I've been gradually working my way through unseen John Wayne films, with the latest being REUNION IN FRANCE (1942). It's an interesting and somewhat unusual film from Wayne's early '40s career years.He had broken through to stardom with STAGECOACH (1939) but was still working his way up the career ladder in the early '40s. REUNION IN FRANCE, produced by Joseph L. Mankiewicz at MGM, was one of seven films Wayne starred in released in 1942.I use the word "starred" advisedly, as while Wayne plays…

AuthorMatt DinnimanOverviewIt’s off to the races in the explosive eighth book in the Dungeon Crawler Carl series.As chaos and mass panic spread outside the dungeon in the wake of Faction Wars, Carl and Donut find themselves on the tenth floor, where they’re forced to compete in a surprisingly normal set of tasks. Well, normal for the dungeon.Races. Get from point A to point B, and don’t come in last. After each race, they pick an upgrade for their vehicle and the track gets more challenging. It…

CBS and NBC tried their best with new and returning offerings, but neither had a chance against the juggernaut that was ABC’s Tuesday night hit factory. Four of the season’s top ten shows aired back-to-back this evening, and while one must applaud the network for tapping into what America liked to watch, it’s also unfortunate that their dominance claimed one series on a rival network that deserved a better fate. CBSThe Paper ChaseCBS Tuesday Night Movie“You teach yourselves the law, but I train…

Motivations are suspect and expectations are turned to chaos as a con artist takes on Manhattan billionaires. Although I swore I’m not gonna look at A24 shit, I gave this movie a chance, because of its great cast, including Sebastian Stan, Julianne Moore, John Litgow, Justice Smith and Briana Middleton. While it’s not slowly burning, it sure takes its time to develop its stories. The cinematography is nice, the story is interesting, but pretty predictable. Still an interesting watch, although…

No matter what, you're going to have a great time watching this movie. It is funny and audacious and handcrafted, which is a quality that feels increasingly absent from the modern cinematic landscape. It is hard to get an honest-to-God comedy released these days. It is even harder to get one of this kind that is as bizarre and metatextual and devoid of any real box office draw, except its own aggregate goodwill and perhaps the increasing cachet of Matt Johnson. I really enjoyed watching this…

tag(s): #random-thoughts #yell-at-cloud #español Soy de esos puristas que siempre quiere ver las cosas exclusivamente en idioma original y con subtítulos. Porque la voz original es parte de lo que pone el actor en el personaje, y blah blah blah. Ayer llegué a la casa de mis viejos y estaban mirando con Juan la serie de Chernobyl de HBO. Con doblaje en español. Obviamente mi primera reacción fue de HORROR!!! "Mis viejos solían ver películas subtituladas, qué paso aquí?" me pregunté. Y les…

Sony Pictures Entertainment / YouTube: From the mind of visionary filmmaker Zach Cregger (Weapons, Barbarian) comes a thrilling — and terrifying — reinvention of the Resident Evil franchise. In an all-new story, Resident Evil follows Bryan (Austin Abrams), a medical courier who unwittingly finds himself in an action-packed, non-stop race for survival as one fateful, horrifying night collapses around him in chaos. I really love how this is designed to live alongside the Resident Evil games,…

Coyote vs. Acme / YouTube: Not all underdogs are dogs. Coyote vs. ACME only in theaters August 28. With every new piece of footage, I remain baffled that this movie was supposed to be tossed away and lost for the purposes of a tax rebate. David Zaslav is a moron. I will be there, day one, when… Coyote vs. ACME hits theaters on August 28, 2026.

Strategic red string appears on a war map in Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang (dir. Susanna White, 2010). ▲ Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang (dir. Susanna White, 2010) ▲ Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang (dir. Susanna White, 2010)

And what a handsome statuette it is, too. For those needing a refresher, the Astra is an award given out by the Hollywood Creative Alliance, which mostly has given out award related to film and television, but this last year decided to branch out into books as well, a decision which I applaud as books are indeed an important creative endeavor as well. When the Moon Hits Your Eye was fortunate enough to win the inaugural award for the Science Fiction Book category when the awards were given out…

Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln (2012) is essentially a two-and-a-half-hour parliamentary procedure drama about the passing of

I saw the new Clayface movie trailer this morning and it looks interesting. Sadly, I don’t think I’ll be able to watch it as body horror really messes with me and it looks like they’re going all in judging by the trailer. That’s a me thing and I think it’s an obvious direction to go in given the material. I’m sure people are going to draw parallels with The Substance and make it a gender thing but I think that would do both films a disservice. For those who don’t know Clayface’s story, Matt…

Sam Elliott in Lifeguard (1976) Vitals Sam Elliott as Rick Carlson, charismatic 32-year-old beach lifeguard Southern California, Summer 1975 Film: Lifeguard Release Date: July 23, 1976 Director: Daniel Petrie Wardrobe Credit: Margo Baxley WARNING! Spoilers ahead! Background Before his magnificent mustache and gravely voice made him a mainstay of Westerns, Sam Elliott’s breakthrough performance was in the romantic drama Lifeguard, released fifty years ago today on July 23, 1976. In the…

Arthur's written a play. And it's being performed. And it's quite short. You should come!

Constantine (2005)

“Sure, there were a couple of non-summertime things that slipped in, but looking back, I can honestly say we had the time of our lives.” –Kyon on Endless Eight The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya‘s first season was released to widespread acclaim, universally praised for superior artwork and animation, top-tier voice acting and an intriguing story […]

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.