I was reminded of this hilarious SNL sketch from 2012 which imagines some “lesser-known” Bond girls: Diane Keaton, Jodie Foster, Penny Marshall, Ellen Degeneres, Lea Michele, and Molly Ringwald.A bonus are the ridiculous but almost-beliveable Bond movie titles: Never Die Twice Tomorrow, The Man Who Was a Gun, etc.Daniel Craig was hosting, so he appears, along with Taran Killam doing a not-terrible Connery impression.Here it is on YouTube.

"If all the world is a commodity, how poor we grow.When all the world is a gift in motion, how wealthy we become."– Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass

One of the ways I help get myself into the spooky season mood is with horror movies. I'm still working my way through the list of classic 80s (ish) horror movies that were suggested to me some years back. Slumber Party Massacre 3/5The whole movie I was just thinking about how dumb that big drill was as a weapon. Other than that, it was pretty much exactly what the title suggested it was going to be. Plenty of nudity, plenty of death, and a serial killer suitably demented. Nightbreed 4/5Clive…

A "depressing elimination and mediocrity on the dance floor" during DWTS 35's Disney on Broadway but Only Kinda week led Marshal Knight to analyze what's actually getting attention this season.

1958 SF/horror, dir. Kurt Neumann, Al (David) Hedison, Patricia Owens: IMDb. Hélène loved her husband. So why did she kill him in a hydraulic press?

Did you know that if you visit Ticonderoga, New York you can visit a 17th century fortress that was an important part of the French and Indian War as well as the American Revolution, and then go down the street and see the 23rd century and stand on the bridge of the Enterprise from the 1960s TV series Star Trek? I didn't know this until recently, and we decided to feature this visit as part of my 20th Century American series on this blog. The Original Series Star Trek TV show aired from…

Welcome to Day 3 of Noirvember 2026 where my Daily Dish topic is Favorite Noir Director. This one definitely made me put on my thinking cap (or my ruminating fedora, if you will) – there are so many great ones. Before I share my pick, I’d just like to give a tip of the hat to Anthony Mann, Robert Siodmak, and Fritz Lang; together, they were responsible for such personal favorites as The Great Flamarion (1945), Scarlet Street (1945), Desperate (1947), Cry of the City (1948), Criss Cross (1949),…

There are times in Twin Peaks where the real world crosses into the fictional world created by Mark Frost and David Lynch. This is best seen in the various props and set decorations that fill the the wonderful and strange town. One of my favorite things to identify are newspapers and magazines as they help determine when... The post Twin Peaks Set Decoration – Hank Jennings’ Newspaper at the Double R Diner in Episode 1.005 appeared first on TWIN PEAKS BLOG.

Movies Calling Philo Vance (1940) D: William Clemens. S: James Stephenson, Margot Stevenson, Henry O’Neill, Edward Brophy, Ralph Forbes. Stephenson takes over as PHILO (his only appearance, however; he died a year after this entry), now working for the State Department and trying to root out traitors and saboteurs. The espionage angle’s just set dressing around the S.S. Van Dine adaptation, but adequate for most of the picture. Brophy’s fun, Stephenson’s likable (and has a cute dog). Captive…

Did the chef kill a guest? Did the chef beat up a drunk? Did the chief stew do any work? Did I make references to Strawberry Shortcake and Butt-Head? It's all in my Below Deck season 13 episode 4 recap!

I usually enjoy Liam Neeson action movies, no matter how old he gets (grin), and when I recently saw a poster for THE MONGOOSE (2026) at my local theater, I was intrigued,A supporting cast including "Aunt May" (Marisa Tomei) from the most recent SPIDER-MAN movies and "Luther" (Ving Rhames) from the MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE franchise? Sold.As the film begins, Ryan "Fang" Flanagan (Neeson) is driving a fancy car at top speeds, with the police in hot pursuit.As the story unfolds, partly told in…

The first recording today is a repeat of What’s New Scooby-Doo? – Diamonds Are a Ghoul’s Best Friend. Media Centre Description: Children’s animated series about a group of teenage sleuths and their cowardly dog. The ghost of a Russian hockey player shows up to ruin a world cup hockey event. Recorded from CBBC Channel on Monday 25th October 2010 07:08 BBC Genome: CBBC Channel Monday 25th October 2010 07:10 After this there’s a bit of CBBC continuity with a song – Get Amongst It. Then the…

Susan Saint James, who starred on McMillan & Wife and Kate & Allie, died on October 26, 2026, at the age of 80. The cause was pancreatic cancer.Susan Saint James was born Susan Jane Miller on August 14, 1946 in Los Angeles. In 1958, the family moved to Rockford, Illinois. She went to the Woodlands Academy of the Sacred Heart in Lake Forest, Illinois. She began modelling while still in high school. Afterwards she attended Connecticut College. She adopted the surname "St. James" when she was 20…

Quoted Jaadugar: A Witch in Mongolia Anime Casts Sumo Wrestlers Tamawashi, Tamashoho by Crystalyn Hodgkins (Anime News Network) Jaadugar: A Witch in Mongolia, the television anime of Tomato Soup's A Witch's Life in Mongol (Tenmaku no Jādūgar) manga, has cast Mongolian wrestlers Tamawashi and Tamashoho (full names Ichirō Tamawashi and Manpei Tamashōhō) in the series. Both are active professional sumo wrestlers and are from the Kataonami stable. Tamawashi will voice Genghis Khan, the founder of…

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🍿 The Royal Tenenbaums could have come out last week and would still be groundbreaking. The Grand Budapest Hotel is my Wes Anderson favorite, but by being a notch or two less Andersonian, Tenenbaums make for a better movie.

