Tag: fandom

  • September Fandom Crossover Musings~

    Mina-san! Genki? Ha!

    Forgive the complete absent from the blog recently (two entries last month, and this is the first one this month!), I’ve been generally “more busy” updating the MUBI (the site formerly known as The Auteurs lol) database than even actually keeping up with news (trailers/music) on YAM Magazine or watching movies and shows. I’ve also been occupied watching Korean shows, which tend to make everyone procrastinate. And it’s not like it was priority-watching, either~ I’ve been watching Solar and Eric Nam’s We Got Married episodes, but my favorite watch and re-watches was Mamamoo x GFRIEND’s Showtime.

    I don’t actually stan GFRIEND, and I already have biases. Bless.

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    Bless, SinB. Bless SinB with Moonbyul, Bless New Crush Star. LOL

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  • Bibi Zhou Slaying for Harper’s Bazaar and Vogue China

    Apparently, BiBi now has an official Facebook page (finally!). And it turns out that I’ve missed a couple of photoshoots, since BiBi has been promoting the release of Cold War 2, one of them a shoot by an unknown photographer for the July issue of Harper’s Bazaar China, featuring this gorgeous dual cover.

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  • New Nobuhiro Yamashita’s Over Fence Stills

    Just taking the chance to dump all Over Fence images I’ve found in the last couple of weeks~ Cinema Cafe has recently published a couple of new stills from the film, which opens on September 17th.

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  • Update Khamatova Filmography Supercut

    Chulpan Khamatova’s FB updated a couple of days ago with a link sharing this supercut of her most updated filmography; meaning it includes Under Electric Clouds, as well as The Puppet Syndrome. There’s just a couple of clips I’m not so sure of, they could be from her series Bashnya (Башня) [Wikipedia], which was a little bit difficult to watch for lack of subs xD

    Recognized clips (without repeats) are as follow~

    • Sobytie [1]
    • The Puppet Syndrome
    • Paper Soldier
    • Midsummer Madness (in that red whatever that is uniform xD)
    • Katya (short film)
    • Sleeping Songs
    • Dostoevsky (series)
    • The Rainbowmaker
    • Under the Electric Clouds
    • America
    • There’s a desaturated kissing clip between two Puppet Syndrome clips, that I think looks like America. But I’m not 100% on that.
    • The clip of Chulpan with a beard is from the Ivan the Terrible series.
    • The clip of Chulpan revealing her mangled face is from Bashnya
    • Unrecognized red screencap 001
    • Unrecognized sitting screencap 002
    • The House of the Sun

    The unrecognized scenes could very well be from Sleeping Songs, I honestly don’t remember a thing about that movie. lol I’ll leave you with the screencaps, in case anyone wonders and/or knows. The second cap could be, judging from the hairstyle and the eyebrows, but I’m drawing a blank with 001. xD

    Some image confirmation source at kino-teatr.ru + ruskino.ru

  • Come on, hey, Amy~

    Oh, man~ I got it bad~~~

    Look who’s totally officially a Moomoo. First time ever with a Kpop group, too!

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    Bonus of Su Yunying, though~

    But I’m totally rocking the radish onesie!

    Kigurumi is probably out of stock again.

  • The Lonely Girl Has Gone to Close Shinjuku Cinema Qualite Film Fest

    A few items on Yu Aoi’s upcoming film, which we are calling The Lonely Girl Has Gone, but it should be noted that IMDb has it listed twice— one as Japanese Girls Never Die, and the other as Haruko Azumi Is Missing. Therefore, there is no official English title for the movie, despite the book being listed with the name in YesAsia [1].

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    According to Eiga.com, the film is set to close this year’s edition of the Shinjuku Cinema Qualite Film Festival (新宿シネマカリテの映画祭) in Tokyo, as part of the Qualite Fantastic! Cinema Collection 2016 (カリテ・ファンタスティック！シネマコレクション2016) presenting 71 films from 16 countries… including Taiwan’s Our Times [Trailer], which I totally recommend for a fresh rom-com.

    The collection will be presented from July 16th to August 19th. In addition, there will also be presentations at Cine Libre Umeda (シネ・リーブル梅田) in Osaka between August 6th to the 26th, and Nakagawa Corona Cinema World (中川コロナシネマワールド) in Nagoya, Aichi, between August 6th to September 2nd.

    I also ran…

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  • Mamamoo Got No Chill for Pretz

    The first thing to notice- OMO, I’ve been saying Pretz wrong my WHOLE life. How does Pretz (which obviously derives from Pretzel) end up being “pritz”? HOW!?

    Second thing to notice… Solar, I’m never ever sharing snacks with you xD You bunch of adorable dorks.

  • If I’m going down this can of worms~

    I’m not going down alone~~~

    Remembering when you used to liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiive for a fandom? Spending time online reading about it, researching about it, writing about it— I possibly spent all the time reading and waiting for Forever Knight to be updated, because somehow I broke my rule of reading “completed” fics only. But I was hooked; NC-17 + Hermione + Vampires? I was in.

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    img credit: harmonyfanficrec

    Thank you, Delivermefromeve, for the wonderful and angsty hours of reading. I don’t think I ever read any fanfic ever again the same way I read yours.

  • Happy 8-years-watching Yu Aoi Movies, Y’all!

    It’s tomorrow, but still~ worth a mention!

    I also updated my Yu Aoi Films Ranked post with an Umineko watch, which was better than I was expecting from its IMDb rating. It’s totally worth the 6.5-7 rating on Douban, though… even if Yu-chan is barely in it. The subtitles available are poor, though, but they make do~

    I can’t believe it’s been 8 years since. Last month I remembered Last Friends and Juri Ueno, and all my Asian entertainment fever years, which is coming back, I can feel it. Going to Japan, having Kirin Tea, Calbee potato chips, getting JiNS Air Frame glasses, eating tokoroten~ the whole fan experience. lol

    So~ to celebrate this fan-niversary, here’s an image of Yu-chan in her Oha-garu days~

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  • Flawless BiBi Zhou

    I haven’t been stanning BiBi like I used to (I did listen to her new song, and I do know she’s on the latest Cold War 2 movie), but look at that face and flawless make-up! I don’t even know what the image is for. I was only able to find this black and white version on BiBi’s Weibo, so I’ll just call it a snapshot~

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    It’s a flawless snapshot.