This is a technically precise and emotionally complex show with energetic delivery from a talented performer. Sadly, it did nothing for me. I found it a little one note in terms of storytelling. The rhythm of the story followed all the predictable beats which I thought was a little repetitive. There's no doubt he's a gifted storyteller. The comedy is suitably dark with some good moments of joy and catharsis. It is probably the perfect show for some people but I wasn't the right audience for it.

Special Agent Dale Cooper is known for sending messages to Diane via his handheld tape recorder. Fellow Twin Peaks Blog author and Bookhouse Boy Vinnie Guidera discussed at length the various recorders seen in the show. There is another Special Agent, however, that also uses a tape recorder during his investigation – Special Agent Sam... The post Twin Peaks Prop – Special Agent Sam Stanley’s Tape Recorder appeared first on TWIN PEAKS BLOG.

Sick Dog is the second play I’ve seen this summer about a young person with a terminal illness, and while Before I’m Dead focused on a relationship with a therapist, this centres on a relationship with a care robot. Scientist Winnie’s (Cara Crofts) illness is not revealed, but what is clear is that she is keeping friends and family at a distance, preferring instead to stay at home with the robot – Eliza (Pearl D’Souza) – she has created. She is tetchy towards Eliza, finding her efficiency with…

Proving the dog days of Summer are a global phenomenon, Kurayamisaka released a new two-song single in『Summer Film』last week, followed by a video for the A-side today. In it, we see the band performing on the beach while a girl ditches work as an automotive mechanic to go enjoy the Japanese countryside with a girlfriend. […] The post Kurayamisaka -『Summer Film』 appeared first on Space Echo.

Netflix may not be able to deliver a second season of a scripted show soon enough for us to remember a single thing that happened in the first season, but it's pumping out dating reality TV shows like it's a Below Deck Med deckhand.

I'm a sucker for anything Beatles related - and the fringe has no shortage of musicals, reinterpretations, and shameless cash-ins of the Fab Four. When Vincent Met John is an oddity in that it is a normal play, rather than a musical. It is also an oddity in being 90 minutes long rather than the standard fringe slot of no more than an hour. What if van Gogh and Lennon could have a conversation? They were both tortured artists whose influence spanned the world and only grew after their untimely…

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I had no idea what the film Wicker, coming to theaters October 30, 2026, was

Casey Affleck in a promotional image for The Killer Inside Me (2010) Vitals Casey Affleck as Lou Ford, diabolical deputy sheriff and sadistic sociopath West Texas, Summer 1952 Film: The Killer Inside Me Release Date: June 18, 2010 Director: Michael Winterbottom Costume Designer: Lynette Meyer WARNING! Spoilers ahead! Background The trouble with growin’ up in a small town is everybody thinks they know who you are… …begins Casey Affleck’s narration as West Texas deputy sheriff Lou Ford in The…

Over the last couple of weeks I've built a trailer for the tractor. I started by drawing up a basic design in FreeCAD: I didn't bother modelling the attachment for the axle because I hadn't worked out how I would do it yet. I then ordered the wheels and the steel I needed and welded up the frame: I actually made an error in ordering the steel and ordered much smaller box section than I intended. But no big deal, it still works. Probably a benefit because it makes it lighter. The wheels are sack…

Not every historical artefact is a masterpiece.Some survive because they changed theatre. Some because they reveal something vital about the people who created them. Others survive because scandal proves more durable than artistic merit. Sodom, The Quintessence of Debauchery occupies a peculiar place somewhere between all three. Long attributed to the libertine circles surrounding the court of Charles II, the play has acquired an almost mythic reputation as one of the most obscene works in…

There are artists whose work gradually becomes a body of theatre, and there are artists whose work gradually become a body of autobiography. Bryony Kimmings belongs firmly in the latter camp. Across a career spanning more than two decades, she has repeatedly turned her own life into theatrical material, inviting audiences into her anxieties, relationships, family life and failures. Each new show feels less like a standalone production and more like another volume in an ongoing memoir. The…

WHEN THE SAGE OF SCARBOROUGH SAW THROUGH THE SWINGING ‘SIXTIES 1969: nearly half a century ago, and this was Alan Ayckbourn’s breakthrough. Philip Breen’s direction respects the author’s taste for in-the-round production (which the Old Vic can do, since Spacey insisted on that reinvention). It achieves the famous immersion without loss (especially since Roger Allam can act expressively with his shoulderblades even if you’re sitting ten feet away behind him). It also beautifully respects both…

thought Experiment on thought Experiments Films are thought experiments. Critics review them as art; I wanted to read them as physics. So I built Movie Substrate — a tool that runs ten thousand films through the emergence framework and asks each one two questions: where did you hide consciousness, and which rule of reality did […] The post Movie Substrate: Reading 10,000 Films as Experiments on Reality appeared first on The Emergence Machine.

