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Pop Culture LouWeasel
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Mostly Lord of The Rings, The Rings of Power, Interview With The Vampire, any other media & pop culture geekery
Awww, how lovely! Little Bilbo 😍

Thanks for organizing the whole fundraising event, the Tolkien community is smashing it with the various campaigns 🙌🏼
Congrats to our winner @popcultweasel.bsky.social !
For our 11th raffle prize reveal today, we will have a crochet of a cute Little Bilbo! While @anardilyas.bsky.social is putting the finishing touches on his creation, she has graciously provided a pattern (left pic) and a previous work (right pic) to give you an idea of her artistic style. (1/2)
October 25, 2025 at 9:50 PM
The Vampire Lestat says Happy Bisexuality Day!
non-discriminating flag 🩷💜💙
#iwtv #interviewwiththevampire #art
September 23, 2025 at 4:04 PM
It was a nice Rings of Power reunion too, with Peter Mullan mentioning that they were already friends from "the Lord of the Rings thing, where Rob played a Tory Elf" 😂

Forgive the blurry photos, the cinema had crap low lighting, but forewarned is FOREARMed (hello Elrond! 😏)
September 19, 2025 at 11:13 PM
I SWEAR is so good! Great mix of hilarious and emotional. Robert Aramayo gives an absolutely brilliant performance (his Scottish accent is spot on!), with Peter Mullan, Maxine Peale and Scott Ellis Watson (younger John) fab too. Great Q&A incl the real John Davidson after.
September 19, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Kicked off Edinburgh Fringe with new Hannah Moscovitch play RED LIKE FRUIT at the Trav. Really great, interrogating sexual assault and sexual harm and personal perceptions thereof. Challenges the audience, makes them subtly complicit - you're asked what you feel/believe, and why.
August 1, 2025 at 12:03 AM
It's heeeeere!! #TheRingsOfPower lives!

I love when we get a wee peek at making off/BTS stuff. S3 production has felt quiet so far, all behind closed doors, so good to know they're cooking!
July 30, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Sorry Lestat, but turns out some other long blonde haired rockers will be having an epic show in New Orleans! 🤘🏼🥁🕚

Now I want a Vampire Lestat / Spinal Tap double bill! The ultimate rock clowns

youtu.be/hxkZ7krBzA8?...

#iwtv #spinaltap
Spinal Tap II: The End Continues | Official Trailer | Experience It In IMAX®
YouTube video by IMAX
youtu.be
July 25, 2025 at 2:56 PM
I know they'll add more, and I was too casual about checking, but still seems wild that the first 70mm BFI IMAX screenings for The Odyssey are already sold out. OVER A YEAR IN ADVANCE! 😆
July 17, 2025 at 2:18 PM
So glad that Filmhouse has reopened in Edinburgh, it's been missed. Cinema Paradiso on the big screen as their opening film was fab.
Remembered the last thing I saw there before they closed... eps 1 and 2 of S1 on The Rings of Power! Mad to think (also, pls do some S3 in cinemas Amazon!)
June 27, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Was interested to see what Jonathan Anderson was going to do at Dior, wasn't expecting a (no doubt eye-wateringly expensive) Dracula tote!

The vampire renaissance is going high end
June 24, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Tickets secured for The People Speak @edbookfest.bsky.social - gonna be in the same room as Viggo Mortensen this August 😍
(Not to mention icon Vanessa Redgrave too!)
But ngl, it's my decades long Aragorn love that's most thrilled today!
June 21, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Interview With The Vampire cathedrals everywhere, for those with eyes to see... The morning sun was casting weird shapes and light through the tops of my curtains earlier, felt quite of a piece with yesterday's imagery!
#iwtv
June 17, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Congrats to Michelle Lim Davidson and Marg Downey for their Logie noms, and #TheNewsreader overall for Best Drama, but it's crazy to get no nominations for Leads (altho Anna Torv got a nom for Territory, which seems to be dominating)
Sam Reid went to incredible places in that role!
June 16, 2025 at 10:06 AM
This is a great interview with Rolin Jones - I love that he doesn't really hold back
(this show is yappers all the way down!).
There's never been any doubt, but the levels of care, consideration and quality that goes into IWTV... 🥹

