Hello everyone, I hope you’ve been enjoying the ‘Merica themed posts so far this summer! Let’s kick off August with some happy news–the Silent Movie Day blogathon is coming back! Credit goes to Shawn of The Everyday Cinephile, who asked … Continue reading →

A classic string board appears in the introduction of Iron Nest: Heavy Turret Simulator (Nick Nieuwoudt & Dominik Latos, 2026). ▲ Iron Nest: Heavy Turret Simulator (Nick Nieuwoudt & Dominik Latos, 2026)

New generation films is a Malayalam film movement developed in the early 2010s, characterized by fresh and unusual themes and new narrative techniques. Films of the new wave differ from conventional themes of the past two decades and introduced several new trends and techniques to the Malayalam film industry. While the new generation formats and styles are deeply influenced by global trends, their thematics are firmly rooted in Malayalee life and mindscapes. — New generation (Malayalam film…

Billy Crudup has built a career on unexpected and unusual character roles, challenging the notion

Notable moments in BBC's bleak but effective doc on the latest allegations against the Oscar-winner.

Walter Matthau in Charley Varrick (1973) Vitals Walter Matthau as Charley Varrick, clever crop-dusting pilot and bank robber Albuquerque to Reno, Summer 1973 Film: Charley Varrick Release Date: October 19, 1973 Director: Don Siegel Costume Designer: Helen Colvig WARNING! Spoilers ahead! Background Although International Crop Duster’s Day is observed on May 27th, August 3rd was established as Airplane Crop Duster Day to commemorate U.S. Army pilot Lt. John A. Macready’s first-ever aerial…

Usually reserved for their Christmas slot, this summer, Sadler’s Wells eschews the classic musical for a touring revival of Matthew Bourne’s The Car Man based on the opera Carmen and the movie The Postman Always Rings Twice about lust, betrayal and the impossible American Dream. Famed for his cinematic vision that makes his work immersive […]

It’s no secret that the Hollywood Comet loves musicals. In 2010, I revealed I had seen 400 movie musicals over the course of eight years. Now that number is over 600. To celebrate and share this musical love, here is … Continue reading →

Six String Samurai (1998)

Norridge Mayhams and his Barbecue BoysVocal by Johnnie TunsillVocal blues with orchestra acc.Vocalion 034951937 Sloppy Drunk Woman Early Norridge Mayhams later better known as Norris Mayhams or Norris The Troubadour, rather well-documented by enthusiasts of song-poems and other eccentricities. Not much is known about the vocalist. Johnnie Tunsill (1904-1982) was a New-York entertainer during the thirties. She was a "colored" singer at the Harlem Opera House in 1931, a member of at least two…

A few days ago I finally caught up with THE PELICAN BRIEF (1993), starring Julia Roberts and Denzel Washington.I've always liked Roberts a great deal, and I enjoy Washington as well, but this film came out during a period in my life when I had young children and saw very few new-to-me films.Consequently there are still many films from that era which I'm only now seeing for the first time. Another example is THE PAPER (1994) which I saw earlier this year. The silver lining is it's fun to finally…

Quoted The Sadness of Yokozuna Hoshoryu and Onosato's Poor Performances and Defeats at the Nagoya Tournament (Sumostats) Excluding withdrawals, it was the first time in 35 years—since the July 1991 Nagoya Tournament with Asahifuji (8-7) and Hokutoumi (9-6)—that multiple Yokozuna failed to reach double-digit wins and finished with 9 wins or fewer I learned from a Sumo Stats post that the 2026 Nagoya Basho marked the first grand sumo tournament since the July 1991 Nagoya Basho that multiple…

Movie film is a challenging form of media to preserve and share digitally. This is might be somewhat surprising. Unlike the ephemeral tape media standards of the 90s (looking at you Video8 and DAT), film enjoyed a long run as the de-facto format for capturing motion pictures. Film projectors are pretty easy to come by. Yet, the process of digitizing film requires either recording a projected image (telecine) or digitally scanning each frame. Both approaches require specialized equipment to…

The first recording today starts with the end of Atomic Betty. Then it’s a repeat of Pokemon Battle Dimension – Losing Its Lustrous. Media Centre Description: Ash continues his quest to become the greatest Pokemon trainer ever. He travels through the Sinnoh region, where he is challenged in a number of thrilling battles. [S] Recorded from CITV on Saturday 24th April 2010 11:28 The recording ends with the start of Prove It! The next recording is Doctor Who – The Time of Angels. This has a great…

When Julius discovers his wife in the arms of another man, his neighbors tell him to go jump in the river. Instead, he hatches a madcap plan to win her back. Home Media Availability: Stream courtesy of Sprocket Vault Whistling Through the Graveyard I suppose I should open this by mentioning that The Merry Widower […]

Today’s frontier models can do some pretty incredible things with animation. My first real dose of it was the axial-flux motor. I prompted Fable’s Mythos to make a The Way Things Work version of Mercedes-Benz’s new large-scale-production motor. If you would rather skip straight to the machinery, the interactive Cinematic Canvas demos are here. You can play with the demonstration here, and the source is on GitHub. I also shared it on Hacker News. The Time Machine Later, with some subscription…

