Quoted The Sadness of Yokozuna Hoshoryu and Onosato's Poor Performances and Defeats at the Nagoya Tournament (Sumostats) Excluding withdrawals, it was the first time in 35 years—since the July 1991 Nagoya Tournament with Asahifuji (8-7) and Hokutoumi (9-6)—that multiple Yokozuna failed to reach double-digit wins and finished with 9 wins or fewer I learned from a Sumo Stats post that the 2026 Nagoya Basho marked the first grand sumo tournament since the July 1991 Nagoya Basho that multiple…

Movie film is a challenging form of media to preserve and share digitally. This is might be somewhat surprising. Unlike the ephemeral tape media standards of the 90s (looking at you Video8 and DAT), film enjoyed a long run as the de-facto format for capturing motion pictures. Film projectors are pretty easy to come by. Yet, the process of digitizing film requires either recording a projected image (telecine) or digitally scanning each frame. Both approaches require specialized equipment to…

The first recording today starts with the end of Atomic Betty. Then it’s a repeat of Pokemon Battle Dimension – Losing Its Lustrous. Media Centre Description: Ash continues his quest to become the greatest Pokemon trainer ever. He travels through the Sinnoh region, where he is challenged in a number of thrilling battles. [S] Recorded from CITV on Saturday 24th April 2010 11:28 The recording ends with the start of Prove It! The next recording is Doctor Who – The Time of Angels. This has a great…

When Julius discovers his wife in the arms of another man, his neighbors tell him to go jump in the river. Instead, he hatches a madcap plan to win her back. Home Media Availability: Stream courtesy of Sprocket Vault Whistling Through the Graveyard I suppose I should open this by mentioning that The Merry Widower […]

Today’s frontier models can do some pretty incredible things with animation. My first real dose of it was the axial-flux motor. I prompted Fable’s Mythos to make a The Way Things Work version of Mercedes-Benz’s new large-scale-production motor. If you would rather skip straight to the machinery, the interactive Cinematic Canvas demos are here. You can play with the demonstration here, and the source is on GitHub. I also shared it on Hacker News. The Time Machine Later, with some subscription…

Asides from miscounting the days and nights of LA DOLCE VITA — and I WILL finish that up this week — I also omitted to mention Polidor, because I don’t know him. But this silent comic appears in the nightclub scene with Marcello’s dad, playing trumpet at a bunch of balloons. POLIDOR’S FIRST DUEL is […]

Time once again to check in on Big Finish’s First Doctor-themed output. The last time we took a look at this, we enjoyed a set of four Companion Chronicles split evenly between those featuring the original TARDIS crew of the Doctor, Susan, Ian, and Barbara, and those featuring Sara Kingdom, the latter using a rather unusual narrative conceit to extend her life after The Daleks’ Master Plan. This time around, we have a more varied slate – including a side journey into The Lost Stories. But…

The new Spider-Man movie has been out for two days and it's already made more money than The Odyssey.

satt Wir haben einfach den letzten Curry gegessen. Ich bin sehr satt. Ich werde dieses Gericht eine Weile lang nicht kochen. StellensucheAm Dienstag hatte ich einen sehr produktiven Nachmittag. Ich habe mit meinen Freunden virtuell zusammengearbeitet. Infolgedessen habe ich meinen Lebenslauf aktualisiert und eine Liste von potenziellen Arbeitgebern erstellt. Ich habe mich auch auf ein paar Stellen beworben und bereits eine Absage erhalten. :[ Dienstagmorgen: Kaffee laufenDaniel und ich haben…

In the early 1990s, the Alpine Blossom and Gift Shoppe in North Bend, Washington was the place to find officially licensed and fan-made items from Twin Peaks. The Twin Peaks Visual Soundtrack, produced for the Japanese market in 1992, even included footage of this merchandise inside the shop. During my first visit to Snoqualmie Valley... The post Real Twin Peaks Fan-Made Buttons from Snoqualmie Valley, WA in the Early 1990s appeared first on TWIN PEAKS BLOG.

