#carmen gray

✏️ Imagine my surprise when I went to grab Elijah and his family, only to find he’s in a whole family of women. As I gave them The Treatment ™️, I imagined how many talks his moms Emi and Asuka (yup, that’s the names they came with) had him about women not being possessions 🙄🤭 (Also, I love how they came out - I barely had to do anything at all ☺️)

While Elijah coasts on his sports scholarship, one might wonder if he’ll take the time to work on himself a bit? Considering we wants to be a good role model for his baby sister Layla, he certainly should.

It’s happening – the thing Carmine has spent her whole life dreaming about. She’s fully aware people think her interest in the mortuary arts is creepy, but someone has to do it, right? Not only that, Carmine’s always felt that the human body was a work of art; moreover, she feels people deserve dignity, empathy and skill when they pass over. No one agrees with her more than her mother Eldora , who respects her daughter‘s calling.

Gotta say - really proud of our boy, Kwame; most guys like him would give up once they were told they had to repeat a grade because they didn’t have enough credits, but he stuck it out. As a result, Mr. Fell tutored and mentored him; even helped apply for scholarships. Now he is the first recipient of the Brown Athletic Grant - a supplemental grant helping underprivileged athletes with living expenses and extraneous school expenses created by Hyacinth Atkins.

Good job, man!

It’s been a little lonely here for Miwa; there used to be a time she hoped she’d have Khem, but she’s come to accept the fact that he and Fetia are endgame and no way does she want to get in the way of that. On the bright side, being alone has given her plenty of time to get her test scores up, secure a full ride to Foxbury, and be named as a Feng Recipient.

From putting on fashion shows with her Papa (Joshua) in the living room with for her Daddy (Elias), Gladys knew she was destined to be in fashion. But designing wasn’t for her; she saw herself as more of a the driving force of things like fashion week and the Spring Edition at the top magazine. Gladys still doesn’t have it all figured out, but she’s confident her Feng Grant well help her figure it out and give her the tools to get there .

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THE CRACKLE GOES KIWI CAPER MAKES ME WANNA SHIP CARMEN AND GRAY S O B A D

---> Quelques nuages glissèrent dans l'azur.

“The tragic downfall of a celebrity ingenue: a trusted, market-friendly formula for the big screen, especially where female recording artists are concerned. Documentaries about female stars tend to tread a similar narrative, involving a reductive look at personal histories, where the film-maker is less interested in the idea of accomplished musicians than of girls who supposedly dreamed too big and self-destructed through addiction and failed relationships. With this mythologising, you might say that Amy Winehouse (Asif Kapadia’s Amy), Whitney Houston (Nick Broomfield’s Whitney: Can I Be Me), Nina Simone ( Liz Garbus and Hal Tulchin’s What Happened Miss Simone?) and Janis Joplin (Amy Berg’s Janis: Little Girl Blue) have been made more alike in death than in life.

While not without their virtue, their narratives are one-dimensional compared to films about their male counterparts. These include Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck, Grant Gee’s Joy Division and Jay Bulger’s Beware of Mr Baker, in which troubled men of rock are permitted more cinematic space to be many things. Inventive explorations of the creative process of living musicians (whether Nick Cave reflecting on stage transformation to a Freudian analyst in 20,000 Days on Earth, or the genius of Bob Dylan as incarnated by no less than six actors in I’m Not There) are largely a masculine domain.” - Carmen Gray

A divorced dad goes to extreme lengths to go on holiday with his daughter in Radu Jude's dark comedy, out on Blu-Ray from Second Run.

Previously, the only film by the Romanian director Radu Jude to receive a general release in the UK is Aferim!, an eccentric, stylized take on Western genre tropes that slowly reveals itself to be a commentary on a historical atrocity little-known outside Eastern Europe. Now, Second Run have released his sophomore feature Everybody in Our Familyon Blu-Ray, and it initially seems hard to believe…