To celebrate Canada Day this year, we’re watching 10 of the Best Canadian Films from the 1940s. Well, to clarify, these are the best 1940s short films from Canada’s National Film Board (NFB), and one of them is an Oscar winner, believe it or not. These shorts explore Canadian culture, experimental animation, and WWII and its aftermath. Combined, they present … Continue reading →
The Frock Flicks team is a taking a little summer break, so we’re repeating some
At the age of 83, Leonard Nimoy tweeted his last, telling followers to ‘live long and prosper’, his character’s catchphrase from the sci-fi series Star Trek. Just five days later he passed away in his Bel Air home having been admitted to hospital with chest pains the previous week. Nimoy had announced a year earlier that he was suffering from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The progressive lung disease narrows the airways, making it increasingly difficult to breathe and is…
Sean Connery in Meteor (1979) Vitals Sean Connery as Dr. Paul Bradley, orbital satellite designer-turned-MIT professor Houston, Texas, Washington, D.C., and New York City, December 1978 Film: Meteor Release Date: October 19, 1979 Director: Ronald Neame Costume Designer: Albert Wolsky WARNING! Spoilers ahead! Background June 30th is National Meteor Watch Day and, while those of limited imagination may think this exclusively means looking up at the stars, some of us with a more cinematic mindset…
1939: TWO NATIONS, TWO MEN, TWO WIVES It has a familiar sitcom structure: a couple whose marriage is not what it respectably seems, making anxious preparations for weekend guests. Said guests unaware of bohemian structures beneath the necessary decorum of welcome. Awkwardness over drinks, a mother-in-law mentioning the elephant in the room a bit too early. Guests conferring in the bedroom, mistrustful unease over a social event, separate confidences between the two men and two women. There’s…
Roden Readers — Go Knicks! Or something like that. What a time to be in NYC. (So everyone tells me.) I watched the last game in the courtyard at a Jane Jacobs–designed co-op in the West Village surrounded by kids and crunchy adults and then wandered in a collective stupor through the streets of New York until about two in the morning bearing witness to decades of repressed joy. A few nights later, Matt Rodbard and I were having dinner in Fort Greene and in walked Spike Lee, looking as happy as…
Horror Hospital (1973) Michael Gough stars as the unscrupulous Dr. Christian Storm, who runs a sanitorium for young adults. The sanitorium is only a ruse, however, to provide a steady supply of unwilling test subjects for his experimental brain surgery (as a deterrent for potential escapees, the doctor’s limousine is equipped with a blade for quick and easy decapitations). The operation results in zombies who obey his every command. Robin Askwith and Vanessa Shaw play two 20-something patients…
Today’s video is on one of the more commonly asked questions I get about sunscreen. You put your sunscreen on in the morning, apply your makeup over it… but you’re meant to reapply it every 2 hours. So how do you reapply it without messing up your makeup? And do you really need to reapply it? Here’s the video on YouTube, including a ... Read more Source
Andrew Wyke (Sir Laurence Olivier), a genteel upper-class mystery writer, has invited a younger man, Milo Tindle (Michael Caine) to his country mansion for a chat. Tindle’s a bit unsure why, though – they met after Wyke discovered Tindle was having an affair with his wife. But surprisingly, Wyke seems fine with letting her go – he’s also been having an affair, and he and his wife fell out of love years ago. In theory, he’s willing to let Tindle have her – but he, warns Tindle, he also knows…
The credits roll over a long slow zoom into the back of a conductor’s head – someone has been watching Unfaithfully Yours – and later they’ll steal the Psycho music during a shower murder. It’s a cute mass-murder/mass-media comedy from Serbia, the director’s follow-up to How I Was Systematically Destroyed by Idiots. There are elaborate flashbacks, an opera, a music video, and an intertitled talking cat. No one will be admitted during the thrilling shower scene: The police inspector, having a…
I have received a few questions from readers about the path to becoming a top movie director, prompted by a recent Substack post entitled “The Annenberg Ouroboros” by Hollywood Gadfly.The article critiques the work of the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative, which studies the gender of top-grossing directors, the festival circuit, animation, visual effects, and more. Hollywood Gadfly raised several objections to their work and methodology, including whether it is fair to treat the gap between…
Cosmic Fling is an unexpected delight. We don't often get to see new animated stories told with marionettes. It tells the story of an average down-to-earth garbage man. Well, not quite. Stan works in outer space – and it’s his job to clear up the mess that humans (inevitably) leave behind. If you think that’s far fetched, read our article about lunar leftovers to see how the moon became a trash can (and why the future might see jobs like this created). Poor old Stan ekes out his existence…
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 →
American Honda Presents DC Comics’ Supergirl #1 Release: 1984Cover: 1984 Creators WriterJoe Orlando | Barry Marx | Robert Loren FlemingArtistAngelo TorresCover ArtistAngelo TorresColoristJoe OrlandoLettererJohn CostanzaScripterAndrew HelferEditorBarry Marx Yes…and I’ve come to a decision…I’m through being Supergirl! As I write this, I’m a few hours away from heading out to a movie theater to take in an early matinee of Supergirl, so I thought it only fitting that I look at the comic that…
Brandon wanted a Bunko-themed cake with three dice on it. Danielle asked for "Linda" in white icing. Francie ordered a 50th birthday cake for a friend, noting that she wanted to pick it up "today." Kristin's friend ordered a cake that was supposed to read "Happy Mother's Day/Birthday" or "Happy Birthday/Mother's Day" - whichever the baker thought sounded best. And finally, there were three choices of decorations on the order form: balloons, roses, or mums. Dee chose mums. Thanks to Brandon M.,…
Focus Features / YouTube: Do not dread the darkness. Embrace it. Robert Eggers’ WERWULF is only in theaters this Christmas. Witness Robert Eggers’ most visceral and haunting experience yet. Focus Features presents WERWULF, a harrowing tale of devotion, damnation and the devil within. I loved Nosferatu back in 2024, and many of the elements which made that movie work are back, but this time: for werewolves. Bring on more spooky goodness this Crimmus.
