Before anything gathers into form, there is a trembling that does not yet belong to sight, a faint stirring within shadow, as though feeling out the air. What emerges is neither absence nor void, but a density without edges, a field in which something waits without voicing itself. Out of this condition, images condense, hesitate, and drift, carrying with them the sense that they could just as easily recede. Sleep Has Her House unfolds within this threshold. Rather than presenting a world, it…

Who won Tournament of Champions 7: Kenny Gilbert, Kevin Lee, Jet Tila, or Bryan Voltaggio? For the last time this season, let's dive into the competition and Hunter Fieri jokes!

Jerry gets a live-in job at a womens boarding house. It’s overwhelming but whenever he tries to sneak out, they tell him he’s important to them, so he stays. Movie has very little story, very few good jokes, but some of the best-ever set design. The girls include Gloria Jean, two decades after hurting WC’s ears in Never Give a Sucker, Billy Wilder regular Hope Holiday, and Kathleen Freeman, the only actor in Fritz Lang’s House by the River to also appear in Shrek. Buddy Lester is quite good as…

In early 2016, I started this blog. I had just begun my recovery from some major surgery, and I had some time, along with a relatively new enthusiasm (obsession?) for classic movies. I also had become acquainted with a few other bloggers and wanted so much to be part of this community. Ten years and 150 posts later, I'm still here, still love classic movies, and despite a notable dropoff in post frequency, I felt like celebrating! So in honor of this unexpected milestone, I'm sharing some…

Oh Doctor (1917) Arbuckle’s doctor is a horrible man, abusing his son Buster, straying from his wife at any opportunity, and gambling away the family savings on a hunch. Some people try to scam him but he beats them up, steals a bunch of cash, prospers. An evil movie! – The Cook (1918) A whole different thing, Arbuckle & Keaton coordinating impossible stunts in a kitchen with a running gag that all food orders come out of the same giant pot. Sure it gets weird when The Joker arrives at the…

Christmas is fast approaching so we’re getting some special programmes. The first recording today is Victoria Wood: Seen on TV. It’s hard to imagine anything made about Victoria Wood being anything but brilliant. This is entirely wonderful. Even an interview piece talking about being recognised in public, she keeps having to warn the camera crew about signposts they are backing into, but it’s just natural. There’s a lovely shot of her meeting fans backstage, and they’re wearing the yellow…

List of things that quicken the heart. Almereyda in Metrograph: The early 2000s happened to be a fallow time for me, and it was consoling to think big while gathering footage with a little camera. Magical things were always materializing, flashing by, almost as if the camera were inviting them to happen.

I’ve been pretty open and honest on here about my fraught relationship with horror as a genre. During my prime adolescent years, when you’re supposed to be building a solid foundation, I was either not allowed or too scared to be seeing any horror movies. So my adulthood has been mostly spent playing catch-up. Trying to see the most well-known landmarks, acclimatizing myself to Halloween events, making more of an effort to desensitize myself. Part of the reason is just because it’s always felt…

Pt 1 - Team Experience Votes Pt 2 - Team Experience Winners Pt 3 - AT LONG LAST THE RESULTS OF THE READERS POLL... WHO SHOULD BE THE NEXT AMY MADIGAN? ELISABETH SHUE in Leaving Las Vegas (1995). What would it take to get her a comeback role? We've spent the last couple of weeks bsessing over a question from a reader (thanks, Brian!) and we got so into discussing it at TFE HQ that we asked all of you to vote on the same question. The Team and Readers were unaware of each others vote totals…

Returning from LV-426, Ellen Ripley crash-lands on the maximum-security prison Fiorina 161, where she discovers that she has unwittingly brought along an unwelcome visitor. Another movie, another director, another interpretation of the universe. Packed with action, while also being slowly paced at times, it finds a strong balance between the story and the killings for this to be a nice watch. Five popcorns and it goes into the Movie Vault. To see all 9 photos, visit the article page. This…

The infamously upbeat story of a child who is glad of everything adapted for the screen by producer-star Mary Pickford and screenwriter Frances Marion, with both attempting to tone down the sugar. Home Media Availability: Released in the bargain DVD space I’m glad I broke my legs! When Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Charlie Chaplin, and […]

It’s hard to believe that the 2026 TCM Film Festival – my 12th in-person and 14th overall – will kick off in just two weeks! It seems that I live my entire year waiting for this event; it always seems so far away, and then before I know it, it’s here and gone, and I’m living for the next one. Because of the blink-of-an-eye-ness of it all, I wasn’t impatiently waiting this year for TCM to serve up the final schedule – I was actually savoring the anticipation – and when the schedule did drop, I…

Until recently I’ve had very mixed feelings about what The Mandalorian and Grogu movie might actually be about and how it was being presented in the, until recently, limited marketing. This behind the scenes with Adam Savage and Jon Favreau is increasing my confidence in what I hope will be a fun and inventive new type of Star Wars adventure — in part because of the great care and attention to design details. Art & Design Trees don’t pay off tomorrow. They pay off in a decade. They compound…

