harrison Ford and I respect that. pic.twitter.com/jjlRChsddm

— Kayleigh Donaldson (@Ceilidhann) July 13, 2017

George seems like the worst magazine ever but I want to read every single issue of it. pic.twitter.com/OJevsH9zfs

— Kayleigh Donaldson (@Ceilidhann) July 9, 2017

Les Filles recommend you watch:
The Expanse
Search Party
The Bold Type
Forged in Fire

There was so much dick, you guys.

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“American Gods’: Bryan Fuller Explains That Wild and “Empowering” Sex Scene” in The Hollywood Reporter.

Behold all the Jesuses

The AV Club’s review of the season finale, quoted in this episode.

Alexander Skarsgård react on seeing his kid brother Bill as Pennywise.

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Review of the film by our own Redheadedgirl

Kate Beaton’s Hark, a vagrant strip on courtly love

Washington Post article on re-reading The Mists of Avalon

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“Happily Never After, and the Changing Nature of the Romance Novel”, discussing the JR Ward situation.

Okay! Say what you want. But your cat is still a cat and your mystery with one kiss from an otherwise offstage person is not a romance.

— Courtney!!! Milan (@courtneymilan) April 10, 2017

Yes. This is the dividing line between "you do you" and "whoa, that's fraud." https://t.co/v1r2rag7nV

— Courtney!!! Milan (@courtneymilan) April 10, 2017

Enforced by whom? There's no romance police. People can do literally whatever they want. https://t.co/yOicmMFmGr

— Courtney!!! Milan (@courtneymilan) April 10, 2017

Lindsay Ellis’s video essay on Disney Villains

Andy Richter Visits Guillermo Del Toro’s Bleak House

My Fair Duchess by Megan Frampton review on SmartBitchesTrashyBooks.com

An Extraordinary Union by Alyssa Cole is the April book club selection on SmartBitchesTrashyBooks.com

That podcast tweet we’re a little salty about. Yes, we’re 3 and 4.

podcast genres : 1. Men going on about things. 2. Whispery crime 3.Millennials talking over each other 4. Should be 20 minutes shorter

— emily bell (@emilybell) April 12, 2017

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Gossip Girl is, of course, the quintessential example of the Teen Drama genre. It stands on the shoulders of Beverly Hills 90210 and Dawson’s Creek. Canada offers the Degrassi franchise while in the UK there was Grange Hill and Skins. Reign is a historical (well, “historical”) twist on the formula, while Misfits, The 100, and Vampire Diaries add a speculative fiction layer.

A time-stamp guide to the episode: the first 40 minutes are on Riverdale, the next 40 are on the other teen dramas, and the last 20 are an “epilogue” to last month’s, discussing our reactions to the big Oscars kerfuffle and strongly praising Logan.

As promised, the scene from Being Human.

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Kayleigh is now writing for Screenrant. Click here to see her articles, including her latest, “Why The Oscars Need a Best Stunt Work Category”.

Redheadedgirl’s review of Lion, including gifs of Dev Patel.

Can you see the happiness on Brie Larson’s face when Casey Affleck won his Golden Globe?

Winona Ryder provided Tumblr with a wide array of gifs after Stranger Things won at the SAG awards.

Jackie Chan and his stunt team during the presentation of his honorary Oscar.

Since this is a long one, if you’re looking for a natural place to take a break: we switch from the “things we recently watched” to “upcoming movies” at the 50-minute mark.

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Kayleigh’s review of La La Land

Ricky Whittle on Strictly Come Dancing:

The Mummy trailer improved by lack of sound effects:

Why there’s no more Ghost Rider on Agents of SHIELD

You Must Remember This podcast

Below are Amazon links to the books we mention:

Tessa Dare’s upcoming book
Lucy Parker’s Act Like It
Roxanne Gay’s author page on Amazon
Scaachi Koul’s One Day We’ll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter
Durga Chew-Bose’s Too Much and Not the Mood

The episode proper is capped with an Anglo-Filles quiz in which Kayleigh tests her co-hosts’ knowledge of Eurovision, romance novel title puns, and European royalty.

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GoFugYourself recaps of The Crown

Morbidly curious about Madonna’s film about the “love story” that was David and Wallis? Here’s Todd in the Shadows’ review of WE.

The statue to Dodi and Diana

A Royal Night Out

A Royal Affair

Mads and Princess Mary

The Prince and Me

Mary: The Making of a Princess

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First thing first, watch Ed Balls do the Samba to Cuban Pete on this season of Strictly Come Dancing.

Click here to read Red’s write-up of why you should be watching Queen Sugar, and here to read her write-up on Pitch.

The Great British Bake-Off is leaving BBC for Channel 4 and its hosts are not coming with. This is front page news in the UK.

One of the shows we’re looking forward to is Shonda Rhimes’ upcoming Still Star-Crossed.

Other shows we mention or talk about include, in no particular order and non-exhaustively, because Alina cannot guarantee her memory is not a sieve, Luke Cage, Westworld, Designated Survivor, Conviction, Hooten and the Lady, The Get Down, The Flash, Speechless, Timeless, and Kim’s Convenience.

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All covers link to the Amazon page.

Charlotte Bronte: A Fiery Heart by Claire Harman.

How the Brontës Came Out As Women – excerpt from the book.

Dude Watchin’ With the Brontes – Hark, a vagrant 202 by Kate Beaton.

Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier

Have you read any of the Amelia Peabody series by Elizabeth Peters? Let us know what you think!

Trumpet by Jackie Kay

A Square Meal: A Culinary History of the Great Depression by by Jane Ziegelman and Andrew Coe

Redheadedgirl’s Historical Kitchen entries on SmartBitchesTrashyBooks.com.

Bess Crawford Mysteries

Secrets of Nanreath Hall

The Fair Fight by Anna Freeman

Sarah Waters, author of Tipping the Velvet, Fingersmith, The Paying Guests, and more.

The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber.

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson

Tampa by Alissa Nutting

Girls on Fire by Robin Wasserman (linking to the UK Amazon site to showcase the cover discussed in the episode, the US cover is different)

Thank you to everyone who tweeted their current reads at us! To see the tweets we read in the episode so you can get the titles of the books, click here.

We would like to have a header image for this episode, but the IOC and/or NBC would sue us. Instead, imagine in this space some number of geometric shapes in some variety of colour.

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First thing first, the Mongolian coaches stripping happened literally as we wrapped up recording. It was a strange yet fitting cap to what was a somewhat strange and unsettling Olympic games.

Rio Olympics: Ibtihaj Muhammad Is America’s Olympic Game Changer

41-year-old Oksana Chusovitina may be the most incredible athlete at the Olympics

Here’s The Real Reason We Love Watching Olympic Gymnastics

Gymnastics Hair: A Retrospective

By ‘packaging’ the Olympics, NBC insults viewers, and the athletes themselves

Budget Failures, Displacement, Zika—Welcome to Rio’s $11.9B Summer Olympics

The Fug Girls did not slack off on Olympic coverage

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Maya, who joined us on episode 25, went to SDCC and did not pull any punches.

Me: “How do you deal with the misconception that scientists are all white men…like this panel”
Audience: OOOOOOH #SDCC #SDCC2016

— ppyajunebug, phd (@ppyajunebug) July 21, 2016

Kids get the best adventure books: Tomek Wilmowski; The Boxcar Children; A Wrinkle in Time.

The best place to indulge your Sweet Valley High nostalgia (or curiousity), Shannon’s Sweet Valley Blog

Mads Mikkelsen with a moominplushie. I want it.

Maid Marian and Her Merry Men

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The view from our air b&b, jarnstorg, Gamla Stan. #SmartBitchesinSweden

A photo posted by @redheadedgirl_sb on Jun 17, 2016 at 8:20pm PDT

Saffron and honey ice cream. I make good choices. #SmartBitchesinSweden

A photo posted by @redheadedgirl_sb on Jun 23, 2016 at 1:02pm PDT

Click here to see a review of the documentary Secrets of Great British Castles, hopefully available on Netflix or other streaming services to all of our listeners.

There’s no shortage of articles on Brexit and its consequences and probably most people’s local media is covering it, too. Comments and let us know what your local coverage looks like, we’d love to know!

Canada is taking the first of baby steps to fix its somewhat broken system with the electoral reform committee.

You do not need our help to Google for photos of Alexander Skarsgard (umlauts are the first casualties of laziness), but here are some favourites:

And as a bonus, a still from Love & Friendship. Aren’t these costumes gorgeous?

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Eurovision in a nutshell, “Love Love Peace Peace”

Bulgaria’s entry, “If Love Was A Crime” performed by Poli Genova

Belgium’s entry, “What’s The Pressure” performed by Laura Tesoro

The winning song from Ukraine, “1944” performed by Jamala

Australia’s entry, “Sound Of Silence” performed by Dami Im

Russia’s entry, “You Are The Only One” performed by Sergey Lazarev

All three “Suicide Squad” trailers in one video

Harley Quinn Movie in the Works at Warner Bros. With Margot Robbie

At the time of recording, the Agents of SHIELD finale had not yet aired. Also, the news about new leadership for the DCEU (their cinematic universe) had not yet come out.

