🍿Just watched Jurassic Park with my kid. He enjoyed it. It holds up, just as it did the last time I watched it about 10 years ago. The animatronics are still impressive, the CGI less so.
Merry Christmas! We kick off with another musical and another musical which I have performed in on stage. It’s Kiss Me Kate. It’s the musical based on Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew It opens with Howard Keel, as Fred Graham, welcoming Cole Porter to his apartment to discuss his new musical. Not actually the real Cole Porter, he’s played by Ron Randell. Fred wants his ex-wife Lilli to play opposite him in the show as Katherine. She’s played by Kathryn Grayson, and her antipathy towards Fred…
A new production of Christopher Hampton's best-known play, an adaptation of a novel by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos at the Lyttelton, marks Marianne Elliott's first time back at the National since Angels In America. Although this, and most other elements of Les Liaisons Dangereuses, seem to have been overshadowed by Lesley Aisons Manville, who's turned out to be surprisingly camera-shy for a film star. Manville plays the Marquise de Merteuil, the most in-demand guest of 18th Century Paris…
Patrick Muldoon, who played Richard Hart on the night time soap opera Melrose Place and was a regular on the daytime soap opera Days of Our Lives, died on April 19, 2026, at the age of 57. The cause was a heart attack.Patrick Muldoon was born on September 27, 1968. He went to Loyola High School in Los Angeles and then the University of Southern California. His major was English and communications, and he graduated in 1991. He played football in both high school and college. He did some…
Let's kind of not mess around here, because the festival wasn't. Boots Riley, on hand and talking with Brian Tamm about opening night film I Love Boosters. Interestingly, it was just the two of them for the most part - no Jon Bernhardt on the theremin as we waited for showtime, nor last year's Keytar Bear, and while the post-film discussion for some of these higher-profile movies would often
Magazines After deciding to boycott the movies this week because almost every local screen is filled with the Jackson sub-hagiography, I decided to make a special trip to the TG Jones on Allerton Road and buy this week's special edition of the parish circular dedicated to the Eighth Doctor and particularly the TV Movie with the Pertwee logo, on the occasion of its forthcoming 4K release. Sitting on the back balcony this afternoon, I read it cover to cover, captivated by the new information…
All I can say after watching Mother Mary, a muddled quasi-horror film, is that actress Michaela Coel has one of the most expressive voices in contemporary cinema. In Mother Mary, Coel delivers her dialogue with a whispery authority that masks some down-to-earth bite. If the voice is an instrument, Coel sure knows how to play it. So much for the enjoyment I got from Mother Mary, a movie about a American pop star (Anne Hathaway) who travels to Great Britain to have a dress designed by a woman…
I’m a huge fan of Porsche cars. There’s a reason I’ve got Porsche 911 GT3RS and Porsche 911 RSR as my collector’s Lego cars and I have a few other smaller models, too. That’s why when I saw this promo video of their 75th anniversary, I smiled, it’s so good: Is Porsche doing things wrong really? Here’s how they start: For over 75 years, we’ve done everything wrong. Talking about Porsche 911: When they said, engines go in the front, we put them in the back… When they said, ignition’s on the…
Opera producer Ellen Kent has had an illustrious career, taking many different opera and ballet productions around the UK for the past three decades – bringing Eastern European talent over to share their talents. On this farewell tour, she has mounted three different operatic productions with Opera International Kyiv: La traviata, Carmen and Madama Butterfly. From 21 to 23 April 2026 they will play on consecutive nights at Richmond Theatre. The youthful Micaela arrives at a square in Seville,…
I love it when cartoons interact with the real world. This looks spot on.
UNIVERSAL , INTIMATE, TRUE Sometimes it’s more than worth it to flog irritably through a London strike day, make it without even time for a drink but find something plain wonderful. And that is not only because Katie Greenall’s production invites audiences to enter the pub set fifteen minutes early, with Olivia Forrest’s Charlene idly playing darts, and be invited by the barman Valentine to have a go at the karaoke . On my night two stellar audience performances, one from a robust Britneyesque…
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CRACK-UP (1946), a somewhat confusing yet also very enjoyable RKO film noir, will be released on Blu-ray next week by the Warner Archive Collection.I first saw this film via the Warner Archive DVD a decade ago. Both then and now I found the film not completely successful, yet despite that I still like it very much. It has a great cast, wonderful atmosphere, and some snappy dialogue to offset a sometimes murky plot.As the movie begins, art expert George Steele (Pat O'Brien) staggers into a…
We just discovered a new (to us) Barbara Stanwyck film, and we can’t wait to share it with you. Internes Can’t Take Money (1937) is a Depression-era film with themes of desperate hope and exploitation. It’s about fulfilling dreams by doing the grunt work it takes. A man studies to become a doctor; a woman searches for her lost child. … Continue reading →
The first recording today starts with the end of Shaun The Sheep. Then, what I thought was a single episode of The Sarah Jane Adventures turns out to be four hours of back to back episodes. Since all the episodes are repeats, here’s all the continuity between them, featuring Iain Stirling and Hacker T Dog. Media Centre Description: Back-to-back episodes of the drama about a journalist who solves alien mysteries with the help of her teenage son and his friends. [S] Recorded from CBBC Channel on…