Asides from miscounting the days and nights of LA DOLCE VITA — and I WILL finish that up this week — I also omitted to mention Polidor, because I don’t know him. But this silent comic appears in the nightclub scene with Marcello’s dad, playing trumpet at a bunch of balloons. POLIDOR’S FIRST DUEL is […]

Time once again to check in on Big Finish’s First Doctor-themed output. The last time we took a look at this, we enjoyed a set of four Companion Chronicles split evenly between those featuring the original TARDIS crew of the Doctor, Susan, Ian, and Barbara, and those featuring Sara Kingdom, the latter using a rather unusual narrative conceit to extend her life after The Daleks’ Master Plan. This time around, we have a more varied slate – including a side journey into The Lost Stories. But…

Over the years I and others have experimented with "watch" posts, short notes that express having seen a movie or TV show, sometimes with a link, and brief review or other commentary, like earlier today:https://tantek.com/2026/214/t1/watched-spider-man-brand-new-dayI was inspired by @Gregorlove.com publishing watch posts, and a few others have also done so, documented on the IndieWeb wiki page for watch posts:https://indieweb.org/watchI like to use a leading emoji to indicate a watch post, and…

The new Spider-Man movie has been out for two days and it's already made more money than The Odyssey.

satt Wir haben einfach den letzten Curry gegessen. Ich bin sehr satt. Ich werde dieses Gericht eine Weile lang nicht kochen. StellensucheAm Dienstag hatte ich einen sehr produktiven Nachmittag. Ich habe mit meinen Freunden virtuell zusammengearbeitet. Infolgedessen habe ich meinen Lebenslauf aktualisiert und eine Liste von potenziellen Arbeitgebern erstellt. Ich habe mich auch auf ein paar Stellen beworben und bereits eine Absage erhalten. :[ Dienstagmorgen: Kaffee laufenDaniel und ich haben…

In the early 1990s, the Alpine Blossom and Gift Shoppe in North Bend, Washington was the place to find officially licensed and fan-made items from Twin Peaks. The Twin Peaks Visual Soundtrack, produced for the Japanese market in 1992, even included footage of this merchandise inside the shop. During my first visit to Snoqualmie Valley... The post Real Twin Peaks Fan-Made Buttons from Snoqualmie Valley, WA in the Early 1990s appeared first on TWIN PEAKS BLOG.

🎦 watched “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” in the Metreon Dolby Cinema this past Friday and really enjoyed it.Took a half day off to recover from a long week & last weekend, and decided to see the new Spider-Man movie. The theater was packed except for the front row. Lots of fans wearing Spider-Man gear.If you haven’t seen the previous Tom Holland Spider-Man movies, you could watch only those three then this film and still have a great time. No significant dependence on other MCU (Marvel Cinematic…

Chief of Station was a bit of a miss. It’s well-filmed, on-location in Budapest, and even has a bit part for a former Bond girl (Olga Kurylenko was Camilla Montes in Quantum of Solace). It opens with a nice scene of tradecraft, which makes up for a particularly uncomfortable torture scene later on (a la Syriana, but worse).However, I just don’t think Aaron Eckhart is that great of an actor, and a lot of the story depends on him (apparently, Alec Baldwin was originally cast in the role). Plus,…

Drag Race Down Under host Michelle Visage teased a guest judge. Australian legend Kylie Minogue?! LOL no. It was a twist much bigger than a guest judge, but also just dumb dumb dumb.

I thought this was poison ivy because I'm a west coast idiot at heart We moved to our New England place in the fall of '21 so it wasn't until the following spring that these vine plants with three leaves in the pattern I'd thought was a shoe-in for poison ivy danger (which I'd never seen before, coming from the west coast) started growing in the yard...but that's when I learned that despite having oil that will fuck me up, poison ivy will never have thorns. I idly wondered what this thing was,…

Back to the "de Sève in the afternoon, Hall in the evening" grind (for one of the more pleasant definitions of "grind")! We start off with composer Freya Berkhout, actress Jess McLeod, and writer/director/producer Alice Maio Mackey for Our Effed Up World (with host Justine Smith), which feels like an interesting turn for Mackey in that the trans and nonbinary characters are supporting roles

Image source: IMDB NOTE: There’s gonna be spoilers. Just watch Notorious if you haven’t already. Treat yourself! Few films appear as effortlessly taut and elegant as Notorious. Not a single image or line of dialogue are wasted. Every moment is packed with multiple layers of subtext. It might be the most crowd-pleasing example of why the Hitchcock style keeps movie lovers coming back for repeat viewings. No matter how many times I experience the suspense set-pieces and twisted love triangle of…

Welcome to day 9 of 13 on The Great Balkans Road Trip. This is a group tour with Just You. We started in Romania, have travelled through Bulgaria, North Macedonia and Kosovo. Today we’re completing Serbia, visiting Novi Sad, before heading back into Romania, to Timişoara. If you’ve missed the earlier episodes, you can find the full series below. This blog contains affiliate links to help support my writing. Travel Diaries On the Road to Novi Sad With nothing to report from breakfast (boiled…