Audio Happy Christmas. Again. One of the results of your blogger catching up on Eighth Doctor stories in a bunch is the number based on special occasions, particularly Christmas. The effect has been much like bingeing through the revival television series with a festive special every two to thirteen episodes (depending on increased production costs at the time and if there was a gap year). This was clearly an extra-special challenge: set a Christmas story during the Time War. Taking inspiration…

Building on the three scavvies from my last post, I wanted to add in some cool characters to the gang. Obviously the Scavvy King will make an appearance down the line, but he can't be the only scavvy of note. That's where Papa Zhon comes in. I picked up the palanquin-less Nurgle champion an age ago, and he's been patiently waiting for the right project to come along. I reckon a motorised chair for an aging scavvy is exactly the right use for him!!Papa Zhon directs his scavvies to collect more…

Audio Baffled. In the olden days and actually still in recent days, this would have been released as boxed set so I would have listened to the first two instalments before discovering what the Doctor's involvement is, as was the case with something like Hooklight. But without an infinite budget, I decided to just buy the episode with Paul McGann on the cover and although this has a "previously on", it's more of a refresher for listeners who're already wearing the t-shirt. I got the gist though…

Audio The audio equivalent of one of those missing adventures or past Doctor novels that head off into directions the TV series couldn't possibly have gone, Tim Foley's Hooklight has the Fifth Doctor and his companions wrapped up in a 12-part story which gives each of them a character progression which will almost certainly be forgotten by the end of the story. So, we have Adric overcoming his nervousness around everyone, Tegan shacking up with a male love interest on some backwater planet for…

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My look at Twin Peaks publicity photos from 1990 continues with a black and white portrait of Dana Ashbrook as Bobby Briggs. This 8-inch by 10-inch photo was part of a series of character photos released by Capital Cities / ABC Television to introduce viewers to the many characters from David Lynch and Mark Frost’s wonderful... The post Twin Peaks Publicity – Dana Ashbrook as Bobby Briggs appeared first on TWIN PEAKS BLOG.

His moustache tickles your face when he kisses you, and your thighs when he goes down on you. He loves like a Californian wildfire: suffocating a body with affection until it is exhausted and he isn't there anymore. Despite that, this cowboy is an emotional one, lacking only the hat and boots; you may find him by his campsite at night, back to a log and fingering a guitar. He'll tell you of how he once lassoed a falling star and rode it all the way to dawn, and how he would do it again for you,…

His moustache tickles your face when he kisses you, and your thighs when he goes down on you. He loves like a Californian wildfire: suffocating a body with affection until it is exhausted and he isn't there anymore. Despite that, this cowboy is an emotional one, lacking only the hat and boots; you may find him by his campsite at night, back to a log and fingering a guitar. He'll tell you of how he once lassoed a falling star and rode it all the way to dawn, and how he would do it again for you,…

The definitive documentary on comedian Martin Short, exploring his career across film, television, theater and comedy. Great documentary about one of the most funny people in existence. Really well made, showing the nice parts of Martin’s life, along with the bad ones, it’s a moving documentary. Definitely worth the watch, six ppopcorns. To see all 6 photos, visit the article page. This article was originally published at: https://andrei.xyz/movies/marty-life-is-short/

Current Affairs: The Banal Horror of Jimmy Fallon. It begins: There is a distinctive, deeply uncanny horror to the way Jimmy Fallon laughs. Look it up—there are literally hundreds of videos showing him breaking out into laughter at the slightest provocation. It is not a reaction (he sometimes won’t even wait for his guest to get to their carefully scripted punchline). Rather, it is a performance, a sudden, corporeal convulsion. Fallon leans in his chair, as if pressed back by some unseen force.…

A couple of days after it reached town, I went to see the film adaptation of Andy Weir’s novel PROJECT HAIL MARY, directed by Lord & Miller and written by Drew Goddard. Goddard wrote the screenplay for the other Weir adaptation, THE MARTIAN, directed by Ridley Scott, in which Matt Damon once again has to be expensively rescued from something. (Someone once calculated that, in total, it would have cost some $900 billion to rescue Matt Damon from shit all those times.) Weir wrote another novel…

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

Last month, we watched the girl play Door #2 at the middle school.A small bit, accentuated with clearing table of the mad tea party.Like all the parents in the theater, my heart was on that stage for three nights. , , Jabberwocky ’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe. “Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch!” He took…

John Wayne in The Searchers (1956) Vitals John Wayne as Ethan Edwards, obsessive Confederate Army veteran West Texas and New Mexico Territory, Fall 1868 through 1873 Film: The Searchers Release Date: May 26, 1956 Director: John Ford Costume Designer: Charles Arrico (uncredited) Background Ten days after its Chicago premiere, John Ford’s Western epic The Searchers was released 70 years ago today on May 26, 1956—which coincided with its star John Wayne’s 49th birthday. Successful upon its…

