I enjoyed the space art in this book. It is a nice background for these fictional space adventures.Bleep and Booster was a beloved children's animated sci-fi series featured on the BBC's Blue Peter from 1963 to 1977. The story followed the galactic adventures of Bleep, an alien boy from the planet Miron, and Booster, an adventurous young human boy. Originally shown on the BBC's Blue Peter. A total of 313 five-minute episodes were made. There were a series of books and Annuals issued over the…

I've written plenty of times about how I don't much care for Tom Cruise as a person whenever I've read about how he's quite unpleasant, egocentric, and so forth. That said, I will never deny that the man can act. That is quite on display in the trailer for the upcoming dark comedy, "Digger." Cruise plays an elderly and deranged oil tycoon whose company's actions put the safety of our planet at risk, so he's got to save us all from the problem he created. Give the trailer a view:Cruise is the…

I'm out of town so this is obviously my second priority, but the studios have fortunately made it pretty easy on me! The big opening is The Odyssey, Christopher Nolan's star-studded version of the classic adventure, featuring Matt Damon as Odysseus and Anne Hathaway as Penelope, plus seemingly half of Hollywood. Shot entirely on Imax film, it's getting most if not all of the premium screens in

A delightful explainer video from the Buckinghamshire Archives posted to Bluesky on 14 July 2026 contains a cheeky stringboard toward the end. ▲ “Who doesn't love a bit of gossip?" Buckinghamshire Archives (2026) ▲ “Who doesn't love a bit of gossip?" Buckinghamshire Archives (2026)

I wasn't expected to post after the Apple Hide My Email case post today, but then I scrolled my feed and ran into this. If you've been following along, I've been covering Warner Bros Sale since Netflix first started to buy Warner Bros. — back when Paramount wasn't even the frontrunner. Since then Warner Bros went with a counter offer from Paramount and as I was mentioned a few days ago the DOJ okayed it and several states said no and are taking it to court. On Wednesday, ProPublica gave us the…

The trailer has dropped for the latest Jane Austen adaptation, a feature-film version of Sense and

Project Runway 22 episode 2 brought back the jury of designers, and somehow it's even worse this season! Let's recap all the ways this episode went awry.

This column is a guest author feature, written by a friend of the site whose work I am thrilled to host at Retro XP. This entry is from Ashley Schofield, author of VA-11 Hall-A: Design Works. Previous entries in this series can be found through this link.I'm going to spend the process of drafting this piece seeing how long I can go before talking about EVO Moment 37. Let’s find out together.Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike is not the greatest fighting game ever made, nor a perfect one. It’s…

FLOWERS, PHONETICS, PHABULOUS Always a joy to have them back: the phoneticist and the flower-girl, born to enthral one another and us. Cheers first for Keziah Ibe as Eliza, fresh out of Arts Ed on a first professional job. She eooowessand garrrrns at the start with confidently alarming shrillness, then suddenly – as the opera-crowd leave the stage to Covent garden workers round a brazier – sings “Wouldn’t it be loverly” at first merrily then downstage with a brief wistful sadness, then again…

Cars (2006)

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In this week's very special Project Runway episode: A Project Runway 22 episode 2 recap and review, with a special guest star! Should we flee like Nina Garcia did?

The greatest joy in my quest to document and archive all things Twin Peaks is finding something I’ve never seen. Take this publicity photo I acquired at auction from my favorite David Lynch film, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me. The black and white shot shows Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee) sitting in the Red Room. In... The post Twin Peaks Publicity – Spelling Films International – Laura Palmer in Red Room – 164-27 appeared first on TWIN PEAKS BLOG.

Bright and breezy, Pretty Woman the Musical is bolstered by a terrific Australian cast, working at the height of the powers on this final leg of the Australian tour. As far as movie-to-musical adaptations go, 1990 film Pretty Woman is about as well known and much loved a title as can be found. Memorably played by Julia Roberts and Richard Gere, the lead characters of business magnate Edward and hooker-with-a-heart-of-gold Vivian translate perfectly into romantic musical theatre principals.…

Comically evil monocled crown prince Roy D’Arcy (The Last Warning) and his more traditionally evil-rich-guy cousin John Gilbert (star of The Big Parade the same year) are both charmed by traveling performer Mae Murray and compete to get her into bed. Gilbert really falls for her, but the royal family says he can’t marry a commoner, so she thinks he hasn’t been serious. After plans to marry the least-evil of the royals falls apart, she decides to marry the evilest guy around as revenge: the…

Today we conclude Columbia Shorts Department with a tribute to director Edward Bernds. Finishing an extended plunge into the slapstick of The Shorts Department, the spotlight shines on the guy who cranked out numerous Three Stooges shorts in the latter 1940's and early 1950's, longtime Columbia Studio soundman Edward Bernds.Chicago-born Edward Bernds was a pioneering soundman who worked with Frank Capra and Howard Hawks who ultimately became a prolific director of comedy films, television…

