The first recording today starts with the end of The Twisted Whiskers Show. There’s a trail for Relic: Guardians of the Museum. Then it’s Shaun the Sheep – Who’s the Mummy? Shaun finds some hen’s eggs hatching. Who then imprint on him. As a result they won’t leave him alone. Their mother discovers her loss and is very upset. Shaun tries to hide, putting them in Bitzer’s lunchbox. It doesn’t help. The mother hen is looking for her children. Shaun can’t cope and tries to hide the chicks in a milk…

Miscellaneous bits of news and fun stuff from around the Internet......I was away the past two weekends, first at the TCM Classic Film Festival and then at the Arthur Lyons Film Noir Festival. I'll be posting overviews of both festivals as soon as possible, but in the meantime, here is a gigantic news roundup!...The Warner Archive Collection has announced its June Blu-ray releases. Titles include ROSE-MARIE (1936), STRANGE CARGO (1940), COME LIVE WITH ME (1941), THIRTY SECONDS OVER TOKYO…

As the gang here in beautiful upstate New York (the Hudson Valley) wishes we could take a Star Trek teleportation device - used or new - directly to Niles, CA to enjoy the excellent annual Charlie Chaplin Days event presented by our pals at the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum we doff our Max Linder top hat to yet another lesser known but marvelous silent movie comedian Poodles Hanneford (1891-1967). We'll start with the following presentation.Poodles, king of the bareback riders, was a circus…

David Lynch’s Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me had its world premiere on May 16, 1992 at the Cannes Film Festival. Fellow long-time fan Dugpa and I have wrote extensively about the premiere and dispelled the long-standing rumor about the film being booed at the prestigious festival. There were two screenings held that day – one... The post David Lynch, Michael J. Anderson and Bob Engels at Cannes Film Festival Party on May 16, 1992 appeared first on TWIN PEAKS BLOG.

arco A beautiful, tender film about love! I love Miyazaki & Moebius. Aesthetically: extremely for me. It’s a children’s movie, but one that respects and admires children both in its characterization and writing for them. At the edges of the story, one can start to wonder about the mechanics of the world we’re shown, but most of the time I was too enchanted to mind.

Here is part one of the June 1971 Galactoscope featuring stories of Atlantis, fantasies and a creature who may be the devil… by Fiona Moore King Kobold, by Christopher Stasheff Cover of King Kobold This is a direct sequel to Stasheff's first novel, The Warlock In Spite of Himself, which I read when it came … Continue reading [May 16, 1971] Silly Fantasies, Atlantis and the Devil (May Galactoscope #1) → The post [May 16, 1971] Silly Fantasies, Atlantis and the Devil (May Galactoscope #1)…

Summary and observations for my research and learnings. PrefaceAs someone who mostly watches animal documentaries, I asked some trusted sources for a list of their favorite documentaries about people. In these posts, I will write about my key findings and analyses about the filmmaking rather than my opinion on the subject/topic itself. SummaryGrizzly Man (2005), directed and narrated by Werner Herzog, is a documentary that focuses on the lifework of Timothy Treadwell. Treadwell was an animal…

This is credited as the debut film/animation by director Rene Laloux. Although we see Tick-Tock (Tic-Tac) (1957), and Les Achalunés (1958) dated earlier. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/René_Laloux).He later went to produce the films, Fantastic Planet (1973), Time Master (1982) and Gandahar (1987). Many sources mention Felix Guatari as having a hand in the writing of the script, or a connection with the hospital. This all seems a little too ‘neat” for me. It’d be nice to be wrong, though. The…

Mario ventures into space, exploring cosmic worlds and tackling galactic challenges far from the familiar Mushroom Kingdom. This is a-movie about a-Mario, what’s not to like? I’ve seen idiots on IMDb complain about this because it’s not the next Godfather. It’s a solid kids movie, it’s fun and colorful, teaches kids some low key lessons about friendship ane it ultimately entertains. Loved the bazillion references that snuck in, from the nice Star Fox crossover to the Excitebike easter egg, so…

And a third pair of CMON’s Marvel Zombies bystanders in a row – that’s right, I just went on a bit of a run with these as a nice kind of simple palette cleanser models. Today we have the comics version of Ben Urich as well as Jimmy Woo. Jimmy here is different from the MCU version due to his blue-grey suit, while Ben Urich here is a little more different to his remixed version. These two look like they’d make a decent investigative team. A shame that these models are just cannon fodder tokens…

It's become increasingly challenging to share advance information on upcoming Turner Classic Movies schedules due to less information being accessible ahead of the complete schedule being published.Some readers will remember when I was able to preview schedules weeks, if not months, in advance. That is currently not an option, but between several sources, including a TCM press release, I've been able to cobble together a preview for the June schedule. There's quite a bit of interesting…

In the very early days of this blog I reviewed THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA (2006).It seemed almost surreal this week to revisit the same characters, two decades on, in THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA 2 (2026).Although I sometimes tire of the frequent lack of originality in current cinema offerings, I must admit that I really looked forward to this sequel, and I'm glad to say I found it quite enjoyable.The movie isn't quite on a par with the original -- among other things, it's not as funny, though there are…

by Elisa Giudici TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA. MUBI By the time Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma premiered at Cannes, Jane Schoenbrun had already become something close to a generational folk hero for younger cinephiles. You could feel it inside the Debussy theater before the lights even went down: critics squeezed onto theater steps, festival attendees treating an Un Certain Regard opener like the hottest ticket on the Croisette, audiences buzzing less about Cannes prestige than…

