A classic string board appears in American Caper #7 (Dark Horse, May 2026). ▲ American Caper #7 (Dark Horse, May 2026) ▲ American Caper #7 (Dark Horse, May 2026), cover ▲ American Caper #7 (Dark Horse, May 2026) ▲ American Caper #7 (Dark Horse, May 2026) From contributor Colin Beineke.

From time to time, I like to re-watch some my favourite movies. Here are a few that have held up for me: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023) The Summit of the Gods (2021) Your Name (2016) Meiyazhagan (2024) The Shawshank Redemption (1994) Interstellar (2014) Superman (2025) The Dark Knight (2008)

A book of historical-fiction that feels like a cross between 'Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous' and 'The Bachelorette.'Reply via email

Warner Bros. Pictures / YouTube Survive the Summer. The End of Oak Street only in theaters and IMAX August 14. #EndofOakStreet #FilmedforIMAX After a mysterious cosmic event rips Oak Street from suburbia and transports their neighborhood to someplace unknown, the Platt family soon discovers that their very survival depends on them sticking together as they navigate their now unrecognizable surroundings. This continues to look really good. I do also love that they’re leaning into the release…

Andy Griffith as Larry “Lonesome” Rhodes in A Face in the Crowd (1957) Vitals Andy Griffith as Larry “Lonesome” Rhodes, folksy yet power-hungry media personality Memphis to New York City, Spring 1956 Film: A Face in the Crowd Release Date: May 28, 1957 Director: Elia Kazan Costume Designer: Anna Hill Johnstone WARNING! Spoilers ahead! Background Today would have been the 100th birthday of Andy Griffith, born June 1, 1926. Already somewhat known as a comedian for routines like his breakthrough…

WIe're back in Northern California this week, but unlike most trips to the Bay Area, where we're in the 1960s, this time we're in the '70s, and so you'll get a slightly different look at channels as well as programs. One thing I did want to single out, tho0ugh, and that's KSHL in Chico, which features both the ABC news with Howard K. Smith and Harry Reasoner, and the CBS news with Walter Cronkite. Talk about fair and balanced, hmm? -2- KTVU (SAN FRANCISCO) (Ind.) MORNING 5:55 FARM MARKET REPORT…

If you have ever tried to rewatch Star Trek properly—not just dip into a favourite episode, but work through hundreds of instalments across multiple series—you will know the feeling. You pause Deep Space Nine for a few weeks, start something else, and suddenly you have no idea which episode you were on. Spreadsheets help for a while, then they do not. Notes on your phone get lost. Memory is unreliable when you jump between TNG, DS9, and whatever new show has just dropped. That is the problem…

Image source: IMDB For all the annoyances of social media, if there is one thing I love, it’s getting recommendations for films I’d never heard of previously. A Letterboxd list brought The Ball at the Anjo House to my attention a few weeks ago and I was lucky enough to find a watchable copy on YouTube. After seeing it, I cannot believe I had never heard of it before. The Ball at the Anjo House largely takes place over a single evening in the lives of the aristocratic Anjo family. However, their…

It’s no secret that the Hollywood Comet loves musicals. In 2010, I revealed I had seen 400 movie musicals over the course of eight years. Now that number is over 600. To celebrate and share this musical love, here is … Continue reading →

As Pride month begins, the Bush Theatre revives Waleed Akhtar’s 95-minute duologue, The P Word, a rom com of sorts with an asylum strand as two very different men of Pakistani descent almost reluctantly find love with one another. Using all of the tropes of the cinematic genre – which itself has inveigled its way […]

Following on from my previous movie summaries, this is my May 2026 review. Overall, I watched 31 new movies this month, taking the total for the year to 149! Watched 31 Hours 51 Average Rating 5.9 Highest Rated 8 The best movie of the month was The Drama (8/10), written and directed by Norwegian Kristoffer Borgli. He is the creator behind the wonderfully odd Dream Scenario, starring Nicolas Cage, and Sick of Myself, a comedic look at narcissism. The movie stars two much-in-demand actors –…

What can I say about the parade. Arsenal won the Premier League and the whole of North London turned red to celebrate it, more than a million of us crammed into the streets for the day. The Champions League final had been lost the night before, the heartache of it still fresh, and this fan base still turned up the next morning and made me proud all over again, the way it always seems to find a way of doing.I barely caught sight of the buses themselves, buried as I was under red flares and flags…

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Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks, 1920 One hundred years ago this month, Mary Pickford sent Grace Kingsley a letter from Montecantini, Italy all about her travels with her husband, Douglas Fairbanks: You would be most happy to see the delightful reception we have met with all through Italy, Naples, Genoa, Florence and Rome, by the Fascisti, artists, and the social world. The demonstration at the station in Rome on our arrival was as enthusiastic as any we have ever had. I was again forced to…

We had a really wonderful day yesterday seeing four films at the 2026 UCLA Festival of Preservation.The festival was held at UCLA's Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer Museum in Westwood, where I have seen scores of films over the years. It began Friday evening, May 29th, running through Sunday night.We chose to attend most of the day Saturday due to both our schedules and our interest in the day's movies. Two of yesterday's films were new to us and two were repeat watches, combining for a…

Watched: The Mandalorian and Grogu 🍿I took my teenager to see this. It was good if considered an extended TV episode. I think Jeremy Allen White was a miscast; his voice didn’t work for me in the role of Rotta.

