Yesterday the Hippodrome Silent Film Festival (hereafter: Hippfest) got off to a grand start with a trio of northern European heavy dramas — much more fun tha I’m making it sound. Hopefully my programme notes for Victor Sjostrom’s THE OUTLAW AND HIS WIFE do a better job. Also showing were Jean Epstein’s poetic and hallucinatory […]

Haven’t seen this in a while… probably De Palma’s best movie, but I’d probably say that about ten different De Palma movies if I’d rewatched them this week. Sound recordist Travolta works at a movie production house with a framed poster of Squirm, rescues Nancy Allen from a car crash, and gradually uncovers her role […]

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Sally dances to Morrissey then goes to her room to watch horror movies alone during her own birthday party, relatable. She finds a TV movie about other young people uncovering demons (some idiot hellraisers a dead demon by bleeding into its open mouth) – but this is not the movie Demons. Then a demon videodromes […]

On its surface, Project Hail Mary sounds like another large-scale space adventure, a movie in which a lone traveler must save the Earth when a virus threatens to dim the sun. A mysterious microbe known as Astrophage is responsible for this doomsday scenario.   Fortunately, Earth has hope for survival, albeit a slim one. The future of humanity depends on a molecular biologist -- Ryan Gosling's Ryland Grace -- traveling 11.9 light-years to Tau Ceti, a star that’s immune to Astrophage. Perha...

by Cláudio Alves First look at Timothée Chalamet in DUNE: PART THREE | © Warner Bros. The period between the Oscar nominations announcement and the actual 98th Academy Awards ceremony hasn’t been easy for Timothée Chalamet’s most ardent fans. From presumed Best Actor frontrunner, he became an also-ran. Honestly, considering what we saw of the final results, he may not have been the second-placer either. Anyway, more than losing the prize, he was the butt of half a dozen jokes throughout the...

Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis, a biopic released in 2022, was something I felt I could do without. What turned up during the research process, however, was something else: a cache of film shot in Las Vegas and elsewhere soon after Presley’s comeback in 1969. Hitherto unseen, it consisted of unedited footage devoted not just to recording […]

It has been seven years since the release of Ready or Not, a jokey, gory slice of horror that pitted a new bride (Samara Weaving) against wealthy in-laws intent on protecting their privilege. I hadn’t thought about the movie until I learned that a second helping was in the offing. I rewatched the original, and remembered why I enjoyed it while also recognizing that blood, gook, and fear aren’t everyone’s favorite popcorn seasonings.    The same mini-review might apply to Ready or Not 2...

By Jessica Holmes My apologies for being a little late with the Doctor Who roundup this month, but as we’ve got a fun serial to talk about, let’s cut the waffling and get cracking. Here’s what happened in the latter half of “The Mind Of Evil”, along with all of my objectively correct opinions about … Continue reading [March 18, 1971] Mastering Your Fears (Doctor Who: The Mind Of Evil [Parts 4-6]) → The post [March 18, 1971] Mastering Your Fears (<i>Doctor Who</i>: The Mind Of Evil [Parts 4-6]...

A classic string board appears in a couple of scenes of The Huntsman (dir. Kyle Kauwika Harris, 2026).

Charlize Theron is one of those actresses that fits into the same mental category for

SECOND HOME HOLIDAY HELL IN OLD RUSSIA       Watch a Chekhov play,  and however deep the characters’ despair and disappointment you feel the author’s love, just as you do for the hopeless in Tennessee Williams. The laughter or … Continue reading →

YouTube: After the record-breaking global success of Spider-Man: No Way Home, Spider-Man: Brand New Day marks an entirely new chapter for Peter Parker and Spider-Man. Four years have passed since the events of No Way Home, and Peter is now an adult living entirely alone, having voluntarily erased himself from the lives and memories of […]

Today’s recording is a repeat of the movie Dragonslayer. It’s slightly disappointing, though, as the recording is only 30 minutes long and starts near the end of the film. But we do get a classic ILM cloud tank effect. Media Centre Description: Fantasy adventure. The kingdom of Urland is an oppressed land, a place where the […]

TIMBUKTU is not only derivative and imperialist/colonialist, but racist too. I mean, the colonial fantasies of Hollywood are racist by default, but rarely as bad as this. The Arabs are referred to as “the savages” by George Dolenz’s French officer — fair enough, he’s an asshole. But Victor Mature calls them “Ay-rabs” which may just […]

Multiple writers were ecstatic over the MOULIN ROUGE! reunion at the end of the telecast. Dear readers. We polled Team Experience about the big night and of course we need your responses too in the comments. Best Jokes, Best Presenting Moments, Best Acceptance Speeches, and the moment we knew it was over for Sinners (in terms of a Best Picture win. This is part one of two posts. Here are the first four questions which we hope you'll answer in the comments, too. Ready? Let's go...

I didn’t need the little robot guy from another movie to get an origin story, but “weirdo pervert stop-motion” is one of my favorite genres, so this was great. Starts with a military unit making their way out of enemy territory, then alternates between rewinding to the same actions from a different character perspective (they […]

Pretty funny that as the Beatles came to the USA playing havoc in the media with their jokey answers to interview questions, Dylan went to England to do the same. This is more of a hotel room hangout movie than expected, and Bob gets aggressive and confrontational. Joan Baez comes across a ton better than […]

A couple days later, a couple more movies. Dale rolls an 8, moving down to the next row and silent movie territory with Shipwrecked, another crowdfunded disc featuring a woman on the run from the murder of an abusive man. Honestly, kind of impressed how okay the silent era was with this. Centipede, meanwhile, rolls a 13 and jumps from the silent era to 1980s Hong Kong and the pairing of

A polite man is driven to murder. He becomes a prophet and screams manifestos on love, war, and the increasingly alarming impact of technology and progress. Driven to insanity by his own insights into the human condition, he travels to a river in an attempt to drown himself but instead is baptized and absolved of sin. He dies, crosseyed yet painless.

YouTube: Experience the epic conclusion. Dune: Part Three only in theaters December 18 #DuneMovie #FilmedforIMAX Directed by Denis Villeneuve and written by Villeneuve and Brian K. Vaughan, Dune: Part Three is based on the novel Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert and delivers the epic conclusion to Villeneuve’s trilogy. The film stars Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Jason […]

By Ben Miller It's been a few years, but we are finally back! The Oscars brought back acting clips for the Oscars and I'm here to rank them from 20 to 1. Let's get to it! What Are We Doing? "If there's a straight line, you've got a problem." 20. Sean Penn, One Battle After Another19. Michael B. Jordan, Sinners18. Amy Madigan, Weapons

A run of Japanese films released around the millennium, and bracketed together as ‘J-Horror’, gave new life to the ghost story. In 2026, they’re still exciting. They’re particularly effective because they bring the ghost story up to date with post-war urban settings and a focus on modern technology. They also play with our expectations of […]