I finally finished C-drama “How Dare You?!” (2026) last week, and just recently, I started watching “Pursuit of Jade”. My friends have been watching it on Netflix and they have been raving about it ever since. I also saw similar positive reactions on /cdrama subreddit, so I’m quite excited! I usually talked about C-drama series that I’ve been watching on this blog, but I couldn’t find the motivation to do so for “How Dare You?!” Not that the story is bad; it’s actually pretty good. IINM, it was…
Opera night. I put on the suit I got in Vietnam. And then I went to Dream of the Red Chamber. So many steps at the hall. So sheer. I thought of how the Aztecs would roll corpses down the pyramids. And if I would be beside them. I was up in the top right in the nosebleed section, and I could see the nosebleed. I was so conscious of my nose, the feeling that it was dripping. The hook of it. The actors were too forced, and I could see why opera is a dying art. That it has greatness in it. But it’s…
I Swear was a great movie experience for me. Highly recommended. As someone who has Tourette’s Syndrome, it was a tremendously rare and emotional experience to see someone like me portrayed sympathetically in a movie. Basically never happens, certainly never this convincingly. I felt seen and understood and touched. It’s a tear-jerker. I also thought it might be worth trying compare the experience of the protagonist with my own, which is a little different. The fact that the main character in I…
The new series Widow’s Bay came to Apple TV this week, along with a flurry of press. I was surprised to see anything about a new series leak into my sphere of internet awareness, since that never happens anymore. The only others I can think of are Pluribus (haven’t seen it yet, plan to) and Severance (watched a few episodes and had to take a break when it got a little too heavy). Every time I open the Apple TV app to watch a movie, the landing page looks like a mockup of a fake streaming…
Did MrBeast's briefcase destroy Survivor 50? Nope. Could it have? Yup. But up until he showed up at Tribal Council, this was one of the best Survivor 50 episodes yet.
This is a blog post that goes along with the most recent bonus pod! You can listen to the first 15 minutes of the bonus pod below, but you’ll have to subscribe on Patreon to get the RSS feed of the full episode (as well as access to our Discord). This might sound unreal, but one of my earliest and most distinct memories is of a particular day rummaging through my mom’s closet looking for presents. It wasn’t my birthday or Christmas or anything like that; I just had this wild notion that maybe…
by Cláudio Alves Ideally, trailers and other promo are meant to sell a movie to their prospective audience, enticing and seducing butts into seats. Ideally, they'll build anticipation for a good time. Ideally, they don't make dread pool in the bellies of those who might have been excited about the project before they laid eyes on its ads. And yet, the trailers for The Devil Wears Prada 2 almost dared us to be optimistic in the face of an obvious nostalgia-drunk cash grab like so many others…
THE GANG’S ALL HERE. Monogram Pictures, 1941. Frankie Darro, Marcia Mae Jones, Jackie Moran, Keye Luke, Mantan Moreland. Director: Jean Yarbrough. Frankie Darro and his pal Jeff (Mantan Moreland0 land jobs with a trucking company that, unknown to them, is having a problem with hijackers. What’s worse, even though the boss and his daughter are fine people, the problem is an inside one. The budget restrictions were painfully obvious, but this is my kind of movie. It has everything: action,…
The first recording is a repeat of Space 1999 – The Dorcons. Media Centre Description: The Dorcons: Sci-fi drama series about space-age castaways. The Dorcons – the most powerful race in the galaxy – demand that the Alphans hand Maya over to them. Recorded from ITV4 on Thursday 31st December 2009 09:23 The recording ends with the start of The Champions. The next recording is a later showing of the same episode of Space 1999. Media Centre Description: The Dorcons: Sci-fi drama series about…
In the movie, Omaha, a recently widowed father (John Magaro) takes his nine-year-old daughter Ella (Molly Belle Wright) and his six-year-old son Charlie (Wyatt Solis) on a road trip. The family travels in a car that's so beat-up Ella must help Dad push the vehicle in hopes of getting a jump start. From the outset of this ultimately troubling film, it's clear that this is no pleasure trip. Setting a slight but emotionally rich story against lonely American landscapes, director Cole Webley…
It has been 20 years since The Devil Wears Prada became a box-office hit. The Devil Wears Prada 2, a belated sequel, reunites the principal players -- Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt, and Stanley Tucci -- for a movie that loads up on glamor, fashion, and unbridled ambition in the world of magazine publishing. Director David Frankel returns with a story that contrives to bring Hathaway's Andy Sachs back into the world of Miranda Priestly (Streep), the tyrannical taste-making editor of…
I haven't watched a single episode of Naruto in my life.
