(genitals and sex acts discussed in street language, so not for kids or the sexually modest) From the Monty Python fandom wiki: Biggus Dickus is a fictional character in the Monty Python film Life of Brian, portrayed by Graham Chapman. He is a Roman nobleman and officer. He is married, according to his friend Pontius Pilate, to Incontinentia Buttocks. BD’s sexual-onomastic legions have advanced throughout modern media, where they have a particularly powerful role in gay male pornography; some…

The whole idea of choosing to concentrate on One Thing I Like about a movie is to keep me from immediately launching into multi-thousand word essays trying to sum up everything a movie says more efficiently and effectively.1 It’s especially useful for I Love Boosters, since if I were to make a list of every brilliant detail or every moment that made me laugh out loud, we’d be here all day. Calling this movie “maximalist” is short-selling it. It can also make it sound like I’m choosing my…

The first recording today is Pokemon: Battle Frontier – What I Did for Love. May’s Eevee has learned Dig. Brock meets a co-ordinator called Yuma, and obviously falls for her. She persuades him that he can compete in the big contest. May is also competing. Squirtle builds an Ice Pyramid. Brock and Bonsly also perform. It’s Brock vs May in the final. Marshstomp vs Eevee. May is the winner. Media Centre Description: Popular animated series. Ash and Pikachu return to the Kanto region to complete…

StarringJon Bernthal, Deborah Ann Woll, Jason R. Moore, Judith Light, Kelli BarrettDirectorReinaldo Marcus GreenOverviewHey Frank.As Frank Castle searches for meaning beyond revenge, an unexpected force pulls him back into the fight.Review: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (85% Community)Damn. Take The Punisher and add in a little John Wick: Parabellum and let the hyper-violence commence. I hope Frank Castle shows up again in future shows.The Punisher: One Last Kill (2026)🔍Data provided by The Movie Database

Das weiße Gold, wie Spargel auch gern genannt wird, ist auch in unserer Region Zuhause. Nur wenige Kilometer entfernt liegt das bekannte Spargeldorf Walbeck und sobald mein Lieblingsverkaufswägelchen vorm Supermarkt im Städtchen die Luke hochmacht, stehe ich schon an und freue mich auf diesen Frühlingsgenuß. Bisher habe ich ihn immer gern im Bratschlauch zubereitet, aber wirklich umweltfreundlich

Back-to-back postwar bangers: De Sica’s Bicycle Thieves (1948) and Kubrick’s Paths of Glory (1957). It was my first time watching Bicycle Thieves, and it was marvelous. A neorealist urban crawler, comprised of (allegedly) mostly non-actors (directed by an actor), this film found its footing almost immediately to the backdrop of an enchanting, enigmatic Rome. For a mere 89 minutes, we’re along for a succinct, fast-moving ride following a struggling, stubborn family man who fitfully reckons with…

by Elisa Giudici The cast of LA BOLA NEGRA By now, the Los Javis hardly need introduction at Cannes. Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi, who just tied Pawel Pawlikowski to win Best Director at the Cannes closing ceremony, have spent the last decade becoming not just successful filmmakers and showrunners, but cultural architects for a new generation of Spanish storytelling: proudly queer, emotionally maximalist, deeply rooted in national history while fully conversant in pop melodrama and…

Sometimes, picking the right subject is all a true-crime doc has to do; that's how it is with Netflix's feature on the Mackenzie Shirilla case.

Last time, I discussed the first sound/color Zorro movie, The Bold Caballero from 1936. The next Zorro screen production was just a year later, Republic’s 1937 serial Zorro Rides Again—no relation to the 1931 Johnston McCulley novel of that title, as it’s set in the then-present day. It features John Carroll as Zorro’s great-grandson James (the English equivalent of Diego) defending the Vega family’s railroad construction project, a joint US-Mexican effort, from being sabotaged by a gang…

At the moon´s gloaming I like to lookAt the grey metropolis, crumbling ruinsWhich serve as a measure of its greatnessOn which humans learn to measure themselves.–Christian Friedrich Hebbel There are artists who continually reinvent themselves in pursuit of freedom. Friedl Kubelka, who in moving pictures assumes the name Friedl vom Gröller, has instead devoted her life to the opposite challenge: remaining within the same existential setting long enough for its hidden cracks to show. Across more…

This morning the Sumo Association posted the final bouts for the Final Day’s action. Picture in your minds all of the names of wrestlers who are out of the tournament. Then, ponder this line-up for the final three bouts: Kotoshoho vs Churanoumi, Atamifuji vs Oshoma, Kirishima vs Ura. Before the kore-yori-sanyaku Wakatakakage will fight the … Continue reading Natsu 2026: Senshuraku Preview

by Elisa Giudici LA BOLA NEGRA There’s a strange atmosphere lingering over Cannes this year: not scandal, not outrage, not even division exactly. More like collective hesitation. A sense that everyone liked several films, respected many more, but truly loved very few. The consensus around the Croisette is unusually blunt: Competition was quite weak, only occasionally excellent, and rarely exhilarating. In a year where Hollywood increasingly seems willing to bypass festivals altogether for its…

