This blog post is the thirty-fifth in a series examining past winners of the Best Dramatic Presentation Hugo Award. An introductory blog post is here.It was the 50th World Science Fiction Convention, and to celebrate this milestone, the Hugo rocket was electroplated gold for the first and only time. In Hall A of the Orange County Convention Centre, air conditioning struggled to keep up with the muggy humidity outside.A member of the production teamfor Terminator 2 was on handin Orlando to…

Robert Wagner and Susan Flannery in The Towering Inferno (1974) Vitals Robert Wagner as Dan Bigelow, horny public relations agent San Francisco, Summer 1974 Film: The Towering Inferno Release Date: December 14, 1974 Director: John Guillermin Costume Designer: Paul Zastupnevich WARNING! Spoilers ahead! Background I recently saw a tweet clowning on Robert Wagner’s ignominious death in The Towering Inferno that again got me thinking about the style in this char-studded—er- star-studded ’70s…

Myla Carmen as Zara in Before I’m Dead, The Glitch, Photo: Phoebe Dyer There is a veil of death hanging over the theatres around The Cut in London. Care at the Young Vic is set in a nursing home and about the end of life, and a few minutes’ walk away at The Glitch is Before I’m Dead, a play about a terminally ill teen. But the two couldn’t be more different productions. Zara (Myla Carmen) is 17 and likely won’t make 18 because of a brain tumour. She is assigned a therapist, Stuart (Pete…

Animaniacs: Wakko's Wish (1999)

Saoirse Ronan is one of my favourite actors and I decided to have my very own Saiorse Ronan appreciation week, watching six five of her movies. Two of them I had seen before and four were new ones. I was also planning to watch On Chesil Beach but I thought I had borrowed it on DVD from the library but actually had planned to watch it from the library’s streaming service and managed to use up all my loans for the month before watching it. I also wanted to write about them because I enjoy reading…

In the Twin Peaks pilot, several scenes at The Great Northern Hotel were filmed at Kiana Lodge in Poulsbo, Washington. I have previously examined locations such as the fireplace, the Concierge desk, and the moment when Sheriff Truman informs Leland Palmer about his daughter Laura. Today, I’m examining the breakfast meeting with the Norwegians in The Great... The post Twin Peaks Location – Breakfast Meeting with the Norwegians in the Twin Peaks Pilot appeared first on TWIN PEAKS BLOG.

In the most recent episode of my new favorite series, Widow’s Bay, a couple of teens are watching an old black and white horror movie on TV. Thanks to the work of recap podcasters scouring the show for details, I learned that it’s a 1960 British movie called The City of the Dead, or Horror Hotel in its US release. Since it’s (currently) easy to watch for free online, I figured it was worth checking out as a curiosity, if nothing else. My condescendingly low expectations turned out to be…

Today Victor Sen Yung is best known for playing the Cartwrights' cook Hop Sing on Bonanza and Charlie Chan's Number Two son Jimmy in the Charlie Chan movies. Regardless, Victor Sen Yung played many more roles in his career, as well as an accomplished chef who wrote his own cookbook. He was also a pioneer among Chinese American actors.Victor Sen Yung was born Sen Yew Cheung on October 18, 1945, in San Francisco. His parents had both immigrated from China. His mother died from influenza during…

This week’s episode of RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars season 11 delivered some really important images that will last a lifetime: Silky squirting milk out of her corseted udder and Crystal Methyd dressed as a chicken prostitute. Marshal Knight recaps!

MISSISSIPPI (1935), starring Bing Crosby and W.C. Fields, has just been released on Blu-ray by Universal.This is a film I've long wanted to see due to its leading ladies, favorites Joan Bennett and Gail Patrick.Bing plays Tom Grayson, a Quaker-raised Philadelphian now living in the South.Tom is newly engaged to Elvira (Patrick), but when her former suitor shows up at the engagement party and challenges Tom to a duel for "stealing" his sweetheart, Tom thinks it's absurd and refuses.Elvira is…

"He's gonna make it!"Steven Post (Kurt Russell) is a young mailroom clerk with high ambitions and a lot of enthusiasm. He wants to see UBC, the faltering television studio that he works for, become the leading network but his boss Mr. Wilbanks (Joe Flynn) won't listen to any of his suggestions, one of which is making a series called Abraham Lincoln's Doctor's Dog. Steve's girlfriend Jen (Heather North) recently found herself caring for a chimp named Raffles who loves watching television. Steve…

TL;DR: A week that felt like nothing but Star Trek shitposts. Underneath that: two videos about being a nervous introvert, a serious darkwave bender, and an unreasonable craving for a Junji Ito horror-manga cardigan. About on brand, honestly.

