A modernist adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe. One of the first avant-garde films from America.

Pursuit of Jade is an exquisite viewing experience, even if the story is a little shaky towards the end.

A SHUDDER FROM THE PAST I came to this fresh from admiring two 76-year-olds , Anna Wintour and Meryl Streep, being painfully cool and haughty in a trailer plugging Devil Wears Prada 2.   I was also foot-weary from accidentally … Continue reading →

There Goes My Heart (1938)

Constellations in Shadow Across the canvas of Austrian avant-garde cinema, where names such as Kubelka and Kren have long been rendered in sharp, declarative strokes, the work of Moucle Blackout flickers with a quieter, though no less vibrant radiance. Her work breathes in a mirrored room, only to be released again in altered form. To […]

Okay whole new movie, first things first, let’s check the extra featu—aw yiss, no Family-Friendly Version available this time, we’re gonna hear ALL the fish-cussin’, we had best prepare ourselves...

“The science in Project Hail Mary is all pretty firmly grounded.

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What does IMAX mean? You’ll leave Todd Vazari’s post none the wiser, but somehow, more informed. …it’s super clear what “IMAX” means.

PAPA KNOWS BEST An A-Z of French Cinema Before the New Wave E is for ‘The Eternal Return “We are poisoned and there is nothing we can do. We are poisoned and it’s wonderful. This is a beautiful poison.” It begins in a remote castle overlooking the sea. A castle in the present day, the […]

The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist, is a documentary co-directed by Daniel Roher and Charlie Tyrell, who hope to make sense of artificial intelligence (AI). But tune into the trailer, and hear the likes of Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, and Denis Hassabis, and others, utter lines such as “if this technology goes […]

I still remember clearly the dagger to the heart in 2004 when Luna announced they were splitting up. They were my favourite band, in a simpler time when people declared such things, and I took the farewell tour as an opportunity to go on my first rock’n’roll road trip. A few days after seeing their […] The post Tell Me Do You Miss Me: A Film About Luna appeared first on Space Echo.

Synopsis: This flamboyantly poetic film includes two works of art: Livret De Famille and Carte De Vœux. A hallucinogenic voyage, psychedelic images float across the screen, of family and friends (Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Yves Beneyton, Valérie Lagrange…) as they share their adventures. A slight return to Cyrille Verdeaux via actor Pierre Clémenti. If you watch enough … Continue reading "Visa de censure numéro X"

So much of the film is perfect alignment or beautiful discord. She descends the staircase on footsteps in perfect rhythm with the score. The framed balance of the final scenes and the chance encounter and the timing of friends arriving shows the world aligning for her, supporting her. She carelessly drags her scarf as she stumbles into unexpected nature. The myriad mirrors in the shop and the jumbled overheard conversations in the cafe and the impulsive merry-go-round bus ride and the grotesq...

📺 It: Welome to Derry (2025) had more hits than misses, even while comitting the cardinal sin of prequels which is to overexplain. There is gore, of course, all CGI and gamified to the point of being camp. It is just as well: the greatest horror remains in the anticipation of the unseen.

Paul Levitz (script) Joe Staton (pencils) Jack Abel (inks) Cory Adams (colors) Jean Simek (letters) Al Milgrom (editor) It’s one issue-long story this time, no backup, which is both good and bad. It’s bad because this issue’s a letdown from the previous two “Earthwar!” entries, but it’s good because after an issue of Joe Staton … Continue reading Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes (1977) #243

What would happen if Miranda Priestly met Anna Wintour? At first glance from this video, not very much at all. There is no explosion, no visible drama, no theatrical collapse beneath the weight of mutual frostiness.  But there is Dancing Queen by Abba playing in the elevator that they share (a lovely nod to another of Meryl Streep’s roles).  Miranda Priestly is, of course, a fictional character. Anna Wintour is the woman that said fictional character is based on.  So, it’s all getting a littl...

We discussed The Affair of the Necklace (2001) on one of our podcasts (hey, remember when

Vitals Ben Johnson as Tector Gorch, tough outlaw Texas to Mexico, Spring 1913 Film: The Wild Bunch Release Date: June 18, 1969 Director: Sam Peckinpah Costume Designer: James R. Silke WARNING! Spoilers ahead! Background Today is the 30th anniversary since the death of one of my favorite actors: Oklahoma-born cowboy, rancher, and Oscar winner Ben Johnson. The son of a rodeo […] The post The Wild Bunch: Ben Johnson as Tector Gorch appeared first on BAMF Style.

Top Chef Carolinas is letting a chef sit out challenges—but for how long? And can someone please explain to me a dehydrated food challenge at a whitewater rafting center? Let's discuss episode 5!

I'll admit, I was a little sceptical about returning to Avenue Q. I saw it on its original West End run back in… OH MY GOD I AM SO OLD! FUCK! Where did the time go? It's always hard to know how much to update a show. Does it need constant reinvention to stay in the zeitgeist or can it be pickled forever as a classic? "I wish I had taken more pictures" was something that utterly resonated with …

Michael Frayn’s play Copenhagen is a philosophical, moral mystery set around a meeting between Danish physicist Niels Bohr (Richard Schiff), his wife, Margrethe (Alex Kingston) and German physicist Werner Heisenberg (Damien Molony) in 1941. The two men had once worked closely together, but the war saw Germany invade and occupy Denmark, leaving the half-Jewish Bohr […]