Alien: Colony War is a classical Alien story in the "Aliens / Predator / Prometheus Universe": state, corporate and military corruption and greed, individual bravery and struggle, xenomorphs and mothers willing to protect their children, the occasional psychopath. Entertaining. I feel the author understands and respects the Alien universe. Alien has a successful recipe, one that unlike other franchises, no one yet tried to deconstruct, reinvent or turn into something else. Yes, I am also…

by Cláudio Alves Women on screen are more interesting than men. This is a truth universally acknowledged by actressexuals everywhere, and, by the looks of it, John Early is an actressexual like no other. For his feature directorial debut, the openly queer comedian-turned-actor-turned-maverick-filmmaker has decided to take these passions to the next level. Rather than watch from afar, he has become one of the great actresses he’d like to see on screen. And yet, for all it plays with gender,…

My great-grandfather was a schoolmaster on Gatehouse-of-Fleet, and my grandfather was brought up there. What a pleasure it will be to play this festival!

As is only fair with a horror movie, I’m not going to give any plot spoilers. To some extent that’s quite easy: like a lot of A24‘s movies, I’m not sure the plot entirely makes sense. But you don’t go see their movies, including this one, for the plot as much for the feel of it, and for individual scenes, and those are both very good. The feel of it, as described below, is based on some Youtube shorts by the director, Kane Parsons, which were in turn based on an existing internet meme. In other…

Nusrath Tapadar and Bhasker Patel in Camdenwalla, Camden People’s Theatre. Photo: Harry Elletson REVIEW: It’s 1994, and Muhammad (Bhasker Patel) runs the Camden Monitoring Project, an organisation that supports victims of racist attacks. If someone from the local Bangladeshi community is feeling threatened or under attack, they can call the service, and a man in a van will come and collect them and take them home or somewhere safe. Muhammad carefully documents every incident in the hope that…

If you like an extended visual metaphor, then you will love The Nymph, written and directed by Vanessa Stachel at Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg, one of the internationally most acclaimed film and media schools. Together with a team of producers, editors, VFX creators – basically a whole film crew made up of fellow students, she has created a branded short for Greenpeace Germany – and a tale of love and woe it is indeed. The story is deceptively simple. A young knight, defeated and injured,…

Tootsie (1982)

(Nota bene, my lunchbreaks for the last while have been occupied by exercise, so the last few entries in this are going to be more like Watching Avatar: The Way Of Water On Juneteenth But Broken Up Into Lunchbreak-Sized Chunks Just So I Don’t Disrupt The Format Of The Series; thank you, as you were) ⦁ ⦁ ⦁ ⦁ ⦁ THE ENEMY OF MY ANEMONE GETS FUCKIN ATE, FOOLS ⦁ ⦁ ⦁ ⦁ ⦁ I must admit I was briefly hoping that the number of dudes Spider managed to conk with that fire extinguisher would go into double…

Another excellent video from Transport Matters - and another monorail I missed out on riding.

Despite my intense love of David Lynch’s 1992 masterpiece, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, I’ve come to realize that there were many who didn’t enjoy it when the film was released in 1992. While only a handful of critics offered praise, many panned the prequel to the groundbreaking television series. It doesn’t mean these critics... The post Reviewing Peaks – Joan E. Vadeboncoeur Reviews Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me appeared first on TWIN PEAKS BLOG.

Remember that scene in the Matrix where Neo is strapped into the chair and Link uploads all sorts of martial arts into his mind? When Neo wakes up, he says "I know Kung-fu," then proceeds to demonstrate his skill in a battle with Morpheus. That was a pretty amazing scene. But if you suspend your disbelief for a second, it also suggests that when you have all the information at your fingertips, knowledge is just a matter of uploading it into your mind. The directors of the movie conveniently…

Having very recently enjoyed Walter Matthau and Glenda Jackson in HOUSE CALLS (1978), I was quite interested in seeing them paired again in HOPSCOTCH (1980).Fortunately I had picked up the Criterion Collection DVD in a half-price sale not long ago, so I didn't have to wait long to watch it.HOPSCOTCH is a lighthearted spy film, the enjoyable type of "midrange" movie released with some frequency decades ago, which is sadly largely missing from today's moviegoing scene.Matthau plays Miles Kendig,…

Dear Reader, we just finished reading a delightful, soon-to-be released novel about Hollywood censorship, and we think you’ll love it. Rough Cuts, by American novelist Glenn R. Miller, is a lighthearted look at the politics of Hollywood film censorship in the mid 1920s, and is told from the perspective of two men. The first is an acclaimed, but aging, Hollywood … Continue reading →

The first recording today starts with the end of Arthur. There’s an episode of Newsround. Plus a trail for Space Hoppers. There’s also a trail for My Life: Billboard Kids. Then it’s Barney’s Barrier Reef – The Reef’s Got Talent. Today it’s Barmy Barney and Gorgeous Gemma presenting. They’re hosting The Reef’s Got Talent, and the judges are Simon Coral and Danni Mantaray. There’s a school of Tuna. Dancing Dolphins. Parrotfish. A Mudskipper. The Pygmy Seahorse. The Boxer Crab. A flamboyant…

Moneyball (2011)

Measuring web performance without lying to yourself.

