Look who just popped up at AMARC at Davis–Monthan in Tucson: “Nutz”, an aggressor-livery F-18E series aircraft, late of the “Fighting Omars” of VFC-12 out of NAS Oceania. Yup, the series is getting that old. Boeing F/A-18E-54-MC Lot 23 Super Hornet (MSN 1530/E026) BuNo 165783 was part of the Low-Rate Initial Production 3 (LRIP 3) Rhinos, funded under the U.S. Navy’s fiscal year 1998 defense budget, and produced circa 2000-01. So she is 25-26 years young and is probably high hours, being…
In Withnail and I, one of the most quoted scenes in British cinema has Withnail drink lighter fluid, straight from the can, out of sheer desperation for a drink. It plays as pitch-black comedy. It also really happened. The man who actually drank the lighter fluid was Vivian MacKerrell, a jobbing actor who shared a squalid flat in Camden with the young Bruce Robinson in the late 1960s, and who inadvertently became the basis for one of the most beloved characters in British film history without...
Pardon if today seems a little more scattered than usual; I left the apartment without my little five-inch square notebook and so wasn't making notes through most of the day, and that's not great when the first couple films of the day are Japanese shorts and new releases; Japanese studios just do not update English-friendly movie databases and there's a lag on the crowd-sourcing as well. I
I love that this is a new premise and that is not horror based on, or remade from an older movie. I think the director had the chance to be very creative, and really took that by the way the camera sequences occur throughout the movie. I feel like the movie’s pacing was a bit slow at times, but that is just a personal opinion. I would watch it again, but maybe in a few months.
This is short but very sweet. A young mouse, out on an expedition, falls down a well. Now, that might not end well (ah!), but at the bottom, in despair, he meets a new friend who might be the key to his survival. Yet, this involves sacrifice. I won’t tell you anymore because spoilers, but give it a watch, particularly if you are feeling a little down in the dumps today. The screenshot above might give you a small clue, but I have no doubt that Bottom of the Well will cheer you up! This animated…
Casimir Werk, grandson of the millionaire soap maker and vintner for whom Werk Road is named, saw a UFO one balmy Sunday evening in 1905. The unidentified flying object was soon revealed as an identified flying object but yielded an even bigger mystery.According to the Cincinnati Enquirer [28 August 1905] Werk watched an unidentified object he believed might be an airship explode while it flew westward on the previous evening:“Mr. Werk was standing in front of his parents’ home on La Feuille…
Arabesque (1966)
Saw a clip on Facebook (yet again) from a new film called "Wonderful Nightmare," specifically the Filipino adaptation of the original South Korean one. Love the recontextualization!!
Last night I was very stoked to have attended Young the Giant live at the Greek Theatre at UC Berkeley. I want to thank public transit and especially BART for getting me there yesterday! The concert was such a blast! I've always wanted to see Young the Giant. I remember listening to them back in the early 2010's at my parent's house after learning about them on a blog. Blogs are cool and so is their music. I really enjoyed the energy all around me. People were dancing, holding hands, hugging…
The historic North Bend Theatre in North Bend, Washington is hosting “We Live Inside a Dream” from August 13-16, 2026, celebrating the 34th Anniversary of the North American premiere of David Lynch’s Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me. This prequel to the groundbreaking television series was first shown in the small town movie theatre on August... The post ‘We Live Inside A Dream” at the North Bend Theatre, August 13-16, 2026 appeared first on TWIN PEAKS BLOG.
All aboard for my Below Deck Med season 11 episode 7 recap! It gave us an allergic reaction, an unhinged preference sheet (which I transcribed!), and a suitor trying to charm the bachelorette with his nonsense AI pitch and rant about traditional women.
Possibly the first Mystery Science Theater 3000 movie I’ve ever watched on its own – though I followed up by immediately rewatching the episode. Somewhere along the way I heard that the movie is actually excellent, and that’s not true; it’s Italian Batman Mabuse 007, but the color really pops on the new blu-ray and I got to listen to Ennio’s “Deep Down” for four hours. Eva: Eva (artist’s rendition): Diabolik was in Barbarella the same year, and those would make a great double-feature: jokey…
Last time we checked in on the Doctor Who Magazine comics continuity, we took in the first half or so of the Eighth Doctor’s tenure in the comics. This was an era of long, ambitious story arcs which saw the comics giving the concurrently-running BBC Books novel line a run for its money; we left off with The Autonomy Bug, a three-parter whose last episode ran in issue 299 of the magazine. As I mentioned last time, that marked the end of an era in its own right for two reasons. Firstly, issue 300…
The first recording today is a repeat of Pokemon Battle Dimension – Playing the Levelling Field. 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 Sunday 11th April 2010 11:28 The recording ends with the start of Prove It! The next recording is a repeat of The Simpsons – Bart Gets an F. Media Centre Description: A psychologist…
(2026/07/20 20:15) If commercial success mattered, one would think Fast & Furious 10 is better than the whole filmography of Kubrick, Bergman, Kurosawa, Fellini, and Tarkovsky combined, so fuck Stan Lee, the British Invasion was the best thing to happen to superhero comics.