It's probably a mistake to look at Michael as a biopic that explores every facet of Michael Jackson’s life with nuance and studied objectivity. Approved by the Jackson estate and made with its participation, the movie makes no mention of the widely known child sex abuse claims against Jackson. The deconstruction of Jackson’s image began in 1993. Michael concludes in 1988, offering a terse title card at the end, “The story continues.” I’ll say. Whatever you think about Michael Jackson, director…
It has taken me a while to get back to season reviews of The Twilight Zone, mostly because I was reluctant to start season four knowing that this is when the series switched from 30-minute to 60-minute shows. It is not a coincidence that this is its least heralded season, so even with just 18 episodes I anticipated a difficult slog.Thankfully, the journey was not as arduous as I expected. Yes, the story padding is sometimes evident, and some of the show’s themes are becoming repetitive (longing…
Photo by arquidis molina on UnsplashI read a tweet about how Anne Hathaway is making a movie about a book about a tradwife influencer who magically wakes up in the year 1855. I thought to myself, that’s a fun idea, and then read the book, Yesteryear. It was eminently not fun.The book is written in the first person, and the first person is miserable. She’s bitter and mean and she assumes that everyone around her is also bitter and mean. The world of Yesteryear is populated exclusively by expats…
We finished Season 2 for Fallout last week. SPOILERS ahead, don’t read if you care.—-------------------------------------------------------------Season 2 was pretty solid. I think we were a few episodes in before my wife asked about a specific character arc and I told her I didn't have an answer because they don’t exist in the game. I never really thought about how people that watch the show who didn’t play the game assume that we are watching a story ( and characters ) unfold and interact…
There used to be a kind of webcomic whose author, faced with the terrifying freedom of the website format and the urgent need to publish or perish, either failed or refused to rein it the fuck in, to set purposeful boundaries around their thing. Billions of years go by, universes are created and destroyed. Time is travelled. Physicists are named and quoted by full-on fireball-throwing wizards. I'm not saying these are always bad things for a story to do, just that a lot of webcomics in the 00s…
DC / Warner Bros on YouTube: Look fear in the face. #ClayfaceMovie only in theaters this October. DC Studios’ first-ever foray into the genre, “Clayface” is a horror thriller from director James Watkins, starring Tom Rhys Harries in the title role of the Gotham City villain. “Clayface” unravels one man’s horrifying descent from rising Hollywood star to revenge-filled monster in a story that explores the loss of one’s identity and humanity, corrosive love, and the dark underbelly of scientific…
Coprolalia is the term applied to people with Tourette's Syndrome who are subject to involuntary bursts of profanity. These often untimely explosions affect somewhere between 10 and 15 percent of those afflicted with Tourette's. The movie I Swear uses coprolalia to serious and comic effect in telling the real-life story of John Davidson (Robert Aramayo), a young Scottish man who suffers from the rejections of those who don't realize that his disruptions are involuntary. Davidson eventually…
Update: A trailer for the movie just came out today as well and looks scary!Original Post:Clayface is a Batman villain I've always found fascinating. The most well-known version is actor Basil Karlo, a man so desperate for fame that he becomes a hideous monster inadvertently. It is quite tragic and some comic stories/shows have done a great job exploring Clayface as a character and what makes him, "Tick." There is a movie focused on the character coming this Fall (I hope it is good), and with…
By Ben Miller As I left my screening of Antoine Fuqua's Michael, I heard a woman exclaim, "That was exactly what I wanted!" This is the overall goal of this film. You will learn absolutely nothing about Michael Jackson the man, but you will get every hit song with loud and vibrant performances. Frankly, Michael is critic-proof. No matter how much I go on about my multitude of problems, you just won't care. It looks like Michael Jackson on screen, using his actual music, inspired by his…
The Blood on Satan's Claw by Fiona Moore I'll admit I sat down to watch The Blood on Satan's Claw with mixed expectations. The title is tragically generic, the budget low and the director, Piers Haggard, a complete unknown. However, it was made by Tigon Productions, who made the groundbreaking folk horror movie Witchfinder General, … Continue reading [April 22, 1971] Cinemascope: Witchfinder Specific: The Blood on Satan's Claw and The Virgin Witch → The post [April 22, 1971] Cinemascope:…
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by Michael Uhall 0. IntroductionForty minutes into Alex van Warmerdam’s Borgman (2013), we encounter a pivotal scene. Marina – one half of a well-to-do Dutch couple – crouches in the garden shed, frantically sweeping at a pile of spilled potting soil. Realizing the gardener’s been murdered, she’s trying to hide the evidence. Her husband Richard appears, and she makes a hasty excuse for the mess. Richard: “But, darling, you don’t need to tidy that up. That’s what the gardener is for.” She tells…
Audio Sontarans vs Rutans is a four-part release which has all the hallmarks of having originally been conceived of as a themed boxset à la Peladon, but thank the maker, it has been split into three separate releases which makes it a bit cheaper for those of us with a particular set of interests.As with the Time War, it's Big Finish filling in the gaps around moments in the timelines which were only hinted at on television, the ongoing war between the potato heads and the squids (terms which…
It’s a movie many thought we’d never see — and now, we’re just months away, with our first proper glimpse this morning. Coyote vs. ACME has had a troubled road to the silver screen — filmed in 2022, it was one of the Warner Bros. films killed off for tax credit purposes, and seemingly locked in a vault forever. And then Ketchup Entertainment stepped in. Having had a modest hit with another Warner Bros. cast-off in the Looney Tunes film The Day The Earth Blew Up, Ketchup seems to be the perfect…
