Bild: Veloroute #1, Abzweig von der Neidenburger Straße in die Grünanlage. Veloroute #1 bleibt Pseudo-Veloroute Die Veloroute #1 des Tiefbauamts existiert so gar nicht im Radverkehrskonzept. In Wahrheit handelt es sich um eine aufpolierte Strecke aus dem Pilotprojekt von 1988, die die Stadt Bochum 35 Jahre lang links liegen ließ. Und jetzt ist diese Vorzeigeveolroute der Beweis für das Scheitern des Radverkehrskonzepts von 2023 – genau wie die Velorouten #2, #3 und #4. Wesentliche Kriterien…
Last year I mentioned a company in Australia called Imprint that has been putting out some impressive Blu-rays of classic television shows. One of their more recent releases was The New Avengers, which I was eager to revisit as I hadn’t watched an episode in decades.I’ve had the Emma Peel episodes of The Avengers in my DVD collection since they were first released, and I vaguely recall enjoying this revival, but sometimes the memory can cheat on such things. However, I’m happy to report that if…
"We haven't been formally introduced." Superman’s cousin, Supergirl (Milly Alcock), goes on the warpath when Krypto the Superdog is poisoned by a bad guy (Matthias Schoenaerts). Look it’s a heat wave and I need air con. This had the vibe of a competent film even though I am tired of superheroes, and that’s exactly what it is. It’s the standard fare. Good performances, decent enough writing, but forgettable action set pieces and ultimately doesn’t take any risks at all. Another drop in the ocean…
Ben Ockrent’s play Relics reminded me of Nachtland at the Young Vic from a couple of years ago. • Siblings reunite to divvy up their dead parents’ belongings. Tick. • A painting is found with a suspected dodgy history. Tick. • Said painting divides the siblings, causing arguments. Tick. Relics has a different comic tone, though. Where Nachtland had dark humour, this is lighter, it has witty repartee with some amusing physical comedy thrown in. The four siblings meet at the family home to decide…
Obsession’s villain is… philosophy | Published 2026-06 I hate horror movies.
LAUGHING AT LIES It’s ten years since Florian Zeller’s elegantly embroidered trompe l’oeil sex-comedy about two couples opened at the Menier under LIndsay Posner’s direction (it’s him again for this revival). In summer 2016, we swooned and five-starred it with delight, revelling in sharply mischievous Gallic callousness; it coasted into the West End with an Olivier nomination. Christopher Hampton’s translation is perfect. It’s simple enough to start with: Michel is sleeping with his best friend…
I’m continuing on with watching the miniseries Edward the King (1975), still in desperate hopes of
Melanie Goodfellow / Deadline: DC Studios and Warner Bros. Animation are partnering on a series adaptation of Scott Snyder and Nick Dragotta’s best selling DC comic book series Absolute Batman. The partners announced the upcoming show at a joint presentation at the Annecy International Film Festival on Thursday, hosted by Warner Bros. Animation Sam Register, with Peter Safran, DC Studios Co-Chairman and Co-CEO alongside James Gunn, joining him on the stage. Absolute Batman writer Writer Snyder…
Admiral Hipper-class heavy cruiser Blücher on sea trials. Her career was short. The destruction of the Kriegsmarine’s Hipper-class superheavy cruiser Blucher before the dawn of the first day of Operation Weserübung on 9 April 1940 was, without any doubt, an incredible feat of arms for the Norwegian coastal defenses at Fort Oscarborg in Oslo. I mean, who would have bet on a couple of old guns and a shore-mounted torpedo battery manned by a skeleton crew of reservists against a 16.000-ton…
An incredible 5 minute documentary that left me in tears. link here Thank you Riley.
OL’ BLUE EYES, THE COMEBACK It’s one of the great showbiz comeback stories: how a tough Italian-American kid saw Bing Crosby in 1935 and had a dream; rose in he 1940s to crazy fame, albums and films, married his Nancy with the laughing face. But as decades rolled on he erred, was dropped by both film and music giants after upsetting American moralities with his affair with Ava Gardner and being suspected of Mafia links after going to Cuba with a childhood friend turned Mob. . He dumps Nancy,…
The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug (2013)
John Gregory Dunne was married with Joan Didion. In 1973, he'd had enough of life, of his marriage, of more things; he left his wife and their child and moved to Las Vegas. As he left, he didn't know he was going to stay there for a year. This experience turned into a book: Vegas: A Memoir of a Dark Season. I am always being told things like that on first meeting, being told by strange women that they have cancer of the uterus, by men on airplanes that they have a colored mistress in St. Louis.…
Heading home from Comedy Bang Bang live, and man what a great show. First time I got to see Eddie Patterson and Ego Nwodim live, and they were awesome.