Shonda Rhimes Is Working On A Romeo And Juliet TV Sequel

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“Critic’s Notebook: Why Did So Many Female Characters Die on TV Last Week?“, The Hollywood Reporter

“Why Won’t Hollywood Cast Asian Actors?“, The New York Times

“6 Japanese Actresses Who Could (and Should!) Replace Scarlett Johansson in ‘Ghost in the Shell’“, Yahoo! News

“Television Without Pity has new owners and a relaunch in the works“, A.V. Club

Here, have a photo of Ramin Karimloo

You think Kayleigh was joking about Andrew Lloyd Webber’s search for his perfect Dorothy? Look at the golden throne! The shoes!

(Hint, the smugness of an anglo-fille is directly proportionate to the hotness of her Prime Minister.)

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John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight segment “Voting”

“Fuckin’ Craig Mazin: An Appreciation of Ted Cruz’s College Roommate”

“Caucus With Me: Romances for Campaign Season” on Bibliodaze.

Political documentaries we mention: The War Room, Street Fight, Wiener, Best of Enemies

Books: Game Change, Assassination Vacation, Lafayette in the Somewhat United States, Unfamiliar Fishes, Nixonland, The Invisible Bridge

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The Russian 1978 film and its sequels are musicals. They are an amazing part of my childhood and just looking at the production stills for the briefly mentioned 2013 reboot makes me sad.

Here’s the theme song. The two non-musketeer characters seen briefly in the beginning are Captain de Tréville and King Louis. In that scene, their order is (left to right) Porthos, Athos, Aramis. During the actual song, the order (again, left to right) is Aramis, Athos, Porthos, and D’Artagnan.

Here’s a link to the playlist that contains all 3 parts (1.5-hours long each) with English subtitles.

Charlie Sheen was a musketeer, can you believe it? Here’s a still from the 1993 Disney version. (I’d link to the trailer, but it was on VHS. VHS, you guys, remember those?)

2001’s The Musketeers renamed Constance to Francesca. For what reason? That is a question that applies to that film as a whole.

None of the above quite compare to the crazy spectacle of the 2011 The Three Musketeers (3D!). Flame-thrower armed flying ships, how did we not get a sequel?

BBC’s The Musketeers dispenses with the plot and keeps the adventure. Good for them!

Having spent approximately an hour in my Tumblr likes, I cannot find a good gif of D’Artagnan’s “judging you” face, but it’s from season 2 episode 9 if you’re looking forward to seeing it. Have some gifs of Porthos being Porthos instead.

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Review of Joy – by Kristy Puchko on Pajiba.com

Jar Jar Binks Actor Talks About Why Backlash Was So Hard on Him – on Nerdist.com

Review of The Hateful Eight – by Matt Zoller Seitz on Rogerebert.com

Thieves, Cobblers, and Fan Edits: The 50-Year Odyssey of an Animated Masterpiece – by Wesley Fenlon on Tested.com

(Tumblr Source)

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The Fandom Wank Journalfen community sadly appears to no longer be.

The MsScribe Story – a classic fandom wank!

Do you remember when Cassandra Claire was a fanfic writer?

Kathleen Hale’s piece for The Guardian. Googling her name will also bring up plenty of other sites (e.g., Gawker) writing about the article.

Richard Brittain tracked down a 16-year-old girl who didn’t like his book and said so and hit her over the head with a bottle.

Yes, Justin Bieber’s dad tweeted compliments about his son’s penis after nude paparazzi photos were made public. I’m sorry, listeners, but just Google this one on your own… Once was enough.

The Amorous Intrigues and Adventures of Aaron Burr by Anonymous – review on Smart Bitches Trashy Books.

“But I didn’t do it!” You protest. “Oh no, dear, I’m afraid you did,” Jessica Fletcher says, not unkindly. Her eyes are sympathetic as the police drag you away. (No, seriously, there was literally an episode in which a woman is innocent of the crime and Jessica Fletcher still somehow proves her guilty.)

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First thing first, our Twitter feeds and Tumblr dashboards are just as flooded with Hamilton as yours.

Read Mark Oshiro’s review here.

One thing we know for sure, if you want to write detective fiction, you need to be on top of your pun game.

@LJmysticowl @redheadedgirl You missed me screaming over the White House chef mystery called State of the Onion.

— Kayleigh Anne (@Ceilidhann) November 21, 2015

@redheadedgirl @LJmysticowl Look at those titles. https://t.co/uYajyhCSWD Look at them. — Kayleigh Anne (@Ceilidhann) November 21, 2015

Did you know Tartan Noir is a thing? You do now!

Hide and Seek by Ian Rankin

Cold Granite by Stuart MacBride

Still Midnight by Denise Mina

Raven Black by Ann Cleeves

Quite Ugly One Morning by Christopher Brookmyre

Murder in Ancient Rome!

Roma Sub Rosa
SPQR
Marcus Didius Falco

It’s our 3-year anniversary! Cleolinda joins us for this special (and long) episode to talk about Guillermo Del Toro’s new film, Crimson Peak.

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Crimson Peak: The Art of Darkness — the artbook that Del Toro promises goes into more details on the backstory.

One last time before release. Crimson Peak: not a horror film. A Gothic Romance. Creepy, tense, but full of emotion… Like my dancing!

— Guillermo del Toro (@RealGDT) October 10, 2015

Crimson Peak reviews:
Smart Bitches, Trashy Books
The AV Club
NPR

“‘Crimson Peak’ Runs Into China’s Ban on Ghost Movies”, The Atlantic

Interview with Costume Designer Kate Hawley.

Red’s review of Louisa May Alcott’s A Long Fatal Love Chase.

Aromaleigh Cosmetics, for all of your Hannibal-inspired eyeshadow needs.

SF Debris’ review of the Wonder Woman pilot.

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‘Hannibal’ is subverting everything we know about male relationships by Aja Romano for The Daily Dot.

The storify of Alina’s FanExpo experience, mostly comprised of the Mads Mikkelsen Q&A.

Best Time Ever With Neil Patrick Harris

Jaja Vankova and Alex Freaking Wong perform on So You Think You Can Dance

Trailers for films in the order in which we spoke about them:

The Black Mass

The Program

Women He’s Undressed

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The Spotlight

I Saw the Light

Legend

The trailer for the Dragon Age Inquisition final DLC: Trespasser

Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries!

And here’s the link to the first Phryne Fisher novel, Cocaine Blues, on Amazon.

Welcome to episode 35 in which we welcome Mikki Kendall, writer of the Swords of Sorrow: Miss Fury / Lady Rawhide special (on sale now!), to chat to us about writing comics and historical fiction (and, tangentially, about: vodka, politics, Duchess Kate’s shiny hair, and the pain of explaining Tinder to your aunt).

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Dynamite’s Swords of Sorrow page is here.

Mikki’s website is here and twitter is here.

Amandla Stenberg (Rue in The Hunger Games) is the writer of the upcoming comic Niobe.

It’s a lucky thing Alina had a reason to look up “catfishing” on Wikipedia recently, otherwise she might have completely misunderstood that bit of the conversation.

Click here to read the Gizmodo article on Ashley Madison.

On August 2nd, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper triggered the longest election period since 1872, a whopping 11 weeks.

“Harriet Harman: voters can pay £3 to help choose next Labour leader” The Guardian, click here to read.

Otters who look like Benedict Cumberbatch.

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A collection of notes:

Alina apologizes for her voice going quiet at times, she’s been sick.

At one point we make a joke about Kevin being a political candidate – we’re talking about our ex-executive-producer and Made of Fail founder Kevin O’Shea, who often jokes about being the 2020 candidate running on a platform of proper geekery.

The working title for this episode was “The Shark Is Not the Point!”

Listen past the outro to hear the most in-sync expression of horrified shock ever.

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The Hannibal panel from SDCC 2015.

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Bryan Fuller on Hannibal discussions with Netflix and Amazon.

The BBC Eurovision Song Contest retrospective

Guy Sebastian “Tonight Again” – Australia at ESC 2015 (Very Bruno Mars, well done, Australia)

Ukraine pulls out of 2015 ESC

Buranovskiye Babushki “Party For Everybody” – Russia at ESC 2012 (Look at the adorable Russian grannies! They bake and sing! How can anyone hate that?)

Donatan & Cleo “We Are Slavic” – Poland at ESC 2014 (sexy butter churning alert!)

Monika Kuszyńska “In The Name Of Love” – Poland at ESC 2015 (sadly devoid of sexy butter churning)

The Makemakes “I Am Yours” – Austria at ESC 2015 (ESC in five words: the piano is on fire)

Conchita Wurst “Rise Like a Phoenix” – Austria at ESC 2014 (You win one Eurovision and next year half the field shows up trying to be you. No one succeeds.)

