Or, is it fair to be cross with a film that doesn’t want to be any good? Three weeks ago, Circus Film Studios brought out a feelgood comedy ‘Mother’s Pride’ about a pub-owning family. Mick Harley (acted by comedy veteran Martin Clunes) is the landlord of the Somerset pub, The Drovers Arms. His business is […]

Deadline: Stephen Colbert doesn’t have to worry about his next gig after he signs off as host on CBS’s The Late Show on May 21. The late-night host will be embarking on what is arguably his dream project: adapting the next Lord of the Rings movie from New Line Cinema and Warner Bros. Pictures. The […]

So as you might imagine, even this far out from (some version of) the character’s appearance on the silver screen, I’ve had an upswell of demand for comics featuring Doctor Doom. And not too long ago, a young man, probably 12 or 13, fished a couple appearances out of the Fantastic Four boxes and purchased […]

Finished Chainsaw Man Part 2 and honestly thought it was kind of Bad

Did the nine of 12 chefs on Top Chef Carolinas in the bottom fail? Or did the food dyeing challenge and judging fail them?

Today’s recording starts with the end of Ray Mears Northern Wilderness. There;s a BBC 5 Live promo featuring Gabby Logan, Colin Murray and Richard Bacon. There’s also trails for Children in Need and Top Gear. Then it’s another episode of James May’s Toy Stories – Scalextric. James May still has one of his Scalextric cars he had when he was […]

CRY HAVOC!   Director Tamara Harvey, who gave us that beautiful, thoughtful PERICLES last year (also starring Alfred Enoch),  is not one to interpret Henry V in the stormingly militant-heroic mould once so beloved and familiar as successive … Continue reading →

by Cláudio Alves FRANKENSTEIN is the third Guillermo del Toro movie to win the Best Production Design Oscar. At the 98th Academy Awards, James Cameron extended his record as the director who has helmed the most Visual Effects Oscar winners, with Avatar: Fire and Ash being his eighth film to do so. At the same ceremony, Guillermo del Toro saw his Frankenstein take the Best Production Design prize, inching ever closer to tying, perhaps one day breaking, Tim Burton’s record of directing four f...

This weekend, the first episode of the British Saturday Night Live aired. There was an SNL-like show in the 80s called Friday Night Live, before being retitled Saturday Live.…

“Fist my bump.” A scientist (Ryan Gosling) wakes up aboard a ship deep in space, with all his crew mates dead. He battles amnesia to discover that he’s been sent on a mission to stop the sun from dimming. We’re back with the Something Str...

Project Hail Mary has almost all of the stuff I love about Spielberg sci-fi without almost none of the stuff I hate. (Mildest spoilers for stuff that's in the trailers)

I was on the fence about seeing UNDERTONE because even though critics seemed to be digging it for the most part, I was noticing it was divisive among horror fans in a very familiar way. This seems to happen a lot with small scale, intimate flicks that rely on viewers... The post Undertone first appeared on kindertrauma.

By Jessica Holmes We’ve arrived at Timeslip’s final story, and the stakes have never been higher. With Liz kidnapped and Traynor on the verge of enacting the disastrous Master Plan, it’s up to the time-travelling teens to find a way to stop him before it’s too late and save the future. In Case You Missed … Continue reading [March 24, 1971] The Best Laid Plans (Timeslip: The Day Of The Clone [Parts 1-3]) → The post [March 24, 1971] The Best Laid Plans (<i>Timeslip</i>: The Day Of The Clone [Pa...

Lemony Snicket has a classic hotel room full of string in A Series of Unfortunate Events s01e08 (Netflix, 2017).

I haven’t read the book that Hamnet (2026) was based on, but I have a

After watching Kurosawa’s High & Low (Criterion 4k release) and Linklater’s Blue Moon, this list of films set primarily in a single location seems apt. (Even if though only the first half of High & Low is a chamber drama, I’d add it.) Nice reminders of Assault on Precinct 13 and The Party.

1985 espionage comedy, dir. John Landis, Dan Aykroyd, Chevy Chase: IMDb. The covert operation needs some expendable noisemakers to distract attention from the real agents, and here are two guys who just got caught cheating on the exam…

Name: Queen Kelly Age: Somewhere from 92 to 96 years old. Or brand new, maybe? Appearance: Decadent visions of dissipated European royalty in palatial grandeur, and seedy expat iniquity in East Africa. Erich von Stroheim directed this film, so every frame bursts with expensive vices, exposed flesh, outlandish costumes, drifts of spring blossom or swags … Continue reading Instant Expert: Queen Kelly →

The Wretched is a pretty fun indie horror movie that's most notable for its point of view (Spoilers after a warning)

A travel competition show filmed in Taiwan, starting tomorrow on YouTube…

Here it is. The rotting dark heart of Star Trek: Voyager.

This episode is dedicated to the memory of Terry Covington, who passed last year. NICK TAYLOR: In the grand tradition of the Drag Race makeover challenge, I have no idea what some of the judges thought they were watching. Hyping up how bullish Michelle is about drag family resemblance really just emphasizes how vague and stupid her standards are. Our dear eliminated queen seems to have been sacrificed primarily based on the track record, and since the judges have largely been under-acknowled...

The opening story, Prologue to Earthwar, is an all-time Legion banger, despite a bit of weaponized misogyny and classism. And Wildfire being okay with manslaughter on his conscience. Oh, and weird racism against the bad guys. They’re green and slimy, so the Legionnaires call them slime-related slurs. Is it speciesism? Finally, lots of it is … Continue reading Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes (1977) #241

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