A Goofy Movie (1995)

I’ve been watching through every season of Frasier from the beginning over the last few weeks and it’s been great to see all the character development and watch the Niles & Daphne love story unfold (again). But what if you took one second from every episode and made one of those videos about it? Well it’s above and it’s ridiculously funny. That’s a sign of a good show—providing laughs, one second at a time. Related: 1 second from every classic Simpsons episode and 1 second of every Malcolm in…

Anything written by French twistmeister Sebastien Japrisot is worth reading or watching. ADIEU L’AMI (1968) is one of his few original scripts. It seems to be the only film directed by Jean Herman that anybody much likes. It’s pretty enjoyable. It stars Alain Delon and Charles Bronson, during the latter’s Eurostardom phase when he made […]

Ich war heute zum Onboarding für Interessierte und Neumitglieder und dem sich anschließenden Treffen des Ortsverbandes (OV) von Die Linke Köln-Kalk. Es war ein spannender und spaßiger Abend! Ich bin zwar noch kein Parteimitglied, aber spätestens nach diesem Abend ist die Entscheidung gefallen. Das liegt maßgeblich daran, dass Die Linke sich in einer Zeit, in der ich mich verstärkt frage, ob unsere politischen Entscheidungsträger:innen denn alle Lack gesoffen haben, für die Themen stark macht,…

Part of going to The Fringe is to expose yourself to new ideas, different art forms, and a range of artworks. Not everything needs to be a "zany" comedy about AI or a loving pastiche of that 1990s disaster movie you love. So I found myself sat in a Unitarian Church listening to a harpsichord and choral organ intertwined with a violin and cello while a soprano soared through Handel's greatest hits. I'm too much of a philistine to assess its merits - but there's always pleasure watching…

That is the top half of an 8 Seen, these stationary arches seem very disquieting. n.b. Scene here is a relaxed view 3d stereograph.

🎼"Hamlet's Mum Has Got It Going On"🎵 There you go, now you've seen the show. That's about the height it reaches. Distil the tortured Prince of Denmark down to an hour and sprinkle in parody pop songs. It so nearly works. There are a few good chuckles and a smattering of clever lyrics but, even for an hour, it feels a bit flabby. The cast are game, with KT Ihnatyszyn giving a tour-de-force performance as Hamlet. But for every decent pun there's a piece of uninspired mugging to the audience. The…

Afrofuturism is a hot topic in the world of sci-fi. This is the circus version of "For All Mankind" where the Zambia Space Academy (a 100% real thing) attempt to land on the moon and win the space race. Told in an acrobatic style, naturally. It is delightful to see classic acrobatics find a whole new audience - the children in the audience (and the adults) screamed with delight at the human pyramids, handstands, cartwheels, and aerial work. An absolutely joyful cast of kinesthetic clowns bring…

The other evening we were in bed watching TV. I can't recall what we were watching, as there are so...

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A couple of posts back I wrote a critique of the 1959 film remake of The 39 Steps, in which I zeroed in on its star, Kenneth More, as being crucially miscast in the Richard Hannay role. And I’ve been musing on that post. Not that I’ve changed my mind—39/59 is, I maintain, a mediocre misfire of a film; and More (still) doesn’t persuade as Hannay. However, I don’t mean my essay to stand as a general putdown of More himself. He was, I also maintain, a charming, talented, and deeply likable actor,…

I wasn’t even THINKING about watching the new Outlander prequel, Blood of My Blood (2025-), until a friend sent

On a recent trip along the National Road in western Indiana, I made it to Terre Haute to see my alma mater, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. I hadn’t been to campus in a couple of years. Until, I don’t know, five years ago or so, every building was wide open as long as students were on campus. That included the residence halls, and that let me go into the basement of the one that housed the campus radio station. There’s still a student club down there that carries the station’s old call…

Vilma Banky and Rudolph Valentino in 'The Son of the Sheik' (1926).This month marks the 100th anniversary of the untimely death of silent screen icon Rudolph Valentino, who passed away on Aug. 23, 1926 at age 31.This past Sunday, I accompanied the first of several screenings this month of 'The Son of the Sheik' (1926), Valentino's last film. I'm actually be doing it twice this weekend: on Saturday night in Brandon, Vt., and then on Sunday afternoon in Somerville, Mass.(See the "Upcoming Silent…