by Team Experience BARBARA HERSHEY made our Top Five. But who else did? Read on! In Part 1 of this Oscar-fantasy exercise we laid the groundwork for the actress-obsessive question of the moment and shared thoughts on several actresses we are rooting for in terms of an unexpected / winning Oscar comeback. Now on to the tippity top vote-getters from our Team member polling. Tomorrow in Part 3 we'll talk about the collective vote from the 100+ readers who took the poll. A quick catch up from ...
Yallah! is an Arabic term and can mean anything from “Let’s go!” or “Come on!” or “Hurry up!”. I guess it could be any of the three in the context of this animated short from students at Rubika. Set in the middle of the Lebanon war of 1982, we meet Nicolas, a man about to flee his virtually destroyed city, Beirut. However, before too long he encounters Naji, a teenager who lands abruptly on the bonnet of his car. Despite the chaos and destruction of war (or perhaps because of it), he has b...
“It is an old maxim of mine that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.” Sherlock Holmes in The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet (by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) Any narrative ‘worth its salt’ – regardless of how fantastical its premise – should have a subtext that illuminates […]
A few months ago, I acquired a binder of magazine and newspaper clippings from a Twin Peaks fan residing in Australia. Hidden between the cutout pages was a publicity photo of Bobby Briggs (Dana Ashbrook) and James Hurley (James Marshall) taken by award winning photographer Raul Vega for Outline Press / Austral International. It’s an image... The post Twin Peaks Publicity – Bobby Briggs and James Hurley by Raul Vega appeared first on TWIN PEAKS BLOG.
★★★☆: Much less fun than part one. The added songs are duds, unfortunately. The direction and staging/costumes are great though, and the cast certainly pulls their weight. It just leaves a ton of time for dark emotional adventure while, even at its darkest, the musical is still a broadway musical (with the expected level of fun). The movie lacked some of that charm, instead feeling more like a moody fantasy drama with some songs. Good songs, but still. FYI: My reviews are scored out of 4. Also,…
It’s a pretty simple movie. My wife fell asleep watching it 3 times so…
It was pretty nice and had a lot of little bits in it that made me laugh.
Could it be that I have been guilty of paying to little attention to Larry Semon? Or is that impossible. I can’t recall ever mentioning him, so now I’m going to, a lot. Larry Semon Larry Semon Larry Semon Larry Semon Larry Semon. Semon’s reputation has no doubt suffered because he was well known to […]
The Gentlemen (2019)
11 April 2026 in Melbourne, part of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival (MICF).Back in 2015 we saw Kate Dehnert's show Pony Yell at MICF and it was brilliant. Surreal, magical and very, very silly. Since then I have been keeping an eye out for her shows but
As Groucho Marx once said, time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana. (Ha!) But seriously, folks, time just keeps on slipping into the future; before we know it, it’s going to be time for the 2026 TCM Summer Under the Stars celebration – and despite my best intentions to review every new-to-me […]
The first recording today starts with trails for Sorry I’ve Got No Head! and Bamzooki. Then it’s another new show (for the blog anyway) with What’s New Scooby-Doo? – E-Scream. It opens at a big videogame conference, so you can tell this is modern Scooby Doo, and thankfully, it’s modern enough that the grim spectre of Scrappy Doo is […]
"Meet the unsung heroes behind the greatest music of our time." My local cinema club is back on at the village hall, and this was their first showing. It was 12 years ago almost to the day since I last saw it but frankly there’s not much ...
A reimagined version of George Bernard Shaw’s Saint Joan is currently playing at the Arches Lane Theatre. Adapted by Ruthie Black, Peter Hinton-Davis & James Saxby, the typically three/four-hour long play has been compressed down to a suggested running time of 90 minutes (although it actually only ran to 70 minutes at my performance), and […]
Billy Bletcher — of THE LOST CITY ill-fame — has an oneiric kerfuffle with a giant lobster in this inexplicable 1928 short. The diminutive thesp succumbs to a midnight feast of lobster and pickle, leading inevitable to an animated dream sequence in which the warring comestibles raise not-so-merry hell in a drawing of his stomach. […]
by Team Experience Which actress deserves an Aunt Gladys style comeback most? Stone? Perez? Lewis? The possibilities are almost endless! We received a really fun request from a reader (Thank you, Brian!) a week or two back. Amy Madigan rose from the dead (pop culture figuratively speaking) 40 years after her first Oscar nomination (Twice in a Lifetime discussed here) to not only break the record of the actress with the longest gap between nominations (the previous record holder being Helen ...
Vitals Tommy Lee Jones as Coley Blake, laconic career criminal Southwestern United States, Summer 1976 Film: Jackson County Jail Release Date: April 11, 1976 Director: Michael Miller Costume Designer: Cornelia McNamara WARNING! Spoilers ahead! Background The grindhouse cult classic Jackson County Jail was released fifty years ago today, starring Tommy Lee Jones, Yvette Mimieux, and the late Robert […] The post Tommy Lee Jones in Jackson County Jail appeared first on BAMF Style.
Video transcript: A Doll’s House at the Almeida Theatre is a modern adaptation of Ibsen’s play. First thing to say about that is, this is the second modern adaptation I’ve seen in a few weeks, the first one being Summerfolk at the National Theatre, and both playwrights have chosen to liberally sprinkle swear words. Now […]
