Fuller’s first great war movie. Fellow WWII vet Gene Evans plays a cigar-chompin’ slang-throwin’ tough guy, picking up a South Korean kid and a stray medic before linking up with a troop with an undercooked commanding officer. The men die off one at a time to traps and snipers and spies, then they die all at once during an all-out shooting battle at the temple where they’re camping. Medic James Edwards is resourceful: Our tough guy, through the clearing smoke: Survivors:

The first recording starts with the end of Jakers: The Adventures of Piggley Winks. Then it’s a repeat of Shaun the Sheep – Mountains out of Molehills. Media Centre Description: Children’s animation. Set on a remote rural farm, Shaun’s flock lives a peaceful life under the watchful eye of their sheepdog Bitzer. The flock are enjoying a boogie when a freshly dug molehill interrupts their fun. Shaun has to resort to ever-more extreme attempts to get rid of the pesky mole. Recorded from BBC ONE on…

Opens with convincingly real and unrehearsed news interviews, which they empasize are real and unrehearsed, but is the interview guy not aware that he’ll be in a movie? Why’s he gotta be so dry? From this drab beginning, the movie gets increasingly brutal, as the local casino runs a terror campaign against the voters, press, and church. Edwards stops John from killing a casino boss, too bad: John (Pickup on South Street) comes home to Phenix with his girl, has been there a half hour before…

Abbe Lane, the singer and actress who performed with her husband Xavier Cugat and appeared in both movies and on television, died on April 25, 2026 at the age of 93.Abbe Lane was born Abigail Francine Lassman on December 14, 1932, in Brooklyn. She was raised in Manhattan. Her show business career began when she was only four years old, and a child she appeared on both radio and in the 1938 Vitaphone short "Toyland Casino." She also did some modelling. She attended the High School of Music and…

It’s high time I made a start working through the Past Doctor Adventures series as put out by BBC Books once the Doctor Who novel licence was wrested away from Virgin. As I noted in my first review of their Eighth Doctor Adventures line, the novel landscape for the BBC Books-led fraction of the Wilderness Years ended up being somewhat more complex than the Virgin-led segment, where once the New Adventures got up to speed they (and, once they started, the Missing Adventures) kept a consistent…

Today's hat tip goes to one of a favorite comedian and wordsmiths from my misspent youth, the guy who recorded My Son The Nut, the great Allan Sherman (1924-1973).Here's Allan on the popular daytime program The Mike Douglas Show. Love Allan's appearance on Jay Ward Productions' Fractured Flickers.Allan was a frequent guest comic on The Dean Martin Show.Well, whatdaya know - found The Allan Sherman Show (1968) on Internet Archive - yippee kayyoh kayyay!

Having arrived back home with no particular difficulty, I am actually kind of relieved that studios are still giving The Odyssey and Spider-Man a bit of space, so I can watch some suddenly-good baseball and write movie reviews. I opted to skip The Samurai and the Prisoner at Fantasia once I saw that it was booked at The Coolidge Corner Theatre; so I'll get a chance to catch the new one from

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Two classic string boards are connected by red string in Mind Thief (dir. Matt Steinauer, 2022). ▲ Mind Thief (dir. Matt Steinauer, 2022) ▲ Mind Thief (dir. Matt Steinauer, 2022) ▲ Mind Thief (dir. Matt Steinauer, 2022) ▲ Mind Thief (dir. Matt Steinauer, 2022)

I had no idea that this existed until recently. Back in 2024, Kate Bush released a short animated music video called Little Shrew (Snowflake) – the word in brackets being the name of the track from her 2011 album 50 Words for Snow that is used as the soundtrack for this startling and poignant anti-war story. Apparently, the image of the destroyed block of flats that you see in the video is based on a real photograph that Bush saw – an image of the war in Ukraine. Yet the video doesn’t focus on…

A look at my collection of black and white publicity photos from Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me continues with an image of Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee) and James Hurley (James Marshall) at the light at Sparkwood & 21. This print comes from a collection of prints from Spelling Films International that I won at auction.... The post Twin Peaks Publicity – Spelling Films International – Laura Palmer and James Hurley at Sparkwood & “21” – 151-22 appeared first on TWIN PEAKS BLOG.

🍿Finished watching: Ted Lasso S4E1, Home. It’s good to have Ted Lasso back! Super annoyed that I can’t binge, but honestly that might actually be a good thing. Having gulped The Bear in a sitting this weekly dose might be a good thing.