Tolmachevy Sisters “Shine” – Russia at ESC 2014 (Totally real not at all found under some rock pop starlets.)

Måns Zelmerlöw “Heroes” – Sweden at ESC 2015 (Avicii House Mafia, but, hey, at least he wasn’t a ballad. Douze pointe, Sweden.)

Il Volo “Grande Amore” – Italy at ESC 2015 (Adorable Italian opera boys in various flavours of beard and glasses.)

Bojana Stamenov “Beauty Never Lies” – Serbia at ESC 2015 (Robbed! Completely robbed, totally deserved a top 3 finish! After the electronica breakdown in the middle, my living room became the most epic place ever.)

Edurne “Amanecer” – Spain at ESC 2015 (She had a background dancer hidden in the shadows just to hold her cape and pull the outer dress off.)

Lordi “Hard Rock Hallelujah” – Finland at ESC 2005 (He’s a demon from hell wearing an adorable Finnish flag hat! Of course they won!)

Loreen “Euphoria” – Sweden at ESC 2012 (Hammer-timing her way to victory)

Dana International “Diva” – Israel at ESC 1998 (Imagine how epic the performance of this song would’ve been at this year’s ESC?)

Zdob si Zdub “So Lucky” – Moldova at ESC 2011 (Forever love my Moldovan garden gnomes on unicycles.)

Koza Mostra & Agathon Iakovidis “Alcohol Is Free” – Greece at ESC 2013 (Do not watch Eurovision sober.)

Eduard Romanyuta “I Want Your Love” – Moldova at ESC 2015 (Explain to me how this failed to make it to the finals.)

Nadav Guedj “Golden Boy” – Israel at ESC 2015 (“Mama, someone broke my heart again” – the most Jewish song lyric ever.)

Genealogy “Face The Shadow” – Armenia at ESC 2015 (Werewolves need Eurovision representation too?)

Nina Sublatti “Warrior” – Georgia at ESC 2015 (Winning the goth sub-contest of this year, I think.)

Dustin the Turkey “Irlande Douze Pointe” – Ireland at ESC 2008 (A cry for help or just taking Eurovision to its logical conclusion? You decide.)

DJ BoBo “Vampires are Alive” – Switzerland’s entry to ESC 2007, the footage for which isn’t even in YouTube.

Electro Velvet “Still In Love With You” – United Kingdom at ESC 2015 (I mean… what can you say, really?)

Verka Serduchka “Dancing Lasha Tumbai” – Ukraine at ESC 2007 (Also seen in the 2015 film “Spy”, if you pay close enough attention.)

“Mad Max: Fury Road Makes Your Rape Arguments Invalid“, by Carrie S on Smart Bitches Trashy Books

(We do not have dead bodies, we talk about dead bodies. For art reasons.)

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The Smart Bitches crew was at the Romantic Times BookLovers’ Convention! Click here to listen to the podcast.

Note: some images will be links to larger versions.

Alina went to the Art Gallery of Ontario!

Where she caught the last day of the Basquiat exhibit Now’s the Time. Here are a few pieces:

Lt Robert McClure (painted by Cornelius Krieghoff) knew how to explore the arctic in style!

Waterhouse’s The Lady of Shalott instantly transformed Alina in a 16-year-old girl

The beautiful Marchesa Casati

Massacre of the Innocents aka the one Alina didn’t see

Henry Moore’s statues

Kent by Chuck Close

Picasso’s Women of Algiers sells for $179M.

We bet you a five-year-old finger-painted this

Lucretia, with the blood and not a “wine stain”

The Spanish Knight

Click here to listen to the Stuff You Missed In History Class episode on the Isabella Stewart Gardner museum heist.

“Greece Rules Out Suing British Museum Over Elgin Marbles” (The New York Times, May 14, 2015)

Marina Abramovic and Ulay during the Artist is Present.

Burke and Hare, graverobbers.

Jeremy Bentham, the preserved philosopher.

Click here to view some of Cindy Sherman’s film stills.

Ivan the Terrible Kills His Son (by Ilya Repin)

Winged Assyrian Bulls

The Diego Rivera fresco is a very large image, but the Wikipedia entry has a picture and a close-up of Lenin.

@Ceilidhann @AngloFilles http://t.co/axijGKYNQu and Caspar Davied Friedrich in general

— Aoife (@BlackCatAoife) May 16, 2015

@Ceilidhann @AngloFilles Hard to choose 1…Persistence of Memory is up there ever since I was able to see it in person from 2 inches away.

— SoulExodus (@SoulExoComic) May 16, 2015

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Daredevil is on netflix!

The AVClub’s reviews of The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and Daredevil.

Kat Chow’s article on Dong from Kimmy Schmidt.

Twin Peaks in coming back! David Lynch is in! No he’s not, and the whole thing has been scrapped! No, it’s still happening but without David Lynch! I AM VERY TIRED.

X-Files is coming back for six episodes! None of us remember mythology episodes, but we all remember flukeman. Ah, Flukeman.

Beauty and the Beast, with Emma Watson, Dan Stevens (ptooey), Emma Thompson, Audra MacDonald, Ian McKellen, and announced just prior to posting but after recording, Ewan MacGregor!

Brows Held High did a La Belle et La Bete recently, too.

Look it’s Hot!Aladdin!

Jungle Book musical- reviews are not great.

NBC’s next live musical performance will be The Wiz

Fox is remaking Rocky Horror. No, no one knows why.

Fox is also planning a live Grease. Still, why?

Netflix is rebooting Full House. WHY. NO.

Join us next month for a topic yet to be determined!

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Donations in honor of Leonard Nimoy: The COPD foundation , Everychild Foundation, the Beit T’Shuvah treatment center, and the Bay-Nimoy Early Childhood Center at Temple Israel of Hollywood.

Donations in honor of Terry Pratchett the Research Institute for the Care of Older People (RICE)

Tarzan on Project Gutenberg

Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes


Oh la la, monsieur lambert!

1999 Disney Tarzan

2013 Tarzan with kellan Lutz

2016 Tarzan by David Yates, with Alexander Skarsgård.

2003 WB series with Travis Fimmel and Lucy Lawless

2001 Tarzan: The Epic Adventures
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7EZVSmFsvU

Canadian Tarzan

Tarzan Presley by Nigel Cox

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Spoilers for Fifty Shades, LOTR, Gone Girl, Mockingjay Part 1, Game of Thrones, Kingsman. Discussion of Harry Potter, Wheel of Time, Les Miserables, Into the Woods, Jonathan Norrell and Mr. Strange, Wolf Hall, The Devil Wears Prada, and others.

Fifty Shades review with Amanda on Smart Bitches

More discussion with Sarah on the DBSA podcast.

All sorts of things have happened in the world of the Fifty Shades moves since we recorded- Sam Taylor Johnson might be pulling out, there are rumors that Dornan won’t be returning, and EL James is rumored to be demanding to write the scripts for the next two movies.

Wheel of Time pilot that sorta happened

Casual Vacancy trailer

Jonathan Norell and Mr. Strange clip

Wolf Hall trailer

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Hannibal News: RICHARD ARMITAGE AS FRANCIS DOLARHYDE OMG

Gillian Anderson on The Nerdist

Apparently Hannibal won’t air until summer, but there’s lots in the spring to keep you amused.

Golden Globes Nominees and Winners

Mark Reads 50 Shades of Grey

Jamie Dornan Godwins himself.

Academy Award Nominees

Academy demographics chart– 93% white, 77% male.

Pop Culture Happy Hour did an episode on Selma and on accuracy in movies.

Ana DuVernay Rolling Stone interview

New York Book Review and accuracy in The Imitation Game.

Penny Dreadful trailer

Diane spoke to us from the Library Bar in Dublin, after having seen The Battle of the Five Armies. After the episode is over, stay tuned for a bit on her reaction (No spoilers).

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Diane Duane is the author of the Young Wizards Series, “Where No One Has Gone Before”, a season one episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, several Star Trek novels, “The Hounds of Ulster” and “Ill Met By Moonlight” episodes of Gargoyles, and SO MANY OTHER THINGS.

You can find Diane on Twitter, Tumblr, on the web, and in her ebook store.

Diane has given her readers a tag to out on things they don’t want her to read: NotyouDD

A 100% accurate representation of Alina in the days leading up to recording:

A 100% accurate representation of Alina during recording:

A 100% accurate representation of Reidan editing:

What we hope is a 100% accurate representation of you listening:

We want to thank Diane for talking with us, and wish all of our listeners a happy holiday season! We’ll see you in 2015!

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Made of Fail has new management! Dayna and Kevin have given power over to Cleolinda Jones and Emily Whitten, and we are super excited that our Aunties now have custody of us.

Gotham – It’s kind of Batman.

The Flash – It’s not as serious as Arrow!

Jane the Virgin – Pure Unapologetic Telenovela and knows it.

Constantine – Not as bad as it could be- check out the boys at A Matter of Taste, they’re doing reviews of each episode.

Heroes is coming back, no one knows why.

