This is rather naughty, but I think you might enjoy it. Troye Sivan’s new track Party is a mix of infectious musical joie de vivre (even throwing a little old school Madonna in at certain points). So, why not spend a million bucks on a music video for it, set it in medieval France and get Sir Ian McKellen to do the voiceover at the beginning? It’s outrageous, flamboyant and sensual – and at its centre is Sivan, loving every moment of it. You have to admit, he’s come a long way since he appeared…

🍿️ The Dead Don’t Die (2019) looked exactly like you would imagine a zombie movie made by Jim Jarmusch to look, especially if you knew that he spent his childhood watching matinee double features. Not his greatest, but it hit the right spot: between the fracking references (the apocalypse came about because some brilliant minds decided to frack the Earth’s poles), Murray and Driver’s deadpanning, Tilda Swinton’s out-of-this-world turn and the Iggy Pop cameo, there was much to love.

📷 242/365 - Winning shot.

There's a good reason Jackie Gleason is known as The Great One; like him, everything he does is larger than life, flamboyant. But, as Thomas B. Morgan writes in this week's cover story, there's something misleading about the application of the word, the hint that Gleason is "a man who almost gets away with it."The occasion for this medidation is "The Great Gleason Express," a 14-car "party train" carrying Gleason and his cast, including Steve Lawrence, the June Taylor Dancers, a Dixieland jazz…

This is a comedy, but not a spoof. Spy, that I watched last week, was a spoof. It was character-driven — really just an excuse for Melissa McCarthy to be (very) funny. You could have dropped her into anything else and it would have work.But The Man with One Red Shoe is a comedy, driven far more by story than characters. The spy angle of the plot is what makes it work.It’s an early role for Tom Hanks. He plays a violinist from Washington DC who’s mistakenly identified as a witness who will…

Silent movie fans note: we will be among those contributing to the Silentology blogathon on National Silent Movie Day on Tuesday, September 29. CMB award winner Lea Stans and splendid classic film aficionados will cover a slew of cinematic topics on the Silent Movie Day Blogathon. We'll be posting mass quantities of silent comedy short subjects from Internet Archive for the occasion. Talented scribes, terrific silent film experts and ridiculously knowledgeable cinephiles will be celebrating…

Some fun creepy pasta over here.

We watched Mayday on Apple TV tonight. Fun movie with plenty of action and good laughs. Ryan Reynolds and Kenneth Branagh were great in it.

Cláudio Alves and Eurocheese pause the current onslaught of TIFF reviews to discuss a topic near and dear to their hearts – actressing! Julianne Moore might just fake-smoke her way to a second Oscar with THE DEBUT. CLÁUDIO: For years, I dreamed of attending TIFF, always following coverage of the festival by my favorite critics and pundits. The Film Experience was my favorite haunt in that regard, and I can still recall how much I yearned to be part of the conversation when Nathaniel, Nick…

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I've heard of money growing on trees, but never shoes! This little boy evidently found the motherload - although I doubt he would want to wear heels! As always, if you are not familiar with the rules to the Impossibly Difficult Name that Movie game or the prize, click here.

The first recording today is What’s New Scooby Doo? – Uncle Scooby and Antarctica. In Antarctica, a strange undersea creature emerges and throws a man called Dr Zola into the freezing water. Shaggy and Scooby are volunteering at a zoo, where Scooby has made friends with a penguin called Petey. But the penguin needs to go home to Antarctica, so the gang accompany him there. This is a very generous zoo. They meet the captain of the plane, who introduces herself as a “dedicated iceist. We devote…

One of the most successful and memorable shows of the Almeida's Gooldilocks era was Rebecca Frecknall's rediscovery of Summer and Smoke, which took an obscure Tennessee Williams play and revealed it as equal to some of the playwright's most famous works. It came to mind with the penultimate show programmed by Goold, as director Sam Yates has spotted the potential for a striking night at the theatre in a 1937 play by the influential but largely forgotten American playwright Clifford Odets. Where…

After a bit of a slow start this turned into a surprisingly watchable and fun film with some nice moments. Ryan Reynolds is always very watchable although this doesn’t really ask for much of a stretch of his acting skills, in a largely straightforward story of an American Navy pilot shot down behind enemy lines and his escape aided by an ex KGB agent. There are some nice moments, the scene in which they turn up at a random farmhouse saying that we’re tired and hungry, and the drink sipping —…

Bleep and Booster was a beloved children's animated sci-fi series featured on the BBC's Blue Peter from 1963 to 1977. For 1966-1968 there was a yearly annual album with adventures of the duo. I love space art in general and feel that images of children exploring space are important in helping them imagine people (and themselves) in space and the possibilities. These adventures are seen through a British eye since England did not have a manned space program. Instead "plucky" children were taken…

