Indebted to Tim Lucas for mentioning the existence of Cockatrice, a novel by Wolf Mankiewitz a satire on the British film industry that aims to do for it what EXPRESSO BONGO did for pop. Mankiewitz felt that Val Guest did a fine job directing that one, but steered it away from its wider social satire, […]

There are a lot of good emotions on faces in Psycho and this shot is one of them. Norman Bates: I think I must have one of those faces you can’t help believing. Psycho (1968) Table of ContentsWhy Psycho?The MovieMusicActing PerformancesCinematographyConcluding Thoughts Why Psycho? It has been a while since I have reviewed a movie for this blog. Movies are one of those media formats that I have a hard time sitting down and watching, however much I want to do so. There is also the problem of…

wtf they made everyone hot. The visual effects were absolutey stunning. The plot wasn’t the best with the supporting characters like Katara, Soka and the rest of the Avatar team. I felt like they should be much stronger than how they are portraited in the movie. The villian was a refreshing take on what I expected from Air Nomads, and I feel it gives me a very fresh take on other airbending avatars. Really liked the movie, and omg Katara and Zuko look hot af.

Roger Babson had a problem. His family thought he was crazy or felonious or both. He had started to carve mottoes in to the boulders which lay in the fields near the long abandoned settlement of Dogtown close to his home in Gloucester, Massachusetts. Image Credit Flickr User aaronknox Babson was later to write in his autobiography: My family says that I am defacing the boulders and disgracing the family with these inscriptions, but the work gives me a lot of satisfaction, fresh air, exercise…

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It’s that time again, when the Dawes brothers descend on the Isle of Man (literally this time, as they flew over), I have to think up a different snappy title, and they both send me lots of photos. Just a few today, and a torrent follow…… Ron reports….. Early start to catch 0810 flight from Gatwick, which did not take off until 0900 but landed only 20 minutes late. Having checked in and put our bags in our room, we were free to go out before midday. Took bus to Derby Castle to have our first…

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I have previously discussed several of the anti-drugs and alcohol posters found on the set of the Twin Peaks Sheriff’s Department. These include the “Mom and Dad, I Use Drugs” poster along with several Reader’s Digest Foundation Drunk Driving posters. There is one additional poster opposite the “Mom and Dad” poster in the hallway just... The post Twin Peaks Set Decoration – “The Odds Are That Marijuana…” Poster at the Twin Peaks Sheriff’s Department appeared first on TWIN PEAKS BLOG.

Review by Sandre the Giant Released: 27th March 2026 Kentucky trio Highgate have taken to expressing their feelings about the state of the world through a particularly abrasive and blackened take on sludgy doom, and their new full length record ‘Prophecies of Eternal Horror’ seems to be the focal point of all that rage and fervour. It has been their first full length release since 2013’s ‘Survival’, although there has been a little life in them since then. It is out now through Horror Pain Gore…

Fuller’s first great war movie. Fellow WWII vet Gene Evans plays a cigar-chompin’ slang-throwin’ tough guy, picking up a South Korean kid and a stray medic before linking up with a troop with an undercooked commanding officer. The men die off one at a time to traps and snipers and spies, then they die all at once during an all-out shooting battle at the temple where they’re camping. Medic James Edwards is resourceful: Our tough guy, through the clearing smoke: Survivors:

The first recording starts with the end of Jakers: The Adventures of Piggley Winks. Then it’s a repeat of Shaun the Sheep – Mountains out of Molehills. Media Centre Description: Children’s animation. Set on a remote rural farm, Shaun’s flock lives a peaceful life under the watchful eye of their sheepdog Bitzer. The flock are enjoying a boogie when a freshly dug molehill interrupts their fun. Shaun has to resort to ever-more extreme attempts to get rid of the pesky mole. Recorded from BBC ONE on…

Opens with convincingly real and unrehearsed news interviews, which they empasize are real and unrehearsed, but is the interview guy not aware that he’ll be in a movie? Why’s he gotta be so dry? From this drab beginning, the movie gets increasingly brutal, as the local casino runs a terror campaign against the voters, press, and church. Edwards stops John from killing a casino boss, too bad: John (Pickup on South Street) comes home to Phenix with his girl, has been there a half hour before…

Abbe Lane, the singer and actress who performed with her husband Xavier Cugat and appeared in both movies and on television, died on April 25, 2026 at the age of 93.Abbe Lane was born Abigail Francine Lassman on December 14, 1932, in Brooklyn. She was raised in Manhattan. Her show business career began when she was only four years old, and a child she appeared on both radio and in the 1938 Vitaphone short "Toyland Casino." She also did some modelling. She attended the High School of Music and…

It’s high time I made a start working through the Past Doctor Adventures series as put out by BBC Books once the Doctor Who novel licence was wrested away from Virgin. As I noted in my first review of their Eighth Doctor Adventures line, the novel landscape for the BBC Books-led fraction of the Wilderness Years ended up being somewhat more complex than the Virgin-led segment, where once the New Adventures got up to speed they (and, once they started, the Missing Adventures) kept a consistent…

Today's hat tip goes to one of a favorite comedian and wordsmiths from my misspent youth, the guy who recorded My Son The Nut, the great Allan Sherman (1924-1973).Here's Allan on the popular daytime program The Mike Douglas Show. Love Allan's appearance on Jay Ward Productions' Fractured Flickers.Allan was a frequent guest comic on The Dean Martin Show.Well, whatdaya know - found The Allan Sherman Show (1968) on Internet Archive - yippee kayyoh kayyay!