www.indiewire.com/awards/consi...
Rolin Jones Knew ‘Interview with the Vampire’ Season 2 Nailed It When He Saw Jacob Anderson’s Dramatic Transformation
Pre-Emmys, the showrunner for AMC's vampire drama with Sam Reid and Jacob Anderson told IndieWire when he knew they were a hit. Plus, Season 3 teaser.
www.indiewire.com
June 16, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Matthew Santos (producer, singer, performer) who's working with Daniel Hart and Sam Reid on #iwtv music/songs this season, posted this from Toronto (that's the word cut off at the start) - he's promising us a BONKERS season! He seems genuinely psyched for it - adding to my hype levels!
June 12, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Book Festival programme is so big it's taken me til end of the day to realise that Viggo will be there too!! 😍

The ticket queue is going to be an even bigger bun fight than usual come on-sale day!

www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...
The People Speak
From Sun 24 Aug - Join a host of acclaimed writers and actors, including the one and only Viggo Mortensen (The Lord of the Rings, Captain Fantastic) and the iconic Vanessa Redgrave (The Devils, Atonem...
www.edbookfest.co.uk
June 10, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Yessss, V.E. Schwab at the Edinburgh book festival, as I'd hoped (was so annoyed I missed out on tickets for her Traverse event end of this month).
Bring on the Louis/Lestat inspired lesbian vampires, love story, and feminine rage! #BuryOurBones
www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...
Watch online: V E Schwab: A Hunger for the Ages
From Sat 16 Aug - Death’s usually thought of as the end of life, but according to V E Schwab, author of international sensation The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, it’s just the beginning of something ...
www.edbookfest.co.uk
June 10, 2025 at 11:04 AM
This cast... 🥹 I was obsessed with Hamilton back in the day, and the way I can still name everyone in this photo ten years later! Very excited for the OBC reunion performance at the Tony's tomorrow #HamilTEN
June 6, 2025 at 6:51 PM
New Dracula!
Surprise Luc Besson, with Caleb Landry Jones looking suitably deranged as the Count (and Christoph Waltz v/o as Priest), apparently the focus is more on his 'lost love'. No UK or US distribution yet, just France and Germany
youtu.be/w05UztF-3xY?...
DRACULA Trailer (2025) Christoph Waltz, Luc Besson
YouTube video by ONE Media
youtu.be
June 6, 2025 at 10:17 AM
A new Hannah Moscovitch play, RED LIKE FRUIT, coming to the Trav for Edinburgh Fringe?! Well now, consider that my first August show booked. How exciting!
Red Like Fruit (European Premiere)
by Hannah Moscovitch, directed by Christian Barry

Lauren asks Luke to narrate her life, but why? An interrogation of the complexities of complicity, consent, patriarchy and trauma in the post #MeToo era.

#TravFest25

www.traverse.co.uk/whats-on/eve...
May 29, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Lovely interview, with questions that are allowed to breathe, Jacob gives us so much to consider in return!
#iwtv
May 27, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Had to be done...😇

Adoration of the Shepherds with a Donor (Vecchio), aka Arun and the Holy Family
And my battered copy of #iwtv, being a dork in the Louvre

Mad that it's up high in the corner, ignored by the madness around the Mona Lisa across the room (pic in next post)
May 12, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Inside you there are two wolves...

Getting my conclave updates on lowest volume, while listening to #TheRingsOfPower cinematographer Alex Disenhof in conversation with ARRI. Love all the technical chat!
May 8, 2025 at 5:44 PM
I'd made a library reservation for Conclave MONTHS ago, the queue was understandably long cos of the film. Felt gloriously timely to have finally gotten my copy on the same day the actual Conclave starts (the reservation queue behind me is even longer now!)
#conclave
May 8, 2025 at 12:53 AM