I've watched quite a number of crime and suspense films recently, so it seemed like perfect timing to finally catch up with a more recent film from my watch list, BLACK BAG (2025).I'd heard good things about this film about married spies, and it proved to be quite an entertaining, well-done movie.George Woodhouse (Michael Fassbender) and Kathryn St. Jean (Cate Blanchett) are married British spies. They are very much in love, which makes things complicated when George's superior Philip (Gustaf…
Now that I’ve put the New Adventures (bar for the Benny-led ones), Missing Adventures, and the Doctor-featuring Decalogs to bed and put the Virgin Books era of official Doctor Who fiction behind me, it’s time to move on to the BBC Books-led era of Wilderness Years novels. Before I get into this, a word on methodology. After the first few New Adventures reviews, whose format was shaped in part by the parameters of the Timewyrm and Cat’s Cradle arcs, I settled into a pattern for both the New…
The complete 2026 Summer Under the Stars lineup has now been announced by Turner Classic Movies!As regular TCM viewers will be aware, every August the network honors the work of 31 actors and actresses with day-long celebrations.Here's the list of stars to be featured in 24-hour marathons in August 2026: August 1: Doris DayAugust 2: Humphrey BogartAugust 3: June AllysonAugust 4: Glenn FordAugust 5: Joan BennettAugust 6: Diane KeatonAugust 7: Basil RathboneAugust 8: Steve McQueenAugust 9: Gene…
Coleman Spilde, writing for Salon: Since its expansion from movie rentals and streaming into original content, Netflix has made it clear that its sole priority is Netflix, not its customers, and certainly not the art of visual media. Members of Letterboxd, a social network for lovers of film, founded in 2011 by Matthew Buchanan and Karl von Randow, are up in arms. I can understand creators of popular products/platforms eventually wanting to realise some reward for their efforts. It can only be…
21:43 - Tried to watch season 2 of the live-action Avatar the Last Airbender out of curiosity. Couldn't even get through episode 2. I didn't like the first season but watched through it. The storytelling simply sucks and the changes make absolutely no sense. Gonna rewatch One Piece s2 now, hehe.
Yikes. I looked at the calendar today and something clicked – TCM’s Summer Under the Stars celebration starts NEXT WEEK, and I still haven’t worked my way through covering last year’s new-to-me movies! Time for a marathon review session, y’all! Wish me luck – here goes . . . August 10: Clark Gable – They Met in Bombay (1941) In a nutshell, this romantic-adventure film features Gable and Rosalind Russell as two thieves (they met in Bombay, get it?) who fall in love with each other. I’m a big fan…
Movies The Death of Robin Hood (2026) D: Michael Sarnoski. S: Hugh Jackman, Jodie Comer, Bill Skarsgård, Noah Jupe, Murray Bartlett. Beautifully directed, revisionist old-man ROBIN HOOD picture asks… what if he was actually a murderous brigand? Jackman’s fantastic in the lead, but director Sarnoski’s script doesn’t have much for him (or anyone) to do. No deep (or even interested) observations on Robin Hood, and Sarnoski wimps out on the patriarchal violence discussion. Instead, it’s all…
Spoiler Alert. Please don’t read any further if you have not seen EVIL DEAD BURN. Go on, scram. Get stepping. Vamoose. O.K. All clear?Um, I was under the impression that we as a society had decided that we were not going to kill dogs in movies? Did I just imagine that? Are we not all on the same page? I mean, I realize all bets are off in a horror film but didn’t we all have some sort of unsaid agreement on this matter? Intellectually, I know it’s not real, but it still bums me out and throws a…
Recently, I finished a piece for my Classic Movie Hub column that was supposed to be pretty straightforward: Civil War films in the silent era. But, like with any silent film topic, not only was there much more to this … Continue reading →
It’s the magus of Utopia Parkway again. As the title suggests, Cornell, 1965 was shot in the 1960s, although the footage wasn’t assembled as a film until 1978 when director Lawrence Jordan added his narration and a Debussy soundtrack. Jordan had been Joseph Cornell’s assistant in the 1960s, and his footage was meant to document details in the workroom where Cornell made so many of his boxes. The details are mostly of the boxes that didn’t get sent to the galleries, half-finished or damaged…
A classic string board appears in A Haunted House 2 (dir. Michael Tiddes, 2014). ▲ A Haunted House 2 (dir. Michael Tiddes, 2014)
Scuzzy Acid fried surreal space rock art. The soundtrack to your very own hallucinogenic cyber-punk sci-fi horror of your mind becoming reality. Chaotic psychedelic noise poorly recorded in some psycho's garage. Far out man.
So with this posting, I have caught up with the excellent Sherlock Holmes, Consulting Detective series from Airship 27. This time I go over volumes 19 and 20, which are the most recent volumes. As I don’t know when the next volume will come out, I didn’t want to delay covering these two too long; […]
Canadian actress Alison Pill broke through as a child performer on stage and in television.
