My recent viewing of French film noir led me to try a new release from Kino Lorber, VERTIGO FOR A KILLER (1970).Known as VERTIGE POUR UN TUEUR in its native France, the film interested me as it stars Marcel Bozzuffi, who appeared in SPEAKING OF MURDER (1957) and MAIGRET SEES RED (1963). One of Bozzuffi's best-known films is THE FRENCH CONNECTION (1971), in which he was prominent in the supporting cast.The movie costars Michel Constantin, who was also in MAIGRET SEES RED.VERTIGO FOR A KILLER…
StarringSterling K. Brown, Julianne Nicholson, Sarah Shahi, Nicole Brydon Bloom, and Krys MarshallOverviewThe truth lies outside.The tranquility in a serene, wealthy community inhabited by some of the world's most prominent individuals explodes when a shocking murder occurs and a high stakes investigation unfolds.Review Paradise What if Star’s Hollow backlot, but underground and with LOST-level character driven flashbacks? Honestly, this show is amazing. The characters are incredible and deep…
Umbrellas, love and sacrifice in a Jewish New York City neighborhood as an umbrella entrepreneur must find a way to assure his daughter’s happiness and maybe find some romance for himself with a local business owner. Home Media Availability: Released on DVD. It never rains but it pours The silent era was a time of […]
Catching up on my backlog: featuring a Noise Jam 3 game and three toxic yuri jam visual novels
A few years ago I bought CAST A DARK SHADOW (1955), available on Blu-ray from Kino Lorber and Cohen Film Collection, when I spotted it in a sale. The impetus for my purchase was the chance to see another film starring the marvelous British actress Margaret Lockwood.As so often happens, until now I still hadn't watched it...as the saying goes, "So many movies, so little time!" But this weekend a review by Karen at Shadows and Satin gave me the impetus to pull the disc off the shelf and give it a…
Viva Espana! The best team won (thankfully). Vamos!
My favorite things to find while researching Mark Frost and David Lynch’s Twin Peaks are early interviews from cast and crew members, especially from the 1990s. The stories shared are more fresh and contain interesting nuggets and details. This time, I found Noel Holston’s spotlight on former Twin Cities resident Chris Mulkey who played Hank Jennings... The post Chris Mulkey Shares Inspiration Behind ‘Twin Peaks’ Hank Jennings in August 1990 Interview appeared first on TWIN PEAKS BLOG.
Just saw this plane fly by, probably headed to Oshkosh.
This photo reminds me of the dining room in the SciFi series ‘Silo’1. If you know, you know. It was taken in the cafe of the main pavilion at the National Arboretum in Canberra. –ooOoo- In other news, my email digest saga continues. I finally got it up and running all tickety-boo, only to have the service temporarily frozen because of the number of sketchy email addresses in my subscriber list. I am probably going to need to manually cull the entire list (around 700). Im guessing…
In the summer of 1947, a group of Swiss surgeons watched a man walk calmly across a hospital corridor with a rapier sticking clean through his torso, entry wound in his back, tip poking out through his chest, no blood, no wincing, no apparent pain at all. They X-rayed him with the blade still inside. The film showed exactly what it looked like: a sword, threaded straight through several vital organs, in a man who was very much alive and, by all accounts, mildly bored by the fuss. His name was...
ok Die Woche hat mit viel Energie begonnen. Am Ende war ich müde. Musik geniessenAm Dienstag ist unser Plattenspieler angekommen! Ich habe Kid Cudis Album „Free” oft gehört, denn es war unser einziges Album. Am Freitag ist Metronomys „Greatest Hits” im Plattenladen angekommen. Ich geniesse es, im Bett zu liegen und Schallplatten zu hören. Es ist ein tolles Gefühl. HeimwerkerarbeitenUnsere „Entspannungsecke“ ist fast fertig. Wir müssen nur noch ein paar Dinge montieren. Ein kleines Wandregal ist…
When the gods wish to punish us… and if you’re twins, then your run the risk of double trouble. This animated short from Rubika students tells the story of a pair of twins who are rescued by the gods and are gifted a place to live. Twin Island East for one, and Twin Island West for the other. The only problem is that the gods (twins themselves) ordain that everything must go two by two in a kind of cult of symmetry. That leads to a big problem when the queen of Twin Island West gives birth… and…
Two villages that received only half their necessary annual budgets decide to wage it all on a soccer game between themselves. Whoever wins gets it all and fulfill their objectives. So everything becomes fair game in their quest to win. Knowing about the guy that wrote and directed the movie, I was expecting more from this movie. There are some funny moments here and there, but it felt rushed, underdeveloped and the good actors that starred in this were severely underutilized. Good to watch on…
Some times, I got the feeling that the plot was put together with the same nonchalant attitude. Not a super great movie. Overall, I liked the movie. I wanted to like it more. I was ready to see someone get in there and be a hero, but I left the movie with a feeling of indifference. Why? I think it might be that this movie isn’t much different from other superhero movies that I’ve already seen in other movies. It really emphasizes that the execution of the story is very important. I’m not saying…
