I can’t tell if this is just me being racist but I legit could not tell who that other, non-Lo’ak dude was at first, much less that it was Neteyam; in fairness to me Neteyam is dead so I shouldn’t have expected to see him, but still. I mean they kept calling each other ‘bro’, admittedly, but I thought maybe they were about to smooch, like Lo’ak had found a homie who was more than a homie (I realize in retrospect that he’s also got a seaside-lady but I dunno man) ⦁ ⦁ ⦁ ⦁ ⦁ “There’s the Na’vi way…

I first saw THE BIG COMBO (1955) in 2012, as part of a special "noir" evening at the historic Million Dollar Theater in Downtown Los Angeles.I was relatively new to film noir then, and THE BIG COMBO initially baffled me a bit, but before very long I was completely caught up in its magic.As I wrote 14 years ago: "...as the film went on, I found myself falling under its spell, thanks to a combination of unforgettably staged set pieces and the stunning black and white cinematography of John Alton.…

When a dancer’s partner suddenly falls ill, she hires a replacement but trouble arises when he falls in love with her and won’t take no for an answer. Home Media Availability: Stream courtesy of the Danish Film Institute Danish Slice Philip Burne-Jones caused a sensation with his painting, The Vampire, which quickly inspired a poem […]

My newest Western RoundUp column is now up at Classic Movie Hub!This month I've reviewed the beautiful restored Blu-ray print of BEND OF THE RIVER (1952) just released by Kino Lorber Studio Classics.This release, a new 4K restoration by Universal Pictures and The Film Foundation, is an improvement on Kino Lorber's original Blu-ray release of the film which I reviewed here in 2019. I highly recommend it.Please click over to Classic Movie Hub for my full review, and thanks for reading!Previous…

by Nathaniel R First still from WERWULF. Can it follow in Nosferatu's footsteps and receive craft nominations? We started with Costume Design (we're partial to those threads, don'cha know) but now the rest of the first round predictions for the 99th Oscars are available in all visual categories...

"How am I supposed to do this without you?" An aspiring chef (Zoey Deutch) is devastated when her sister dies. To cope with the loss, she rings her sister’s phone and leaves a string of voicemails. Little does she know, the number is now in the hands of a guy (Nick Robinson), who hears the messages and starts to fall for her. The romance story arc here is predictable. The guy uses the voicemails to find her. They hit it off, but he can’t tell her that he’s been privy to these very personal…

I recently acquired an incredible collection of publicity photos and slides from my favorite David Lynch film, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me. These images were released by Spelling Films International in 1992 for markets outside the United States. I previously highlighted a photo from a deleted scene at the Fat Trout Trailer Park. This robust... The post Twin Peaks Publicity – Spelling Films International – Gerard and the Man From Another Place Speak In Unison appeared first on TWIN PEAKS BLOG.

Over the years I’ve occasionally noodled on what might be a better working fluid for supercritical turbines than Carbon Dioxide. It turns out the main fixed parameter is the critical temperature, because there’s a strong nonlinearity in density with it going up rapidly as that temperature is approached. The other parameters of note are thermal conductivity, specific heat, and density, with more being better. There’s a very short list of possible fluids to mix which aren’t horribly corrosive,…

Apologies for being a few days late, there was so much information for this release it took me a while to sort it into a semi coherent mess… hopefully I’ll tidy it up sometime, but for now here it is! TitleLengthMr. Frosty6:53Reg‡‡‡5:56Jelly Fish‡6:01Eggy Toast‡‡4:32Vodka4:12Winner Takes All5:44Upright Kangaroo3:32Giant Deflating Football6:21The Sound Of The Beady Eyes7:46Bu Bu Bu Bu6:52Vodka (Mix 2)*4:22Portamento Gosh*2:02Waltz*5:24Brivert & Muonds*6:17Clissold Bathroom*00:56Jelly Fish (Mix…

The Bernhardt Watch Company of North Carolina was a microbrand before anyone called independent watchmakers “microbrands.” Founded in 2005, this family-owned business developed a fiercely loyal following of enthusiasts and… The post Bernhardt Captain appeared first on The Time Bum.

