Mayday (2026) • View trailer3.5 stars (out of five); rated PG-13, for violence, action and fleeting profanityAvailable via: Apple TV+By Derrick Bang • Published in The Davis Enterprise, 9.13.26This film’s lighthearted, mismatched-buddies-in-peril tone notwithstanding, co-directors and writers John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein deserve credit for inserting a strong message relevant to our times: Don’t let government propaganda and assumptions about “the other” interfere with our…

Rüdiger Suchsland’s “Hitler’s Hollywood: German Cinema in the Age of Propaganda” (Kino Lorbeer, 2018) made for interesting viewing this evening. It weaves a fascinating array of scenes and themes into a personal rumination of what Nazi Germany’s cinema might reveal about mindsets in the country. The result is good cinema, but I found it less satisfying as history. The pathos in the narrator’s voice and in the filmmaker’s script also made me uncomfortable at times.

Project Runway 22's winner was selected at the end of a brief and surprisingly drama-free finale, that's like closing the lid on a toilet that hasn't been flushed in nine weeks. More metaphors in my recap!

Self-analyzing cinema, Scream without the thrills. Kids in the Hall sense of humor with stunt-cast harbinger Kevin McDonald. “There is a hole at the bottom of the lake where the movies come from.” Sleepaway Camp and Friday the 13th both exist within this movie, they’re both mentioned, but they’re also ripped off (Friday sequel titles, Sleepaway closing shot) by the fake Miasma franchise. The middle quarter of this is just Camp Miasma Part 1, featuring a long-take massacre to Counting Crows’ A…

by Cláudio Alves You may have noticed over the last few years of TIFF coverage that one particular section holds a special place in my heart. It’s the Wavelengths program, curated by Andréa Picard and committed to celebrating some of the most audacious works of cinema today. They are films that push boundaries and challenge, not just, or even primarily, through dramatic provocation, but by offering new ways of understanding the filmic form. Think of Gomes’ Grand Tour and Santos Arias’ Pepe and…

There’s a bit of CBBC continuity at the start of this recording with Iain and Hacker again. Then it’s a repeat episode of Dinosapien – Camp Visitors. Media Centre Description: Drama series telling the story of 15-year-old Lauren, whose father mysteriously disappeared on a fossil expedition. Lauren must protect Eno, an intelligent dinosaur, from the dangerous Diggers – dinosaurs that are hunting Eno and trying to kill him – and from the mysterious paleontologist Dr Clive Aikens, who is trying to…

Marie “daughter of Jean-Louis” Trintignant is Betty, a “drunken, self-destructive woman” who wanders into the life of Stéphane Audran. Each woman crashed out of society after losing a husband. Now Audran is dating local barman Mario (returning from a Chabrol/Audran movie 15 years earlier). The flashbacks are groovy, ranging from long sections to subliminally quick shots. Ultimately Betty runs off with Mario, leaving Audran to despair and suicide. The closing voiceover tells us it was always…

Shelley Fabares, who played Mary on The Donna Reed Show and Christine on Coach, died on August 22, 2026, at the age of 82. The cause was pneumonia.Shelley Fabares ws born on January 19, 1944, in Santa Monica, California. Her aunt was actress Nanette Fabray. She began modelling when she was only three years old. She was only ten when she made her television debut in an episode of Letter to Loretta (later retitled The Loretta Young Show). In the Fifties, she guest starred on such shows as…

I enjoyed Eyes Wide Shut: Stanley Kubrick and the Making of his Final Film by Robert P. Kolker and Nathan Abrams. It’s a fairly exhaustive recounting of the long gestation, long production, and sorta curtailed post-production of… well, the clue’s in the title. I’ve never been convinced the film is the masterpiece some claim, and […]

Film I re-invigorated my love of cinema this afternoon. I wasn't expecting to - it just happened. It happened during the opening moments of Moulin Rouge. Here is a film which had stripped away all of the usual mess at the beginning of a film to do with quietly setting up character and plot and was actually giving away the end, throwing us directly into the place. We visit the cinema for escapism and here it was.Another attempt to create a hip-musical, Rouge is better than most, possibly because…

A small amount of string appears during and imagined interrogation scene in Hacked: A Double Entendre of Rage Fueled Karma (dir. Shane Brady, 2026). ▲ Hacked: A Double Entendre of Rage Fueled Karma (dir. Shane Brady, 2026) ▲ Hacked: A Double Entendre of Rage Fueled Karma (dir. Shane Brady, 2026) ▲ Hacked: A Double Entendre of Rage Fueled Karma (dir. Shane Brady, 2026)

I love Star Trek.I say that without any irony at all, I love all Star Trek. This week marks the 60th Anniversary of Star Trek. The show premiered on September 8, 1966, and television, science fiction, and honestly, my own imagination have never really been the same since.I have talked about Star Trek a lot here over the years. My various USS Protector, Mercy, and Challenger projects, my affection for old FASA Trek, my recent dive into Star Trek Adventures, and, of course, my love for the…

📺 Watched: Gilmore Girls S1E1 "Pilot" & S1E2 "The Lorelais' First Day at Chilton" Having watched the series a few times with my wife, it's interesting to note that aside from different sets the characters are mostly fleshed out the way they end up later on in the show. It's not like your usual pilot when the writers are figuring things out as they go. The only thing that really changes is hair styles (Emily's hair changes drastically between the pilot and episode 2). Some thoughts in general:…