Having arrived back home with no particular difficulty, I am actually kind of relieved that studios are still giving The Odyssey and Spider-Man a bit of space, so I can watch some suddenly-good baseball and write movie reviews. I opted to skip The Samurai and the Prisoner at Fantasia once I saw that it was booked at The Coolidge Corner Theatre; so I'll get a chance to catch the new one from

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Two classic string boards are connected by red string in Mind Thief (dir. Matt Steinauer, 2022). ▲ Mind Thief (dir. Matt Steinauer, 2022) ▲ Mind Thief (dir. Matt Steinauer, 2022) ▲ Mind Thief (dir. Matt Steinauer, 2022) ▲ Mind Thief (dir. Matt Steinauer, 2022)

▶️ watched episodes 1-6 of Silo over the past week, most while I was a bit under the weather. Excellent dystopia concept and show. Pausing before watching episode 7, titled “The Flamekeepers”.#Silo #SiloTV #AppleOriginal #AppleTV#Blaugust #Blaugust2026

I had no idea that this existed until recently. Back in 2024, Kate Bush released a short animated music video called Little Shrew (Snowflake) – the word in brackets being the name of the track from her 2011 album 50 Words for Snow that is used as the soundtrack for this startling and poignant anti-war story. Apparently, the image of the destroyed block of flats that you see in the video is based on a real photograph that Bush saw – an image of the war in Ukraine. Yet the video doesn’t focus on…

A look at my collection of black and white publicity photos from Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me continues with an image of Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee) and James Hurley (James Marshall) at the light at Sparkwood & 21. This print comes from a collection of prints from Spelling Films International that I won at auction.... The post Twin Peaks Publicity – Spelling Films International – Laura Palmer and James Hurley at Sparkwood & “21” – 151-22 appeared first on TWIN PEAKS BLOG.

🍿Finished watching: Ted Lasso S4E1, Home. It’s good to have Ted Lasso back! Super annoyed that I can’t binge, but honestly that might actually be a good thing. Having gulped The Bear in a sitting this weekly dose might be a good thing.

Have you attended a theatre or cabaret show in Paris? We, sadly, have not. That was something we missed on a trip to Paris many years ago, even though there was much else to enjoy. We were reminiscing about that trip the other day when we re-watched the Doris Day musical April in Paris (1952). Day stars as a chorus … Continue reading →

The first recording today starts with the end of Jakers: The Adventures of Piggley Winks. There’s a trail for Dani Day. Then it’s Shaun the Sheep – Fetching. Bitzer does a bit of frisbee fetching. It goes over the wall, and Bitzer notices an attractive dog next to a tent next door. He uses the frisbee to have an excuse to get closer. They get friendly. But while he’s distracted, the sheep spot their chance, and with the farmer away, they invade the house. Shaun brings Bitzer back to sort them…

I don’t watch a lot of movies. But, since I was traveling a bit this summer, I’ve watched probably twice as many movies as I usually see per-year and it’s only August. At some point I caved and got a Letterboxd account, where you can follow me and read my quick little reviews. But for your convenience, I’ve collected my recent ones below. Enjoy! The Prestige I was not expecting the wild Spy vs. Spy vibes. Very fun! Lincoln I liked it. I don't know enough about history to know how accurate this…

A Florida police chief must solve a vicious double homicide before he himself falls under suspicion. Good crime mystery movie starring Denzel Washington, Eva Mendes and Sanaa Lathan. Was a treat to see John Billingsley (Dr. Phlox in Star Trek Enterprise) and also Dean Cain (90s TV Superman). All in all, it’s a good evening watch. Three popcorns. To see all 12 photos, visit the article page. This article was originally published at: https://andrei.xyz/movies/out-of-time/

For my roughly annual trip away from Dame Theatre to Baroness Dance, it's one of the Matthew Bourne ballets I've managed to miss on its numerous previous visits to London since its 2000 debut. The Car Man is based on Bizet's opera Carmen, although only musically - the story is apparently more directly inspired by The Postman Always Rings Twice. Set in a small town in 1950s America, whose economy seems disproportionately based on the auto repair and cabaret industries for a population of 375,…

We missed the sadly short-lived stage adaptation of the 1985 time-travel escapade movie Back to the Future (BTTF), during its brief Australian run, in late 2025. I did however catch A Future on Stage, trailer, a documentary about bringing the original film to the stage as a musical. The words “we didn’t think we could do this”, and “we had no idea what we were doing”, and similar such, may have been uttered a few times too many throughout — since we know the show eventually succeeded — but…

More Awful British Comedians, because there are ALWAYS more. I picked up the Network DVD of FREEDOM OF THE SEAS because it was pretty cheap and pretty mysterious. I hadn’t heard of anybody in this 1934 comedy, which is highly unusual. There’s generally somebody from a Hitchcock or a Powell quota quickie. I guess I’ve […]

Garreth Hirons joins Tim Worthington for a chat about Frank Castle challenging Peter and MJ to the world's worst reboot of Now Get Out Of That! in Spider-Man: Brand New Day.