WM picked all three of these movies, because I am currently saving my movie-demands capital for the Hadestown pro shot in July. Marriage is about compromise, and compromise sometimes looks like Jason Statham. Masters of the Universe (in theater) We were two of the approximately 200 people who went to see this opening weekend. This one was surprisingly charming and fun. Barbie ran so He-Man could casually jog. I don’t want to spoil anything, but there is a sweet explanation for why characters…

Robert Mitchum as Max Cady in Cape Fear (1962) Vitals Robert Mitchum as Max Cady, psychopathic ex-convict Southeast Georgia, Summer 1962 Film: Cape Fear Release Date: June 15, 1962 Director: J. Lee Thompson Costume Designer: Mary Wills WARNING! Spoilers ahead! Background With the latest adaptation of Cape Fear earning strong reviews on Apple TV+, let’s look back to the release of the original film sixty-four years ago today on June 15, 1962. Adapted from John D. MacDonald’s suspense novel The…

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 →

Wou know that summer is on the way when you see notices for programs like Vacation Playhouse, which will be filling in for Gomer Pyle starting next week. Reruns dominate the rest of the night, except for that special on gambling that I mentioned on Friday. But I think the Minnesota Twins game on WTCN looks very attractive, especially since this is the year the Twins go to the World Series. At least that's what I was probably watching, since this TV Guide is from the Twin Cities. Y -2- KTCA…

“A man is his job” Shelley Levene declares in David Mamet’s evergreen depiction of salesmen in a cut throat California property office which has become a classic depiction of 80s posturing masculinity, a play that seems to always speak to the inheritance of a certain type of aggressive manliness undercut by themes of ageing, personal […]

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'Moviedrome' ran, intermittently, on BBC2 from May 1988 to June 2000. The format was simple, hosts Alex Cox (series 1-7) and Mark Cousins (series 8-12) introduced a 'cult movie', or two, of the sort that were almost never shown on British TV and, in those halcyon years, long before the arrival of the internet, were often unheard of by those of us growing up in more remote parts of the country, with little or no access to any sort of 'arts' cinema, and it quickly became a Sunday night staple for…

I finished watching La Brea. Can’t say I recommend it.

by Cláudio Alves Glenn Close and Deborah Kerr at the 66th Academy Awards. | © AMPAS By this point, everyone and their mother has heard about the Honorary Oscar recipients for 2026. It’s been decided by the Academy to bestow these honors on Ridley Scott, Glenn Close, and pioneering Black American animator Floyd Norman. Producers Pamela Koffler and Christine Vachon will also receive the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, with nobody getting a Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award for the first time…

The first recording today starts with a repeat of The Simpsons – Burns verkaufen der Kraftwerk. Media Centre Description: Mr Burns gets tired of running the nuclear power plant so, after much haggling, he sells out to a German company. Recorded from Channel 4 on Sunday 28th February 2010 15:38 The next recording is a repeat of The Simpsons – I Married Marge. Media Centre Description: Marge thinks she may be pregnant, and Homer starts to reminisce about Bart’s arrival in the world. Recorded from…

Luigi Maggi, co-directing somehow with two other blokes, gives us the earliest probably version of THE LAST DAYS OF POMPEII. It surprised me right off the bat with its distinctive dramatis personae sequence — we get a shot of each member of the cast glowering, simpering or boggling, as appropriate, accompanied by a superimposed text […]

Screen vamp Louise Glaum plays a famous showgirl who enjoys stealing married men. It’s all fun and games until she gets married and finds the shoe on the other foot. Home Media Availability: Widely available as a budget release. Now that I have your attention… The vamp craze had been simmering since the famous Philip […]

After her death in 1935, Einstein wrote that Emmy Noether (left) was "the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began." This delightful animated short tells the story of a train journey she took, usually told as a moment when she suddenly realised the connection between symmetries and conservation laws while travelling, but - alas - historians have found little contemporary evidence for the story. Like the tales of Newton and the…

As part of my extensive research into Mark Frost and David Lynch’s Twin Peaks, I maintain multiple open investigations into the details about my beloved television show. I may start a research project only to return to it years later. I’ve discovered that if I wait, sometimes the stars turn and the mystery is revealed. This... The post Twin Peaks Prop – Special Agent Dale Cooper’s Artwork in Room 315 at The Great Northern Hotel appeared first on TWIN PEAKS BLOG.

Visiting the premiere of my friend’s shortfilm Yuragim.

First Light box My youngest daughter and I recently started playing the tabletop game HeroQuest. Specifically, the recently-issued, cut-down variant HeroQuest: First Light. This is quite advanced for her age, and I'm a little surprised she's taken to it, but she's really loving it, It's pushed her to read bits of lore on cards and quest books that is way above her expected reading level, and we've been exercising her maths by adding up the gold we find on our quests and calculating what the…

If you missed how I got here, you can read about Day 1 here. This is the second of 13 posts in The Great Balkans Road Trip series. I’m doing a circular tour with a travel company called Just You, for solo travellers (my partner, Lee, not being a keen flyer), taking me from Romania through Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Kosovo and Serbia and back through Romania. This was the first full day of the Balkan Explorer trip. We’d landed in Bucharest last night – after two full days travelling for me – and…