NBC’s Live production of Peter Pan on Dec 4th. It will be the best night on twitter ever.

Webshows- The Adventures of Peter Pan and Wendy

Transparent – Amazon

Forever – “a perfect show to fold your clothes to.”

State of Affairs – perfectly curled ponytails at 2 am

How To Get Away With Murder – Soapy, Campy, Ridiculous

Stalker is evil. Critics hate it, people watch it, it got renewed, and this is why we can’t have nice things.

Sleepy Hollow – Sophomore Slumps Sucks

Agent Carter – Jan 6th, CANNOT WAIT

Agents of SHIELD

Grimm

Selfie – Cho and Gillan pygmalion at each other.

Last Week Tonight: SALMON CANNON

BREAKING NEWS: Tom Cruise approached for mentor role in Highlander reboot. Kayleigh about dies.

We’ll be back at you next month! American listeners, happy Thanksgiving! Canadian listeners, happy belated Thanksgiving! Everyone else, uh, Happy Fourth Thursday in November!

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Reign. Good god why?!

A glossary of terms:
Potato Rage
Black Footed Ferret

The books of Grace Burrowes

Heathcliffing on the moor

Spooks

How To Get Away With Murder

Rome and The Tudors (look at Anne Boleyn’s loose, flowing locks)

Pregnesia (there’s never a reason not to talk about Pregnesia)

Han Solo’s Kessel Run

Reidan’s review of Into the Storm.

K-19: The Widowmaker aka the movie that broke Alina with crackers.

THE WEST WING
'GALILEO'
WRITTEN BY: KEVIN FALLS & AARON SORKIN
DIRECTED BY: ALEX GRAVES


BARTLET
 I really don't know from where you guys get the nerve.


NADIA
 From a long, hard winter, Mr. President.


ALINA slowly slides to the floor and crawls under her desk,
burning with embarrassment and shame.

Fargo (because we didn’t want Minnesota to feel left out)

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After an ex-boyfriend launched an angry tirade against her online, supposedly exposing a potentially conflicting relationship between herself and a games journalist, Depression Quest developer Zoe Quinn found herself on the receiving end of doxxing, harassment, threats and accusations that she was public enemy number one in the battle to expose corruption in games journalism.

A debate on the subject soon followed, using the Twitter hashtag #GamerGate, although Quinn later exposed that as a 4Chan cover to harass her and like-minded women who dare to call out sexism in gaming (Anita Sarkeesian also found herself unable to return to her own home due to threats).

Feminist Frequency: Tropes vs. Women in Video Games- Women as Background Decoration 2

Trigger warning on these threats that drove Anita Sarkeesian from her home.

The Extinction Burst theory.

Games.on.net says people threatened by equality are not welcome.

Comics Alliance responds to GamerGate.

Magic: The Gathering and women WaPo article.

Ian also composed and recorded our awesome new theme music! You can find him personally on Tumblr at Making New Mistakes. You can follow A Matter of Taste on Blogspot, Tumblr, and Twitter.

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Composers we talked about:

Hans Zimmer Gladiator, Inception, The Lion King

Howard Shore
Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, The Silence of the Lambs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfFQuhWaA_k
James Newton Howard
The Village, The Last Airbender, Maleficent, The Hunger Games

Klaus Badelt
Pirates of the Carribean, K-19: The Widowmaker

Danny Elfman
Spiderman, Batman, Dick Tracy, Oingo Boingo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EF01XczWyI
Thomas Newman
A Series of Unfortunate Events, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

A.R. Rahman
Slumdog Millionaire, 127 Hours.

Tyler Bates
Guardians of the Galaxy, Watchmen

John Ottman
X-Men: Days of Future Past

Trent Reznor
The Social Network, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

John Williams
Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Schindler’s List, Lincoln
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WWA3-2NtsM
Ramin Djawadi
Pacific Rim, Game of Thrones, Iron Man

Bruno Coulais
Coraline, Don Juan

Trevor Morris
The Tudors, The Borgias, The Pillars of the Earth

Harry Gregson Williams
The Chronicles of Narnia, Prometheus

Brian Reitzell
Hannibal, 30 Days of Night

Alan Menkin
Beauty and the Beast, Newsies, Pocahontas

Bear McCreary
Battlestar Galactica, The Walking Dead, Outlander

David Newman
Throw Momma From the Train, Matilda

Yoko Kanno
Cowboy Bebop, Ghost in the Shell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JWQEoy-neY
Wendy Carlos
Tron (Original flavor), A Clockwork Orange, The Shining
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YABw-ksikLA
Rachel Portman
Belle, To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything- Julie Newmar

James Horner
Titanic, Braveheart, Avatar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2Oym6LAlbY
Akira Yamaoka
Silent Hill (Games and movies)

Nobuo Uematsu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwSFJ3a695o

Indiana Jones Theme:

Superman Theme
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAu1Fb28p6I

Watchmen Opening Credits
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSoC_KHu4_A

Enjoy! We’ll be back at you next month!

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IN SPORT:

Esport tournament didn’t want to allow women to play. They have since reversed themselves.

World Cup:

Tim Howard, US Goalie and Secretary of Defense:

(President Obama did say in response to a White House petition to give Howard the job that it was filled, but if an opening occurs, he will consider it.)

Wimboldon’s men’s singles final happened while we recorded, and it was a good time to remember our fave celebrity ship, which celebrates it’s 1 year anniversary today: Bradley Cooper and Gerard Butler.

The Tour de France’s first stage happened! ….in Yorkshire. We don’t even know.

The Commonwealth Games are coming to Glasgow! The Scottish team uniforms are….a thing. A tartan clad thing.

Kayleigh’s tumblr post on the changes at The Mary Sue.

Starz is developing Neil Gaiman’s American Gods with Bryan Fuller. (He has assured us this does not affect Hannibal).

Penny Dreadful has wrapped up, as has Game of Thrones.

Snowpiercer is finally out in the US (much to Alina’s dismay, not yet in Canada). That is a link to US screening locations (including the Historic Brattle Theater in Harvard Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Prepare to self-medicate after it’s over.

Speaking of self-medication, the US Supreme Court ruled that closely-held corporations have religious freedoms and can use those freedoms to infringe on other people’s (usually women and minorities) rights, because that’s America. We have some things to say about that.

So does Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg, aka The Notorious RBG. You can buy a shirt here.

And then Robin Thicke is a creepy, threatening asshole, but his album shaming his ex-wife to get back with him is flopping, so there’s that.

We will be back next month with a new topic and a special guest! Happy summer, stay cool!

(that’s not true, we drink a lot of wine.)

Welcome to Episode 21, where we shanghai in Dame Cleolinda Jones to discuss all things Dracula! There’s also the moment in which we broke Cleolinda, just as she breaks Twilight Noobs. It’s delightful.

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Annotated Dracula for all your nerdy Dracula needs.

Varney the Vampire, a Victorian era Penny Dreadful.

New England Vampire Panic episode of Stuff You Missed In History Class.

The Mercy Brown Vampire Incident of 1892

Dracula 1931 with Bela Lugosi

Dracula, 1958 with Christopher Lee

Dracula 1979 with Frank Langella

Part one of a documentary/interviews about the 1979 film.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTxOUETwl1Y

Bram Stoker’s Dracula with Gary Oldman

Dracula 2000 with Gerard Butler

Dracula by the BBC

NBC’s Dracula with Jonathan Rhys Meyers. That happened.

Van Helsing with Hugh Jackman.

Penny Dreadful, a Showtime series that is what the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen wishes it could be.

Athena’s Daughters, an anthology Cleo contributed to, is now available as an ebook. The hardback will be out later this summer!

ComicCon posters for the NBC Dracula characters, or the moment we all knew we were in trouble.

The Praying Mantis because of course.

(I looked long and hard for the right image, and Maria’s headshake of disappointment seemed to fit.)

(But this works too.)

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“Screw writing “strong” women. Write interesting women. Write well-rounded women. Write complicated women. Write a woman who kicks ass, write a woman who cowers in a corner. Write a woman who’s desperate for a husband. Write a woman who doesn’t need a man. Write women who cry, women who rant, women who are shy, women who don’t take no shit, women who need validation and women who don’t care what anybody thinks. THEY ARE ALL OKAY, and all those things could exist in THE SAME WOMAN. Women shouldn’t be valued because we are strong, or kick-ass, but because we are people. So don’t focus on writing characters who are strong. Write characters who are people.”

From Tumblr User Mad Lori (who we did not credit in the episode itself, and we apologize. That was shitty of us).

The essay in full.

BossLady Dayna’s really excellent editorial on DC’s offering during this year’s Free Comic Book Day and how they have completely and utterly failed their female audience.

DC women kicking ass

The Miss Piggy version of the “Screw writing strong women” quote.

Gina Torres on how to work race into a character.

Alisa Selezneva of the 21st Century.

Meta Mondays discussing the historical basis for Game of Thrones.

Join us next month, where we will be discussing Dracula, and why NBC should be ashamed of themselves.