Mel Brooks in High Anxiety (1977) Vitals Mel Brooks as Dr. Richard Harpo Thorndyke, anxious psychologist Los Angeles to San Francisco, Spring 1977 Film: High Anxiety Release Date: December 25, 1977 Director: Mel Brooks Costume Designer: Patricia Norris WARNING! Spoilers ahead! Background The 2,000-Year-Old Man turns 100! Born Melvin James Kaminsky on June 28, 1926 in Brooklyn, prolific writer, director, producer, actor, and comedian Mel Brooks is one of less than two dozen entertainers to date…

Just a small pitch for watching the early movies of a director you love. Sólo con tu pareja by Alfonso Cuarón came out in 1991. It is weird and great and if you like later movies of his, Y tu mamá también (2001) and Roma (2018) which were released 10 and 27 years after his first movie respectively, it is fun to see how he continues touching on similar themes. Cuaróns filmography: 1991 Sólo con tu pareja 1995 A Little Princess 1998 Great Expectations 2001 Y tu mamá también 2004 Harry Potter and…

This is Part 4 of The Great Balkans Road Trip. If you’re new to the series you can start from the beginning here. I’m doing a circular tour of the Balkans with a solo travel company called Just You, starting in Romania, travelling through Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Kosovo and Serbia, ending up back in Romania two weeks later. Today, we’re in Sofia. Are you a bean chiller or a fork prodder? Now you may recall from Day 3 that there was a Bulgarian stand-off in the Astoria Grand Hotel restaurant…

John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017)

Last year saw the beginning of a new series by Victoria Dowd (who also writes the Smart Women mysteries – see my reviews for more info) starring a widowed journalist from the 1920s named Charlotte Blood. This sleuth debuted in Death in the Aviary and today I am taking a look at her next outing, which certainly ups the peril factor. By the end of this book, you’ll be thinking archaeology has never been so dangerous since Indiana Jones!

On the heels of their terrific French Noir releases, Kino Lorber Studio Classics is now releasing Brit Noir Collections.The first set was released a month ago, with Volume II due this coming week and Volume III a month after that, in late July.Volume IV is said to be "coming soon."Based on watching CAGE OF GOLD (1950), the first film in Collection I, I'm going to have a wonderful summer watching my way through these sets.I'll mention at the outset that this film is particularly heavy with…

Liked Shiki (Anime Review) by Cabbage (Cabbage Sorter) I had Shiki on hold since 2013 ... When I first watched it, I couldn't get past the hair, it was too much. It wasn't just the hairstyles though, I clearly remember feeling overwhelmed by a gazillion characters being introduced at a lightning pace and that was also too much. I'm not immune to propaganda however, and after seeing a few positive reviews about it in quick succession I finally picked it back up again. And I really loved it! I…

BADMAN’S TERRITORY. RKO Radio Pictures, 1946. Randolph Scott, Ann Richards, George ‘Gabby’ Hayes, Ray Collins, Chief Thundercloud, Lawrence Tierney, Tom Tyler, Steve Brodie, Isabel Jewell. Director: Tim Whelan. Back in the late 1800s, or so, as the narrator of this film tells us, the Oklahoma panhandle was a land of without law, where gangs of gunslingers congregated and ruled the towns they lived in. Enter Randolph Scott, a lawman in search of his brother, facing every outlaw in the West. I…

I just enjoyed watching a U.S. propaganda feature film from World War II that I don’t remember seeing before, “China” (Paramount, 1942), starring Loretta Young, Alan Ladd, and William Bendix.

