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Minecraft House Design Ideas for Smooth Multiplayer Play - Your base sets the mood for every session, and on shared worlds the whole experience often comes down to reliable hosting for minecraft servers plus a la...

Mark Ruffalo Fires Back at James Cameron After ‘Avatar’ Director Slammed Netflix-Warner Bros. Deal: ‘Are You Also Against the Monopolization That a Paramount Acquisition Would Create?’ - Mark Ruffalo fired back at James Cameron on Saturday morning after the “Avatar” director wrote in a letter to Senator Mike Lee, chair of the Senate subcomm...

[New Documentary] "Graduation Album" (2026/02/21) - Korean documentary 'Graduation Album' added to HanCinema database. Continue reading on HanCinema: https://www.hancinema.net/new-documentary-graduation-albu...

Berlinale Tried to Avoid Politics. Its Winners Made That Impossible. - Acceptance speeches condemning Israel and supporting Palestine dominated the ceremony, forcing the festival to confront the controversy it spent days tryin...

The Moment ★★★★ - Released: 20 February 2026 Director: Aidan Zamiri Starring: Charli XCX, Alexander Skarsgard In 2014, one of the most iconic moments in pop history went v...

K MANGA Adds Robico's To Dusk and Twilight Manga in English - Short-term manga is serialization of 1-shot that appeared in U.S. print release of Weekly Young Magazine last year

London Journal (1975) - *From Film Comment (January-February 1975). (January 23, 2012 update: Thanks, once again, to the ever-vigilant Ehsan Khoshbakht** for spotting a few typo...

‘Goat’ Narrowly Leads ‘Wuthering Heights’ For No. 1 at Slow Box Office With $14 Million - The Sony animated film has found a foothold with families in its second weekend The post ‘Goat’ Narrowly Leads ‘Wuthering Heights’ For No. 1 at Slow Box ...

Dracula (2025) (Besson) - [Luc Besson • 2025]

240. The Smashing Machine (#—) - Benny Safdie's *The Smashing Machine*, with Donal Sweeney and Andy Melhuish. At time of recording, it was not ranked on the list of best movies of all tim...

The Sleeping Tiger (UK 1954) - Joe Losey was a director who demonstrated great skill, imagination and creativity. I’ve watched many of his films and though I’m not sure I’ve ‘enjoyed’ al...

A Useful Ghost (Pee chai dai ka) - Director Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke director on the set A USEFUL GHOST (Pee chai dai ka) ...

Berlinale 2026: Golden Bear odds - ... The post Berlinale 2026: Golden Bear odds appeared first on Neil Young's Film Lounge.

‘Send Help’ Producer Zainab Azizi’s Studio Filmmaking Playbook - In this episode of the No Film School Podcast, producer Zainab Azizi joins GG Hawkins to break down her journey from agency mailroom to president of Raim...

Gugu’s World - Edin Custo - 20208 - Allan Deberton’s third feature, Gugu’s World, understands childhood authenticity as something you don’t “discover” so much as get granted. For Gugu ( Yur...

The Killing Joke - Well today turned into a short day -- got in late, trotting out early! Not complaining! But before I head out lemme link to a pair of reviews I've dropped...

MEDUZA (2025)—Review - A little over halfway into Roc Morin’s essay documentary *Meduza (2025)* there’s footage of a murmuration of birds whose wavering shape seems to set the ...

Chaz Ebert Remembers Reverend Jesse Jackson: Oct 8, 1941 – February 17, 2026 - A tribute to one of the most important figures of the last century.

Fake War Propaganda Poll Results Are Bot-Tastic - THEN WHAT HAPPENED?

The Secret Agent Review - Directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho (Aquarius, Bacurau), The Secret Agent is set during Brazil’s military dictatorship of the 1970s, yet it feels urgently ...

Friday's Old Fashioned: Fight Without Hate (1948) - As I continue winding my way through all the official Olympics documentaries, there has been one emergent trend: they are rarely weird. “White Rock,” chr...

More Like a Bad Dream - Film: *Sleepwalkers* Format: Streaming video from Tubi TV on Fire! We have got to talk about *Sleepwalkers*. Once upon a time, Stephen King, who wrote th...

Review: The New Nikon ZR Shoots RED RAW Footage on a Budget - [image: A camera monitor records a woman on stage, wearing mustard pants and a black shirt, giving a presentation. The screen behind her reads "I Said What...

The Noah (1975) - The counterculture era yielded numerous Biblical allegories and nuclear-apocalypse meditations, so *The Noah*—which combines these tropes—rose ...

Trigger Warning, or: How Jessica Alba Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Woke Imperialism - Commando Parker is the Jeanne D’Arc of a morally bankrupt, corrupt, violent, and racist Empire, and she’s gakked-to-the-gills high on the stupidest and s...