I watched Interstellar at the cinema and left feeling utterly exhilarated, and I’ve made a point of catching new Christopher Nolan films on the big screen ever since. I didn’t rate Oppenheimer that highly, but I went into The Odyssey cautiously excited. I won’t attempt a lengthy review, partly because I never studied Greek mythology or read the classics, and partly because I need to sit with this film a bit longer (and rewatch it). I also don’t want to go overboard: it’s a solid 4/5 for me, but…
When I first started to watch this clip from Toomorrow, I initially thought that it was a very cleverly rendered pastiche of late 1960s pop music. The colours were spot on, the costumes were groovy and the music very much of its time. Then I had a wait a second moment because the girl singer in the clip looked remarkably like a young, pre-Grease Olivia Netwon-John (or Neutron-Bomb as we would sometimes call her). Sure enough, a little research (OK, reading the video's information) told me that…
The “Southern hero” Zhan Zhao is carrying vital evidence from an old friend about an unsolved case, intent on delivering it safely to the capital. But his foes are equally driven to stop him. Fortunately, he meets Huo Ling Long, the daughter of Linglong Villa, and Bai Yu Tang, an eccentric wandering hero nicknamed the “Golden-Haired Rat”. Together, they battle the powerful forces determined to overthrow the kingdom. Characters Zhan Zhao (played by Yang Yang): A fourth-rank imperial guard and…
An intellectually disabled man fights for custody of his 7-year-old daughter and in the process teaches his cold-hearted lawyer the value of love and family. Bit melodramatic, but it works so well. Sean Penn acts masterfully, and Michelle Pfeiffer does grow on you. Good perfomances from Dakota Fanning and Dianne Wiest as well. To see all 9 photos, visit the article page. This article was originally published at: https://andrei.xyz/movies/i-am-sam/
A young lawyer, Richard Goodwin, investigates a potentially fixed game show. Charles Van Doren, a big time show winner, is under Goodwin’s investigation. Interesting little legal drama about showbusiness and the way it throws lives, facts and people into a meatgrinder for the sake of money. Five popcorns. To see all 12 photos, visit the article page. This article was originally published at: https://andrei.xyz/movies/quiz-show/
THE FOLLOWING WAS WRITTEN BY MY FRIEND AND COLLEAGUE ALONSO DURALDE. LEARN MORE ABOUT HIM HERE. WHAT’S NEW ON 4K/BLU/DVD IN JULY: IS GOD IS, TWO PIANOS, DISCO ITALIANA, MIKE MILLS, AND MORE! NEW RELEASE WALL Is God Is (Amazon MGM): When asked to list the best films of the first half of 2026, I immediately thought of this dazzling directorial debut from playwright Aleshea Harris. Two sisters (two-time Tony winner Kara Young and Mallori Johnson) are sent on a quest by their estranged mother…
One of the most iconic publicity photos from David Lynch’s Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me shows Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee) sitting on a bed in room 6 at the Red Diamond City Motel. I say it’s “iconic” because it was used extensively for the film’s key artwork in markets around the world. LAURA PALMER AT... The post Twin Peaks Publicity – Laura Palmer at Red Diamond City Motel – Photo Slide #2677 appeared first on TWIN PEAKS BLOG.
[basierend auf einer Reihe von Artikeln in Mastodon ] Compute-Angebot 1965 schrieb Gordon E. Moore den Artikel “Cramming more components onto integrated circuits” . Darin beschreibt er die Beobachtung, die später, ungefähr ab 1975 durch Carver Mead, als “Moore’s Law” bezeichnet wurde. Moore’s Law sagt im Kern: Alle x Monate verdoppelt sich die Anzahl der Komponenten in einem Prozessor, IC oder Chip, den wir sinnvoll kostendeckend herstellen können. Das genaue x ist für die Betrachtung gar nicht…
Based on a true story, shot on location in Michigan, and the source of all the lawyer quotes (the judge is played by the real “at long last have you no sense of decency” guy, and Jimmy Stewart tells him “I’m just a simple country lawyer”). Also a fleet, twisty, morally ambiguous story of an underdog law team winning a defense case that they maybe should’ve lost. Jimmy and his clients: Jimmy takes the case of killer Ben Gazzara, who murdered the rapist of his wife Lee Remick. Now the prosecution…
Annoyingly square 1950s movie with a worm of weirdness in the middle. Mostly it’s clumsily-made propaganda, but the dialogue pops at times, and EGOT Helen Hayes is very good, bringing real personality to a bland mother role. Movie feels like a play, with long takes (ruined with weird edits via optical zoom), the family naturalistically stuttering over their lines. You wouldn’t think it’s the work of a 30-year veteran director, but at least it’s lovably eccentric – you also wouldn’t guess this…
There’s a detail about this film that you may have heard about, whether you’ve seen it or not. I’ll get to that, I promise. Marlon Brando is “Paul”, a middle-aged American expat in Paris, who is grieving the sudden suicide of his wife. Maria Schneider is “Jeanne”, a 20-something Parisian who’s living with her mother but is in talks with her boyfriend about moving in together. Paul and Jeanne both hear about the same apartment for rent and run into each other while looking it over; but sparks…
This is another piece written for the Locarno Film Festival’s “Great Expectations” retrospective on postwar British cinema. Anthony Kimmins began in the early 1930s – unusually – as both a writer and director. Few of his early works are available, but 1934’s Once in a New Moon, has an unusual concept – a chunk of […]
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I watched the first (of probably a couple) full trailer for, "Avengers Doomsday." Besides a bit of a teaser here and there, little has been shown/revealed. In the trailer, released yesterday, we hear what sounds like Robert Downey Junior with an accent speaking as Doctor Doom about a major threat. Then, we get a bunch of scenes of much of the MCU gathering together whilst a voice-over from Thor (Chris Hemsworth) discusses how the current threat facing everyone scares him more than anything he'd…
I remember seeing The Hardacres (2024-) on our Upcoming Frock Flicks list, but it never
CapnRex101 / Brickset: The LEGO Group, in collaboration with Disney Entertainment, today unveils the LEGO Ideas The X-Files (21369) set, a 1,478-piece model that invites adult fans to celebrate the iconic ’90s sci-fi drama. To mark the reveal, Emmy Award-winning actor, Gillian Anderson, stars in a cinematic mini-film tribute to the beloved series. With a nod to FBI Special Agent Dana Scully, Anderson is drawn into an investigation that gradually leads her to uncover the LEGO set itself, piece…