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Writing spies:
Daniel Defoe.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Ian Fleming, and you can learn more in
The Man Who Would Be Bond

Bond. James Bond.

Russian Film: Seventeen Moments of Spring

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

(I just really like this picture)

The Avengers (The TV series, not the movies. Honestly.)

The Bourne Identity (et al)

Le Femme Nikita

Alias

The Americans

Captain America: The Winter Soldier

(now with bonus Anthony Mackie is a delight and a national treasure)

Unspoken but still important: one of Phillip Seymour Hoffman’s posthumous films is A Most Wanted Man.

We’ll be back next month, same spy-time, same spy channel!

There are some sound and editing issues, due to a lack of avocado sacrifice.

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Books:
Little House on the Prairie
Little House Cookbook
Richard Scarry’s Busy Busy World
Harry Potter
The Strugatsky Brothers
Evgeny Shvarts
Roadside Picnic on Amazon
Amazon page for Diane Duane’s Young Wizards series
Olga Larionova, writer of The Leopard from Kilimanjaro’s Peak

Movies:
Cinderella
Annie

Newsies
Labyrinth
The Little Mermaid
The Great Mouse Detective
“The Old Wizard’s Fairy Tales” an example of a Soviet-era kids movie-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0m0HXZ8CMPs
Alina’s screencap-blog of Ordinary Miracle, a film based on a Shvarts play
Fantaghiro (in english – Cave of the Golden Rose) and on Alina’s Tumblr

TV Shows:
He-Man, She-Ra,
Maid Marian and Her Merry Men
The Moomins
Muppet Show

Video Games:

Sonic
Marathon
Oregon Trail
Odell Pond
Reader Rabbit
Tink Tonk
Mixed Up Mother Goose

Fandom video to “We Didn’t Start The Fire” where originally posted with notes by the creators, Scribe and Fiercynn. Watch it, cry, it’s amazing.

The Dakota War of 1862, as mentioned during the discussion of the treatment of American Indians in the Little House books.

Things our listeners tweeted at us:
L.M. Montgomery, Louisa May Alcott, Chronicles of Narnia, Carrie, Time for Kids, those stupid Weekly Reader/Readers Digest newsletters they gave us in (American) school), Sports Illustrated, MTV News, Steven King.

Happy nostalgia, everyone!

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Medal Count! We are VERY proud of Team UK and their 4 medals! They did VERY well.

(Drinking game for this episode: take a shot every time Alina JUST HAPPENS to mention that Canada won the gold in both men and women’s hockey.)

Supporting LGBTQ athletes in Sochi and beyond: You Can Play Team.

Anonymous in Sochi, blog posts from an anonymous gay blogger who traveled to Sochi for this project. “The choice before me is a familiar one: Remain silent or speak for those who cannot.”

Jason Brown and the Hammer Shuffle. On Ice.

Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir 2010 gala performance.

Yuzuru Hanyu is cooler than you

The article positing that Ashley Wagner’s selection was based on what Marta Karolyi would have done.

Surveillance in the showers! Not the best PR move, Russia.

Breaking out of the bathroom!

Stats Canada Twitter. 100% of Canadians aren’t sorry right now.

The beer fridge that only opens with a Canadian passport.

The US sent Canada some Congratulatory Beer. It’s not crap beer, which was really nice of us!

Gus Kenworthy and his puppies!

NO REALLY LOOK AT THEM.

Team USA and their puppies.

Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska founds a dog sanctuary for strays in Sochi because his dog he had as a kid was a stray. (No one give Will Graham any ideas, okay?)

This is Commonwealth Clyde. He is terrifying.

The Olympics will be back in 2 years in Rio and 4 years in PyongChang, and we’ll be back atcha next month with a Topic As Of Yet To Be Determined!

Meanwhile, Hannibal season 2 has a premier date of February 28th. The fannibals are preparing to feast, the only question is will you be a dinner guest or will you be dinner?

You have 2 weeks to catch up on season 1, and to help convince you that you should, here is the episode we recorded last October with the ever-gracious Cleolinda as our guest.

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Click here to see the original show notes.

Season 2 trailers!

Casting news:
Cynthia Nixon is Kade Purnell
Michael Pitt is Mason Verger
Katharine Isabelle is Margot Verger

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Both Reidan and Alina saw the National Theatre Live screening of Coriolanus and wanted to talk about it. So we did. With the recorder running.

There are multiple encore screenings over the next month, the National Theatre Live website is here: here. Other shows coming up in clude The Curious Incident of the Dog In Nighttime and King Lear. Which we will be going to see.

Fathom Events also broadcasts ballet from the Royal Ballet, Opera from the Metropolitan Opera, Broadway shows, and sports events. Check it out!

We’ll be back atcha in a few weeks with a regularly scheduled episode.

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Featuring Sonnet 130 as performed by the incandescent Catherine Tate.

Just in case you need them: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare on Project Gutenberg

Adaptations we talked about (possibly not a complete list):

Branagh’s Henry V

Branagh’s Much Ado About Nothing

Branagh’s As You Like it

Branagh’s Hamlet

Whedon’s Much Ado About Nothing

Taymor’s Titus
The Tempest

Sir Patrick Stewart Macbeth

The Hollow Crown

Reimaginings:

10 Things I Hate About You
Scotland PA
O
ShakespeaRetold (Much Ado, Macbeth, Taming of the Shrew, and Midsummers)

You can watch Tom Hiddleston’s Corolianus through National Theater Live at a movie theater near you! Alina and Reidan have tickets!

Shakespearean Original Pronunciation video:

Next month we will come at you with all things Olympic! Skating, skiing, curling, biathalon, luge, bobsled, skeleton and snowboarding!

(Just as a note: the conversation turns somewhat explicit at about 1:10 when we start discussing erotica. Just in case you’re listening at work or with a small child who might wonder out loud in an inopportune place what the deal with triceratops tongues is.)

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Sarah Wendell runs Smart Bitches Trashy Books, a romance review website that Reidan reviews for sometimes. She also has a podcast with Jane Litt, of Dear Author, called Dear Bitches Smart Authors, which everyone should listen to.

That infamous first review is here: Surrender to the Night, by Evelyn Rogers.

Authors we talked about:

Courtney Milan
Julie James
Victoria Dahl
Beverly Jenkins
Debbie Macomber
Sylvia Dayk
Seanan Maguire
Sarah Morgan
Theresa Romain
Sarah Maclean
Eloisa James
Delphine Dryden
Jacqueline Carey
C.L. Wilson
Lois McMaster Bujold
Helenkay Dimon

The Sapphires US Poster:

Dreamgirls Poster:

The Bodyguard Poster:

Dinosaur erotica is a thing.

Tousle Me, an absolutely brilliant sounding parody of the current trends in the Young Adult genre.

Other review websites to check out:

Dear Author
S&M’s Books Obsessions
Smexy Books
Ramblings on Romance

Have a happy holiday season, everyone! We’ll see you in 2014!

Lets talk about how the 2013 fall TV season has shaped up!

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NBC’s Dracula

Cleolinda’s recaps. Highly entertaining. (If anyone bugs her about them, I will make them very very VERY sad. Don’t do that.)

Cleo’s Victoriana Tumblr. Research purposes!

Sleepy Hollow

The Tumblr of Orlando Jones, god’s gift to fandom. Proving that a creator/actor can simply walk into fandom, if one has enough swagger. (Spoiler: he has swagger.)

Almost Human

The Blacklist

Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD.

Brooklyn Nine-Nine

Emma Approved

Go forth and watch TV my pretties!

We will see you back in a couple of weeks with a special guest!

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SPOILERS LIKE WHOA.

This month’s sacrificial avocado:

We didn’t want to take any chances.

If you are still on the fence about watching, here is a review that tells you why this is a fantastic show.

How to watch Hannibal:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=T81WJz-WoJg

Korean Promo, complete with sparkles:

Production Designer article. Amazing amount of detail.

Janice Poon’s blog, the food of Hannibal. Spoilers and recipes and gorgeous, gorgeous pictures.

Will Graham Has a Nice Day and nothing he eats is people.

Crack vid

Gag reel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hm7zY6QatsQ

Carpets for Airports. Look, it can’t be explained, it can only be experienced.

THE LITERARY STYLINGS OF MR. WILL GRAHAM #HANNIBAL pic.twitter.com/DP2vkQ2Ihb

— Bryan Fuller (@BryanFuller) October 12, 2013

Breaking news while we were recording! Charlie Hunnam cancelled the apocolypse and dropped out fo the 50 Shades movie. Somewhere, Rob Pattinson is raising a glass.

Our Senior ComicCon Correspoendent: PpyaJunebug livetumblred the Hannibal panels at San Diego Comic Con.

Hannibal Flower Pictures! We love this cast and crew SO. MUCH.

Thank you so much for listening to us ramble on for a whole year! Can’t wait to see what the next year brings us!