Parting Gifts of Empire: Disha Karnad Jani Interviews Esmat Elhalaby - by Disha Karnad Jani

Gary Dordick Exposed – The “Too Good” Attorney’s Empire Built on Tragedy, Suspicious Silences, and a Trail of Dead Lawyers Who Knew Too Much – Dustin Moaven maybe next - By Alki David – Publisher, ShockYA / SIN Network February 18, 2026 – Real Talk, No Mercy, No More Lies Gary A. Dordick – Loyola Law (Hollywood) alumni pa...

Kareki ni judan, Bunin, Ashita o yoru ni sutete, DEAD OR ZOMBIE, The Hopeless 10, Saori Kouzuki Double-bill: Narisumashi, Human Error, Japanese Film Trailers -

IFFR 2026: Motion Capture - Future picture: festival highlights like *The Misconceived*, *Tycoon*, and *Chronovisor* suggested a new kind of visual storytelling defined by a fluid mix...

Even If This Love Disappears From the World Tonight: Heart Memory - Initially, Kim Hye-young's *Even If This Love Disappears From the World Tonight* seems remarkably like Adam Sandler's *50 First Dates*: A peppy, upbeat y...

Howler (2026) Review - Sometimes the scariest mysteries aren’t what happened, but what your mind insists on showing you. by Nav Qateel Following up his 2022 effort King Judith,...

Happy Valentine's Day! - *"Subaru, no! Seishiro has you in his trap!" *😂 *Happy Valentine’s Day, everyone!* (Or if you prefer, Happy Half-priced chocolates day eve! 💘)

Renowned Film Director, Eran Riklis, Visits Wesleyan Center for Jewish Studies - Eran Riklis, one of Israel’s most acclaimed filmmakers, visited Wesleyan Center for Jewish Studies. His visit included a film workshop delivered in Hebrew ...

Interview…Luke Edwards Talks Acting, Producing and Stories From the Sets of ‘The Wizard’ and ‘Little Big League’ - Once in a great while, we get to speak with our heroes, people who inspire us, or those we just wish we could hang out with. So enter one such individual w...

On Canadian Campuses, Intimidation Is Becoming Policy - Canadian universities like to describe themselves as guardians of free inquiry. But across the country, they are quietly training students to learn a dif...

Screening: Rio Bravo (1959). - Directed by Howard HawksStarring John Wayne, Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson, Angie Dickinson, Walter Brennan, Ward Bond One of my favorite places to see a movie...

THE FRODO FRANCHISE is an audiobook! - Kristin here– Last autumn I was contacted by Nick, aka The Voice of Nick, asking for my consent to his creating an audio-book of The Frodo Franchise. This ...

The Devil Wears Prada 2 trailer -

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King - ****The Following is a Review of the 252-minute Extended Version of the Film**** Based on the novel trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien, *The Lord of the Rings: ...

Villa Rides - *Villa Rides *(1968) is one of those oddball movies that, by all rights, should be good but manages to botch almost ever. Sam Peckinpah wrote the scrip...

My Top 20 Films of 2025 on Monday Morning Diary (January 26) - MY TOP 20 FILMS OF 2025 by Sam Juliano The time has arrived for me to post my alphabetical Top 20 of 2005. I waited until I saw nearly every relevant film ...

DE PALMA'S OBSESSION THIS FRIDAY NIGHT IN LOS ANGELES - [image: https://www.angelfire.com/de/palma/obsession50thjan2026.jpg]

Having Enough Time - There are nights when it seems like L.A. goes on forever. A city without end. A future that stretches into infinity. And no matter how far you drive, you ...

Acclaimed Palestinian Actor and Filmmaker, Mohammed Bakri (1954 – 2025), dies at the age of 72 - Mohammed Bakri died last week at the age of 72. He was a well-regarded actor of film and theater and a documentary film director. In his memory, I woul...

FQ 79.2 Winter 2025 - FQ‘s latest issue features free articles and great reads! https://online.ucpress.edu/fq/issue/79/2 From the Editor Editor’s NotebookJ. M. Tyree Features Mo...

eVent® Fabric – Vải công nghệ chống thấm đỉnh cao trong giày và trang phục outdoor - Trong thế giới outdoor, khi nói đến vải chống thấm – thoáng khí cao cấp, ngoài Gore-Tex nổi tiếng, chắc chắn không thể bỏ qua eVent® Fabric. Đây là loại ...

Hello Again - Hey, everybody! I can't imagine anyone is still checking this blog, but just in case someone is I feel like it's about time I announced here that I have ...

Waxing Gibbous: Luigi Cozzi's BLOOD ON MELIE'S MOON (2016) - Once the psychic fell out of her seance chair, and threw up green ectoplasm that turned into a book after white-masked magician zapped her through her cry...

Film School Rejects is Seeking New Ownership - After nearly two decades of operating independently, FSR is now for sale.

