The first recording today is a repeat of Ed and Oucho’s Excellent Inventions – Rainbow a Go Go. Media Centre Description: Children’s science series in which Ed and his cactus companion Oucho travel all over the country making inventions from bits of old rubbish that they find in the back of their van. Ed and Oucho are in trouble when their trusted van breaks down. They decide to build Mollie’s ‘Rainbow a Go Go’, a rainbow-making disco machine, so they can find a pot of gold at the end of the…

Disclaimer Previously… The Storyteller Conclusions The Bad The Weird Stay Tuned… Disclaimer In these posts, we discuss a non-“Free as in Freedom” popular culture franchise property, including occasional references to part of that franchise behind a paywall. My discussion and conclusions carry a Free Culture license, but nothing about the discussion or conclusions should imply any attack on the ownership of the properties. All the big names serve as trademarks of the owners, and so forth, and…

David Manners had perhaps a rather narrow range as actor but he lands differently depending on the role. In THE DEATH KISS (1932) he’s smug. The film is notable for reteaming Manners with Bela Lugosi and Edward Van Sloan, his co-stars from the previous year’s DRACULA. (Exciting that Sloan’s curtain speech from DRACULA is rediscovered […]

People have had a huge bug up their collective ass about The Mandalorian and Grogu ever since it was first announced. It was being put forward as the culmination and perfect representation of everything wrong with Star Wars since the Disney acquisition. There were comments declaring it a failure, and speculating on how to save the entire franchise, before it’d even reached the Friday of its opening weekend. Several reviews talked about it as if it were a slap in the face to the very concept of…

I've got no problem with bad movies. I love a bad movie. Some of my favourite films are bad movies. I love a big dumb monster movie and recently I've been watching some bad shark movies. I make a highly personal distinction between films and movies. Sharknado might be objectively the worst film I've ever watched but damn if I wasn't absolutely enthralled all the way through. I was vibrating with delight. Hooting. Any amount of implausibility, any terrible acting, bad scripts, janky cgi, I can…

In Tuner, Leo Woodall plays Niki, a piano tuner who suffers from hyperacusis, a disorder that can turn everyday noises into deafening roars. Woodall's character works with Harry Horowitz (Dustin Hoffman), the owner of a tuning business who reminisces about the jazz greats that inspired his love of music. Director Daniel Roher (Navalny and The AI Doc) captures the ease with which Woodall and Hoffman relate -- Hoffman not shying away from Harry's encroaching dementia, and Woodall displaying…

Scott Werner: The Wizard With the Very Defensible Pond There was once a wizard who lived beside a pond. It was a small pond. The sort of pond that probably gets called a “water feature” on a Zillow listing by a real estate agent who really knows their euphemisms…

Today I partially joked in a chat I think at this time of my life, I would like to have a nemesis. Everyone has people they don't like and find annoying, I do too. But a nemesis? There's something you can't stand about them, but you recognize they are really good at something, and can admire some things about them too. You might piss each other off, but there is a good kind of competition between you. It has to be mutual, though. One-sided nemesis stuff is just weird. On a more serious note, I…

Have rewatched this after a looong while. And the first time not dubbed. Still so so good and so funny. Every scene is perfect. The cast and their performances, the dialogue… One of my favourite movies of all time.👍 Recommended!Next event: Deine Freunde on June 6, 2026, 17:00 at Amphitheater Gelsenkirchen, Gelsenkirchen.

A classic string board appears in King of Killers (dir. Kevin Grevioux, 2023). ▲ King of Killers (dir. Kevin Grevioux, 2023) ▲ King of Killers (dir. Kevin Grevioux, 2023)

In 2011, I announced I was trying to see every film released in 1939. This new series chronicles films released in 1939 as I watch them. As we start out this blog feature, this section may become more concrete as … Continue reading →

The title vampire of The Vampire’s Ghost is not your expected sanguinic movie predator. No tux, no tails, no slicked-down hair or Mittel-European drawl. Instead, as played by John Abbott, he’s restrained, well-mannered, very proper British; and, despite managing a grubby gin-and-gambling joint in a small African village, whose habitués haven’t come to terms with soap and water, he’s always impeccably dressed in a perfectly white suit and a perfectly knotted tie. In looks and screen presence,…

The Frock Flicks team is taking time off as summer starts, so we’re repeating some

Matthew McConaughey in Dazed and Confused (1993) Vitals Matthew McConaughey as David “Woods” Wooderson, Texas stoner Central Texas, Spring 1976 Film: Dazed and Confused Release Date: September 24, 1993 Director: Richard Linklater Costume Designer: Katherine Dover WARNING! Spoilers ahead! Background Alright, alright, alright… Richard Linklater’s nostalgic coming-of-age comedy Dazed and Confused ws set fifty years ago today on May 28, 1976, during the last day of school for Lee High School,…

A dysfunctional married couple retreats to a secluded cabin to repair their relationship, but each secretly plots to murder the other. The more time passes, the more absurd and funny it gets. A bit slow at the start, but it gradually picks up and manages to be entertaining. Four popcorns. To see all 30 photos, visit the article page. This article was originally published at: https://andrei.xyz/movies/over-your-dead-body/

Caroline Rippin and Agnes Lillis in Albatross, Omnibus Theatre. Photo: Ashley Day Albatross at the Omnibus Theatre is a play about the fractious relationship between a mother and daughter, the sacrifices they make and climate change. Eve (Agnes Lillis) has been caring for her young granddaughter, Alba, while her daughter, Alice (Caroline Rippin), is working on a climate research project in Antarctica. With Alice’s imminent return, she is looking forward to getting her life back and going on a…

12 Monkeys (1995)

Today, to commence my monthly blog housekeeping for May I am posting about the themes #MurderEveryMonday participants were challenged to find covers for over the past four weeks.

