The first recording today starts with a trail for Blue Peter. There’s a trail for The Legend of Dick and Dom. Then it’s Spirit Warriors – Fortune Favours the Brave. The warriors are asleep when they’re attacked by Hwang. There’s a big fight, bit it all turns out to be a dream. On their way to find the next spirit piece they meet a fortune teller called Master Wu. He tells them about a labyrinth, and gives them all fortune cookies. We see a flashback, where Master Wu was mentoring the villain,…

Although there's no sign of The Musical making a return any time soon, the three original, lo-fi comedy shows from Zachary Hunt, Nathan Parkinson and Tom Roe aka Police Cops continue to resurface every so often. I've previously caught Police Cops in Space, and now marking their 10th anniversary as a comedy troupe, the three shows have all been playing in rotation. This includes a London residency at Soho Theatre (the one that's actually in Soho,) where I caught the two I hadn't seen before.…

For more than three decades, I’ve wondered about the “RASW” decal affixed to the front door of the Double R Diner best seen in the Twin Peaks pilot. I figured the sticker on the glass door was something found at the actual Mar-T Cafe (known today as Twede’s Cafe). It was something added by the crew... The post Twin Peaks Prop – Restaurant Association of the State of Washington (RASW) Decal at the Double R Diner appeared first on TWIN PEAKS BLOG.

Last week, barely anything to see. This week, stuff's blocking each other! The clear big deal is Disclosure Day, a new science fiction adventure from Steven Spielberg and writer David Koepp, starring Josh O'Connor as a man who has discovered humanity is not alone and intends to get the word out to the entire world at once; it also features Emily Blunt, Colin Firth, Colman Domingo, and Eve

The Television Critics Association's 2026 TCA Award nominations were unveiled today, including 10 reality TV shows.

Life, Larry, and the Pursuit of Unhappiness (2026) is HBO’s seven-episode stumble through the last

The Chicago Cubs have decided to essentially quit acting like a professional baseball team. Chock-full of talent, yet seemingly unable to play the game. My wife is away on a theatre gig. (The show opened wonderfully last night.) So I decided I needed an entertaining distraction and queued up Oren Uziel and Steve Lightfoot’s Spider-Noir, now streaming on Prime Video. Bottom line, it is a stylish, entertaining distraction, and a treat for fans of the noir genre. I won’t call the eight-episode…

As his follow-up to his collaboration with Yung Lean on Storm, French musician and producer Benoit Heitz (as GENER8ION) brings us something completely different. Love & Tears, the title track from GENER8ION’s new album features Yannis Phillipakis (Greek-born English singer, songwriter and guitarist and lead singer of the band Foals). It stars very famous movie actor Charlize Theron in her first music video since “Crossfire” by Brandon Flowers back in 2010 when she played a dramatic action-role…

The big day is finally here! It is time to celebrate all things Audrey. Please check back to this post throughout today in order to read all of the fabulous reviews, articles and more as they come in. My thanks go to all of the participants for helping me celebrate Audrey’s life and career. NitrateGlow gets the party started by penning a deep dive on Fred Zinneman’s The Nun’s Story. I agree with her that this film features Audrey’s best performance. The Audrey Hepburn Blogathon: The Nun’s Story…

Sp,e years ago, netbooks were everywhere. Now they aren't. But for the dedicated fan they're still achievable.

Oscar Wilde and Noël Coward are often spoken of in the same breath: wit, polish, social satire, a shared instinct for turning manners into theatre. But seeing Wilde after last year’s woeful Private Lives at the Bristol Old Vic only sharpens the difference between them. Coward, in that production at least, felt stranded inside his own period, his sophistication preserved rather than activated, like a drawing-room set left permanently under museum lighting. Wilde, by contrast, refuses…

Barbarosa (1982)

(1959) Directed by Terence Fisher; Written by Jimmy Sangster; Based on the play The Man in Half Moon Street by Barré Lyndon; Starring: Anton Diffring, Hazel Court, Christopher Lee, Arnold Marlé, and Delphi Lawrence; Available on Blu-ray and DVD Rating: ***½ “I must insist in saying that there are no South American versions, nor are there any Japanese versions or any other versions. This is what happens: we shoot the scenes up to the point where we say, ‘This is it; no further; this is how it…

Multimedia hyperlink cinema done right. A reporter boards a futuristic superyacht, hears various stories and maybe becomes unstuck in time and experiences some of them. Guest directors/writers/DPs take on different sections, Joseph acting as curator, with the cinematographer of Arrival and editor of Everything Everywhere All at Once. Reminded us of Adam Curtis and Dahomey and a hundred other things. It’s very difficult to explain – fortunately, Robert Daniels is on the case.

