It’s been a shit week, y’all. First Dolly Parton passed away on Tuesday, then we

Rachelle and I are really good at watching TV and we have opinions about what we watch. Here are our favorite TV and movies from 2026 so far. You can see my rating scale here. The ratings are mostly about how much we enjoyed it and have less to do with the quality. Shows # A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms Season 1 - Widows Bay Season 1 - Honorable mentions: The Bear Season 5 - Rooster Season 1 - DTF St. Louis - Jury Duty Presents: Company Retreat - Movies # The Odyssey - Obsession - Project Hail…

The Christophers (2025) • View trailerFour stars (out of five); rated R, for profanityAvailable via: HuluBy Derrick Bang • Published in The Davis Enterprise, 8.30.26Once upon a time, this thoughtful character study would have arrived with a visible splash, and enjoyed a modest but well-deserved run at arthouse theaters. Instead, it landed directly in streaming purgatory, likely never to be found by the potential audience that mainstream release would have attracted. Understandably suspicious…

Ghostbusters II (1989)

My favorite found-footage horror director is Koji Shiraishi, the director of Noroi - kind of a cult classic - and Occult, which is less well-known but equally fantastic. Noroi is both a found-footage horror story and an elaborate, loving recreation of Japanese daytime television. Occult is an incredibly funny (but dark) self-insert story where Shiraishi plays the slimiest, most unpleasant version of himself. I've watched a bunch of his stuff, and I've liked it all! I haven't watched his…

Paul Frees (1920 –1986), born Solomon Hersh Frees in Chicago , is better known for his work on Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Walter Lantz, Rankin/Bass and Walt Disney theatrical cartoons during the Golden Age of Animation, and for providing the voice of Boris Badenov in The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show.Frees was sometimes known as "The Man of a Thousand Voices", an appellation more commonly bestowed on Mel Blanc. [Wikipedia]A good Paul Frees biography is Ben Ohmart, , Welcome ... Foolish Mortals – The Life…

Went to Mayo today. Doc told me I’ve been doing great. It’s been since 2009. Every year, still clean. Getting a stick up your peeps is just awful, but having such a great doc helps a lot. BCG is the shit. Fuck Cancer. This post (alll cllearr) was last edited 12 minutes ago.

BB28's 25th episode was the franchise's 1000th episode, and to celebrate, the producers completely screwed over fans and feedsters, and the game stayed on its predictable path! Woo hoo!

📺 Watched: Star Trek Strange New Worlds "Off-Hour" S4E6 One of the better episodes this season! Echoes of TNG "Disaster". Crossed with 24. Despite knowing they would all be fine there was good tension throughout. Reply by email Share this post Mastodon Bluesky

In what is turning out to be a trying week, it is sad to report the passing of Canadian actor Peter Cullen at the age of 84. Although well-known for numerous roles, he will forever be iconically known as the voice of Optimus Prime in the Transformers franchise.Born in Montreal in 1941, Cullen graduated from the National Theatre School of Canada in 1963. He worked as an announcer for Montreal radio. He began working in television in Canada and picked up interest from American television. He made…

Someone once told me that the two key questions people most ask about movies are 1) Who’s in it? and 2) What’s it about? If that’s true, I offer the following: Who’s in Coyote vs. Acme, a mix of live action and animation that brings a rich trove of Looney Tunes characters back to the screen with a level of humor that’s difficult to resist? Well, Wile E. Coyote and his nemesis, Road Runner, have major roles. But you’ll also find appearances by Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Foghorn Leghorn, Tweety…

In sad news, British actor Tim Curry has passed away at the age of 80. One of the best-known and most popular actors of his generation, Curry was known for his charisma, acting skill, singing voice, his ability to make the cheesiest roles his own, and his generosity to fans.Born in Cheshire in 1946, Curry was raised abroad in Hong Kong as well as different towns around the UK. At school he studied singing and became a soprano. He decided to focus on acting and studied drama at the University of…

As has become all too typical in reviewing these late 1970s schedules, ABC has once again mowed down its competition, which tonight seems mostly content with airing movies and not even trying to compete on the series front. ABCEight is EnoughCharlie’s AngelsVegasAll three of ABC’s Wednesday offering finished in the top 25, while CBS and NBC failed to land a single show that high in the ratings. Looking back, I was a bit surprised that in its second season Eight is Enough (#11) ranked one spot…

Watching this movie tonight. Spielberg, Hanks, DiCaprio, Williams soundtrack, hard not to fault. What’s struck me is the other actors, Amy Adams, Jennifer Garner, Ellen Pompeo, Martin Sheen, Elizabeth Banks, all of whom I’d totally forgotten. What a fun movie, sometimes it’s nice just to kick back and chill out. Thanks for reading and keeping RSS alive. Visit my site for more.

