October 25, 2013 - 16:03 BST hellomagazine.com Halloween recipes: Witches' severed fingers biscuits Children will love making these knobbly, gnarled fingers. Makes: 24 Prep time: 30 minutes Cooking time: 10-12 minutes Ingredients 125g (4½oz) plain flour + extra for rolling 95g (3½oz) unsalted butter, cubed 110g (4oz) mature Cheddar, roughly grated ¼ level tsp cayenne pepper 1 level tsp salt 1 tsp Lyle’s Black Treacle ½ tsp boiling water 24 flaked almonds Method You will also need 2 baking trays lined with parchment paper. Preheat the oven to 190°C/Fan170°C, 375°F, gas 5. Mix the flour and butter together in a food processor for 20-30 seconds or until they resemble fine breadcrumbs. Add the cheese, cayenne and salt and pulse just until the dough is formed. Transfer to a lightly floured surface and knead briefly to make a .smooth dough. Chill for 20 minutes. Roll the dough out on a lightly floured surface to … [Read more...] about Halloween recipes: Witches’ severed fingers biscuits
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Kate McKinnon Is a Child-Eating QAnon Witch on Weekend Update
What do you call the Saturday Night Live trope where a wacky character lies unconvincingly, and it’s so funny because it’s so obvious, and that’s kind of the whole joke? I can’t think of another example off the top of my head but I know it in my heart to be a thing. On this week’s Weekend Update, Kate McKinnon gave a hilarious example of it, as Stephanie Green the QAnon member who’s just a normal girl from Ohio who works in an office with coffee and pencils. But really, she’s a fairy-tale witch, prosthetic chin and everything, and she follows QAnon because they keep claiming that celebrities are part of a child-eating global cabal, and she very nakedly wants to know where the child-eaters are at so she can go eat some children. Because she’s a witch. And her house is made of candy. And she likes children of all kinds: “boys, girls, BBQ, cool ranch.” Most of what makes this effective is how much fun McKinnon is having playing this sort of living cartoon of a character, with her … [Read more...] about Kate McKinnon Is a Child-Eating QAnon Witch on Weekend Update
We’re Off to See Another
Dorothy’s shocked too. Photo: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer There’s no place like yet another Wizard of Oz adaptation. Deadline reported today that another film based on the classic book is in the works at New Line Cinema, with Watchmen director Nicole Kassell attached to direct. “The opportunity to examine the original themes — the quest for courage, love, wisdom, and home — feels more timely and urgent than ever,” Kassell told Deadline. Uh, all right then. The book has been adapted many times before — the most famous, of course, being the 1939 version with Judy Garland. Others famously include 1978’s The Wiz, starring Diana Ross as Dorothy and Michael Jackson as the Scarecrow in an all-Black cast, and, most recently, Disney’s 2013 Oz the Great and Powerful. There’s a Muppets version, an anime television series, and Broadway and West End musicals (plus Wicked, which is basically The Wizard of Oz fanfic). But since this remake is … [Read more...] about We’re Off to See Another
Disney+’s WandaVision trailer is here and fans are asking the same question
September 21, 2020 - 12:19 BST Emmy Griffiths WandaVision is the first Disney+ show to come out of the MCU - and we are so excited to check it out Disney+ has released their first trailer for WandaVision , one of the planned MCU TV series which will feature two of the popular Avengers - Wanda and Vision. READ: Disney+'s Hamilton's ending explained In the first trailer for the new show, the couple are living in a sitcom before they realise that something is very wrong with the world they are inhabiting. So why are they there, and how is it linked to the events of Avengers: Infinity War and Endgame ? Watch the trailer here... Loading the player... WATCH: Where are Wanda and Vision in the new MCU show? Fans have been asking the same question about the new series which - spoiler alert - is based on the events of the superheroes films. Taking to YouTube, plenty of viewers were wondering just how Vision is alive … [Read more...] about Disney+’s WandaVision trailer is here and fans are asking the same question
Oscar nominations 2013: Adele and Daniel Day-Lewis nomiated for Academy Awards
January 10, 2013 - 15:53 GMT hellomagazine.com Oscar nominations 2013: singer Adele gets Academy Award nomiation for Skyfall while Daniel Day Lewis makes Best Actor shortlist for Lincoln Adele has scored her biggest career high yet, after being nominated for an Academy Award . The songstress, who has been put forward in the Best Original Song category for her 007 theme tune Skyfall , joins a handful of other Brits on the path to Oscar glory in 2013. After congratulations flooding in over Twitter, the 24-year-old thanked her fans. "Oh my god I feel like Meryl Streep!! Thank you x," she wrote. Joining her is Daniel Day-Lewis , up for Best Actor thanks to his performance in the title role of Lincoln - the US president who steered his country through the civil war. He is up against Denzel Washington – leading man from Flight , Les Miserables' Hugh Jackman , Bradley Cooper , put forward for his part … [Read more...] about Oscar nominations 2013: Adele and Daniel Day-Lewis nomiated for Academy Awards