Die frühen Filmschnipsel und Stummfilme des späten 19. und ersten Viertels des 20. Jahrhunderts üben eine besondere Faszination auf mich aus. Vielleicht wegen der Unvereinbarkeit ihrer Magie mit den Schrecken des Kolonialismus und des Ersten Weltkriegs. Oder weil die benutzten Techniken und Tricks meine eigenen kreativen Geister erwecken. So oder so: Mit den Lumière-Brüdern, Georges Méliès und Lotte Reiniger wäre ich gern um die Häuser gezogen. Heute konnte ich ihre Arbeiten auf der großen…

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So, after teaching Charlie Chaplin the one bit of film technique he needed, for the first few years of his career, at least (contiguity editing: the principle that if a character gets kickout of shot frame left, he should fall into the succeeding shot from frame right, preserving his sense of screen direction), Henry “Pathé” […]

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On 29 December 2007, the second series of the BBC's latest adaptation of Robin Hood came to an end with a highly contentious finale where Guy of Gisborne stabbed Marian to death in a jealous rage.It's perhaps not the most interesting thing about these episodes, but although produced as two 45-minute episodes, titled A Good Day to Die and We Are Robin Hood, they ended up originally airing as one single 90-minute compilation, on account of the BBC deciding to strip their Oliver Twist adaptation…

We went and saw Project Hail Mary tonight. Didn't know much about it to be honest. Some people at work had seen it, thought it would be worthy of spending the money on it. Actually we had a movie voucher from Christmas so didn't spend a cent there. I liked the movie apart from basically the last 10 mins. It felt like they might of had the story locked down and some studio exec was like, hey we need this bit added on. I have not read the book but I assume it is better than what I saw? The only…

I had promised Max we'd watch a movie after dinner. After some deliberation, I chose [Shaolin Soccer](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0286112/) because it's funny and football-related. Unfortunately, it wasn't on any of my streaming services, so I switched to Stephen Chow's other film, Kung Fu Hustle, which was on Netflix. Max was initially skeptical about watching a movie twice his age, but he started to enjoy it as we watched. His favorite scene was the [knife throwing…

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Fair is fair, as much as I hate Quaritch and Quariitch in equal measure, the look on the latter’s big blue punim when he touched the arrows sticking out of his dead clone-dad’s skeleton-bones was an incredible moment on every artistic level1 and was the most character development any version of this guy has shown so far. I uh—y’know, it’s probably not gonna be channeled into any self-reflection or growth or a desire to turn from the path of violence or anything, but still. ⦁ ⦁ ⦁ ⦁ ⦁ Oh okay so…

Decades after surviving the Nostromo incident, Ellen Ripley is sent out to re-establish contact with a terraforming colony but finds herself battling the Alien Queen and her offspring. Excellent sequel to the first masterpiece, expanding a lot on the Alien lore, and packaging it all on an action sci-fi movie, which is faster paced and more tense than its predecessor, keeping you glued to the screen for 2 hours and a half (or 2:17 if you watch the theatrical version) wondering what will happen…

With only days away from the premiere of Twin Peaks on the ABC Television Network on April 8, “Soundlife” in The Morning News Tribune ran a cover story about David Lynch and Mark Frost’s new show on March 28, 1990. Two additional articles by Tribune’s TV-radio columnist Andee Beck accompanied Steve Bond’s story that was distributed by Los... The post ‘Twin Peaks’ in Soundlife from The Morning News Tribune on March 28, 1990 appeared first on TWIN PEAKS BLOG.

StarringTemuera Morrison and Ming-Na WenOverviewLegendary bounty hunter Boba Fett and mercenary Fennec Shand must navigate the galaxy’s underworld when they return to the sands of Tatooine to stake their claim on the territory once ruled by Jabba the Hutt and his crime syndicate.ReviewFor only having seven chapters, this series shows two different story arcs — Fett’s return and Mando’s journey. Since they’re crammed together, neither is fully fleshed out. What results is something that’s fine…

After investigating a mysterious transmission of unknown origin, the crew of a commercial spacecraft encounters a deadly lifeform. Yeah, it’s that moment that I go through every 5 years or so when I revisit the entire Alien franchise. And what better point to start it than a movie that defined a genre and created a franchise that still fills cinemas today. In this movie every sound is perfectly put in place, every view is a wallpaper-able moment. The cast is absolutely fantastic, Sigourney…

Going into Psycho II, I made sure to make clear how much disdain I had for the idea of even trying to live up to such an undisputed classic. I gave it a pass only after it was clear that they were showing proper reverence for the original, and that they were more interested in continuing the story than trying to live up to it in terms of filmmaking. Watching Psycho III, I was reminded of Hitchcock’s extended trailer for the original movie. It takes full advantage of the persona that had been…

DC has posted several preview pages from next week’s issue of The Flash, and you can see them at Adventures In Poor Taste. The preview features Wally struggling to deal with the many crises caused by the local social media craze, but he’s hanging in there and has managed to save everyone thus far. Check it out at the link! THE FLASH #32 Written by RYAN NORTH Art and cover by GAVIN GUIDRY Variant covers by KARL KERSCHL and GIUSEPPE CAMUNCOLI April Drools variant cover by BEN CALDWELL Things to…

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