THREE WOMEN AND A DISTANT QUEEN Ava Pickett’s breathlessly exciting début play won, at the Almeida, both a prestigious prize and mixed reviews. As a first-timer, seeing its transfer to the West End, I can say that it well deserves the move, and that it keeps all the unsettling intimacy and power that split the critics. And it’s piquant to have a more sobering reflection on Anne Boleyn running here: seven minutes’ walk from the latest cast raving through the riotous SIX on the Strand. So I liked…
Arabesque (1966)
Top Chef Carolinas had some fun at a lake with a mise en place race, fishing, and Tom Colicchio demanding "no poopies." Let's recap!
by Cláudio Alves The 79th Cannes Film Festival is upon us and, as ever, Elisa is on the ground to report directly from the Croisette. Sadly, most of us can only watch from afar. For years, I struggled with festival-related FOMO, but one little annual series here at The Film Experience has helped combat it. Obviously, I’m referring to “Cannes at Home,” the rubric I’m happy to revive once more, perusing past films from the various cineastes in the Main Competition that are widely available. Alas,…
AF = Aldo Fabrizi. Well, I started fulfilling my promise to see more Mario Monicelli. VITA DA CANI (IT’S A DOG’S LIFE, 1950) was co-directed by MM and Steno, and I double-featured it with VARIETY LIGHTS, maybe a mistake as the two are very similar: Italian music-hall comedy-tragedies with two directors. VDC is a sort […]
A discovery for me. A pleasant blend of many musical styles that work well together. The result is both surprisingly modern and old-school at the same time. Mixing hip-hop, electro, drum & bass, and British underground music is a treat for the ears, and a welcome change from what you usually hear in these walls. The vibraphone adds a lightness to music that isn’t always so light. I arrived for the second set and stayed for the third with great pleasure. Now curious to hear what he does in the…
It was the autofocus, Putnam County 2004
The crew of a colony ship, bound for a remote planet, discover an uncharted paradise with a threat beyond their imagination, and must attempt a harrowing escape. Following the pretty mess that was Prometheus, this movie is actually a proper Alien movie, with monster horror elements and cyberpunk and techpunk elements. All in all, it’s a solid entry in the Alien franchise, Michael Fassbender does an absolutely great work, and the rest of the cast feels less like cannon fodder, and more like…
Following clues to the origin of mankind, a team finds a structure on a distant moon, but they soon realize they are not alone. This is an Alien movie, but with a different kind of aliens. Going back to the whole “let’s explore this planet, what’s the worst it could happen” shtick, guess what? The worst happens. A nice action movie in the Alien universe, which has the only merit of introducing the character of David, masterfully played by Michael Fassbender. Also loved to see Noomi Rapace’s…
by Jessica Dickinson Goodman What do you do when you’re outnumbered? That is the core question of Billy Jack, a hippie wish fulfillment Western that takes its formidable ethics from the feminist, black power, and American Indian Movement philosophies. After facing what seems to be years of production and distribution challenges, Billy Jack came into … Continue reading [May 12, 1971] Billy Jack: A Hippie Western → The post [May 12, 1971] <i>Billy Jack</i>: A Hippie Western appeared first on…
One of my favorite postcards in my collection features an aerial view of the town of North Bend, Washington with Mount Si looming in the distance and the words “Twin Peaks” printed along the bottom front. I love this card as it was something I purchased at the Alpine Blossom and Gift Shoppe during my... The post Twin Peaks – North Bend, WA Postcard By Smith-Western Co. – CT-3610 appeared first on TWIN PEAKS BLOG.
We were suitably unimpressed when the trailer for the Sky TV Amadeus (2025) miniseries dropped,
Missions, that Holodeck project from Lou Rebecca collaborator and synth maestro Josh Mills, has graced these pages a few times. So I figured I’d share a little something interesting Mills posted to Instagram not long ago. Apparently, he was called to set during the filming of season 2 of the hit Netflix series Beef to help star Oscar Isaac navigate the sick array of synths his character has on the show. Specifically, to show him the Minimoog for a key Hot Chip-related segment. (Notably, for…
Michael J. Pollard as C.W. Moss in Bonnie & Clyde (1967) Vitals Michael J. Pollard as C.W. Moss, slow-witted mechanic-turned-bank robber Texas to Missouri, Spring 1933 Film: Bonnie & Clyde Release Date: August 13, 1967 Director: Arthur Penn Costume Designer: Theadora Van Runkle WARNING! Spoilers ahead! Background My last post centered around one of the many quick-and-dirty Depression-set crime films released in the wake of Bonnie & Clyde‘s popularity, so let’s refocus today’s sartorial…
Today is the first day of the 2026 Cannes Film Festival. 22 films are competing to win the coveted top prize in cinema - the Palme d’Or.Winning a Palme will certainly give you a moment of fame, the adulation of filmmakers, and a chance to boost your next project. But will it help your movie’s chance at the box office?All films which are ‘In Competition’ at Cannes have not yet been released to the public anywhere in the world. Some may have a release lined up, but most will deliberately leave…
Finally a very good movie adaptation of a book! The characters are the best part, but kudos to the writers for both cutting some “boring” parts and making the plot easy to understand in the film format. Also, the soundtrack is amazing. Maybe it’s the best movie of the year so far! Rating: 👏Hey, thanks for reading my blog via the RSS feed! Feel welcome to get in touch!
