by Nathaniel R It's nearly September which means we're about to be flooded with the official submissions for Best International Feature Film for the upcoming Academy Awards. Within the new system, which allows prize winners at a handful of major film festivals automatic entry into the competition, we know that the Turkish language film Yellow Letters from German director Ilker Catak, Norway's Fjord from Romanian auteur Cristian Mungiu, and the Albanian film Shame and Money from Visar Morina can…

The first recording today starts with the end of Louie. There’s a trail for ZingZillas. Then it’s Kerwhizz – Crazy Racy Golf. Media Centre Description: Children’s quiz. Teams Ninki, Twist and Kit aim for a hole-in-one as they arrive at a crazy golf-themed raceworld. As ever, they need to answer Kerwhizzitor’s questions correctly if they are to get the best Mods for their Pods, and there’s everything to play for as the teams pitch and putt their way around the track. Recorded from CBeebies on…

A guy’s dog finds a severed hand by the river, the guy says “ow my balls” and jaunty TV theme music starts. Fulci in TV detective show mode, it almost looks like a proper movie but all the dialogue and human behavior is wacked out in a slightly Italian way. The premise: a guy talks in a deranged Donald Duck voice as he kills women all over New York. Fay (who looks somewhat like the Hellbound puzzle girl) is dreaming the killings, which are being committed by her boyfriend (a stone-age warrior…

I recall the movie year 1977 especially fondly.1977 was the year I first saw both ROCKY (1976), which had been released in December 1976, and STAR WARS (1977) for the first time. I actually saw both those films multiple times that year theatrically, which was especially common in the pre-cable, pre-home video era, both because there was no other way to revisit movies and because there was a relative dearth of viewing options.1977 was also the year I saw my first James Bond movie, THE SPY WHO…

Jumping a bit out of order, but Roommate Russ offered to take me to see this on the big screen; it’s one of his favorites, and a nearby theater was screening the directors’ cut for a couple weeks and he invited several friends to screenings to justify some repeat viewings for himself. There’s also going to be a bit of a temporal disconnect when you hear that this film is actually the first screen depiction of the character “Hannibal Lecter”. Silence Of The Lambs came out five years after this,…

Prep Time: 30 Minuten Ingredients 1 Portion Pizzateig (550g) 75 g veganer Reibekäse 2 Knoblauchzehen Petersilie Olivenöl Instructions Petersilie kann auch durch andere Kräuter ersetzt werden. Pizzateig vorbereiten. Ofen auf 200°C Umluft vorheizen. Knoblauch und Petersilie hacken und mit Käse und Olivenöl in einer großen Schüssel mischen. Teig in eine Rolle ziehen. Wenn der Teig sich nicht leicht weiter ziehen lässt, ein paar Minuten ruhen lassen. Rolle in ~2 cm breite Stücke schneiden.…

I’ll be performing at Full Moon Festival. Further details TBD. #VRChat #FullMoonFestival

The 2026 Cinecon Classic Film Festival will take place at the Landmark Nuart Theatre in Los Angeles from September 3rd through 7th, 2026.This year's 62nd festival will be a bit longer than last year's, opening on a Thursday evening, rather than Friday, and concluding on Labor Day, the 7th.This year's location at the Nuart Theatre is also a change in venue; the last two years the festival was held at the Writers Guild Theater in Beverly Hills. More thoughts on the location are at the end of this…

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 →

I've contributed a chapter looking at Doctor Who's unexpected moment of massive popularity over the summer of 1979 to the Doctor Who Appreciation Society's new book, Doctor Who 70-79.

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2026/08/24: Dona Lupa † has left us today.

Indiscreet is one of the most tender, sophisticated, funny, surprising, stylish and elegant romances that I have ever seen from the classic film era. It was directed and produced by Stanley Donen(Singin’ In The Rain, Funny Face). The screenplay was written by Norman Krasna, and was based upon his own 1953 stage play, Kind Sir, which had starred Charles Boyer and Mary Martin. The film’s lovely costumes were by legendary French designers Pierre Balmain and Christian Dior. This was the second of…

The Triplets of Belleville, from 2003, is a weird and charming film; and I stress both those adjectives equally. It’s an 80-minute animated picture that follows its own odd, strange, winding path; unlike American feature-length animation, it isn’t cute, corny, or jokey. Nor do I get from it that sense of audience-tested reactions or of tightly mapped, corporatized plots inserted like a steel spine, as in such American franchises as Shrek, Toy Story, or Despicable Me and the accompanying Minions…

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English actor Jack Huston will be starring in the upcoming Treasure Island, so I thought it