TIFF is wrapping up today and it sounds like some big films to look for at Oscar time will be Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave starring Chiwetel Ejiofor from Serenity with Brad Pitt, Michael Fassbender, Alfre Woodard, among others; John Wells’ August: Osage County with Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts and Ewan McGregor; and Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity starring Sandra Bullock and George Clooney — and probably Benedict Cumberbatch because he’s in the first two and probably everything else in theatres this fall.

Other films at the festival that I’m looking forward to are Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom with Idris Elba, Philomena with Dame Judi and Steve Coogan, Parkland about JFK’s assassination, Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s comedy (and directorial debut) Don Jon, and The Stag — an Irish comedy with Andrew Scott (Moriarty on BCC’s Sherlock).

At the festival I don’t usually try to see the big films that will be in Cineplexes soon, but rather those that might not get wide release in Canada. Last year I saw Joss Whedon’s Much Ado About Nothing and The Last Supper, a Chinese film set at the end of the Qin Dynasty.

This year I saw three very different films: Une Jeune Fille by Québec director Catherine Martin, Libertador by Alberto Arvelo, and a Japanese remake of Clint Eastwood’s Unforgiven by Sang-il Lee.

Une Jeune Fille (which played at the Art Galley of Ontario) is about a teenage girl whose sick mother gives her a photo of the Gaspé region of Québec before passing away. The girl, Chantal, runs away to the Gaspé where she ends up working on a farm for Serge, a loner in his thirties. I was a bit apprehensive about the film because from the trailer it was clear that it was going to be a lot of landscape cinematography and silence between brooding characters. It was these things but it all worked, it had a nice story and the pace of the film while gradual, didn’t drag. One of the film’s greatest achievements was to develop the friendship between Chantal and Serge in a realistic feeling way without being creepy. It made me want to look for more by Catherine Martin.

Libertador, a Venezuela/Spain coproduction, is an historical epic about Simón Bolivar who lead the wars of independence for most of South America. Imagine a biopic about George Washington made by Peter Jackson and you have a sense of the scope and tone of this movie. I think it was more concerned with myth-making than historical accuracy, but I was okay with that. Lead actor Édgar Ramírez looks nothing like paintings of Bolivar (more like David Boreanz or Jon Snow, in my opinion [Ed. Note – you know nothing, Peter Murphy, specifically, you don’t know that Jon Snow is played by Kit Harrington]) but he did a great job carrying this movie including switching, apparently effortlessly, between Spanish, English, and French as needed. He may be a household name in a couple years.

Among these films Unforgiven is the one I most expect to see nominated for a Foreign Language Oscar this year. Ken Watanabe played the Clint Eastwood role and was great as always. Japan’s northern island of Hokkaido during the Meiji period made for a cool parallel to the American Old West, as ex-Samurai outlaws fled the forces of modernisation for the northern frontier populated by the indigenous Ainu people. Like the original, this is a very well made film that is morally and emotionally sophisticated. I liked that killing is not done lightly and has consequences. Also if any director needs Morgan Freeman and he’s not available they should call Akira Emoto. I really want to see that guy in a remake of Shawshank now, please.

One more film that I did not see but friends with great taste told me was spectacular was The Past by director Asghar Farhadi, whose film A Separation won the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar in 2012. I saw A Separation and will be looking for The Past when it is released internationally.

That was my 2013 TIFF. If 100% of my films were good I don’t even want to think about how much I’m missing from the over 300 films that played at the Festival this week. As I’m writing this the TIFF People’s Choice Award has not been announced [Ed. Note – it was announced that day and it will surprise no one to know that 12 Years a Slave took it] but past winners such as Slumdog Millionaire and The King’s Speech have gone on to win Best Picture Oscars, so keep an eye out for that if you’re looking for something good to see in the next few months or just want an edge in your Oscar pool.

~PM

Liked what Peter had to say about movies? You should hear him talk about comics! You can find him on Twitter here.

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The Liberal Democrats of Great Britain are discussing fanfiction. Google for more about this story at your own risk.

Hugo updates: You can see the voting stats breakdown of the Hugo Awards here.

Best Fan Writer went to Tansy Raynor Robertsk, who is awesome. You should read her stuff on feminism and gender roles in SF/F. Mark Oshiro is still the fan writer of OUR HEARTS.

Seanan McGuire (along with Cathrynne Valente, Elizabeth Bear, Paul Cornell, and Lynne Thomas) won Best Fan Cast for SF Squeecast. (And then, because they’ve won two years in a row, they announced they are withdrawing from further consideration, because they are classy as hell.)

In Other Seanan News, her October Daye Series has been optioned for TV development. Yay!

Other podcasts we listen to, and you should too:

Welcome to Night Vale

Stuff Mom Never Told You

TechStuff and other How Stuff Works podcasts.

A Matter of Taste.

Fucking While Feminist

Dear Bitches Smart Authors Romance Podcast

Masters of Carpentry.

NPR’s Popculture Happy Hour

This is a linkBBC Radio 5 Film Reviews

TV On the Internet

Did you know screenwriters are being actively taught not to pass the Bechdel Test? They are.

The Methadone List, Reidan and Maya (our Senior ComicCon Correspondent) watch tv shows while we wait out the Hannibal HeAteUs. Currently, they are watching Orphan Black, which is awesome. This has been on hold a little bit while Maya has been in France and Reidan’s life exploded.

The Hollow Crown– the Beeb does Shakespeare’s Richard II, Henry IV Part 1, Henry IV Part 2, and Henry V. Airing on PBS in the US starting Sept 20th, and Region 1 DVDs available on Sept 17th (no, this does not make a lot of sense, but here we are). The UK got these ages ago, and by all accounts, it is wonderful.

Kayleigh has been watching The Bridge, an American show that is a version of the Swedish/Danish version called “Bron” in Sweden and “Broen” in Demark, and the UK will be remaking with France but that will be called “Tunnel.”

There are Emmy Nominations. Creative Arts awards happened inbetween recording and posting, and our Queen, Cat Deeley is again an Emmy loser. WE LOVE YOU CAT. Primetime Awards are on Sept 22nd, and Hannibal and Tatiana Maslany was snubbed so we’re mad.

Alina did not make it out to TIFF (shuuuun, shuuuun), but her friend Peter did. Click here to read his TIFF report. Thank you, Peter!

12 Years a Slave Press Conference:

The Congress Trailer

TV premier dates

Sleepy Hollow: Sept 16
Downton Abbey (in the UK) Sept 22 (In the US: Jan 4th)
Elementary Sept 26th (Clyde is a shameless Diva)
Person of Interest, Agents of SHIELD: Sept 24
Hawaii 5-0: Sept 27th
Murdoch Mysteries: Sept 30
Arrow: Oct 9th
Reign: Oct 17th
The Tomorrow People: Oct 9th
Dracula: Oct 25th
Grimm: Oct 25th
Almost Human: Nov 4th
Parks and Rec: Sept 26th
Community: ????? (Oct 19 in our hearts)
Once Upon a Time: Sept 29th
The Blacklist: Sept 23rd

Ben Affleck is your new Batman. A lot of people are cranky about this.

We have actors for the 50 Shades of Grey movie, and a lot of fans aren’t happy about that, either, and launched a petition to get them replaced. (Of course, Charlie Hunnam once famously said he wouldn’t take a role just for the paycheck, but… come on, Charlie.)

Queen JK is doing the script for a NEW POTTERVERSE MOVIE OMG.

Alina has read The Casual Vacancy and The Cuckoo’s Calling, and thinks you should too.

Sherlock Holmes has been a part of the cultural consciousness since his inception, and Les Filles discuss (with varying levels of squee) several of them.

(There are spoilers for the end of Elementary at around the 1h45min to 1h55min mark. Proceed at your own risk.)

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First things first: Kayleigh has spent the month at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival reviewing many many many shows for The Skinny!

There was also a guy who dressed up as Predator outside a Starbucks everyday. The Skinny gave him Six Stars (out of five).

On to the Holmes of it all!

Watson’s Wives (Reidan thinks he has a bit of a Cartwright Curse problem. Alina and Kayleigh have no idea what that means.)

Arthur Conan Doyle and an Ontario Ghost problem

The Basil Rathbone Era (1939 – 1946)

Russian Holmes (1979 – 1986) You can even get them on Amazon!

Russian Holmes comes complete with pimp cane:

(You can find many, many, many screen caps on Alina’s Tumblr

The Great Mouse Detective (1986)

Best Villain Song ever:

Jeremy Brett Series (1984 – 1994)

The Guy Ritchie movies (2009, 2011)

Sherlock (2010 – )

Moffat’s “revelation” on Irene Adler.

The Blind Banker and Sherlock’s problem with race.

Elementary (2012 – )

Credits inspired by The Great Mouse Detective

Jonny Lee Miller and his approach to Holmes.

Joan Watson is not impressed with your shit, Sherlock.

EVERYONE’S FAVORITE TORTOISE! CLYDE! (It’s okay, the Elementary writers have said that Clyde is being taken case of by Mrs. Hudson while Joan and Sherlock are in London.) (They know what we like.)

