It has been 20 years since The Devil Wears Prada became a box-office hit. The Devil Wears Prada 2, a belated sequel, reunites the principal players -- Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt, and Stanley Tucci -- for a movie that loads up on glamor, fashion, and unbridled ambition in the world of magazine publishing. Director David Frankel returns with a story that contrives to bring Hathaway's Andy Sachs back into the world of Miranda Priestly (Streep), the tyrannical taste-making editor of…

I haven't watched a single episode of Naruto in my life.

Lindy Percival, Nathanael Scott, Daniel Carter, and others: This list of our 50 best films will likely provoke debate, but with the aid of 24 experts, including directors, actors, critics, curators and authors, what follows is an inspiring reminder of what we’ve seen so far and a heartfelt encouragement to go on watching our stories on screen. Spoilers: Crocodile Dundee doesn’t feature, though The Castle does, but overall the fifty selected titles are indicative — I think — of the best…

Finally, finally, Keith Griffiths’ documentary about Len Lye (1901–1980) turns up on YouTube. Doodlin’ – Impressions of Len Lye was made in 1987, and is one of several films that Griffiths made about avant-garde film-makers. There’s some slight crossover with his later history of abstract cinema—Stan Brakhage turns up in both films—but Lye was always much more than a film-maker despite his pioneering work of the 1930s. Doodlin’ charts Lye’s progress from his youth in New Zealand, where his…

A string map, described as a “wall of death,” appears in Deadly Impact (dir. Robert Kurtzman, 2010). ▲ Deadly Impact (dir. Robert Kurtzman, 2010)

@harrymackofficial Rhyming On The One - EUROPE 2026 TICKETS ON SALE #freestyle #hiphop #rap ♬ original sound - Harry Mack - Harry Mack @finfunkyinterior A radical idea, long before its time. The Linearetta “Musica in Casa” Hi-Fi by Cesare Fiorese for Bernini, Italy, 1960s. Conceived not as a machine, but as part of the architecture — a 2-meter horizontal composition designed to live within the space, not dominate it. A sliding smoked plexiglass panel reveals a fully integrated system:…

I noticed Dept. Q actress Chloe Pirrie will play Lady Middleton (wife of John, not the older

Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan in When Harry Met Sally (1989) Vitals Billy Crystal as Harry Burns, recent college graduate Chicago to New York City, Spring 1977 Film: When Harry Met Sally… Release Date: July 14, 1989 Director: Rob Reiner Costume Designer: Gloria Gresham WARNING! Spoilers ahead! Background I graduated from college fifteen years ago this week, and I’m still (slightly) younger than 40-year-old Billy Crystal was when he played recent University of Chicago graduate Harry Burns in the…

A promotional lobby card for 'Annie Laurie' (1926) starring Lillian Gish.This year's silent film series at the Brandon (Vt.) Town Hall and Community Center opens with a screening of the MGM historical blockbuster 'Annie Laurie' (1926) on Saturday May 2 at 7 p.m.I'll be at the keyboard for the 16th year of silent films and live music in Brandon. It's turned into quite a run, which is good because I very much enjoy presenting silent films with live music in this venue.Why? Well, the hall has…

I chose to watch a new movie on HBO a few weeks ago on a Saturday Night. A great movie, Patton, was on at the same time on the Fox Movie Channel, but I’d already seen it countless times. I watched the new movie (I can’t even remember the name of it) for about 40 minutes but could not get interested in it, so I turned the television to Patton and was immediately fascinated. I should have decided to watch it all along and was reminded how great a movie it is. Great movies are still being made…

kontroll is a movie about ticket inspectors in this sortof depressing hungarian subway but its still comedy btw. there are killings, people being pushed under the train and we are following bulcsú one of the ticket inspectors. basically everyone hates them and its like sortof dark comedy, and also bulcsú will find love underground. this movie has a great atmosphere and a soundtrack too which is also included.its my fav movie of all time u can watch it below with english subtitlesalso no full…

John Wyver writes: I am something of a fan of the Voices of British Ballet podcast, which features oral history recordings made since 2002 as well as new exchanges with dancers, choreographers and critics. A current strand is celebrating the great dancer and choreographer Ninette de Valois, marking the 100th anniversary of the founding of Ninette de Valois’ Academy for Choregraphic Art in March 1926 and 25 years since de Valois’ death. One recent fascinating edition features Patricia Linton…

Hercule Poirot’s associate, Captain Hastings narrates the book The Mysterious Affair At Styles.

