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…
Waco Mammoth National Moment Fossil SiteIf you’ve ever wondered what happens when a herd of Columbian mammoths, a flash flood, and 21st-century paleontologists all meet in Waco, Texas… well, Waco Mammoth National Monument has your answer: deep time drama with a fossilized cast of 24 large, hairy, and extremely unlucky Pleistocene mammals.But before we get to the scientists in khakis, let’s rewind
Backrooms 2026, Kane Parsons My rating: Didn't like it There is no way a movie with this concept would be good, but I gotta praise that this movie isn’t afraid of being weird, and went in a totally different direction than I expected a bad horror-ish movie to go.
2024 science fiction novella, first of a trilogy. Ada Lamarr is a salvager, but there's a hole in the side of her ship and her suit air supply is running low. Hope that rescuer responds soon…
Little Women (1933)
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Needing laughs big time today, along with guffaws, chortles, chuckles, giggles and howls, so slapstick scenarios involving funny fat guys falling down sound FANTASTIC! Thankfully, film historians, authors and silent movie experts have posted a bunch of pratfall-packed "Ton Of Fun 2-reelers from the late 1920's. These slapstick flicks star the rousing and rotund trio of Kewpie Morgan, Frank Alexander and Hilliard Carr and were produced by former Vitagraph star Joe Rock (from the comedy team of…
After La Chinoise and Weekend, JLG was hired to film the Rolling Stones for some reason. If the Stones were happy for this and Gimme Shelter to be released, then Cocksucker Blues must be really bad. Are there any movies where this band actually comes off well? Guess that’s what Shine a Light will be. What we do get is beautiful color film of the recording of one of their most famous songs, first as a restrained folk-rock number, repeatedly practicing the delicate intro before the drums come in,…
I have no idea who said it first, but there is a saying, "Live your life so that even if you die at 100 years old, people will say you died too soon." For many of us that holds true of legendary actress Ann Blyth, who died on Wednesday, June 24, 2026, at the age of 98. She was best known for playing spoiled daughter Veda in the classic Mildred Pierce, but appeared in movies from Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid (1948) to Kismet (1955) and TV shows from The Twilight Zone to Murder, She Wrote. If ever…
Director Alice Winocour takes us to Paris for fashion week in Couture, a movie that tells three loosely related stories, one featuring Angelina Jolie. Perhaps you can already sense a problem. By having to switch the movie's focus from one character to another, Winocour loses the opportunity for in-depth looks at any of them, and Couture becomes more of a skim than a revelation. Jolie plays Maxine, an American director of an indie horror film who's been invited to make a short opening film to…
The star went AWOL, the producer had never heard of Queen, and nobody agreed on what film they were making. The behind-the-scenes story of Flash Gordon (1980) is as wild as the movie.
Bea Arthur, Earth Kitt, and Anna Nicole's interviews with RuPaul on VH1 became fodder for an amazing Drag Race All Stars challenge. Marshal Knight recaps!
1963 – Bill (Ramblin' Man) Foster Oh, Anna Lee! / Two Broken Hearts Virgelle 717 1966 – Jefferson (Ramblin' Man) County Organised Confusion / City Billy (both wr. Bill Foster (Jeff County) Dee Gee 3016 Prod. Julian Portman Bill Foster from the Jefferson County, Washington State, first recorded for the Seafair-Bolo subsidiary, Virgelle label, located in Seattle, Shortly after, he went down to the south, in California, sought to make his way around the Hollywood studios. accepting just about any…
The annual half-price summer sale at Barnes & Noble is now underway!This year's sale will last until July 26th.I've noticed that Amazon also has numerous Criterion titles currently on sale.This year's classic-era Criterion releases include CAPTAIN BLOOD (1935).I'm also curious about the new Kinuyo Tanaka Directs Eclipse Series collection.Unfortunately there aren't as many titles as usual to recommend, as Criterion has been leaning into many releases of more recent films or upgrading classics…
I’m happy to see RockLove released new officially licensed Twin Peaks products this summer. Several years ago, they produced a faithful reproduction of the iconic Owl Cave ring that appears throughout Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me and Twin Peaks: The Return. Now, the woman-owned directed their creative energy toward other memorable symbols from the wonderful and strange show.... The post New Officially Licensed ‘Twin Peaks’ Jewelry from RockLove appeared first on TWIN PEAKS BLOG.
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Time to bring this lightly-edited review out of the vaults! This obscure Biograph short not only contains one of Mary Pickford’s earliest film appearances, but it was also my first contribution to a blogathon back in Ye Olde Days of … Continue reading →
GigaOm, was one of my favorite feeds in my RSS reader. Your voice at The GigaOm Show, and your appearences in Gillmor Gang, was good company during commute and some quiet weekend mornings. I appreciated your grounded views, your intellectual honesty, and you were one of the few stars of that era I still appreciated and respected. https://om.co/2026/06/24/1966-2026/ Farewell, Om. You will be missed.
