Dune Part Two 2024, Denis Villeneuve My rating: Loved it! Holy shit, this is so good. The story, the scenes, the music, everything. One of my favorites ever.
Watched: Resurrection 🍿 An amazing experience. More fragmented than Bi Gan’s previous movies, but easily as engaging. There were many nods to cinema history, and an article by Xinyuan Wang helped. Essential viewing, and not just for the virtuoso 30-minute-long single shot near the end.
Now here's a distinguished looking fellow... and he is obviously watching something or someone in the distance. We'll let you ponder what that something could be and who this handsome young man is. If you ponder long enough, you'll remember what film this screenshot is from - and then you'll leave a comment below so everyone will know that you know, or think you know what you know. As always, if you are not familiar with the rules to the Impossibly Difficult Name that Movie game or the prize,…
This movie is so cool and legit funny. It’s so much more absurdist than most comedies, much less comedies from the fourties’
Most people probably remember Pat Suzuki for originating the role of Linda Low in the Broadway production of Flower Drum Song. She had a successful recording career, and also appeared on movies and on television. She has a place in American entertainment history as one of the earliest Japanese American performers to enter the mainstream.Pat Suzuki was born Chiyoko Suzuki on September 22, 1930, in Cressy, California. Her father was a musician who specialized in traditional Japanese instruments…
Writter/Director Curry Barker’s OBSESSION remarkably transforms a rudimentary TALES FROM THE CRYPT/DARKSIDE “Be Careful what you wish for” premise into an absolutely fascinating, truly engaging, wildly unpredictable and surprisingly cathartic grenade of horror. I have a hunch film academics will be dissecting and analyzing its bottomless pit of potential interpretations for many years to come. I certainly felt one way about it while viewing it and then was hit with a completely different take…
Beauty And The Beast (1991)
My two grandkids are usually in constant motion, so it’s rare when I have a camera ready when they aren’t. It’s been quite a week so far, and it is no way close to over. You can also find more of my writings on a variety of topics on Medium at this link, including in the publications Ellemeno and Rome. I can also be found on social media under my name as above. This site does not use affilate links.
There's a new group on Drag Race All Stars season 11, including Vivacious and Silky, and Marshal Knight takes us through their alliances and first challenge.
For reasons I've now forgotten I got it into my head a while ago that I should have a list of all the sites I've linked to. Naively I thought this would be as simple as putting my url into some service and letting it index. Oh no. No, no, no. Nothing worked. Lists were clearly too small, ones that looked like they might big enough were missing stuff, I hit free limits, it was just a mess. I understand the whole backlink issue has become a spammy SEO thing but I just want stuff that's on my own…
In the adult age, I met my old schoolmate and he asked what I was reading. I said Suetonius. He laughed, because in his mind it was a child book, something you were supposed to read around the age of 12, as a part of compulsory Soviet canon1.And yes, I read the The Lives of the Twelve Caesars as a kid. But, as a kid, I did not understand very much of it. Specifically, I did not understand why the biographies of all these Caesars (and their families) sound like a freak show. Monstrosities,…
Happy Memorial Day, folks - there's two movies with nifty stop-motion!! Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu is the first theatrical entry in the franchise in seven years, with Pedro Pascal reprising his role from the TV series as a bounty hunter now hunting Imperial war criminals for the New Republic, whose latest assignment gets him involved with Hutts, underground fighting, and more. It's at
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by Jason Sacks Please note: I will be discussing the endings to all the Planet of the Apes films in this review. If you don’t want to have the endings ruined for you, go to your local theater and watch the latest film, then come back to this review. Thank you! After the cataclysmic events … Continue reading [May 22, 1971] Escape from the Planet of the Apes → The post [May 22, 1971] Escape from the Planet of the Apes appeared first on Galactic Journey.