This is the second part of Justin’s article about his experience at Kyokutaisei’s sumo training venue. For the earlier post, click here. Suriashi and Psychological Warfare: Next came suriashi or “sliding feet”. The goal is to combine that low posture from the squats with forward movement, keeping feet close to the ground. You should almost … Continue reading The Peek Behind the Curtain (幕の内): The Conclusion
Algorithms are funny old things. After seeking out all the Cretinetti films I could find on YouTube, I suddenly find another one, CRETINETTI’S TWO LOVES, that was posted six years ago. And it’s a good one! The opening shot creates a nice comic tension since the title clues us in that the window on the […]
Alan Alda in The Four Seasons (1981) Vitals Alan Alda as Jack Burroughs, married lawyer Saint Thomas, Summer 1980 Film: The Four Seasons Release Date: May 22, 1981 Director: Alan Alda Costume Designer: Jane Greenwood WARNING! Spoilers ahead! Background Six months ago, I observed Alan Alda’s 90th birthday with my first post of his seasonal wardrobe in The Four Seasons, his 1981 comedy following four pairs of couples vacationing together throughout a tumultuous year in their lives, scored by…
I started the day by misreading the time for Trauma or, Monsters All as 1:45pm rather than 1:15pm, which means when I got there at 1:30pm, the film was just starting because it had a nice long intro. I occasionally complain about that sort of thing causing films to bump into each other, but in this case it worked out for me, so I'll try not to whine later! It did mean there wasn't a whole lot
Welcome to Day 7 of The Great Balkans Road Trip. If you’ve just joined me, you’ve missed some great adventures already. You can find the whole series here. This is a 13-part series, beginning in Romania, travelling through Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Kosovo and Serbia, before completing the circle back in Romania. This blog includes affiliate links to help support my writing. Breakfast at the Hotel Solun Breakfast was ace today. I went all in on the strawberries. I’ve always considered…
Throughout my life, I've ran across three movies that I just could not understand the appeal of: The Big Lebowski The Lord of the Rings Franchise Blade Runner Now, normally it wouldn't be a big deal if I didn't like a movie, but all three of these films seemed like something I should like. I always felt like I was just missing something. So, over the past few decades, I've revisited these films over and over again... waiting for something to click. The Big Lebowski clicked first. It took three…
Miscellaneous bits of news and fun stuff from around the Internet......An advance review copy MURDER AT THE MOVIES: A MOVIE PALACE MYSTERY by Alicia Malone of Turner Classic Movies has just arrived in my mailbox. It will be published by Running Press in October. Looks like fun! ...Dave Karger of TCM also has a book coming out from Running Press later this year: 50 MOVIE NIGHTS: CONTEMPORARY STARS ON THEIR FAVORITE CLASSIC FILMS...Raquel Stecher of Out of the Past has just published a new…
back in the day, in one of my philosophy classes, we were given a list of films organized by different areas of philosophy. i started borrowing two films a week from the university's film center and worked my way through that list. that's how i discovered directors like kieslowski, tarkovsky, bergman, richard linklater, michel gondry, david lynch, kubrick, wim wenders, truffaut, jim jarmusch, lars von trier, gus van sant, and many others. somehow, cinema felt more philosophical than the…
A Magical Mystery Tour parody, I think. A Monkee wonderful-lifes himself off a bridge, then a girl makes out with each Monkee in turn in a single take. A highlight is Mickey puncturing a Western scene by swiping away the fake arrows and walking through the backdrop. Maybe not a highlight but certainly memorable is when the boys get shrunk to dandruff-size then are vacuumed off Vic Morrow’s head. Pretty meaty role for Timothy Carey. Jack Nicholson pops in for three seconds, and Frank Zappa…
“de-gene-erates” is hilarious the core premise is an interesting thought experiment, but the overall plot unfortunately doesn’t do it justice
Watched: Dark Matter S1E8, Jupiter 🍿 One more episode left and this one was very good!
★★★★: Still a little goofy in that way 60s movies were, but has a pretty straightforward plot and some fun action. Good humor too, he's cheeky. The series is really starting to come together! FYI: My reviews are scored out of 4. Also, thanks for subscribing to my RSS feed and supporting the indie web!
By Kirk KahoeCrimson River Games LLCGeneric/UniversalLevels: Any Warning! This is as close as you can get to being a Heartbreaker without actua;;y being a Heartbreaker. An eternal horror haunts the woods, reaping an endless harvest of woe from those foolish or desperate enough to travel through them. Tired and injured, the party will have to not only face an endless onslaught from the horror but fatigue and madness as well, for there is no sleep in the Old Man’s realm other than the sleep of…
Have you ever had a romantic moment interrupted? It can be annoying – and it is certainly the case for the two lobsters in Tanked an award winning animated short by Duncan Rudd. Their tango in a tank is interrupted by the chef, who has a dinner order to fulfil and a sadistic gleam in his eye. Well, you know what karma is… Tanked was something of a passion project for Rudd, who fitted it in around family and work commitments over a period of nine months. Although this animation is short and…