Way back in 2015, prior to his run on The Late Show, Stephen Colbert made an appearance on — of all places — Monroe, Michigan public television. This past Thursday, he ended his 11 year run on The Late Show. Last night… He returned to public television. In full, here is the May 22nd edition of Only In Monroe. Not only is it a great showcase of how naturally funny Colbert is, but, it seems to be the first video crossposted to a new YouTube page of his, and…there are some surprises. Click play…

🔗: Stephen Colbert Returns to Only In Monroe After Late Show Finale “Though technically our first show in July of 2015 was from a public access station in Monroe, Michigan for an audience of 12 people. Show business being what it is these days, that’s probably where you’ll see me next.” … And that, apparently, was not just a punchline. Incredible commitment to the bit. Jack White, Jeff Daniels, an ad featuring Steve Buscemi, and the actual show hosts. Excited to see where he lands next

Dune Part Two 2024, Denis Villeneuve My rating: Loved it! Holy shit, this is so good. The story, the scenes, the music, everything. One of my favorites ever.

Watched: Resurrection 🍿 An amazing experience. More fragmented than Bi Gan’s previous movies, but easily as engaging. There were many nods to cinema history, and an article by Xinyuan Wang helped. Essential viewing, and not just for the virtuoso 30-minute-long single shot near the end.

Now here's a distinguished looking fellow... and he is obviously watching something or someone in the distance. We'll let you ponder what that something could be and who this handsome young man is. If you ponder long enough, you'll remember what film this screenshot is from - and then you'll leave a comment below so everyone will know that you know, or think you know what you know. As always, if you are not familiar with the rules to the Impossibly Difficult Name that Movie game or the prize,…

This movie is so cool and legit funny. It’s so much more absurdist than most comedies, much less comedies from the fourties’

Most people probably remember Pat Suzuki for originating the role of Linda Low in the Broadway production of Flower Drum Song. She had a successful recording career, and also appeared on movies and on television. She has a place in American entertainment history as one of the earliest Japanese American performers to enter the mainstream.Pat Suzuki was born Chiyoko Suzuki on September 22, 1930, in Cressy, California. Her father was a musician who specialized in traditional Japanese instruments…

Writter/Director Curry Barker’s OBSESSION remarkably transforms a rudimentary TALES FROM THE CRYPT/DARKSIDE “Be Careful what you wish for” premise into an absolutely fascinating, truly engaging, wildly unpredictable and surprisingly cathartic grenade of horror. I have a hunch film academics will be dissecting and analyzing its bottomless pit of potential interpretations for many years to come. I certainly felt one way about it while viewing it and then was hit with a completely different take…

Beauty And The Beast (1991)

My two grandkids are usually in constant motion, so it’s rare when I have a camera ready when they aren’t. It’s been quite a week so far, and it is no way close to over. You can also find more of my writings on a variety of topics on Medium at this link, including in the publications Ellemeno and Rome. I can also be found on social media under my name as above. This site does not use affilate links.

There's a new group on Drag Race All Stars season 11, including Vivacious and Silky, and Marshal Knight takes us through their alliances and first challenge.

For reasons I've now forgotten I got it into my head a while ago that I should have a list of all the sites I've linked to. Naively I thought this would be as simple as putting my url into some service and letting it index. Oh no. No, no, no. Nothing worked. Lists were clearly too small, ones that looked like they might big enough were missing stuff, I hit free limits, it was just a mess. I understand the whole backlink issue has become a spammy SEO thing but I just want stuff that's on my own…

Happy Memorial Day, folks - there's two movies with nifty stop-motion!! Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu is the first theatrical entry in the franchise in seven years, with Pedro Pascal reprising his role from the TV series as a bounty hunter now hunting Imperial war criminals for the New Republic, whose latest assignment gets him involved with Hutts, underground fighting, and more. It's at

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by Jason Sacks Please note: I will be discussing the endings to all the Planet of the Apes films in this review. If you don’t want to have the endings ruined for you, go to your local theater and watch the latest film, then come back to this review. Thank you! After the cataclysmic events … Continue reading [May 22, 1971] Escape from the Planet of the Apes → The post [May 22, 1971] Escape from the Planet of the Apes appeared first on Galactic Journey.

Dear Constant Reader, This past weekend I was unexpectedly able to attend two shows at the second annual Boston Fringe Festival, held, of course, in Somerville. The first was Our Lord and Savior, a play written, directed, and featuring the multitalented Alana Corrigan. I think it shows how much respect I have for Lani that I voluntarily, nay, eagerly, came to a production that started at 10pm. Our story is set at a Bible study group in Minnesota with five teens overseen by an overwhelmed youth…

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Costume designer Joanna Johnston has been the creative force behind an absurdly high number of