Christopher Plummer in The Return of the Pink Panther (1975) Vitals Christopher Plummer as Sir Charles Litton, retired jewel thief The Middle East, Summer 1974 Film: The Return of the Pink Panther Release Date: May 21, 1975 Director: Blake Edwards Wardrobe Supervisor: Bridget Sellers WARNING! Spoilers ahead! Background If you’re one of the sartorial purists who subscirbe to rules like “no white after Labor Day”, then let this post serve as inspiration for the upcoming weekend; if you don’t…

The September Star of the Month is Ricardo Montalban.Over two dozen of Montalban's films will be shown on Monday evenings in September.In fact, Montalban's first Star of the Month day, on September 7th, will feature a day-long marathon of his films, including a number of MGM musicals featuring Montalban's fine dancing skills.It's a great September lineup featuring movies from a 35-year span of Montalban's long career, including not only musicals but crime films, Westerns, adventure films,…

I recently wrote about my insignificant relationship to music. My thoughts still hold true when it comes to films. I mentioned in my entry about the Before Trilogy that my current interest in crime films is what holds me back from watching it. However dim my current watchlist may seem, I am no stranger to colourful, fun films that’ll make you stand up and shake your hips. My top 3 films with the best soundtracks are: Trolls Shrek 2 3 Idiots Trolls I remember watching Trolls one boring afternoon…

Today’s recording starts with the end of Hole in the Wall. There’s a trail for Zingzillas. There’s a brief Glastonbury trail, plus a World Cup England v Germany trail. And now it’s the finale to Matt Smith’s first series as the Doctor, Doctor Who – The Big Bang. Because Steven Moffat loves the Timey-Wimey, it opens with a very familiar shot, tracking through Amy’s garden, and we hear young Amelia’s voice saying her prayer to Santa, exactly as from the first episode of the series. But when she…

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From the first trailers, I have been quite intrigued by the new, "Street Fighter," movie. It looked like it knew not to take itself too seriously or treat the source material as if it were only a joke. A new trailer recently dropped, and this may be the first flick I want to go see in theaters in quite some time, instead of just waiting for it to hit streaming. There is a strange over-the-top look and feel that I'm vibing with. Give it a view:This latest take on, "Street Fighter," arrives in…

(Perhaps no one knows as much about Popeye as Fred M. Grandinetti. He was a founding member of the Official Popeye Fan Club. He has also written several books on the character, including Popeye: An Illustrated Cultural History; Popeye, the Collectible: Dolls, Coloring Books, Games, Toys, Comic Books, Animation; Popeye: An Illustrated History of E.C. Segar's Character in Print, Radio, Television, and Film Appearances 1929-1993; He Am What He Am!: Jack Mercer, the Voice of Popeye; and Popeye the…

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It is oddly satisfying that Adam Wingard and Joe Swanberg, both folks from overlapping indie waves fifteen or twenty years ago, both have new movies in local theaters this weekend. Wingard's latest is Onslaught, starring Adria Arjona as a single mom who is probably more capable of defending her trailer park & daughter from a group of brainwashed super-soldiers on a rampage than you might expect,

Watching this movie tonight. Spielberg, Hanks, DiCaprio, Williams soundtrack, hard not to fault. What’s struck me is the other actors, Amy Adams, Jennifer Garner, Ellen Pompeo, Martin Sheen, Elizabeth Banks, all of whom I’d totally forgotten. What a fun movie, sometimes it’s nice just to kick back and chill out. Thanks for reading and keeping RSS alive. Visit my site for more.

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📺 Watched: Star Trek The Original Series S1E3: "Where No Man Has Gone Before" & S1E4: "The Naked Time". I've been loosely following along with the companion book, These Are the Voyages, and reading the various production notes. I skipped a few bits in between episodes (mostly about casting—for instance I didn't read how DeForest Kelley came on board after filming the second pilot (S1E3). S1E3: This is the second pilot shot after "The Cage". There are two things very evident in this episode:…

We're into the "Patricia Hayes" season at Cult TV Blog, in which John assembles a season's worth of performances from an individual actor who's appeared in various shows he's watched. Hayes was a familiar face to British audiences for her various roles, none more so than her 1971 BAFTA-winning role as "Edna, the Inebriate Woman" in Play for Today.At RealWeegieMidget, Gill treats us to reviews of three movies featuring the late, great Tim Curry: the TV series The High Fructose Adventures of…

Tarte mit Orange Curd und Meringue Gestern zum Nachmittagsespresso gab es diese Tarte mit Lemon Curd und Meringue, auf einem extra krossen Mürbeteigboden. Der Professor war bester Laune und erzählte mir folgende Geschichte: Während der Finanzkrise 2008 verloren in New York viele Menschen aus der Finanzbranche ihre Arbeit. Eine der Folgen war eine Welle von Gründungen und Selbstständigkeiten – manche vernünftig, manche ziemlich originell. Einer dieser Leute war Ben Rosenstein. Ben war…

Last night, I went to the theater and saw a preview for the latest Illumination film. It looked just like every other Illumination film, which all look just like every DreamWorks film, which of course all look just slightly worse than every Disney/Pixar film. There are a lot of reviews here talking about how bad Hoodwinked! looks, but you know what? It doesn't look like that. Instead, it has a strong flavor of the sorts of videos I was seeing in the Linux community around this time being touted…