The Stan Smith started out in the mid 60s named after French tennis player Robert Haillet. It was the first leather tennis shoe, dreamt up by Adi Dassler's son Horst and made in Landersheim in France. Adidas later put an American player, Stan Smith, on the tongue, and for a few years the shoe carried his face next to Haillet's name. Haillet's name finally came off in 1978.The Superstar came out in 1969 as a basketball shoe. The rubber toe was there so seven foot men with size 16 feet didn't…

StarringTom Holland, Sadie Sink, Tramell Tillman, Zendaya, and Jacob BatalonDirectorDestin Daniel CrettonOverviewA brand new day starts now.Fighting crime full-time as Spider-Man in a world that doesn't remember him—and the pressure of seeing his old friends move on without him—sparks a change in Peter Parker he may not have the power to control. But that transformation might also be the only thing that can stop a shocking new threat to the city and those he loves - a powerful villain no one…

Classic string boards labelled “Human Murder Board,” “Map with Pins,” and “Clues” appear in VisionQuest s01e04 (Disney+, 2026). ▲ VisionQuest s01e04 (Disney+, 2026) ▲ VisionQuest s01e04 (Disney+, 2026) ▲ VisionQuest s01e04 (Disney+, 2026) ▲ VisionQuest s01e04 (Disney+, 2026) ▲ VisionQuest s01e04 (Disney+, 2026) ▲ VisionQuest s01e04 (Disney+, 2026) ▲ VisionQuest s01e04 (Disney+, 2026) ▲ VisionQuest s01e04 (Disney+, 2026) ▲ VisionQuest s01e04 (Disney+, 2026) ▲ VisionQuest s01e04 (Disney+, 2026) ▲…

Movies Not a lot of movies during this period, I basically skipped all of September. I am likely to end up with a much lower total number of movies watched this year compared to the last year and I keep having to remind myself that it's fine, I'm not a corporation bound by "line must go up"! A Time to Kill (1996) Watched on 2026-10-11: ★★★ A Time to Kill (1996) Decided to watch this because it was leaving Netflix soon and I hadn't seen anything John Grisham in a while. I was not expecting it to…

Rock Hudson (1925-1985) isn’t known for frock flicks — he was first and best known

Today we get to view America's two great pasions: football and politics. When they get to come together like this, it's the greatest combo since Reese's combined peanut butter and chocolate. Republican Vice Presidential candidate George Bush is on Face the Nation, while former President Gerald Ford is on Meet the Press. Paid political advertisements are scattered through the day, as are network analaysis shows predicting Tuesday's vote. On the football side, NBC has the doubleheader (and you'll…

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 800. To celebrate and share this musical love, here is … Continue reading →

How Jon Pertwee made a bid for chart stardom with a little help from Deep Purple...

1. Surgeons removed Peter Falk's right eye, along with a malignant tumor, when he was three years old. In a 1997 interview in Cigar Aficionado, Falk famously shared a baseball anecdote: "I remember once in high school the umpire called me out at third base when I was sure I was safe. I got so mad I took out my glass eye, handed it to him and said, 'Try this.' I got such a laugh you wouldn't believe." To compensate for the lack of movement in his right eye, Falk naturally squinted or tilted his…

Showmen: For a Few Dollars More and The Valley of DecisionFOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE (1965/1967) --- Nearly a year and a half elapsed between Italian release of For a Few Dollars More and its American open. Did this bespeak a lack of confidence? Turns out United Artists, as US distributor and financier on the second and third “Dollars” westerns, wanted to release all three over four-month intervals beginning in January 1967, like episodes of a TV program offered close enough together so patrons…

Man Made Monster (1941) Lon Chaney Jr. stars as Dan McCormick, a carnival performer whose act involves working with electricity. His continued exposure to electric shocks has made him partially immune to the effects of electrocution. When he survives a bus accident that kills the rest of his fellow passengers, he captures the attention of Dr. Paul Rigas (Lionel Atwill). Dr. Rigas views McCormick as the perfect test subject for his experiment, to create a perfect human being that doesn’t require…

Happy November!The year is moving right along, and it's time for a look at the November lineup on Turner Classic Movies.Burt Lancaster will be the November Star of the Month, with 31 of his films screening spread across Tuesday evenings. I'll be highlighting some of the titles below. The November Noir Alley films will be BREAKDOWN (1952) on November 7th and 8th, SLANDER (1957) November 14th-15th, NORA PRENTISS (1947) on the 21st and 22nd, and THE GREAT FLAMARION (1945) on November 28th and…