Mario ventures into space, exploring cosmic worlds and tackling galactic challenges far from the familiar Mushroom Kingdom. This is a-movie about a-Mario, what’s not to like? I’ve seen idiots on IMDb complain about this because it’s not the next Godfather. It’s a solid kids movie, it’s fun and colorful, teaches kids some low key lessons about friendship ane it ultimately entertains. Loved the bazillion references that snuck in, from the nice Star Fox crossover to the Excitebike easter egg, so…
And a third pair of CMON’s Marvel Zombies bystanders in a row – that’s right, I just went on a bit of a run with these as a nice kind of simple palette cleanser models. Today we have the comics version of Ben Urich as well as Jimmy Woo. Jimmy here is different from the MCU version due to his blue-grey suit, while Ben Urich here is a little more different to his remixed version. These two look like they’d make a decent investigative team. A shame that these models are just cannon fodder tokens…
It's become increasingly challenging to share advance information on upcoming Turner Classic Movies schedules due to less information being accessible ahead of the complete schedule being published.Some readers will remember when I was able to preview schedules weeks, if not months, in advance. That is currently not an option, but between several sources, including a TCM press release, I've been able to cobble together a preview for the June schedule. There's quite a bit of interesting…
In the very early days of this blog I reviewed THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA (2006).It seemed almost surreal this week to revisit the same characters, two decades on, in THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA 2 (2026).Although I sometimes tire of the frequent lack of originality in current cinema offerings, I must admit that I really looked forward to this sequel, and I'm glad to say I found it quite enjoyable.The movie isn't quite on a par with the original -- among other things, it's not as funny, though there are…
by Elisa Giudici TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA. MUBI By the time Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma premiered at Cannes, Jane Schoenbrun had already become something close to a generational folk hero for younger cinephiles. You could feel it inside the Debussy theater before the lights even went down: critics squeezed onto theater steps, festival attendees treating an Un Certain Regard opener like the hottest ticket on the Croisette, audiences buzzing less about Cannes prestige than…
Today’s only recording is Mythbusters – Peeing on the Third Rail. This is actually an episode revisiting lots of previous myths. The first one is whether covering your body with gold paint would kill you by overheating. This time it’s Adam who has to get painted. Rather than peeing on a third rail, they investigate whether peeing on an electric fence can shock you. They do more testing on whether a mobile phone ringing can cause an explosion or fire at a petrol pump. They retest the Ice Bullet…
The National Theatre's recent Importance of Being Earnest found a new angle by introducing a formidable Caribbean take on Lady Bracknell, and now Nicholai La Barrie extends that idea by giving us another Oscar Wilde play where the entire cast of characters has been reimagined as first or second generation Caribbean British. In An Ideal Husband class, power and money are constantly intertwined in a relationship that proves precarious as Lord Chiltern (Chiké Okonkwo,) a politician whose career…
Donald Gibb, perhaps best known for playing the hulking but none-too-bright Ogre in Revenge of the Nerds (1984), died on May 12, 2026, at the age of 71. The cause was complications from cancer.Donald Gibb was born in New York City on August 4, 1954. He grew up in California, where he attended Notre Dame High School in Sherman Oaks. He attended the University of New Mexico on a basketball scholarship and then University of San Diego, where he was on the football team. He played in the NFL in the…
If you would have told me a year ago if I would be making an announcement like this, I wouldn’t have believed it. I am very excited to share that this summer, my straw millinery will be seen in the new Little House on the Prairie!!!!! Season 1, premiering July 9th on Netflix, will feature […]
In 1943, a Pennsylvania dentist convinced FDR to fund a secret WWII weapon: bats armed with napalm. The result accidentally burned down a US Army airfield. Here's the full story of Project X-Ray.
RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars 11 already has its first two semifinalists after an improv challenge in monster costume that did not work for some of the queens. Marshal Knight recaps!
