The folks at Apple TV (they have dropped the plus-sign) just announced a batch of news for Peanuts animation fans, featuring both offering up more old content and premiering some new material. June 26: a new season of Camp Snoopy drops. July 3: added to the package is This Is America, Charlie Brown, the eight-episode miniseries from 1988 that uses the Peanuts characters to explore American history. (That show about the Mayflower that you ight have seen after an airing of A Charlie Brown…
Ann Robinson, best known for starring in the sci-fi classic War of the Worlds (1953), died on September 25, 2025, at the age of 96. Her death was not made publicly known until the past few days.Ann Robinson was born on May 25, 1929 in Los Angeles. Her father worked at the Bank of Hollywood, located in the Equitable Building of Hollywood at Hollywood and Vine. Her father started teaching her to ride horses when she was only three and she became an accomplished rider. She attended Hollywood High…
Sarah Ruhl takes a decidedly metatheatrical stab at romantic comedy, a genre that over the years has seen many stage and screen couples emulate their characters' relationships in real life. Whether the stars actually managed to recreate their happy endings, though, has never been guaranteed. The unnamed leads in Stage Kiss are actors cast in a regional revival of a forgotten 1930s romance; only when She (MyAnna Buring, as opposed to YourAnna Buring) and He (Patrick Kennedy) arrive for the first…
by Cláudio Alves Did the film student who directed PASSION dream he'd one day be a Palme d'Or frontrunner? The 79th Cannes Film Festival continues to unfold on the French Riviera, and things aren’t looking great for Fremaux and his team of programmers. Some of the most acclaimed titles are premiering in parallel sections, while the Main Competition keeps delivering mixed stuff or provoking outright negative reactions. Asghar Farhadi has probably never received worse notices than the ones he’s…
Estou relendo "O Poeta de Fingia", um livro paradidático do Ensino Médio que encontrei em casa. Na época eu provavelmente só tinha lido para passar de ano e não absorvi nada... Fernando Pessoa foi uma pessoa peculiar. A exploração da ideia do "eu" fragmentado, o papel do ser humano na sociedade e a confusão do conceito de identidade chamaram minha atenção, especialmente considerando o contexto em que ele viveu. Ao pesquisar sobre heterônimo, entendi que é um personagem criado por um autor para…
Behind the scenes on the photo shoot for our Season 2 art. This weekend, thousands of people marched across the Edmund Pettus bridge in Selma, Alabama to protest the rapid-fire eradication of black congressional districts across the South following the Supreme Court's latest salvo against the Voting Rights Act. The Pettus bridge is the site of Bloody Sunday where, in March 1965, marchers for voting rights, led by the late, great John Lewis, were savagely beaten by cops and racist goons as they…
by Elisa Giudici There’s something genuinely startling about seeing the sprawling sci-fi epic Hope in Competition at Cannes. Not because genre films are unwelcome on the Croisette anymore; that battle has largely been wo. The surprise is that Na Hong-jin’s film embraces blockbuster language so wholeheartedly. This is not elevated horror masquerading as arthouse cinema, nor a restrained science-fiction allegory carefully calibrated for festival audiences. Hope is loud, enormous, messy, violent,…
When I left Nottingham for London just before the end of the ’60s, Northern Soul was still in its embryonic stage. We’d danced to “I Can’t Help Myself”, “This Old Heart of Mine”, “You Don’t Know Like I Know”, “Helpless” and “Knock on Wood”, but something different was about to emerge from that club culture. On a visit back home in, I think, 1972, my friend David Milton — who had a shop in Derby called R. E. Cords — told me what it had become, after Dave Godin had given it a name in his Blues &…
I’ve been having a rough couple of days, and the last thing I wanted to
Sterling Hayden in The Killing (1956) Vitals Sterling Hayden as Johnny Clay, professional armed robber and ex-convict Los Angeles, Fall 1955 Film: The Killing Release Date: May 19, 1956 Director: Stanley Kubrick Wardrobe Credit: Jack Masters WARNING! Spoilers ahead! Background Stanley Kubrick’s third directorial feature The Killing arrived in select theaters 70 years ago today on May 19, 1956. The limited release hurt its box office, though it was well-received by critics and even received a…
Review by Sandre the Giant Released: 27th March 2026 I’ll be honest, I missed the new record from Germany thrashers Cruel Force when it came out at the end of March because of real life shit going on, but I loved their last record ‘Dawn of the Axe’ from 2023 and so when I was reminded that ‘Haneda’ was out I inwardly cursed my inattentiveness and jumped straight on it. I couldn’t have made a better decision. ‘Haneda’ is out now through Shadow Kingdom Records. As virulently rapid and sleek as…
by Gillian A. M. Mitchell Dramatic Realism in ‘Mill Street Youth Club’ ‘What Kind of Life?’ was the tenth and final episode of a set of short dramas focused on the activities and members of the Mill Street Youth Club, and first transmitted from January to March 1971 as part of the long-running BBC educational television series Television Club. It is also the only episode of the ‘Mill Street’ series held by the BBC Archive and known to survive today; all others are considered ‘missing, believed…
She-Devil (1989)
What time is it? Time to continue my look at the new-to-me movies I saw back in August 2025 as part of TCM’s Summer Under the Stars event. In today’s post, I’m taking a look at Days 5 and 6, and I’m kicking things off with one of my favorite character actors! Day 5: Claude Rains – Passage to Marseille (1944) Although this feature reunited four of the stars of Casablanca (1941), I’d never been interested in seeing it – probably because I have a strong tendency to steer clear of wartime movies.…
So Captain Jason punishes the woman who's in the middle of Below Deck Down Under: Love Island Edition love triangle and not the men, because one threatened to leave? What in the holy toxic masculinity is this nonsense?