Chief of Station was a bit of a miss. It’s well-filmed, on-location in Budapest, and even has a bit part for a former Bond girl (Olga Kurylenko was Camilla Montes in Quantum of Solace). It opens with a nice scene of tradecraft, which makes up for a particularly uncomfortable torture scene later on (a la Syriana, but worse).However, I just don’t think Aaron Eckhart is that great of an actor, and a lot of the story depends on him (apparently, Alec Baldwin was originally cast in the role). Plus,…

Drag Race Down Under host Michelle Visage teased a guest judge. Australian legend Kylie Minogue?! LOL no. It was a twist much bigger than a guest judge, but also just dumb dumb dumb.

I thought this was poison ivy because I'm a west coast idiot at heart We moved to our New England place in the fall of '21 so it wasn't until the following spring that these vine plants with three leaves in the pattern I'd thought was a shoe-in for poison ivy danger (which I'd never seen before, coming from the west coast) started growing in the yard...but that's when I learned that despite having oil that will fuck me up, poison ivy will never have thorns. I idly wondered what this thing was,…

Back to the "de Sève in the afternoon, Hall in the evening" grind (for one of the more pleasant definitions of "grind")! We start off with composer Freya Berkhout, actress Jess McLeod, and writer/director/producer Alice Maio Mackey for Our Effed Up World (with host Justine Smith), which feels like an interesting turn for Mackey in that the trans and nonbinary characters are supporting roles

Image source: IMDB NOTE: There’s gonna be spoilers. Just watch Notorious if you haven’t already. Treat yourself! Few films appear as effortlessly taut and elegant as Notorious. Not a single image or line of dialogue are wasted. Every moment is packed with multiple layers of subtext. It might be the most crowd-pleasing example of why the Hitchcock style keeps movie lovers coming back for repeat viewings. No matter how many times I experience the suspense set-pieces and twisted love triangle of…

Welcome to day 9 of 13 on The Great Balkans Road Trip. This is a group tour with Just You. We started in Romania, have travelled through Bulgaria, North Macedonia and Kosovo. Today we’re completing Serbia, visiting Novi Sad, before heading back into Romania, to Timişoara. If you’ve missed the earlier episodes, you can find the full series below. This blog contains affiliate links to help support my writing. Travel Diaries On the Road to Novi Sad With nothing to report from breakfast (boiled…

I finally watched Project Hail Mary last night. My plan was to watch it on the big screen, but then— Well, I hardly need to explain the concept of time. It was good, the movie, but the book was better. It almost always is. Especially if you read the book first. And some books, when read after watching the movie adaptation, is a whole new story. Like “The Lost World” by Michael Crichton. Since the screenplay of “Jurassic Park” diverged so much from the book, there was no way to unify the sequel…

It's August, which means it's time for the annual Summer Under the Stars month on Turner Classic Movies!As always, TCM's August festival started today, on the 1st, and runs through the 31st. During this month the regular franchises, including Noir Alley, Silent Sunday Nights, and TCM Imports, will have the month off before returning in September.As regular TCM viewers know, each day in August celebrates a different star. For a quick overview of the entire lineup, please visit my preview which…

Miscellaneous bits of news and fun stuff from around the Internet......More good news from Kino Lorber Studio Classics: The Dark Side of Cinema XXVIII Blu-ray collection will be out in November! It will include the Dick Powell gem CRY DANGER (1951), which was previously released by the now-defunct Olive Films, and two rarities, the "B" CITADEL OF CRIME (1941) and Scott Brady in TERROR AT MIDNIGHT (1956). I'm very excited about the "deep dives" Kino Lorber has been including in these…

The title of this promotional CD, issued with the May 2001 edition of Musica Jazz, borrows from John Surman’s acclaimed 1981 album The Amazing Adventures Of Simon Simon (ECM 1193), recorded with Jack DeJohnette. Yet this Italian release serves a different purpose. Rather than presenting a single studio statement, it surveys more than two decades of Surman’s work across 11 tracks. The result is a compact career portrait that moves through chamber jazz, free improvisation, electronic…

Did I watch a movie just so I'd have something to automatically repost to my blog with my new automatic letterboxd reposting tool? Yes.

