You’re probably feeling rather tedious and life is seriously mediocre, but good news for theatre fans that The High Life, the one series 1990s sitcom, is back in musical form, a chance to reboard that Boeing going high. Performing on tour in Scotland with layovers in Dundee, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Glasgow and Inverness, original writers Alan […]

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 →

1968 horror, dir. Terence Fisher, Christopher Lee, Charles Grey: IMDb. Satanists! They're everywhere!

The Matrix (1999)

As a follow-up to the previous post, here’s a list (one per director for brevity). Please send suggestions.

Radioheart: The Drive & Times of DJ Kevin Cole A film by Peter Hilgendorf and Andrew Franks Kevin hosting Reykjavík Calling, Neumos, Seattle, 2011 I caught this film at the MSPIFF 45 last night. Kevin was a DJ at First Avenue in the 80s (he was Prince’s party DJ!) and he was the founder of REV105, a groundbreaking Twin City radio station in the 90s (that my kids adored.) REV105 was

My review for the mother of the Survival Horror genre

by Nathaniel R  Almodóvar will be competing for the Palme for the seventh time with "BITTER CHRISTMAS" The Cannes competition lineup is here. There's been a lot of scuttlebutt online that it's disappointing. I don't know how that can be the case yet when the films are unseen. It is true that it is very expected in that it is mostly auteurs that they have programmed in the past but that is literally ALWAYS the case since Cannes isn't exactly known for straying from their favourites. What's i...

Influential industrialist Vanger’s niece Harriet disappeared under mysterious circumstances 40 years ago. As a last attempt at solving the case, he hires investigative journalist Mikael Blomkvist. I did watch the 2011 US-version of the movie back when it appeared because it had Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara. If I had known that the original Swedish version has Noomi Rapace in it, I would have watched this 15 years ago. This has a nice story, great pacing and the performances of Noomi Rapace and…

The Bad Guys are struggling to find trust and acceptance in their newly minted lives as Good Guys, when they are pulled out of retirement and forced to do “one last job” by an all-female squad of criminals, Fun sequel to the great animation by Dreamworks, suitable for the entire family, which provides a bit over an hour and a half of entertainment. The voice cast is great as always, with Sam Rockwell, Richard Ayoade, Craig Robinson, Zazie Beetz. Hell, even Awkwafina manages to stay non-annoying…

The first recording today is Mythbusters – Exploding Port-a-Potty. They’re looking for a car that they can make ‘pole vault’ by breaking its driveshaft which drops into a hole in the road. They are also testing a myth about an exploding portapotty. So Adam brings in a sample of his own pooh. There’s also a glimpse […]

A spinoff of an ongoing series A Real Bug’s Life. This National Geographic miniseries on Disney+ uses macrophotography to capture tiny insects in dramatized settings, supplemented by Awkwafina’s affable narration. Monsters, Inc. Before ever even seeing the movie, the two year old got absolutely transfixed by a figurine of Mike Wazowski (or as he calls […]

Douglas Fairbanks and Constance Talmadge just want to get married but it’s easier said than done with her father and his favored suitor hot on their trail. Home Media Availability: Released on DVD. By hook or by crook Douglas Fairbanks will always be remembered as the archetype and king of the movie swashbucklers and that’s […]

"If I'm right, it's even worse than if I was wrong." The first adaptation of the novel, made shortly after its publication. We’ve already seen the later film, now it’s time for the original. This is a much more faithful adaptation of the ...

Movies Big Driver (2014) D: Mikael Salomon. S: Maria Bello, Ann Dowd, Will Harris, Olympia Dukakis, Joan Jett. Tonally concerning, poorly written adaptation of Stephen King novella about cozy murder mystery novelist Bello surviving a sexual assault and attempted murder. Way too many exploitation vibes for a Lifetime TV movie, especially how it objectifies Bello’s … Continue reading Briefly (12 April 2026)

by Team Experience BARBARA HERSHEY made our Top Five. But who else did? Read on! In Part 1 of this Oscar-fantasy exercise we laid the groundwork for the actress-obsessive question of the moment and shared thoughts on several actresses we are rooting for in terms of an unexpected / winning Oscar comeback. Now on to the tippity top vote-getters from our Team member polling. Tomorrow in Part 3 we'll talk about the collective vote from the 100+ readers who took the poll. A quick catch up from ...

Yallah! is an Arabic term and can mean anything from “Let’s go!” or “Come on!” or “Hurry up!”.  I guess it could be any of the three in the context of this animated short from students at Rubika.  Set in the middle of the Lebanon war of 1982, we meet Nicolas, a man about to flee his virtually destroyed city, Beirut.  However, before too long he encounters Naji, a teenager who lands abruptly on the bonnet of his car. Despite the chaos and destruction of war (or perhaps because of it), he has b...

“It is an old maxim of mine that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.” Sherlock Holmes in The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet (by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) Any narrative ‘worth its salt’ – regardless of how fantastical its premise – should have a subtext that illuminates […]

A few months ago, I acquired a binder of magazine and newspaper clippings from a Twin Peaks fan residing in Australia. Hidden between the cutout pages was a publicity photo of Bobby Briggs (Dana Ashbrook) and James Hurley (James Marshall) taken by award winning photographer Raul Vega for Outline Press / Austral International. It’s an image... The post Twin Peaks Publicity – Bobby Briggs and James Hurley by Raul Vega appeared first on TWIN PEAKS BLOG.

★★★☆: Much less fun than part one. The added songs are duds, unfortunately. The direction and staging/costumes are great though, and the cast certainly pulls their weight. It just leaves a ton of time for dark emotional adventure while, even at its darkest, the musical is still a broadway musical (with the expected level of fun). The movie lacked some of that charm, instead feeling more like a moody fantasy drama with some songs. Good songs, but still. FYI: My reviews are scored out of 4. Also,…

It’s a pretty simple movie. My wife fell asleep watching it 3 times so…

It was pretty nice and had a lot of little bits in it that made me laugh.

Could it be that I have been guilty of paying to little attention to Larry Semon? Or is that impossible. I can’t recall ever mentioning him, so now I’m going to, a lot. Larry Semon Larry Semon Larry Semon Larry Semon Larry Semon. Semon’s reputation has no doubt suffered because he was well known to […]

The Gentlemen (2019)