Oh man, I love a good ghost story & writer/director Damian McCarthy’s HOKUM is certainly that. It’s a spooky, dark, compact, well acted, sometimes riveting, sometimes heartbreaking, and eventually down right terrifying, ghost story. Its quiet, unassuming, downright sneaky nature may result in it not exactly taking the world by storm but even better, it’s the type of creepfest that one could return to again and again for years to come when a supernatural fix is needed. My only complaint is that…
The Devil Wears Prada is remembered for its iconic lines, eye-catching outfits, and stellar cast. Something that feels a little forgotten, however, is the story's origin as a thinly-veiled hit piece on Anna Wintour. The film had a bite. The Devil Wears Prada 2 has none. Yet this, the sequel would have you believe, is a story that says something. Unlike its frivolous predecessor, The Devil Wears Prada 2 speaks to our cultural moment. Specifically it is a story about the importance of journalism.…
this month’s Bearblog Carnival, “your favorite ______ in your niche hobby”, seems like the perfect opportunity for me to talk about my favorite independent stop-motion movies. I like animation, in general, but I'm completely and utterly obsessed with stop-motion. The amount of time, patience and care that it takes to shoot one single scene in stop-motion is reason enough for me to love it. I see them all as weirdo's passion projects (in the best way possible) and I think there's nothing not to…
by Elisa Giudici IN WAVES With Cannes now in full swing, let's rank the four opening titles from Un Certain Regard, Director's Fortnight, Critics Week, and Out of Competition. 4. In Waves by Phuong Mai Nguyen (France/Belgium) [Opening Film of Critics’ Week]In Waves is probably the most polished and emotionally accessible of the festival's four openers, which, for my taste, also makes it the least exciting. The film follows AJ, a shy teenager obsessed with sketching and skating, whose world…
The Fritzes award honors the best interfaces in a full-length motion picture in the past year. Interfaces play a special role in our movie-going experience, and are a craft all their own that does not otherwise receive focused recognition. Today we’ll be covering Best Interfaces. The movies nominated for Best Interfaces manage the extraordinary challenge of being believable and helping to paint a picture of the world of the story. They advance the state of the art in telling stories with…
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On the set of Don Juan. Image source: Wikipedia It’s been a few months since I picked this series back up! What can I say? Things have been busy this year. Luckily, it’s not so busy that I can’t continue one of my favorite series on this blog: revisiting the hits of yesteryear and seeing how they hold up today. If you have not read the first part of my Greatest Hits of 1926 posts, click the link here. My usual note: It is difficult to get 100% accurate box office information from the silent era…
Not a whole lot between Prada and Grogu, huh? May's not an actual summer movie month. The biggest release may be BUFF centerpiece Obsession, in which a guy makes a wish for a girl to be in love with them, only to find that it being that powerful freaks both of them out, with apparently only death as an escape. It's at the Somerville, the Coolidge, CinemaSalem, Boston Common (including Dolby
Phil Spector was one of the greatest music producers who ever lived. He was also a violent, controlling man with a gun obsession and a decades-long pattern of threatening women. This is the full story.
The first three episodes of the Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice-inspired sequel adaptation, The Other Bennet Sister (2026)
I was eager to see Obsession as soon as possible, almost entirely because it’s been super-hyped by the Dead Meat YouTube channel. My tastes seem to align with theirs more often than not, and they loved it. I wasn’t quite able to fall under its spell, but I appreciate what the movie is trying to do, and it has several moments that were well-executed and worked on me exactly as intended. And the universal praise for star Inde Navarrette is entirely justified. She’s excellent, and it’s not an…
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Terry Tuttle Thomas Smythe hosts the very first ‘Collieries Have Talent’ competition, that’s our favourite smarmy chap stood on the engine announcing the next act. Liz & Margo have also been invited as celebrity royal judges for this inaugural event. Kicking things off, we have the The Railway Guards’ Barbershop Sing & Dance Troupe from nearby Midsomer Norton about to perform their short set of coordinated dance to Lonnie Donegan’s Rock Island Line playing on the gramophone in the weighbridge…
I sent this essay to my wife because doing self-owns is kind of my brand. It’s about husbands who can’t stop talking about AI, and despite how uncomfortable it made me, it’s not wrong and also wonderful writing. This is so good: I should also say I didn’t bother speaking to any of the actual husbands for this story. I’m sick of hearing from the men of AI. So many of us are. They have podcasts and Senate hearings and magazine profiles and probably a group chat with the president. They’ve been…
All of a sudden, there’s 6 programmes today, and quite a mix. The first recording starts with the end of Sportsround. There’s a trail for Saturday Morning programmes. Then it’s What’s New Scooby-Doo? – Big Scare in the Big Easy. In New Orleans, some tourists get scared by ghosts near an old graveyard. The gang are in town for spring break. Their hotel is close to town, just across a graveyard. The gang are chased by the same ghosts. They’re saved by the tourist bus from earlier, and Crawdad…
Bild: Brenscheder Straße, Kirchviertel, Werktag, Mittag. (30.04.2026) Die FGSV verlangt an dieser Stelle beidseitig je einen 0,75 m breiten Sicherheitstrennstreifen. Die Opel-Trasse ist gesperrt und plötzlich fällt auf, dass die Brenscheder Straße zum Radfahren ungeeignet ist. Was für ein Wunder. Die WAZ:»Der gefährlichste Abschnitt ist die Brenscheder Straße zwischen Universitätsstraße und Kirchviertel. Er ist relativ eng, hat keinen Radweg und ist zu beiden Seiten vollgeparkt. Wer nicht gegen…
I feel a lot of pride being a long-time member of an organization like the Classic Movie Blog Association! And, thanks to the CMBA Board’s fantastic suggestions and prompts, I felt like marking National Classic Movie Day on May 16th, 2026 by wandering off the beaten path a bit, celebrating a few favorite hidden gems—those … Continue reading CMBA’s Challenge in Celebration of National Classic Movie Day on May 16, 2026 – Hidden Gems!
Long-time readers may recall that I reviewed Near Myth: The Oskar Knight Story back in 2022. The movie is a mockumentary, but it's also so much more than that. This documentary-style Hollywood biopic is written and directed by Scott Fivelson. It centres on Oskar Knight, a director (utterly fictional), once critically acclaimed, who holds the record for having been nominated for an Academy Award more times than any other director in history. I have said more than once that Near Myth: The Oskar…
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), the organisation that presents the Oscar awards, recently clarified their rules regarding the use of AI in films they will accept nominations for. According to rule two, regarding eligibility, specifically clause seven, there are instance where AI, and “other digital tools” (things like visual effects, computer-generated imagery, and green screen, I expect) can be used by filmmakers (PDF), to a degree : With regard to Generative…
