Boasting a superb cast, hit Broadway musical Waitress makes its overdue Australian premiere in terrific form. 2016 Broadway musical Waitress received four Tony Awards nominations and ran for just under four years on Broadway, also playing London’s West End from 2019 until the 2020 lockdowns. Based on writer / director Adrienne Shelly’s 2007 independent film, Waitress has the distinction of being the first Broadway musical to have an all-female creative team. Popular singer / songwriter Sara…
Ted Turner, who built WTBS into a superstation and founded Turner Classic Movies, TNT, Cartoon Network, and CNN, died yesterday, May 6, at the age of 87. He had been diagnosed with Lewy body dementia in 2018. Ted Turner was born Robert Edward Turner III on November 19, 1938, in Cincinnati, Ohio. He was nine years old when his family moved to Savannah, Georgia. He went to The McCallie School in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He attended Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. He initially majored…
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FREAK ALONG WITH ANCIENT GREEKS The Greek gods, with their legends , family rifts and seduction of hapless mortals, are irresistible to all who love dramatic retellings. It might be a heartbreaking Antigone at the National, a sombrely tragic Oedipus wowing Broadway, Hadestown up West or a ballet of Leda being ravished by Zeus as a swan. They’re beloved by jokers, too: Spymonkey did Oedipussy and the Frogs with great energy. So when a determined band of former Plymouth students – LE NAVET BÊTE,…
My Heart is a Chainsaw is the first in a trilogy of horror novels by Stephen Graham Jones. As I mentioned in my earlier review of his book The Only Good Indians there is a strong tradition of such works being used to discuss wider social and political themes. My Heart is a Chainsaw uses the genre in a very meta way to discuss big issues and more individual ones.The book is set in a lakeside
There’s always room in my heart for another creepy killer kid flick but LEE CRONIN'S THE MUMMY had me scratching my head so much you’d think a scarab crawled under my hat. There are some rich, intriguing elements dealing with the dread, repulsion and guilt that accompany the caretaking of a sick loved one yet much of it unravels when faced with even the slightest scrutiny and baffling character behavior reigns. For the most part, I have no idea why this movie insists on presenting itself as a…
Drew Angel Devil (from Chainsaw Man), cuz he’s literally me
Continuing my overview of season 2 of the Apple TV+ series set in the Legendary MonsterVerse. Season 1 Part 1 Season 1 Part 2 Season 2 Part 1 Episode 6: “Requiem” opens with a flashback to 2 weeks before the series present, shortly before last season’s final scene. Kentaro Randa (Ren Watabe), in between working on Skull Island to retrieve his half-sister Cate (Anna Sawai) from Axis Mundi, has been sneaking out into the wilds of Skull Island to sketch Kong (appearing for the first time since the…
I often try to go back through the “classics” of historical costume design on film
Gary Cooper photographed by William Richard Walling Jr. in 1937, dressed in the same costume he would wear in Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife (1938). Vitals Gary Cooper as Michael Brandon, millionaire industrialist French Riviera, Summer 1937 Film: Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife Release Date: March 23, 1938 Director: Ernst Lubitsch Costume Designer: Travis Banton WARNING! Spoilers ahead! Background Born 125 years ago today on May 7, 1901, Gary Cooper established a screen legacy through Oscar-winning…
The Saturday night supremacy of CBS in the seventies has finally ceased (how’s that for alliteration?). This would be the final year for both The Bob Newhart Show and The Carol Burnett Show, classics that once dominated in the ratings but had now dropped out of the top 30. Only one series ranked that high on this night, and it belonged to the network that would reign supreme throughout the second half of the decade. Come aboard – they’re expecting you…ABCFishOperation PetticoatStarsky &…
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This post is my contribution the CMBA 2026 Spring Blogathon "Make 'em Laugh." Not long ago I was discussing The Banshees of Inisherin in a film group, and I said that although I knew it was not meant to be strict realism, it still felt realistic enough, and bleak enough, that I could not see it as a comedy, as many in the industry had called it. The answer I got back was, “Well, it’s not a tragedy, so it’s a comedy.” That remark left me scratching my head: maybe that's true in classic Greek…
The only recording today is yet another showing of yesterday’s episode of Magic’s Biggest Secrets Finally Revealed. Media Centre Description: The Masked Magician returns to television to defy his fellow illusionists and reveal the secrets that lay behind tricks that have astonished audiences for centuries. Recorded from ITV4 on Sunday 10th January 2010 11:23 The recording ends with the start of World’s Wildest Police Police Videos. Here’s the ad breaks. Adverts: Nicorette Bran Flakes – Chris…
Ted Turner, who built WTBS into a superstation and founded Turner Classic Movies, TNT, Cartoon Network, and CNN, died today at the age of 87. He had been diagnosed with Lewy body dementia in 2018. I plan to write a eulogy for him tomorrow. As for now I am quite ready to do so. In founding TCM, Mr. Turner had an enormous impact on my life. I can't help but be saddened by his death. I will then leave you with TCM Remembers Ted Turner, the channel's remembrance of their founder.
