Miscellaneous bits of news and fun stuff from around the Internet......Shortly before I left on my recent trip, the Warner Archive Collection announced a whopping 12 new Blu-ray titles. Initially the entire dozen were due to come out July 28th, but then half were pushed back a few days, to August 3rd. The terrific list includes THE KEYHOLE (1933), A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM (1935), RANDOM HARVEST (1942), COLT .45 (1950), MACAO (1952), and CRIME WAVE (1953). Visit Blu-ray.com for the complete…
StarringEmilia Clarke, Haley Lu Richardson, Adrian Lester, Artjom Gilz, and Vic MichaelisOverviewIn 1977 Moscow, two "PONIES" ("persons of no interest") become CIA operatives and uncover a Cold War conspiracy their husbands were killed for.ReviewPONIESA buddy cop dramedy with wanna-be CIA agents against the KGB in the late 70s? Sign me up. It was fun and a full of twists, but the two stars are what really sell this show. Emilia Clarke might be the most expressive actress out there and Haley Lu…
Revisited one of the greatest battle-of-the-sexes 1960s-flashback non-musical comedies with K and her mom. Really a two-person show, with good supporting parts for Ewan’s boss Niles (who should’ve been in more movies) and Renee’s agent Sarah Paulson (unfortunately best known as the psychologist in Glass).
I’ve been on a kick lately identifying several iconic set decorations from Mark Frost and David Lynch’s Twin Peaks. I love finding these background art pieces after seeing them during multiple rewatches for more than three decades. Today, I’m returning to the Hayward house where a beautiful illustration of roses by Pierre-Josephe Redouté created in 1821.... The post Twin Peaks Set Decoration – Rosa Gallica Aurelianensis by Pierre-Josephe Redouté at the Hayward House appeared first on TWIN PEAKS…
Was ist besser als Tsatsiki? Tsatsiki mit Feta & Gurke! Dazu etwas Brot - Hellas, ist das gut und das findet nicht nur Dimitri Stoupakis, Austauschbandit aus Griechenland. Wir schweifen ab, vom Schuh des Manitu wieder flott zurück ins Greenwaycastle. Wenn Du von diesem Tsatsiki eine Schüssel voll zu einem Grillabend mitbringst, ist sie garantiert geleert, bevor das Fleisch einmal
Whirlwinds come in variations. The weaker category is known as dust devils, and the range extends to full-blown tornadoes – and even hurricanes can in some ways be seen as an outsized members. What they have in common is whirls, winds and heat. You can find them anywhere, from the deserts of Mars to the…
A casual mention in conversation with my friend John Flood this afternoon led me to learn that the 1925 telephone directory for the Town of Cochrane, Ontario was digitized and online.There are several delightful finds there, including “Don’t Use Telephone During a Thunderstorm” (guidance that followed me into my childhood).In the listings I see:David’s Variety Store, where my mother worked as a teenager (ring 329).Lady Minto Hospital, where my mother was born (ring 46).Smith, R.M., the…
Alien: Colony War is a classical Alien story in the "Aliens / Predator / Prometheus Universe": state, corporate and military corruption and greed, individual bravery and struggle, xenomorphs and mothers willing to protect their children, the occasional psychopath. Entertaining. I feel the author understands and respects the Alien universe. Alien has a successful recipe, one that unlike other franchises, no one yet tried to deconstruct, reinvent or turn into something else. Yes, I am also…
by Cláudio Alves Women on screen are more interesting than men. This is a truth universally acknowledged by actressexuals everywhere, and, by the looks of it, John Early is an actressexual like no other. For his feature directorial debut, the openly queer comedian-turned-actor-turned-maverick-filmmaker has decided to take these passions to the next level. Rather than watch from afar, he has become one of the great actresses he’d like to see on screen. And yet, for all it plays with gender,…
My great-grandfather was a schoolmaster on Gatehouse-of-Fleet, and my grandfather was brought up there. What a pleasure it will be to play this festival!
As is only fair with a horror movie, I’m not going to give any plot spoilers. To some extent that’s quite easy: like a lot of A24‘s movies, I’m not sure the plot entirely makes sense. But you don’t go see their movies, including this one, for the plot as much for the feel of it, and for individual scenes, and those are both very good. The feel of it, as described below, is based on some Youtube shorts by the director, Kane Parsons, which were in turn based on an existing internet meme. In other…
Nusrath Tapadar and Bhasker Patel in Camdenwalla, Camden People’s Theatre. Photo: Harry Elletson REVIEW: It’s 1994, and Muhammad (Bhasker Patel) runs the Camden Monitoring Project, an organisation that supports victims of racist attacks. If someone from the local Bangladeshi community is feeling threatened or under attack, they can call the service, and a man in a van will come and collect them and take them home or somewhere safe. Muhammad carefully documents every incident in the hope that…
If you like an extended visual metaphor, then you will love The Nymph, written and directed by Vanessa Stachel at Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg, one of the internationally most acclaimed film and media schools. Together with a team of producers, editors, VFX creators – basically a whole film crew made up of fellow students, she has created a branded short for Greenpeace Germany – and a tale of love and woe it is indeed. The story is deceptively simple. A young knight, defeated and injured,…
Tootsie (1982)
(Nota bene, my lunchbreaks for the last while have been occupied by exercise, so the last few entries in this are going to be more like Watching Avatar: The Way Of Water On Juneteenth But Broken Up Into Lunchbreak-Sized Chunks Just So I Don’t Disrupt The Format Of The Series; thank you, as you were) ⦁ ⦁ ⦁ ⦁ ⦁ THE ENEMY OF MY ANEMONE GETS FUCKIN ATE, FOOLS ⦁ ⦁ ⦁ ⦁ ⦁ I must admit I was briefly hoping that the number of dudes Spider managed to conk with that fire extinguisher would go into double…
Another excellent video from Transport Matters - and another monorail I missed out on riding.