Various adaptations with Sherlock as a cat: Surprisingly accurate

Hannimentary: It’s a thing. It’s a glorious thing.

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First, we have Kayleigh’s triumphant return from the wilds of Dundee where she reviewed a Scottish version of Let The Right One In. Enjoy!

GO SEE PACIFIC RIM. IT IS AWESOME. This review says it’s like Mighty Morphin Power Rangers on really expensive acid. He seems to think this is a detriment. We think it’s a movie we’ll see about eleventy billion times.

Box Office Mojo chart for the summer so far. Numbers for Pacific Rim have improved since we recorded, but GO SEE IT.

Other summer blockbusters we discussed: Man of Steel (meh bordering on liked), Star Trek Into Darkness (really didn’t like), Iron Man 3 (loved), The Lone Ranger (None of us watched, we’ll tell you why!), White House Down (Die Hard in the White House, Alina liked it).

Anne Helen Petersen’s A Concise Case for Leo: The Perfect Gatsby.

I Saw The Lone Ranger So You Don’t Have To: a Native blogger explains the (many, many, many) problems with the representations of Native Americans in The Lone Ranger. Worth a read.

Kyle Kallgren’s Brows Held High review of Dead Man, and why Johnny Depp should know better.

Reel Injun: a documentary about the representation of Natives in film.

I will also note here that I was wrong about Taylor Lautner—he’s not as Native American as I thought. Sorry!

The last couple blockbusters of the summer are The Wolverine (aka This One Doesn’t Suck We Promise!) and Elysium (AKA the 1% live in spaaaaaaaace!). It’s a long hot summer, people. Stay cool.

(Yeah, we noticed there aren’t a lot of women involved in these movies, either.)

Frozen, and Alina’s favorite version of The Snow Queen (in Russian, no subtitles, but pretty!)

Snowpiercer trailer!

Spielberg and Lucas have Things to say about summer blockbusters. They are not flattering and also… really hypocritical.

Bradley Cooper and Gerard Butler at Wimbledon. They’re ADORABLE.

As a thank you for helping Hannibal get renewed for a season 2, Mads is buying us all beer. (The beer may be people. We don’t care, Mads is buying us beer.)

Reidan still doesn’t like Pushing Daisies, and Alina and Kayleigh are betrayed.

Upcoming episodes! the fall TV season looks like it’s going to be GEEKTASTIC and we want to discuss it all.

YES THE RUMORS ARE TRUE (you can tell, because we started them): WE ARE DOING AN EPISODE ON HANNIBAL WHERE WE WILL BE JOINED BY THE LOVELY CLEOLINDA.

See you next month!

(It almost made up for the sadness of not having Kayleigh this episode. Almost, but not quite.) In important news, the Anglofilles are thrilled that NBC came to the conclusion that renewing Hannibal was the right thing to do, and we will be doing an episode on Hannibal in the fall.

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Seanan McGuire has written a LOT of urban fantasy, and you can follow her on Twitter at @seananmcguire, on tumblr at seananmcguire, on livejournal at http://seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com/, and her website is here. You can also find her under her pen name of Mira Grant, where she writes horror, zombies, bloggers, and parasitic tapeworms.

Phew.

The first book of the October Daye series: Rosemary and Rue
The first book of the InCryptid Series: Discount Armageddon
The Kindle Serial: Indexing
First book in the Newsflesh trilogy: Feed
And her hardcover Parasite due out on October 29th.

Science Fiction Writers of America Bulletin: Mike Resnick and Barry Malzberg dialogue sparks internet shitstorm!

This linkspam has a scan of one of the Dialogues in question, in which they double down and accuse everyone of censoring them.

Jim C. Hines does a Roundup of people who have some things to say to Resnick and Malzberg (it’s nice how all these authors are keeping LJ going, yeah?)

Cover flips! Maureen Johnson comes up with what covers would look like if classic books had been written by authors of the opposite gender. It’s hysterical and awesome and painfully true.

Jim C Hines tries to contort himself into ways that women are contorted in many SF/F covers.

Revisiting a techrec from January: Calibre e-reader management software: Possibly the best ebook management software available right now.* First thing first: it’s free; no ads, no trials, just out there for your ebooking needs. It features a versatile tagging system, the ability to download metainfo (including covers), a robust format conversation system, it can be used to sync your ebook collection to virtually any ereaders and smartphone, and supports third-party plug-ins for virtually any need that the default software fails to fulfill (e.g., syncing to your Goodreads shelf).

*Absolutely no research was done to substantiate this claim

Other authors we talked about: The Labyrinths of Echo, Anne McCaffery, Robin McKinnley, Diane Wynne Jones, Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman, Mercedes Lackey, Tanya Huff, Elizabeth Bear, Catherine Valenti. There are a TON of female SF/F writers we didn’t get to mention, so leave your favorite in the comments!

Special thanks to Seanan for joining us! Happy reading!

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25th Anniversary EW photo.

“Anyway, here’s the ‘good parts’ version. S. Morgenstern wrote it. And my father read it to me. And now I give it to you. What you do with it will be of more than passing interest to us all.”

We are joined by HUGO NOMINATED FAN WRITER Mark Oshiro, of Mark Does Stuff. He runs a large, diverse internet book and TV club where he’s the one who hasn’t read the book. It’s good stuff!

Currently on Mark Reads: Tamora Pierce’s entire bibliography (he is currently on First Test and just finishing up Mira Grant’s Newsflesh trilogy.

Currently on Mark Watches: Friday Night Lights and The West Wing with double features of Dead Like Me, leading to the rest of the Bryan Fuller-Verse.

(Speaking of the Bryan Fuller-Verse: NBC DO THE RIGHT THING AND RENEW HANNIBAL PLEASE.)

The Princess Bride; S. Morgansterns’s Classic tale of True Love and High Adverntureon Amazon

Mark Read the Princess Bride as if Morgenstern was real (hint: we know he’s not) and pissed off half the internet, it seems. It was glorious.

OLD SKOOL COVER (share the pain)

The movie is basically the platonic ideal of a movie adaptation. If you haven’t watched it, you are really missing out.

Spiritual successors: Stardust (2008) and A Series of Unfortunate Events

Alina’s Tech Rec for this month was a thoroughly researched and completely scientific presentation and not at all just a run-on spiel of her opinions on the various e-reading apps she uses: Kindle Versus Kobo! For those who use a smartphone or tablet as their ereader, the main choices of apps are between the official Kindle and Kobo apps. I find Kindle a slightly smoother reading experience. Kobo, on the other hand, has a much easier table-of-contents navigation, the reasons for Kindle decided to hide theirs behind layers of menus escape me. I’d like to hold a moment of silence for Stanza, it was my favourite independent ereading app for a long time. Nowadays, when I need a third alternative, as an Android user, I turn to Aldiko. If the big-name, store-tied apps aren’t your thing, then Aldiko is probably what you’re looking for.

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First things first: Reidan is in Boston, and was not near the bombings, she’s okay. The Boston mayor Tom Menino and Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick set up OneFund Boston as a way to funnel donations. If you could toss in a couple bucks, that would be awesome. Thank you.

IMDB links for the various shows we discussed:

I, Claudius

Rome

The Tudors

The Borgias

Carnivale

Vikings

The Other Boleyn Girl: BBC version.

If you would like to read more:

Tudors: Anything by Alison Weir

Borgias: The Borgias and Their Enemies

Rome: God, I have to pick just one? Livia: First Lady of Rome

List of Sexually Active Popes

Enjoy!

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The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, an on-line vlog adaptation of Pride and Prejudice. We talk about it for a long time, and there are some legitimate criticisms, including Courtney Milan’s Tumblr. (Courtney is a romance author and also a lawyer type person, and we love her.)

Austenland! Book and The Movie.

ITV did a whole thing of Austen adaptations in the late 2000’s:
Sense and Sensibility (Excellent)
Emma (Excellent)
Persuasion (Good)
Mansfield Park (It’s Mansfield Park, it’s still dull)
Northanger Abbey (EXCELLENT)

Lost In Austen – well produced self-insert fanfic and what happens when someone who knows the story ends up in the story and promptly accidentally starts fucking everything up.

The Jane Austen Book Club.

The weird Austen + monstersgenre: Good Reads list including Pride and Platypus, which is basically Kayleigh-bait (she’ll report back). Also a post-apocalyptic version of Persuasion, For Darkness Shows the Stars.

Other things:

Only 11% of Stitcher’s top 100 podcasts are hosted by women, from the NPR Fresh Air tumblr, which is one of the reasons we started this podcast. Other podcasts hosted by women: Made of Fail’s own Strangers From the Internet , Stuff You Missed in History Class, Stuff Mom Never Told You, Fucking While Feminist*, Dear Bitches, Smart Author Podcast* and Grammar Girl.

*Full disclosure: Fucking While Feminist is my roommate’s podcast, and I am the WORST ROOMMATE EVER because I completely forgot to mention it during the show. WORST. ROOMMATE. EVER. (I also forgot to mention Dear Bitches, Smart Authors, which is the romance novel podcast with Sarah from Smart Bitches and Jane from Dear Author, but THAT ONE IS NOT RECORDED IN MY DINING ROOM.)

