Weeknotes 13/04/2026 - 19/04/2026Finally caught up with these, I'm determined to have 52 by the end of the year. This one is very film focussed. Things I've done ✎ᝰ.📓🗒 ˎˊ˗ Still feeling lowkey ill. So a lot of sitting on the sofa watching Elementary and playing various games. Films (and TV) 🍿🎥✮⋆˙I watched Sex Lives of the Potato Men (2004), Rose of Nevada (2025) and Being There (1979). Firstly I should tell you Sex lives Of The Potato Men has an average 1 star rating on Letterboxd. It feels…
Tim Curry dug through artifacts at The Academy’s Margaret Herrick Library to talk about some of his most iconic roles. If you’re a fan, you’ve probably seen plenty of these trips down memory lane but this one gives us deeper backstories for films like The Rocky Horror Picture Show and some roles he didn’t get, like Jurassic Park, The Lion King, and… the first Home Alone (for the role of Marv). He’s such an amazing actor that I could watch these sorts of videos whenever they pop up. The post Tim…
The Matrix Reloaded (2003)
HOUSE CALLS (1978), a mid-life romantic comedy featuring the unexpected pairing of Walter Matthau and Glenda Jackson, is being released this week on Blu-ray by Kino Lorber Studio Classics.This was my first time to see this film, in which Matthau plays Dr. Charley Nicholas, a recently widowed doctor who is now determined to "play the field" for the first time in his life.Charley briefly does just that, dating a variety of younger women, yet time and again he finds himself drawn to Ann (Glenda…
★★★★☆ I just finished my second watch through Discovery season four. On balance, I liked it about as well as season three. I enjoyed seeing Burnham come into her own as captain, and continuing development among the secondary cast. Zora’s evolution toward the self-aware being seen in “Calypso.” The Stamets/Culber/Adira family. Saru and T’Rina sort of awkwardly dancing around each other. I’d hoped to see more of them rebuilding Starfleet and the Federation, but that kind of took a back seat to…
S is for Smoke Thought a little 4-20 subject would be fun. I was trying to think, back in college and earlier what I used to get up to on this day and honestly, I can’t remember. Joke or not it cracked me up. So what was my favorite thing to watch. Fairies - This film is up there with ‘Wizards’ for its awesome weirdness The GrooveTube - Chevy Chases first film I think Ive watched other things like half baked, chech and chong and honestly those were all really good. But what always had me…
(1981) Directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud; Written by Gérard Brach; Based on the novel by J.H. Rosny Sr.; Starring: Everett McGill, Rae Dawn Chong, Ron Perlman, Nicholas Kadi, and Naseer El-Kadi; Available on Blu-ray and DVD Rating: ****½ “I thought I was making this crap caveman movie. I found out that this guy (Jean-Jacques Annaud) had won an Academy Award for ‘Black and White in Color,’ and he was a distinguished filmmaker. By the time I got nervous, I already had the role, so I didn’t trip…
I mentioned that The Texas Chain Saw Massacre was the movie whose reputation terrified me the most as a kid. A very close runner-up was Phantasm. Just the idea of it was enough to give a little boy in the 1970s nightmares. Which, as it turns out, is appropriate, because the movie was inspired by a nightmare and plays out like one. It follows its own weird dream logic, jumping around between ideas and surreal scenes in a way that seems to make sense to the characters acting them out, but is…
Earlier this evening, I ran across HorrorLex which I found to be an intriguing site. From the about page: Horror Lex launched in November 2021 as the first and only academic research site dedicated to serious writing about horror and horror-adjacent films. If it’s about ghosts, demons, zombies, vampires, black-gloved killers, exploding heads, deadly viruses, psycho grandmas, creepy kids, giant squids, or even killer nuns, it’s on Horror Lex. The Horror Lex database currently indexes over 13,000…
Half fun and half dark and sour, dude gets out of prison having hidden away the stolen diamonds and tries to use them to help his crippled comrade, gets tangled up with the comrade’s sister, their former bosses go after him, and a ton of guys die. Both leads would return in Take Aim at the Police Van.