I saw rather a lot of shows at this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe 😅 Fringemaxxed it. Picking shows on whim means you're going to see things you think were decidedly average, terrible even, but I found some unexpected winners too! I've listed everything below, with an off-the-cuff rating. Any review is highly subjective, of course. For example, some people absolutely raved about the Ahir Shah show but it barely raised a chuckle for me. That's just how it is, especially with comedy. Sorry…

Coyote Vs. ACME (2025) • View trailerFive stars (out of five); rated PG, for cartoon violenceAvailable via: Movie theatersBy Derrick Bang • Published in The Davis Enterprise, 9.6.26Chuck Jones would be thrilled to bits. When he and writer Michael Maltese co-created the Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote, for the 1949 Warner Bros. cartoon short “Fast and Furry-ous,” they likely thought this pairing would be a one-off. Paige (Lana Condor) and her Uncle Kevin (Will Forte) are about the experience…

Death Race 2000 (1975)

A version of this review was published on WhatsOnStage There is something undeniably smart about relocating Present Laughter from the world Noël Coward knew to late-1970s Manhattan. In Lindsay Posner’s production, the glamorous actor Gary Essendine becomes Geri Essendine, an expatriate British star who has crossed the Atlantic in pursuit of celebrity. What initially sounds like a gimmick proves surprisingly effective. Coward’s play, with its fascination for fame, ego and the people determined…

Did Christian Siriano use his Siriano Save for good or the producers' evil? Can Project Runway 22 come back from the mess it's made all season? Was Nina Garcia around yet again? It's all in my recap.

Back to July. Aside from Gone With the Wind and Paris, Texas, all of these were part of the Super Saturday Movie Club, whose monthly theme this time was "Japanese Fairytales", comprising movies #33 to #36. Aug 1 - Rashōmon [羅生門] (1950)A movie I had originally watched sometime before 2020 and had been blown away by it. With my current baggage, however, I admired less the screenplay (as I already knew of the events) and more of the cinematography by Kazuo Miyagawa, who will show up in other…

We skip another week. This recording staarts with a trail for National Lottery In It to Win It 2012. Plus a trail for the BBC World Cup website. Then we have Doctor Who – The Pandorica Opens. The first of a two-part series finale. First we’re back in France, 1890, and Vincent Van Gogh is raving about visions. And he’s painted a picture. “Look at this, even worse than his usual rubbish. What’s it supposed to be?” Cut to the Cabinet War Rooms, and Churchill is brought Vincent’s painting by…

by Cláudio Alves Miriam Hopkins in BECKY SHARP (1935), Janet Gaynor in A STAR IS BORN (1937), and Vivien Leigh in GONE WITH THE WIND (1939) were the first 3 Best Actress nominees from full-color movies. The woes of the Great Depression demanded escapism from Hollywood. Such spectacle came in a myriad of forms, including some technical advancements. By 1935, the three-strip Technicolor process was ready for features, blessing the silver screen with hues that called themselves natural while…

Today TCMParty turns 15 years old. For those of you who do not know what TCMParty is, it is a collective live posting of movies on Turner Classic Movies using the hashtag #TCMParty. It originated on Twitter and has since largely moved to Bluesky, although the hashtag is used on other social media services as well. Originally, TCMParties were scheduled and had hosts who posted trivia about the specific movie then airing. The hosts essentially curated the live posting. While scheduled TCMParties…

When I finally saw Phantasm, the movie whose reputation terrified me so much that it took me until middle age to see it, I was surprised by how charming it was. Phantasm II doesn’t have even close to the charm of the first one, but it did still manage to win me over. The first Phantasm actually has a lot in common with other movies that I was curious about when I was younger, but didn’t watch until I was an adult. It wasn’t as scary or graphic as I’d been imagining. It wasn’t as expansive,…

I wrote some thoughts about the film Camp Miasma on Letterboxd after I saw it. In that, I briefly mention how I didn't like this one joke in the film. And it's a few days later and I find I'm still thinking about the joke, so... I guess I'm blogging!The joke is — wait, this might be a lot to unpack, fuck it, let's try anyway — the joke is that the director of the original film within a film Camp Miasma is called Ray Blanchard. Ray Blanchard is a real person, a researcher of trans people. He…

Welcome to The Film Noir Files, the noir series here at Shadows and Satin and over at Speakeasy, the blog authored by my pal Kristina, where each month we recommend a film noir feature for you to watch on TCM. We never know what the other has selected until we post, and part of the fun is trying to never pick the same movie! In all the years that I’ve had this blog – and I started it in 2013 – I’ve never written in depth about The Big Sleep. And I’m not going to start today! But what I AM going…

When Star Trek premiered in 1966, it introduced audiences to a vision of the future filled with advanced technology, distant worlds, and a diverse crew working together aboard the USS Enterprise. Alongside its groundbreaking ideas about space exploration and human progress, the series also became known for its distinctive visual style, particularly the futuristic uniforms […]

Magnificent Doll (1946) stars Ginger Rogers as Dolley Madison, future First Lady and wife of

u/WileECoyoteAMA / Reddit: Hi reddit. I’m Wile E. Coyote, full-time coyote and part-time actor. I’m starring in COYOTE VS ACME, alongside my fellow co-stars Will Forte, John Cena, and Lana Condor. It’s out in theaters everywhere now from Ketchup Entertainment. I’m here to answer your questions. In one of the more clever promotional moves I’ve seen lately, as a promotion for Coyote vs. ACME (which I really need to go see), Wile E. Coyote — or his marketing handlers from WB and/or Ketchup…