I should warn you that the above very short film could ruin your day in just over a minute. It was really a coincidence that I watched two public information films — Public Service Announcements I believe they’re called in the USA. I watched “Sewing Machine” because I saw it was directed by John Krish, […]

Me outside the Jane Pickens Theatre, which always does amazing promotional posters. Last Thursday night, I had the honor of doing music for 'The General' (1926) for a very appreciative audience at the Jane Pickens Theatre in Newport, R.I.In introducing the film, I tried a new way to explain what an innovator filmmaker Keaton was.I asked everyone to look for a short sequence early in the film when Buster jumps on and starts riding one of those old-fashioned bicycles sometimes called…

When it comes to comparisons, Stephen Fry has certainly been compared to Oscar Wilde any number of times. It didn’t help that he played him in a 1997 film, I suppose. Yet if you are going to be compared to someone, you could do far worse than Wilde. Of course, that wasn’t always the case and here, courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery in London, Fry talks about his discovery of Wilde and the connection he feels to the man is obvious – he gets quite emotional at one point in this short. One…

2022 historical thriller, seventh of its series. A Missing Heir has shown up. Well, maybe. Veronica knew the real man back in the day, and is asked to see if she recognises him…

The Stanley Kramer comedy classic film It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (United Artists, 1963) has a handful of Royal KMG typewriters featured in the office settings at police stations throughout the film. The KMG was Royal’s top-of-the-line office standard machine and was manufactured from 1949 to 1952 before being replaced by the Royal HH (1952 to 1957) and the Royal FP (1957to 1962). By the time the film premiered in November of 1963, the newest desktop manual would have been the Royal…

Pirates Of The Caribbean: The Curse Of The Black Pearl (2003)

Top Chef Carolinas episode 12 had a shocking ending, and I'm not talking about the scene from Anaconda where a massive snake leapt out of the woods and attacked the chefs and judges.

I ran across two short films on Kanopy that Alfred Hitchcock made in 1944: Bon Voyage and Aventure Malgache. They were meant to serve as British propaganda, but their Hitchcockian ambiguity led officials in the Ministry of Information to shelve them. They weren’t released for some fifty years.

The films of Maria Lassnig are worth their weight in the sediment of their unearthing. Even in moments of deliberate construction, they carry the scars of something recovered beyond psychic awareness, arising from the muscular ache preceding perception. Throughout this timely volume, one senses an artist trying to place consciousness under physical pressure until it reveals its own anatomy. The result is not simply a supplementary chapter to her endeavors as a painter but an adjacent nervous…

Evidently, the climactic stunt at the end of Police Story — where Jackie Chan as Chan Ka-kui leaps from an upper-floor balcony in a mall and slides down a light fixture to the ground floor — had already become legendary by the time they were making the sequel. I know this because in one of the beginning scenes of Police Story 2, Ka-kui’s supervisors are dressing him down for how much money the finale of the last movie cost the city government. “Uncle” Bill scolds him, “Why not take the stairs?”…

In Part 4 of Twin Peaks: The Return, Dougie Jones has a moment of self-reflection in his bathroom mirror following a great release. For years, I’ve wondered what framed floral image was hanging on the bathroom wall as Dougie approached the mirror. It didn’t take long for me to locate the original artwork first created in... The post Twin Peaks Prop – Clematis Artwork by Louise-Cécile Descamps-Sabouret in Dougie Jones’ Bathroom appeared first on TWIN PEAKS BLOG.

Din Djarin, famed as "The Mandalorian," and his diminutive ward Grogu are working for the New Republic, bringing down Imperial warlords and war criminals in the lawless Outer Rim. His latest commission sees him reluctantly working with the Hutts to rescue the lost son of Jabba the Hutt so he can get information on an Imperial fugitive. Several reversals of fortune see Djarin with a bounty on his head from the most powerful crime lords in the galaxy.The Mandalorian & Grogu is the first Star Wars…

⚠️ **SPOILER WARNING:** MILD SPOILERS Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan: Ghost War (2026) brings intense espionage and action as Jack Ryan and his team navigate a deadly covert conflict in a high-stakes battle for global security. **My Rating:**... ⚠️ SPOILER WARNING: MILD SPOILERS Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan: Ghost War (2026) brings intense espionage and action as Jack Ryan and his team navigate a deadly covert conflict in a high-stakes battle for global security. My Rating: ⭐⭐⭐½ (3.5/5 stars) I agree with…