Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)

It's the weekend, so I figure a TRIPLE feature is in order. These movies are not going to be accused of being classics. No. But they all put me in mind of what has been on my mind this month: 1980s small-town horror with a side of witches. Plus two of these have some great casts.There is The Midnight Hour (1985), Midnight Offerings (1981), and The Dark Side of Midnight (1984). One will have its share of witches, vampires, zombies and Halloween; another puts teenage witches in suburbia; the…

...has had its return unavoidably delayed.Plans for it to resume today have had to be postponed. All is well, but there is a little too much unexpectedly going on this weekend.The column should return by Halloween. Thanks to my faithful readers for their patience!In the meantime, here's a fun photo of Beau Bridges and his wife dancing at a party on the TCM Classic Cruise last week.Post

Good sequel, tying together all previous plots, while also allowing Chucky to multiply, while also being an Elm Street 3-style psych-ward-set serial killer thriller. Andy is back, torturing his own personal Chucky head after a cute girl from the latest Final Destination breaks up with him. Wheelchair Nika is still alive too, so is her niece (now Mike Flanagan’s Carrie) and Jennifer Tilly-as-herself and the doll version of Jennifer Tilly, and hey, why not bring back the girl from part two, it’s…

Today’s recording starts with the end of League of Super Evil. There’s a trail for Roar. Then there’s a short episode of Newsround. There’s a trail for Scoop starring Hacker T Dog and Barry from Eastenders. Then it’s Deadly 60 – Killers. This episode is concentrating on animals that kill people. First, Steve Backshall kayaks in a river where there’s a wild hippo. Which does start chasing him, so it’s a tense sequence, although I suspect they hype the danger a bit for this show. He helps capture…

Everyone loves actress Nana (the Whirlpool of Fate orphan, and the director’s wife), including Count “Dr. Caligari” Muffat, horse breeder Count “Robert Macaire” Vandeuvres, and Macaire’s useless nephew Ray (The Three-Sided Mirror). Nana, in turn, likes whoever she can use to get ahead, and that’s Muffat, who gets her the starring role in a play but can’t stop her from being laughed off the stage. In the end, everyone in this movie who acted normal about anything was spared – unfortunately…

I remember when Star Trek: Enterprise came out. I was pretty excited. I was a fan of the original series and, of course, The Next Generation. I tried getting into Deep Space Nine and Voyager and just couldn't do it (I eventually finished Voyager and enjoyed it, but I still can't finish DS9). Then Enterprise came out. People can say what they will, but I liked it almost as much as I liked TNG. I liked the storylines, I thought Scott Bakula was a great choice for Captain Archer, and then, of…

I am continuously amazed that some people had the forethought to save newspaper clippings from when Twin Peaks first aired on the ABC Television Network in 1990. I recently acquired a rather pristine copy of “TV Week” from October 21-27, 1990 included in Cleveland’s The Plain Dealer. The cover featured a stunning photo of Richard Beymer... The post Richard Beymer in The Plain Dealer’s TV Week, Oct. 21-27, 1990 appeared first on TWIN PEAKS BLOG.

Shakespeare plays run to a schedule similar to buses', so less than a month after the Globe's latest production confirmed why As You Like It is my favourite of the comedies, half the Artistic Director of the RSC comes along with his own take on why this is one of the most joyous of the plays. Not that Daniel Evans' production starts that way, with a monochrome design in which Colin Richmond's costumes in fascist black contrast with the clinical whiteness of Anisha Fields' set. This is the…

StarringRobert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, and Scarlett JohanssonDirectorAnthony Russo and Joe RussoOverviewAvenge the fallen.After the devastating events of Avengers: Infinity War, the universe is in ruins due to the efforts of the Mad Titan, Thanos. With the help of remaining allies, the Avengers must assemble once more in order to undo Thanos' actions and restore order to the universe once and for all, no matter what consequences may be in store.Review Avengers:…

Hi Kindertrauma! I'm trying to identify a color movie I saw on television at least 45 years ago, probably from the 1960s or 1970s. I remember a young, white, middle-class-looking man, possibly played by Michael Douglas or Martin Sheen, being surrounded outdoors in an urban neighborhood by a street gang that I believe was Hispanic. The gang told him they would let him leave unharmed if he could "get it up," apparently knowing that he would be too frightened to do so. I remember the threat, not…

Heard about your website from the great Fun For All Ages Podcast, so I’m wondering if anyone remembers a Japanese cartoon that I saw on local NY television when I was around 5 or 6 years old, black and white (which I’m assuming was just because my TV set was a black and white model!) in which I specifically recall a female character who resembled a classic Japanese “geisha” who ends up drowning and reincarnating into a mermaid…? Is this merely a false memory? Also, I seem to recall another…

Gurdwara a month ago. And three weeks ago.

