Here’s a commercial for the Honda Del Sol from 1995.It’s very Bondian, from the music to the casting to the theme. So much so, that MGM sued Honda and made them pull it off the air.The lawsuit accuses Honda of copyright infringement and falsely implying that the car is endorsed by MGM and Danjaq.

Don't Say Good Luck (2026) • View trailerFour stars (out of five); rated PG-13, for thematic material, fleeting profanity, teen drinking and mild sexual referencesAvailable via: NetflixBy Derrick BangSunny Sandler’s delicately nuanced starring performance fuels this charming little character drama, although — in fairness — director Julia Hart draws finely shaded work from every member of this carefully assembled cast. Sophie (Sunny Sandler, left) and her mother Elizabeth (Melanie Lynskey) make…

In this bonus episode, my husband Nick and I chat about decisions we made while planning our wedding—and how one part of weddings I loath affected my search for vendors.

Giving this 30-minute curio a “film by…” designation is a bit of a stretch but it was co-written by artist Mati Klarwein and also directed by him. Milik was filmed among the towns and desert landscapes of Niger in 1972, and is a rambling thing that’s not easy to comprehend if you’re trying to do so while the all-French voiceover is being haltingly auto-translated. The film was a creation of members of the Deyá art community in Mallorca where Mati Klarwein spent his later years. The scenario is…

The League Of Gentlemen makes it clear from its very first scene that this is to be a very unusual film. The opening sequence shows Jack Hawkins(looking dapper in a tuxedo) climbing up out of a manhole cover onto a deserted London street in the early hours of the morning. He narrowly avoids being drenched by an approaching road sweeper that is hosing down the gutters. He then replaces the lid and drives off. What is this all about? All will be revealed as this cracking British heist film…

By Ben Miller It's always nice to be pleasantly surprised. Julia Hart's Don't Say Good Luck might have all the makings of a nothingburger direct-to-streaming film, but instead delivers a character-focused film filled with emotion and devoid of cliches. It's also one of the unexpectedly great films of the year...

Hitchcock (2012) is a surprisingly fun little peek behind the curtain at how Alfred Hitchcock

A few years back, Zach Snyder painted a hospital tunnel in Jackson with a freehand explosion of psychedelic color, connecting the Anderson Building, once a psychiatric facility, to the main hospital. It turned out great, he thought, even though he had no sketch or plan. After the mural was complete, the hospital reached back out. […]

A quicker - and only moderately more sarcastic - way of getting caught up on Marvel's watch list ahead of Avengers: Doomsday.

It's been a busy couple of weeks, including attending the D23 Expo, so I'm only now reviewing SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY (2026), which I saw earlier this month.BRAND NEW DAY is the fourth of Tom Holland's Spider-Man films of the past decade, following SPIDER-MAN: HOMECOMING (2017), SPIDER-MAN: FAR FROM HOME (2019), and SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME (2021).It's hard to believe it's been half a decade since the last film, and after the long wait -- including something of a cliffhanger ending -- I was…

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The first recording today starts with the end of Louie. Then it’s Kerwhizz – Egypt World. Media Centre Description: Kerwhizzitor is in control, and if teams Twist, Kit and Ninki answer the kerwhizzical questions correctly, they will earn a Pod that is out of sight. They will need all the help they can get in this hysterically historical raceworld; who will you cheer for in the quiz with added whizz? Recorded from CBeebies on Monday 10th May 2010 15:28 BBC Genome: CBeebies Monday 10th May 2010…

The Artificial Humors (2016, Gabriel Abrantes) Half-hour short about a soccer ball-shaped floating robot, its AI programmer, and the girl it’s in love with. The three of them leave the village where it’s been training and go to Sao Paolo, where it’s reprogrammed to be a successful stand-up comedian. Big movie music, seamless effects, cool parrots. – The Marvelous Misadventures of the Stone Lady (2019, Gabriel Abrantes) Another very slick-looking half-hour short that ultimately feels simpler and…

Plus teen monsters, tween lamsters, and the twenty-five greatest genre docs ever?

I visited Broadway Cinema twice this weekend to see restorations of The Sacrifice and Nostalghia, two films by my favourite director, Andrei Tarkovsky. Somehow, despite going to art school, sitting through plenty of film discussion, having an indie cinema on my doorstep, and reading big newspapers, nobody ever told me about Andrei Tarkovsky. And this is a director whose Andrei Rublev (1966) was voted best arthouse film of all time. Thankfully, lots of good things seem to be finding their way to…

In 2017, Forgotten Television Drama launched a series of DVDs in conjunction with the DVD distributor Network. Following the untimely death of Network’s Managing Director Tim Beddows and the subsequent closure of the company, we are now making available all the viewing notes that accompanied our releases. The Cherry On The Top (Armchair Theatre, ABC, 27 September 1964). Written by Donald Churchill, produced by Leonard White and directed by Guy Verney. The Cherry on the Top, the opening play of…