Kickstarter campaigns! Kevin (exec Producer, founder, all around god of the Made of Fail universe) has started the Morbacon Theater company, because he had some spare time to kill or something, and they are running a kickstarter for their first production: Terry Pratchett’s Wyrd Sisters. Help Morbacon out!

There’s gonna be a fan-supported Veronica Mars Movie! They made their goal within ten hours, but more money mean more brooding and smoldering (possibly in space).

Brian Fuller has stated that he is “looking into” the possibility of a fan supported Pushing Daises movie. There is nothing beyond that, but watch the internets for more detail.

Updates!
Stoker was released in limited release on march 1st
Hannibal premieres on NBC on April 4th (but if you follow Kayleigh on twitter, you knew that)
Whedon’s Much Ado About Nothing is being released on June 7th, and since we have been agitating for a release date since November, we’re totally taking credit for this. YOU ARE WELCOME.

Alina’s Tech Rec: Google Reader is soon to be no more! How could Google betray us like this? As we pick up the broken pieces of our RSS feeds, we ask ourselves one question, “Where do we go from here?” My answer is: feedly.com. It’s not ideal, but after trying out several alternatives, Feedly is the one I think I’m going to stick with. I was looking for something web-based, like GR was, but Feedly also has iPhone and Android mobile apps. It should be noted that are many options out there. FeedBooster was another that caught my eye. You can also check out this post from How-To Geek for their sizable list of recommendations (note that FeedDemon, second on that list, is also closing down)

Also includes special appearances from Kayleigh’s mum, dad, and allegedly the dog was there the whole time.

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My notes for what should be in the show notes are at home, and I am not, so this is…. sort of recreated from memory.

The leatherbound Brothers Grimm!

Thie new Philip Pullman Brother’s Grimm!

The 10th Kingdom DVDs You can also watch on Netflix Instant for now.

Grimm, on NBC. Fridays, 9/8 Central.

Once Upon a Time, on ABC. Sundays at 8/7 Central. You can also watch the first season on Netflix Instant.

There were a whole bunch of other books we talked about, but I can’t remember them all. I know Patricia Wrede and Gregory Maguire were in there, and we also talked about the national travesty that Canada recently suffered with the new Anne of Green Gables cover.

You can find Noel on twitter as @NoelCT, on Livejournal, on The Super Saturday Short-Lived Showcase, The Monthly Midnight Movie Exchange, and I Hate/Love Remakes.

Telltale Games is partnering with WB to create games based on Fables.

Alina’s tech rec this month: Rough Draft is a free word processor with a user interface designed to make life and work easy for writers. It won’t have all the features MS Word has that make academic essays look so polished, but I highly recommend it for personal works. It has modes for scripts versus prose, has spellcheck functionality (you do have to additionally download a free dictionary called WordWeb). I particularly like its use of tabs for different files and the side-panel notepad.

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This episode we discuss the awards season, our predictions for the Oscars and SAG awards, the Golden Globes and how gif friendly they were, and we go off on a few tangents. Well, some. Well, a lot. This is a long ass episode.

Some of out favorite Golden Globes Gifs:

Tommy Lee Jones Smiles Like This:

Leo Had a Dream His Life Would Be So Much Different:

Amy Poelher finds her rebound man:

Drunk Glenn Close

SAG nominations

Oscar Nominations

A write-in vote for Affleck as Best Director:

Music from Looper

Beasts of the Southern Wild and the Golden GLobes

Best Animated Short Fresh Guacamole:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQMO6vjmkyI

Documentaries: Queen of Versailles and Searching for Sugar Man

Upcoming shows and movies we are excited about: Stoker , Hannibal, Hansel and Gretel, Witch Hunters (in 3D)

Alina’s Tech Rec:
Calibre ebook management: Possibly the best ebook management software available right now.* First thing first: it’s free; no ads, no trials, just out there for your ebooking needs. It features a versatile tagging system, the ability to download metainfo (including covers), a robust format conversation system, it can be used to sync your ebook collection to virtually any ereaders and smartphone, and supports third-party plug-ins for virtually any need that the default software fails to fulfill (e.g., syncing to your Goodreads shelf).

*Absolutely no research was done to substantiate this claim

Fake Geek Girls are A Problem, according to Tony Harris. We think he and people who think like him are full of shit.

Anita Sarkeesian and Feminist Frequency. Also a link to her (closed) kickstarter, Tropes Versus Women in Video Games.

The #onereasonwhy hashtag on Twitter, talking about why there are fewer women in the gaming industry than men.

Entertainment Software Association’s 2012 Stats on game players.

Dad gives Link a sex change for his Zelda playing daughter.

The Hawkeye Initiative, Escher Girls, Boobs don’t work that way.

Gamer Mama!

A Rennerful Romance Novel review at Smart Bitches. YOU’RE WELCOME.

Star Trek trailer!

James Gunn’s past comes back to haunt him.

All sort of Hobbit-full news! Interview with peter Jackson, in which he touches on the Tolkien Estate having some issue with the movies.

The Enclyclopedia of Arda, for all your fake geeking needs.

Stephen Colbert’s Best Week Ever: The Pundit: or Colbert and Back Again

Alina’s Tech Rec: MusicBee is a great iTunes alternative – for Android phone users who need desktop software that syncs with their phone and just for anyone who doesn’t want to use iTunes. It can import iTunes and Windows Media Player libraries, making switching easy. (Note: iTunes does not DRM protect music.) It has all the features you’d want in a robust digital music library software, such as tag management and downloading album information, and it can be used to subscribe to and organize podcasts (such as this one, hint hint).

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Kayleigh got into her Master’s Program at the University of Edinbrugh!

Reidan passed the Massachusetts bar exam and is looking for a big girl lawyer job!

Good things to come out this endless election cycle:
Is Nate Silver a Witch? and the trending twitter topic “Drunk Nate Silver.” “Drunk Nate Silver does not say ‘Call Me Maybe’, he know precisely where and when.”

Movies we discussed in a fairly non-spoilery manner:
Cloud Atlas and Skyfall

Also mentioned: Toronto International Film Festival, Dredd, Looper, Premium Rush, Lincoln.

Disney buys Lucasfilm, everyone waits to see what fresh hell this might mean.

Proposals for Star Wars directors:

Episode VII

Episode VIII

Episode IX

Release dates we are demanding (and someone should get on): Whedon’s Much Ado, DVDs for the Tennant/Tate Much Ado, and the Hiddleston Hollow Crown.

Russian Fantasy Books we discussed:
The Stranger,
Night Watch, The Master and Margarita

The Star article on online sex ed

One Direction fanfic article

Alina’s Tech Rec: Firefox Sync (and Google Chrome’s account sing-in feature) – first and foremost, it’s a simple way to bring your desktop bookmarks to your smartphone or tablet (or to a second computer). It can also be a simple way to get your bookmarks back if, say, your computer’s problems pissed you off so much that you did a fresh install of Windows without backing anything up so then your wife had to show you that you can use your smartphone and Sync to get at least your browser back the way it was and that’s only because she sync’ed it for you in the first place. You know, as an example.

With a Special Guest Appearance by Kayleigh’s mom.

Comment, questions, concerns, feedback and snide remarks can be sent to anglofilles@gmail.com

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First, I have to apologize for the quality of the sound- I’m still learning this, but I know what the problem was and I will fix it for next time.  Sorry, sorry, so very sorry.

Don’t explain the joke:  we are three geek girls who come from three different English speaking areas of the world–Canada, Scotland, and the US.  So Anglo = English and Filles = girls (only in French) and we all have a fascination with the British Royal family.

Reidan can be found at @redheadedgirl on Twitter, reviewing romance novels at Smart Bitches Trash Books and frequently commenting on Mark Does Stuff. You can also follow her Roman Feast research and shenanignas at fromeggstoapples.wordpress.com

Alina can be found at @LJMysticOwl on Twitter. She’s a writer on Galilea and has reviewed her re-read of A Game of Thrones at Second Time Around

Kayleigh can be found @ceildhann on Twitter, and reviewing books at The Book Lantern and The Sparkle Project.

Warning: Shady Moose up to No Good

Max Frei’s The Stranger, Alina’s favorite Russian urban fantasy (now in a spiffy new English translation!), is something we are going to discuss in the next show.  You can purchase it from Amazon or other fine retailers.

Shakespeare’s Wife

The Ancient Guide to Modern Life

Supersizers Eat Ancient Rome: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swhEbBDwM0I

Alina’s “Tech Stuff” recommendation for the episode: BeyondPod Podcast Manager for Android  It can sync with your Google Reader account, you can pre-download episodes or stream them, and arrange episodes of various podcasts into a playlist so there’s no need to browse to them one by one.

Have a comment, question, concern, or snide remark?  Want to give us your opinion of our varied accents?  Email us at anglofilles@gmail.com