The above picture shows fascist thug and career criminal Daniel Thomas (a.k.a. Danny Tommo) leading a “protest” of uniformed knuckleheads (those on the right of the picture, in short trousers) outside the Daily Mail offices in London. Fans of P.G. Wodehouse will recall Roderick Spode, the 7th Earl of Sidcup, who leads a fascist group called the “Saviours of Britain” also known as the Black Shorts. He is of course a parody of Oswald Mosley and his group a parody of Mosley’s Black Shirts (aka the…

The Frock Flicks team is taking a last bit of time off as fall begins,

Yes, you know him, you love him. This guy, the composer of Powerhouse Did a birthday tribute to Raymond Scott way back in 2010. Missed his 100th birthday by two years

I discovered that the Godard movie Bande à part/Band of Outsiders, normally untranslated in Spanish, was marketed in Mexico as Iban por lana, ‘They went for wool,’ which confused me, so I did some digging and discovered this was an allusion to a saying “ir por lana y volver trasquilado” (‘to go for wool and return shorn’), which Oxford translates as “to be hoist by one’s own petard” and Harper-Collins as “get more than one bargained for.” Not a bad title, if you ask me (see Foreign Films,…

Tony Sirico as “Paulie Walnuts” Gualtieri on The Sopranos (Episode 1.13: “I Dream of Jeannie Cusamano”) Vitals Tony Sirico as “Paulie Walnuts” Gualtieri, mob enforcer and Army veteran New Jersey, Fall 1998 Series: The Sopranos Episode: “I Dream of Jeannie Cusamano” (Episode 1.13) Air Date: April 4, 1999 Director: John Patterson Creator: David Chase Costume Designer: Juliet Polcsa WARNING! Spoilers ahead! Background One of my closest friends recently started watching The Sopranos for the first…

The Great Gatsby 1925, F. Scott Fitzgerald My rating: Decent This is definitely not my type of book, but I’ve watched the Broadway musical in 2024 and wanted to see what the original material was like. The musical was incredible, the book… not so much. I think the only enjoyment I got out of it was remembering the scenes of the musical as I read it.

Zitronen-Mandelkuchen mit Zucchini »Und in dem Kuchen ist wirklich geriebene Zucchini?« Der Professor betrachtete den Kuchen. Tat etwas ungläubig. Ein Schauspiel. »Ja, Zucchini.« Ich nickte bestätigend. Er probierte ein Stück. Ich wurde etwas unruhig. »Aber man schmeckt die Zucchini nicht.« Er schaute zweifelnd. »Sie macht den Kuchen saftiger. Das Aroma kommt von den Zitronen und den Mandeln.« »Ich finde ihn großartig.« Er lachte. Ich war erleichtert. Später schickte er das Rezept an seine…

BOING - it's the story of the BBC's wittily redubbed five-minute pre-News quasi-psychedelic masterpiece, The Magic Roundabout!

Der September hat ja schon angefangen. Mir wurde aber plötzlich klar, dass ich meine Pizza Agosto vergessen hatte. Oje. Dabei mag ich sie so sehr. Aber Pfifferlinge und Mirabellen gibt es ja immer noch. Ich habe gestern wunderschöne Exemplare auf dem Wochenmarkt in der Grelckstraße gekauft. Der August ist ein eher unaufgeregter Monat. Die Menschen – Ferienkinder vermutlich ausgenommen – stellen überwiegend keine überzogenen Sonnenerwartungen an ihn und nehmen jeden sommerlichen Tag mit Freude…

The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008)

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CAPTAIN HORATIO HORNBLOWER (1951) has been on my "to watch" list for quite a long time.It was part of the 2007 Literary Classics DVD collection, but while I own it and have seen some of the movies from that set, I still hadn't caught up with CAPTAIN HORATIO HORNBLOWER.I'm glad to say I have finally seen it at long last, thanks to a wonderful new Blu-ray from the Warner Archive Collection. Reviewing this disc was just the push I needed to make room for it in my viewing, and it proved worth the…

When David Lynch’s Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me was released in North American theatres in August 1992, the film’s stars turned up in several newspaper articles and magazines. For example, Sheryl Lee, who gave an outstanding and memorable performance in Lynch’s prequel to Twin Peaks, was featured in the “Peoplescape” section of the August 1992... The post Sheryl Lee in ‘Los Angeles Magazine’ From August 1992 appeared first on TWIN PEAKS BLOG.

A well-matched Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman don't miss much of a beat as they revisit their performances in Practical Magic 2, a sequel to 1998’s Practical Magic, an adaptation of a novel by Alice Hoffman. Despite dealing with witchcraft, Practical Magic 2 — directed by Susanne Bier — proves innocuous, a movie that unfolds pretty much as you'd expect, offering a cheerleading session for sisterhood and fan service for loyal followers of the original, a group that evidently swelled after the…

A guy and his boss are seeing the same girl, then the boss murders the girl, but all evidence points at the guy. Yes, it’s a Big Clock remake, minus the clock, sleazier, and with the guys turned from reporters into cops. When you are the lead suspect in your own investigation: The killer cop boss is in all the cop/killer movies where guys wear cool hats (Le Samourai, Le Cercle Rouge) and was Heurtebise in Orpheus. Stefania from The Conformist rejects his gifts, so he beats her to death with a…

by Cláudio Alves Though the 51st edition of the Toronto International Film Festival (and Market, the organizers would like to remind you) opens officially tomorrow, a special screening kicked off the festivities tonight. Coinciding with its stateside release, the widest for any Korean film since Parasite, Na Hong-jin’s Hope was shown as an honorary part of this year’s Midnight Madness selection. The NEON blockbuster wannabe caused quite the stir at Cannes, the rare genre movie to play in…