The magical Warner Bros. production of Shakespeare's A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM (1935) is now available on a beautiful Blu-ray from the Warner Archive Collection.As a homeschooling parent years ago, I bought the original Warner Bros. DVD for our children to watch.I hadn't seen it in years before catching it at the 2018 TCM Classic Film Festival, after which I wrote that "its silvery cinematography...made a big impression; that was one of the titles I'd not been especially enthused about which…

Tense music cranks up as pretty, vacant young Simon (Almeyer, also in Oliveira’s La Lettre) realizes everyone is keeping secrets from him. His beloved Ariane (Sylvie Testud of Lourdes) loves to sleep, tells him nothing of substance, changes her stories. After she sings a courtyard duet with a neighbor, Simon goes out to solve the mystery of women, asks some women about their relationships with each other, takes everything they say literally, then comes home and confuses his girlfriend, deciding…

FAIR WINDS AND FOLLOWING SEAS: ‘Rocky Horror Picture Show’ and ‘It’ icon Tim Curry dead at 80. Hopefully this is the end of the trifecta, rounding out after Hayden and Dolly, and there isn’t one still outstanding.

Ingrid Bergman always gives an audience their money’s worth. The legendary actress, born in Stockholm, Sweden, came to Hollywood in 1939, where she made such films as Casablanca (1942), The Bells of St. Mary’s (1945), and The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (1958). She also won three Oscars, and was nominated for an additional four. So, she knew a thing … Continue reading →

The first recording today starts with the end of Atomic Betty. Then it’s a repeat of Pokemon Battle Dimension – Sleepless in Pre-Battle. Media Centre Description: Ash continues his quest to become the greatest Pokemon trainer ever. He travels through the Sinnoh region, where he is challenged in a number of thrilling battles. [S] Recorded from CITV on Saturday 22nd May 2010 11:28 The next recording starts with the end of Dennis the Menace. There’s a trail for Horrible Histories. Then it’s What’s…

Far be it from me to suggest you buy any other book this summer, but I feel obliged to draw your attention to a flurry of notable books, made by mates, that have come out recently or are about to come out...For instance, here's the latest from an old friend from down under, Anwen Crawford - a critical study of the film Morvern Callar that comes in this daintily designed

This week, we lost two major movie-connected people within 24 hours of each other. In my review for Rocky Horror Picture Show, I pointed to Tim Curry as the standout performance; I still stand by that. He was in several other films over the next couple decades before suffering a stroke in 2012; he was unable to walk ever after and had short-term memory issues. But he still was able to do limited readings and appearances, and wrote a memoir published last fall. He passed from complications…

Normal (2025) • View trailer3.5 stars (out of five); rated R, for profanity and relentless strong, bloody violenceAvailable via: HBO MAX and other VOD optionsBy Derrick BangPaul Newman went through a period, for several years following 1961’s The Hustler, when superstition apparently prompted him to insist that several subsequent anti-hero single-word films begin with the letter “H,” in some cases prompting script character name changes: Hud, Harper and Hombre. Confronted by unexpectedly…

We’ve had so much post-apocalyptic “entertainment" that it now qualifies as a pop-cultural obsession, if not an addiction. Still, dystopian overload didn’t stop director Ridley Scott from taking us to a time when life as we know it once again has come to an end. That said, The Dog Stars, which is based on a 2012 novel by Peter Heller and leans heavily on stars Jacob Elordi, Josh Brolin, Margaret Qualley, and Guy Pearce, includes what might be the year’s wackiest sequence. I won’t make you wait…

Man, Tim Curry too. RIP Dr. Poole, one of my favorite characters he played: www.youtube.com/watch

This is a funny, 24-second video published by Ryan Reynolds where he’s reflecting on what’s great about filming with Michael Bay. It’s funny because the opening car chase scene from 6 Underground is filming in the background, and Reynolds just nails the timing (it could be an homage to The Greatest Shot in Television History).

by Cora Buhlert I was planning to review a movie today, a musical comedy called When My Sweetheart Gets Loud that's currently sitting at the top of the West German cinema charts. However, the movie will have to wait, because talking about a silly comedy feels wrong in the light of two terrible events that … Continue reading [August 26, 1971] Blood and Bullets in the Streets of West Germany: The Shooting of Petra Schelm and the Munich Bank Robbery → The post [August 26, 1971] Blood and Bullets…

Tessa Thompson is an absolutely magnetic actor, and I could watch her in anything. Most

On August 21 and 22, 2026, the Mahoning Drive-In Theater in Lehighton, PA held their fourth “Wild World of David Lynch” celebration. What started as a biennial event blossomed into a yearly staple lovingly curated by longtime Lynch fan Faye Dorsey. THE WILD WORLD OF DAVID LYNCH 2026 This year’s programming was centered around Twin... The post Trip Report – The Wild World of David Lynch 2026 at the Mahoning Drive-In Theater appeared first on TWIN PEAKS BLOG.

