Dame Dorothy Tutin (1930-2001) studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and started in
Cliff Robertson and Sandra Dee in Gidget (1959) Vitals Cliff Robertson as Burt “The Big Kahuna” Vail, beach bum and Korean War Veteran Malibu, California, Summer 1959 Film: Gidget Release Date: April 10, 1959 Director: Paul Wendkos WARNING! Spoilers ahead! Background Now that it’s summer, let’s flash back to the beach party movie that started it all. Before Frankie and Annette and before we ever followed Elvis to Hawaii, there was Gidget. Czech-born writer Frederick Kohner was inspired to pen a…
Prime Video / YouTube: New villains on the streets of Gotham City and there’s only one man for the job. Batman: Caped Crusader returns July 31 to Prime. I absolutely adored the first season of this, so suffice to say, I am all in on its return. Can we get shows to come back on an annual basis again, though?
Tim Robinson’s The Chair Company is somehow grounded and blast off bonkers from the jump. I’ve seen three episodes and I know less about the plot then we u started.
Pizzaecken mit Pesto all’arrabbiata Pesto all’arrabbiata Zutaten Anmerkung: Die Zutaten reichen für ein kleines Weck-Glas (160 ml). Das Pesto kann man wunderbar im Kühlschrank aufheben. Da hält es sich mindestens 14 Tage. 40 g Mandeln 3 ganze Walnüsse (das waren bei mir circa 10 g) 2 Knoblauchzehen 25 g getrocknete Tomaten 1 EL frischer gehackter Thymian oder Oregano oder Kräuter Ihrer Wahl 1 Stück rote Peperoni (werde ich noch genau erklären) circa 70 bis 100 ml gutes Olivenöl (je nach…
Italienischer Kartoffelsalat »Lucka« mit geschmorten Tomaten, frischem Rosmarin, Knoblauch, Kapern und Olivenöl »Gibt es in Italien Kartoffelsalat?«, fragte ich den Professor vor ein paar Tagen beim Abendessen. Ich konnte mich vage erinnern, mal einen gegessen zu haben. Er nickte. »Ja, gibt es. Allerdings nicht mit Mayonnaise. Insalata di patate mit Olivenöl, Essig, Kräutern, und Knoblauch oder mit Tomaten, Oliven, Bohnen und Kräutern.« Vor ein paar Tagen hatte ich mir diesen Kartoffelsalat…
Last year I managed to publish very little to the blog in general because life. This year I hope I made up for it with *…counting…* 14 posts across three months and more than 70,00 words of analysis, neologisms, and celebration. It was a rich collection of movies. I’m not done. I already have more posts and analysis scheduled for later this year. While I did all of that, I got caught up in making some improvements to the site. I fixed a lot of special-character typ0z and missing images. (n.b.…
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A young boy who witnessed the suicide of a mafia lawyer hires an attorney to protect him when the District Attorney tries to use him to take down a mob family. Oh wow, this is probably the best movie based on a book by John Grisham I’ve seen so far. It’s really nicely made, and the performances of Susan Sarandon, Tommy Lee Jones, Brad Renfro are extremely good. There are also other powerful performances in the movie, but this is a proper legal thriller and a great watch. Also, I think there’s…
Somehow when I wasn’t paying attention to the drug TV shows and the Russian-made genre flicks, Bob Odenkirk became an action star in his sixties. Here he’s a traveling fill-in lawman, and while halfheartedly playing sheriff for some Minnesota town a lot of shit goes down – a bank robbery brings the yakuza-payrolled townsfolk to armed warfare. “That’s not where I was aiming” – Bob’s first return shot blows apart Evil Mayor Fonz. The dead ex-sheriff’s daughter Jess McLeod teams up with him. It’s…
An ideal winter warmer, hit UK comedy Pride and Prejudice* (*sort of) makes its Australian premiere in sturdy form, with a terrific triple-threat local cast earning a cavalcade of laughs. Penned by Isobel McArthur, after Jane Austen, 2018 comedy Pride and Prejudice* (*sort of) played the West End in 2021, winning the 2022 Olivier Award for Best Entertainment or Comedy Play, and has already enjoyed three UK tours. Love for the timeless works of Austen shows no signs of abating, with a new Pride…
Opening scene is so lousy, but the colors are bright, I remember liking the first movie (and that’s all I remember about it) and there’s promise of a Pyramid Head monster (which is also what I’ve been calling the pileated woodpeckers buzzing around the cabin), so, keeping an open mind. Ivor Novello (Benediction) meets the lovely Mary (a horror regular, of various Saws and Purges). Flash-forward, she is dead because he’s such a bad driver (this is his defining character trait), but still sends…
Deux-Chevaux de luxe Beautiful example of French ingenuity. Quote of the Day ”Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.” Thomas Mann Musical alternative to the morning’s radio news Wagner | Tristan und Isolde, Act III: Liebestod| Karajan and the Berliner Phil Link As Groucho Marx might have observed, I don’t like the look of Wagner, but I sure like the noise he makes. Long Read of the Day 3 Lessons on Writing from Joan Didion’s Notes This essay by Jillian Hess will be interesting to…
O Mountain Goats, uma banda que eu conhecia apenas tangencialmente, lançou um novo single chamado "Charlie Sheen Reaches Out to the Feds", e por acaso isso me foi sugerido no Apple Music. Escutando a letra fiquei com a pulga atrás da orelha: que diabos essa letra quer dizer? Tipo, ela é extremamente específica e, sabendo que é Charlie Sheen, pode parecer uma piração da vida real. Tiro e queda. A letra fala de quando Sheen assistiu, em 1991, ao filme japonês de terror hiperrealista Guinea Pig 2:…
Gail Simmons revealed that Top Chef season 24 won't film at the end of this summer, as usual, and also cleared up three mysteries about Top Chef Carolinas' scheduling.