As a giant wimp who didn't start watching much horror until the 2010s, I have a big gore/slasher hole in my film knowledge. I have made up a lot of lost ground over the last decade, but the Saw movies are still a blind spot for me. When I was in high school and college, they were notorious for over-the-top, exploitative gore. At least... that was the impression they gave off! Last November, I watched Saw for the first time. I did this specifically so that I could see the unofficial Saw parody…
I guess it’s thematically appropriate that ever since I saw Hokum last week, I’ve been haunted by regret. In my case, it’s because my take on it was positive, and I hope it came across as a clear recommendation, but it was still overly dismissive of everything the movie was trying to do. Even after acknowledging that it’s reductive “stay in your lane” mentality to want an artist to just keep making the same thing you liked over and over again, I still did exactly that. Praising the contemporary…
God you hate to see your clone-mom-sister-self get yoinked back into the Spirit Tree JUST when your visit was getting good ⦁ ⦁ ⦁ ⦁ ⦁ HA, KIRI’S SPOTS ARE LIGHTING UP LIKE AN ELECTROCUTED PERSON’S SKELETON, COOL ⦁ ⦁ ⦁ ⦁ ⦁ Hey wait so—how is it that Norm’vi still has a helicopter (or whatever, don’t @ me) and equipment and stuff, is the outfit he was with still active somehow? Where the hell has this guy been? ⦁ ⦁ ⦁ ⦁ ⦁ Listen just because she has epilepsy doesn’t mean that her stuff isn’t real…
Shortly before an election, a spin-doctor and a Hollywood producer join efforts to fabricate a war in order to cover up a Presidential sex scandal. I never thought a political movie can be so fun. Showing how the government spins story in order to distract the population from various things and have them focus on the desired narrative, it makes us question the reality of the facts presented by the news, while also being entertaining and funny. A great dark comedy about some really dark times we…
Nils William Olsson has a paper called “What’s in a Swedish Surname?” (Swedish American Genealogist 1.1 [1981]) that is, as you might expect, about Swedish surnames. I’ll quote some bits that particularly interested me: It should be emphasized that the patronymic is not identical with a family name. It was not until the latter part of the 19th Century that the patronymic in Sweden congealed to become a family name. Before that time it had changed with each generation. Thus persons named Sven…
Bekannterweise besuchen wir ja gelegentlich mal das ein oder andere Restaurant 🙂 Eher seltener ist aber eins dabei, das mehr oder weniger klassische deutsche Küche serviert. Daher war ich dankbar, als ich das Emma`s in… Der Beitrag Emma´s Bochum – Deutsche Küche mit Twist erschien zuerst auf Sternestulle.
A seeming shout-out to a story I wrote for Forbes.com on Euphoria, Season 3, Episode 5. Read it / watch it.About I My Book | Consulting I X I Instagram I LinkedIn I Email
Nellie Andreeva / Deadline: After months of speculation, NBCUniversal has confirmed that a live-action series based on Universal’s Fast & Furious action movie franchise is in development. And not just one but FOUR series, according to franchise star and producer Vin Diesel. He made the announcement on stage at the NBCUniversal upfront presentation Monday morning. Okay, as a fan of the franchise, I’m very excited about this. But let’s dig a little deeper here. According to sources, one of F&F…
The movie “Her”, starring Joaquin Phoenix and Scarlett Johannson was released in 2013. Earl, Jamie, and I saw the movie while staying at Walt Disney World. It was a rainy evening and we thought the Disney theatres would be impressive for this movie. They were. I was a bit awestruck at the thought of having an operating system backed with Artificial Intelligence. As a geek, I really enjoyed seeing what the movie producers thought the next step of technology would look like. I particularly…
Japan, 1998. I’m currently in the middle of a Nicolas Roeg rewatch season after acquiring a blu-ray of the recently reissued Castaway, Roeg’s 1986 adaptation of Lucy Irvine’s memoir (which shouldn’t be confused with 2000’s Cast Away). In the early 1980s when I was becoming more acquainted with his films I went through a phase of buying film posters, and managed to pick up copies of the UK quad sheets for Don’t Look Now and Bad Timing. I would have preferred the one for The Man Who Fell to Earth…
by Gillian A.M. Mitchell Introduction: ‘What Kind of Life?’ (BBC Television for Schools and Colleges, 1971) Brian Latham (Charles Bolton), a senior member of the Mill Street Youth Club in the northern industrial town of Cambury, is persuaded by his friends to sing a couple of songs with The Gift, the rock band which is providing live music for the club’s Friday night dance. His performance, enthusiastically received by fellow club-goers, impresses the band members, and they offer Brian the…
Yet another new format for RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars! Marshal Knight is recapping season 11 for us, and has the tea about which of the three queens have a shot in this first bracket, and whihc
Classic string boards appear in Blue Prince (Dogubomb/Raw Fury, 2025). From contributor Justin Wigard.
