Find all previous and future episodes listed here or in your podcast app under “Barbican Station”. This episode I speak to actor Tom Brooke about his performance on Slow Horses as JK Coe. We talk about what exactly Coe is listening to and working with showrunner Will Smith. Plus how River ended up sitting in the back seat and his interactions with Mick Herron. Finally, will Coe’s hoodie end up in the Slough House Hall of Fame? All that and more in this episode! For more on the slow horses,…

The Wailing 2016, Na Hong-jin My rating: I like it There is so much in this movie that is great, and it’s a rare horror movie where the second half is better than the first. The scenes with supernatural elements were superb to watch and the horror is really there. Too bad the tonal whiplash in some of its scenes, where it goes super silly and almost slapstick, didn’t go well with me. And since none of the characters bear any semblance of likability, I didn’t really care what happened to them in…

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1917 Swedish comedy, dir. Mauritz Stiller, Victor Sjöström, Karin Molander; IMDb. Thomas Graal is a struggling scriptwriter who falls for, and takes inspiration from, his secretary… Vtt original Thomas Graals bästa film and in rerelease Wanted - A Film Actress.

Man In The Moon (1960)

While this movie really has nothing at all to do with my themes of "local" and "high school horror" it is on the spot for the time period, 1985, and a great (if that word can be used here) example of 80s sci-fi, horror schlock. It has an alien, a psychic, the military, weird tech, and manages to rip off both Alien and E.T., and features Star Trek-connected actress Angelique Pettyjohn. Starting this one late since tonight was the Games Plus RPG Auction.Biohazard (1986)The movie is fairly…

Another part of the Conann expanded universe, this one entirely in split-screen. Funny to watch this experimental remake of his previous film right after Funny Games US. The first half is a ballet adaptation containing music videos and animated bits. After Puppet Petrouchka becomes a ghost, each character gets a solo dance and debrief. The butt-faces remind me of Tsukamoto, but the film is dedicated to Terayama Shuji: Part two, The Deviant Comedy, is a victory lap through the Conann story with…

by Cláudio Alves Here at The Film Experience, we love to celebrate centennials, and yesterday marked a big one. On October 8th, 1926, William Greaves was born in Harlem, and would go on to become one of the most important figures in 20th-century American non-fiction filmmaking. More specifically, his legacy rests on documenting African-American life, spanning from avant-garde exercises like the Symbiopsychotaxiplasm duology to more conventional fare like his Ida B. Wells profile for the…

Kidlat decides to be the first person to play the yo-yo on the moon. Collecting spaceship parts with his buddy, a German child: Deciding on the best acronym for the Filipino space program: Q: What about spacesuits and oxygen masks? Don’t you need that on the moon? A: It’s just propaganda. Feels like a movie I would have made (complimentary). Essie’s writeup is the one.

Tully Marshall receives a hand (or two, actually) in a scene from 'The Cat and the Canary' (1927).Here a Nosferatu, there a Frankenstein...With five upcoming spooky silent film shows in six days, it must be getting close to Halloween!The schedule has me accompanying 'Nosferatu' on Wednesday, Oct. 14 in Natick, Mass.; the early talkie 'Frankenstein' (1931) in Somerville, Mass., and no less than three screenings of 'The Cat and the Canary (1927)—one in Vermont, one in Massachusetts, and one in…

While The Australian Ballet tours to the USA, guest company The Stuttgart Ballet treats Melbourne to the dreamy dance delights of their pristine classical production of The Sleeping Beauty. More than five decades since their last visit to Australia, this very welcome season from The Stuttgart Ballet sees the celebrated company share their treasured 1987 production The Sleeping Beauty, staged and choreographed by Marcia Haydée (after Marius Petipa). Collaborating with stage and costume designer…

StarringJason Sudeikis, Hannah Waddingham, Jeremy Swift, Brett Goldstein, and Brendan HuntOverviewTed's back.Ted Lasso, an American football coach, moves to England when he's hired to manage a soccer team—despite having no experience. With cynical players and a doubtful town, will he get them to see the Ted Lasso Way?Review Ted Lasso I feel bad giving Ted Lasso three stars, but that’s where we are. This season was fine, but pretty fractured. It didn’t seem to find its sea legs until about…

Let’s begin in the logical place, at the very end of the day. Tonight was a gala night in Pordenone, a celebration of some of my favourite women. For sure we had Pola Negri and Gloria Swanson on the big screen, but if you want a really iconic duo, check out our Jean Mitry prize-winners, … Continue reading Le Giornate del Cinema Muto 2026: Pordenone Post No 7 →

The first recording today starts with a trail for Hounded. Then it’s Deadly 60 – Malaysia. He meets a Scorpionfish. A Crocodilefish. Two Giant Frogfish. A Lionfish. A sleeping green turtle. Some Bumphead Parrotfish. Nananananananana Batfish! A lot of Bigeye Trevally. A Whitetip Reef Shark. A Dogtooth Tuna. And a huge shoal of Chevron Barracuda. Media Centre Description: Steve Backshall finds himself in deep water as he goes in search of underwater animals for his Deadly 60 list. The waters off…

Playwright David Ireland has fans among Hollywood stars but the 50-seat Finborough Theatre remains a regular venue for some of his older work, and now that includes his debut play, which features a couple of men trying to impress one such star. But being a work by a writer who's inspired by the scars left by decades of sectarianism, the star in question is one who's not exactly known for embracing all peoples and beliefs. What The Animals Say features two characters who grew up in Northern…