Today’s only recording is Mythbusters – Peeing on the Third Rail. This is actually an episode revisiting lots of previous myths. The first one is whether covering your body with gold paint would kill you by overheating. This time it’s Adam who has to get painted. Rather than peeing on a third rail, they investigate whether peeing on an electric fence can shock you. They do more testing on whether a mobile phone ringing can cause an explosion or fire at a petrol pump. They retest the Ice Bullet…

The National Theatre's recent Importance of Being Earnest found a new angle by introducing a formidable Caribbean take on Lady Bracknell, and now Nicholai La Barrie extends that idea by giving us another Oscar Wilde play where the entire cast of characters has been reimagined as first or second generation Caribbean British. In An Ideal Husband class, power and money are constantly intertwined in a relationship that proves precarious as Lord Chiltern (Chiké Okonkwo,) a politician whose career…

Donald Gibb, perhaps best known for playing the hulking but none-too-bright Ogre in Revenge of the Nerds (1984), died on May 12, 2026, at the age of 71. The cause was complications from cancer.Donald Gibb was born in New York City on August 4, 1954. He grew up in California, where he attended Notre Dame High School in Sherman Oaks. He attended the University of New Mexico on a basketball scholarship and then University of San Diego, where he was on the football team. He played in the NFL in the…

If you would have told me a year ago if I would be making an announcement like this, I wouldn’t have believed it. I am very excited to share that this summer, my straw millinery will be seen in the new Little House on the Prairie!!!!! Season 1, premiering July 9th on Netflix, will feature […]

RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars 11 already has its first two semifinalists after an improv challenge in monster costume that did not work for some of the queens. Marshal Knight recaps!

Oh man, I love a good ghost story & writer/director Damian McCarthy’s HOKUM is certainly that. It’s a spooky, dark, compact, well acted, sometimes riveting, sometimes heartbreaking, and eventually down right terrifying, ghost story. Its quiet, unassuming, downright sneaky nature may result in it not exactly taking the world by storm but even better, it’s the type of creepfest that one could return to again and again for years to come when a supernatural fix is needed. My only complaint is that…

The Devil Wears Prada is remembered for its iconic lines, eye-catching outfits, and stellar cast. Something that feels a little forgotten, however, is the story's origin as a thinly-veiled hit piece on Anna Wintour. The film had a bite. The Devil Wears Prada 2 has none. Yet this, the sequel would have you believe, is a story that says something. Unlike its frivolous predecessor, The Devil Wears Prada 2 speaks to our cultural moment. Specifically it is a story about the importance of journalism.…

by Elisa Giudici IN WAVES With Cannes now in full swing, let's rank the four opening titles from Un Certain Regard, Director's Fortnight, Critics Week, and Out of Competition. 4. In Waves by Phuong Mai Nguyen (France/Belgium) [Opening Film of Critics’ Week]In Waves is probably the most polished and emotionally accessible of the festival's four openers, which, for my taste, also makes it the least exciting. The film follows AJ, a shy teenager obsessed with sketching and skating, whose world…

The Fritzes award honors the best interfaces in a full-length motion picture in the past year. Interfaces play a special role in our movie-going experience, and are a craft all their own that does not otherwise receive focused recognition. Today we’ll be covering Best Interfaces. The movies nominated for Best Interfaces manage the extraordinary challenge of being believable and helping to paint a picture of the world of the story. They advance the state of the art in telling stories with…

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On the set of Don Juan. Image source: Wikipedia It’s been a few months since I picked this series back up! What can I say? Things have been busy this year. Luckily, it’s not so busy that I can’t continue one of my favorite series on this blog: revisiting the hits of yesteryear and seeing how they hold up today. If you have not read the first part of my Greatest Hits of 1926 posts, click the link here. My usual note: It is difficult to get 100% accurate box office information from the silent era…

Not a whole lot between Prada and Grogu, huh? May's not an actual summer movie month. The biggest release may be BUFF centerpiece Obsession, in which a guy makes a wish for a girl to be in love with them, only to find that it being that powerful freaks both of them out, with apparently only death as an escape. It's at the Somerville, the Coolidge, CinemaSalem, Boston Common (including Dolby

The first three episodes of the Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice-inspired sequel adaptation, The Other Bennet Sister (2026)

I was eager to see Obsession as soon as possible, almost entirely because it’s been super-hyped by the Dead Meat YouTube channel. My tastes seem to align with theirs more often than not, and they loved it. I wasn’t quite able to fall under its spell, but I appreciate what the movie is trying to do, and it has several moments that were well-executed and worked on me exactly as intended. And the universal praise for star Inde Navarrette is entirely justified. She’s excellent, and it’s not an…

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Terry Tuttle Thomas Smythe hosts the very first ‘Collieries Have Talent’ competition, that’s our favourite smarmy chap stood on the engine announcing the next act. Liz & Margo have also been invited as celebrity royal judges for this inaugural event. Kicking things off, we have the The Railway Guards’ Barbershop Sing & Dance Troupe from nearby Midsomer Norton about to perform their short set of coordinated dance to Lonnie Donegan’s Rock Island Line playing on the gramophone in the weighbridge…

I sent this essay to my wife because doing self-owns is kind of my brand. It’s about husbands who can’t stop talking about AI, and despite how uncomfortable it made me, it’s not wrong and also wonderful writing. This is so good: I should also say I didn’t bother speaking to any of the actual husbands for this story. I’m sick of hearing from the men of AI. So many of us are. They have podcasts and Senate hearings and magazine profiles and probably a group chat with the president. They’ve been…