Lindy Percival, Nathanael Scott, Daniel Carter, and others: This list of our 50 best films will likely provoke debate, but with the aid of 24 experts, including directors, actors, critics, curators and authors, what follows is an inspiring reminder of what we’ve seen so far and a heartfelt encouragement to go on watching our stories on screen. Spoilers: Crocodile Dundee doesn’t feature, though The Castle does, but overall the fifty selected titles are indicative — I think — of the best…
Finally, finally, Keith Griffiths’ documentary about Len Lye (1901–1980) turns up on YouTube. Doodlin’ – Impressions of Len Lye was made in 1987, and is one of several films that Griffiths made about avant-garde film-makers. There’s some slight crossover with his later history of abstract cinema—Stan Brakhage turns up in both films—but Lye was always much more than a film-maker despite his pioneering work of the 1930s. Doodlin’ charts Lye’s progress from his youth in New Zealand, where his…
A string map, described as a “wall of death,” appears in Deadly Impact (dir. Robert Kurtzman, 2010). ▲ Deadly Impact (dir. Robert Kurtzman, 2010)
@harrymackofficial Rhyming On The One - EUROPE 2026 TICKETS ON SALE #freestyle #hiphop #rap ♬ original sound - Harry Mack - Harry Mack @finfunkyinterior A radical idea, long before its time. The Linearetta “Musica in Casa” Hi-Fi by Cesare Fiorese for Bernini, Italy, 1960s. Conceived not as a machine, but as part of the architecture — a 2-meter horizontal composition designed to live within the space, not dominate it. A sliding smoked plexiglass panel reveals a fully integrated system:…
I noticed Dept. Q actress Chloe Pirrie will play Lady Middleton (wife of John, not the older
Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan in When Harry Met Sally (1989) Vitals Billy Crystal as Harry Burns, recent college graduate Chicago to New York City, Spring 1977 Film: When Harry Met Sally… Release Date: July 14, 1989 Director: Rob Reiner Costume Designer: Gloria Gresham WARNING! Spoilers ahead! Background I graduated from college fifteen years ago this week, and I’m still (slightly) younger than 40-year-old Billy Crystal was when he played recent University of Chicago graduate Harry Burns in the…
A promotional lobby card for 'Annie Laurie' (1926) starring Lillian Gish.This year's silent film series at the Brandon (Vt.) Town Hall and Community Center opens with a screening of the MGM historical blockbuster 'Annie Laurie' (1926) on Saturday May 2 at 7 p.m.I'll be at the keyboard for the 16th year of silent films and live music in Brandon. It's turned into quite a run, which is good because I very much enjoy presenting silent films with live music in this venue.Why? Well, the hall has…
I chose to watch a new movie on HBO a few weeks ago on a Saturday Night. A great movie, Patton, was on at the same time on the Fox Movie Channel, but I’d already seen it countless times. I watched the new movie (I can’t even remember the name of it) for about 40 minutes but could not get interested in it, so I turned the television to Patton and was immediately fascinated. I should have decided to watch it all along and was reminded how great a movie it is. Great movies are still being made…
kontroll is a movie about ticket inspectors in this sortof depressing hungarian subway but its still comedy btw. there are killings, people being pushed under the train and we are following bulcsú one of the ticket inspectors. basically everyone hates them and its like sortof dark comedy, and also bulcsú will find love underground. this movie has a great atmosphere and a soundtrack too which is also included.its my fav movie of all time u can watch it below with english subtitlesalso no full…
John Wyver writes: I am something of a fan of the Voices of British Ballet podcast, which features oral history recordings made since 2002 as well as new exchanges with dancers, choreographers and critics. A current strand is celebrating the great dancer and choreographer Ninette de Valois, marking the 100th anniversary of the founding of Ninette de Valois’ Academy for Choregraphic Art in March 1926 and 25 years since de Valois’ death. One recent fascinating edition features Patricia Linton…
Hercule Poirot’s associate, Captain Hastings narrates the book The Mysterious Affair At Styles.
THE FOLLOWING IS WRITTEN BY MY FRIEND AND COLLEAGUE ALONSO DURALDE. YOU CAN LEARN MORE ABOUT HIM HERE. WHAT’S NEW ON 4K/BLU/DVD IN APRIL: DUST BUNNY, FACES OF DEATH, UFORIA AND MORE! NEW RELEASE WALL Dust Bunny (Lionsgate): Visionary TV mogul (and, full disclosure, personal friend) Bryan Fuller makes his big-screen directorial debut with all of the clever scares and gloriously overstated art direction that fans have come to love in cult favorites like Pushing Daisies and Hannibal. The latter’s…
Fighting Elegy star Hideki Takahashi is Tetsu, an assassin whose life is saved by artist Kenji (star of Black Snow, not that one). Broke, our guys try to find anonymous manual work, but get tangled up with women and get themselves noticed (and implicated in murders and explosions). Kenji sketches the boss’s wife naked, which doesn’t go over well with the boss, and now Tetsu has to avenge his stupid brother. Suzuki brings mad style to the final ten minutes – which is an improvement over the one…
La Disco Resplandece (2016, Chema Garcia Ibarra) Kids hangin’ out movie, getting into harmless trouble (breaking into a former dance club, arriving sleepless and temp-tattooed to a serious ceremony the next day). Common directorial themes I can connect to the feature include UFOs, but unfortunately not cockatiels. – Boogie Woogie Sioux (1942, Alex Lovy) Not amusing enough to be worth all the dated racism, story of a native tribe on a hot day and the rain-dance band that fortunately is driving…
A Polish-Jewish family comes to the U.S. at the beginning of the twentieth century. There, the family and their children try to make themselves a better future in the so-called promised land. I postponed this for a while, up to the point where I forgot why I even wanted to watch this. Opening the IMDb page, I instantly remembered: it’t’s directed by Barry Levinson, the director of The Natural, Rain Man, Good Morning Vietnam, and Sleepers. With a great cast together, including Aidan Quinn,…
The first recording is a repeat of Space 1999 – The immunity Syndrome. Media Centre Description: The Immunity Syndrome: Intergalactic adventures of the space-travelling Moonbase Alpha team. Commander Koenig and the team find what appears to be an inhabitable planet. Recorded from ITV4 on Wednesday 30th December 2009 10:23 After this the recording ends with the start of The Saint. The next recording is a repeat of Kiki’s Delivery Service. Media Centre Description: A young witch-in-training has…
PREVIEW DISCLAIMER: The show has not yet officially opened to critics. Dave Harris' Tender is the latest play to deal with a modern crisis of masculinity, although maybe one without quite the same level of toxicity as some of its predecessors. Darren Bennett plays a former adult performer who now leads a trio of male strippers called the Dancing Bears: Exploiting a loophole in New Jersey law, they are to all intents and purposes prostitutes, the mostly-female clientèle being allowed to do a lot…