I was lukewarm on this, but not for the reasons you think. Woody Allen (who wrote, directed, and stars) is “Miles Monroe”, a former jazz musician and health-food restaurateur who was cryogenically frozen when he suffers surgical complications from an ulcer. It’s now 200 years later, and he’s been thawed out by members of a rebellion fighting the current dictatorial leader of the United States; they are gambling that since he has no kind of biometric record, he can more easily infiltrate the…

It kind of feels like Fall Movie Season begins this weekend, with stuff that could possibly be awards contenders, if not certain ones. Primetime features Robert Pattinson as Chris Hansen, who hosted the "To Catch a Predator" segments on Primetime Live, which were a sensation but drew controversy for being lurid and self-aggrandizing. It's at the Coolidge, the Somerville, Fresh Pond, Lexington,

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Aldo Ray in Nighfall (1956) Vitals Aldo Ray as Art Rayburn, aka Jim Vanning, commercial artist and war veteran Jackson Hole, Wyoming, Winter 1956 Film: Nightfall Release Date: December 5, 1956 Director: Jacques Tourneur Costume Designer: Jean Louis (credited for gowns) WARNING! Spoilers ahead! Background Today would have been the 100th birthday of Aldo Ray, born September 25, 1926. A tough and resilient U.S. Navy veteran of World War II, the raspy-voiced Ray often incorporated these traits into…

The Traitors: New Blood episodes 2 and 3 gave us a new traitor and two new murders, but it's CBS that may have committed murder tonight, moving Big Brother against The Traitors: New Blood's second hour.

1990 war, dir. Jack Sholder, Powers Boothe, Rebecca de Mornay: IMDb. Terrorists fire a nuclear missile into the USSR. Things get worse.

Post Games, a podcast by Chris Plante, covered the new Resident Evil movie - which I really liked - by interviewing the guy who made all the old Resident Evil movies. I really liked this interview! Paul W.S. Anderson is clearly an Actual Gamer who has a specific perspective about how videogames should be adapted to film... and what the inherent tensions are in trying to do that. I enjoyed the conversation. I do think that if you interviewed Cregger, he'd have a very different philosophy - and…

As a fan of science fiction, I've been watchingDark Matter since it premiered. It's a good show with solid execution, but nothing exceptional. Until now. I just watched the latest episode, Love and Be Loved (season two, episode eight), and I'm here to tell you that episode is a masterpiece. I haven't seen anything on television that good in years. The writing, acting, cinematography, tone, pacing... everything was exquisite. Even if you're lukewarm on every prior episode, it's still worth it to…

by Cláudio Alves Everyone gets to vote for the TIFF People’s Choice Award, even the press. And while I can’t reveal some personal award votes later in the season, I can safely tell you my pick this one time. I voted for Ryûsuke Hamaguchi’s Franco-Japanese production of All of a Sudden. The best film at TIFF, it’s also my favorite world premiere so far into 2026, a masterpiece that feels like a return to basics for a director whose early works owed much to the likes of Antonioni and Rohmer.…

Anjanette Comer, who starred in such movies as The Loved One (1965) and The Appaloosa (1966) and guest starred on shows from The Donna Reed Show to Columbo, died on May 28, 2026 at the age of 86. Her death only was only recently made public. She had suffered from leukaemia and had issues with her heart.Anjanette Comer was born on August 7, 1939, in Dawson, Texas. When she was 16 she was named queen of the Corsicana Fair and Rodeo. She studied acting at the Pasadena Playhouse. It was there that…

Mixing emotion and action, Heart of the Beast casts Brad Pitt as a retired special forces soldier who becomes stranded in the Alaskan wilds after his seaplane crashes. Director David Ayer, who directed Pitt in the 2014 World War II drama Fury, leads the way as a spare Cameron Alexander screenplay teams Pitt's James with another combat vet, his beloved dog Odin. Pitt's portrayal of a strong but psychologically damaged warrior proves convincing throughout. For his part, Odin's service in Iraq and…

DESTINATION BIG HOUSE. Republic Pictures, 1950. Dorothy Patrick, Robert Rockwell, Jimmy Lydon, Robert Armstrong. Director: George Blair. A schoolteacher alone in a mountain cottage helps a wounded man, not knowing he’s a racketeer on the run from the gang he’s double-crossed. When he dies, he leaves her his fortune of $80,000, much to her bewilderment and dismay. There is a bit of cynicism involved here, concerning the way small towns can turn on people, with just a hint of gossip. Other than…

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While the Charles Dickens novel has been adapted many times, Great Expectations (2012) is probably