Ages ago, a reader suggested we review Saratoga Trunk (1945), and I remember looking a

Is it possible that Street Fighter as a film somehow embraced the cheese so well that we’ve ended up with a completely ridiculous, silly, and dare I say it — fun looking movie? I am WAY more into this than the first teaser. Sadly, we won’t know until October 16th, when it releases, which is […]

East London’s homegrown, contemporary circus company returned to the capital last week to share their brand new show. Premiering at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, A Glimmer Daze Gambit marks the Revel Pucks’ very first, large-scale touring season which will see them embarking on a 200 day journey across the UK. As we’ve come to expect from this exciting young circus company, it’s a joyful and breath-taking production, filled with everything you could ask for from a circus – including plenty…

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

In Eagles of the Republic, an Egyptian movie star finds himself caught in the dangerous machinations of Egypt's authoritarian government.    In a commanding performance, Fares Fares, a Lebanese-Swedish actor, plays George Fahmy, an actor who so dominates the Egyptian film scene he has been dubbed "Pharaoh of the Screen." Toping six feet, George also commands most of the social situations in which he finds himself. He knows how to use his magnetism.  That may sound like familiar terrain, bu...

The first recording today starts with the end of American Hotrod. Then it’s Mythbusters – Bulletproof Water. The first myth is that if you get deep enough in water, even if people are shooting at you the bullets lose all their speed. Their first test rig sees Jamie shooting straight down into a plexiglass column, with ballistics […]

If you’ve been following the career of Bob Odenkirk, you already know that the star of Better Call Saul has become an unlikely kick-ass action hero. Normal, which follows 2021’s Nobody and its 2025 sequel, continues Odenkirk’s foray into big-screen mayhem with a story about the sheriff of a small Minnesota town called Normal.  You needn't know much about irony to guess that the town of Normal won’t be anything like its name suggests.   Clocking in at a brief (by current standards) hour and 3...

A science teacher goes to space to save our sun. In this journey he meets a friendly alien who also came for the similar reasons. Ofcourse, the alien speaks a different language so they need to figure out a way to communicate and to face awkward problems. The movie is full of nice and creative humor. I like that the alien is not portrayed as scary similar to other sci-fi movies. Alien is just another living being from a different planet. I highly recommend it. 5 stars

I’ve been greatly enjoying the boxed set of six seasons of Peaky Blinders that I received as a gift recently. I may do a sort of review when I get to the end, but until then I thought I’d throw in a few tangential things. This post is an example. Here’s another one. This clip […]

G.A.M.E.S. releases May 1st via Iron Lung Records.

I interviewed Million Dollar Secret's showrunner and executive producer about season two, and they answered all my questions about the game, its challenges, keeping things fair, and much more.

Heart Wall at the Bush Theatre starts as the audience arrives with a karaoke. Pub manager Valentine (Aaron Anthony) encourages people to come onto the stage to sing. The auditorium is lively, some singing along to the popular anthems, waving arms, and I’m sure tapping toes. As the popular pop songs fade, we meet Franky […]

As the 12th Buster Keaton blogathon comes to a close (although I’m still reading through your excellent posts, as I’m sure many people are!), allow me and “summer of 1926 Buster Keaton looking completely and totally in his element” say: … Continue reading →

You may remember the irrepressible dance film of Stromae’s “Mauvaise Journée” by Zas Dance Platform, featured on Kuriositas last August.  Well, they have delivered another blinder.  This time, it’s an interpretation of Nemesis by Benjamin Clementine.  Directed by Zaslavskyi Yevhenii and Bazela Oleksii (who also dances), the 2014 track, from Clementine’s debut album At Least for Now, is a great choice and complements the ZAS dancers’ elegant urgency perfectly. Nemesis is one of Benjamin Cle...

Ian McKellen probably could read your tax return and make it sound as if Shakespeare had written it. The 86-year-old British actor has a voice that can mellow like aged wine or cut as sharply as a newly stropped razor.   In an age of mumbled, half-whispered dialogue, McKellen delivers the written word with a theatrical precision that's perfectly suited to director Steven Soderbergh's The Christophers, a movie in which McKellen plays Julian Sklar, an aging but once prominent painter.   Time...

Before I found Twin Peaks, Blue Velvet was the film that pulled me into David Lynch’s world. From the moment the red roses and picket fences dissolved into squirming bugs beneath the dirt, I was hooked. These themes would be honed by Lynch and company a few years later in Twin Peaks, but Lynch’s original... The post Makeup Artist Jeff Goodwin Shares ‘Blue Velvet’ Memories Ahead of Book Release appeared first on TWIN PEAKS BLOG.

Telemann. The DVD of Piotr Kamler’s animations released by aaa a few years ago contained almost all of the director’s works, comprising a handful of short films together with the 50-minute Chronopolis. The most recent film in the collection was Une mission éphémère, made in 1993, but this wasn’t the last of Kamler’s films. He … Continue reading "Three short films by Piotr Kamler"

A planning board gets some string connection in Plush (dir. Catherine Hardwicke, 2013).

Whatever you do, don’t call her crazy… The procession of films adapted for the stage continues, as Rebecca Reid’s version of Single White Female (itself an adaptation of John Lutz’s novel) hits theatres across the UK. Starring Kym Marsh and Lisa Faulkner, the Gordon Greenberg-directed play sets up home at Richmond Theatre this week. Whilst […]

The BBC/Canal+ TV series Marie Antoinette (2022-) has finally returned for season 2! We wrote

If you are lucky enough to find your true love somewhere along the way during your walk down the path of life, then you should make sure that you hold them tightly to you and never let them go. Finding your soulmate and the type of love that comes out of that particular bond is... Continue Reading →

FUBAR is a TV which aired from 2023 to 2025 and tells the story of what happens “when a father and daughter discover they both secretly work for the CIA, an already dicey undercover mission turns into a dysfunctional family affair. Luke Brunner (by Arnold Schwarzenegger) is the dad and agent extraordinaire of the CIA. […]

One hundred and ten years ago this month, Grace Kingsley mentioned a film that addressed the war in Europe while also having box-office success: Capacity houses all day yesterday marked the beginning of the second week of the big Ince production, Civilization. The wonderful allegory, with its powerful, logical plea for peace, its condemnations of war, … Continue reading "Good Timing: April 1916"

Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)

Before this festival I had never heard of the Alliance for Women Film Composers, but when I saw they were involved with one of the events I thought I should make sure to be there. Renowned music supervisor Gemma Dempsey hosted the Sunday morning discussion, which also included live performances of the featured composers’ music […]