Today one does not hear very much about the movie Popi (1969), but upon its release it received mostly positive reviews and it did moderately well at the box office. It was also nominated for various awards, from the Golden Globes to the WGA. It also happens to be significant in the history of Latinos in American film.Popi (1969) centres on Abraham Rodriguez (Alan Arkin), a Puerto Rican living in Brooklyn, New York. He is the father of two sons, who both refer to him as "Popi." He wants to…

Grave Encounters is a found footage horror movie from 2011, presented as the last recordings of a reality TV crew filming a night of ghost-hunting inside a legendarily haunted asylum. It’s been at or near the top of Shudder’s recommendations for movies this month, making me think it was much more recent.1 But in reality, it’s just the perfect movie to watch during spooky season when you just want to see some good, old-fashioned trash. I have to be clear up front that I’m very much the target…

Samuel L. Jackson teams with Michael Kinnaman in The Beast, a political action thriller boasting ample explosions, gunfire, and ... well ... not much else. Under the direction of Renny Harlin, Jackson portrays a US president who finds himself on the run in his heavily fortified car when a rebel militia tires to take over the country. As a Secret Service agent wounded during an early-picture fight, Kinnaman remains dazed in the backsea as Jackson communicates with the central command that tries…

Bigger(WARNING: plot twists and story discussed in explicit detail!)Digger for Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu is arguably his most expensive production yet ($125 million officially); for Hollywood superstar Tom Cruise it's September. The film has been described as 'obnoxious,' 'self-indulgent,' 'pretentious,' and-- possibly most hurtful-- 'delusional;' it's also been called 'brave.'I like 'indulgent.' Cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki has lit and shot the film to look like the world's most…

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– The release of the debut quartet from Fitz-James Stuart highlights the acute creative problem at the heart of a perfume industry that currently sees the release of well over 10,000 new scents per year. The collection has been curated and directed by Sofia Palazuelo and Fernando Fitz-James Stuart, two members of Spain’s nobility who […] The post Fitz-James Stuart showcase review (Alberto Morillas; 2026) appeared first on .

Costume designer Julie Weiss has a pretty impressive career spanning the last fifty years. Today

Laurence Olivier in Marathon Man (1976) Vitals Laurence Olivier as Dr. Christian Szell, escaped war criminal aka “Christopher Hess” New York City, Fall 1975 Film: Marathon Man Release Date: October 8, 1976 Director: John Schlesinger Costume Credit: Robert De Mora WARNING! Spoilers ahead! Background One of the defining paranoid thrillers of the ’70s, Marathon Man was released 50 years ago today on October 8, 1976 and has spent the subsequent half-century spreading as much positive PR for…

Blue Planet III. I have incredible core memories of watching this series in my house in Lebanon as a single man, before I began my transition into a husband and then father. Being able to sit here and watch this with both my sons hopefully will become another core memory for me. Also the song is for this trailer is incredible. (Via KDO).

I'm a theatrical cheapskate. I'm on all those last-minute seat-filler websites. I'll happily take a chance on an experimental play for a tenner a ticket or sit in an inexplicably unsold cheap seat at a major show. My philosophy is that the worst seat at the best show is preferable to the best seat at the worst show. But, once in a while, I'll splash out and pay full price. When the email landed in my inbox that Richard E. Grant (!!) and Christine Baranski (!!!) would be performing Noël Coward's…

Monstervision - The Comic Joe Bob Briggs and Darcy are bringing back Monstervision, as a comic. Okay, that's not exactly true, the comic isn't going to be anything like the 90s TNT show, it'll just share the name, but slap Joe Bob Briggs in anything and I'm there. So I'm anxiously awaiting this release in December. Midnight X-Men This fall Marvel is launching a series called Midnight and as part of that series they are producing some variant covers that homage old horror films. I was…

White-haired, evil Immortal witch? Hell yes! But is the rest of the movie any good? Well...Necropolis (1986)It is 1686, and we are in "New Amsterdam" (minor quibble: it was renamed to "New York" in 1866), and we are following a witch (LeeAnne Baker) with long white hair. She sacrifices a young woman who was about to get married. Her husband-to-be and the locals find her, and they kill all the Satanists .300 years later, Eva is back, only now she rides a motorcycle and wears a leather jacket…

Survivor 51 episode 4 was a wild ride of hilarity, stupidity, and surprises—an accidental mutiny!!—and just a freakin' great episode. My takes and takeaways are inside!

