About Nick Hayden, an Australian software engineer and technology leader writing about software, AI, leadership, business, and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu

A classic example appears on a wall in the “Build a Show” exhibit (2026) at the Broadway Museum in New York City. From contributor Kelly Williams.

Armando 'Bing' Lao is 2026's National Artist for FilmThis September 2026 Armando 'Bing' Lao (1948 - 2024) was posthumously granted the title of National Artist of the Philippines, generally considered the highest honor the state can give one of its citizens.Personally ambivalent about this. First instituted by Ferdinand Marcos Sr. in 1972, the award-- meant to recognize those who contributed significantly to the Philippine arts-- is actually an attempt to ingratiate the president into the…

The We Live Inside a Dream Weekend in Washington continued on Friday, August 14, 2026. Before the evening screening of David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive at the North Bend Theatre, I spent the day exploring Snoqualmie Valley which including a visit to the base of Snoqualmie Falls. This trip report is my third in a series... The post Trip Report – We Live Inside a Dream Weekend | August 14, 2026 appeared first on TWIN PEAKS BLOG.

by Eurocheese Ruth Madeley might be a new Best Actress contender for her work in BEING HEUMANN. Coming into the fall festivals, no category has been a larger question mark in the Oscar race than The Film Experience’s highest honor – Best Actress. Aside from a couple of clear frontrunners (see my comments on The Debut), there appears to be room for a number of new challengers to find their way into the race. How likely are some of the pictures debuting at Toronto to factor in? If these two world…

Last year, I saw this play in London with Stephen Fry as Lady Bracknell and

Rossano Brazzi as Renato de Rossi in Summertime (1955) Vitals Rossano Brazzi as Renato de Rossi, antique store owner Venice, Summer 1954 Film: Summertime Release Date: June 21, 1955 Director: David Lean Costume Designer: Rosi Gori (uncredited) WARNING! Spoilers ahead! Background Prolific Italian actor and director Rossano Brazzi was born 110 years ago tomorrow on September 18, 1916. An on-screen fixture of Italian cinema since the late 1930s, Brazzi rose to global fame after three consecutive…

I’ve long-felt that No Way Out is one of the great overlooked spy films. Released in 1987, it was was early starring role for Kevin Costner.Costner is Tom Farrell, a Navy officer working in the Pentagon. He’s sleeping with Susan, who also happens to be sleeping with the Secretary of Defense.One night, the Secretary accidentally kills her during an argument about her other lover (who he doesn’t know is Farrell). He concocts a plan to find the other lover and frame him as “Yuri,” a rumored Soviet…

Nowadays I am reading John Grisham: The Pelican Brief. There is a man called Khamel in it, who is a killer. And this man came back in my dream. It seems I had really been immersed in this book. Khamel had to kill a few women. He planned it meticulously. But he failed while abducting one of those women. Somehow he sedated her and she was so delirious that she touched a scorpion on a boat. The scorpion bit her and the killer did not want her to die that way, so he touched the scorpion and threw…

I can’t remember the last time I went to the theatre. I forgot just how unlike any other form of media it is. Emma Rice Company’s production, Tristan & Yseult, is utterly delightful, enchanting and evocative. An adaptation of a 12th century legend, the play follows two ill-fated lovers, cramming in explorations of duty, debauchery, love, hate, and forgiveness in its two-hour runtime. Top marks for the pre-show and interval performances; the musical ensemble are true professionals, in every…

I’ve noticed that movie trailers have started featuring '70s and '80s rock music over the past decade. Here are some examples: Suicide Squad — Official Trailer 1 (2016) — “Bohemian Rhapsody,” Queen, 1975 Justice League — Official Heroes Trailer (2017) — “Heroes,” David Bowie, 1977 Thor: Ragnarok (2017) — “Immigrant Song,” Led Zeppelin, 1970 Ready Player One (2017) — “Jump,” Van Halen, 1984 Dune (2020) — “Eclipse,” Pink Floyd, 1973 The latest one that really surprised me is The Hunger Games:…

In this Dancing with the Stars season 35 episode 2 recap, Marshal Knight celebrates the women bringing passion to the dance floor—even Giada wasn't horrendous!

The four bracket winning teams from our 8th annual Team SPS Kubb Tournament!

★★★★☆ I’d heard good things about the horror-comedy Widow’s Bay, about a cursed New England island town whose new mayor insists on making it a tourist destination. What could go wrong? The season as a whole was hit and miss. But there were some really good hits. The episode with the creepy book and Patricia’s horrific party disaster, the flashback to the founding generation of the town (with Betty Gilpin!), and the season finale were all excellent. And the finale wrapped up just enough of the…

We'll have more of Peacock's The Traitors US through season eight—maybe taking us into the next decade.

by Cláudio Alves The human figure against the grandeur of the natural world has obsessed visual artists for centuries, if not millennia. In A Long Winter, his latest film and follow-up to the highly popular All of Us Strangers, Andrew Haigh follows the footsteps of those that came before him and delivers what can only be described as an exercise in landscape cinema. It’s perhaps his work where shot composition and the blocking of actors have most to say. At the same time, the text barely raises…

