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Gavia Baker-Whitelaw@gavia.bsky.social |
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Film and TV critic, pop culture journalist. Co-host of the Overinvested movie podcast, co-editor of the Rec Center newsletter. she/her
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Gavia Baker-Whitelaw
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I never want to live alone, but the one time I'm like "oh no... not other people in the house..." is when I have to practice some kind of audio work by TALKING TO MYSELF IN MY ROOM WHERE ANYONE CAN HEAR.
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Gavia Baker-Whitelaw
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one of the all time champion cookie recipes www.janespatisserie.com/2021/05/01/b...
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respect to the guy who managed to get the L sign for LOSER into shot during Sunak's concession speech, not just in this wide angle but *even when they moved in close to try and crop it out*, there was no point at which the L was not in sight and it was a petty pleasure but absolutely beautiful
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Gavia Baker-Whitelaw
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This week's Overinvested episode is on the groundbreaking 1985 lesbian romance movie Desert Hearts! What a wonderful film. www.overinvestedpodcast.com/episodes/des...
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Gavia Baker-Whitelaw
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"Interview with the Vampire just aired the best season finale of 2024." www.inverse.com/entertainmen...
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there are so many terrible baby books transparently aimed at hyperspecific parental demographics rather than what small children actually enjoy haha
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i love the fact that some viewers are bewitched and seduced by armand's passive and beautiful demeanour, something that's explicitly deceptive in the text of the show lol. (the "he" here honestly could be any one of them!)
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Gavia Baker-Whitelaw
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the finale has only been out for like 5 minutes so i won't be elaborating further at this time. however. we need to reopen the schools.
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Gavia Baker-Whitelaw
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the IWTV finale seems to have unleashed some kind of mass misinterpretation event, best summarized as "i can't believe he'd* do such a thing!!" * "he" being one of the season's three undead monster protagonists, all of whom would in fact "do such a thing."
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One for The Acolyte fans: I wrote a breakdown of episode 5's lightsaber fights, and what they say about High Republic-era Jedi and Sith. www.gamesradar.com/entertainmen...
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Gavia Baker-Whitelaw
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beyond grim to see HBO pushing forward with the HP tv series when JKR is personally lobbying the UK government to eliminate basic rights for trans people.
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Gavia Baker-Whitelaw
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haha NO just to be clear I'm exaggerating for effect. it's like 3 or 4 pitches I'm judiciously sending to a series of different outlets
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Gavia Baker-Whitelaw
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if I can't get SOMEONE to commission one of my 150 Interview with the Vampire thinkpiece pitches then I'm gonna keel over like a victorian hysteric.
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Gavia Baker-Whitelaw
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(podcast incoming asap!!)
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this would make such an interesting double bill with Far From Heaven. two gay filmmakers playing with the frameworks of 1950s melodrama/romance in very different ways, free from the restrictions of actual 1950s cinema.
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Gavia Baker-Whitelaw
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spent 99% of Desert Hearts thinking how endearing it is that they BARELY attempt to make it look like a 1950s period piece. then the final scene hit me with 50,000 volts of pure mid-20th century romance and i remembered once again that historical detail is for schmucks.
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Elizabeth Minkel
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Yesterday for WIRED, I wrote about fan anxieties in the volatile streaming era—and what happened when they struck my favorite show of all time, Interview with the Vampire:
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I don't talk about IWTV here because I never see anyone else talking about it!! So I guess I'm adding to a vicious cycle lol. But if you haven't seen it and are curious, please allow @gavia.bsky.social & I to aggressively hard-sell a show I just saw (accurately) described as a "gay fever dream":
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😭😭😭💖💖💖 that's so sweet!!! honestly its killing me that I'm not able to publish weekly recaps somewhere...
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Gavia Baker-Whitelaw
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lyrics like "sexy confident/so intelligent" are ONLY permissable for europop. not famed californian nun-evictor katheryn hudson.