Marilyn. The very mention of her name conjures images of her playful, unmistakably flirtatious smile, her luminous blonde hair, her expressive eyes. Not to mention her distinctive singing voice and her flair for comedy. But as a resident in the shadowy world of film noir? Not so much. At least, that’s probably not what most folks associate with Monroe – but you can bet that I sure do! Monroe was born 100 years ago, on June 1, 1926, and I’m celebrating this event by spotlighting the four films…

True Stories (1986) Writer/director David Byrne is our guide to the fictional town of Virgil, Texas, where they’re about to hold their sesquicentennial celebration. He introduces us to an assortment of Virgil’s eccentric residents, including: Kay and Earl Culver (Annie McEnroe and Spalding Gray), a husband and wife who haven’t spoken to each other in years, a pathological liar (Jo Harvey Allen), Louis Fyne (John Goodman), a good-natured bachelor who just wants a wife, and a woman so lazy she…

FOLLOW ME QUIETLY (1949) is a movie I've enjoyed multiple times in the past, including on Turner Classic Movies in 2011 and via a Warner Archive DVD in 2014.It had been a number of years since I last saw the movie, so I was glad to revisit it this weekend on a brand-new Warner Archive Blu-ray.FOLLOW ME QUIETLY is a minor yet well-made, interesting film noir/crime film which runs a snappy hour flat.William Lundigan plays Detective Harry Grant, who is trying to find a serial killer known as "The…

Who won 24 in 24: Last Chef Standing season 3? Do I know? Do you know? Was it good? Was it great? Let's find out!

An ongoing series Several of my interests in one: Steven Spielberg on The Rewatchables talking 2001: A Space Odyssey. Wikipedia as a Windows XP desktop. Shoutout to the Night Witches, (unfortunately) not an awesome band but an all-female Soviet bomber regiment who attacked the Nazis during World War II.

Altered States: the documentary. Lilly invented the isolation tank, did psychedelic drugs, got naked, and “regressed through generational time.” He survives experiments with dolphins, the US government, hollywood, LSD, and the isolation tanks, only to go insane on ketamine (“hourly injections of ketamine inspire increasingly apocalyptic visions”). Besides Altered States, works based on his studies include Ecco the Dolphin, Day of the Dolphin, Holy Mountain, and probably parts of the Hitchhikers…

I've seen the vast majority of Cary Grant's films, but thanks to Universal I've recently caught a couple of his very earliest films for the first time.I reviewed the entertaining comedy THIS IS THE NIGHT (1932) last month, and I've just finished watching GAMBLING SHIP (1933).GAMBLING SHIP is a quick little 72-minute film from Paramount Pictures which I found lots of pre-Code fun.Grant plays Ace Corbin, a Chicago mobster who decides he's tired of living dangerously and heads to California for a…

The Prisoner’s Dilemma is one of game theory’s all-time great puzzles. It goes like this: Two men are taken into custody for a crime. The cops have a little evidence, enough to put both men away for a few years, but if they had more to go on, the punishment could be a lot more severe. The two men in the holding cell know the cops won’t have much if they both keep quiet. All the crooks have to do is not turn on each other to both get off with a light sentence. However, the crooks also know the…

The story so far: Voyager launched with Michael Piller and Jeri Taylor as showrunners. Under their auspices, we saw the USS Voyager, its intrepid crew, and the rag-tag band of Maquis paramilitaries they were chasing swept to the Delta Quadrant. Forced to work together, the characters merged into a single Starfleet organisational structure, pulled their socks up, and began the long slog back to the Alpha Quadrant… which at first ended up involving way too many encounters with the Kazon.…

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A Mexican customs officer befriends a Magonista general, Welsh mercenary Rhys Pryce, played by Rhys Pryce, and is threatened with death by the government for refusing to betray him. A slice of the Mexican Revolution. Home Media Availability: Stream courtesy of EYE. One Good Turn While the star system was not established for another fifteen […]

What a treat it was to witness The Rapping Princess– a celebration of individuality and music, told with a huge dose of joy. The Rapping Princess is adapted from the book by award-winning author Hannah Lee, with illustrations by Allen Fatimaharan. Real care has been taken to honour the book from the rhythmic verse to the joyful details from Fatimaharan’s illustrations which are echoed in the production, particularly in the gorgeously vibrant set and costumes designed by Laura McEwen, which even…

"Tuning a piano is about creating harmony out of chaos, and to do that you've got to be comfortable with imperfection." A piano tuner (Leo Woodall) with sensitive hearing discovers he has a talent for safe cracking. He starts work for an Israeli crime syndicate to pay for his mentor’s (Dustin Hoffmann) medical bills. What starts as an amusing buddy comedy turns into a rom-com, then crime caper, then mutates into a full-blown quite harrowing thriller. It sounds tonally confused but somehow…