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Kayleigh Donaldson Profile picture
@Ceilidhann
Sep 20, 2020 • 20 tweets • 8 min read • Read on X
It's been a while since I shared some stuff I wrote, so here's my shameless plug thread.
Let's start off with @SYFYFANGRRLS!

I wrote about the gendered toy battles of the 1980s and the unique status held by one She-Ra.

syfy.com/syfywire/how-s…
Just before I'm Thinking of Ending Things dropped, I discussed the fascinating women of Charlie Kaufman.

syfy.com/syfywire/the-w…
Some people got irrationally mad at me for my list of SOME OF the best, worst, and weirdest musical episodes of TV.

Please don't badger me with "huh, why did you leave this one out, you asshole" comments.

syfy.com/syfywire/best-…
To celebrate James Marsden's birthday, I talked about why we love him so much and why he deserves better.

syfy.com/syfywire/why-w…
I'm now writing for @WhatsOnFuture, which is super exciting, and have been busy this TIFF season. But before that, I paid homage to the genius of The Venture Bros.

whattowatch.com/features/why-t…
For #TIFF20, I reviewed Holler, a sharp indie film about the desperate cycle of poverty.

whattowatch.com/reviews/tiff-2…
I also saw One Night in Miami, a wonderful film you'll be hearing about a lot over the next few months.

whattowatch.com/reviews/tiff-r…
For Emmys coverage, I wrote about the weird, kind of nonsensical concept of "Emmys bait" and the strange status of Ozark.

whattowatch.com/features/what-…
I also talked about What We Do in the Shadows, one of the true comedic gems of 2020, and one that deserved way more Emmys love, especially for its actors.

whattowatch.com/features/why-w…
And then, of course, my home at @pajiba!

I reviewed the affecting Scottish drama Limbo:

pajiba.com/film_reviews/t…
I also watched Viggo Mortensen's directorial debut Falling, a film that's just a touch too enamoured with the concept of "noble suffering."

pajiba.com/film_reviews/v…
HBO's The Third Day screened two episodes at #TIFF20 and the weird out-of-order presentation offered some interesting questions.

pajiba.com/tv_reviews/rev…
One of my personal favourites from this year's #TIFF20 was I Care a Lot, especially the performance of ice queen Rosamund Pike, the blonde that Hitchcock wishes he could have cast.

pajiba.com/film_reviews/r…
Francois Ozon's latest film Summer of 85 is thin and not his best but still a delightful diversion.

pajiba.com/film_reviews/r…
Would you be happier if you were drunk all the time? My Danish king Mads Mikkelsen finds out in the wonderful Thomas Vinterberg movie Another Round. He also dances!

pajiba.com/film_reviews/r…
Me and @Cinesnark are on TIFF break so no new episode of The Hollywood Read this week, but that just means you have time to catch up on some old episodes!

Hey, our reviews say we're delightful!

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the…
Want to support me? I have a Ko-Fi account I don't use very much!

ko-fi.com/A110JNY
Want to hire me to write things? Check out my super-cool personal website (designed by my talented from @CSlavova!)

kayleighdonaldson.com
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Kayleigh Donaldson Profile picture
Jan 21, 2023
Having a proper lazy day today.
Fun lazy day ruined by headache. Boo.
Trying to reclaim my lazy day with curry, a bath, and music. I won't let the headache win, dammit!
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Sep 26, 2020
Would there be any interest in a one-off audio project about the thing that I did my Master's thesis on?
I'm currently re-reading my thesis and groaning at the spelling errors and repeated word choices. And this is why you didn't get that A, Donaldson.
This was a fun essay to write (not my thesis but I actually got an A on this one.)
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Sep 24, 2020
I entirely blame @patrickhwillems for this spontaneous Ebay purchase. Image
There is A LOT going on in Wolf.

Most of it is a publishing house drama? And Jack Nicholson as a werewolf looks exactly like Creature from Carry On Screaming? And mega-deviant of American cinema James Spader is here? And also Niles Crane?!
ALSO this movie has a score by Ennio Morricone?!
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Sep 24, 2020
This is my big problem with biopic acting in general: People get too bogged down in impersonation to the point where they may as well be Disney animatronics. It's far preferable to see an actor take risks & eschew the tics in favour of something more accurate in terms of essence.
This is one of the reasons I give Renee Zellweger a lot of credit for her Judy Garland performance. No, it's not a pinpoint accurate recreation of Garland but it nails that fragile bird energy she had, as well as the oft-overlooked wit, the tiredness, the tenacity, etc.
I've become far less impressed with the showy biopic performances over the years. Yeah, it can be technically impressive but stuff like Darkest Hour, The Theory of Everything, Bohemian Rhapsody, etc, just end up feeling like homework rather than something artistically rewarding.
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Sep 23, 2020
When you're a shitty bigot and also a lover of bad graphic design.

lgbtqnation.com/2020/09/j-k-ro…
I understand that, in the grand scheme of Britain's toxic transphobia problem, the fact that these people scramble to throw their cash at bad art & culture is the least of it, but it still entertains me somewhat to see all these bigots "protest" by supporting the stupidest crap.
This is nothing new. See every bad-faith wannabe talking-head pretending L*r*nce F*x is some underappreciated acting genius.

Why support MS Paint smears and a woman obsessed with wizard shitting when you could check out amazing trans & non-binary writers?
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Sep 15, 2020
W/E is genuinely one of the worst films I've ever seen, but the sheen egomania that will be Madonna writing & directing her own biopic should at least be mildly hilarious.

I want to pre-emptively call dibs on the inevitable Vanity Fair oral history of the behind-the-scenes drama from this movie.
For the record, I'm a big fan of Madonna's music. I also love Cody's work and think a Madonna biopic about her earliest days in New York before her first album dropped written by her and directed by Jason Reitman/Lorene Scafaria/Marielle Heller would be a fascinating movie.
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