StarringPedro Pascal and Katee SackhoffOverviewAfter the fall of the Galactic Empire, lawlessness has spread throughout the galaxy. A lone gunfighter makes his way through the outer reaches, earning his keep as a bounty hunter.ReviewThe Mandalorian took some pretty fun lore and turned it into a great western-inspired story. It built on the foundational storytelling of Rebels to usher in the current fantastic era of Star Wars TV. In other words, Rebels crawled so The Mandalorian could walk and…
My top 5 movies of all time, if you asked me today Top Gun: Maverick F1 Dredd Superman (2025) Godzilla Minus One
The first recording today is a repeat of Space 1999 – Beta Cloud. Media Centre Description: Beta Cloud: Intergalactic adventures of the space-travelling Moonbase Alpha team. To catch up, go to http://www.itv.com/itvplayer. Recorded from ITV4 on Tuesday 22nd December 2009 09:23 The next recording is another episode of Art Attack. Neil makes some Skateboard art. The Big Art Attack has an American Football theme. He shows how to draw shiny things, with Shine Lines. He paints a mirror picture.…
The champ, George Foreman, vs. the kid, Muhammad Ali, in Zaire And other politics involved in the affair Including rare footage leading up to the event Plus, interviews with VIPs, remembering the effects … We heard about that legendary clashing of the titans But could never have contextualized the metrics or environment Until, 90 minutes of history And images and music, I was riveted, infinity Listened/half-watched while assembling furniture after turning on Henry Fonda For President and…
Note: this review contains spoilers. The following review is a stream of consciousness reaction to Oldboy, the 2003 Korean action/thriller/horror movie. Much in the spirit of [[🌰 it’s not about writing, it’s about thinking]], you’ll read my processing and sense-making of the director’s choices in realtime. wtf wtf it’s interesting how after fighting the whole movie for the truth, in the end he chooses the lie also, I’m sure it would feel different to be in Dae Sun’s shoes. But like..Woo Jin…
Back to February 2026. All of these were part of the Super Saturday Movie Club, whose monthly theme this time was "Brazilian Westerns". Deus e o Diabo na Terra do Sol [Black God, White Devil] (1964)I genuinely came in expecting a slow, artsy, meditative experience with concrete-art-like nonsensical monologues about stuff you can't quite make out, with a lot of loose words thrown around with not a lot of rhyme or reason. Instead, I was served a delicious meal of rich metaphors, energetic acting,…
If you fancy an extended visual metaphor, you’ve come to the right place. This heartfelt and very touching animated short tells the story of Finn, a young boy who has stains on his skin. He has met up with a trio of other kids that have similar stains, and together they form a community – one which helps them put up with the prejudice they encounter about their condition every day. I guess that doesn’t sound too cheerful – and it isn’t – but I was left at the end with a sense of optimism. This…
In my last thoughts post I said that I was ditching the Yashica MF-2 for a Konica Z-Up 120. I didn't end up buying the Konica, but instead came out of the weekend with a Pentax Espio 738G.1 I decided Friday that I was going to return the Yashica for a refund. Both cameras cost $40 (the Yashica was $39.99 + tax), so in all it would be a wash. But then on Sunday I got my photos from the Yashica back. I posted some samples on my photo blog. While many of the test shots in poor lighting conditions…
Back to January 2026. Aside from the Evangelion movies, these were all watched as part of the Super Saturday Movie Club.