Outside the National Theatre While I’ve introduced myself in my About Me section, I haven’t said much about my theatre likes and dislikes. My tastes are born out of a lot of testing. I’ve been going to the theatre regularly for 16 years. At the moment, I have the capacity to see one or two plays a week – I have a day job which pays the bills and limits the time I have to review, so I have to keep it manageable. The plays the thing I like plays, not musicals. I have tried musicals, but I just…

101 Dalmatians (1996)

After Saragossa Manuscript, another Wojciech Has movie full of madness, beautifully filmed, and based on an eccentric novel, which didn’t really work for me. Jan Nowicki (Barrier) goes to a time-warping hospital to find his not-dead-yet dad, then wanders through fantastical episodes, full of delirious clutter (and copious cobwebs) in the tradition of Szulkin and Hard to be a God. Opens with our guy getting directions from a blind train conductor, ends with him having become the conductor – I…

The first recording today starts with the end of Louie. There’s a trail for Dirtgirlworld. Then it’s Kerwhizz – Daredevil Dreamway. Media Centre Description: Children’s quiz. The teams find themselves in a raceworld which is particularly dreamy for sidekicks Pip, Snout and Kaboodle, and there are no prizes for guessing what Snout will dream up in this racy adventure. Shout and cheer as teams Ninki, Twist and Kit dream their way to the finish line. Recorded from CBeebies on Thursday 20th May…

1961 original: downbeat, guys go broke and get injured, the girl dies 1986 reboot: a party, guys get rich and have a good time playing the game “He’s gotta learn how to be himself, but on purpose.” The Hustler finds a hotshot kid named Vince who is such a hotshot that he busts into pool halls and beats everyone in the room while wearing a shirt that says VINCE. Newman says let’s apply some strategy to this skill, and the kid’s girl (M.E. Mastrantonio) hears him, but the kid (T. Cruise) doesn’t,…

Christina Solis Caron played the role of Baby Doll in the cult classic movie Mi Vida Loca (1993). Mi Vida Loca is a groundbreaking film in the history of movies about Chicanos, as it follows the everyday lives of Chicana gang members in Echo Park in Los Angeles. In addition to Mi Vida Loca, she also made notable guest appearances on such TV shows as Married with Children, Silk Stalkings, Chicago Hope, and 7th Heaven and appeared in such movies as Out for Justice (1991) and Quiet Days in…

Gabby Hutchinson Crouch joins Tim Worthington for a chat about Yelena Belova demonstrating why she should never be counted on to keep an eye on a grocery store in Spider-Man: Brand New Day.

The opening credits of Revival s01 (SyFy, 2025) feature an underwater version of a set of string connections, building on the comic series on which the show is based [NST #975] and related to its promotional clips [NST #1302]. From contributor Colin Beineke.

I recently realized I didn’t know that much about famous French singer Edith Piaf (1915-63),

Burt Reynolds in Gator (1976) Vitals Burt Reynolds as Bobby “Gator” McKlusky, paroled moonshine runner Okefanokee Swamp, Summer 1975 Film: Gator Release Date: August 25, 1976 Director: Burt Reynolds Costume Designer: Norman Salling Background Burt Reynolds followed up his sweaty 1973 “hick flick” White Lightning with his self-directed sequel Gator, widely released 50 years ago today on August 25, 1976. The three-year gap had been kind to Reynolds, who had since grown his stardom… and that…

The Truman Show’s commentary on the media’s commercialization of the individual was trenchant at the time, bolstered by its broad appeal and strong, universal storytelling. But its impact has been followed by a series of long, deepening aftershocks as social media has turned its precept into a universal way of life. We all consume a sanitized, commoditized version of real life through screens, not just as a surrogate for real-world relationships, but as a permanent layer on top of them.

Part of the User Manual Series where I give some brief overviews of the media, experiences and thoughts that help make me...me. Released hourly on my 32nd birthday. Jurassic Park Dinosaurs are cool. The original released not long before I was born and has always been connected with my parents who went to see it at the time. They shared it with me when I was slightly more appropriately aged. I was terrified of the scene where the T-Rex is chasing down the jeep. I would leave the room for a…

1957 horror, dir. Jacques Tourneur, Dana Andrews, Peggy Cummins: IMDb. Karswell's enemies seem to die very conveniently for him; but of course there's no such thing as magic.

3D? ScreenX? Ultra AVX? WTF? ~ Link: Movie Theater Headache, by Ariadne, Noisy Deadlines

📺 Watched: Star Trek TOS "The Cage" S0 (pilot) I put off watching this because I remember seeing bits of it and remember it being boring. I was remembering the scene between Pike & Boyce—the rest of the episode is classic Trek. Reply by email Share this post Mastodon Bluesky

Below Deck Med’s Cooper said he's bad at secrets, and he's not kidding! So I compiled examples of Coop's hilariously bad lies so you can label to your own failed attempts at deception!