Dear Constant Reader, This past weekend I was unexpectedly able to attend two shows at the second annual Boston Fringe Festival, held, of course, in Somerville. The first was Our Lord and Savior, a play written, directed, and featuring the multitalented Alana Corrigan. I think it shows how much respect I have for Lani that I voluntarily, nay, eagerly, came to a production that started at 10pm. Our story is set at a Bible study group in Minnesota with five teens overseen by an overwhelmed youth…
A classic investigation room appearls in The Infinite Husk (dir. Aaron Silverstein, 2025). ▲ The Infinite Husk (dir. Aaron Silverstein, 2025) ▲ The Infinite Husk (dir. Aaron Silverstein, 2025) ▲ The Infinite Husk (dir. Aaron Silverstein, 2025) ▲ The Infinite Husk (dir. Aaron Silverstein, 2025) ▲ The Infinite Husk (dir. Aaron Silverstein, 2025) ▲ The Infinite Husk (dir. Aaron Silverstein, 2025) ▲ The Infinite Husk (dir. Aaron Silverstein, 2025) ▲ The Infinite Husk (dir. Aaron Silverstein, 2025)…
Costume designer Joanna Johnston has been the creative force behind an absurdly high number of
by Elisa Giudici Leonardo Sbaraglia stars in 'BITTER CHRISTMAS' Pedro Almodóvar has spent the last few years stripping away the protective layers between himself and his cinema. Ever since Pain and Glory, his films have stopped merely borrowing from autobiography and started openly feeding on it. The characters no longer resemble fragments of the director; they practically announce themselves as extensions of him. Bitter Christmas (Amarga Navidad) pushes that process to an almost uncomfortable…
Vitals Al Pacino as Will Dormer, shrewd but increasingly sleepy LAPD detective Northern Alaska, June 2002 Film: Insomnia Release Date: May 22, 2002 Director: Christopher Nolan Costume Designer: Tish Monaghan WARNING! Spoilers ahead! Background By this time in mid-May, towns like Utqiagvik (formerly Barrow) in the northern tip of Alaska are experiencing the midnight sun, typically lasting 83 days from May 10th or 11th through the beginning of August. The mid-June setting of Insomnia—to date, the…
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As part of the Fritzes Best Interfaces award for 2026, I am reviewing the interfaces in Star Trek: Section 31. This post is about the mission briefer. When HQ needs a team to get moving, they send a mission briefer. (n.b. Ths is my term. They don’t mention it by name in the movie.) This little faceted matte-black pod is the size of an orange with one flat side. Rest it on a surface, and when an authorized person long-touches the top, it spins open like a lotus flower. A lens rises up and emits…
Jack Ryan: Ghost War (2026) • View trailer2.5 stars (out of five); rated R, for violence and profoanityAvailable via: Amazon PrimeBy Derrick Bang This seems to be the week for popular streaming shows to spawn feature-length films. I hope the Mandalorian and Grogu are treated with more respect. When a tightly planned operation goes horribly wrong, CIA Deputy Director Greer(Wendell Pierce, center) must be restrained by MI6 operative Emma Marlow(Sienna Miller) and veteran CIA agent Jack Ryan (John…
This is David, your semi-professional internet-shrinker so that it neatly fits into your inbox. You're reading the Weekly Filet, the newsletter for curious minds who love when something makes them go «Huh, I never thought of it this way!». As every Friday, I'm here to help you make sense of what’s happening, and imagine what could be. Ready?1. A Question of Margin«We’re shrinking the board on which we play the sublime game of being human.» Bill McKibben provides a useful lens through which to…
by Cláudio Alves Adèle Exarchopoulos won a César for Jeanne Herry's ALL YOUR FACES. Will her new collaboration with the director, presently at Cannes, produce similar results? The 2026 Cannes Film Festival is drawing to a close, so I should probably hurry up with this corresponding Cannes at Home program. In the past few days, a number of titles have come and gone on the Croisette, most of them eliciting wildly divisive reactions. Nobody seems to agree on the merits of Na Hong-jin’s Hope, and…
Finished reading: Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton 📚 A great time and at its most interesting in the places where the movie departed from it.
It is a bit sad to me to watch the ending of the Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Tonight will be his final show. Of all the current late show hosts, he’s the one I have found to be the classiest and wittiest. Watching David Letterman and Colbert together from last week’s show made me laugh a lot! Excited for what he is doing next – writing a Lord of the Rings movie directed by Peter Jackson.Of all the clips I’ve seen of Colbert, this one is my favorite.
by Elisa Giudici Cate Blanchett. Photo © Elisa Giudici Cate Blanchett came to Cannes ostensibly to spotlight the Displacement Film Fund, the initiative she co-founded with the UNHCR to support displaced filmmakers and stories about forced migration. But the conversation quickly expanded into something broader: a sharp, funny, deeply thoughtful reflection on acting, authorship, AI, artistic risk, and the changing state of cinema itself...
A classic investigation board (of conjoined twins) appears in Two [Dos] (dir. Mar Targarona, 2021). ▲ Two [Dos] (dir. Mar Targarona, 2021) ▲ Two [Dos] (dir. Mar Targarona, 2021) ▲ Two [Dos] (dir. Mar Targarona, 2021)
I join Guy Walker and Rob Heath for a look at twistedly comic mid-nineties British horror film that fell completely off the radar - and possibly with good reason - The Young Poisoner's Handbook.
I figure it’s time for me to review the big Wuthering Heights movie — no,