Measuring web performance without lying to yourself.

by Nathaniel R THE KING'S WARDEN won three prizes and is a huge hit in South Korea. You might remember last year that we discussed that South Korea has a robust film awards calendar, with the first awards show of each year in May! I'm sharing it despite being well over a month llate because my number one film of 2025 No Other Choice took the big prize. The Baeksang Arts Awards do more than film -- they're an all around arts awards so they also honor theater and television. Eligibilty runs from…

We’ve got the first listed Peanuts book for 2027, and while it’s a board book for kids, it’s going to have something for all you Freida fans. In Snoopy’s Bunny Fun!, Freida wants Snoopy to go after rabbits, but Snoopy has other plans. And if bunnies are your thing, January also brings It’s Easter Snoopy!, a coloring and activity book with crayons.

I occasionally joke about how it's weird that the folks who saw the first Toy Story and Shrek movies in theaters could conceivably be bringing their grandchildren to the the new ones, but also consider the number of characters whose distinct voices have been recast due to infirmity and death. I dunno, seems like like there's some sort of lesson here. But, nonetheless, we get Toy Story 5 this

When I was a TV-obsessed pre-adolescent, I loved the series Three’s Company. Technically, I was probably too young to be watching it, but all the “adult” humor flew right over my head1 as stuff that grown-ups must think is funny. I just treated it like a live-action cartoon. But even as a pre-teen, I quickly got frustrated with it. This is dumb. They could easily avoid all of these wacky hijinks just by explaining the misunderstanding! I mention that to establish that I’ve got a long history of…

By Gillian A.M. Mitchell Casting, Reception and Legacy Brian Latham, a senior member of the Mill Street Youth Club in the northern industrial town of Cambury, is persuaded by his friends to sing a couple of songs with The Gift, the rock band which is providing live music for the club’s Friday night dance. His performance, enthusiastically received by fellow club-goers, impresses the band members, and they offer Brian the chance to join them as vocalist. While Brian’s friends resoundingly…

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Twin Peaks fans are a lucky bunch. Whether printed in magazines, compiled in oral histories, or presented on stage at fan conventions, just about every cast member has shared unique memories of life on the set. But as much as I love to hear from the actors, what I long for are stories from the... The post Dave Robinson – The Process of Twin Peaks’ Prop Master & Painter appeared first on TWIN PEAKS BLOG.

John Higgins / The Verge: Kaleidescape gets movie files directly from the studios, encodes them at reference quality, and makes them available for download to its high-end media players and servers. They offer 4K Blu-ray quality, or better, without a disc, and the ease of streaming without the quality loss. But they’ve always been expensive — so expensive that even in my 20 years of reviewing AV systems I’ve never had the chance to use one. They’ve been the purview of pricey, custom-installed…

Frock Flicks is off for this American holiday. If you need a Frock Flicks fix,

Dwa filmy na których niedawno byliśmy."Michael". Biopik rozbity na dwie części, i w sumie słusznie biorąc pod uwagę format postaci i mnogość historii. Nie mam pojęcia jak bardzo zgodny z prawdą bo nie studiowałem biografii Jacksona, ale jestem pod wrażeniem tego jak jego bratanek Jaafar doskonale odtworzył nie tylko ruchy ale też głos Michaela. Jest tubka która zestawia nagrania studyjne z filmem [1] i są zaskakująco podobni. Inna tubka [2] pokazuje oryginalny teledysk "Thriller" i sceny w…

Oh, I didn’t know the Mickey17 movie was a book adaptation, I’m reading it now! Fun fact: the book’s title is Mickey7.

A chronicle of country-music legend Johnny Cash’s life, from his early Arkansas-cotton-farm days to his rise to fame with Sun Records in Memphis, where he recorded alongside Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Carl Perkins. The story about the Man in Black masterfully played by Joaquin Phoenix and for which Reese Witherspoon won an Oscar for her interpretation of June Carter is an absolute masterpiece of a film, one that (at least for me) passed the passing of time and set itself as a great…

Today we tip a battered top hat worn by a three sheets to the wind Ted Healy to Moe Howard, the ace of slapstick who succeeded Ted as "the head stooge" when The Three Stooges began starring in short subjects for Columbia Pictures in 1934. The gang here continues having a rough go through 2026, so a bit of "laughter is the best medicine" from Moe Howard, born on this day in 1897, and the Three Stooges, starting with the following documentary by his son Paul, provides an excellent Rx. Love this…