People who watch movies for the human drama, the “empathy machine” people, are the overwhelming majority in the arthouse realm, leaving us bird people to scan every title and plot description for some sign of avian life and not bird-as-metaphor. Once a decade we hit absolute gold, and coincidentally the same month H Is For Hawk came out, right around when I was watching the egret of Alamar, this incredible crane movie popped up. This is what the cinema could be: vague stories featuring doc…
🍿 Finished watching: The Hunting Wives. Yasmine suggested we watch this. We nearly gave up after episode 2, but the murder mystery element kept us coming back for more. In spite a lot of elements we did not like.
Why does Herbert Marshall do so much walking in this? Besides being very good at walking, he’s an important rich person with neglected wife Marlene Dietrich (shortly after her great Sternberg run), ditching her for work events in the same way as Ray Milland in The Big Clock but with much more charm than Ray. There’s a love triangle in Paris facilitated by Madame Pittypat, and Marlene starts secretly dating her husband’s old army buddy Melvyn Douglas. Melvyn is hunky and all, but extremely…
As noted yesterday, this was the quarterfinal bracket: Super-prospect Asahifuji had perhaps his toughest match yet against Fudoho, just prevailing at the edge by shitatenage to counter his oppenent’s uwatenage attempt. He will next face Omori “the handsome”, who nonchalantly swatted aside Tatsubayama after the latter engaged in a pre-bout stare-down worthy of Hoshoryu. Veteran … Continue reading Natsu 2026 Makushita, Day 9
By Jessica Holmes Doctor Who’s foray into the Western genre winds towards its conclusion, and with tensions rising between the colonists and prospectors, it’s only a matter of time before things turn violent. Will the arrival of the adjudicator help keep a lid on things, or fan the flames of war? And can the Doctor … Continue reading [May 18th, 1971] It Could Have Been More (Doctor Who: Colony In Space [Parts 4-6]) → The post [May 18th, 1971] It Could Have Been More (<i>Doctor Who</i>: Colony…
00:00 Intro 00:42 An Observation Log of My Fiancée Who Calls Herself a Villainess 08:40 Always a Catch! 17:55 Outro Music Credits: “Clover 3” by Vibe Mountain “Seasons” by roljui
As in previous episodes [NST #572, #585], Big City Greens s04e16 (Disney Channel, 2025) contains a classic string wall. ▲ Big City Greens s04e16 (Disney Channel, 2025) ▲ Big City Greens s04e16 (Disney Channel, 2025) ▲ Big City Greens s04e16 (Disney Channel, 2025) ▲ Big City Greens s04e16 (Disney Channel, 2025) From contributor Carl Thompson.
The episode starts with Captain Picard visiting Lt. Worf's quarters. Worf, practicing Klingon martial arts with his bat'leth.The two discuss events that happened in previous episodes; the dishonor that had befell Worf's family and his ensuing discommendation. Worf's family, the House of Mogh, had been framed as Romulan collaborators by (spoiler alert) the Duras sisters Lursa and B'Etor. And (another spoiler) they are the real Romulan collaborators.First, can we talk about how rare it was in the…
I’m still working my way through the British kings, and since I’ve been watching and
I mentioned Milton Berle in passing on Saturday, and on tonight's show one of Uncle Miltie's guests is singer and future soap opera legend Bill Hayes, performing his biggest hit, "The Ballad of Davy Crockett," which was number one for five weeks. It was the most popular of three versions of the song that charted in 1955; the other two were by Tennessee Ernie Ford and Davy Crockett himself, Fess Parker, so Hayes's feat was no mean achievement. That and much more, in this week's Chicago edition,…
Alexander Zeldin’s new play Care, making its UK premiere at the Young Vic is a hard one to categorise and its effect on audiences will be hard to gauge. It has a story about life in a care home filled with older people living out their days looked after by two nurses but there are […]
By Jason YoungdaleYoungdale ProductionsDCC/OSRLevels 1-2 Long ago, beneath the fertile valleys south of Castle Dragonwater, a minor baron swore fealty to the Starved King, a demonic entity of hunger. In exchange, the baron’s land flourished with endless crops and fattened livestock. When the baron died, his descendants sealed the King’s shrine in terror—but the hunger below never ended. Now, farmers near Horndale report crops rotting overnight and livestock turning feral. Strange lights flicker…
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 →
A couple of years ago I went to a huge show of Paul Cézanne’s paintings at Tate Modern, full of anticipation. I left feeling disappointed. Too many bowls of apples, too many Montagnes Sainte-Victoire. It was indigestible. One of each would have had more impact. The disappointment was nothing to do with Cézanne or his obsessions. For the consumer, sometimes less is more. That was my consolation last night, leaving Paul Simon’s concert at the London Palladium at the interval, which occurred after…
