The 1957 Disney Zorro series draws a lot of inspiration from incarnations I covered in my previous posts. The first season consists of three loosely serialized 13-episode arcs in the spirit of the Republic serials, and the show’s composer, William Lava, previously scored Zorro’s Fighting Legion. William Witney, co-director of the first two serials, directs multiple episodes of season 2 and the first two of the subsequent hourlong specials. And George J. Lewis, the male lead from Zorro’s Black…

IDW’s Crime Sampler (2026) arranges upcoming comics on classic string boards. ▲ IDW Crime Sampler (2026), rear cover ▲ IDW Crime Sampler (2026), cover ▲ IDW Crime Sampler (2026)

Frock Flicks is off for this American holiday. If you need a Frock Flicks fix,

The matinee movie on KRON is one that should bring a smile to any fan of the Zucker/Abrahams/Zucker team: Zero Hour!, the movie that served as the model for Airplane! Dana Andrews stars as Ted Stryker, the ex-fighter pilot haunted by guilt who's called on to land a passenger airlineer after the crew becomes sick from eating bad fish; Linda Darnell is his wife, who's preparing to leave him because of his inability to pull his life back together; and Sterling Hayden is Captain Treleaven,…

It’s no secret that the Hollywood Comet loves musicals. In 2010, I revealed I had seen 400 movie musicals over the course of eight years. Now that number is over 600. To celebrate and share this musical love, here is … Continue reading →

The Barbican has set itself quite a high bar with is annual summer musical, a feature that began in the aftermath of the pandemic as a recovery project, luring Sutton Foster from Broadway to star alongside Robert Lindsay and Felicity Kendal in Anything Goes a ship-sized production so acclaimed it returned the subsequent year. Then […]

I like to run this post on Memorial Day (one version first ran May 28, 2012) because when I think about soldiers and wars and Memorial Day, I think about Uncle Bundy. He was awfully opinionated and excessively direct but I admired him greatly and listened when he talked. Not he ever talked about the war, he didn’t. But in this case, what he was talking about is an ancient link between war, technology, and humans — a link began when someone first improved a stone into both the first hammer and…

When I saw Supercop when it was released in the US in 1996, I was already madly in love with it before the credits even stopped rolling. It was fun, twisty, unabashedly silly, and started my weird crush on Michelle Yeoh (then credited as Michelle Khan), who was doing some of the most amazing stunts I’d ever seen, and she didn’t even have top billing. I didn’t learn until later that it was actually the third in the Police Story series, which was already well known in Asia and by lovers of Hong…

In the annals of post-talk-show-cancellation stunts, Stephen Colbert hosting an hour-long episode of a Michigan public access show might be my new favorite. Jack White serves as the “volunteer musical director,” playing the perfect straight man to Colbert’s silly schtick and the episode is full of other great cameos that I won’t spoil here. The whole episode is charming, chaotic, and incredibly fun to watch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJTXB5uT_C4 I’m excited to see whatever Stephen does…

24 in 24: Last Chef Standing's first two winners were guest judges in season 3 episode 6, and neither has slept since then so it was time for the zombie challenge!! Wait, I think I'm as tired as the chefs.

The old protect the young, then the young protect the old. This is the way. — The Mandalorian and Grogu

I like Luigi Maggi’s earlies. He had an epic sensibility and he was attracted to subjects like THE LAST DAYS OF POMPEII (1911) and NERO (1909) but his epics were approx ten minutes long. I haven’t seen much of his later films, when running times were more extravagant. But this one is more of a […]

As summer descends in the Northern Hemisphere, here is a round up of Twin Peaks and David Lynch-themed events taking place around the world from June to September 2026. TWIN PEAKS AND DAVID LYNCH-THEMED EVENTS IN SUMMER 2026 Below is a list of Twin Peaks and David Lynch-themed events taking place throughout June 2026. If you... The post Enjoy Twin Peaks and David Lynch-Themed Events Throughout Summer 2026 appeared first on TWIN PEAKS BLOG.

Ferdinand Zecca portrays a murder and then the path from the crime to the guillotine in this elaborate narrative film, complete with flashbacks to happier times. Home Media Availability: Out of print on disc Dream a little dream of me Ferdinand Zecca was a busy man in 1901, transitioning from the Pathé Frères sound film […]

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Mad About DC #1D Dan Panosian Foil Variant Release: Apr 01, 2026Cover: Jun 2026 Creators WriterThe Usual Gang Of Comic Book Creators Who Needed The Extra MoneyArtistThe Usual Gang Of Comic Book Creators Who Needed The Extra MoneyCover ArtistDan Panosian Is–Is that a new Robin? I’ve been meaning to write this one for a while, but I know no one has been meaning to read it, so I’ve held off. Anyway, here I am now, writing it. And what is it I’m writing about? Well, why don’t we ask Chip Zdarsky,…