SEAN BAKER'S (AND MIKEY MADISON'S) ANORA - Way back in May it was that Patty, Emma and I drove to the SEE Film Multiplex in Bremerton to take in *I Saw the TV Glow*, and while there I took a ...

Weekend Box Office: TERRIFIER 3 Unseats JOKER FOLIE A DEUX For Top Spot -

RBC EMERGING ARTIST Alicia K. Harris Premieres Short Film at TIFF - 2023-2025 RBC Emerging Artist, Alicia K. Harris recently premiered her latest short film, On a Sunday at Eleven, at the 2024 Toronto International Film F...

The Timorous Bellboys - Note: This article originally appeared on a site devoted to comparing two different versions of the same story. I decided to discontinue the site because t...

Capsule Review: MISSON: POSSIBLE, Slapdash Spy Action-Comedy Lacks Spark - *By Pierce Conran* Mission: Possible is a third-rate spy action-comedy starring Kim Young-kwang and Lee Sun-bin as a mismatched duo who both pretend to b...

BAMBOO BOARD GAME REVIEW - Happiness, used to be loneliness and loneliness ruled my world. Then along came BAMBOO to allow me to appease spirts, decorate houses and generally make ...

Blu-ray Review: Claude Chabrol’s LA CEREMONIE - That a filmmaking giant like Claude Chabrol remains the most critically neglected member of the Cahiers du Cinema faction of the French New Wave in 2023 is...

Telluride '23: The Royal Hotel - **½/**** starring Julia Garner, Jessica Henwick, James Frecheville, Hugo Weaving written by Kitty Green & Oscar Redding directed by Kitty Green by Walter C...

Happy Birthday Elliott Gould - Happy Birthday to one of the all-time greats and one of the coolest of the cool Elliott Gould. From my 2019 New Beverly interview with Elliott Gould about ...

Summer 2023 Blu-ray/4K Ultra Consumer Guide - Equipment: Sony UBP-X800 multi-region 4K player, Sony KD50X690E display, Yamaha RXV-385 A/V receiver. Angel Face (Warner Archive Blu-ray) Of all the amour ...

Japanese star Dean Fujioka Produces and stars in the cult film ‘Pure Japanese’ - Japanese actor/singer/multi-lingual culture star Dean Fujioka produces and stars in a brand new cult film ‘Pure Japanese’ which is out now globally via

The 25th Annual San Francisco Silent Film Festival With Victor Morton - Three years of absence from the San Francisco Silent Film Festival has only left a longing in Peter's heart. And while *The Cinephiliacs* remains on perma...

PERRY MASON: THE CASE OF THE SAUSALITO SUNRISE - Terence Towles Canote at *A Shroud of Thoughts* is hosting *The 8th Annual Favourite TV Show Episode Blogathon*. The popular blogathon is running from ...

Baruch Dayan HaEmet - I am heartbroken to tell you that Karen, my wife of 44 years, passed away this from pancreatic cancer. I and our two daughters, Leda and Aliza, were by her...

Maybe LOVE, ACTUALLY is…About British Sexual Insecurity? - by D.K. Latta Does the world need yet another Love, Actually hot-take? Sure. Like tinsel — can there ever be too much? I like Love, Actually and usually re...

National Silent Movie Day: Manhandled (1924) - Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2021, is National Silent Movie Day. New York City's beloved Film Forum is celebrating with a screening of Allan Dwan's 1924 silent...

Girls in Film (GIF) South Africa and National Film and Video Foundation (NFVF) : Join the Conversation - How to get your film funded - *Girls in Film (GIF) South Africa and National Film and Video Foundation (NFVF) : Join the Conversation - How to get your film funded* GiF SOUTH AFRICA x ...

Manhunter - I would be lying if I did not confess that, despite my lifelong interest in true crime and dark subjects in general, I oftentimes get an instantaneou...

From ‘Delhi Crime’ to ‘Fifty,’ Breaking Down the Odds to Win at the International Emmys - This year’s crop of Intl. Emmy nominees across categories feature strong and diverse showings for series and performers alike. Here, Variety breaks down th...

Best of 2019: The 13 Best Films of the Year - by Tony Dayoub It's Oscar Day! No predictions. Here, for your consideration, are my top films of 2019 followed by the winners of the respective polls I p...

1/16 Make My Day at the Wex - January 16, I’ll be giving a book talk at the Wexner Center in Columbus and introducing a screening of the 1986 movie River’s Edge. Read more…

Summer break - Hey everyone, For the first time since I started this blog in 2012, I will be taking a break! See you back on August 22nd. Best, Kinofrau

What to do if ICE shows up at your door? - ¿Qué hacer si ICE aparece en su puerta? - Believe it or not, when it comes to ICE agents, you have rights. Here's some advice should you have the misfortune of encountering them. - Lo creas o no, c...

