(this is a mirror of my review of the recently released documentary of the vaporwave music scene, Nobody Here: The Story of Vaporwave, taken from my Letterboxd account) I'll get this one out of my chest: the audacity of the people submitting this doc on this site putting Vektroid's full name in the casting, despite her face and voice literally nowhere to be seen. that alone already cemented how much worth this movie has. as someone who's still relatively a newbie to this musical movement (the…
Seven unique character-driven stories. Each character will set off on a thrilling adventure in an uncertain future and they’ll come to reckon that even during our most isolated moments, we are all connected through the human experience. An anthology mini-series, containing ten stories, with each episode based on one of the Ten Commandments and explores characters facing one or several moral or ethical dilemmas as they reside in an austere housing project in 1980s Poland. The episodes themselves…
A bullied boy forms a unique friendship with his new neighbor, a peculiar girl with a dark secret. A fragile, anxious boy, 12-year-old Oskar is regularly bullied by his stronger classmates but never strikes back. The lonely boys wish for a friend seems to comes true when he meets Eli, also 12, who moves in next door to him. But Elis arrival coincides with a series of gruesome deaths and attacks. Though Oskar realizes that she’s a vampire, his friendship with her is stronger than his fear……
In 'The Other Window' was the final episode of the first series of the supernatural anthology series 'Shadows' scientist father John Woodvine ('Knights of God', 'Enys Men') brings home a fresnel lens to amuse his three children, Elizabeth (Gwyneth Strong), Mark (Roy Jacobs) & Jan (Sophie Ward). After taping it to the window the children begin to see figures from the past through it, visions from their family's history that begin to take on a sinister aspect.Written by husband and wife, J.B.…
An original lobby card promoting 'Annie Laurie' (1927).More than a month since I last posted anything on this blog. Wow!I've still been accompanying as many films as ever. It's just that I've gone through a period where real life exceeded my capacity for writing about it.But here I am again. And we'll pick up with a preview of an upcoming screening: the MGM epic 'Annie Laurie' (1927), starring Lillian Gish, which I'm accompanying this afternoon in at the Center for the Arts in Natick, Mass.The…
Video transcript: You know, when you’re watching a play, and the auditorium is silent. Nobody’s shuffling around, there’s no noise whatsoever, and you can just tell that everybody is utterly gripped. Well, that was what it was like watching Mass at the Donmar Warehouse for the entire hour and 45 minutes. This is an extraordinary play, a very powerful play, a gripping play. And it’s remarkable for a lot of reasons, not least that it’s a very static play in that for a large portion of it, you…
The Matrix Revolutions (2003)
A good chase sequence. Maybe in Asia from the characters on the shed but not a lot of detail on it. Drones obviously are a big deal now for this. I would like to know the hare species. It can run.
⚠️ SPOILER WARNING: MILD SPOILERS My Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ (4/5 stars) Highly, highly unbelievable yet very entertaining. Great cast. If you want to kill about two hours and are after a fun, fast-paced movie, this delivers. It’s not profound, but it does exactly what it sets out to do, entertain. This product uses the TMDb API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDb.
The Double R Diner in Mark Frost and David Lynch’s Twin Peaks is one of the most iconic diners in television history. Known as the place “where pies go when they die,” the fictional restaurant is based on a real place you can visit in North Bend, Washington. When Frost and Lynch filmed the pilot... The post Love Letter to Pat Cokewell, former owner of the Mar-T Cafe in North Bend, Wash. appeared first on TWIN PEAKS BLOG.
The first recording today starts with the end of Animal Park. There’s trails for Three Men go to Ireland, Outnumbered and the Tracy Beaker web game. Then it’s The Pixar Story, a documentary from 2007, so it goes up to the release of Cars. This documentary is available on Disney Plus if you want to watch it. I think it’s quite good. Obviously, it concentrates a lot on John Lasseter, who was definitely the primary creative head during this time. Brad Bird wasn’t one of the original Pixar team,…
Mary Beth Hurt, who appeared in such films as Interiors (1978) and The World According to Garp (1982), died on March 28, 2026, at the age of 79. She had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 2015.Mary Beth Hurt was born Mary Beth Supinger on September 26, 1946, in Marshalltown, Iowa. As a child she was babysat by future film star Jean Seberg, who lived only a street over from her family. She graduated from Marshalltown High School and then enrolled in the University of Iowa to study drama.…
FAST AND FURIOUS is described as an Educational Mermaid Comedy, but there are no mermaids in it, educational or otherwise. And actually there’s no sex (we’re British) and no videotape really in the above clip, but I have surreptitiously taught you how to pronounce “Lige.” It’s comedian Lige Conway, short for Elijah. Conway may be […]
StarringMichelle Yeoh, Stephanie Hsu, Ke Huy Quan, James Hong, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Tallie Medel DirectorDaniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan OverviewAn aging Chinese immigrant is swept up in an insane adventure, where she alone can save what's important to her by connecting with the lives she could have led in other universes.Review: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (3.9 avg)An absurdist work of art that shows how joy in the mundane is the cure to nihilism. Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)
I went to see Mother Mary last night at the Revue Cinema, I thought it had some really cool ideas and style, but kind of felt flat on the execution.
