Becky alerted me to a screening of the National Emergency Briefing's film "The People’s Emergency Briefing". This is not a film you can see on the telly or elsewhere (yet), because rather smartly the organisers want people to meet, watch, and discuss.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tLUnWHkGG4You can likely find a free screening near you, or host one for your street.The discussion afterwards was fun but brief. I don't agree with it all, but there was lots of engagement: Rude resistance matters:…

It’s the original other Bennet sister – Lucy Briers! Pride and Prejudice wasn’t her first

If there is one scene in all of Twin Peaks I love the most, it’s “Smash Up” from The Missing Pieces of David Lynch’s Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me. This unscripted scene has Norma Jennings (Peggy Lipton) and Big Ed Hurley (Everett McGill) sharing a tender moment in Ed’s truck near the woods. There was a... The post Twin Peaks Location – Smash Up from The Missing Pieces of Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me appeared first on TWIN PEAKS BLOG.

Buster with his co-star in 'The General' (1926).Even if we weren't celebrating the 100th anniversary of its release, Buster Keaton's 'The General' stands as one of the most requested silent films But this year, thanks to the big round number, I'm accompanying 'The General' more than ever. Next up: Thursday, May 21 at 6 p.m. at the Jane Pickens Theatre in Newport, R.I. More details on this screening in the press release pasted in below.My experience with 'The General' dates back to my…

It was Dad’s funeral yesterday. I delivered a eulogy, somehow keeping it together. I wanted to recognise Dad here, so this is the speech I gave, remembering him as a wonderful father to my brother and me. Read more.

Richard Greene as Robin Hood.Sandwiched between The Men of Sherwood Forest (1954) and A Challenge for Robin Hood (1967), Hammer Films produced Sword of Sherwood Forest (1960). This action opus about the legendary English outlaw stands out for one big reason: It stars Richard Greene, famous for playing the title role in The Adventures of Robin Hood TV series. As all Robin Hood fans know, that's the one where he's "riding through glen with his band of men."One might think that Sword of Sherwood…

Underworld (2003)

Like many burnt-out CIA agents, Jack Ryan (John Krasinski) wants to be left alone. But CIA agents, don't retire -- not in movies. So at the beginning of Jack Ryan: Ghost War, Jack is lured back into action by his boss, James Greer (Wendell Pierce). Screenwriters Krasinski, Aaron Rabin, and Noah Oppenheim bring the series to a close with a movie that alternates exposition and action in roughly equal measures. Jack's joined by colleague Mike November (Michael Kelly) on a supposedly routine…

In some respects, Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu qualifies as one of the biggest puppet shows ever staged. The creatures who populate The Mandalorian may not look entirely real, but they display the imagination and skill created by a seamless mix of CGI, animatronics, puppetry, and models. I guess I'm saying that realism takes a backseat to craft in The Mandalorian and Grogu, a movie that's better than I thought it would be, even if it lacks the super thrills of the best Star Wars movies.…

The crew of the Lexx‘s adventures on the twin worlds of Fire and Water ended with the destruction of both planets. Since those worlds were the afterlife, the souls of the deceased there, good and bad, have migrated out into the ether, with many of them drawn to a different planet entirely, a little blue planet which was invisible from Fire and Water because it occupied the same orbit around the Sun at the opposite side, so the Sun was always in the way. The world known as Earth… The souls…

The folks at Apple TV (they have dropped the plus-sign) just announced a batch of news for Peanuts animation fans, featuring both offering up more old content and premiering some new material. June 26: a new season of Camp Snoopy drops. July 3: added to the package is This Is America, Charlie Brown, the eight-episode miniseries from 1988 that uses the Peanuts characters to explore American history. (That show about the Mayflower that you ight have seen after an airing of A Charlie Brown…

Ann Robinson, best known for starring in the sci-fi classic War of the Worlds (1953), died on September 25, 2025, at the age of 96. Her death was not made publicly known until the past few days.Ann Robinson was born on May 25, 1929 in Los Angeles. Her father worked at the Bank of Hollywood, located in the Equitable Building of Hollywood at Hollywood and Vine. Her father started teaching her to ride horses when she was only three and she became an accomplished rider. She attended Hollywood High…

Sarah Ruhl takes a decidedly metatheatrical stab at romantic comedy, a genre that over the years has seen many stage and screen couples emulate their characters' relationships in real life. Whether the stars actually managed to recreate their happy endings, though, has never been guaranteed. The unnamed leads in Stage Kiss are actors cast in a regional revival of a forgotten 1930s romance; only when She (MyAnna Buring, as opposed to YourAnna Buring) and He (Patrick Kennedy) arrive for the first…

by Cláudio Alves Did the film student who directed PASSION dream he'd one day be a Palme d'Or frontrunner? The 79th Cannes Film Festival continues to unfold on the French Riviera, and things aren’t looking great for Fremaux and his team of programmers. Some of the most acclaimed titles are premiering in parallel sections, while the Main Competition keeps delivering mixed stuff or provoking outright negative reactions. Asghar Farhadi has probably never received worse notices than the ones he’s…