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Richard Roundtree as John Shaft in Shaft in Africa (1973) Vitals Richard Roundtree as John Shaft, tough private detective Ethiopia to Paris, Winter 1972 Film: Shaft in Africa Release Date: June 20, 1973 Director: John Guillermin Wardrobe Credit: Frank Balchus WARNING! Spoilers ahead! Background Who’s the cat that won’t cop out when there’s danger all about? Shaft! (Right on.) The groundbreaking role of private investigator John Shaft was originated across three films in the early 1970s by…

It was about 9:00 p.m. and I wasn’t tired, so I asked Claude for a spy movie less than 100 minutes long. It suggested a few, including Pickup on South Street from 1953.Turns out, the entire film is on YouTube, and has a running time of just 77 minutes. (Pete would be so happy…)It was… okay. The “spy” aspect is just a MacGuffin — a pickpocket lifts a woman’s wallet on the subway. Turns out it has microfilm in it. She’s a courier for a traitor and everyone wants it back.I mean, let’s face it, the…

VIDEO TRANSCRIPT: There’s a scene towards the end of Some Woman at the National Theatre, where I sat there thinking, “You’re going down this road, are you? You’re really going down this road.” It had been quite an interesting play up until that point, had some interesting ideas, but it just got a little bit silly, a little bit OTT. It’s the story of an ordinary woman, played by Anne Marie Duff, who has given up a potentially big career to raise a family, and is doing less interesting work.…

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The grindhouse classic deserves a double feature. So for tonight’s viewing I have queued a double feature of the 1982 The Slumber Party Massacre and its 1987 follow up, Slumber Party Massacre II. They are good examples of the slasher genre, maybe even some of the best, but I am watching them more to gather ideas for my West End Girls adventure.The first film has an interesting pedigree. Rita Mae Brown (the author and feminist activist) wrote it, and Amy Holden put it on screen; a slasher flick…

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by Juan Carlos Ojano Ten years later and LA LA LAND's opening sequence still astounds.LA LA LAND, Damien Chazelle's Oscar-winning Technicolor ode to cinema, jazz, and dreamers, returns to cinemas this year to celebrate its tenth anniversary. Many Oscar fans will remember this film as the film that almost won Best Picture, only to be leapfrogged by the queer coming-of-age film Moonlight, resulting in an Oscar snafu to end all award snafus. However, its legacy goes beyond awards talk. With how…

Dumplings (Fruit Chan) Bai Ling of Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow is abortionist-chef Aunt Mei, and her latest rich customer is from Don’t Go Breaking My Heart 2. I once watched the feature-length version of this on bootleg DVD, which defeats the point of bathing in all the lovely green shades brought out by Christopher Doyle, shooting a WKW movie without the blurry slow-mo. The movie’s other point is to gross you out with all the baby-eating, which evokes Monty Python’s crunchy frog…

Today’s recording starts with the end of Animals at Work. If this weren’t John Barrowman, would this be a hate crime? There’s a trail for Big Fab Fridays. Then it’s Deadly 60 – Namibia 2. Steve’s looking for big cats. He wants to demonstrate the importance of camouflage so he puts on some camo and stalks his film crew. But they spot him. While looking for a leopard, Steve finds a porcupine. He gets a close look at a leopard. He also finds some lions. A night, they’re also stalked by lions. They…

Actor Tom Skerritt died on October 21, 2026, at the age of 93. He appeared in such movies as MASH (1970), Alien (1979), Steel Magnolias (1989), and A River Runs Through It (1992). On television, he starred on the show Picket Fences and guest starred on shows from Gunsmoke to Chicago Hope.Tom Skerritt was born on August 25, 1933 in Detroit, Michigan. He graduated from Mackenzie High School in Detroit, then enlisted in the United States Air Force where he served as a classifications specialist.…

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This is a "minor" child's space book. It is a fictional story about Huckleberry Hound and his friends who decide to build a rocket. It is an almost "standard" story of they never really take off for the Moon but convince themselves that this strange place they found is on the Moon.I was attracted to it for the painted illustrations and an amazing cover of the "gang" taking off for space.For those of you below a certain age here is a little about Huckleberry Hound and his Hanna Barbera cartoon…

Looking more and more like Max Schrek: outside the Flying Monkey prior to last night's screening of 'Nosferatu' (1922). Sometimes it all comes together: a score flows seamlessly from one scene into another, the right music falls into place, and you go from one powerful scene to the next.That's what happened, I think, on Thursday, Oct. 22 at the Flying Monkey Moviehouse and Performance Center in Plymouth, N.H., where I accompanied 'Nosferatu' (1922).You'd think this wouldn't be an issue with a…

I'm glad a doc is going to be on a surprising amount of screens, but it's really squeezing my Asian cinema this week! Scratching my head over Clayface, because didn't producer James Gunn see how well the "make antiheroes out of villains you've got the rights to when their hero is sort of off-limits" worked out for Sony? Interesting, though, as director James Watkins has horror bona fides and a