The story so far: after Doctor Who‘s 2005 return was a storming success, BBC Radio 7 (and its successor station BBC 4 Extra) decided they want to get in on that sweet TARDIS action, and struck a deal with Big Finish to produce a season of stories featuring Paul McGann’s Eighth Doctor, as honed during the Wilderness Years audio, paired with a brand new companion in the form of Sheridan Smith’s Lucie Miller. The first season of these was also a success, leading to Big Finish pivoting the Eighth…
There's not much to add here that I didn't discuss on Saturday. You see above the notice about the Watergate hearings; there were none scheduled for this Friday, and none were held, leaving the night open for the College All-Star Game at 8:30 p.m. What interests me is this movie at midnight on KMSP: War Hunt. "In Korea, Pvt. Raymond Endore wins the high regard of his captain for his one-man night patrols—killing silently with a stiletto—but the new man in the squad thinks Endore's killer…
An installment of “Menopause Cop” features a “wish I could murder board” versus a paltry “murder board from the case” in Urzila s01e03 (ABC iView, 2026). ▲ Urzila s01e03 (ABC iView, 2026) ▲ Urzila s01e03 (ABC iView, 2026) ▲ Urzila s01e03 (ABC iView, 2026) ▲ Urzila s01e03 (ABC iView, 2026) ▲ Urzila s01e03 (ABC iView, 2026)
Here’s me hoping for the first good Marvel movie in years, because this trailer got me excited! Now let’s just hope Gambit will leave that ridiculous accent in the Bayou.
Marvel Entertainment / YouTube: Doomsday arrives December 18th. Released today to coincide with the availability of tickets in “Infinity Vision”1, we have ourselves our first, official proper trailer for Avengers: Doomsday. That sure is RDJ putting on his best vaguely European accent as Doom, who does indeed look great on camera, but there’s something really missing here. We’re checking off the B-Team box, and unlike in the original Avengers or Infinity War or Endgame, there’s a decided lack of…
I’ll say it right up front: I’ve written my share of pieces on this topic, which doesn’t invalidate the observation Nicholas Carr made in his newsletter: I hate to be a cynic, but I’m guessing the main reason for the proliferation of these sorts of articles [about using your phone less] is that they’re algorithmic catnip. They’re symptoms of the illness they seek to cure. We’re addicted to reading about our addiction to phones. If the pieces have a therapeutic value, it probably lies less in…
★★☆☆: As an unapologetic lover of the Pirates movies, this one is always a bit of a letdown. It's got its moments and a top tier cast (as usual) but it's a little too cheeky. It treads on winks to the series rather than serious character work. It does some passable work expanding the world of the Golden Age of Piracy, but it's mostly limited to a couple of lines. It's also pretty crowded - a LOT of factions show up to the climax. There are good bones in there and it's not a total loss, but…
Review of Madhava Prasad’s 2014 book seems now more than ever… “Cine-Politics asserts that after a distinct period in which writers were dominant in the movies, the celebrity star system took hold, and this star persona system now acts like a contagion. In the past, and consistent with melodrama, the fragmentary and episodic form of stories and plots existed within an abstract whole. Subsequently, the movement from writers to star system evident in Tamil films and in the discussion Prasad…
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 →
His first non-Shakespeare play for more than a decade, Kenneth Branagh’s second consecutive production at the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-Upon-Avon is a reworking of Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard, adapted by playwright Laura Wade, assembling an impressive cast including Hollywood actors Helen Hunt and Bill Pullman. With a weight of expectation from a sold out […]
A year ago I spoke at the Creators Conference of the German Producers Alliance in Munich, detailing the interesting bifurcation in German cinema. (You can read my article write-up here Why German films look so different at home and abroad). Last month I was asked to return, this time to look into the future and consider what the German cinema industry might want to do.(I am aware that an Englishman going over to Germany and saying “This is what you must do” is a tough gig! But the organisers…
I didn't want to read this book, and had resisted doing so for a long, long time. My wife read it many years ago, and loved it, and kept telling me that I should read it. But I had seen the 1993 movie so many times that I felt the book wouldn't be able to keep my interest - since I knew the main plot and characters and all. I have been a fan of Michael Crichton's novels for over 30 years - ever since I read Sphere way back in 1993. I loved that book! I also really liked Congo too. Even though I…
The Condemned (2007)
My recent viewing of French film noir led me to try a new release from Kino Lorber, VERTIGO FOR A KILLER (1970).Known as VERTIGE POUR UN TUEUR in its native France, the film interested me as it stars Marcel Bozzuffi, who appeared in SPEAKING OF MURDER (1957) and MAIGRET SEES RED (1963). One of Bozzuffi's best-known films is THE FRENCH CONNECTION (1971), in which he was prominent in the supporting cast.The movie costars Michel Constantin, who was also in MAIGRET SEES RED.VERTIGO FOR A KILLER…
StarringSterling K. Brown, Julianne Nicholson, Sarah Shahi, Nicole Brydon Bloom, and Krys MarshallOverviewThe truth lies outside.The tranquility in a serene, wealthy community inhabited by some of the world's most prominent individuals explodes when a shocking murder occurs and a high stakes investigation unfolds.Review Paradise What if Star’s Hollow backlot, but underground and with LOST-level character driven flashbacks? Honestly, this show is amazing. The characters are incredible and deep…