Yesterday, I wrote about a compilation video featuring 1 second from every episode of Malcolm in the Middle. Today, I have a video featuring 1 second from every classic Simpsons episode (by the same creator). It’s not as unhinged as the MITM one but still very silly and ridiculous as you would expect from classic Simpsons. Needless to say this wouldn’t work nearly as well with modern-day Simpsons episodes. The post 1 second from every classic Simpsons episode appeared first on Cultrface.
by Nathaniel R While The Film Experience is about, well, the movies, longtime readers know that I like to throw in a little live theater whenever possible. And these days as with TV and Film, the line between mediums is ever blurry with stage shows making it to screen or TV and vice versa or both unconnected when they are inspired by the same novel. Though I’ve always tried to be a somewhat regular theatergoer, funding and time often refuse to comply. But during the 2025-2026 season I hit the…
I really like The Devil Wears Prada. I saw it in the cinema when it came out, and I've rewatched it two or three years ago with my wife, who had missed out on it and the cultural impact it had. It surprised me so much when the second movie was suddenly just... there! So I went today and I am absolutely in love. I can't wait until I can see it a couple more times, maybe right after rewatching the first again, and get to draw more connections and conclusions. The following will contain spoilers.…
Super cool story about a fan who's built a full-size replica of the Orca from Jaws.
Hokum Director Damian McCarthy tries to turn familiar ingredients into something unexpected in Hokum, a horror movie about an embittered novelist (Adam Scott) who visits the Irish hotel where his late parents spent their honeymoon and where Scott's Ohm Bauman plans to scatter their ashes. Oddly, the story begins with a deceptive prologue about a lost conquistador and the boy who's traveling with him; it's soon revealed that we've been watching the concluding scene of Bauman's latest novel,…
Back in January we featured Luke Evans singing I’m Going Home, in civvies, in preparation for his new role as Frank-N-Furter in Richard O’Brien’s cult classic The Rocky Horror Show. Now he has performed with the entire cast on The Tonight Show – in full costume. The song? Why Sweet Transvestite, of course. It’s a difficult role for any actor – Tim Curry’s boots were so big (and his corset so tight) that comparisons are always inevitably made. From the looks of the comments below the video, it…
The unexpected second life of passenger aircraft Next time you’re eating a lasagne on your holiday flight, pause to consider the aircraft type you are flying in may have well have gone to war, spied or tested deadly laser weapons or even hunted submarines! Here are 11 airliners that got ‘drafted’ into wild military roles […]
A preview page from one of L. Pidge’s Infinite Wheatpaste comics, posted by Avery Hill Publishing on instagram, contains red thread connections. ▲ L. Pidge, Infitine Wheatpaste (2026) From contributor Colin Beineke.
Dude, so I spend an inordinate amount of time thinking about giant monsters. I was introduced to the Showa-era dubbed Godzilla films ("GODZILLER!") very young by my older brother and my cousin and that canon event permanently adjusted my brain chemistry so that a radioactive lizard created as a metaphor for the horrors of nuclear weapons is now a comfort to me in horrendous times. As a "Godzilla sicko" (best insult I've ever gotten tbh) I go out of my way to watch any and everything in the…
I was all excited to do this Woman Crush Wednesday feature on Queen Charlotte, until
A poster promoting 'America' (1924) and highlighting the Midnight Ride of Paul Revere, which is depicted in the film.This weekend, I'll be at the keyboard to accompany a screening of D.W. Griffith's historical epic 'America' (1924), a drama set during the American Revolution.The film, which I've never scored before, will be shown on Sunday, May 10 at 2 p.m. at the Town Hall Theatre in Wilton, N.H. The screening is part of the town's slightly early multi-day celebration of the nation's upcoming…
Almost ten years after its initial release, here are my thoughts on the movie “Hidden Figures”. Beware: I rant–about racism, sexism, and the problem with white saviors. If you want the tl;dr: it’s a good movie, deserves the accolades, and the criticism, it got back then. If you have two hours and want to remember a more optimistic time, this is a good movie to watch. ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ “Hidden Figures” is based (very loosely, according to Wikipedia and the sources it cites) on the non-fiction book…
Find all previous and future episodes listed here or in your podcast app under “Barbican Station”. In this episode we discuss Mick Herron’s latest in the Slough House series, Clown Town, with guest Sam Leith. We talk about Herron and Wind in the Willows, whether he’s diving into Richard Osman territory, and that shocking turn of events at the end of the book. Plus how to deal with Herron’s dry wit when interviewing him, poetry’s influence on Herron’s writing and pondering the end of the Slough…
BoardwalkKonica MT-100Fujifilm Neopan 400 (x/2015)HC-110, Dilution B2026 I bought this 35mm point-and-shoot for just $10 (with another $10 in shipping) because it looked solid and I’d never heard of this model. It proved to be an easy shooter, but unfortunately there was some haze between the lens elements that marred most shots. Review to follow. This image on a mostly cloudy day was not so affected. This is in Holliday Park in Indianapolis, which has a meandering trail system along the White…
One of the defining masterpieces of British comics, Pat Mills and Joe Colquhoun’s deeply affecting and political serial from the pages of Battle Picture Weekly follows working class sixteen-year-old Charley Bourne as he eagerly signs up to fight in 1916 but then experiences the hellish world of industrialised warfare in a bitter fight for survival. The Charley’s War Apex Edition will
