I don't particularly care about the Star Wars universe. I've seen the main movies, barely remember them, started The Mandalorian and never finished it, and played a few of the games. To me, the coolest character in the universe is Star Killer. That said, I started watching Maul - Shadow Lord and it's damn good! The mix of 3D animation and hand-drawn art styles is on point! Also, Sam Witwer is a fantastic voice actor.

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The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)

As part of early publicity for David Lynch and Mark Frost’s Twin Peaks, Capital Cities / ABC, Inc. produced several black and white photos featuring different characters such as Pete Martell (Jack Nance), Bobby Briggs (Dana Ashbook) and others. This particular photos showcases Richard Beymer as Benjamin Horne, owner of The Great Northern Hotel. RICHARD BEYMER... The post Twin Peaks Publicity – Richard Beymer as Benjamin Horne appeared first on TWIN PEAKS BLOG.

We're back at The Stag for another game of Million Dollar Secret! Three season-two episodes dropped on Netflix Wednesday, and I have thoughts and jokes.

Trader Vic’s Emeryville hosted a special showing of a deleted scene from the acclaimed The Donn of Tiki documentary, highlighting archival footage of Trader Vic plus commentary about Vic from luminaries and experts. The showing followed a screening of The Donn of Tiki film nearby, plus the Mai Tai Lounge being open on a Tuesday … Continue reading "Trader Vic Footage from “Donn of Tiki” Documentary"

For this episode, we need to talk about ethnocentrism, misogyny, treaties, and more, with a few tangents.

That’s the upshot of what Rothman, CEO of Sony’s Motion Picture Group, said at CinemaCon, held in Las Vegas, in the United States, this week, says Brent Lang, writing for Variety: At CinemaCon, the annual exhibition industry conference unfolding this week in Las Vegas, Rothman bluntly told the cinema operators in the audience at Caesars […]

The Fritzes award honors the best interfaces in a full-length motion picture in the past year. Interfaces play a special role in our movie-going experience, and are a craft all their own that does not otherwise receive focused recognition. In this post, I award the best comedy-horror interface of 2025, then realize it is a special … Continue reading →

As in prior seasons, another variant—this time a full-room orderly documentation of an investigation—appears in Fargo s03e10 (FX, 2017).

It's 1983, and Doctor Who is celebrating twenty years on air. But you really, really wouldn't know it.

It's stunning, beautiful, addictive, a reverse harem CDrama which attempts to comment on patriarchy and the powder dynamics of ancient China, but let's not think too deeply about this, shall we? It's a drama about pretty people and tea.

Ages ago, a reader suggested we review Saratoga Trunk (1945), and I remember looking a

Is it possible that Street Fighter as a film somehow embraced the cheese so well that we’ve ended up with a completely ridiculous, silly, and dare I say it — fun looking movie? I am WAY more into this than the first teaser. Sadly, we won’t know until October 16th, when it releases, which is […]

East London’s homegrown, contemporary circus company returned to the capital last week to share their brand new show. Premiering at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, A Glimmer Daze Gambit marks the Revel Pucks’ very first, large-scale touring season which will see them embarking on a 200 day journey across the UK. As we’ve come to expect from this exciting young circus company, it’s a joyful and breath-taking production, filled with everything you could ask for from a circus – including plenty…

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

In Eagles of the Republic, an Egyptian movie star finds himself caught in the dangerous machinations of Egypt's authoritarian government.    In a commanding performance, Fares Fares, a Lebanese-Swedish actor, plays George Fahmy, an actor who so dominates the Egyptian film scene he has been dubbed "Pharaoh of the Screen." Toping six feet, George also commands most of the social situations in which he finds himself. He knows how to use his magnetism.  That may sound like familiar terrain, bu...

The first recording today starts with the end of American Hotrod. Then it’s Mythbusters – Bulletproof Water. The first myth is that if you get deep enough in water, even if people are shooting at you the bullets lose all their speed. Their first test rig sees Jamie shooting straight down into a plexiglass column, with ballistics […]

If you’ve been following the career of Bob Odenkirk, you already know that the star of Better Call Saul has become an unlikely kick-ass action hero. Normal, which follows 2021’s Nobody and its 2025 sequel, continues Odenkirk’s foray into big-screen mayhem with a story about the sheriff of a small Minnesota town called Normal.  You needn't know much about irony to guess that the town of Normal won’t be anything like its name suggests.   Clocking in at a brief (by current standards) hour and 3...

I’ve been greatly enjoying the boxed set of six seasons of Peaky Blinders that I received as a gift recently. I may do a sort of review when I get to the end, but until then I thought I’d throw in a few tangential things. This post is an example. Here’s another one. This clip […]

I interviewed Million Dollar Secret's showrunner and executive producer about season two, and they answered all my questions about the game, its challenges, keeping things fair, and much more.