I recently discovered a YouTube video about a children’s TV show from my childhood. The content was nostalgic and the tone of the commentary was dry and snarky, which was an entertaining combination. One particular video I watched from the same channel was The Big Breakfast II: A Tale of Two Eras, and the ending really caught my attention: Bogged down in the worries of the modern world we may yearn for the simpler times. Yet even if we could somehow find ourselves back there, it’s clear from…

I had the opportunity to watch Colours of Time (2025), the French film about a

Jamie Foxx in Miami Vice (2006) Vitals Jamie Foxx as Ricardo “Rico” Tubbs, Miami-Dade PD detective Miami, Summer 2005 Film: Miami Vice Release Date: July 28, 2006 Director: Michael Mann Costume Design: Michael Kaplan & Janty Yates Jamie Foxx’s Costumer: Yaa Boaa Aning WARNING! Spoilers ahead! Background Michael Mann’s frequently memed update of Miami Vice was widely released 20 years ago today on July 28, 2006, reintroducing cooler-than-ice detectives Sonny Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs as Colin…

First performed at Vienna’s Burgtheater in 1790, Barefoot Opera’s production of Mozart & Da Ponte’s Così fan tutte?! at the Arcola Theatre (running as part of the 2026 Grimeborn Festival) is an altogether more stripped back version than 18th century opera-goers would have been greeted with. Gone is the woodwind, brass, percussion and most of the string section – instead the only instruments required are a double bass and keyboard. The production is directed by Jenny Miller. “Così fan tutte”…

John Wyver writes: In the global scheme of things, the concern I want to highlight this morning is little more than a mote. But apart from the irritation it has provoked, it is a small but potentially significant sign of a shift in the relationship between the BBC’s television channels and BBCiPlayer. It also has implications for the discovery of arthouse films on the corporation’s streaming service. Until recently, on the Films page for iPlayer there was a ‘Sort by’ dropdown menu with the…

Tremendous fun! A big hollywood blockbuster adaptation of homer’s epic, where we follow Sad Damon around the aegean from woe to woe. Probably not for the purist but I found it absolute eye-glue. Amazing scenery, actors, costumes, and the monsters were fantastic. The way Polyphemus the cyclops was designed was brilliant, as was the terrifying Scylla. The animatronics with Circe and the pigs was a truly genius bit of film-making. In preparation for this film I Read the odyssey Listened to a dozen…

Another Mysterium has arrived and then faded silently away. Or, I suppose, faded away with its characteristic reverb-y "vrrrwww-WONK-wonk-wonk" noise. This year's event was in Portland, Oregon. I did not attend in person; cross-country travel feels like too much of a stretch right now. (And I visited Portland just a couple of years ago for XOXO.) But of course I watched all the streamed talks and presentations. Now I bring you the annual report -- in two parts. Part 1 is the stuff about Cyan…

And that's a wrap on the most unexpected reality TV storyline of the year: semen-stained sheets on Below Deck Mediterranean. Here's what went down on the cleverly titled episode 8, "He Came, They Saw, It’s Bonkers."

Kara Zor-El, aka Supergirl, joins forces with an unlikely companion on an interstellar journey of vengeance and justice when an unexpected adversary strikes too close to home. This feels less than a superhero movie and more like a mashup of Star Wars and Guardians of the Galaxy, and I’m okay with that. It’s a simple sci-fi flick, looks good, and that’s about it. The cgi is nice, Jason Momoa is doing great playing himself, and it’s also a good coming-of-age story in a setup you don’t usually…

Movies Attack Force Z (1982) D: Tim Burstall. S: Mel Gibson, John Phillip Law, Sam Neill, Ko Chun-Hsiung, Sylvia Chang. Bewildering and boring WWII picture about elite Aussie ATTACK FORCE Z who are sent in to a Chinese island, occupied by the Japanese, to rescue mysterious plane crash survivors. Everything goes wrong because the Z team isn’t very elite when not shooting people in the back. Way too much involves psychopath Law (who’s comically bad) romancing seeming teenager Chang. Enigma (1982)…

Prince Adam discovers that the strange memories shaping his life are real when the lost Sword of Power resurfaces, forcing him to return to Eternia and challenge the tyrant who shattered his family and kingdom. Funny, quirky, colourful, with good special effects. Don’t look for deep meanings in the story, after all it’s a movie based on a kids’ cartoon, based on a kids’ toy. Not a masterpiece, but definitely worth seeing. Four popcorns. To see all 12 photos, visit the article page. This article…

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Do we NEED another take on A Christmas Carol? Probably not. But we got one coming

Tere's not much to report today; I mentioned the addition of the Milwaukee listing for WTMJ on Saturday, and appropriately enough I've listed it after all the Chicago stations, just as it was in the issue. Besides, when you have the following, you don't need anything more. It's the description for Double Crossed Fool, the movie at 3:00 p.m. on WBKB: "Hitler, Mussolini, and Hirohito run into American sailors when they go to an island to make a treaty with the native chief."* According to the…

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 →

How do you stage a possibly unstageable play? For her last show at the Almeida Theatre before moving to the Old Vic with Rupert Goold, Rebecca Frecknall, famed for her illuminations of mid-century playwrights, takes on a far more complex and certainly challenging work – Sarah Kane’s Cleansed which the writer herself described as being […]