Twelve years after the film shone an overdue light on the relationship between the LGBTQ+ and mining communities that were equally targeted by Margaret Thatcher's Britain, director Matthew Warchus reunites with original screenwriter Stephen Beresford, who provides the book and lyrics, plus composers Christopher Nightingale, Josh Cohen and DJ Walde to stage Pride the musical. In 1984, young gay activist Mark Ashton (Jhon Lumsden) is looking for a way to mobilise his and his friends' Pride…

Hal Williams, who played Officer Smitty on Sanford and Son, Lester Jenkins on 227, and Harley Foster on The Waltons died on July 15, 2026, at the age of 91. Hal Williams was born on December 14, 1934 in Columbus, Ohio. He worked as a corrections officer and then a postal worker before deciding to go into acting. He made his television debut in a bit part in the special Swing Out, Sweet Land in 1970. that same year he guest starred on Dan August and That Girl.The Seventies would be a busy decade…

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Who are you, and what do you do? I’m Michael Brough. I’m an artist. My main artform is video games: I often do all the parts myself (from design to drawing to programming to vocals to marketing) but sometimes collaborate. My current project is a collaboration with my wife Tara - a musician. I also dance and brew potions. What do you use to get the job done? I mostly work from home - though for a couple of years until quite recently I was sharing an office with a few engineers and architects.…

"Transformers" (2007), City Fight shot CF630, visual effects by ILMI was lucky to chat with the premier visual effects journalist working today, Ian Failes, for his Befores & Afters Podcast. Listen in Apple Podcasts or Overcast.Ian wrapped up his ILM series which also featured John Knoll, Dennis Muren, Janet Lewin, David Vickery, Ben Morris, Rachel Rose, Rob Bredow, Ben Snow and Hayden Landis talking about ILM's history. Ian recently wrote the book Industrial Light & Magic: 50 Years of…

By Ben Miller 13 feature films into his career, director Christopher Nolan has developed a string of touchstones for his films. You can expect an all-star cast, massive practical set pieces, underdeveloped women, stunning visuals, and clunky dialogue. With his new film The Odyssey, Nolan again delivers on everything you come to expect from a Nolan movie. This time, Nolan (a well-documented child of cinema history), decides to take his chances with a sword and sandals epic in the vein of Ben-Hur…

Walt Disney’s “Flywheel” diagram, describing its many internal promotional mechanisms, prepared for investors in 1957, resembles the classic form of the “it’s all connected” diagram. ▲ Disney Flywheel diagram (1957)

Australian director Gillian Armstrong(Oscar And Lucinda, Mrs. Soffel) grew up in Melbourne during the 1950’s. At that time there was still the widely held societal expectation that girls should grow up to become wives and mothers, and the few careers open to women included nursing and secretarial work. Armstrong wanted to follow a different path. She was inspired to become a film director. She studied filmmaking at the Swinburne Film and Television School, and then enrolled on a directors…

Netflix has a new Little House on the Prairie (2026-), adapting the semi-autobiographical novels by

Marlon Brando in The Fugitive Kind (1960) Vitals Marlon Brando as Valentine “Snakeskin” Xavier, guitar-playing drifter seeking redemption Mississippi Delta, January 1959 Film: The Fugitive Kind Release Date: April 14, 1960 Director: Sidney Lumet Costume Designer: Frank L. Thompson WARNING! Spoilers ahead! Background For National Snake Day on July 16th, let’s celebrate the famous snakeskin jacket that Marlon Brando wore as Valentine “Val” Xavier in The Fugitive Kind, adapted from Tennessee…

We watched one of my all-time favorite movies, Ghostbusters, today and I think that calls for a song... about calling people.[tuning up 80s synthesizer]♪ If there's something strangein your neighborhood ::aggressive jazz hands::Who you gonna call?Ghostbusters! ♬If there's something weird And it don't look good(There's a hole in this cake.)Who you gonna call?Ghostbusters! I ain't afraid of no ghost! Pretty sure that's a penguin... I ain't afraid of no ghost! Okay, who brought the dog? ♬If you're…

I have once again been reading a Mark of the Odd game, that is, a game descended from Chris McDowall's Into the Odd. This time, it's Eco Mofos!! from Copy/Paste co-op, written by David Blandy with art by Daniel Locke and editing by Iko. It has the curious feature of acknowledging inspiration from Mythic Bastionland, despite being released a year earlier, thanks to Chris McDowall's open development practices and early pdf releases, I assume. Eco Mofos!! is a post-apocalyptic "Oddlike", but…

★★★★: Returned to the frenetic pace of the first one, which I like. It dipped a bit, especially with so many flashback clips. But the story was good and it was a light, exciting watch. FYI: My reviews are scored out of 4. Also, thanks for subscribing to my RSS feed and supporting the indie web!