Time for another break from those TIFF and NYFF reviews. Cláudio Alves and Eurocheese have appointed themselves juries to choose the best of the Toronto fest. From Casting to Picture, let's go! How many prizes can Eurocheese give to LA BOLA NEGRA? To quote a 22-year-old comedy classic, "the limits does not exist." CLÁUDIO: Hello again, my friend. I guess it's time for the second round of these. Or third, if we count that gargantuan Best Actress conversation that spanned from Oscar frontrunner…

The Sting belongs in the pantheon of films I'm deeply embarrassed to have not watched earlier. Not just because it's a great film — and it is — but because it is so incredibly my shit that I feel retroactively spurned for not having watched it sooner. It's a movie to which the Ocean's franchise obviously owes so much, which is a funny thing to say given that the Ocean's franchise is itself a remake. But much like Ocean's, this is a hedonistic, smooth, and perfectly executed act of escapism,…

Artfully created with tender care and expertly performed with empathetic insight, world premiere opera The Spare Room is an engrossing and affecting work. Perennial champions of new work, Victorian Opera has shown extraordinary dedication to the commissioning of new works across their 21 years. There is the sense of a special magic around The Spare Room, being a contemporary work that is definitively set in Melbourne. “Come on Melbourne it’s supposed to be Spring” is a line that could readily…

Even here at Pordenone, not every film you watch can be a masterpiece. So rest assured that tonight’s gala screening of A Page of Madness (Teinosuke Kinugasa, 1926), with live benshi narration from Kataoka Ichirō, more than fulfilled the festival’s chef d’oeuvre quotient for the day. It screened in the evening, with more shorts, all … Continue reading Le Giornate del Cinema Muto 2026: Pordenone Post No 5 →

Eva Marie Saint, who starred in such movies as On the Waterfront (1954) and North by Northwest (1959), died yesterday, October 6, 2026, at the age of 102.Eva Marie Saint was born on July 4, 1924, in Newark, New Jersey. She grew up in Delmar, New York attended Bethlehem Central High School there. In high school she played field hockey and she was a cheerleader. She attended Bowling Green State University in Ohio, where she majored in elementary education. She tried out for the school play…

The BBC is considering multiple pitches from some of the biggest production companies in the UK on how to revive Doctor Who. In surprising news, one of UK television's heaviest hitters, producer Jed Mercurio, has thrown his hat into the ring.Mercurio has had an eclectic career, studying medicine and serving in the Royal Air Force before switching to writing television in the 1990s. He made his name with Cardiac Arrest (1994-96), a grittier and more realistic hospital drama than was normal at…

All Hallow's Eve, Sat Oct 31 The Crow, Thu Oct 29 Why 2K, Fri Oct 30 Rocky Horror, Thu Oct 15 Project X, Sat Oct 17 Ravefurrest, Sat Oct 10 Gotham City Follies, Mon Oct 12 From Dusk `Til Dawn, Sun Oct 18 Hazbin Hell-Tel, Sat Oct 24 Lots of stupid shit going on lately, but let me try to talk about some good stuff for a change... It's October, and that means that Ribley the Skeleton is back up, and we have a full month of Halloween goodies for you. Let's do this kind-of out of order to hit the…

This was actually a second-time watch for me, but I’ll get to that later. This was also a second collaboration for its creative team, reuniting Paul Newman, Robert Redford, and director George Roy Hill, who had all previously worked together on Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid. This film also steps back in time, and back into illegal hijinks; Newman is “Johnny Hooker”, a small-time con-man in Depression-era Illinois. He and his partner “Luther” (Robert Earl Jones) pull off a highly successful…

You know you’ve made an indelible mark on your craft when your longtime employer launches a premium line of gear and then puts your name on it. Chuck Taylor, eat your heart out. Michael Jordan? Pfft. Congratulations, Tom Rosenbauer. You have officially arrived.

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Storygaming on the OSR discord server!! A Troubleshooters scenario by MTB, GMed by the inimitable Hawkeyes. Cast: Otto Van Racecar, a Romanian rally driver with a gun, a modified 1958 Plymouth Roadrunner, and a wad of cash. Played by me Harry Fitzroy, a British intrepid explorer with a bunch of hiking gear. Played by Bubblegum Lord Kempton, a British lawyer/doctor with a sword cane. Played by MTB Marcel Mercredi, a 16 year old Swiss diplomat and womanizer. Played by Spuk Eloise Giraud, a…

How awful to wake up this morning to the sad news that one of the last living links to Hollywood’s Golden Age has left us. Actress Eva Marie Saint has died. She was 102. This one really hurts. We can be grateful that she had enjoyed such a long and happy life though. She died at home in Los Angeles yesterday, surrounded by her family. Until her death she had been the oldest surviving Oscar winner. Eva Marie was born in Newark, New Jersey, on July 4th, 1924. She originally wanted to become a…

Eva Marie Saint has died at the splendid age of 102 and I know I’m not the only person whose immediate thought on hearing the news was not of Eva Marie Saint in On The Waterfront, but rather the line “She looks like Eva Marie Saint in On The Waterfront” from Lloyd Cole’s song ‘Rattlesnakes’. And yes, I guess I’m a wee bit nostalgic for the days when a pop songwriter could casually toss in a reference to an actress from a golden age and not expect blank looks. That said, there were only 30 years…

We have MCM’s on Sense and Sensibility‘s men, but wait, we haven’t done the ladies!

Marshal Knight recaps Dancing with the Stars 35's Mariah Carey night, on which Ciara & Brandon proved improvement without personality = forgettable and Olipop gets a starring role.

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1903 crime, dir. Edwin S. Porter; IMDb. The robbers tie up the telegraph clerk, board the train, and make their getaway…