A trailer has been released for the incoming new Avatar: The Last Airbender animated film.Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender is the first animated project to be released by Avatar Studios. Headed up by original Avatar: The Last Airbender creators Bryan Konietzko and Michael DiMartino, they are currently working on three films and a new TV series, Avatar: Seven Havens, with the latter due to air in 2027.The original Avatar: The Last Airbender aired in three seasons from 2005 to 2008 and became a…
Uncle Tupelo - French Village Drive-in, East St. Louis, Missouri, July 1987 / Lincoln Theater, Belleville, Illinois, 1988Paying your dues as an up-and-coming midwestern rock band sometimes means playing an East St. Louis drive-in in between screenings of Innerspace and Adventures in Babysitting. At least that’s what Uncle Tupelo had to do in the summer of 1987. And somehow, we can time travel back to catch a glimpse of the barely-out-of-their-teens trio tearing it up above a poorly rendered…
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I wrote two long posts about the first two episodes of The Other Bennet Sister
Before I worked at Suncoast, I worked at two mom and pop video stores in my hometown. That was how I first got paid to spend my time around movies. Those stores did rentals, with return bins, late fees, rewinding, and customers looking for whatever was still on the shelf on a Friday night. They were great places to work, but when a job opened up at Suncoast in my new local mall, I took it. It was still in the video business, which I had come to enjoy, but it payed more. Suncoast felt different…
Debits and credits are easier to understand when you think about the other party in the accounting relationship.
On Below Deck Mediterranean season 11 episode 5, Luke left Nathan a present, and instead of washing out my eyes with bleach, I have the full story for you.
The great releases keep coming from the Warner Archive Collection, with a packed slate of fantastic titles scheduled all summer long.One of the Blu-rays I've been most excited to see is the brand-new release of Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy in one of their most beloved films, ROSE-MARIE (1936).I reviewed the Warner Archive DVD of this film a decade ago, in 2016, and it was a joy to return to it via the Blu-ray. The Blu-ray, from a 1080p HD master from 4K scans of the "best available…
Loon Gathering - Mia Bergeron , 2026. American , b. 1979 - Coloured acrylic on flat panel , 6 x 6 in.
We’re a few days away from Big Brother 28’s premiere, never mind this week’s other premieres, such as Project Runway: Drama Edition and a new season of The Real Housewives of Orange County. And on Wednesday, it’s reality blurred’s 26th birthday! 🥳 And we’re going to celebrate it not with poorly planned fireworks concealed inside ... Read more
Nick "Woz" Wozniak of Yacht Club Games catches up with Max to share lessons from delays, restrictions, and new adventures hot off the heels of releasing Mina the Hollower. Download (31MB) — Episode Transcript Show Notes Welcome BTP3 - Yacht Club Games on Kickstarter and the Future of Shovel Knight Mina The Hollower Review - Buried Under Ambition Congratulations Mina the Hollower 500K Copies Sold Announcement Creator of Hit Game Shovel Knight Is at a ‘Make or Break’ Moment - Bloomberg…
I think this might be the first Hitchcock that just didn't really work for me. The premise feels unlike so much of his output: dated and strained. Asking Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman to both play against type is, I think, laudatory, but their work is half-baked at best. I don't care about their love for each other because it appears as if out of nowhere — a thing the script insists upon rather than something the performances themselves earn. The same can be said of Bergman's backstory as a…
I’ve decided to write about one of Barbara Stanwyck’s less well known and less discussed films. It is a film about love, family, second chances and following your heart wherever it may lead you. This gem features an excellent lead performance by Barbara Stanwyck. All I Desire was directed by Douglas Sirk, the undisputed master of classic era soap and melodrama. When most people think of Sirk’s work they usually associate his name with the vibrant Technicolor films such as Magnificent Obsession…
Audiences had never seen anything like Mark Frost and David Lynch’s Twin Peaks when the series first aired in April 1990 on the ABC Television Network. Viewers were just as captivated by the mystery of Laura Palmer’s murder as they were by Angelo Badalamenti and Julee Cruise’s music and the small towns of Snoqualmie Valley, Washington where... The post At the Peak of Fashion – Interview with Twin Peaks Costume Designer Sara Markowitz from 1990 appeared first on TWIN PEAKS BLOG.
