I’m a passive fan of Green Lantern. I think his powers and the lore are cool but I haven’t watched any of the movies. This new DC series, Lanterns, focuses on Hal Jordan and John Stewart and from the trailer, it looks intriguing. The post A trailer for DC’s new series, Lanterns appeared first on Cultrface.
⭐⭐⭐⭐ 3.75/5 - Well-crafted genre bending debut with complex characters and philosophical themes. The post Isobar Precinct by Angelique Kasmara appeared first on The Wallflower Digest.
The Mandalorian and Grogu (2026) • View trailerFour stars (out of five); rated PG-13, for sci-fi action and violenceAvailable via: Movie theatersBy Derrick Bang • Published in The Davis Enterprise, 5.31.26 You simply cannot ask more of a Star Wars movie. The Mandalorian has been — by far — the most popular streaming series set in the Star Wars universe, and considerable credit goes to writer/director/producer Jon Favreau, who created the show and shepherded it to greatness. Having tracked the…
Rampage (2018)
Last night I went to a screening of the recent 4K remaster of Diva. It looked gorgeous. I hadn’t seen Diva for a few years, but was reminded that this may be one of my favorite films. Every scene is dripping with stylish neo-noir coolness. This movie is probably one of the reasons I started going to the opera. Beineix shoots Paris like Mann shoots Chicago and L.A.. Diva, of course, is also part of the unofficial Nagra Film Trilogy. If you like beautifully designed, portable, high-fidelity audio…
Things are starting to get back to normal here after our recent unexpected evacuation. It's hard to believe almost a week has past since that incident began.Our original plans to see THE MANDALORIAN AND GROGU (2026) over the holiday weekend had to be cancelled, but we were able to catch up with it today.I'm a fan of the MANDALORIAN TV series and reviewed the very first episode here back in 2019. In 2022 I also shared photos from our visit to Star Wars Celebration: The Mandalorian Experience.One…
THE BIG COMBO – Ignite Films Joseph H. Lewis was a prolific director of B movies and episodic television, but his latter-day claim to fame is a virtuosic film noir, Gun Crazy (1950). When I first saw that film it knocked me out and led me to seek out his second-best-known noir, The Big Combo (1955) which I’ve always thought of as The Big Disappointment. But the lavish treatment it has received in this new Blu-ray release has caused me to have second thoughts. There are no fewer than three audio…
“I dreamed last night I got on the boat to heaven.” So goes the encore to Encores! Songs from the Musicals, a lyric that proves entirely apt for the thrilling experience of the enraptured audience of this lavish concert. ***check back later for full production images*** Continuing their 70th anniversary celebrations, Opera Australia takes the chance to give an “encore” performance of hit songs from the parade of successful musicals they have staged over recent years. Director Mark Sutcliffe…
I’ve seen Tuner more than once and while it’s a thriller with its fair share of surprises, it holds up awfully well. I would urge you to go out and see it at your first opportunity. If grownups don’t support an entertaining mainstream movie like this while it’s playing in theaters what hope is there for other budding filmmakers to get their stories told? The premise of the picture came about when Daniel Roher, who won an Academy Award for his outstanding documentary Navalny, found himself…
THE FOLLOWING WAS WRITTEN BY MY FRIEND AND COLLEAGUE ALONSO DURALDE. YOU CAN LEARN MORE ABOUT HIM HERE. WHAT’S NEW ON 4K/BLU/DVD IN MAY: WUTHERING HEIGHTS, HEARTS OF DARKNESS, COME BACK TO THE FIVE AND DIME, JIMMY DEAN, JIMMY DEAN, AND MORE! NEW RELEASE WALL The Bride! / “Wuthering Heights” (both WBD): Spring of 2025, Warner Bros. was all about leading men in multiple roles, with Mickey 17, The Alto Knights, and Sinners being released in succession. For 2026, the theme was apparently unleashing…
The first recording today is a repeat of Ed and Oucho’s Excellent Inventions – Rainbow a Go Go. Media Centre Description: Children’s science series in which Ed and his cactus companion Oucho travel all over the country making inventions from bits of old rubbish that they find in the back of their van. Ed and Oucho are in trouble when their trusted van breaks down. They decide to build Mollie’s ‘Rainbow a Go Go’, a rainbow-making disco machine, so they can find a pot of gold at the end of the…
Disclaimer Previously… The Storyteller Conclusions The Bad The Weird Stay Tuned… Disclaimer In these posts, we discuss a non-“Free as in Freedom” popular culture franchise property, including occasional references to part of that franchise behind a paywall. My discussion and conclusions carry a Free Culture license, but nothing about the discussion or conclusions should imply any attack on the ownership of the properties. All the big names serve as trademarks of the owners, and so forth, and…
David Manners had perhaps a rather narrow range as actor but he lands differently depending on the role. In THE DEATH KISS (1932) he’s smug. The film is notable for reteaming Manners with Bela Lugosi and Edward Van Sloan, his co-stars from the previous year’s DRACULA. (Exciting that Sloan’s curtain speech from DRACULA is rediscovered […]
People have had a huge bug up their collective ass about The Mandalorian and Grogu ever since it was first announced. It was being put forward as the culmination and perfect representation of everything wrong with Star Wars since the Disney acquisition. There were comments declaring it a failure, and speculating on how to save the entire franchise, before it’d even reached the Friday of its opening weekend. Several reviews talked about it as if it were a slap in the face to the very concept of…