The first recording today starts with the end of Atomic Betty. Then it’s a repeat of Pokemon Battle Dimension – Hungry For The Good Life. 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 13th March 2010 11:28 The recording ends with the start of Prove It! Now we have five episodes in a row starting with Mythbusters –…

By Ben Miller You can blame Superman for plenty of the failures with Craig Gillespie's Supergirl. The critical and audience success of that entry reignited the DC Universe. Now, the expectations are too great and the middle-of-the-road film that follows is sure to be considered a disappointment. It's not like the film does anything wrong, it's just slight. I love not having a plot hinge on universe-changing implications, but this film just establishes the Supergirl character enough to lead to…

Das letzte Spargelgericht und Spargelrezept für diese Saison, leider ist die leckere Zeit schon wieder vorbei. Aus Hitzegründen wurde aus den letzten Stangen ein Salat, denn bei über 30 Grad ein Komplettprogramm mit Kartöffelchen und Hollandaise hätte mich echt überfordert. Ich überlegte mir morgens, daß ich die Spargelstangen abkochen und marinieren und dann kurz vor dem Verzehr am Abend

Miscellaneous bits of news and fun stuff from around the Internet... ...I was greatly saddened this week to learn of the passing of the marvelous Ann Blyth. She could truly do it all, from drama to comedy to musicals. She was one of the last living links to my beloved MGM musicals; the most notable MGM star still with us is probably Leslie Caron. Blyth was just short of turning 99 in August; I noted that this week her birth year was updated on many sites, from 1928 to 1927. Ann is now reunited…

Peter Wyngarde was one of Britain's biggest TV stars until a Gloucester bus station ended it all. The full story of Jason King, the internment camp, the album, and the lies

Well, thank heaven that’s over. Aware that I’d left it much too long since I watched the penultimate episode of Flux — at least three months — I was determined to give the finale a good go. So as a refresher, I read the Wikipedia article about the previous episode, and I paid careful attention to the sequence of sub-second jump-cuts that constituted the recap at the start of this final episode. I still struggled to understand what was happening. Let’s take a moment first to think about the…

I loved the era of Teen Romance movies that loosely based on Shakespeare plays. 10 Things I hate About You being the absolute pinnacle of this sub-genre for me. Twelfth Knight fits in really well with those early-2000s teen movies with just a little extra pinch of modernity. It plays on its connection to Twelfth Night in a really interesting way with the alternate identities being their in-game characters in the MMO they play. This split between the real world and the in-game world is something…

The Wilderness Years of Doctor Who – sorry, I mean the First Wilderness Years of Doctor Who – were a game of two halves, with the TV movie marking half time. In the first half, the Seventh Doctor enjoyed a continued incumbency, even though Sylvester McCoy wasn’t getting much regular work out of that status; in the second half, it would be the Eighth Doctor who’d be the new hotness, and all the major strands of Wilderness Years expanded media would, sooner or later, get to offer their own take…

Back to April. Aside from the Avatar movie, all of these were part of the Super Saturday Movie Club, whose monthly theme this time was "Vampires". May 2 - Only Lovers Left Alive (2013)I've mentioned before that MPV, the programme I use to watch movies, lets you quick-save a screencap by pressing the S key. For most movies I tend to end up with around 25 to 30 screen caps; I saved 46 shots from this movie. This is an amazingly moody piece, shot in digital which gives the night scenes an…

One of the more memorable scenes from Twin Peaks takes places toward the end of the pilot. Deputies Hawk and Brennan escort James Hurley to the Twin Peaks Sheriff’s Station holding cell area. After they leave, Mike Nelson and Bobby Briggs bark like dogs while James timidly stares back. While the barking exchange doesn’t appear in... The post Twin Peaks Location – Sheriff’s Station Holding Cell Area in the Pilot appeared first on TWIN PEAKS BLOG.

Back to March. All of these were part of the Super Saturday Movie Club, whose monthly theme this time was "Revolution". I unfortunately did not get to watch the third movie, The Battle of Algiers (1966), even though it was part of the reason I wanted this theme in the first place. Apr 4 - I Am Cuba (1964)Very much a filmmaker's film, a very "pure" movie so to speak. It is almost entirely focused on the cinematography and the visual - it is not the kind of movie that will make you cry, or relate…