Today’s recording is The Sarah Jane Adventures – Death of the Doctor, Part 2. The Doctor and Clyde keep swapping places, and they run from the Shansheeth. They find a room to hide in, lock the door without letting Colonel Karim in, and the Doctor takes Sarah Jane and Jo back to the planet, with Clyde returning. The planet is the Wasteland of the Crimson Heart. Colonel Karim is working with the evil Shansheeth. The kids are rescued by the Groske. The Shansheeth have the phone box! The Doctor and…

It drips with sex and camp and the fast jokes fall like rain. The framing and camera movement make you feel dizzy and high with the characters and the classic storyline still hits. I would have loved to be in the crowd for that Beef concert! Chop off MY arm!

Elke Sommer, who appeared in such movies as A Shot in the Dark (1964) and The Wrecking Crw (1969), died on October 28, 2026, at the age of 85. Elke Sommer was born Elke Schletz in Berlin on November 5, 1940. Her father, a Lutheran minister, died when she was 14. When she was 17 she worked for a year as an au pair in London. It was while she was vacationing in Viareggo, Italy with her mother that she was declared the winner of a beauty contest while sitting in a cafe. Her picture appeared in the…

Godzilla Minus Zero is a big deal. Big deal, as in available in IMAX, stocked with large-scale devastation, and offering a much-anticipated continuation of what began three years ago in the widely praised Godzilla Minus One, an Oscar winner for its visual effects. Directed by Takashi Yamazaki, who brought One to the screen, the movie continues its bravura display of visual effects and returns important characters for a sequel that begins in 1949, two years after the first installment concluded.…

This was another film I knew all about but hadn’t seen. But we’ll get to that. “Regan” (Linda Blair) is the twelve-year-old daughter of film actress “Chris MacNeil” (Ellen Burstyn), temporarily living in Washington D.C. while Chris is filming a movie. Chris has a couple of hired assistants to help keep an eye on Regan and their rented house, but Regan is still kind of left to her own devices, and her boredom spurs her to play with an abandoned Ouija board she’s found in the attic, where she…

So, I was initially excited about my acquisition of Doon the Watter, “A British Transport Film Classic,” a cheap second-hand DVD featuring three shorts, one of which, THE LAND OF ROBERT BURNS (1956), seemed to involve ace editor Stewart McAllister, Humphrey Jennings’ key collaborator and indeed his credited co-director on the masterpiece LISTEN TO BRITAIN. […]

Virgil Widrich is an Austrian film-maker with a very inventive approach to the materials of cinema. There’s some crossover in the two films here with animation, although I don’t think Widrich would consider himself an animator as such. The technique is one of many he draws upon. Copy Shop (2001) is a simple scenario in which a man who works at an establishment named “Copy Shop” ends up populating his world with copies of himself as a result of some magical action (or malfunction) of his…

There is an undeniable coziness to Twin Peaks that contrasts with its dark subject matter to create a tone that is wholly unique. Part of this coziness is established by the show’s believable clutter, and the set decorations at the Hurley residence are a prime example. Nadine Hurley loves her knickknacks, and one item from... The post Twin Peaks Set Decoration – UCTCI Pigtail Figure at The Hurley House appeared first on TWIN PEAKS BLOG.

by Amber Dubin For October's installment of Night Gallery Season 2, Rod Serling once again fails to disappoint in the quality of the storytelling. All the episodes have at least one really thoughtful and well-crafted story and nearly all of them are drawing from short stories written by well-established titans of science fiction. The comical … Continue reading [November 4, 1971] Night Gallery: Fears of Spiders, Academies, and Phantom Farmhouses → The post [November 4, 1971] <em>Night…

I’m not sure if it’s possible for English actress Frances Barber to NOT appear glamorous

Digger seems destined to be remembered as a box office flop that divided critics, and because of that divided reception I hadn’t planned to see it in the cinema; but when my 15-year-old said it was really good but wouldn’t spoil it by telling me why, I thought I’d go along. I was glad I did. The movie reminded me at first in its tone of Poor Things, no poor thing in my book, so despite the scenery-chewing of its first act I was prepared to give it a chance. Once I realised what was going on, I…

Matthew McConaughey in Interstellar (2014) Vitals Matthew McConaughey as Joseph “Coop” Cooper, resourceful NASA pilot-turned-farmer and widowed family man Colorado, Spring 2067 Film: Interstellar Release Date: November 5, 2014 Director: Christopher Nolan Costume Designer: Mary Zophres WARNING! Spoilers ahead! Background Born 57 years ago today on November 4, 1969, Matthew McConaughey was in the midst of his celebrated “McConaissance” when he starred in Christopher Nolan’s 2014 sci-fi epic…

Hey there! Before you read this, here’s a SPOILER ALERT! In this review, I will discuss a pretty significant plot point not overtly shown in trailers, but is revealed within the first minute of runtime. If you wish to be surprised, close this tab and come back later. Back in 2023, Godzilla Minus One hit theaters and was nothing short of a miracle. Acting as the 70th Anniversary Celebration of the big angry lizard, the movie eschewed the monster battling tropes which one typically associates…