I've been spending some video time lately looking at the late 1960s, at what a divisive and changed time it is. That's one reason why I'm struck looking at the listings for this Saturday morning, looking at how many westerns there are. The science fiction and superhero cartoons make sense—that is, after all, the future. But westerns? I understand the lure of the Lone Ranger, Roy Rogers and Hopalong Cassidy; I had my share of cowboy hats and six-shooters among my childhood toys. I'm just a bit…
In what has been a mediocre year for new writing with too many incomplete-feeling shows rushed to the stage or not fulfilling their dramatic potential – notably Under the Shadow at the Almeida and Relics at the Lyric Hammersmith along with both The Misanthrope and Pride at the National Theatre all getting sidetracked from their […]
Neapolitan photographer Augusto De Luca (b. 1955) treats shadow not as absence, but as a scalpel. His black-and-white work operates on a principle of subtraction — light reveals, but shadow carves away, giving the image its depth and its metaphysical weight. View fullsize View fullsize “Light enhances but its shadow deletes, thus giving the picture its depth, its third dimension and its subtractive properties.” — Augusto De Luca De Luca's pursuit is the distillation of images into their…
So ahead of seeing the new Supergirl movie, I believed I was in bit of a quandary. As you may have noticed, the film had already attracted some negative chatter, primarily from The Usual Suspects. You know, the folks that regularly dogpile upon any superhero-or-related-genre mass media that focuses on a character or characters that aren’t straight, while males. Or, to borrow phrasing from my review of the 2025 Superman movie, “the usual parade of grifters out for your attention and your wallet”…
Home Sweet Home (1982), a television film directed by Mike Leigh, part of the BBC’s Play for Today series, might be Leigh’s bleakest film. In it, the last of his contributions to this series, Leigh portrays the lives and dysfunctional relationships of three postal workers living on a housing estate in Hitchin, Hertfordshire. I’d like… The post Home Sweet Home (1982): Mike Leigh’s Bleakest Film? appeared first on Sam Woolfe.
I spent my Sunday evening enjoying the Monogram Matinee Volume 3 from the Warner Archive Collection.This Blu-ray set features two "B" Westerns, UNDER ARIZONA SKIES (1946) and RANGE JUSTICE (1949), both starring Johnny Mack Brown.The first film, UNDER ARIZONA SKIES, runs 59 minutes and was directed by Lambert Hillyer.Brown plays Dusty Smith, who as the movie opens breaks up a crooked card game. He saves money being swindled from a rancher (Frank LaRue) who's in ill health and is rewarded with…
When I went to see Supergirl, they gave everybody a movie-branded copy of the first issue of Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow. That’s a pretty bold strategy! Most of the people who wanted exactly what this movie delivers — basically, a less funny Guardians of the Galaxy movie — are probably not going to think Woman of Tomorrow is that special. And those of us who loved the comic are just going to focus on how much the movie comes up short. It’s not bad. The performances are all good, Milly Alcock…
I finished reading Project Hail Mary. 🚀 The movie (which I saw before reading the book) and the book are pretty similar. No spoilers, but the changes they made for the movie make sense. I recommend the book and the movie if you like sci-fi that’s about saving humanity. What I liked most about the story is that there isn’t a villain. The characters have a problem to solve, and that’s what drives the story.
tag(s): #fútbol #español Muelas del juicio MuelaSSSS en plural porque hoy me sacaron las dos muelas del juicio del lado izquierdo. Me pidieron ir con muchas horas de ayuno (incluso que no tome agua) y con un acompañante, porque había una posibilidad de que usen anestesia total. Y así fue que, por primera vez en mi vida me toco que me duerman completamente para un procedimiento. Todo que viene a continuación es la versión de los hechos de mi esposa, porque yo no me acuerdo nada. La enfermera le…
“The Washington Post” reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncover the details of the Watergate scandal that leads to President Richard Nixon’s resignation. Great conspiracy thriller about one of the biggest political scandals in US history (so far), directed by Alan J. Pakula (who also directed The Pelican Brief), with great performances from Dustin Hoffman and Robert Redford, this is a movie that keeps you glued to the screen. Seven popcorns and it goes into the Movie Vault. To see all…
THE TEXAS RANGERS (1936), directed by King Vidor and starring Fred MacMurray, has just been released on Blu-ray by Kino Lorber.Vidor also produced and teamed with Elizabeth Hill to cowrite the story; Louis Stevens wrote the screenplay of this 98-minute film. The story was inspired by a book by Walter Prescott Webb.I'll add off the top that this film is not connected with the 1951 George Montgomery film of the same title, although Montgomery plays a character not too dissimilar from…
Sure, Del Toro's "Frankenstein" was technically a "better" movie, but I'll put money on "The Bride!" being watched and enjoyed 20 years from now, while "Frankenstein" will be remembered as, "...pretty good, but I haven't bothered watching it again since 2025."The Bride was, for me, 1,000 times more fun and interesting. Who cares if it's a weird mess if it's a fun and interesting mess.