It was a rewatch after I saw Einzelganger's video from last year about the philosophy of Tyler Durden, one of the main character, and my favorite one. This movie is a classic cult, and has a big fan following. I expect that you must have already watched it at least once. So I wont go in the details of the plot. However, what is amazing here is that thirty years later one can still connect to it. The movie was made in 90s when capitalism was not at its peak—people might had thought…
Children's Theatre Company is returning to The Wizard of Oz, one of the classic adaptations in their repertoire, but one they haven't done in over ten years. This production features brand new design and direction, and a mostly new cast (with the exception of returning company members, because why mess with perfection?). For those of us who grew up with the 1939 Judy Garland movie version of Frank L. Baum's novel (the first in a series of 14 books), it feels nostalgic and familiar, like the…
Miscellaneous bits of news and fun stuff from around the Internet......Coming to Blu-ray later this year from ClassicFlix: Hopalong Cassidy - The Legacy Collection, Volume 2. The set will contain CALL OF THE PRAIRIE (1936), THREE ON A TRAIL (1936), and HEART OF THE WEST (1936), plus bonus features. There's more info on the movies in this collection from Toby Roan at 50 Westerns From the 50s....King Vidor's THE TEXAS RANGERS (1936) will be out on Blu-ray from Kino Lorber Studio Classics in June.…
In March I shared that the UCLA Festival of Preservation has been scheduled to take place from May 29th through 31st at the Billy Wilder Theater in Westwood.The schedule for the entire weekend is now available at the UCLA Film & Television Archive website.The schedule opens Friday evening, the 29th, with a film and TV special celebrating black performers such as Ossie Davis and Redd Foxx.I intend to see four films on Saturday the 30th:*ADVENTURES OF CASANOVA (1948) which I saw in a 16mm print…
My movie-viewing has slowed down in recent weeks, but I’ve caught a few worth mentioning. F1: The Movie (2025) was pretty much what I expected, an enjoyable but unmemorable Brad Pitt vehicle with a predictable arc. I find myself inexplicably drawn to Formula 1 movies, even though I’m as un-petrolhead as they come. It had the edge over Cowboys & Aliens, a 2011 movie with the star-power of Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford but without as much verve as its concept needed. In some ways it was director…
Yesterday, I found a post i think we're obsessed with aesthetic on the Discovery Feed. It featured quite a few nice quotes. My favourite was this one: It's a real "people die when they are killed" kind of quote. Your first reaction is probably going to be some faint amusement, accompanied by a thought like Well, duh. Thanks, Captain Obvious.1 But aside from the factual layer, it also has a personal, contemplative element. This scene shows one of those moments where you see something that you've…
Platonic Space, by Michael Levin (2025)
i attended a single sesson of 6th istanbul international experimental film festival last year, but it was enough to leave a lasting impression. it is the only film festival i look forward to. experimental cinema has a way of stretching your perception of what film can be, especially when it intersects with academia and philosophy. unlike mainstream screenings, these films don’t always offer clear narratives or easy interpretations. instead, they invite you to experience, question, and sometimes…
by Team Experience LIAM NEESON, HARVEY KEITEL, EDDIE MURPHY, and WILLIAM H MACY are just four of many actors we'd love to see stage an Oscar comeback. Hello dearest readers. Inspired by Amy Madigan's amazing Oscar comeback we've spent the last month fantasizing about another such occurence. Because our audience is less into actors than actresses, we did a more abbreviated version of the mammoth actress poll / team ranking / reader ranking we recently posted in three parts. Today it's all in…
Whoops, this week’s Friday Fave got bumped to Saturday because it’s been a busy week!Okay, here’s a hypothetical scenario. You’re watching a movie or TV show. An actress or actor enters the scene and they seem familiar. You can’t quite place them, though. Where else have you seen them? What do you do? Me? I have to immediately know what else they’ve been in, or I cannot continue to enjoy the show. It’s a compulsion, I know. (Mind you, this isn’t for every actor, and I don’t do this in the movie…
As you know, this site is all about looking back at the past. And, of course, from the perspective of 2026, 1977 is the past—nearly fifty years, or just as many years as this issue was from 1928, one year before the start of the Great Depression.Ellen Torgerson has an interesting article this week, the kind that Edith Efron would have written once upon a time, on teen viewing habits. It's interesting not because of what those habits are, but because of how they highlight the changes that have…
This blog is moving to another domain Please update your feeds. It was a rewatch after I saw Einzelganger's video from last year about the philosophy of Tyler Durden, one of the main character, and my favorite one. This movie is a classic cult, and has a big fan following. I expect that you must have already watched it at least once. So I wont go in the details of the plot. However, what is amazing here is that thirty years later one can still connect to it. The movie was made in 90s when…
A MUSICAL IS BORN…OUT OF POP”S PAST I liked this rackety, brassy, exhilarating banger of a show: a cartoonish bit of history, a jukebox musical with a heart of gold . It’s from an East Anglian touring consortium of five theatres with a feeling for their North Sea coast, celebrating the brief, glorious cheek of a 1960’s pirate station: Caroline, a battered ship anchored off the coast to beam all-day pop records to teenagers fed up, as the entrepreneurial founder said, with listening to Vera Lynn…
The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming! (1966)
This weekend, we pay tribute to animation producer and director Walter Lantz (1899-1994).Loved seeing Mr. Lantz on TV hosting The Woody Woodpecker Show back in the 1960's.Here's Walter with his wife and cartoon voice artist Gracie Stafford Lantz (the voice of Woody Woodpecker after the departure of voiceman/storyman Ben Hardaway). Mr. Lantz was assisted very aptly by, to name just a few talented collaborators, animators Shamus Culhane, Dick Lundy, Bill Nolan, Tex Avery, Grim Natwick, Emery…