PAPA KNOWS BEST An A-Z of French Cinema Before the New Wave F is for ‘Falbalas’ “Why do people swim upstream and not just go with the flow?” “Because they want to know where they are going.” ~ Raymond Rouleau and Micheline Presle, Falbalas If an Oscar is ever given for Most Creative Use of […]

Vanya on 42nd Street is, to date, my favorite film of the year. The more I revisit it, the more I suspect it might be one of my favorites of all time. So discovering that Wallace Shawn had attempted something of a spiritual successor — this time with Ibsen instead of Chekhov — was cause for celebration. I'll admit that I'm more of a Chekhov man than an Ibsen one, but so much of what I loved about Vanya was not the script or the play itself; it was the interplay between the idea of theater and…

Wall's or Lyon's Maid? Let the battle for the newsagent's freezer commence!

Robert Redford in All is Lost (2013) Vitals Robert Redford as “Our Man”, a resourceful aging sailor Indian Ocean, July 2012 Film: All Is Lost Release Date: October 25, 2013 Director: J.C. Chandor Costume Designer: Van Broughton Ramsey WARNING! Spoilers ahead! Background Robert Redford was born 90 years ago today on August 18, 1936, making this the first observance of the late actor’s birthday since his death in September 2025 at age 89. One of the prolific actor’s strongest performances from…

Here's my review of E!'s Cocktail Wars, a competition between three mixologists, and an easygoing vessel for a light, playful competition.

I used to love playing this PC game when I was a kid in the 1980s. Brings back so many aromatic memories!

This is for kids, but I am going to feature it quite unashamedly as it tells such a cool story! Based on the children’s book Mildred and the Copycat by Jono Ganz (and published by Tate in the UK), it tells the story of a cat called Mildred (you guessed it). She isn’t seen much in the day as she spends her time napping, but at night, when the gallery in which she lives closes, she comes to artistic life. The gallery (and its visitors) witness a new masterpiece each day. However, one day a dog…

Some 50 years ago this month, two sister sluggers, the 8-inch-gunned heavy cruisers USS Des Moines (CA-134) and Newport News (CA-148), rest on red lead row in Philadelphia, August 1976 USN Photo K-117046. The massive Des Moines, tipping the scales at 21,000 tons, entered the fleet in November 1948 and was laid up just 13 years later, her nine 8″/55 RF Mk 16 guns quiet after a spate of Cold War service in the Mediterranean and Europe. Sister Newport News, commissioned 1949, had a longer career…

What a way to finish a Fringe. After a week of political theatre, historical musicals, personal testimony, clowning and spectacle, BIRDS: Alex Hines and Sarah Stafford arrived as the final show in my festival schedule and promptly reminded me why live performance can still feel startlingly original. It is rare to encounter a piece that is simultaneously clever, ridiculous, terrifying and grotesque. Rarer still to find one that balances all four so perfectly. The show bills itself as Waiting for…

One of the most interesting things about Antigone 1989 is not what it currently is, but what it might become. This ambitious musical from Vine & Light and Rhymes with Purple relocates Sophocles’ tragedy to Thebes, California at the height of the AIDS crisis. The ancient conflict remains recognisable: one dead brother is celebrated by the state, another is condemned and erased, and a young woman decides obedience is less important than doing what is right. Yet by placing the story amid the…

There is a wonderfully simple idea at the heart of Shakespeare x 5.The Bulgarian company Hand Theatre arrive armed with little more than two performers, Shakespeare’s most famous tragedy and a determination to reinvent it repeatedly. Performers Ivomir Ignatov-Kenny and Zdravka Hristozova take Romeo and Juliet and tell it five different ways: sped up, slowed down, transformed through audience participation, reimagined through physical comedy and eventually pushed towards something more cinematic…

Not every Fringe experience needs to be a political epic or a formally adventurous piece of devised theatre.Part of what makes Edinburgh unique is the sheer variety of performance on offer. Alongside the prestige productions, experimental theatre and stand-up showcases sits an equally important late-night culture of cabaret, circus and burlesque. These shows serve a different purpose. They allow audiences to decompress, to celebrate technical skill, to laugh, gasp and perhaps enjoy a drink…

If there is a greatest contemporary play, it is probably Angels in America. Tony Kushner’s A Gay Fantasia on National Themes has occupied that position for more than three decades, a work so vast in its ambition and so startling in its humanity that every generation seems to discover something new within it. Set during the AIDS crisis and the Reagan years, it is a play about America, but also about illness, faith, love, politics, identity, mortality and change itself. Very few writers have…

The Hollywood dream has always contained a nightmare. When Nathanael West published The Day of the Locust in 1939, he looked beyond the glamour of the movie industry and focused instead on those marooned at its edges: aspiring actors, failed artists, displaced workers and hopeful migrants who had travelled west believing California would transform their lives. What he found was a landscape of disappointment, resentment and simmering social unrest. Almost ninety years later, that vision feels…