Zach Cregger, the director of such respected horror films as Weapons and Barbarians, has grabbed the Resident Evil reins. Cregger's fans may wonder why a director known for giving horror a comic twist would take on a franchise that has its supporters but hasn't garnered much critical favor. Working from a screenplay he wrote with Shane Hatten, Cregger acknowledges the series' video-game origins, presenting the movie's unlikely main character with escalating challenges. That may sound familiar,…

A man is abducted into an alternate version of his life. Amid the mind-bending landscape of lives he could’ve lived, he embarks on a harrowing journey to get back to his true family and save them from a most terrifying foe: himself. Mind blowing parallel universes drama, starts fairly slow, like a drama in the first 5-6 episodes, but then it really picks up the place and turns into proper mind-bending thriller. Six popcorns and goes into the Movie Vault. To see all 30 photos, visit the article…

It was my pleasure to cycle down to the Cinema Museum in Lambeth recently and meet one of the founders, Martin Humphries, to write a feature for The World of Interiors about the campaign to buy the former workhouse where Charlie Chaplin was confined as a child. Click here to read my feature about the Cinema Museum at The World of Interiors Click here to support the campaign to save the Cinema Museum The Cinema Museum is contained in the former Lambeth Workhouse where Charlie Chaplin was…

I'm a Jeanne Crain fan, so one of the movies I was most delighted to see at Cinecon on Labor Day was THE SECOND GREATEST SEX (1956).THE SECOND GREATEST SEX is, to my knowledge, not available in any authorized home viewing format. Seeing this Technicolor CinemaScope film in a good print on a large screen was thus a particular treat!I must have read about the movie in my Jeanne Crain books in years past, but it had escaped my mind that THE SECOND GREATEST SEX is a musical.Given that, I was quite…

Leslie Parrish, who appeared in the movies Li'l Abner (1959) and The Manchurian Candidate (1962) and guest starred on shows from 77 Sunset Strip to Star Trek, died on November 14, 2025 at the age of 90. Her death was not made public until late August.Leslie Parrish was born Marjorie Hellen in Melrose, Massachusetts on March 18, 1935. She grew up in Black Eddy, Pennsylvania. She studied piano when she was very young and studied piano and composition at the Philadelphia Conservatory of Music when…

Find all previous and future episodes listed here or in your podcast app under “Barbican Station”. This episode I talk with Scott from the SpyHards podcast about all the action in episode one, Circle of Life. We get into shocking returns, no pay and funeral wear. We do some investigative reporting on actor heights, talk about least preferred ways to be murdered and why you should always be careful where you point your laser. Plus, who are all the surprise guests at this funeral! All that and…

The Weight begs comparison to the Henri-Georges Clouzot's 1953 French classic Wages of Fear, remade in 1977 as Sorcerer by director William Friedkin. Like his predecessors, first-time director Padraic McKinley offers a stripped-down Depression Era story about men facing perilous conditions as they transport gold through the wilds of Oregon. An action-oriented plot kicks in when the warden of a camp prison (Russell Crowe) offers Ethan Hawke’s Murphy an opportunity to win a pardon. Wrongly…

Linnea Berthelsen in Darkling, Bush Theatre. Photo: Alex Brenner A happy childhood in a play is like having a Chekhov’s gun: you are waiting for it to go off, for something to go wrong and Darkling at the Bush Theatre is no different. I confess I knew nothing of Bhopal, where the play is set, and so my thoughts were going in all different directions about what might unfold, but nothing prepared me. She (Linnea Berthelsen) lives with her father and sister and is a bubbly, happy child despite the…

I didn’t realize that the Coyote vs. Acme movie is based on a short piece in The New Yorker from 1990, by Ian Frazier. They’re both good!

A pair of short films connected more by technique than content, being playful arrangements of stock footage accompanied by music. A Movie (1958) was the first film made by artist Bruce Conner, and is usually described as being one of the first films to draw attention to the medium itself. Film-makers have been foregrounding film techniques since the silent days but Conner pulls apart established conventions: putting title cards in the wrong place, mixing comic montages with scenes of real death…

The premier of the stage play “We Interrupt This Program” (October 2026) at the Virginia Theatre in Champaign, Illinois, contains string imagery in its social media advertising.

American-born dancer, singer, and actress Josephine Baker spent most of her career performing in France.

Selwyn Raab, James L. Swanson, Charles Manson, and more in today's reading round-up.

Krosser Kartoffelpuffer mit geschmortem Mangold und einer leicht scharfen Ein schöner Moment in meinem bisherigen Kochleben und natürlich Leben war, wenn mich meine Mutter, wie so oft am Anfang der Woche, fragte »Was wollen wir die Woche kochen?«. Wir saßen dann meistens in der Küche – im Sommer auch auf der Terrasse, und überlegten. Dazu tranken wir Espresso. Ich glaube, die Espressokannendichte im Saarland ist besonders hoch. Meistens orientierten sich die Kochüberlegungen an den…