Dying Room Only is a 1973 TV movie written by Richard Matheson. As big fans of Duel, also penned by Matheson, we were keen to check this out. Both shows are very well-written but Duel has the edge, due to a young director burning to show what he can do, and a story that has […]

Zwölf Kilometer Marlinger Waalweg und nur noch etwa eine Stunde Zeit: Das passte natürlich nicht wirklich zusammen. Trotzdem wollte ich Südtirol nicht verlassen, ohne wenigstens einen Teil des Marlinger Waalwegs gelaufen zu sein. Schließlich handelt es sich bei ihm um den längsten Waalweg Südtirols. Gemeinsam mit Sepp Wolf, der mir viel über Marling und den Waalweg erzählte sowie in 7. Generation am Waalweg einen Hof bewirtschaftet, startete ich in der Nähe des Hotel Restaurants Waldea – auch…

...in 70mm IMAX! I kind of regret it. I saw it at the Chinese Theater in Hollywood - like, real downtown Hollywood, the part of Hollywood with the stars on the sidewalk and the smelly guys in Spiderman outfits. The picture in the theater was massive but the audio in that theater is pretty crazy, and the movie is full of deep, rumbly sounds which swallowed the entire mix and made it impossible to hear what anyone was saying clearly. That rumbling is sometimes supposed to be thunder, and it's…

Two feuding siblings carrying on a heroic family tradition as Chicago firefighters. But when a puzzling series of arson attacks is reported, they are forced to set aside their differences to solve the mystery surrounding these crimes. Great cast all aound, Kurt Russell, William Baldwin, Robert De Niro, Donald Sutherland, Scott Glenn, Jennifer Jason Leigh in a movie directed by Ron Howard (Apollo 13, A Beautiful Mind) whichh does a great job at portraying firefighters as heroes. Five popcorns.…

One of my kids is excited for the release of Dune: Part Three. We were talking about Dune, how the movies broke up the enormous book, and got on the topic of “sandtrout”.

StarringReeve Carney, Eva Noblezada, André De Shields, Patrick Page, and Amber GrayDirectorBrett SullivanOverviewThe Myth. The Musical.The tragic love of Orpheus and Eurydice is intertwined with the complex relationship of Hades and Persephone. Eurydice, struggling with poverty, is lured to the industrial underworld of Hadestown by Hades, while Orpheus, a struggling musician, ventures down below to bring her back.Review Hadestown: The Musical The theater can change the world, but access is so…

I would have loved to be in North Bend, Washington on February 21, 1989. This was the first day of filming for what became Mark Frost and David Lynch’s pilot to Twin Peaks. Scenes that day were captured at the Mar-T Cafe which was the Double R Diner in the show. Today, it’s known as Twede’s... The post Twin Peaks Publicity – Bobby Briggs at the Double R Diner appeared first on TWIN PEAKS BLOG.

The Warner Bros. musical NIGHT AND DAY (1946), a biography of composer Cole Porter, has recently been released on Blu-ray by the Warner Archive Collection.NIGHT AND DAY, like most '40s musical biopics -- including the previous year's Warner Bros. film RHAPSODY IN BLUE (1945) -- is a fictionalized telling of a composer's life.In the case of this biography of Cole Porter, NIGHT AND DAY is even more fictionalized than most such films, spinning a story which has only tangential connections to…

Watched: Spider-Man: No Way Home 🍿 Finished this trilogy with the kiddo. Of course he doesn’t know any of the throwback actors since we didn’t watch those. Fan service of the highest order

The boosters (Zola, Nasha, Emerald) are ripping off clothes from Demi Moore’s fashion empire, belatedly joined by a Chinese garment worker with a stolen teleporter and a vendetta. Don Cheadle runs a pyramid scheme called Friends Being Friendly “Our lunch is 30 seconds” LaKeith Stanfield (not pictured) plays a guy so cool the camera can’t look at him without blurring and shaking.

The first recording today is a repeat of Pokemon Battle Dimension – Doc Brock. 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 17th April 2010 11:28 After this the recording ends with the start of Prove It! The next recording starts with a trail for the London Marathon. There’s a trail for Can You Train Your Brain? Then…

Finally saw The Odyssey in theaters! Way more jump-scares than I was expecting, but, wow! What a film! Has me thinking a lot about xenia/hospitality, “Zeus’s law,” and how far short we fall of even that standard, when it comes to immigrants and the poor.

If you found out we weren’t alone, if someone showed you, proved it to you, would that frighten you? Very slowly unfolding, containing a lot of fluff and b-side plots and characters, the movie actually starts 15 minutes before the end. The setup is long and the payout is not really worth it. Good idea, good acting, good effects, but the writing is so bad.Shame cause Emily Blunt does a good job, but that’s not enough to pull the weight of the movie. Also the dude that plays Jackson is annoying…

"I can't promise you guys anything but at least this way you actually get to go home." There’s a new Spider-Man coming out, and I realised I hadn’t actually watched this one. Everyone knows who Spider-Man (Tom Holland) is now, and it ruins his life and stops his mates getting into MIT (er, that and maybe they just didn’t get in??). So he gets Doctor Strange to make a spell to make everyone forget they know Peter Parker, but it opens a rift between multiverses and all the villains from the old…