Despite my intense love of David Lynch’s 1992 masterpiece, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, I’ve come to realize that there were many who didn’t enjoy it when the film was released in 1992. While only a handful of critics offered praise, many panned the prequel to the groundbreaking television series. It doesn’t mean these critics... The post Reviewing Peaks – Joan E. Vadeboncoeur Reviews Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me appeared first on TWIN PEAKS BLOG.
Remember that scene in the Matrix where Neo is strapped into the chair and Link uploads all sorts of martial arts into his mind? When Neo wakes up, he says "I know Kung-fu," then proceeds to demonstrate his skill in a battle with Morpheus. That was a pretty amazing scene. But if you suspend your disbelief for a second, it also suggests that when you have all the information at your fingertips, knowledge is just a matter of uploading it into your mind. The directors of the movie conveniently…
Having very recently enjoyed Walter Matthau and Glenda Jackson in HOUSE CALLS (1978), I was quite interested in seeing them paired again in HOPSCOTCH (1980).Fortunately I had picked up the Criterion Collection DVD in a half-price sale not long ago, so I didn't have to wait long to watch it.HOPSCOTCH is a lighthearted spy film, the enjoyable type of "midrange" movie released with some frequency decades ago, which is sadly largely missing from today's moviegoing scene.Matthau plays Miles Kendig,…
Dear Reader, we just finished reading a delightful, soon-to-be released novel about Hollywood censorship, and we think you’ll love it. Rough Cuts, by American novelist Glenn R. Miller, is a lighthearted look at the politics of Hollywood film censorship in the mid 1920s, and is told from the perspective of two men. The first is an acclaimed, but aging, Hollywood … Continue reading →
The first recording today starts with the end of Arthur. There’s an episode of Newsround. Plus a trail for Space Hoppers. There’s also a trail for My Life: Billboard Kids. Then it’s Barney’s Barrier Reef – The Reef’s Got Talent. Today it’s Barmy Barney and Gorgeous Gemma presenting. They’re hosting The Reef’s Got Talent, and the judges are Simon Coral and Danni Mantaray. There’s a school of Tuna. Dancing Dolphins. Parrotfish. A Mudskipper. The Pygmy Seahorse. The Boxer Crab. A flamboyant…
Moneyball (2011)
Measuring web performance without lying to yourself.
by Nathaniel R THE KING'S WARDEN won three prizes and is a huge hit in South Korea. You might remember last year that we discussed that South Korea has a robust film awards calendar, with the first awards show of each year in May! I'm sharing it despite being well over a month llate because my number one film of 2025 No Other Choice took the big prize. The Baeksang Arts Awards do more than film -- they're an all around arts awards so they also honor theater and television. Eligibilty runs from…
We’ve got the first listed Peanuts book for 2027, and while it’s a board book for kids, it’s going to have something for all you Freida fans. In Snoopy’s Bunny Fun!, Freida wants Snoopy to go after rabbits, but Snoopy has other plans. And if bunnies are your thing, January also brings It’s Easter Snoopy!, a coloring and activity book with crayons.
I occasionally joke about how it's weird that the folks who saw the first Toy Story and Shrek movies in theaters could conceivably be bringing their grandchildren to the the new ones, but also consider the number of characters whose distinct voices have been recast due to infirmity and death. I dunno, seems like like there's some sort of lesson here. But, nonetheless, we get Toy Story 5 this
When I was a TV-obsessed pre-adolescent, I loved the series Three’s Company. Technically, I was probably too young to be watching it, but all the “adult” humor flew right over my head1 as stuff that grown-ups must think is funny. I just treated it like a live-action cartoon. But even as a pre-teen, I quickly got frustrated with it. This is dumb. They could easily avoid all of these wacky hijinks just by explaining the misunderstanding! I mention that to establish that I’ve got a long history of…
By Gillian A.M. Mitchell Casting, Reception and Legacy Brian Latham, a senior member of the Mill Street Youth Club in the northern industrial town of Cambury, is persuaded by his friends to sing a couple of songs with The Gift, the rock band which is providing live music for the club’s Friday night dance. His performance, enthusiastically received by fellow club-goers, impresses the band members, and they offer Brian the chance to join them as vocalist. While Brian’s friends resoundingly…
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