📺 How to get to Heaven from Belfast happened, I imagine, when the Derry Girls creator Lisa McGee saw the abomination that was Bodkin and asked Netflix to fund a true (Northern) Irish mystery. Here is hoping that the Netflix fairy doesn’t realize how good of a show this is, and approves Season 2.

TOO DEEP FOR TEARS Perhaps this imagining of the young Vincent  gains extra power after the emotional hit of the recent Van Gogh at Arles exhibition; starry nights and wonder lie fresh in memory, , signals of immortal beauty from … Continue reading →

Aditya Dhar's Dhurandhar, with Siddhant Adlakha. At time of recording, it was ranked 250th on the list of best movies of all time on the Internet Movie Database. Show notes, including links: https://them0vieblog.com/2026/02/28/441-one-battle-after-another/ Follow us on twitter at @thetwofifty.

2025 fantasy, 13 episodes, light novel series adaptation: AniDB. Lady Scarlet El Vandimion is cast off by the prince to whom she's been publicly engaged since childhood. Fortunately her skills include a lot of punching. vt May I Ask For One Final Thing?

The first recording today starts with a trail for Sorry, I’ve Got No Head and one for My Almost Famous Family. Then it’s The Sarah Jane Adventures – Mona Lisa’s Revenge – Part 1. Jeff Rawle plays Mr Harding, curator of the International Gallery, who is about to open a special exhibition of the Mona Lisa. But it […]

by Cláudio Alves And just like that, Sean Penn became the eighth actor to win three Oscars. With One Battle After Another, Sean Penn became the eighth person in Academy Award history to win a third acting Oscar. He follows Supporting Actor king Walter Brennan, most honored thespian ever Katharine Hepburn, Swedish superstar Ingrid Bergman, New Hollywood enfant terrible Jack Nicholson, nomination queen Meryl Streep, method actor extraordinaire Daniel Day-Lewis, and too-cool-for-school Oscar f...

Four or five film festivals this weekend! And some (kind of) play nice with each other! The Boston Underground Film Festival continues at The Brattle Theatre (with Friday and Saturday midnights at the Coolidge), including local shorts package "The Dunwich Horrors", Obsession, and Cramps! A Period Piece on Friday; "Animation Disorientation", "Die Laughing", Boorman and the Devil, The Texas Chain

Does the highly successful SCREAM 7 deserve the pummeling it received from critics? Nah, not at all. It’s got a spooky, surprisingly mature melancholy vibe going for it, one of the best kills in the franchise (clearly inspired by the classic 1981 slasher MY BLOODY VALENTINE), one of the stronger... The post Scream 7 first appeared on kindertrauma.

Not only does red yarn appear through the film, but also yarn assembles into a monstrous form, and is investigated via a classic wall, in Baba Yaga: Terror of the Dark Forest [Yaga. Koshmar tyomnogo lesa] (dirs. Nathalia Hencker & Svyatoslav Podgaevskiy, 2020).

Aristocrats (1999) is a BBC miniseries adaptation of the non-fiction biography of the four Lennox sisters:

The Companion Chronicles concept, which has a companion actor mostly narrating a story audiobook style with another actor in a “second voice” role to add aspects of audio drama to the production, was devised to let Big Finish with tell stories featuring the first four Doctors, none of whom they could get in to appear … Continue reading Doctor Who: Big Finish, Bigger Scarf – The Fourth Doctor Audios, Part 1

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Today’s recording starts with the end of Coast. There’s a trail for CBeebies. A trail for Miranda. Then it’s James May’s Toy Stories – Meccano. In this series, he takes various toys, and builds something unfeasibly large with them. This week it’s Meccano. Meccano was invented by Frank Hornby, of Model Railway fame. I didn’t remember this fact, as […]

REACH FOR THE LIMITLESS STARS       This 70-minute squib was a big Fringe hit, though one clenched reviewer suggested that it could only appeal to those who love physics.  This felt like a challenge, as my school didn’t … Continue reading →

Three silent Sherlock Holmeses at the Hippodrome on Thursday — Eile Norwood, endorsed by Conan Doyle himself, made an excellent intense detective. The first film (each was around half an hour long), A SCANDAL IN BOHEMIA, was directed by HippFest favourite Maurice Elvey, and stood out by virtue of nimble touches — it began with […]

I’ve never watched Stargate SG-1, but I knew the series was shot around Vancouver. Looking over the Wikipedia page, I found this entry for one of the characters, played by Corin Nemec: From the country of Kelowna on the planet Langara. As someone who worked at Langara College for almost nine years, I find this ... Read more

TERROR BY NIGHT. Universal Pictures, 1946. Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Alan Mowbray, Dennis Hoey, Renee Godfrey. Screenplay: Frank Gruber, based on characters created by Arthur Conan Doyle. Director: Roy William Neill.    Sherlock Holmes is hired to guard the fabulous “Star of Rhodesia” diamond, being taken back to Scotland by train, but murder is committed under […]

Lavishly produced and beautifully choreographed, The Great Gatsby roars to life as a thoroughly entertaining ballet.  Another leap forward by relatively new company BIG Live, The Great Gatsby sees a confidence in […]

Today we went on a retiree date, an afternoon matinee of The Lion King at the Detroit Opera House.

From film and TV writer David Chen’s review of this year’s Academy Awards: The concept of a 3.5-hour broadcast where you watch big movie stars accept awards and deliver heartfelt speeches is no longer as desirable or profitable as it once was. The Oscar’s TV audience has been steadily declining for about ten years, as […]

On the flight home I caught Blue Moon, the 2025 film about Lorenz Hart, an American lyricist of Broadway tunes starring Ethan Hawke. It felt like a stage play with a single set and lots of monologues. It didn't move any needles for me. ⊕