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I was just exposed to a brief clip of a new katy perry track and I'm pretty sure it was written either by or for jenna maroney from 30 rock
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Gavia Baker-Whitelaw
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the absolute temerity of Doctor Who airing an 8-episode season with a two-part finale featuring UNIT and a big mystery box supervillain... I can't be having with this.
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Gavia Baker-Whitelaw
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(in other news, our Furiosa review episode is out now!)
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Gavia Baker-Whitelaw
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Just noticed that Soundcloud didn't activate direct downloads on some recent Overinvested episodes, so for any Soundcloud listeners (?), I'm fixing that problem now!
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Gavia Baker-Whitelaw
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Over at Atlas Obscura, I wrote about the history of summer camp horror movies, a genre that exploded in popularity during the 1980s slasher era. www.atlasobscura.com/articles/sum...
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Gavia Baker-Whitelaw
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Over at Atlas Obscura, I wrote about the history of summer camp horror movies, a genre that exploded in popularity during the 1980s slasher era. www.atlasobscura.com/articles/sum...
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bridgerton will have to move heaven and earth to make me believe eloise is attracted to anyone, never mind a man.
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Gavia Baker-Whitelaw
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i previously had v little interest in the outcome of the stanley cup finals, but ever since drake put $500k on the oilers, this whole situation has gained an effervescent frisson of schadenfreude
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Gavia Baker-Whitelaw
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omg!!!
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IT'S HERE! My conversation with the costume designer of Interview with the Vampire, Carol Cutshall: www.tvguide.com/news/intervi...
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Gavia Baker-Whitelaw
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they lost another damn director! whats goin on over there!
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truly wish i could've asked her 20 more questions! these brief junket timeslots are so tricky.
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Gavia Baker-Whitelaw
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LOVED the insight into Armand's open-necked shirts as a symbol of his power & fearlessness because he's "the highest predator on the foodchain." Fascinated by the detail that Claudia's Baby Lu dress was designed to look like a 2D children's book illustration!
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Gavia Baker-Whitelaw
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thank you!!
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IT'S HERE! My conversation with the costume designer of Interview with the Vampire, Carol Cutshall: www.tvguide.com/news/intervi...
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Gavia Baker-Whitelaw
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late to the party but I just started watching the Chucky TV series and it's sooo fun
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Gavia Baker-Whitelaw
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I wrote about The Acolyte's role as a cop show, complete with Jedi masters dropping crime TV vocab like "suspect" and "custody," and the idea of lightsabers as a law enforcement service weapon. www.gamesradar.com/entertainmen...
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Gavia Baker-Whitelaw
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finding a cool enough guy should be the hardest part of this process! they already got that down but mahershala is 50 beautiful years old! the clock is ticking!!
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Gavia Baker-Whitelaw
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marvel's inability to make the new Blade movie is another dazzling example of hollywood malpractice. they announced mahershala ali's casting in 2019 and since then they've gone thru multiple creative teams/rewrites for what should be one of the simplest spinoffs to make ("cool guy fights vampires").
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this sounds groundbreakingly unwatchable
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obvs Andor is still in a class of its own, but that's true when compared to TV dramas in general, not just the Star Wars franchise.
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I'm so inured to being sent into a coma by Boba Fett etc that I was honestly astonished to see The Acolyte wrap up two key conflicts in the first two eps instead of drawing them out for a full tedious season.
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Gavia Baker-Whitelaw
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The Acolyte is what all of the more family-friendly Star Wars TV shows should've been all along, ie. appealing sets and locations, characters with distinctive personalities, and a plot where multiple things happen per episode to propel an emotionally engaging story. THE BAR WAS SO LOW.
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lmaoo
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god, huge congrats to the shippers on this year's stanley cup final lineup. what a gift to a certain corner of the internet.
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Gavia Baker-Whitelaw
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two great details in this week's doctor who: all the racist tiktok airheads having infantile names like "lindy pepperbean," and the fact that they were like CAKED in foundation.
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the beard............................................
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idk why this objectively quite normal casting news provoked identical flavours of negative reaction from both @mldavies.bsky.social and i but obvs we're always correct
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omg so true
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rory kinnear tom bombadil... we need to stage an intervention
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