Have you attended a theatre or cabaret show in Paris? We, sadly, have not. That was something we missed on a trip to Paris many years ago, even though there was much else to enjoy. We were reminiscing about that trip the other day when we re-watched the Doris Day musical April in Paris (1952). Day stars as a chorus … Continue reading →

The first recording today starts with the end of Jakers: The Adventures of Piggley Winks. There’s a trail for Dani Day. Then it’s Shaun the Sheep – Fetching. Bitzer does a bit of frisbee fetching. It goes over the wall, and Bitzer notices an attractive dog next to a tent next door. He uses the frisbee to have an excuse to get closer. They get friendly. But while he’s distracted, the sheep spot their chance, and with the farmer away, they invade the house. Shaun brings Bitzer back to sort them…

I don’t watch a lot of movies. But, since I was traveling a bit this summer, I’ve watched probably twice as many movies as I usually see per-year and it’s only August. At some point I caved and got a Letterboxd account, where you can follow me and read my quick little reviews. But for your convenience, I’ve collected my recent ones below. Enjoy! The Prestige I was not expecting the wild Spy vs. Spy vibes. Very fun! Lincoln I liked it. I don't know enough about history to know how accurate this…

A Florida police chief must solve a vicious double homicide before he himself falls under suspicion. Good crime mystery movie starring Denzel Washington, Eva Mendes and Sanaa Lathan. Was a treat to see John Billingsley (Dr. Phlox in Star Trek Enterprise) and also Dean Cain (90s TV Superman). All in all, it’s a good evening watch. Three popcorns. To see all 12 photos, visit the article page. This article was originally published at: https://andrei.xyz/movies/out-of-time/

For my roughly annual trip away from Dame Theatre to Baroness Dance, it's one of the Matthew Bourne ballets I've managed to miss on its numerous previous visits to London since its 2000 debut. The Car Man is based on Bizet's opera Carmen, although only musically - the story is apparently more directly inspired by The Postman Always Rings Twice. Set in a small town in 1950s America, whose economy seems disproportionately based on the auto repair and cabaret industries for a population of 375,…

We missed the sadly short-lived stage adaptation of the 1985 time-travel escapade movie Back to the Future (BTTF), during its brief Australian run, in late 2025. I did however catch A Future on Stage, trailer, a documentary about bringing the original film to the stage as a musical. The words “we didn’t think we could do this”, and “we had no idea what we were doing”, and similar such, may have been uttered a few times too many throughout — since we know the show eventually succeeded — but…

More Awful British Comedians, because there are ALWAYS more. I picked up the Network DVD of FREEDOM OF THE SEAS because it was pretty cheap and pretty mysterious. I hadn’t heard of anybody in this 1934 comedy, which is highly unusual. There’s generally somebody from a Hitchcock or a Powell quota quickie. I guess I’ve […]

Garreth Hirons joins Tim Worthington for a chat about Frank Castle challenging Peter and MJ to the world's worst reboot of Now Get Out Of That! in Spider-Man: Brand New Day.

Wilson Fisk's reign as New York mayor continues, but Daredevil is determined to expose his criminal connections and bring him down, with the help of allies including Karen Page and Jessica Jones. With Daredevil on the run and Fisk protected by mechanisms both legal and illicit, the odds are stacked against the Devil of Hell's Kitchen as never (well, rarely) before.After Daredevil's original four-season run (including his turn on Defenders) came to an end and Disney+ took over control of Marvel…

So, Glen Hansard died last week. Yes, ONCE was a good movie. Yes, “Falling Slowly” is a good song. But Hansard was at BEST problematic. His partner in Swell Season (and ONCE) was Marketa Irglova, whom he met when he was 32 and she was THIRTEEN. Their romantic relationship didn’t begin, it’s claimed, until six years later. Some said “ah, well, fair play” at the time, but today, we call that “grooming.” And now Neko Case has a story to tell as well. You should read it.

In a video titled "Breaking My Silence on Project Runway (I Might Get Sued)," which you can watch below, Plane Jane details her experience on the wreck that is Freeform's Project Runway 22.

Legislation has barred people with special powers from working in Hollywood, a rule enforced by the Department of Damage Control. When they suspect that up-and-coming actor Simon Williams has secret powers, they recruit ex-Mandarin actor Trevor Slattery to befriend him and learn the truth. Slattery is at first keen to help in return for money and his freedom, but as he gets to know Williams and sees things in him that remind him of his own career at a younger age, Slattery starts to have second…

Angels and Insects (1995) is such a fascinating, visually striking movie, featuring excellent actors, and I’m

Not My Circus, Not My Monkeys On Sunday, Beatrix will walk out of the arena at Circus Juventas for the last time, and that thought has me up early this morning. It’s not like I did not know it before, but it’s hitting especially hard. Same.

Back in 2008, I was kicking around Manchester and my best mate Emily introduced me to MaxNormal.TV – the precursor to what would later be known as South Africa’s international superstars and rap rave outfit Die Antwoord, fronted by Waddy Jones (aka Max Normal, aka Ninja) and Yo-Landi Visser. Christmas was ...

In honour of Stockholm Pride, I want to share some good shows on the subject. Watching LGBTQ+ characters on the screen has given me courage to live more openly. I hope these gems can inspire you as much as they've inspired me. Or, at the very least, start a meaningful discussion with friends and family. Happy Pride and enjoy watching! Pride momentsSoap operas and teen dramas paved the way for LGBTQ+ representation in the mainstream media. First, there was the Dawson's Creek gay kiss in 2000,…

In His Words, Bread & Roses Theatre What would you do if you were cast in a play only to discover that it was written by your ex and about your relationship? That’s the central premise of In His Words, and Esther (Heather Woodhouse) decides she’s going to stick it out and see how he ends the play. Meanwhile, her girlfriend Isabella (Megan Goldsman) has got a job looking after an old lady with Alzheimer’s who is obsessed with a particular cave. There is a lot of nature in this play with…