LIT WINDOW - My creative wing. A selection of work follows. I WISH YOU WOULD (2020, 26'25") is a short film about Stanley Strunk and his first, rocky day out in the...

Top 5 Movies Based on True Stories - Dragons, zombie walkers and mythical super heroes are all integral parts of successful modern films and TV shows. Despite the allure of these characters ...

Everybody Knows (Todos lo saben Spain-France-Italy 2018) - Everybody Knows opened the Cannes competition in 2018 to mixed reviews (although better than usual for the opening film) and it has taken some time to get ...

All Inclusive – Fabien Onteniente - It’s sad to see actors of the calibre of Thierry Lhermitte, Josiane Balasko and Maiwenn on screen in a film with as little merit as All Inclusive – the l...

WINTER OF DISCONTENT: Puppet on a Chain - In an otherwise balanced article for *The Spectator* on the Wilma Montesi murder case*, Alexander Chancellor refers to Piero Piccioni as “a sleazy jazz ...

The Virgin Suicides: “They Hadn’t Heard Us Calling” - [image: Current_29336id_295_large] Sofia Coppola adapts Jeffrey Eugenides’s acclaimed novel with an impressionistic style that evokes the private melanchol...

Exploring Captivity: Some films to look out for at this year's DOKer Festival - DOKer is taking place in April this year and the opening film will be shown this evening (April 13th). A festival which sees a refocus back on films fro...

Signing off - juvenilecinephile: I am writing this to just inform my readership and whatever following that I have that after the Oscars, Sunday, March 4th, 2018, I am...

Jean Harlow, Mary Dees, and SARATOGA - I watched SARATOGA again last night for the first time in years and still found it very depressing. It is so sad to watch Harlow, clearly weak and listless...

The 'Momentum' of Yamada Ryosuke: Idol, Actor, Entertainer - How is he? [Part 2/3] - *There are plenty of articles dealing with the question - what makes a good actor? In Part 2 of our Yamada Ryosuke 'Momentum' article, we ask the questio...

DVD Review: Tag - ★★★☆☆ Mitsuko (Reina Triendl) is on a school bus with her friends when an invisible force rips off the top of the bus, severing all but Mitsuko in half. Ru...

New Zvyagintsev movie 'Loveless' to compete for Oscar from Russia - Russian Oscar committee decided to suggest this movie for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Each of Zvyagintsev's movies is a big event in ...

Episode #143: Commentary Track: Days of Wine and Roses (Blake Edwards; 1963) - The cast for episode #143: Stuart Collier Tom Sutpen This episode was recorded June 25, 2017

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Cinematography: All That Heaven Allows - *ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS* (1955) *Director:* Douglas Sirk *Cinematographer:* Russell Metty One of the most beautifully shot films, I believe, is Douglas ...

T2 Trainspotting (2017) - Director: Danny Boyle By Roderick Heath Trainspotting was one of the signal cultural moments of the 1990s. After his helter-skelter debut, Shallow Grave (1...

Quick Takes: A Matter of Time - Is there a longer cut of *A Matter of Time* (1976) hiding somewhere in a vault in Italy, waiting to be restored? The last film from the masterful Vincen...

At 30, Merchant-Ivory's "Maurice" Has Only Gained in Power - Maurice is the overlooked middle child in Merchant Ivory's trio of E.M. Forster adaptations, sandwiched between the lighthearted mainstream hit A Room With...

Lev Kulidzhanov - Prestuplenie i nakazanie AKA Crime and Punishment (1969) - [image: 29f7c043f76a2bde437fd0d52a185152] Plot Synopsis This Russian adaptation of Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment packs nearly every pivotal event fr...

2013--The Year in Review - 2013 was a fantastic year for movies. Its prime entry was the eventual winner of the Best Picture Oscar, British director Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave-...

SOMEDAY THIS WAR'S GONNA END - *A second review requested by Patton with thanks for contributing twice to the Second Quinquennial Antagony & Ecstasy ACS Fundraiser.* How in the name of ...

The Best Wrestling Matches of 2016 (15-1) - Continuing from yesterday's post, read on as I count down my favorite wrestling matches of the year. 15. Kazuchika Okada (c) vs. Naomichi Marufuji IWGP H...

Candy (1968) - *Ewa Aulin*, star of *Deadly Sweet* and *Death Laid an Egg*, plays the eponymous *Candy*; a naive, somewhat gormless, sexually accommodating teenager who...

Nanni Morretti’s latest film opens across the country - Nanni Moretti’s highly acclaimed film “Mia Madre” opens across the country today. To put it simply, this film is a piece of art and is not to be missed. ...

The Razor's Edge - *Shenanigans*. Elliot Gould, Tom Skerritt, Donald Sutherland Those of you who think that movies are entirely a visual medium, and that the script is noth...