Gesha-Marie Bland
@gmgeiko
Not bland. Cinephile. Screenwriter. Secular humanist. Bylines in @VanityFair @Indiewire @theblcklst Senior Editor @beautynewsnyc.
Check out the inaugural post for my memoir-inflected blog, abt culture, politics and film, even dating when it tickles my fancy. I discuss my innate aversion to identity politics, yet inability to escape them. "Just Not An Identity Politics Kinda Girl" link.medium.com/uak6zOjzslb
The elite college liberal basic chick to apostate conservative IT Girl arc is getting really tired.
"The young people who support Mamdani are good people, just putting their efforts towards the wrong solutions. I should know, I was once one of them."
Isabelle Huppert should have been nominated for best actress for her role in The Piano Teacher, but the Academy was too scared in 2001
"Body horror" and "locked in" have replaced "journey" and "holding space" as the most overused and loathed phrases on here.
These lists are generally trash. But how the hell is MADS not on this list?
The Hollywood Reporter ranks the 25 Best Horror Movies of the 21st Century: 25. Bones and All (2022) 24. Talk to Me (2022) 23. A Quiet Place (2018) 22. Under the Shadow (2016) 21. His House (2020) 20. Drag Me to Hell (2009) 19. It Follows (2014) 18. Presence (2024) 17. The…
You can keep Brett Michaels and Gene Simmons. We have these guys:
Post-punk. Post-rock. Jungle. Trip hop.
Daily reminder that right wingers know nothing about culture and should stick to Thomas Kinkade.
The right wingers are trying to rewrite history and claim jungle and trip hop as a white invention lmao.
0 labubus owned, 0 episodes of Love Island watched, 0 dubai chocolate products ingested
The extravagant Daphne du Maurier, author of classic novels like Rebecca and The Birds, inspired Alfred Hitchcock to create two timeless films based on her works.
Can we stop with “influencers really are worse vapid media whores than we expected” headlines?
Place your guesses for Trisha Paytas’s baby name now. Before giving birth to her son, she hinted that it had to do with ‘water’ and ‘film.’ vulture.com/article/trisha…
New York City already operates a version of city-owned grocery stores., and has for decades: bit.ly/40vuSh2
my contribution to this discourse is toshiro mifune in drunken angel
Give an example of the best anyone has ever looked in a movie...
Beyond dumb to make a facile comparison between food rations in Mao’s China and a New York laden with gourmet specialty markets and Michelin-starred restaurants where 1lb of protein - say Wagyu striploin -costs as much as the average weekly grocery bill of $270.
When I grew up poor in Mao’s China, we lived on food rations with 2.7 lbs protein (all meats/eggs) total per month for a family of 5. Boiling veggies was a common dish because pork fat or oil was a luxury. Is this want you want from Mamdani’s gov grocery stores? Socialism Sucks!
I’ve brought damnation upon myself. Phish is playing a 3 concert blitz in my neighborhood. I’ll be forced to listen to them tonight and tomorrow.
Musical Sophie’s Choice: Coldplay or Phish?
That summer started my "journey" with Merchant Ivory which ended several years later the summer I met Ismail Merchant as the PR girl at the @ChicagoFilmFest for one of their films. Will write about it as soon I see the Merchant Ivory doc.
Incredible film. It blew up Daniel Day-Lewis when Laundrette and Room With A View came out the same year.
ROOM WITH A VIEW was also one the titles I rented all the time the summer I fell head over heels for Daniel Day Lewis as a gay racist skinhead and Julian Sands. I probably generated most of the video store's revenue, 2nd to their porn collection.
Incredible film. It blew up Daniel Day-Lewis when Laundrette and Room With A View came out the same year.
Bracing myself for MAGA to accuse Obama of starting the Epstein files to hide that MLK was never actually assassinated and is the true proprietor of Epstein Island.
Trump: Barack Hussein Obama is guilty of treason
Sometimes I get the distinct impression that our world leaders have not read Baudrillard. Smdh
MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE was one of the few foreign titles at my local video when a teen in Chicago. I still love this film.
My Beautiful Laundrette - voted one of the best LGBTQIA+ films to watch by @Tatlermagazine