Movies The Boy Who Cried Werewolf (1973) D: Nathan Juran. S: Kerwin Mathews, Elaine Devry, Scott Sealey, George Gaynes, Robert J. Wilke. When a WEREWOLF attacks dad Mathews and son Sealey, it bites (and curses) Mathews. Will anyone listen to Sealey before it’s too late? The film hurries genuine scares (Were-Dad stalking convenient prey Sealey), instead showcasing writer-actor Homel’s Jesus-freak hippie. Wanting makeup, but inept day-for-night photography’s the silver bullet. At best, an early…

Had a J. Lee Thompson double feature a few weeks back, but was too busy to write it up. How much have I retained? First up was one of the Brit director’s more respectable outings, YIELD TO THE NIGHT (1956), rightly celebrated for Diana Dors’ striking performance as a death row inmate, loosely based on […]

Busy week(end)! Other Mommy stars Jessica Chastain as both a young mother and what seems to start out as her daughter's imaginary friend before becoming far more sinister. It's at the Capitol, Fresh Pond, Boston Common (including Dolby Cinema), Causeway Street (including XL), the Seaport, South Bay (including Dolby Cinema), Assembly Row (including Dolby Cinema), and Causeway Street. Aaron

A classic investigation wall is assembled in Being Human s03e07 (BBC Three, 2011). ▲ Being Human s03e07 (BBC Three, 2011) ▲ Being Human s03e07 (BBC Three, 2011) ▲ Being Human s03e07 (BBC Three, 2011)

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🍿Finished watching: Ted Lasso Season 4. This was exactly what I wanted from a follow-up season to the last arc. It had to be different but similar and that’s exactly what we got. I love the writing on this show and plan to use ‘Yes, and…’ a lot more in my life.

Digger (2026) • View trailerFour stars (out of five); rated R, for relentless profanityAvailable via: Movie theatersBy Derrick Bang • Published in The Davis Enterprise, 10.11.26This film is for folks who felt that 2021’s Don’t Look Up was insufficiently cynical and depressing. Director Alejnadro G. Iñárritu’s dark-dark-dark comedy is highlighted by a bravura performance by Tom Cruise, successfully operating leagues out of his usual wheelhouse. Despite his best reasoned, well-researched…

While not listed as a horror flick, this one has all of the elements of one.It features a lot of big names, including Timothy Bottoms, Hunter Carson, and his real-life mother, Karen Black, Laraine Newman (SNL Coneheads), James Karen (playing very close to typecasting), Bud Cort, Eric Pierpoint (Alien Nation), and Louise Fletcher (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Deep Space Nine). Directed by Tobe Hooper (The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and Lifeforce - catch the cameo of the movie on TV), written…

“On a train, all things are possible.” –Paul Theroux Misaki Sata is close to finishing her secondary school and is actively studying for her post-secondary entrance exams. When she goes out for a break with her best friend, Yayoi Nakano, the pair part ways after Yayoi heads off to tend to some things. Misaki would […]

With a run-by fruiting, the spirit of Mrs. Doubtfire came to NBC's The Traitors: New Blood—except not that film's sense of pacing or storytelling, because this was one waste of an hour.

by Cláudio Alves Sometimes, it’s easy to lose sight of the fact that TIFF is a Canadian film festival. It’s the biggest Canadian film festival, to be specific, and, as such, it bears the responsibility of celebrating and helping launch local talent, voices and, indeed, Canadian film. By defining Hollywood-made movies as ineligible for the International People’s Choice Award, unlike UK- and Ireland-based projects, TIFF blurs the line between itself and the American film industry, perhaps as part…

With humanity threatened by an ever-increasing array of technological, manmade and natural disasters, billionaire philanthropist Jeff Tracy has founded International Rescue. Operating from a secret base in the South Pacific, Tracy and his five sons take part in rescue missions around the globe using an impressive array of vehicles, the Thunderbirds. The organisation also finds itself the target of international criminals, so has a network of secret agents around the globe working to defend…

NOTE: A few days ago I attended the "Encore" theatrical screening of AVENGERS: ENDGAME (2019), which included a couple new "tag" scenes for the upcoming AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY (2026).As I wrote at the end of my review of SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY (2026), I'm not certain whether I'll be seeing DOOMSDAY, and the new scenes weren't the pull for my seeing ENDGAME again. Rather, I wanted to revisit what I consider a singularly brilliant conclusion to the Marvel movies which had gone before. I deeply…

I have spent a lot of words on Le Giornate del Cinema Muto so maybe I need some new ones. Conveniently enough, day six of the festival proved a fruitful day for neologisms – right from the start. A couple of minutes past nine in the morning, in fact when I was merrily enjoying the … Continue reading Le Giornate del Cinema Muto 2026: Pordenone Post No 6 →

MAKING HAY This had to be a short-run red hot sellout, didn’t it? Richard E Grant taking his air of wicked unreliable comedity back after 20 years tothe West End, while actually thrilling couch potatoes in Traitors. And it’s Hay Fever, the comedy of appalling boho-showbiz manners which Noel Coward pretended he wrote im tnree days but actually – as the great Soden biography reveals – was crafted and notebooked like a Swiss watch, every drop dead line and narcissistic fantasy worked with…