A law student uncovers a conspiracy, putting herself and others in danger. Continuing the John Grisham streak, this ie one of the few movies I knew about, but never seen. Denzel Washington and Julia Roberts in their prime do a great job at filling the roles, but the whole ocnspiracy thingie feels a bit flat for me, even if the movie is directed by Alan J. Pakula, who also directed “All the President’s Men”. However, it’s still a captivating thriller and keeps you interested until the ending.…
Heck of an opening sequence. This silly meta-action movie isn’t gonna top that, I thought, then the opening sequence is followed by an entire heck of a film, to the point that I started wondering if it won oscars. Nominated, but tough luck coming out the same year as Raging Bull and Ordinary People. Director is the toughest race: Redford/Lynch/Scorsese/Polanski/Rush. I haven’t seen Tess, but Rush would feel like a strong contender. This is a good man-on-the-run drama about the making of a bad…
NASA’s first brush with malnutrition came during the Apollo 15 mission in 1973. Over the course of three strenuous moon walks, astronauts David Scott and James Irwin grew dehydrated and started exhibiting an irregular heartbeat. By the time the two returned to the orbiting command module, they were clearly exhausted and were struggling to complete basic tasks. They had also inadvertently left a number of items behind on the moon. Analysis after the mission concluded that dehydration and lack of…
A conversation today with a robot reminded me of this show. It inspired me to start a campaign to get HBO to finish the damn thing: https://carnivale.vercel.app If you haven't watched, do. It's still streaming on Max. If you have watched, share with your network. I mean, they brought Twin Peaks back after 25 years!
As a long time photographer, I love visiting Snoqualmie Valley as there are many spectacular places and things to see. I’ve shared a few of my images on Twin Peaks Blog in these articles about Winter in Twin Peaks and the Real Twin Peaks. Despite many years of taking pictures, I stand in awe of... The post Spotlight on North Bend Photographer Scott Rinckenberger and His Connections to ‘Twin Peaks’ appeared first on TWIN PEAKS BLOG.
Here we go again: DC Comics has added a new name to what feels like an infinite number of comic-book villains. It almost seems as if there are as many villains as there are drug commercials on TV. Some of these fiends even have names that sound like missed opportunities for drug companies. I’m sure, for example, that you can imagine being encouraged to ask your doctor about Krem, complete with quickly delivered warnings about side effects. But back off, Big Pharma. Krem has been taken. The name…
Day this time is very brief, a couple of shots long. A spectacularly elegant composition in wide, showing a priest doing last rites on the expired invalid, then a couple of reaction shots of Marcello and other media vultures. Fade to black. Then it’s evening and Marcello is fulfilling his promise to pay Steiner a […]
The first trailer for the Taika Waititi directed adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s 2021 novel, Klara and the Sun has landed. I’m not one to complain about differences between the book and its movie counterpart — mainly because adapting a novel for the big screen is far from straightforward — but this two minute glimpse of the film version shows up some obvious differences with the book. The tone of the film, at least the little we see of it in the trailer, is somewhat lighter (no pun intended)…
CAPTAIN CHRISTOPHER PIKE STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES (EXO-6) Hey, it’s a Star Trek review, which means it’s time for me to talk about how I’m not *really* into Star Trek. But, honestly, I’m starting to realize I’m perhaps misrepresenting that point a bit. I mean, I’m certainly not *as* into Star Trek as a lot of Star Trek fans I know, but, maybe, just maybe, that’s because I spent the first two and a half decades of my life helping run Star Trek fan conventions, which has a tendency to skew…
More monochrome cosmic horror. Quiet Apocalypse is a short black-and-white film by “Insolitum”, a combination CGI with stock footage that nods to Cloverfield, Ishirō Honda’s monstrous menagerie, and the last few minutes of The Mist, if that particular film had continued beyond its abrupt ending. “Made using Blender, Zbrush, Substance Painter, After Effects and Davinci Resolve. Stock footage provided by Envato, Pexels and Pixabay,” says the YT note. Most of the visuals are self-explanatory and…
If you like Guy Ritchie TV shows and movies, you are probably going to enjoy this. Gravy Train tells the story of a twenty pound note – or rather the people through whose hands it passes on one day in North London. There’s a diverse cast of characters including the prerequisite number of villains and the obligatory slightly bent copper - it wouldn't be a crime comedy-drama otherwise, now, would it? There’s even a London Geezer voiceover at the beginning and the end to contain the somewhat…
I may have spoiled myself a bit for this – I saw the 2002 remake from Steven Soderbergh, which starred George Clooney and focused a bit more on a love story hiding within Stanislaw Lem’s original novel. Andrei Tarkovsky’s original adaptation has more of a psychological mind-screw angle. Both are pretty faithful adaptations. Kris Kelvin (Donatas Banionis) is a psychologist who’s sent to a space station orbiting Solaris, a strange planet with an all-encompassing ocean. The crew there started…
For pride month, straight critic Ben Miller takes a look back at a gay film he otherwise would have never seen Watching Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Querelle during pride month, I caught myself being drawn into the idea of what pride means. The outward appearance of the gay community has constantly been perceived as unabashed confidence with "we're here and we're queer!" Living out and proud might be the goal, but it certainly wasn't something that happened for most gay people overnight. Before…
A classic full-wall variant appears in Chapter 51 (dir. Tyler Shields, 2025).
It’s nice that Baby Yoda and Mando got their own movie, but I think it’s one I’ll leave to the small screen. It would be awesome if things could go the other way — from the small screen to the big. Imagine seeing Andor on the big screen! Two or three episodes at a time over a few weeks. The final three episodes are just so amazing and moving. Watching them with an audience on the same wavelength would be wonderful.
Drew Taylor / The Wrap: “Conan the Barbarian” is coming to Prime Video via a new animated series from animation legend Genndy Tartakovsky and Cartoon Network Studios. Tartakovsky first pitched an animated version of the character, created by Robert E. Howard in 1932, in 2008. Various networks and streamers were interested in the project, but now it has a firm home with Prime Video. It just entered development, so it will be a while before we see anything from the series. In a pre-taped video…