The LGBT community is mourning the loss of two queer icons in two days: Dolly Parton, the honorary drag queen and fierce voice for tolerance, and Tim Curry, whose arch performance as Frank N Furter in Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975, dir. Jim Sherman) made him a beacon of hope for several generations of queer people and kinksters. RHPS is not an historical movie, but it holds an important place in history, so it’s grist for this blog’s mill, and I suppose this post gives me a chance to set down…

Charulata(The Lonely Wife) is my favourite film from the great Indian director Satyajit Ray. With the exception of directors such as Hitchcock, Chaplin, Kurosawa and Bergman, very few film directors have ever had as much control over their respective projects as Satyajit Ray had over his: working as director, producer, scriptwriter, as well as creating his own storyboards and marketing materials. Charulata was Ray’s eleventh feature and was his favourite from amongst his own work. It is…

There’s a fan theory that says Gene Hackman was playing the same character in two espionage thrillers, released 24 years apart.Hackman starred as Harry Caul in The Conversation in 1974. Then he played Edward “Brill” Lyle in Enemy of the State in 1998. A theory has been floated that these two characters are the same person. From the Wikipedia page for The Conversation: Hackman's character Edward Lyle in Enemy of the State closely resembles Caul: he dons the same translucent raincoat, and his…

Classic film fans received a nice surprise this week when Turner Classic Movies announced dates for the 2027 TCM Classic Film Festival.While announcements have been made this early in some years past, more recently TCM has made the announcement much later; last year the confirmation of the 2026 festival came in late October.Needless to say this was wonderful news, especially in the current environment with uncertainty over a studio merger which could potentially impact TCM in some fashion.The…

So sad I don't even wanna watch what I wanna watch, u feel me? For my own future reference, here's a list of videos I find interesting/want to watch but won't bc depression: Mary Cassatt: The Impressionist Who Painted The Mind by Nerdwriter1 Inside the Life of Monocle Journalist Fernando in Soho, London by NEVER TOO SMALL We Ask An Astrophysicist About Alien Worlds ft. @dr.starkid | Smosh Asks by SmoshAlike can we all stop speaking like incels? by Mina Le Why Speaking Another Language Changes…

"Looks like we're both gonna have an awful lot of explaining to do." It’s movie-book club time, I read the book so here I am watching the film. Bill Paxton plays the lead, Billy Bob Thornton plays his brother, Brent Briscoe plays the mate and Bridget Fonda plays the wife. Sam Raimi directs. Quite an interesting one this, the screenplay was written by Scott Smith who also wrote the book - but he dramatically alters what happens to make sure fewer people die and Hank, the lead, is less of a total…

Near the palm-strewn beaches of Komodo Island, a sea turtle hatches. She is tiny and vulnerable, but must make her way to the ocean via a series of obstacles – the obstacles mostly being other animals that want to eat her. Whether it’s birds, crabs of Komodo dragons, she has the challenge of her short lifetime in front of her. Beautifully animated, this animated short by a group of ESMA students really keeps you on the edge of your seats, rooting for the hatchling as she navigates her way to…

Once again, I’m trying to flesh out some of the flicks we have podcasted but

📺 WATCHED: X-Files Season 2 episodes: "Soft Light" and "Our Town". "Soft Light": From the episode description, I was going to skip this one (man's shadow is killing people). I searched for reviews and saw Tony Shaloub was in it so that became an immediate watch. At first it seemed like a throwaway episode but turned out to be part of the overall mytharc (on the government cover-up side, not aliens). Scully's protogé had a poor end to her young career. "Our Town": I wasn't as high on this…

Timothy Olyphant as Seth Bullock on the first season of Deadwood. Vitals Timothy Olyphant as Seth Bullock, taciturn Canadian-born lawman and hardware store owner Deadwood, Summer 1876 to 1877 Series: Deadwood Air Dates: March 21, 2004 to August 27, 2006 Creator: David Milch Costume Designer: Janie Bryant WARNING! Spoilers ahead! Background One of my favorite shows of all time, Deadwood aired its final episode 20 years ago tonight on August 27, 2006, shot down in its prime by HBO before series…

“Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, only this time, more wisely.”| Uncle Iroh, Avatar: The Last Airbender Simple and resonant.

And now, a day after Dolly Parton's death, comes news of the death of Tim Curry. Like so many, my earliest memories of Tim Curry are as Dr. Frank-N-Furter in The Rocky Horror Picture Show. I didn't see that movie until my sophomore year of college, but I was aware of it in high school.I was a drama club kid, so of course I was aware of the show. But I was also a teenager with a strict curfew of 11 p.m., so I was not going to midnight movies in high school. My parents wanted to protect me, and…

I rewatched The Hunt For Red October this week1, and I noticed Tim Curry was in it. I somehow thought he had died already, and then, the next day, he actually did. A lot of actors from that movie have died. Sean Connery, Sam Neill, James Earl Jones, surely more whose name I don’t remember, or never knew. This is a factor of the movie being released in 1990, 36 years ago, we’re all getting closer to that meet cute with the scythe dude. Anyway, I had never realized before that Tim Curry was in…

Underworld (2003)

(1993) Written and directed by Guillermo del Toro; Starring: Federico Luppi, Ron Perlman, Claudio Brook, Margarita Isabel and Tamara Xanath; Available on Blu-ray and DVD Rating: **** “The first movie articulates your universe. To me, Cronos contains the essence of what I want to do. I always was interested in the stories of familiar relationships that are either decomposing or decomposed. Even in the short, “Geometria,” [an early film school project] that’s there – the idea that the family…