Very exciting news for fans of last year's Monogram Matinee Volume 1 collection from the Warner Archive: Two more volumes have been released this spring, in less than a month's time!The Monogram Matinee Volume 2 collection, featuring SONG OF THE RANGE (1944) and LOUISIANA (1947), came out at the very end of April, and Volume 3 was released just yesterday, on May 26th.SONG OF THE RANGE is a quick little 55-minute film starring Jimmy Wakely and Dennis Moore.The late Western historian Les Adams…

The fan favorite champions – now joined by Johnny Cage himself – are pitted against one another in the ultimate battle to defeat the dark rule of Shao Kahn that threatens the very existence of the Earthrealm and its defenders. First of all, I love all the MK movies. They’re over the top, raunchy, gorey and they are pure fun. Good movies? Not really. Fun to watch? Absolutely! Karl Urban does a great job at playing Johnny Cage, and the only one that could have fit the role better was maybe Jean…

The first recording today starts with the end of Sportsround. There’s a trail for Gastronuts. Then it’s What’s New Scooby-Doo? – Riva Ras Regas. The episode opens with Rufus Raucous, a magician in Las Vegas, doing an escape from a hotel that’s being demolished. But he doesn’t make it and the hotel is demolished. The Scooby Gang are in Las Vegas, visiting the Newark Newark Hotel. They’ve won a competition, and they’re met by the hotel owner, Del Stone. Their prize is the chance to meet singing…

Backrooms, an addition to the growing list of self-consciously inventive horror movies, arrives with a pedigree that may impress aficionados. Produced by horror masters James Wan and Osgood Perkins, the movie also features performances by actors with hefty resumes: Chiwetel Ejiofor and Renate Reinsve. A bit about the movie's background: It springs from a movement called "creepypasta,'' i.e., horror stories posted and shared on the internet. Director Kane Parsons, now 20, began uploading…

On June 6, 1944, the Allied invasion of Normandy launched the brutal series of battles that brought Hitler’s ambitions in Western Europe to a halt. The movie Pressure deals with the 72 hours leading up to the momentous D-Day invasion. Director Anthony Maras, focuses on a part of the story that sounds prosaic but proves essential to Allied success, an accurate weather forecast. Pressure delivers a dramatized version of events that unfolded at Allied headquarters in Southwick House, Hampshire,…

Sony Pictures Classics / YouTube Small town hairdresser Gail Daughtry is engaged to her devoted high school sweetheart, Tom. Her life takes a turn when a trip to a book signing leads to Tom meeting – and sleeping – with his “celebrity pass”. Reeling from the betrayal, Gail impulsively joins her friend Otto on a trip to Los Angeles, where a psychic convinces Gail that the only way to save her marriage is to “even the scales” with her own celebrity pass: Jon Hamm. Thus begins an epic journey…

Do you remember the charming, touching and funny 2014 film Pride? It was based on the true story of the unlikely coming together of two groups, during the miners’ strike in the UK, over 1984-85. On one hand, you had the miners, Welsh (although the strike was across the whole of the UK), small town and a little insular. On the other hand, a group called Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM) who were from London - the big smoke - formed to support the long-lasting strike and oppose the then…

Marvel Entertainment / YouTube: Time to get the X-Men back to the 90s. Marvel Animation’s #XMen97 Season 2 streams July 1, only on Disney+. Time travel and mutants and all the things you’d want from another season of X-Men! Now, wouldn’t this technically be X-Men ’98? X-Men ’97 Season Two streams on Disney+ on July 1st, 2026.

Universal Pictures / YouTube: Believe it when you see it. Get tickets now. Disclosure Day only in theaters June 12. If you found out we weren’t alone, if someone showed you, proved it to you, would that frighten you? This summer, the truth belongs to eight billion people.We are coming close to … Disclosure Day. I was sold on Spielberg + Aliens. I don’t need more. But maybe you do. Me? I’ll be there opening weekend. Disclosure Day hits theaters on June 12th, 2026.

Mubi / YouTube: Jane Schoenbrun’s TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA. A new kind of horror remake, starring Hannah Einbinder and Gillian Anderson. In theaters starting August 7 in the US, Canada, UK, Latin America, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Ireland, Spain, Australia and more. Schoenbrun’s last movie, I Saw The TV Glow, was very special to many many people. This….looks a little more like a mainstream play, but I think it’s going to be one of those movies people talk about among the big…

Since I’m going for a comprehensive overview of all American Zorro productions, I guess I have to cover the 1972 softcore sex comedy The Erotic Adventures of Zorro, which has its own entry on Wikipedia and astonishingly has recently become available to rent or buy on Amazon Prime, albeit in slightly blurry standard definition. But I’ll try to make it brief, since even if you don’t mind softcore porn, a lot of it is pretty creepy and unpleasant due to the attitudes of the era. Content warning…

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