Sylvester Stallone in Rocky IV (1985) Vitals Sylvester Stallone as Rocky Balboa, two-time heavyweight world champion boxer Philadelphia, Fall 1985 Film: Rocky IV Release Date: November 27, 1985 Director: Sylvester Stallone Costume Designer: Tom Bronson WARNING! Spoilers ahead! Background Happy 80th birthday to Sylvester Stallone! Born July 6, 1946, the carved his own path to Hollywood success by writing and starring in Rocky as the fictional Philadelphia boxer Rocky Balboa. What started as a…
Tonight, CBS Reports, hosted by Charles Kuralt, investigates "The Spring Grove Experiment," a look at two patients given LSD treatment at Spring Grove State Hospital in Maryland. "Films show patients under the effects of LSD: a woman, who suffered a nervous breakdown, and a male alcoholic. Six months later at their homes, they describe the effects the therapy has had on their lives." Hint: many people were involved in these experiments, and the results weren't always good. But what better place…
It’s no secret that the Hollywood Comet loves musicals. In 2010, I revealed I had seen 400 movie musicals over the course of eight years. Now that number is over 600. To celebrate and share this musical love, here is … Continue reading →
The Japanese Tanabata Festival On the 7th day of the 7th month, every year, is the Tanabata Festival in Japan.Why only then?It is all based a story from early Japan. Tanabata Festival, Hiratsuka notesofnomads.com It is the story of two lovers, Orihime and Hikoboshi, who represent the stars Vega, and Altair. They are only allowed to meet on the 7th day of the 7th month, every year, at the River of the Sky.It is a based on poems in the Manyoshu volume, ‘Collection of Ten Thousand Leaves’. This is…
Some caption I love a good beat 'em up movie. Seeing the protagonist face off against dozens of indistinguist minions as they make their way to their objective. I feel that this movie does a great job of establishing the story and characters and then getting out of the way to let the action happen. I was hooked on this movie from the moment I saw the trailer. I was so excited that I created a reminder to check if the film would be available to stream in a couple months from this writing. I…
It's hard to believe that it's been close to a dozen years since I reviewed the COME LIVE WITH ME (1941) DVD released by the Warner Archive Collection!In addition to reviewing the DVD, I also previously posted a brief review of the film way back in 2006.Clearly, it's a movie I like a great deal, revisiting it every few years, so I'm especially happy that it's now just been released on an absolutely lovely Blu-ray.The exquisite Hedy Lamarr was never more beautiful than in this film. She plays…
A few days ago I reviewed CAGE OF GOLD (1950), my first film watched from Kino Lorber's Brit Noir Collection I.I'll be watching more from that set soon, but first I jumped over to the new Brit Noir Collection II, also from Kino Lorber Studio Classics, and watched THE LONG ARM (1956).THE LONG ARM, also known in Britain as THE THIRD KEY, is exactly my kind of movie, a police procedural with enjoyable leads and extensive, interesting location shooting.THE LONG ARM, like the other two films in the…
I’m a sucker for a movie in an interesting cinema, and will do so regardless of what’s playing. This is how I came to see All I Want for Christmas in Campbellford, Ontario, Anacoda in Haenam, Korea, and Marley & Me in Košice, Slovakia: forgettable movies in lovely (or at least quirky) theatres.Tonight it was The Mandalorian and Grogu at King’s Theatre in Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia with young L. Unrelenting creature-vs.-spaceman action, with adorable space-Beanie Baby sidekicks.The 100+ year…
Independence Day weekend is always a good time to watch a patriotic film of any kind, and so I decided to watch IKE: COUNTDOWN TO D-DAY (2004), in which Tom Selleck stars as General Dwight D. "Ike" Eisenhower.I bought this film in a sale several years ago but as so often happens, hadn't caught up with it yet simply due to so many viewing options. I lent the DVD to my late father in 2019, who commented "Very high recommendation on this film. Selleck was excellent."My interest in seeing the film…
Charley Chase is given an ultimatum by his boss: romance the company’s biggest account, a mature widow, or else. So Charley gets to work but it isn’t easy, especially with the widow’s pretty secretary about. Home Media Availability: Released on DVD Just a gigolo Hal Roach had ambitions for his comedy studio, something bigger than […]
AMBITION, LOVE AND CHOICES IN AN OLDER IRELAND Jonathan Bank’s Mint Theater company lately gave us an arresting revival of Miles Malleson’s Yours Unfaithfully in this theatre, and here he is reinvigorating another 1930s play, this time by the near-forgotten Irish playwright Teresa Deevy, From the title I vaguely expected a familiar story of wifely submission or rebellion, with the local crone andMother Church giving trouble on the sidelines. Actually Deevy’s story is more interesting than that,…
Oh okay, we’ve got kid of an Immortan Joe’s War-Boys witness me, ride-shiny-and-chrome thing going on; historically speaking that’s not…great for people who don’t want to be set on fire ⦁ ⦁ ⦁ ⦁ ⦁ Oof, thank goodness Neytiri’s got those carbon-reinforced bones ⦁ ⦁ ⦁ ⦁ ⦁ Spider listen, I’m as guilty of hitting ‘snooze’ too many times as anyone, but not when it comes to…breathing??? ⦁ ⦁ ⦁ ⦁ ⦁ Oh shit, that’s what happens when you cut a Na’vi’s neural ponytail ⦁ ⦁ ⦁ ⦁ ⦁ Oh good, you’ve introduced…
I am going to do something I don't often do on this blog which is point out how fucking stupid something is. Or in this case someone. I think that Bluesky is an incredibly liberal website. This is, in a few ways, better than X The Everything App, but to say that liberalism is better than fascism is judging a gradient. The most popular posters on X The Everything App are fascist losers, the most popular posters on Bluesky are just normal losers. If you use Bluesky that's whatever, I have an…
I love the 1812 Overture as much as the next man, indeed substantially more, but I think it’s weird that Peacock’s “Star Spangled Sunday” baseball broadcast is celebrating America’s 250th birthday with a song about the Russian army repelling a French advance just short of Moscow.Oh, hmm, apparently this is a thing.
StarringLuke Wilson, Maya Rudolph, Dax Shepard, Terry Crews, and Anthony 'Citric' CamposDirectorMike JudgeOverviewIn the future, intelligence is extinct.To test its top-secret Human Hibernation Project, the Pentagon picks the most average European-Americans it can find - an Army private and a prostitute - and sends them to the year 2505 after a series of freak events. But when they arrive, they find a civilization so dumbed-down that they're the smartest people around.Review Idiocracy The jokes…
