So much of the film is perfect alignment or beautiful discord. She descends the staircase on footsteps in perfect rhythm with the score. The framed balance of the final scenes and the chance encounter and the timing of friends arriving shows the world aligning for her, supporting her. She carelessly drags her scarf as she stumbles into unexpected nature. The myriad mirrors in the shop and the jumbled overheard conversations in the cafe and the impulsive merry-go-round bus ride and the grotesq...
📺 It: Welome to Derry (2025) had more hits than misses, even while comitting the cardinal sin of prequels which is to overexplain. There is gore, of course, all CGI and gamified to the point of being camp. It is just as well: the greatest horror remains in the anticipation of the unseen.
Paul Levitz (script) Joe Staton (pencils) Jack Abel (inks) Cory Adams (colors) Jean Simek (letters) Al Milgrom (editor) It’s one issue-long story this time, no backup, which is both good and bad. It’s bad because this issue’s a letdown from the previous two “Earthwar!” entries, but it’s good because after an issue of Joe Staton … Continue reading Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes (1977) #243
What would happen if Miranda Priestly met Anna Wintour? At first glance from this video, not very much at all. There is no explosion, no visible drama, no theatrical collapse beneath the weight of mutual frostiness. But there is Dancing Queen by Abba playing in the elevator that they share (a lovely nod to another of Meryl Streep’s roles). Miranda Priestly is, of course, a fictional character. Anna Wintour is the woman that said fictional character is based on. So, it’s all getting a littl...
We discussed The Affair of the Necklace (2001) on one of our podcasts (hey, remember when
Vitals Ben Johnson as Tector Gorch, tough outlaw Texas to Mexico, Spring 1913 Film: The Wild Bunch Release Date: June 18, 1969 Director: Sam Peckinpah Costume Designer: James R. Silke WARNING! Spoilers ahead! Background Today is the 30th anniversary since the death of one of my favorite actors: Oklahoma-born cowboy, rancher, and Oscar winner Ben Johnson. The son of a rodeo […] The post The Wild Bunch: Ben Johnson as Tector Gorch appeared first on BAMF Style.
Top Chef Carolinas is letting a chef sit out challenges—but for how long? And can someone please explain to me a dehydrated food challenge at a whitewater rafting center? Let's discuss episode 5!
I'll admit, I was a little sceptical about returning to Avenue Q. I saw it on its original West End run back in… OH MY GOD I AM SO OLD! FUCK! Where did the time go? It's always hard to know how much to update a show. Does it need constant reinvention to stay in the zeitgeist or can it be pickled forever as a classic? "I wish I had taken more pictures" was something that utterly resonated with …
Michael Frayn’s play Copenhagen is a philosophical, moral mystery set around a meeting between Danish physicist Niels Bohr (Richard Schiff), his wife, Margrethe (Alex Kingston) and German physicist Werner Heisenberg (Damien Molony) in 1941. The two men had once worked closely together, but the war saw Germany invade and occupy Denmark, leaving the half-Jewish Bohr […]
FRIENDSHIP, BRILLIANCE, DOUBT The universe as a bundle of unknowable of approximates: Relativity and Complementarity, Uncertainty theory, quantum mechanics, particles hanging out in two places at the same time, Schroedinger’s Cat. If you back away from such … Continue reading →
Funeral In Berlin (1966)
An amateur documentary traveling to the area of the most famous Sasquatch sighting results in one of the scariest scenes I've seen in any movie.
I’d been looking forward to Riz Ahmed’s Hamlet, a new interpretation of Shakespeare’s classic play directed by Aneil Karia, a director who had won an Oscar for his short film, The Long Goodbye, a harrowing take on an encounter between a South Asian family and right-wing racists. To set the stage, let me say that I don’t insist that Shakespeare be approached with liturgical reverence. Why not set a big-screen adaptation in an East Asian community in contemporary London? And instead of royal...
Netflix's doc on the 2022 murder of star cyclist Mo Wilson meets the challenges of centering the victim.
This movie was in my list for more than few years I never have taken the time to watch it. But yesterday I asked Ashfiya randomly to suggest me some east asian movies. She named few movies including this one. I recognised this and told her that today is going to be movie night then. The movie was on Sony Liv app, I had the subscription so I watched there. The movie is pretty good. But to be completely honest I was kinda disappointed. It maybe because I had greater expectations from it. I got it…
AKA throwing myself on the grenade AKA Trystan is a big meanie. The final season