“Flank out!” shut up, God the way these chuds act and talk just reminds me so much of the guys in high school who were obsessed with the military and Stargate and fuckin Tom Clancy video games, who clearly saw all of this violence not as a means to an end but as an end unto itself; I’d be more worried about being unfair if the movie didn’t clearly frame them as bad guys, but as with all art it’s not what’s there, it’s what you bring to it, and what I’m bringing to it is 25 years of repellant…
As we just saw the other day, 1986's Last Days of the Justice Society Special #1 temporarily wrote the Justice Society out of the DC Universe through a complicated chain of events stemming from Crisis on Infinite Earths, with the heroes travelling back in time to 1945 and then entering a rift in the sky to join an eternal battle to save the world. Adolf Hitler had used the Spear of Destiny to bring about Ragnarok, and the only way to keep the villains of Norse mythology from destroying the…
PBS Masterpiece brings a reimagined version of John Galsworthy’s ‘Forsyte’ novels from the U.K. to
Ryan O’Neal in What’s Up, Doc? (1972) Vitals Ryan O’Neal as Dr. Howard Bannister, awkward musicologist San Francisco, Summer 1972 Film: What’s Up, Doc? Release Date: March 9, 1972 Director: Peter Bogdanovich Costume Designer: Polly Platt (uncredited) WARNING! Spoilers ahead! Background The late Ryan O’Neal was born 85 years ago today on April 20, 1941. Though perhaps best known for his roles in Love Story (1970), Paper Moon (1973), Barry Lyndon (1975), or The Driver (1978), the first O’Neal…
When Eric Cartman and his friends go see an R-rated movie, they start cursing and their parents think that Canada is to blame. I think I’ve seen this movie billions of times on all formats and I think I still know it by heart. It’s probably South Park at its peak, I kinda wish they’d make a new feature movie. Love it. Seven popcorns and it goes into the Movie Vault. To see all 36 photos, visit the article page. This article was originally published at:…
Oprah Winfrey's guest today is Corazon Atienza, who is described as having "evaded a 1966 mass murder by hiding under a bed." That's a pretty ordinary description, but there was still something in that "hiding under a bed" bit that rang a bell, and as it turns out, that description really undersells the story. In 1966, Corazon Atienza was a student nurse in Chicago, and the "mass murder" that the listing so blandly refers to was, in fact, the gruesome murder of eight student nurses by Richard…
CN: spoilers for the movie The Drama; spoilers for an old Twilight Zone episode; general dark stuffOn my sickbed, where I have lazily done virtually no reading at all, I recently listened to an analysis of the newish movie The Drama, which I have not yet seen. I’m not sure that what follows is a spoiler, so I will just plow ahead as if it isn’t. A woman admits to having a close call, as a child, with her own dark tetrad tendencies: sadism, punitiveness, maybe entitlement, definitely antisocial…
How do you measure the value of a life and can you ever be sure you’ve done enough? Arthur Miller’s 1967 play The Price, revived at the Marylebone Theatre, places three perspectives on that value in contention as a 50-year old policeman considering retirement tries to sell his father’s effects to a furniture dealer interrupted […]
My followers on Mastodon likely saw there's a feature length documentary coming up on PBS called What's the Story, Wishbone? If you can't tell by the existence of this article, I'm incredibly excited for it! There were four shows I watched religiously as a kid; Arthur, Bill Nye The Science Guy, Star Trek: The Next Generation, and Wishbone. And, let me tell you, Wishbone was one of the best of the lot.A Typical Wishbone EpisodeWishbone was a TV show on PBS Kids that first aired through the mid…
At CinemaCon last week, five of the most-hyped announcements from the major studios were headlined by actors aged 58 or older. Top Gun 3 with Tom Cruise at 63Highlander with Russell Crowe at 62 and Dave Bautista at 57The Beekeeper 2 with Jason Statham at 58Jackass: Best and Last, promoted with a tearful goodbye from a cast mostly north of 50. To see what was actually happening beneath the headlines, I took every action-tagged film from 1980 to 2025 with reported box-office or budget (4,053…
Pat Boone.Pat Boone as a bad boy? Well, he doesn't really play a bad boy in April Love (1957), but his character Nick is sentenced to probation after being arrested for joyriding in Chicago. To keep him out of trouble, his mother sends Nick to his uncle's rural Kentucky farm. Aunt Henrietta welcomes him, but Uncle Jed (Arthur O'Connell) isn't so sure about the big city troublemaker. Nick feels like a fish out of water until he meets a pretty neighbor named Liz (Shirley Jones) and gets involved…
