The good folks at Thermal Master have sent me their DV2 camera to review. As their name suggests, this is a thermal / infrared camera - they've specifically designed this for bird watching and animal spotting. Let's put it through its paces and see how it compares to the competition! Straight away you can see it is different from normal IR cameras - they tend to have a small fixed screen and a rubber button interface. This has a lush touchscreen which displays the thermal image and is used to…

Lenny Cantrow (Charles Grodin) is a newlywed, who’s just married Lila (Jeannie Berlin) and set off with her on his honeymoon in Miami Beach. But while there, he meets Kelly (Cybill Shepherd), the “woman of his dreams”. And despite his recent nuptials, he decides to pursue Kelly. ….Yeah, so this is a black comedy. But I think it’s also an early example of what we call cringe comedy today, where the humor comes from watching someone doing something socially awkward – or carrying through with a…

There’s a temptation to think Brazilian barbecue was invented by a marketing team in São Paulo who wondered how many different cuts of beef they could parade past a table before someone gave up. In reality, churrasco began about as far from polished city restaurants as you could imagine. Out on the pampas, the gaúchos – South America’s answer to the cowboy, only with better cattle – lived off the land and cooked what they had over open fires. There were no marinades or sauces; just meat, coarse…

Needful Things (1993)

Well, we just watched the 1943 version of Jane Eyre, based on the 1847 novel by Charlotte Brontë. As you know, Jane Eyre (the character) is a strong-willed, free-thinking young woman in Victorian England who clashes with authority and potential suitors alike. She suffers no fools. There have been dozens of film adaptations of Jane Eyre, the first of which … Continue reading →

Watched LAURA and realised I want to read Laura. Vera Caspary is ace, going by her work on A LETTER TO THREE WIVES. Don’t know how her novel-writing stacks up against her screenwriting. I guess Preminger as producer was responsible for the casting — even though Rouben Mamoulian was originally slated to direct. Certainly Preminger […]

Sam Neill, known for playing Dr. Alan Grant in the Jurassic Park movies and appearing in movies from The Hunt for Red October (1990) to Event Horizon (1997), died on July 13, 2026, at the age of 78. Sam Neill was born Nigel John Dermot Neill on September 14, 1947, in Omagh, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. His father was a New Zealander stationed with the Royal Irish Fusiliers. His mother was English. The family moved to New Zealand in 1955, where they operated a wine and spirits business. He…

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Movies Barbie (2023) D: Greta Gerwig. S: Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling, America Ferrera, John Cena, Michael Cera. Director and co-writer Gerwig takes a doll Barbie (Robbie) into the real world to find her owner, whose sadness is spreading to Barbieland. Robbie’s disappointed how feminism and equality are going, but Ken (Gosling) is geeked for patriarchy. Always fun, usually smart, beautifully executed, with some outstanding musical numbers. Good to excellent performances abound. It’s a great…

It's Saturday Morning, and while you're waiting for TV to 'start', here's a collection of highlights from the archives including Bob Fischer and Chris Shaw on Looks Unfamiliar and thoughts on The Flashing Blade, Blue Jam and Zokko!...

The trailer for the upcoming Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet (Naughty Dog/Sony Interactive Entertainment, 2027) contains a classic investigation wall. ▲ Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet (Naughty Dog/Sony Interactive Entertainment, 2027), trailer ▲ Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet (Naughty Dog/Publisher Sony Interactive Entertainment, 2027), trailer ▲ Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet (Naughty Dog/Publisher Sony Interactive Entertainment, 2027), trailer

2026/07/15: Today Dona Lupa is receiving her biweekly (every 14 days) IV fluid therapy.

2026/07/15: Today Dona Lupa is receiving her biweekly (every 14 days) IV fluid therapy.

Mary Shelley must be rolling in her grave, what with two big-screen flicks interpreting her

Art by Bryan Hitch (Hawkman) and Stanley Lau (Supergirl) Back in February of 2019, the Hawkman series by Robert Venditti revealed a former life of Hawkman, and it wasn't just any random character. This character was Catar-Ol, a Kryptonian who was living on Krypton at the time of its destruction. He appeared in a few comics during the next two or three years, but he has not been seen since 2022. Still, he was given a pretty important background. Hawkman Vol. V No. 1 (August 2018)He actually made…

After 15 years of training by the mysterious Yun Tai sect, Yun Xiang leaves to seek revenge for his massacred family. What he lacks in martial arts skills, he compensates by his huge intellect and ability to manipulate people to fulfill his plans. On his journey, he meets several people who would become his friends: Shu Yanan, a fierce female warrior, Jin Biao a master swordsman for hire, Su Ming Yu, a rich kid with martial arts skills and dreams of wandering around the jianghu like a hero. As…

