Movies: Anchoress, Cracker
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x_losAnchoress is creepy and well-acted, shot like the Bergman movie Wild Strawberries. I'm a bad film-kid because black and white photography puts me off, makes it hard to pay attention. Had to watch the beginning twice to understand what the hell was going on. We learn the middle ages suck hard, caves and other vaginal symbols are way cooler places to live than A Wall We Could Brick You Into If You're Super Lucky, and A Frame construction is ugly no matter what your century. An interesting depiction of the hold earlier tradition had on rural England. The end was a bit too Teen Wiccan, but it was well intentioned, v. pagan in a realistic, well-researched sort of way. All in all a well done film, worth watching, with a few absolutley hillarious moments drawn from the gravity.
Cracker: Or the actor who plays Hagrid as a soused bastard phsychological wunderkind, and friends
The intro scene reveals that Fitz
a) likes to gamble,
b) sucks at it
and c) is the world's most crap college lecturer ever.
We are graced by the descent of Baby!Eccleston, forever after to be known as Beckelston. It's easy to miss as he has a convincing London accent and a rational amount of hair. Later it will be revealed that this is Baby's First Homicide Case. If Life on Mars hadn't proved yet that CIDs aren't like the rest of us, that they're special like snowflakes, Chris pulling up in his own car while everyone else pops out of The Worlds Saddest Squadcars will reinforce your conviction that CIDs can do nothing that is not Badass.
Medical Examiner 1 points out based on her pubes that Deadlilla is not a natural redhead. Beckeleston wonders when anyone who isn't him will realize what's appropriate at a murder scene.
Coroner is waaaay too excited about the details of the attack. I wasn't aware this was a crossover with Dexter! Hi, Dexter! He wants to take pictures with the body for 'the album' in an amusing pointing position. Beckeleston is pointedly not amused. He has his best Queen Victoria face on.
Put upon Taxi Driver grudgingly deals with Fitz's illegal in-cab smoking and rather lame snark. I get the feeling Fitz could rip him new ones, but is too hungover to put in a honest effort. He has to ask his kids for money to pay. Hah.
Fitz goes out with wife and friends and proceeds to get pissed, in adition to wallowing in a nicortine addiction that makes The Smoking Man look blase. Fitz makes an Awesome!Drunk!Point about his friend paying an imigrant worker 3 pounds an hour to watch her precious children while she goes out and teaches Women's Studies for 20 an hour. Then he can't pay for dinner and drinks. His wife is tired of having to rip out rollodex pages when Fitz pisses off all their friends, and leaves with the youngest of her chillin to go stay with her mom.
Meanwhile an awesome scene with the parents identifying the dead girl while Summertime from Porgy and Bess plays. Lucking no one expounds upon the Readhead vs. Dye Job speculations to her parents. Survey says they would be about as amused as Beckelston.
And some kids walking a dog dscover a guy beaten and tossed in the bushes. They let Ruffles nibble on him a while before calling the Whambulence. Beckelston charges in because the man apparently jumped off the train yesterday. The unconscious man recovers and calls Beckles "Doctor?" Beckles will have to get really used to that in about 10 years.
Fitz creeps all up on the dead girl's parents and is like "Your daughter was so my student, I'mma catch bitches." They say that's the police's job. Because it is, and Fitz probably still smells like vomit.
Unconscious Man says he has total amnesia. Beckles thinks this is bullshit like woah, and can barely keep from using his exceptionally long nose to make Mulder disdain faces. Beckles, Fox called, he wants his hauteur back.
A two minuite interlude with the world's coolest linguist, who uses Amnesiac's participles to determine he's lying about being a manual laborer. Joey Lawrence Woah!
Fitz visits the parents and shows skillz so mad they ask him to go bug Beckles into helping on the case. This is interesting as, though Cracker seems knowledgeable beyond all reason, he seems to have no record as a police phsych. Surley they have pros for this?
Removing the amnesiac from the hospital on suspicion, Beckels and another cop launch into a Good Cop/Scary Bastard that is almost so intense as to be uncomfortable. It is AWESOME.
Scary: "You smoke?"
Amnesiac: *snarks* "I dont know."
Scary: "Can you smell it?
Yeah.
"Does it make you want to smoke?"
"Not really?"