Belgian pie-throwing activist Noël Godin dies aged 80 https://www.brusselstimes.com/belgium/2285449/belgian-pie-throwing-activist-noel-godin-dies-aged-80 What’s this? Who? What? Georges Le Gloupier: the Custard Pie Thrower or, as he was styled, entarteur. Belgian writer (An Anthology of Subversion), critic, and actor, Noel Godin, developed another character to his list, that of Georges Le Gloupier. Let us celebrate 30+ years of the guerrilla patissiere! Wiki tells us: Since 1969, when Godin…

DOUGLAS GORDON BY DOUGLAS GORDON is a new documentary portrait — or whatever you want to call it — by Finlay Pretsell about the artist Douglas Gordon (ZIDANE, 24 Hour Psycho) and not Gordon Douglas, director of THEM! Caught it at Edinburgh Film Fest and it overcame easily the sense of obligation deriving from the […]

Michael Redgrave & Michael Denison.It's surprising that Oscar Wilde's most beloved stage play, The Importance of Being Earnest, has only been adapted for the screen twice. The reason is likely due to the quality of those productions, especially Anthony Asquith's 1952 production starring a sublime British cast.Set in the 1890s, the plot follows two charming young Englishmen, Jack Worthing and Algy Moncrieff, who each adopt the alias “Ernest” to escape social obligations and pursue romance. Jack…

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The lighthearted spy thriller A MAN COULD GET KILLED (1966) is now available on Blu-ray from Kino Lorber.Although I've always been quite a fan of James Garner, this is one of his titles which hadn't really been on my radar, so I was glad to catch up with it.The movie was written by Richard Breen and T.E.B. Clarke from the novel DIAMONDS FOR DANGER by David Esdaile Walker. The story and tone are in the style of the numerous lighthearted spy films of the '60s, such as BLINDFOLD (1966) and…

Long before the conveniences of on-line shopping and auction websites, Twin Peaks fans of the early 1990s turned to Michigan-based Bruce Phillips to find wonderful and strange collectibles from David Lynch and Mark Frost’s groundbreaking series and feature film. I remember spending countless hours wishing to own everything listed in Bruce’s printed paper catalogs. As... The post Bruce Phillips’ Twin Peaks Collectables Catalog from Fall 1992 appeared first on TWIN PEAKS BLOG.

Blackface Orson stars as a wife-killer, duped by his evil comrade Iago (a stage actor who later played Oscar Wilde on TV). Iago uses the handsome blonde idiot Cassio to achieve his goals, poor lovely Desdemona (Marcel Carné’s Juliette) innocent of all accusations. I watched the extras until they started to repeat themselves, and after hearing about the whole extended and troubled production, I can forgive the movie’s inconsistent sound. Nobody talks about Iago’s wife Fay Compton (The Haunting)…

Handyman’s daughter is kidnapped, the police are useless and hostile and corrupt, deciding to investigate him instead of the crime. Fortunately, the handyman is ballsy and badass, tracks down the baddies, crashes into their clubs and warehouses and makes a mess of their henchmen. He runs into a reporter guy whose wife is also missing and they team up against various child trafficker tough guys, including Mad Dog from The Raid as a cop-killing bowman, and the rich Heir Trafficker who…

A pair of business partners soon find themselves in hot water with their wives and the misunderstandings continue to pile up when a flirty note is misdelivered. Home Media Availability: Stream courtesy of the Danish Film Institute Your Bad Girl Director Lau Lauritzen Sr. was a Danish comedy machine, producing dozens of comedy shorts every […]

Watched: Spider-Man: Brand New Day 🎥 Properly rated at ~71% positive. It’s a fun movie. Definitely better than the second Spider-Man, probably better than the third, not as good as the first. Only 2.5 hours, but it felt way longer. There’s a bunch of plot movement to get through. Holland and Zendaya still have great chemistry. They pulled in a few minor characters from three of our favorite long-running dramas: Michael Mando from Better Call Saul, Liza Colón-Zayas from The Bear, Tramell Tillman…

Melbourne Opera is at the height of their powers as they deliver a truly thrilling new production of Verdi classic Il Trovatore. Musical excellence and compelling dramatic action are perfectly balanced in this expertly prepared, insightfully directed staging. In high rotation on the world’s opera stages, Melbourne has been sadly lacking in seasons of Il Trovatore for many years; thankfully, this production has been well worth the wait. Conducting the very opera that served as his introduction…

The “We Live Inside a Dream” event took place from August 13-16, 2026 at the North Bend Theatre in North Bend, Washington. The weekend’s festivities commemorated the 34th Anniversary of the North American premiere of David Lynch’s Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me which was held at the independent, one-screen theatre on August 16, 1992.... The post Trip Report – We Live Inside a Dream Weekend | August 12, 2026 appeared first on TWIN PEAKS BLOG.

This is a very solid movie. I really enjoyed it the whole way through and would happily watch it again.