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Screens and Pixels
What and Pixels? Screens
Screens and Pixels. Correct.
Is that what it actually is? Yes.
Yes!
This is Lex. Hi.
And we are going to talk about some of the favourite things we have seen and listened to recently.
We both recently saw Kubo and the Two Strings
Separately. Did we see it separately?
I wasn't at that screening.
We separately saw Kubo and the Two Strings
Which is an animated stop motion film Yeah
It's like Coraline if you've seen that.
Yeah so it's like mostly stop motion. There is a bit of CGI but it's like incredible.
Seeing adverts for that I was just like what is this?
I called my local cinema or like - called? tweeted them.
to see if they were going to play it and they were like "Yes, yes we will"
The screening I went to the director was there so we got to talk to him about it.
and it was really interesting seeing all the influences
It is based on old Japanese folk lore
It's really cool, like stylistically. It really reminds me of one of the Legend of Zelda games
Like the really stylised one I can't remember what it's called right now.
but it's just like amazing graphics, it's beautiful. It made me cry.
I think the music was really nice. I can't remember exactly what the music was
but I just remember it being very good like the sound effect were really good.
Then the fact that there are these huge creatures that have all been done with stop motion
There's at the end of it, the end of the film there is a behind the scenes bit but you can also look it up online.
We'll link it in the description.
It's so impressive and also the fact that when Kubo tells a story he plays his instrument
and paper will come up and fold into these figurines and like act out the story.
Also there's two characters in there, the sisters, that are like properly terrifying
Like so eerie I was geniunely hiding my face in the cinema
I was actually really scared
I think I cried three times
Out of fear. I was sobbing
Afterwards everyone just sat there like probably the same at the screening you went to
and we were all just like shell shocked because it just was so good
like I haven't seen anything so good for such a long time
So one of my favourites is In the Heights
I got to go a press screening. It is a musical. It's written by Lin-Manuel Miranda from Hamilton fame.
Is it in the King's Cross Theatre? It is in the Kings Cross Theatre
So it's in the same theatre where the Railway Children was.
So it is the stage they built across the tracks
It's really funny if you've seen the other musical it's kind of hilarious
This is something I've actually been wanting to see for about a year
because someone else told me about it.
and then I got invited to this press event which is really nice.
We got to do some dancing beforehand, we got some Salsa lessons
with the actual dancers which was kind of terrifying. Oh wow.
I'll insert some snapchat footage here over Lex's face
It is set in Washington Heights in New York in a Domincan American neighbourhood
The main actor basically sounded and looked so much like Lin-Manuel Miranda
and then at the end of it he did a little speech and he went back into his London accent
and I was like "Woah!"
This is like the sexiest musical I have ever seen.
If you sit really close to the stage and there is so much dancing and shaking
There is a lot of like really funny characters in it
but it makes you think about what it's like to be a first and second generation immigrant in the US
and talks lot about the struggle of like what if your a second generation immigrant
and you've never been to your home country like that kinda stuff.
They've just celebrated their 1 year anniversary in the London Theatre.
So yeah could definitely recommend that.
My next thing is the new Bridget Jones film: Bridget Jones' Baby
Woo! We are about to go see it. Me for the first time Lex for the second time.
I -yeah and the fact I'm seeing it for my second time obviously I enjoyed it.
It's not like a beautiful peice of art
but it is a perfect Bridget -like a Bridget Jones film?
-Yeah exactly. It's perfect Bridget
I really loved it. I just thought it was so perfect.
It's everything - it's everything I wanted and I honestly cried a few times at it.
I wonder if I'll cry this time or if it was just the emotion of the premiere night.
I just thought it was perfect and me and my sister afterwards were so emotional about it
'cause you feel as if you know Bridget -Yeah
Like you've grown up with Bridget and now I feel like I am Bridget
so, I mean I don't have a nice flat but
Those are like the most unrealistic expectation of Bridget films, like everyone's appartments
Everyone lives in a beautiful one bedroom flat by themselves in central London
I did really notice is that it's so White and I thought the old films were super White
but I was like well they were made at a time when people weren't think so much about diversity
but this is also a very White film so that is definitely to its detriment
Umm so I wish I could say it's perfect but it's not quite perfect
but it is still really worth watching
The next thing I have is an album and it was recommended by Marion
and I am just in love with it.
It's called Dead Man's Bones but the duo Dead Man's Bones which has Ryan Gosling in it.
-So good! Ryan Gosling, Halloween, and a kids choir.
What are they called? The Silver Lake Conservatory Kids Choir.
It is like so eerie and creepy and beautiful
and I don't want to see that much more about it. I'll put a link to Spotify in the description
Go listen to it
It's like an experience, isn't it? You have to experience it. -Yeah. Yeah
My next thing is the Amanda Knox documentary which is on Netflix which is just called Amanda Knox
I didnt' know anything about this Lex just talked me though it
It's about a murder that took place in Italy and it was an American Student
and her boyfriend who got accused of murderering their English flatmate
and it was massive in the news at the time.
All the tabloids newspapers were obsessed with this woman because she was young and beautiful
and they decided she had too many male partners and therefor was a dangerous woman.
It was really bizzare they called her Foxy Knoxy because that was her Myspace name
so obviously they used that in all the headlines.
So it's about them getting convicted for murder and then the conviction getting overturned
and all of the things that contributed to that.
It kinda boils down to the fact she basically seemed to get convicted of murder
because they just didn't like how she acted -hm
not really based on the evidence because it turns out all the evidence was all completely botched.
So yeah it's really interesting it's one of those, you know. everyone is obsessed with true crime right now.
Yeah I was going to say is it kind of like if you like Making a Murderer and that kind of stuff?
Yeah exactly it's that kind of stuff that's all led on from Making a Murderer and Serial
My final one is an Instagram account.I'm kind of like trying to follow some new Instagram accounts
and this is one of my favourites. It is Present & Correct (@presentandcorrect)
and they are a stationery shop in London. They are actually amazing
I have a little like envelope pin that I have on my jean jacket that I got from them.
The just sell the most beautiful stationery but also the way the tiny shop is laid out is like georgious
and that is what their Instagram is like
they have like beautiful pictures of stationery and pins and stuff like that.
Alright so those are some of the things we have recently seen and heard and enjoyed.
We'll put links to whatever we can link in the description
Go check out Lex's channel at tyrannosauruslexxx
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I'll talk to you guys later.
Doei