Behind the scenes on the photo shoot for our Season 2 art. This weekend, thousands of people marched across the Edmund Pettus bridge in Selma, Alabama to protest the rapid-fire eradication of black congressional districts across the South following the Supreme Court's latest salvo against the Voting Rights Act. The Pettus bridge is the site of Bloody Sunday where, in March 1965, marchers for voting rights, led by the late, great John Lewis, were savagely beaten by cops and racist goons as they…

by Elisa Giudici There’s something genuinely startling about seeing the sprawling sci-fi epic Hope in Competition at Cannes. Not because genre films are unwelcome on the Croisette anymore; that battle has largely been wo. The surprise is that Na Hong-jin’s film embraces blockbuster language so wholeheartedly. This is not elevated horror masquerading as arthouse cinema, nor a restrained science-fiction allegory carefully calibrated for festival audiences. Hope is loud, enormous, messy, violent,…

When I left Nottingham for London just before the end of the ’60s, Northern Soul was still in its embryonic stage. We’d danced to “I Can’t Help Myself”, “This Old Heart of Mine”, “You Don’t Know Like I Know”, “Helpless” and “Knock on Wood”, but something different was about to emerge from that club culture. On a visit back home in, I think, 1972, my friend David Milton — who had a shop in Derby called R. E. Cords — told me what it had become, after Dave Godin had given it a name in his Blues &…

I’ve been having a rough couple of days, and the last thing I wanted to

Sterling Hayden in The Killing (1956) Vitals Sterling Hayden as Johnny Clay, professional armed robber and ex-convict Los Angeles, Fall 1955 Film: The Killing Release Date: May 19, 1956 Director: Stanley Kubrick Wardrobe Credit: Jack Masters WARNING! Spoilers ahead! Background Stanley Kubrick’s third directorial feature The Killing arrived in select theaters 70 years ago today on May 19, 1956. The limited release hurt its box office, though it was well-received by critics and even received a…

Review by Sandre the Giant Released: 27th March 2026 I’ll be honest, I missed the new record from Germany thrashers Cruel Force when it came out at the end of March because of real life shit going on, but I loved their last record ‘Dawn of the Axe’ from 2023 and so when I was reminded that ‘Haneda’ was out I inwardly cursed my inattentiveness and jumped straight on it. I couldn’t have made a better decision. ‘Haneda’ is out now through Shadow Kingdom Records. As virulently rapid and sleek as…

by Gillian A. M. Mitchell Dramatic Realism in ‘Mill Street Youth Club’ ‘What Kind of Life?’ was the tenth and final episode of a set of short dramas focused on the activities and members of the Mill Street Youth Club, and first transmitted from January to March 1971 as part of the long-running BBC educational television series Television Club. It is also the only episode of the ‘Mill Street’ series held by the BBC Archive and known to survive today; all others are considered ‘missing, believed…

She-Devil (1989)

What time is it? Time to continue my look at the new-to-me movies I saw back in August 2025 as part of TCM’s Summer Under the Stars event. In today’s post, I’m taking a look at Days 5 and 6, and I’m kicking things off with one of my favorite character actors! Day 5: Claude Rains – Passage to Marseille (1944) Although this feature reunited four of the stars of Casablanca (1941), I’d never been interested in seeing it – probably because I have a strong tendency to steer clear of wartime movies.…

So Captain Jason punishes the woman who's in the middle of Below Deck Down Under: Love Island Edition love triangle and not the men, because one threatened to leave? What in the holy toxic masculinity is this nonsense?

People who watch movies for the human drama, the “empathy machine” people, are the overwhelming majority in the arthouse realm, leaving us bird people to scan every title and plot description for some sign of avian life and not bird-as-metaphor. Once a decade we hit absolute gold, and coincidentally the same month H Is For Hawk came out, right around when I was watching the egret of Alamar, this incredible crane movie popped up. This is what the cinema could be: vague stories featuring doc…

🍿 Finished watching: The Hunting Wives. Yasmine suggested we watch this. We nearly gave up after episode 2, but the murder mystery element kept us coming back for more. In spite a lot of elements we did not like.

Why does Herbert Marshall do so much walking in this? Besides being very good at walking, he’s an important rich person with neglected wife Marlene Dietrich (shortly after her great Sternberg run), ditching her for work events in the same way as Ray Milland in The Big Clock but with much more charm than Ray. There’s a love triangle in Paris facilitated by Madame Pittypat, and Marlene starts secretly dating her husband’s old army buddy Melvyn Douglas. Melvyn is hunky and all, but extremely…

As noted yesterday, this was the quarterfinal bracket: Super-prospect Asahifuji had perhaps his toughest match yet against Fudoho, just prevailing at the edge by shitatenage to counter his oppenent’s uwatenage attempt. He will next face Omori “the handsome”, who nonchalantly swatted aside Tatsubayama after the latter engaged in a pre-bout stare-down worthy of Hoshoryu. Veteran … Continue reading Natsu 2026 Makushita, Day 9

By Jessica Holmes Doctor Who’s foray into the Western genre winds towards its conclusion, and with tensions rising between the colonists and prospectors, it’s only a matter of time before things turn violent. Will the arrival of the adjudicator help keep a lid on things, or fan the flames of war? And can the Doctor … Continue reading [May 18th, 1971] It Could Have Been More (Doctor Who: Colony In Space [Parts 4-6]) → The post [May 18th, 1971] It Could Have Been More (<i>Doctor Who</i>: Colony…