I’ve been cleaning out the attic storage lately, and yesterday I found two big spindles of DVD-Rs. I’d totally forgotten about this, but in the 90s I had a moderate VHS collection of films (mostly recorded from TV or pirated from rental VHS films). In 2006 I bought a VHS/DVD-R combo machine and transferred all the tapes to DVD-R so that I could throw away all the tapes. Which I did. (Remember that period where it was much cheaper to store data on DVD-Rs than on hard disks? Yeah, I’d almost…

It’s cold, so he wears gloves. He’s trying out new ‘looks’ lately, so they’re leather. Well… the vegan equivalent of leather at any rate. Soft, black, expensive. They cushion and protect his palms when he thwacks me on the arse. I didn’t initially consider how these gloves would feel against my naked bum, that was […] The post Spanked with leather gloves appeared first on Girl on the Net.

I acquired at auction a lot of 1990s publicity photos from California’s The Modesto Bee newspaper. The coolest part about these photo is that I have located the original newspapers when the images were published. This photo of Sherilyn Fenn as Audrey Horne on the set of the Double R Diner was run on Thursday,... The post Twin Peaks Publicity – Audrey Horne Photo from ‘The Modesto Bee’ on April 18, 1991 appeared first on TWIN PEAKS BLOG.

Finally had a Gundam film showing at a theater close to where I live after like 30 years of watching this franchise Thursday night I saw Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway: The Sorcery of Nypmh Circe in theaters. It's a weird experience seeing a new release from a franchise that's meant a lot to you throughout your life in theater for the first time. I don't wanna retread old posts too much but but growing up incredibly poor in the 80's/90's, one of the few TV channels I could reliably watch with an…

This week two new films were released that followed on from two different established streaming TV shows. Although only one of these made its way to the cinema. The films I'm talking about are Jack Ryan: Ghost War (Amazon Prime) and Star Wars: Mandalorian and Grogu (Disney). These are both very different franchises not only in genre but also in what surrounds them as a media entity. Jack Ryan is an established character that started in the literary world from author Tom Clancy and has gone on…

This is dark. Created by a group of Rubika students, this animated shorts tells the story of Mischa, a girl who seems to be left pretty much to her own devices by the adults who surround her. The short is symbolicaslly rich – Mischa makes a violin out of paper, which perhaps shows the fragility of anything beautiful or special in her world. As she proceeds around the apartment in a vain attempt to play for the “monsters” who inhabit the apartment (ie the adults) she is met with ill-temper,…

by Nathaniel R FJORD wins the coveted Palme d'Or. Will Oscars nominations follow for Cristian Mungiu, Renate Reinsve, and Sebastian Stan? ? Will the 2026 Cannes Festival have lasting impact on this cinematic year? With the oft-reported absence of major Hollywood outings at the 79th festival, the best we might hope for (for those of us on the other side of the ocean) is a similar or muted echo to last year when the four non-English features that dominated the Cannes conversation (It Was Just An…

Tony Sirico as “Paulie Walnuts” on The Sopranos, Episode 6.15: “Remember When” Vitals Tony Sirico as “Paulie Walnuts” Gualtieri, mob captain and Army veteran Miami Beach, Fall 2007 Series: The Sopranos Episode: “Remember When” (Episode 6.15) Air Date: April 22, 2007 Director: Phil Abraham Creator: David Chase Costume Designer: Juliet Polcsa WARNING! Spoilers ahead! Background For some reason, TikTok users in 2021 decided that May 24 was National Rigatoni Day. Leave it to me to five years behind…

Pagans and their idols of Goddesses appeared juvenile to those that discovered the One.

I finally finished that 600-page tombstone of a book by Peter Bradshaw, the Guardian film critic. Here are the films I took away from it to watch: Went the Day Well? (1942) Charulata (1942) Tales of Hoffman Juno (2007) The Illusionist_ (2010) Kick-Ass (2010) Nostalgia for the Light (2010) Homo Sapiens (2016)

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Opera Australia presents a glorious tribute to the evergreen canon of Gilbert & Sullivan, long revered composers of their own special topsy-turvy style of operetta. What a difference a director makes. Where other musical concerts tend to take a chance on throwing the artists in front of an orchestra and hoping for the best, the standard of Gilbert & Sullivan – A Musical Celebration is vastly superior given the canny guidance and keen insight of director Stuart Maunder. A life-long devotee of…

Excitement was in the air leading up to the second season premiere of Twin Peaks in September 1990. Countless newspaper articles recapped David Lynch and Mark Frost’s wonderful and strange show and made predictions about what might happen when the show returned. For Asbury Park Press illustrator Tom Kerr, the show’s return was an opportunity to create... The post Art Peaks – Tom Kerr’s ‘Twin Peaks’ Poster in ‘Asbury Park Press’ on Sept. 26, 1990 appeared first on TWIN PEAKS BLOG.