There are few directors alive who have spent more time in Shakespeare’s rehearsal rooms than Gregory Doran. After a lifetime inside these plays, culminating in his tenure leading the RSC, it feels entirely fitting that his Romeo and Juliet for Bristol Old Vic Theatre School begins not in Verona but in a rehearsal room. A floor marked out with tape. Costume pieces waiting to be claimed. Young actors circling one of the most famous stories ever written, trying on characters in the same way they…

PAYROLL (1961) is a very good new-to-me heist film which is part of the Brit Noir Collection III from Kino Lorber.Johnny Mellors (Michael Craig) and his gang of three other men (Tom Bell, Barry Keegan, and Kenneth Griffith) plot with Dennis Pearson (William Lucas) to steal the payroll from the factory where Pearson has an office job.The factory has just started using a special armored truck to transfer the money from the bank to the company, but that doesn't stop Johnny, who engineers a brutal…

For the Daily Dish on Day 4 of Noirvember 2026, I’m taking a look at Favorite Uncommon Noir Performer. What does this mean, you may ask? It’s those actors and actresses who made a mark in noirs, but who you don’t normally think of when you think of film noir. You know, like Mickey Rooney or Marilyn Monroe or James Stewart. I’m going to go with Esther Williams, who turned her skills as a champion swimmer into a successful Hollywood career, becoming the queen of MGM’s lavish aquatic musicals in…

Vox Populi, Vox Dei

I got through Alias, Season 2. Like a lot of shows that last about five seasons, the second season is where it got really popular.My notes —It’s darker. Sydney is less of an innocent this time around, and some very bad things happen to people.Sydney’s mother plays very large in this season. She’s played by Swedish actress Lena Olin, which is a stroke of genius because she and Jennifer Garner absolutely look like mother and daughter. Her loyalties are very much up in the air. The big arc of the…

This site TOTALLY takes me back: Spelunkr.tv is a set of 34 themed channels playing shows from the 80’s and 90’s: cartoons, Star Trek reruns, wrestling shows, Bob Ross, Friday Night Videos… and you can’t change the channel. What’s on is on, and you watch what you get. All I need now are a stack of Oreos, a glass of milk, and a spot on the couch next to the dog.

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 OCTOBER: I WANT YOUR SEX, HELL HOUSE, CRITERION’S KUBRICK COLLECTION, AND MORE! NEW RELEASE WALL I Want Your Sex (Magnolia): It’s been a big year for Olivia Wilde, who directed and co-starred in indie hit The Invite and has a memorable supporting turn in the upcoming Behemoth! But she also scored a deliciously outrageous lead turn in Gregg Araki’s sex comedy, as an…

Fatherland isn’t like other movies — at least not like most of the movies we see these days. Polish director Pawel Pawlikowski (Ida and Cold War) hovers somewhere between realism and carefully honed style. He seldom squeezes his characters into suffocating close-ups. But Pawlikowski, who isn't afraid to film in black and white, shouldn't be considered a pure stylist; his movies are rooted in substance. In Fatherland, Pawlikowski follows a 1949 journey famed author Thomas Mann made to Germany,…

“Here Comes Your Man” (Pixies) by Anya Marina

Today’s recording starts with the end of Deadly 60 Bites. There’s a trail for Trapped: Ever After. Then it’s The Sarah Jane Adventures – Death of the Doctor, Part 1. Sarah Jane gets a visit from UNIT and Colonel Karim, played by Laila Rouass off of Primeval. She breaks the news that the Doctor is dead. The news is brought by aliens called the Shansheeth, “known throughout the universe as the carers of the dead. It is said they trawl the battlefields of outer space, looking for heroes to bring…

Barbara Barrie, who played the wife of the title character on the classic sitcom Barney Miller and appeared in such movies as Breaking Away (1979), died on October 28, 2026, at the age of 95. She had terminal cancer.Barbara Barrie was born Barbara Ann Berman on May 23, 1931, in Chicago. She was 9 years old when her family moved to Corpus Christi, Texas. She graduated from Corpus Christi High School and then studied at the University of Texas in Austin. In 1955, she moved to New York. She made…

If you see the trailer for Wild Horse Nine, the new movie teaming John Malkovich and Sam Rockwell, you may think that you’re in for another comedy about a couple of wise-ass characters. But if you notice that the movie has been directed by Martin McDonagh (The Banshees of Inisherin, In Bruges, and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri), you’ll put yourself in the right frame of mind for an unlikely but engaging mixture of dark comedy, political cynicism, and sentiment focused on a couple of…

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Last night I went to the Pick of Voila! at the Cockpit Theatre, NW8 – a showcase of five 10-minute excerpts from some of the panlingual shows participating in this year's Voila! theatre festival at these eight small theatre venues across London.We were treated to We Are All Fish @yata.collective (fascinating), Windows of Displacement @toussainttomove (wow!), Binary Lives - where fate takes us @Disequilibre (engaging), The View @chloboblob (engaging) and Fiasko! @angelapoulima (colourful). It…

Welcome to The Film Noir Files, the noir series here at Shadows and Satin and over at Speakeasy, the blog authored by my pal Kristina, where each month we recommend a film noir feature for you to watch on TCM. We never know what the other has selected until we post, and part of the fun is trying to never pick the same movie! As I did with my Pre-Code Crazy post a few days ago, I’m serving up a post from the Shadows and Satin archives for this month’s Film Noir Files – my recommendation is one…

Finally!

Sometimes you just want to watch a tidy little biopic, and for those times might