THE FOLLOWING IS WRITTEN BY MY FRIEND AND COLLEAGUE ALONSO DURALDE. YOU CAN LEARN MORE ABOUT HIM HERE. WHAT’S NEW ON 4K/BLU/DVD IN APRIL: DUST BUNNY, FACES OF DEATH, UFORIA AND MORE! NEW RELEASE WALL Dust Bunny (Lionsgate): Visionary TV mogul (and, full disclosure, personal friend) Bryan Fuller makes his big-screen directorial debut with all of the clever scares and gloriously overstated art direction that fans have come to love in cult favorites like Pushing Daisies and Hannibal. The latter’s…

Fighting Elegy star Hideki Takahashi is Tetsu, an assassin whose life is saved by artist Kenji (star of Black Snow, not that one). Broke, our guys try to find anonymous manual work, but get tangled up with women and get themselves noticed (and implicated in murders and explosions). Kenji sketches the boss’s wife naked, which doesn’t go over well with the boss, and now Tetsu has to avenge his stupid brother. Suzuki brings mad style to the final ten minutes – which is an improvement over the one…

La Disco Resplandece (2016, Chema Garcia Ibarra) Kids hangin’ out movie, getting into harmless trouble (breaking into a former dance club, arriving sleepless and temp-tattooed to a serious ceremony the next day). Common directorial themes I can connect to the feature include UFOs, but unfortunately not cockatiels. – Boogie Woogie Sioux (1942, Alex Lovy) Not amusing enough to be worth all the dated racism, story of a native tribe on a hot day and the rain-dance band that fortunately is driving…

A Polish-Jewish family comes to the U.S. at the beginning of the twentieth century. There, the family and their children try to make themselves a better future in the so-called promised land. I postponed this for a while, up to the point where I forgot why I even wanted to watch this. Opening the IMDb page, I instantly remembered: it’t’s directed by Barry Levinson, the director of The Natural, Rain Man, Good Morning Vietnam, and Sleepers. With a great cast together, including Aidan Quinn,…

The first recording is a repeat of Space 1999 – The immunity Syndrome. Media Centre Description: The Immunity Syndrome: Intergalactic adventures of the space-travelling Moonbase Alpha team. Commander Koenig and the team find what appears to be an inhabitable planet. Recorded from ITV4 on Wednesday 30th December 2009 10:23 After this the recording ends with the start of The Saint. The next recording is a repeat of Kiki’s Delivery Service. Media Centre Description: A young witch-in-training has…

PREVIEW DISCLAIMER: The show has not yet officially opened to critics. Dave Harris' Tender is the latest play to deal with a modern crisis of masculinity, although maybe one without quite the same level of toxicity as some of its predecessors. Darren Bennett plays a former adult performer who now leads a trio of male strippers called the Dancing Bears: Exploiting a loophole in New Jersey law, they are to all intents and purposes prostitutes, the mostly-female clientèle being allowed to do a lot…

Results of asking Sci-Bot AI about 'hamiltonian cycles'

The Great Escape (1963)

A leisurely day today. I wasn’t due in town until later in the afternoon, so spent the morning watching the snooker and putting in the final software updates for the escape room. At the library after school, I held the regular Dursley Code Club. A good attendance today with 6, and a few trying out python for the first time. In the evening I went down to the annual Dursley Town Assembly held at the Chantry Centre. This is always a good opportunity to catch up with a few people I know around the…

Hooray, cute LEGO® robot! H.E.R.B.I.E. was introduced to The Fantastic Four comics in 1978, but has enjoyed refreshed popularity in the 2025 Marvel movie The Fantastic Four: First Steps. So much so that in August 2026, LEGO® Super Heroes will release set 76339 H.E.R.B.I.E. Let's take a look at the model and some of the new pieces we've spotted in the images.Continue reading »

Watched: Project Hail Mary 🍿I’ve seen it twice at the cinema and loved it both times.

The cover of Joseph Packer and Ethan Stoneman’s Cypher Culture: Conspiracy, Fandom, and the Messages That Were Not There (LSU Press, 2026) is structured as a classic string board. ▲ Joseph Packer and Ethan Stoneman, Cypher Culture Cypher Culture: Conspiracy, Fandom, and the Messages That Were Not There (LSU Press, 2026), cover

Nuremberg (2025) is not a film I would have chosen to watch had I been

Cars (2006)

I don’t often go to the movie theater these days, but when there’s a new Steven Soderbergh joint, you can bet I’m gonna do my best. I really dug The Christophers, in no small part due to the director’s renewed collaboration with the excellent composer David Holmes, who also scored Soderbergh’s Black Bag, from last year, but prior to that the two hadn’t worked since 2017’s Lucky Logan. Holmes’ second professional film score was Out of Sight, in 1998, and a few years later he famously set the…

Iceman (1984) An arctic surveying team finds the discovery of the century, a perfectly preserved Neanderthal (John Lone) in an ice cave. Back at the base, a group of doctors somehow manage to revive the frozen caveman. Now the big question becomes what to do with him. Dr. Stanley Shephard (Timothy Hutton) seems to be the only member of the research team with an unwavering moral compass, befriending the caveman, whom he calls Charlie. Separated by his family and comrades by tens of thousands of…

Having a difficult movie month here. Seijun Suzuki and The Cannibals were the best movies I’ve watched lately, but this one was the smartest decision. How do you follow up those, plus some major docs, a Jerry Lewis, the Arbuckles, the end of the Szulkin apocalypse series, and my big Cinema Scope roundup? With some brilliant late Cohen nonsense, of course. Gang: Janine Turner (Northern Exposure, Cliffhanger) collapses while large-faced Eric Roberts is harassing her. But Eric is no casual…