I've got no problem with bad movies. I love a bad movie. Some of my favourite films are bad movies. I love a big dumb monster movie and recently I've been watching some bad shark movies. I make a highly personal distinction between films and movies. Sharknado might be objectively the worst film I've ever watched but damn if I wasn't absolutely enthralled all the way through. I was vibrating with delight. Hooting. Any amount of implausibility, any terrible acting, bad scripts, janky cgi, I can…
In Tuner, Leo Woodall plays Niki, a piano tuner who suffers from hyperacusis, a disorder that can turn everyday noises into deafening roars. Woodall's character works with Harry Horowitz (Dustin Hoffman), the owner of a tuning business who reminisces about the jazz greats that inspired his love of music. Director Daniel Roher (Navalny and The AI Doc) captures the ease with which Woodall and Hoffman relate -- Hoffman not shying away from Harry's encroaching dementia, and Woodall displaying…
Scott Werner: The Wizard With the Very Defensible Pond There was once a wizard who lived beside a pond. It was a small pond. The sort of pond that probably gets called a “water feature” on a Zillow listing by a real estate agent who really knows their euphemisms…
Today I partially joked in a chat I think at this time of my life, I would like to have a nemesis. Everyone has people they don't like and find annoying, I do too. But a nemesis? There's something you can't stand about them, but you recognize they are really good at something, and can admire some things about them too. You might piss each other off, but there is a good kind of competition between you. It has to be mutual, though. One-sided nemesis stuff is just weird. On a more serious note, I…
Have rewatched this after a looong while. And the first time not dubbed. Still so so good and so funny. Every scene is perfect. The cast and their performances, the dialogue… One of my favourite movies of all time.👍 Recommended!Next event: Deine Freunde on June 6, 2026, 17:00 at Amphitheater Gelsenkirchen, Gelsenkirchen.
A classic string board appears in King of Killers (dir. Kevin Grevioux, 2023). ▲ King of Killers (dir. Kevin Grevioux, 2023) ▲ King of Killers (dir. Kevin Grevioux, 2023)
In 2011, I announced I was trying to see every film released in 1939. This new series chronicles films released in 1939 as I watch them. As we start out this blog feature, this section may become more concrete as … Continue reading →
The title vampire of The Vampire’s Ghost is not your expected sanguinic movie predator. No tux, no tails, no slicked-down hair or Mittel-European drawl. Instead, as played by John Abbott, he’s restrained, well-mannered, very proper British; and, despite managing a grubby gin-and-gambling joint in a small African village, whose habitués haven’t come to terms with soap and water, he’s always impeccably dressed in a perfectly white suit and a perfectly knotted tie. In looks and screen presence,…
The Frock Flicks team is taking time off as summer starts, so we’re repeating some
Matthew McConaughey in Dazed and Confused (1993) Vitals Matthew McConaughey as David “Woods” Wooderson, Texas stoner Central Texas, Spring 1976 Film: Dazed and Confused Release Date: September 24, 1993 Director: Richard Linklater Costume Designer: Katherine Dover WARNING! Spoilers ahead! Background Alright, alright, alright… Richard Linklater’s nostalgic coming-of-age comedy Dazed and Confused ws set fifty years ago today on May 28, 1976, during the last day of school for Lee High School,…
Steve McQueen wasn't supposed to be in it. Faye Dunaway was the second choice. And the most famous scene had no script. The full story of how The Thomas Crown Affair (1968) got made.
A dysfunctional married couple retreats to a secluded cabin to repair their relationship, but each secretly plots to murder the other. The more time passes, the more absurd and funny it gets. A bit slow at the start, but it gradually picks up and manages to be entertaining. Four popcorns. To see all 30 photos, visit the article page. This article was originally published at: https://andrei.xyz/movies/over-your-dead-body/
Caroline Rippin and Agnes Lillis in Albatross, Omnibus Theatre. Photo: Ashley Day Albatross at the Omnibus Theatre is a play about the fractious relationship between a mother and daughter, the sacrifices they make and climate change. Eve (Agnes Lillis) has been caring for her young granddaughter, Alba, while her daughter, Alice (Caroline Rippin), is working on a climate research project in Antarctica. With Alice’s imminent return, she is looking forward to getting her life back and going on a…
12 Monkeys (1995)
Today, to commence my monthly blog housekeeping for May I am posting about the themes #MurderEveryMonday participants were challenged to find covers for over the past four weeks.
Very exciting news for fans of last year's Monogram Matinee Volume 1 collection from the Warner Archive: Two more volumes have been released this spring, in less than a month's time!The Monogram Matinee Volume 2 collection, featuring SONG OF THE RANGE (1944) and LOUISIANA (1947), came out at the very end of April, and Volume 3 was released just yesterday, on May 26th.SONG OF THE RANGE is a quick little 55-minute film starring Jimmy Wakely and Dennis Moore.The late Western historian Les Adams…