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photo cred: my dadThis is the quarterly links ‘n’ updates post, a collection of things I’ve been reading and doing for the past few months.(1) THE MOST WONDERFUL THING THAT HAPPENED TO TOMMY MCHUGHA British man named Tommy McHugh was on the toilet pooping when apparently he strained too hard, had a stroke, and woke up in the hospital. McHugh was construction worker and ex-con who had never been in an art gallery “except maybe to steal something”, but as he recovered, he was possessed by an…
Imagine finding an antique jewelry set you love and discovering that it was worn in
There’s an interview with Simon Peyton Jones*I’m a huge fan of his trademark presentation slides set in Comic Sans I highly recommend watching. It’s full of interesting observations on type theory, Haskell, functional programming, and the future of programming. One quote at the end stood out to me in particular: If you could go back to when you just graduated from college and give yourself some advice what would you say? All of these people who you see, very successful, wandering around looking…
101 Dalmatians (1996)
THE FOLLOWING WAS WRITTEN BY MY FRIEND AND COLLEAGUE ALONSO DURALDE. YOU CAN LEARN MORE ABOUT HIM HERE. WHAT’S NEW ON 4K/BLU/DVD IN JUNE: SPIELBERG, ELVIS, JACKIE CHAN, PRIDE FAVORITES, LAST SUMMER, AND MORE! NEW RELEASE WALL Steven Spielberg: The Spotlight Collection (Universal): Whichever side of the Disclosure Dayreviews you might fall upon, there’s no denying that Steven Spielberg is one of this generation’s legendary filmmakers, and a new box celebrates the breadth of his career, even as…
Every now and then a show-business documentary comes along that catches my fancy and lingers in my mind for days. Such a film is Peter Asher: Everywhere Man. If you’re old enough to remember the musical British invasion led by The Beatles, you may recall a popular singing duo known as Peter and Gordon. They unseated the Beatles from the number-one position on the charts with a mournful song called “A World Without Love.” The irony is that it was written by Peter’s good friend Paul McCartney,…
It's hard to believe seven years have passed since the release of TOY STORY 4 (2019).I sometimes complain about a lack of original ideas in modern cinema, but the newest film in the Disney-Pixar franchise, TOY STORY 5 (2016), presents viewers with the best of both worlds: Characters we love in a quality story on a very timely and original topic.It's not a retread, but a funny-yet-serious take on modern technology and the fight to protect innocent childhood.Since as I write this is a new movie,…
My movie watching is outpacing my progress on the James Naremore book, so I don’t know the whole deal with Norman Foster and this Mercury Theater production, but it stars all my Kane and Ambersons buddies and is obviously a part of the big Welles picture. Annoyed to discover that there’s a longer reconstructed version with ten extra minutes that played MoMA a decade ago, but which never came out on video, so I watched the dull censored version, and it was still pretty great. The Kane Boys: An…
Gadzooks! This screenshot could be from any film! Aside from the man looking like John Glenn, there are hardly any clues here to even help in identifying this scene - but if you have a crackerjack memory, perhaps you'll guess it anyway. Give it a try! As always, if you are not familiar with the rules to the Impossibly Difficult Name that Movie game or the prize, click here.
The first recording today starts with the end of Arthur. There’s an episode of Newsround with a bit of Oscar news, which is nice as this year I don’t have the Oscars recorded. I think they were stuck on Sky by now, and we didn’t have Sky any more. There’s a trail for Space Hoppers and one for We Are The Champions. Then it’s Barney’s Barrier Reef – Conmen. Featured wildlife today include the Stonefish, something I’ve been terrified of ever since I watched an Australian drama called,…
Clint was just innocently farming when some assholes come along, steal his wife, murder his kid and burn down his house. Cue a training montage! The assholes are a murderous rogue group in the union army, so Clint joins the confederates. Cue a war montage! The last of the confederates surrender when the war is over, and while pledging their loyalty to the revived union they’re all gunned down. Clint sees this, chain-guns 100 unioners, and goes on the run. “After I get to likin’ someone they…
THE MAN WHO RECLAIMED HIS HEAD (1934) is an odd yet interesting drama out on Blu-ray from Kino Lorber Studio Classics.This film was released a few weeks ago, at the high of the classic film festival season in Southern California, but I was glad to now catch up with it.The movie begins strangely as somewhat hysterical Paul Verin (Claude Rains) staggers through the streets of Paris carrying his little girl Linette (Juanita Quigley, billed as Baby Jane) and a valise.It's World War I and Germans…
A lot of people think of the number 13 as bad luck, but in this case it is good luck. Namely, I am announcing the 13th Annual Rule, Britannia Blogathon. I am setting it for September 18 to September 20, 2026. While many people think of Hollywood when it comes to movies, the fact is that the United Kingdom made many significant contributions to film over the years. From the Gainsborough melodramas to Hammer Films to the British New Wave, cinema would be much poorer without the British.ere are…
