My King (2015)

I didn’t like The Odyssey (2026) very much, and any objections to that take are going to fall on deaf ears. Literally, since I saw it yesterday and my ears are still ringing. I honestly don’t understand why people are so eager to give bad audio a pass — I’ve even seen reviews praising it! — as if it were just like any other stylistic quirk of a well-known director. You know, Wes Anderson insists on fixed cameras and rigidly symmetrical shots, and Christopher Nolan makes movies that are so…

Brewster McCloud (1971) But Cort stars in the title role, as an odd, reclusive young man who lives in the basement of the Houston Astrodome, and dreams of flying like a bird. Sally Kellerman is Brewster’s guardian angel Louise, with wings tattooed on her back. Shelley Duvall (in her first film role) plays Suzanne, an eccentric young woman who befriends Brewster. The film boasts several bizarre supporting performances, including Margaret Hamilton as Daphne Heap, a tone-deaf socialite who…

I was out of town between mid-June and mid-July, pedaling the hinterland. My last soirée was attending Elektra at the opera, over a month ago. Yesterday, to mark my return to the beau monde, I went to the Kontravoid show. I learned of Kontravoid last year through his collaboration with Chelsey Crowley (my favorite Crowley) from Nuovo Testamento, of whom I am a fan. Also on the ticket last night was Normal Bias, whose music frequently gets recommended to me, but whose tunes I have never really…

Well, here’s something we never saw coming: An Alfred Hitchcock movie that doesn’t quite hang together. Number Seventeen (1932) is a thriller about a group of criminals who meet in a vacant house – at #17 – to retrieve a diamond necklace. But! There’s a detective prowling about who may blow the scheme wide open. We in the audience are … Continue reading →

Part political/military drama, part murder investigation, and part a Korean Joyeux Noel. Park’s third feature, and his earliest to make a splash over here, with the future stars of Lady Vengeance, No Other Choice, and Parasite. At a tense militarized border, a couple southerners accidentally cross north and aren’t received too badly, so they cross north again and again, hanging out with their new friends. After they’re discovered and a shootout ensues, it’s up to Lady V to discover the truth.

The first recording today starts with the end of Jakers: The Adventures of Piggley Winks. I have only just noticed that the actual real-life Mel Brooks does a voice for it. After this there’s a trail for What’s New Scoopy Doo? Then it’s Shaun the Sheep – Little Sheep of Horrors. The farmer is watching a horror movie, and the sheep are enjoying it. Timmy gets into the house, and eats some of the farmer’s pizza, making rather a mess of himself. The other sheep are worried about him. An expedition…

The drama of soccer.

It was sixty years ago today that the feature film Batman (1966), based on the TV show of the same name and starring Adam West and Burt Ward, premiered at the Paramount Theatre in Austin, Texas. At the time, it was not unusual for television shows to be adapted as movies with most of their original cast intact. Dragnet, The Lineup, Our Miss Brooks, and The Munsters had all seen big screen adaptations. What separated Batman from these movies was that it was the smash hit of the 1965-1966 season.…

When a movie entitled The Samurai and the Prisoner arrives, it's fair to expect ample swordplay. Director Kiyoshi Kurosawa defies that expectation in a big way. Adapting a 2021 novel by Honobu Yonezawa, Kurosawa's 16th-century period piece offers more talk than action, much of it concerning intrigue inside a castle that's about to be overrun by a powerful warlord. Although the movie contains one battle sequence and a couple of additional violent scenes, The Samurai and the Prisoner mostly…

Movie night. We watched Civil War. Very intense. Made me think of the James Nachtwey documentary I saw a long time ago. Need to find it and watch it again. The family and I also went to IKEA earlier in the day. It rained. 👉 View 2 more images

Estos mensajes fueron enviados como notas de voz por una amiga y escritora argentina después de que descubriera las transcripciones de The Blue Hour. Publicado con su permiso Farha, esta va a ser una conversación larga. Primero, para decirte que te admiro, que te felicito por todo lo que estás haciendo en la parte cultural. Ayer me mandaste tu email con el escrito sobre los lectores y toda esa reflexión que tenés sobre la gente que leía tu blog. Cuando yo leí todo eso, tomé conciencia de que…

Bonn | Queen Kelly | Rudolph Valentino | Metropolis | Pordenone | Faust | & more… It’s a long hot summer of silent cinema, my friends. The temperatures are stuck in the roaring twenties and so are we. Here’s a quick roundup of the silent film news you need to know – and some of … Continue reading Silent bulletin: news for summer 2026 →

Steven Spielberg’s Munich (2005), we’re told, is “based on real events” but that should probably read “very loosely based on real events.” That was relatively clear when the movie was released but has become incontrovertible as time has gone by. I don’t want to get into any of that, though; indeed, I don’t want to get into anything about this mediocre film — except its last scene, which is fascinating. So, obviously, spoilers ahead. Avner (Eric Bana) has been an assassin in a deep-undercover…

Building on the motif of a variant cover for issue #1 [NST #1456], red string appears on the cover and interiors of Land of Never #2 (Mad Cave, 2026). ▲ Land of Never #2 (Mad Cave, 2026), cover by Miguel Mora ▲ Land of Never #2 (Mad Cave, 2026) ▲ Land of Never #2 (Mad Cave, 2026) From contributor Colin Beineke.