Or should that be the other way around? Probably, but I think Jones may have liked it this way!Here's the story. In the winter of 1970, British television viewers were given thirteen new episodes of Monty Python’s Flying Circus, with a host of new secondary characters to help while away the winter nights. By far the most talked about was The Nude Pianist played (mostly) by the late, great Terry Jones. The pianist (who wasn’t always naked to start with) proved so popular that he became slightly…
There's a big-studio franchise movie clocking in at under two hours this weekend. Is that allowed? Seriously, Supergirl runs 108 pretty-decent minutes, adapting Woman of Tomorrow in less-idiosyncratic but still entertaining fashion, with Milly Aycox strong as the Girl of Steel. It's at the Capitol, Fresh Pond, the Museum of Science (Omnimax Friday/Saturday), Jordan's Furniture (Imax 2D
A week in the Oude Abdij Drongen, near Ghent in Belgium, accompanying Rosemary to the mODa14 conference. The name of this conference gives a double role to the initials OD: model-oriented design and analysis, and optimal design, hence the typography. Drongen Abbey was founded by the Premonstratensian order, but has been run by the Jesuits since 1837, as well as having a variety of other uses over the centuries. You can read its history here. mODa has a much shorter history, having begun in…
Rob Matthews’s Entopic Graphomania series, connecting the use of a single letter across a page, produces related variants.
Chris Isaak as FBI Agent Chester “Chet” Diamond in Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (1992) Vitals Chris Isaak as Chester “Chet” Desmond, FBI agent Deer Meadow, Washington, February 1988 Film: Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me Release Date: August 28, 1992 Director: David Lynch Costume Designer: Patricia Norris WARNING! Spoilers ahead! Background GET ME SPECIAL AGENT CHESTER DESMOND OUT IN FARGO, NORTH DAKOTA! Kyle MacLachlan had been intended to more prominently reprise his role as FBI Special Agent…
The story of the life and career of the legendary rhythm and blues musician Ray Charles, from his humble beginnings in the South, where he went blind at age seven, to his meteoric rise to stardom during the 1950s and 1960s. Yeah, probably the best biopic out there, on par with Walk the Line. Not much to say about this, other than it’s pretty much a mandatory watch for anyone. I remember when I saw it like 20 years ago, I had to rewind at the end because I didn’t realize the main actor was Jamie…
Lawyer William Hurt meets Kathleen Turner on a hot week in Florida and goes absolutely sex mad, ultimately buying bombs from Pyro Mickey Rourke and murdering Kathleen’s older husband Richard Crenna (of MST3K flick Marooned) so they can be (rich) together, but she vanishes with the money, letting Hurt get busted by his cop friend J.A. Preston (Remo Williams) and prosecutor Ted Danson (the year before getting buried in the sand in Creepshow). The director’s and Turner’s debut, with Hurt fresh…
Ronnie Schell, best known for playing Duke Slater on Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., died on June 12, 2026, at the age of 94. He was also a voice actor on several cartons.Ronnie Schell was born on December 23, 1931, in Richmond, California. He attended Richmond Union High School. As a baseball player, he played first base for both American Legion and semipro teams in th San Francisco Bay Area. He served in the United States Air Force for four years, at which point he began doing comedy. He graduated with…
Boots Riley directed an impressive and entertaining debut film with 2018's Sorry to Bother You, an eye-popping critique of telemarketing that hit a broad range of satirical targets. Riley boosted his distinctive aesthetic -- bold colors, sight gags, and preposterous turns of plot -- with giddy bursts of energy. Riley returns with I Love Boosters, a movie about women who steal clothing from a high-end store and sell it at a discount. Diving headlong into a sea of cartoonish chaos, I Love…
The Rocketeer (1991)
Bild: Geplanter Kreisverkehr Oskar-Hoffmann-Straße / Steinring. Die Verwaltung hat neue Planungen für die Oskar-Hoffmann-Straße zwischen Universitätsstraße und Steinring vorgelegt. Ein Straßenabschnitt von etwa 350 Metern Länge. Schon jetzt gilt dort wegen Lärmschutz Tempo 30. Nach dem im Ansatz gescheiterten Verkehrsversuch sollen vor allem möglichst viele Parkplätze erhalten bleiben. Verkehrsversuch Oskar-Hoffmann-Straße beginnt Nur auf einem kleinen Teil der Straße soll es eine separate…