Hollywood spends $200 million on CGI spectacles that make no sense and a billion dollars anyway. Meanwhile, some of the most brilliant science fiction ever made is buried in a streaming library with 400 reviews and a poster nobody remembers. These 11 films aren’t obscure because they’re bad. They’re obscure because they did something dangerous: they took the science seriously, trusted the audience’s intelligence, and refused to wrap everything up neatly. That combination tends to kill a box…

Currently reading: Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton 📚 Re-reading Jurassic Park, last time I read it was maybe 20 years ago. Realizing now how much of a metaphor for the AI age it is.

Good manic pervert movie, like a euro-arthouse John Waters, with rapid banter and exclusively eccentric characters. I’ve seen Kurt Raab in four other Fassbinder movies, always in minor roles. Here he’s the lead, a broke poet, having become violent and desperate with writer’s block. His put-upon wife and shut-in brother (a fly-plucker whom Kurt once calls a guter junge, hmmm) are supportive, but he finds a devoted fan of his work in Petra von Kant. Illness, murder and fake murder all follow, as…

The great Harry Dean Stanton would have celebrated his 100th birthday on July 14, 2026. Since I first saw him in Ridley Scott’s Alien, I’ve loved him in every film he’s ever done. I’m particularly enamored with his performance as Fat Trout Trailer Park manager Carl Rodd in David Lynch’s Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me. I... The post Twin Peaks Publicity – Spelling Films International – Harry Dean Stanton as Carl Rodd appeared first on TWIN PEAKS BLOG.

Für alles, was mit Dips & Cremes aus Richtung levantinischer-arabischer Küche zu tun, haben wir hier im Greenwaycastle eine große Liebe. Hummus geht in allen Lebenslagen und wenn wir in einem entsprechenden Restaurant sind, verzichten wir oft auf den Hauptgang und bestellen uns die Mezzekarte einmal rauf und runter.Muhammara stammt ursprünglich aus der syrischen Stadt Aleppo und wird mit dem

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Phillip Maciak: There is something absurd about hearing a character in a movie utter the title of the movie they’re in out loud. It’s a moment that can be played for laughs, but it’s just as hard not to smirk when a film that takes itself seriously calls itself by its own name. Many filmmakers will go out of their way to avoid this moment of clunky announcement. You never hear, for example, Daniel Day-Lewis snarl, “Welp, there will be blood,” or Leonardo DiCaprio mutter, “You know, man, it’s…

l-r Francesca Amewudah-Rivers and Nadi Kemp-Sayfi in ‘Tender’ at Bush Theatre. Photo by Harry Elletson Tender is getting a second outing this time in the Bush Theatre’s larger space and is a play about a chance encounter that develops into something more. The encounter is between two women who are living with not wholly comfortable relationships. Ivy (Nadi Kemp-Sayfi) is living with her pushy boyfriend and has an equally pushy brother. Ash (Francesca Amewudah-Rivers) has returned from living in…

As you (may) know, at Kuriositas we like to showcase some of the best student-created animated shorts. Many, if not most of them, tell stories that are action-heavy, which helps show off the technical prowess of the students. Fire is something quite difference. While it certainly covers the elements that the students must show in order to complete their degree, this tells and altogether different story. As such it is refreshing to see a group of collaborators take such a distinct and different…

“For you the theatre is everything, for me it is nothing,” Ellen Terry tells Henry Irving in David Hare’s play Grace Pervades. She and Irving were the greatest actors of their generation, and it’s impossible to believe that the theatre was nothing to her. It was her life. As it was his. But for him nothing else much mattered, including his wife and son. The play tells the story of Irving and Terry, who worked together for 20 years at the Lyceum Theatre, and the contrast between them was at the…

A classic investigation board with string appears in Blade: The Series e02 (Spike, 2006). ▲ Blade: The Series e02 (Spike, 2006) ▲ Blade: The Series e02 (Spike, 2006) ▲ Blade: The Series e02 (Spike, 2006)

Yes, I have read the book (all of Andy Weir’s books in fact) so I did know what was going to happen (especially since it did stick pretty closely to the story, perhaps due to Andy’s producer credit). Good things - Ryan Gosling, played it pretty perfectly, at least how I had imagined Ryland Grace to be; Rocky, the practical and visual effects team did a great job of making a lump of granite into a sympathetic and expressive character; and the environment of Rocky’s ship and his technology,…

American costume designer Vera West (1897-1947) was PROLIFIC. In addition to designing a literal GAZILLION