Today’s recording is a repeat of The Simpsons – Mom and Pop Art. Media Centre Description: Homer pursues a career as an artist when his misshapen barbecue attracts the attention of a gallery. With the guest voices of Isabella Rossellini and Jasper Johns. Recorded from Channel 4 on Friday 23rd April 2010 17:58 After this the recording ends with the start of Hollyoaks. Here’s the ad breaks. Adverts: Lloyds TSB RoC Macmillan Cancer Support trail: Borat: Cultural learnings of America for Make…

Apologies for the missed review last week but the film I selected works for both themes, so we should be on track this week. Family emergency. Silent movies and slapstick are practically synonymous but I am not actually a huge fan of the rough stuff. Some physical comedy, yes, but I tend to like absurdity, […]

YouTube loves recommending video essays to me, so for a long time I’ve seen thumbnail after thumbnail promising a deep dive on “The scariest scene ever filmed!” or “The hidden secrets of the most surprising twists!” and the like. Often, it’ll be “The most horrifying TV broadcast you’ve never heard of!” and about 90% of the time, they’ll be talking about Ghostwatch as if they’re the first ones to introduce it to anyone. So I’ve had years of having the internet hyping it up, elevating it to…

StarringJake Johnson, Mary Steenburgen, Chloe Fineman, Aaron Chen, and Patton OswaltDirectorJosh GreenbaumOverviewDesperate to save a struggling country club and earn his father's respect, a washed-up tennis pro is compelled to break a sacred vow and do the unthinkable: play pickleball.Review The Dink What if Nick Miller had been a one-time tennis prodigy who somehow fell into a Dodgeball-adjacent universe? That’s basically what you get here. It’s funny, it has a really good cast, and a very…

In the second season opener for Twin Peaks, Carel Struycken made quite an entrance playing the Giant. He appeared twice to Special Agent Dale Cooper toward to beginning and near the end of the episode. As part of the show’s publicity, a close up photo slide of the Giant in room 315 at The Great Northern... The post Twin Peaks Publicity – Carel Struycken as The Giant appeared first on TWIN PEAKS BLOG.

rabbit rabbit rabbit to inaugurate August, with a leporine shout-out to remember 1291, the traditional date of the formation of the Swiss federation: Hail, Helvetia! Now to dive into today’s topic in medias res, with this 7/30 Facebook greeting from Pietro Giovanni to Aaron Broadwell on the occasion of AB’s 64th birthday, somewhere around that time: Many returns of the day to my favorite linguist AB is George Aaron Broadwell (known as Aaron Broadwell), Elling Eide Professor of Anthropology at…

Der gute alte süßsaure Puszta-Salat im Glas inspiriert mich immer mal wieder zu neuen Rezepten. Er ist so herrlich säuerlich und besteht aus einer schönen Mischung Gemüse, die zu vielem paßt. Aus dem würzigen Sud entsteht dieses Mal gleich die Marinade für den Wurstsalat, den wir besonders an heißen Tagen mögen. Mir gefiel es, Wurst und Käse mit meinem gezackten Teigrädchen zu schneiden,

StarringZendaya, Robert Pattinson, Alana Haim, Mamoudou Athie, and Hailey Benton GatesDirectorKristoffer BorgliOverviewWitness the wedding of the year.A happily engaged couple is put to the test when an unexpected turn sends their wedding week off the rails.Review The Drama Whatever you think this movie is about, you’d be wrong. There was a turn that I was not expecting and it made for a pretty enjoyable film. Will I watch it again? Probably not, but it’s still worth a watch. Buy on Amazon

Obsession was pretty good, but perhaps not as good as some of the reviews suggest. It’s a great achievement for such a small budget film, and the two lead actors were excellent, but I found it a little slow and predictable. It might be my age, but the gore level was also too much. Not at The Substance level, but still too high. Do we really need to be that graphic? Urgh.Writer/Director Curry Barker is a real talent, and with Obsesion’s worldwide gross of nearly $500m, he’s clearly going…