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
An intentionally under-stimulating way to track your favorite movies and what you'd like to watch.
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)
American costume designer Vera West (1897-1947) was PROLIFIC. In addition to designing a literal GAZILLION
Harry Dean Stanton in Paris, Texas (1984) Vitals Harry Dean Stanton as Travis Henderson, once-wandering drifter Los Angeles to Houston, Fall 1983 Film: Paris, Texas Release Date: September 19, 1984 Director: Wim Wenders Costume Designer: Birgitta Bjerke WARNING! Spoilers ahead! Background One of my favorite actors, Harry Dean Stanton, was born 100 years ago today on July 14, 1926 in Kentucky. Following his U.S. Navy service during World War II, Stanton began an acting career that lasted more…
by Nathaniel R Will Julianne Moore finally be back in the mix via THE DEBUT While it took me uncomfortably long to complete the first round of Oscar predictions of the year, I've finally done so ending with Best Actress, Best Picture, Best International Feature Film, Best Director and Best Casting as the final charts to go up. But what I want to talk about is, naturally Best Actress. Quelle surprise! There are film years where one or two titans feel all but certain this early. There are years…
We don't have a Midnight Special vs. In Concert or Kirshner's Rock Concert comparison this week, and it's probably just as well, as Special has a highlights show featuring the best of 1978, hosted by Wolfman Jack himself. You can see the lineup for yourself down there; I don't think any show could compare to this one. It's a good night's entertainment, and you're seeing in in this Dallas-Fort Worth edition. -4- KDFW (CBS) MORNING 5:30 NEWS 6 AM SUMMER SEMESTER Asia: Indonesia 6:30 JOYCE…
Leia esse post em inglês aqui Oi! esse é um pequeno experimento onde eu vou publicar o mesmo post em português e inglês e ver no que dá. Tenho visto muitos bloggers brasileiros aqui no Bear e quis me juntar. Eu e minha amiga tivemos um dia muito legal no parque! Eu estava vestida adequadamente? Não. Eu estava atrasada? Sim. Mas foi ótimo mesmo assim! Contexto: Minha cidade, Fortaleza, é cortada por um rio que é cercado por uma floresta. Uma parte é aberta ao público, com trilha e um espaço para…
★★★★: RIP Sam Neill. Great movie though, per usual. So many fun details. And wild how it just established what a T-Rex sounds like. Everyone just agrees now. FYI: My reviews are scored out of 4. Also, thanks for subscribing to my RSS feed and supporting the indie web!
In 2013, the former Meltdown Comics shop in Los Angeles, California, held an art exhibition celebrating Mark Frost and David Lynch’s iconic television series Twin Peaks from June 8-21. Titled “Damn Fine Coffee,” this exhibition was curated by Nico Colaleo and featured 40 artists from around the entertainment industry. One artist from the show named Gina... The post Art Peaks – “Special Agent” by Gina Gress for Damn Fine Coffee at Meltdown Comics appeared first on TWIN PEAKS BLOG.
Last Christmas, I published a short article titled My Gingerbread Man Soap Dispenser, which was, as the name suggests, about my gingerbread man soap dispenser. I had purchased him at a local discount store called Lot Less on December 20, 2025, mostly for aesthetic purposes (I recall it was about $3 to $3.50, but I did not note the exact price in the original article). The gingerbread man was not all about aesthetics – mind you – he also held distinctly ginger-scented soap. While I would…
A Below Deck Med cast member came on a fellow cast member's sheets—and then didn't wash them or tell the person. I talked to specialist in infectious disease and sexually transmitted infections to find out if that's dangerous or not.
It’s no secret that the Hollywood Comet loves musicals. In 2010, I revealed I had seen 400 movie musicals over the course of eight years. Now that number is over 600. To celebrate and share this musical love, here is … Continue reading →
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Almost surely, if you totaled up the number of hours of movie watching I’ve done and the hours of TV show watching I’ve done, TV dwarves movies. It’s not a conscious choice; just how it shook out for me. Via the internet, I “know” a couple of people who are consciously movie-only. Khoi Vinh does all these movie reviews and has more or less said he’s only got time for movies. Sean Fennessey, host of The Big Picture has said he only watches movies as well. Paraphrasing from what I remember, it’s…
Hearing the announcement this morning of Sam’s “sudden and unexpected” death felt like a punch to my heart. He’s been one of my favourite actors for so long. The following are my favourite films and performances of his: Reilly, Ace Of Spies(TV), Dead Calm, My Brilliant Career, Hunt For The Wilderpeople(a rare opportunity to use his dry sense of humour on screen), The Twelve(TV), Bicentennial Man(the scene where he watches the recording of himself dancing with his daughter on her wedding day…
Countless videos? I have to admit when I first saw the still shot l laughed at the cartoonishness of it. However, he had seriuos injuries and bison are no joke. This has to be post now as it is already viral and old news. I have other posts on the dangers of tourists and bison somewhere.
Ethan Hawke has had success in both independent and mainstream films, plus he’s made his
Last month, I wrote about the career paths top directors took to direct a major motion picture. One finding was that women were less likely than men to make a second film on the same scale. A few of you got in touch to ask for more details on this, so I went back to the numbers.I studied the career paths of 1,765 directors, all of whom have directed a top-grossing movie since 1980. I looked at the professional work they had done since directing a movie that appeared on the ‘top 100 US-grossing’…
In Saturday's article about Sesame Street, I mentioned how about 20% of the stations showing the program were commercial, not educational. We can see that in today's listings, where three commercial stations have it on; all three are CBS affiliates, and all three air Sesame Street immediately prior to Captain Kangaroo. That's seems like good scheduling to me; Children's Television Workshop urged stations to view the two shows as complimentary, rather than competitive. You can also tell, from…