Amused that screen #15 in the 13-screen AMC on Causeway Street (Arclight never finished building out all their intended screens before going bankrupt) is now an "XL" screen, apparently without them doing anything to upgrade it, much like #18 at Boston Common. I don't know that there are any obvious ones to label XL at Assembly Row or South Bay, but it's the easiest "upgrade" of the summer,

My husband and I are watching the long-running (14 seasons!) show Vera on BritBox. If you haven’t seen it, the star is a curmudgeonly detective in her fifties, no longer svelt, with a brusque style and an unusual wardrobe. Out in the field she wears a mackintosh with a green hat. (You can buy a copy here.) But it is her indoor outfits that interest me. The clothes have no particular style and she makes no effort to “show off her best features,” standard advice given to the older set. Instead,…

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The second issue of Westron (Fandom Limb Media, 2026), a Kickstarter-funded comic, features red string on its cover. ▲ Westron #2 (Fandom Limb Media, 2026), cover

Royals like to take international tours, don’t they? Now Queen Kelly has played Venice, Lyon, Sao Paulo and many, many cities in the US, the royal entourage is finally en route to the UK. Where better for the British premiere of Milestone’s stunning new restoration of Erich von Stroheim famously unfinished, notoriously excessive, beautiful and … Continue reading Cinema Rediscovered: Queen Kelly in Bristol this July →

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I played, but didn't do write ups for The Great Maglev Robbery and Dramatic Exit. The TLDR version are as follows:Great Maglev Robbery - Finding the right train car went as poorly as it could have. The flying drones were more than a nuisance, and while Chelle Ren was recovered, everyone was forced to jump from the train, as the skiff was too far away to be reached due to the drones and the large mutants crawling over the tops of the cars. Dramatic Exit - Chella's partner Drix was being taken…

I’m a passive fan of Green Lantern. I think his powers and the lore are cool but I haven’t watched any of the movies. This new DC series, Lanterns, focuses on Hal Jordan and John Stewart and from the trailer, it looks intriguing. The post A trailer for DC’s new series, Lanterns appeared first on Cultrface.

⭐⭐⭐⭐ 3.75/5 - Well-crafted genre bending debut with complex characters and philosophical themes. The post Isobar Precinct by Angelique Kasmara appeared first on The Wallflower Digest.

The Mandalorian and Grogu (2026) • View trailerFour stars (out of five); rated PG-13, for sci-fi action and violenceAvailable via: Movie theatersBy Derrick Bang • Published in The Davis Enterprise, 5.31.26 You simply cannot ask more of a Star Wars movie. The Mandalorian has been — by far — the most popular streaming series set in the Star Wars universe, and considerable credit goes to writer/director/producer Jon Favreau, who created the show and shepherded it to greatness. Having tracked the…

Rampage (2018)

Last night I went to a screening of the recent 4K remaster of Diva. It looked gorgeous. I hadn’t seen Diva for a few years, but was reminded that this may be one of my favorite films. Every scene is dripping with stylish neo-noir coolness. This movie is probably one of the reasons I started going to the opera. Beineix shoots Paris like Mann shoots Chicago and L.A.. Diva, of course, is also part of the unofficial Nagra Film Trilogy. If you like beautifully designed, portable, high-fidelity audio…

Things are starting to get back to normal here after our recent unexpected evacuation. It's hard to believe almost a week has past since that incident began.Our original plans to see THE MANDALORIAN AND GROGU (2026) over the holiday weekend had to be cancelled, but we were able to catch up with it today.I'm a fan of the MANDALORIAN TV series and reviewed the very first episode here back in 2019. In 2022 I also shared photos from our visit to Star Wars Celebration: The Mandalorian Experience.One…

THE BIG COMBO – Ignite Films Joseph H. Lewis was a prolific director of B movies and episodic television, but his latter-day claim to fame is a virtuosic film noir, Gun Crazy (1950). When I first saw that film it knocked me out and led me to seek out his second-best-known noir, The Big Combo (1955) which I’ve always thought of as The Big Disappointment. But the lavish treatment it has received in this new Blu-ray release has caused me to have second thoughts. There are no fewer than three audio…

“I dreamed last night I got on the boat to heaven.” So goes the encore to Encores! Songs from the Musicals, a lyric that proves entirely apt for the thrilling experience of the enraptured audience of this lavish concert. ***check back later for full production images*** Continuing their 70th anniversary celebrations, Opera Australia takes the chance to give an “encore” performance of hit songs from the parade of successful musicals they have staged over recent years. Director Mark Sutcliffe…

I’ve seen Tuner more than once and while it’s a thriller with its fair share of surprises, it holds up awfully well. I would urge you to go out and see it at your first opportunity. If grownups don’t support an entertaining mainstream movie like this while it’s playing in theaters what hope is there for other budding filmmakers to get their stories told? The premise of the picture came about when Daniel Roher, who won an Academy Award for his outstanding documentary Navalny, found himself…

THE FOLLOWING WAS WRITTEN BY MY FRIEND AND COLLEAGUE ALONSO DURALDE. YOU CAN LEARN MORE ABOUT HIM HERE. WHAT’S NEW ON 4K/BLU/DVD IN MAY: WUTHERING HEIGHTS, HEARTS OF DARKNESS, COME BACK TO THE FIVE AND DIME, JIMMY DEAN, JIMMY DEAN, AND MORE! NEW RELEASE WALL The Bride! / “Wuthering Heights” (both WBD): Spring of 2025, Warner Bros. was all about leading men in multiple roles, with Mickey 17, The Alto Knights, and Sinners being released in succession. For 2026, the theme was apparently unleashing…