"Then you've never smoked."
More shit hapens, Amnesiac turns out to be a monk, Beckels fucks up Baby's First Homicide and his assistant and Fitz tag team to actually do something right. Scene on Fitz and Assistant of Badassery arguing on whether she has Penis Envy, though it is clear Fitz suffers under the heavy burden of Venus Envy because Assistant is so fucking H-Core.
Cracker: Or the actor who plays Hagrid as a soused bastard phsychological wunderkind, and friends
The intro scene reveals that Fitz
a) likes to gamble,
b) sucks at it
and c) is the world's most crap college lecturer ever.
We are graced by the descent of Baby!Eccleston, forever after to be known as Beckelston. It's easy to miss as he has a convincing London accent and a rational amount of hair. Later it will be revealed that this is Baby's First Homicide Case. If Life on Mars hadn't proved yet that CIDs aren't like the rest of us, that they're special like snowflakes, Chris pulling up in his own car while everyone else pops out of The Worlds Saddest Squadcars will reinforce your conviction that CIDs can do nothing that is not Badass.
Medical Examiner 1 points out based on her pubes that Deadlilla is not a natural redhead. Beckeleston wonders when anyone who isn't him will realize what's appropriate at a murder scene.
Coroner is waaaay too excited about the details of the attack. I wasn't aware this was a crossover with Dexter! Hi, Dexter! He wants to take pictures with the body for 'the album' in an amusing pointing position. Beckeleston is pointedly not amused. He has his best Queen Victoria face on.
Put upon Taxi Driver grudgingly deals with Fitz's illegal in-cab smoking and rather lame snark. I get the feeling Fitz could rip him new ones, but is too hungover to put in a honest effort. He has to ask his kids for money to pay. Hah.
Fitz goes out with wife and friends and proceeds to get pissed, in adition to wallowing in a nicortine addiction that makes The Smoking Man look blase. Fitz makes an Awesome!Drunk!Point about his friend paying an imigrant worker 3 pounds an hour to watch her precious children while she goes out and teaches Women's Studies for 20 an hour. Then he can't pay for dinner and drinks. His wife is tired of having to rip out rollodex pages when Fitz pisses off all their friends, and leaves with the youngest of her chillin to go stay with her mom.
Meanwhile an awesome scene with the parents identifying the dead girl while Summertime from Porgy and Bess plays. Lucking no one expounds upon the Readhead vs. Dye Job speculations to her parents. Survey says they would be about as amused as Beckelston.
And some kids walking a dog dscover a guy beaten and tossed in the bushes. They let Ruffles nibble on him a while before calling the Whambulence. Beckelston charges in because the man apparently jumped off the train yesterday. The unconscious man recovers and calls Beckles "Doctor?" Beckles will have to get really used to that in about 10 years.
Fitz creeps all up on the dead girl's parents and is like "Your daughter was so my student, I'mma catch bitches." They say that's the police's job. Because it is, and Fitz probably still smells like vomit.
Unconscious Man says he has total amnesia. Beckles thinks this is bullshit like woah, and can barely keep from using his exceptionally long nose to make Mulder disdain faces. Beckles, Fox called, he wants his hauteur back.
A two minuite interlude with the world's coolest linguist, who uses Amnesiac's participles to determine he's lying about being a manual laborer. Joey Lawrence Woah!
Fitz visits the parents and shows skillz so mad they ask him to go bug Beckles into helping on the case. This is interesting as, though Cracker seems knowledgeable beyond all reason, he seems to have no record as a police phsych. Surley they have pros for this?
Removing the amnesiac from the hospital on suspicion, Beckels and another cop launch into a Good Cop/Scary Bastard that is almost so intense as to be uncomfortable. It is AWESOME.
Scary: "You smoke?"
Amnesiac: *snarks* "I dont know."
Scary: "Can you smell it?
Yeah.
"Does it make you want to smoke?"
"Not really?"
"Then you've never smoked."
More shit hapens, Amnesiac turns out to be a monk, Beckels fucks up Baby's First Homicide and his assistant and Fitz tag team to actually do something right. Scene on Fitz and Assistant of Badassery arguing on whether she has Penis Envy, though it is clear Fitz suffers under the heavy burden of Venus Envy because Assistant is so fucking H-Core.
