A terrific score in the classic Broadway style distinguishes new musical Beaches, a screen-to-stage adaptation happily heaving with heart and humour. Note: having attended an early preview performance, this review is more […]
One highlight from the Real Twin Peaks 2026 event was a conversation with Twin Peaks writer and producer Harley Peyton. Fans from around the world gathered in the historic North Bend Theatre in North Bend, Washington as authors John Thorne and Scott Ryan spoke with Peyton about his Emmy Award-nominated work on the groundbreaking television... The post Real Twin Peaks 2026 – Conversation with Twin Peaks Writer and Producer Harley Peyton appeared first on TWIN PEAKS BLOG.
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In this week's episode of my podcast: More reality TV shows are showing us their scaffolding, literally and figuratively. Some examples, and a plea for more!
The first recording today starts with the end of Andromeda. Then it’s a repeat of Space 1999 – Journey to Where. Media Centre Description: Journey to Where: Sci-fi drama series. In an attempt to return to Earth, the Alphans find that they have travelled back in time to 14th-century Scotland. Recorded from ITV4 on Friday 27th November […]
A Pattern of Roses (1983) is set in the early 1980s and centres around a 17-year-old called Tim, played by Stuart MacKenzie, whose family is affluent due to his father being the owner of a successful advertising company and who is staying with his parents at their second home in the countryside while he recuperates […]
Dream-logic stuff happens, shot in a dreamy way by resurgent Suzuki (his big comeback, according to people who didn’t see A Tale of Sorrow). Story of the titular sound recording where the composer’s voice can be heard on the recording is true, the characters sharing this story are a German professor, a guy named Nakasago […]
We finished watching Paradise Season 2 last night. I was wondering/hoping it'd wrap the whole thing up, but I guess we're getting a third season. It's still unclear to me if we're dealing with time travel or parallel universes I think the whole thing is a bit of a mess at this point; but if I don't think about it too much, I did enjoy it. ✍️ Reply by email Originally posted at Nice Marmot 16:54 Tuesday, 31 March 2026
I do not even know how I found this video—or how it found me through the algorithm—but I appreciated it. Jonathan Alpeyrie breaks down the work of conflict and war photographers into their most basic attributes and methods, as basic … Continue reading →
Had a very nice double bill of REMBRANDT and GOYA. More on Francisco Goya later. The Rembrandt Van Rijn bio was the 1936 Alexander Korda one with Charles Laughton, which prompted some thoughts. But we start with Edward Dmytryk’s On Film Editing, a good book where he talks about helping to “save” a scene from […]
A classic string board shows up early in Pneumata (Deadbolt Interactive, 2023).
🍿 The Thin Man (1934) was fun to watch, even with the wooden acting from everyone but the lead characters. Nick and Nora inspired so many other murder mysteries and action comedies that a reboot is only a matter of time, and indeed Margot Robbie and Brad Pitt’s production companies were considering it. I imagine their functional alcoholism will play differently these days.
The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist is a brilliant piece of work. (This will be a fully spoilorific overview. If you haven’t seen The AI Doc,I recommend seeing it, it is about as good as it could … Continue reading →
Plays with multimedia can feel a bit gimmicky and therefore disappointing, but this isn’t the case with This is Not About Me at the Soho Theatre. Written by Hannah Caplan, it’s a two-hander about friends who have tipped over into ‘with benefits’ on three occasions, which threatens their friendship. They are opposites who somehow fit […]
God I love original, old school Law and Order so much. For the first 5 or 6 seasons at least, every person on the cast is just incredible. Absolute cinema shit.
In an extraordinarily synergistic match of concept and material, Cats: The Jellicle Ball explodes with giddy energy and fiery passion. Note: having attended a preview performance, this review is more of a […]
I am again caught in paradox, because I am OUTRAGED at Quaritch stabbing the murder panther with whom Neytiri had just made friends, it’s a real kick the dog moment;...
I think the movie wants us to root for the cops who are trying to out-brutality each other, versus drug boss Sammo Hung who had the parents of a “cute” child murdered before they could testify against him. I chose to wish righteous death upon everyone onscreen, and nearly got my wish. Each cop has […]
I realized just before hitting play that I meant to grab Manhandled (1924), not Manslaughter (1922), for the series I’m watching. But I haven’t ever named or mentioned this series and I’m accountable to no one, and I’ve got Manslaughter on DVD with an Alloy Orchestra soundtrack, so we’re making a substitution. Ultimately the movie […]
As a quintessential Cold War child, still fixated on it, I periodically revisit films and documentaries about its most prickly moments. For years, I’ve observed, and occasionally joined, debates surrounding the two key films that managed to capture the 1980s collective paranoia: nuclear annihilation. The first, in 1983, was the American The Day After. A year later, the British Threads emerged. The debate has historically crystallised on a rigid duality in interpreting t...
A sequel to New Zealand filmmaker Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy, made between 2001 and 2003, is in the works. Much of the interest in the story to date though has centred on Stephen Colbert, who is to be one of the screenwriters. Colbert will collaborate with Peter McGee, his son, […]
A classic obsessive variant appears in My Demon s01 (Netflix, 2023).