I saw Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie two nights ago, and it blew my mind. It reminded me of the first time I saw The Science of Sleep by Michel Gondry. Back then, my mind was just, "You can do that in a movie?" This time, though, I already knew you can do whatever you want. The rules are arbitrary in every aspect of our lives. What really shook me was seeing someone actually doing those kinds of things: that kind of humor, and a story that moves forward as if they were making it up as…

I never did make a category just for “super beautiful but super depressing” movies (as

In the Acts of St Colluthus, which record events in May 304 AD, the persecutor Arianus attempts to get Colluthus the physician to apostasise by sacrificing to the gods. Not that Arianus, nor the emperor Diocletian who set him to work, actually believed in the gods. The demand was made precisely because it was known to be one that a Christian could not accept, and would cease to be a Christian if he did. Once he had done so, his Christian identity was gone. This tactic is a standard one, even…

Richard Egan in The Revolt of Mamie Stover (1956) Vitals Richard Egan as Jim Blair, writer At sea from San Francisco to Hawaii, Summer to December 1941 Film: The Revolt of Mamie Stover Release Date: May 11, 1956 Director: Raoul Walsh Costume Designer: Travilla WARNING! Spoilers ahead! Background Though it made waves for its controversial themes and Jane Russell’s eponymous performance at the time it was released 70 years ago in May 1956, The Revolt of Mamie Stover remains a barely remembered…

Mark Frost and David Lynch’s Twin Peaks captured the attention of millions of viewers when it first aired on April 8, 1990. People had never seen anything like it on television which inspired some like Joseph Dispenza, former Albuquerque Journal correspondent and once chairman of the Communication Arts Department at the College of Santa Fe,... The post Reviewing Peaks – Santa Fe’s Joseph Dispenza Raves about the ‘Twin Peaks’ pilot appeared first on TWIN PEAKS BLOG.

I enjoyed Soderbergh’s new film THE CHRISTOPHERS but somehow don’t feel I have much to say about it. But here goes. Maybe the lens of “late style” would be appropriate, since that’s partly its subject, and Soderbergh as director, editor and cinematographer seems very relaxed. Soderbergh has said in the past that studios err in […]

Oh boy, vintage Disneyland ephemera! My favorite. Today I am featuring a wonderful 1963 brochure printed for the "World Premier Engagement" of Walt Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room (which debuted on June 23rd of '63). These are rare-ish, but often fetch high prices on the collector's market, often over $200. The cover graphics show talking tikis, a hint to what guests would see inside the attraction.Unfolding the brochure once, we see an add for "Papotin's Revue", a "unique musical fantasy starring…

The Sandlot (1993)

July is nearly at an end so let’s take a look at the themes we had for #MurderEveryMonday, this month…

Antoinette Bower, who guest stared on such shows as The Twilight Zone, The Wild Wild West, and Star Trek, died on April 30, 2026, at the age of 93. Antoinette Bower as born on September 30, 1932, in Baden, Germany. Her mother was German, while her father was English. She was educated in England. Her family later moved to Canada. Following World War II, she was a field language supervisor and welfare counsellor with the United Nations' International Refugee Organization. In 1953, she moved to…

"My name is Peter Parker. You don't remember me, but we used to know each other." You might remember from Spider-Man: No Way Home that nobody can remember who Spider-Man is now (it’s Tom Holland). Without his friends or girlfriend (Zendaya), he’s just a full-time crimefighter and is starting to suffer from burnout. Fortunately a new threat appears on the scene to take his mind off it. All over the cinema there were signs to not give out spoilers after the film (surely a given??), what’s more…

Ok, so I kinda have to post about Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey. It’s made a huge splash, it’s filling theaters, and it’s gotten people talk about a 2,500 year old poem. So I need to discuss it. I have a lot of thoughts, about different pieces of it, so this post is gonna be things I can talk about in short chunks. The Visuals The film is visually striking, with great cinematography. I loved the treatment of the Trojan Horse, and the film’s depiction of Troy is a reasonable stab at a Bronze…

Feel good Australian comedy classic movie, The Castle, made in 1997, is set the join the likes of Back to the Future, The Color Purple, and Titanic, in being adapted for the stage. The story follows a working class family trying to stop cashed-up property developers seizing their home. The producers of the film, including Tom Gleisner, Santo Cilauro, Jane Kennedy, and Rob Sitch, will be involved in the writing and production of the stage show. Fingers crossed then the adaptation will retain the…

Glen Hansard died. I’ve been listening to and writing about him and his music for damn near 20 years, so this is a gut punch. A few years ago I wrote an essay for Cinema Sugar about how seeing Once in the theater in 2007 completely changed how I viewed movie musicals, and much more. It’s hard to convey how electrifying it was to see “Falling Slowly” or “When Your Mind’s Made Up” unfold before me for the first time, and how vital all of Glen’s music has remained for me ever since. Let this…

J versorgt mich Mensch ohne Instagram zum Glück immer mal mit Screenshots von den Ereignissen da draußen. Und so kommt es, dass ich weiß, wie es bei Jenni von zines.cool am 2026-07-25 aussah. Sie hat es also wieder geschafft! Danke, Jenni! Meine Tauschpost seht ihr oben und ich bin wieder begeistert! Alltagsharmonie von @doriblocksberg werde ich noch oft in die Hand nehmen—ich weiß es einfach. Die Kombi aus Collage, Illustrationen und guten Impulsen für schöne Momente bringt meinen Puls spürbar…