Thinking, as we do often, of movie comedians who successfully transitioned from silents to talkies. Some studios and funmakers did better than others. Mack Sennett had his problems adapting to the new medium but did employ the likes of Harry Gribbon, Vernon Dent and Andy Clyde - and a couple of years later, the brilliant W.C. Fields.Next up: the comediennes, led by the following bravura performance of Marie Dressler in Hollywood Revue Of 1929. She must have been devastatingly great on stage!…

This post contains interactive content and is best viewed on my website import Gallery from '../../../../components/Gallery.astro' Took a walk around the city trying to spot the exhibits. I didn't want to take my camera off black and white mode though so here you go with a gloomy interpretation of the wacky exhibit <Gallery caption path="blog/2026-06-14 - blow-up jubilee" /> Thanks also to these pages that helped me get the names of the exhibits: Den Haag BlowUp art - djaktief Den Haag BlowUp…

In The Mandalorian and Grogu film, there’s a food pod where Martin Scorsese’s character serves up sandwiches, and just knowing it was a Jon Favreau film, I figured he brought in Roy Choi to help. Roy was his culinary advisor for another Favreau film, Chef, one of my favorite films. Sure enough, in the end credits, he was listed as a culinary advisor. The pair put up a video about making this sandwich that felt like a special episode of The Chef Show. All of this to say that today, we cooked up…

The world premiere of Stella, a new Australian musical, tells the stirring and affecting life story of literary great Stella Miles Franklin with fitting confidence and winning style. A work long in gestation, Stella happens to arrive shortly after 2025 hit musical My Brilliant Career. Stella gives audiences the welcome chance to learn about the woman behind the acclaimed Australian novel, which was written at the beginning of Franklin’s long and often challenging career. Achieving the all too…

I didn’t have a lot to say about Episode 9 of Widow’s Bay, titled “Emergency Shelter,” because it felt like a filler episode designed to set up the finale. It didn’t feel nearly as eventful as the rest of the season’s episodes, more like a showcase for a few funny scenes, slowing down the pace to build up to the big finish. Which made the key question: the big finish of what? Widow’s Bay the series, or just season one? We got the answer to that, at least, with the announcement that the series…

I’d been meaning to look at my secondhand DVD of BUNNY AND THE BULL for ages — it’s the first feature of Paul King, director of the excellent first two PADDINGTON movies, and stars, among others, Simon Farnaby, writer of those movies. And, OK, maybe he should have written this one. And maybe King, who […]

Dan Larson gives the lowdown on Pogs and their humble beginnings which then got really capitalist and then crashed and burnt after market saturation, followed by a weird NFT promotion that aged as well as left out… POG (Passion Orange Guava). I loved Pogs as a kid and played them with friends and then later collected Tazos. During the pandemic, I bought a couple of slammers for nostalgic reasons and I keep them in my bedside drawer because you never know when you might be challenged to a match.…

Movies Akira (1988) D: Katsuhiro Otomo. S: Mitsuo Iwata, Nozomu Sasaki, Mami Koyama, Takeshi Kusao, Tessyo Genda. Misanthropic cyberpunk anime epic about a teenage biker gang who coincidentally figure into an ongoing military plot to exploit post-nuclear mutant kids. The gang’s beta becomes the world’s most powerful mutant, and the alpha has feelings about it. Exceptionally thin characterizations and a meandering first half don’t help. The frequently impressive animation gets it to a fizzling…

Pearcy’s 1973 map of 38 redrawn United States. I work very hard, and I would like to try cake. An instant Onion classic that did the rounds a while ago from the print edition, now available in glorious HTML. A new Australian technology could prevent 70 million tonnes of milk waste each year. CSIRO for the win, yet again. (Even if it’s a spinoff company, the technology it sprang from was theirs.) NB: SIGH-roe. There’s desperate news out of Manus in Papua New Guinea, where an underwater volcano…

...will not appear this weekend.I am in Lone Pine, California, for the annual Concert in the Rocks benefiting the Museum of Western Film History.Dean Torrence will be performing in the Alabama Hills along with the Surf City All-Stars. Actor Bruce Davison, who starred in the TV-movie DEADMAN'S CURVE (1978), will also appear. I had the pleasure of meeting Davison in Lone Pine back in 2017.Around the Blogosphere This Week will return on June 20th.For recent links of interest to classic film fans,…

Joe Pesci in Casino (1995) Vitals Joe Pesci as Nicky Santoro, sadistic mobster Las Vegas, Spring 1973 to Fall 1980 Film: Casino Release Date: November 22, 1995 Director: Martin Scorsese Costume Design: Rita Ryack & John A. Dunn WARNING! Spoilers ahead! Background After multiple requests to expand my sartorial focus on Casino from Robert De Niro’s colorful tailoring as Ace Rothstein to Joe Pesci’s mobbed-up fits, today’s post finally zeroes in on Pesci’s style as the volatile Nicky Santoro. Just…

Despite a sewing challenge that produced hot garbage from the queens, Marshal Knight writes about why Drag Race All Stars 11 episode 7 was a fabulous group hang.

Stalkers are never fun – but they are nothing new, either. Even Queen Victoria was stalked a number of times during her long reign, most notably by Edward Jones – who became known in the nineteenth century media as The Boy Jones. And he has something of a strange story, to say the least. Jones became infamous (much to his family’s chagrin) for breaking into Buckingham Palace when he was just 14 years old. That was in 1838 and despite being discovered with various stolen items on him, he was…