Eighteen months is too long to wait… but it looks like we’ll have to wait even longer than that. After previously announcing that Doctor Who would return with a Christmas special in 2026 – a bit over eighteen months after the transmission of The Reality War – the BBC has now announced that the Bad Wolf era of Doctor Who is over and the show will be put out to open tender. That tender process doesn’t necessarily mean that a new production company will come out of the ether to make pitches –…

By Ben Miller Let's make an assumption, shall we? Let's assume Steven Spielberg, one of the most consistently successful and acclaimed filmmakers of the last 50 years, knows what he is doing. You might go into his new sci-fi thriller Disclosure Day expecting a certain kind of film, but that's on you, not him. "That wasn't what I was expecting" is the death knell for films. This has very little to do with the quality of the film itself, but more to do with the marketing and filmmaker…

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Bild: Dorstener Straße. Rote Farbe ist kein Ersatz für fehlenden Sicherheitstrennstreifen. Die Dooring-Gefahr bleibt. Am Montagabend, 9. Juni 2016, etwa um 19:30 Uhr, ist ein 61-jähriger Mann aus Bochum bei einem Unfall auf der Dorstener Straße lebensgefährlich verletzt worden. Er war mit dem E-Scooter auf der Dorstener Straße im Bereich Bahnhof Präsident unterwegs, als er mit der Autotür kollidierte, die gerade von einem 26-Jährigen Autofahrer geöffnet wurde.„Der 61-Jährige stürzte und wurde…

F**king Swans at the Omnibus Theatre is part of the 96 Festival of queer theatre and is a play centred on two same sex couples. Their gender is a refreshingly incidental detail because, aside from mentions of when gay marriage became legal, the focus is on their relationships. Ronnie and Harper are the cutesy couple and are expecting a baby. Carol is loud and has a relationship with Lindsay built on bickering and making up. They are all friends and seem to tolerate each other’s behaviour until,…

In the latest repudiation of Rene Descartes, scientists have concluded that insects feel pain, which is bad luck for the 370 million crickets farmed every year for food. During the UK heatwave a fortnight after this announcement, households were urged to pour boiling water into wheelie bins to kill maggots, a.k.a. ickle baby insects. Aieeeeeeee! One of the biggest data centres in the world is being planned for a village the other side of the Firth of Forth from Edinburgh. It’ll “harvest…

Pixar / YouTube: Ciao GattoWatch the new teaser for Disney & Pixar’s #Gatto, arriving in theaters March 5, 2027Mark Ruffalo (“Poor Things,” “The Avengers,” “Spotlight, “Foxcatcher”) has joined the voice cast as the scrappy black cat Nero, and Laurence Fishburne (“The Matrix” trilogy, “Boyz n the Hood,” “What’s Love Got to Do with It”) will voice the ruthless mob boss cat Rocco. The teaser trailer introduces Nero and Rocco as they question another cat in a funny interrogation scene.In “Gatto,”…

Alfred Hitchcock sure was no fluke. His 1935 version of The 39 Steps really is a great film. I note this with utter, unabashed confidence after watching the film’s 1959 remake, which is so bad, I wish it could have been funny. It’s like watching someone fall down all those 39 steps, hitting each one on the most sensitive anatomical spots before reaching bottom. You might think it’d be comical to watch but wait till you actually watch it. The thing is, the remake is consciously trying to be…

Some of you keep pestering us to review these big British miniseries from the late

As part of the Fritzes Best Interfaces award for 2026, I am reviewing the interfaces in Star Trek: Section 31. This post is about the quadrant-destroying weapon of mass destruction called the Godsend. Note this blog generally eschews analysis of weapons, but this one is more MacGuffin than blueprint, and it has the worst interface in the film. The Godsend is a weapon that Georgiou had created when she was Emperor. It is meant to function as a scorched-earth deterrent to her enemies. “It…

Matthew Broderick in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986) Vitals Matthew Broderick as Ferris Bueller, clever and charismatic high school senior and righteous dude Chicago, Spring 1986 Film: Ferris Bueller’s Day Off Release Date: June 11, 1986 Director: John Hughes Costume Designer: Marilyn Vance WARNING! Spoilers ahead! Background Bueller… Bueller… Forty years ago today, audiences first joined Matthew Broderick’s charming truant on an elaborate jaunt through Chicago when Ferris Bueller’s Day Off was…

Image source: IMDB WARNING: This post is going to indulge in major spoilers for The Nun’s Story. And by major spoilers, I mean basically the entire movie. If you haven’t seen it and care about being spoiled, just go watch it then come back to this post. It’s a great movie and it features Audrey Hepburn’s best performance, just take my word for it. A title like The Nun’s Story is deceptive, particularly when you throw Audrey Hepburn into the leading role. You might expect something light and…

As we start a new year in our journey through the prime-time schedules of the 1970s, we find that Sundays in 1978 delivered an intriguing selection of new shows that didn’t last, but in some cases had an impact far beyond what their brief runs would suggest.ABCThe Hardy BoysBattlestar: GalacticaABC Sunday Night MovieI can’t say I remember much from 1978 with perfect clarity, but I do recall the build-up for Battlestar: Galactica. This was going to be Star Wars for television, and the glimpses…

“You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don’t try to forget the mistakes, but you don’t dwell on it. You don’t let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.” –Johnny Cash In 2009, TV Tokyo’s […]

We've been doing group watches of Weird Westerns over on the Tales of the Grotesque and Dungeonesque Discord server. To keep it varied, I've tried to run the gamut--from eerie psychological horror on the prairie and movies heavy on the brutality to mean-spirited revenge tragedies and the weirdest Spaghetti Western known to man. Here's what we've feasted our eyes on (in case you want some solid recommendations or wish to recreate our film series):The WindBone TomahawkThe SalvationDjango Kill, If…

On June 10, 1991, the ABC Television Network aired the final two episodes of Mark Frost and David Lynch’s groundbreaking series, Twin Peaks. Episode 2.021 (#28) and 2.022 (#29) were shown back-to-back during an ABC Monday Night Movie event. There were plenty of commentary from reporters about the ending of the series that once took viewers... The post Reviewing Peaks – “It ain’t over till the Log Lady sings,” Mike Hughes on June 10, 1991 appeared first on TWIN PEAKS BLOG.