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Bob Odenkirk Says It’s ‘Very Easy’ For Young Writers on ‘SNL’ to Get Their Ideas ‘Shot Down’ By Senior Staffers: ‘It Was a Good Thing To Learn What Not to Do’ - Bob Odenkirk learned a valuable lesson for “Mr. Show” during his days writing on “Saturday Night Live.” During a recent episode of Variety‘s “Know Their Li...

Anime World Offers Condolences After Voice Actor Tomo Sakurai's Death - Creators, artists, fans came together for their farewells

‘Jeff Ross: Take a Banana for the Ride’ Broadway Review: The Roastmaster General Packs Little Sizzle - The insult comic's one-man show may be the most sickness and death-focused show ever put on a stage – and frankly, it's a bore The post ‘Jeff Ross: Take ...

Hollywood’s New Career Hack: Why Crews Are Learning to Think Like Influencers - Hollywood has always looked down on digital creators, but G&B's College of Influencers believe the industry has a lot to learn from them.

Gandalf and Frodo’s Return: McKellen Teases Lord of the Rings Movie - Lord of the Rings fans, rejoice! Ian McKellen, the iconic actor behind Gandalf, has dropped a bombshell. In a recent interview, McKellen revealed that Ga...

The Godfather’s Cat: A Furry Accident That Made Film History - It’s one of the most quietly menacing openings in film history: Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando), flanked by shadows and family, sits in his office on his d...

U.S. in Progress 2025 Submissions Now Open for American Independents Seeking Finishing Funds - [image: An Asian woman is lying down facing the camera. A white bunny is visible in the foreground.]U.S. in Progress is now through September 5 accepting s...

Honeymoon With Hairy - Things have been relatively quiet on the Jake Gyllenhaal front since his overpriced run on Broadway with Denzel Washington ended (who me bitter), save lot...

"My Troublesome Star" Starts (2025/08/18) - 'My Troublesome Star' aired its first episode. Continue reading on HanCinema: https://www.hancinema.net/my-troublesome-star-starts-184739.html

Branded To Kill - [Seijun Suzuki • 1967]

Callie Schuttera & Clayton Farris on Weapons, Horror, Comedy & That Unforgettable Scene - Already heralded as one of the best films of the year, Weapons has been terrifying audiences across the globe since if was release less than a fortnight ...

One Final Look: Terence Stamp (1938-2025) - An ode to a legend.

Meiji Japan and the “Korean Question”: Settler Colonialism and Pan-Asianism at the Turn of the Twentieth Century - by Niels Lee

The Shrouds - If you thought “Drop” had dibs on most horrifying meet cute at the movies in 2025, think again, because here comes David Cronenberg. His silver-haired stan...

Ju-On: The Curse 1+ 2 4K V-Cinema Version, Dr. Kakizoe aruku shohousen Michinoku Shiokaze toreiru wo iku, Turtles are Surprisingly Fast Swimmers, Japanese Film Trailers (August 08/09) -

'Round Midnight - Director Bertrand Tavernier with actor Philippe Noiret Tavernier with Martin Scorsese Dexter Gordon ...

To score or not to score - *From The Financial Times (July 4, 1975); this was the first of my two annual weekly film columns for that newspaper, replacing Nigel Andrews as his “dep...

Whitney Webb Master Class on Epstein et al. -

Doctor Doctor (2025) Review - Doctor Doctor is the kind of chaotic indie comedy that reminds you sometimes laughter is the best medicine. by Jennifer Noonan Stevan Lee Mraovitch emerg...

I Live Here Now - Andrew Robertson - 19870 - A young woman with an important life decision, an actor trying to win a part, each at once trying to conform to sets of expectations for a role. One made...

FANTASIA 29 (2025)—FLUSH (2025): REVIEW - The Fantasia International Film Festival (“Fantasia”) World Premiere of Grégory Morin’s *Flush (2025)* scored the Audience Award for Best International F...

'I COULDN'T GET PHANTOM AND WOUND UP WITH ROCKY HORROR' - *HOW A MOVIE THEATER IN PORTAND, OREGON STARTED WEEKLY SCREENINGS OF ROCKY HORROR THAT CONTINUE TO THIS DAY* [image: https://www.angelfire.com/de/palma/pha...

9 Million Views & Project Updates - Hey there, groovy people! Once again, it’s my happy duty to report that *Every ’70s Movie* has achieved another milestone, notching nine million views sin...

An Unattached Unit: United They Stood, Together They Fought - Injured soldiers and local civilians band together to fight the enemy — yankees and South Koreans, natch — in the stock North Korean war pic, *An Unattac...

431. Past Lives – Leaving Cert 2025 (#—) - Celine Song's *Past Lives*, with Conor Murphy and Natasha Waugh. At time of recording, it was not ranked on the list of worst movies of all time on the Int...

The Corporate PsyOps Pipeline: How Live Nation, Security Contractors, and Legal Fixers Industrialized Public Trauma - Date: July 30, 2025 Byline: Investigative Desk New evidence from whistleblowers and leaked internal communications is exposing what legal analysts are ca...

Aniara (Sweden-Denmark 2018) - This film reached the UK in 2019 but I missed it completely. I watched it recently on BFI Player. I haven’t seen many science fiction films in the last few...

Nobody 2 ★★★★ - Released: 15 August 2025 Director: Timo Tjahjanto Starring: Bob Odenkirk, Connie Nielsen, Christopher Lloyd, Sharon Stone In 2021, Nobody kicked us squar...

Fantastic Fest Celebrating 20 Years with Epic 2025 Feature Programming - It’s that time of year, dear friends. The season of Fantastic Fest will soon be upon us, and in just over a month we’ll be rubbing elbows with genre film f...

A Poetics of Grief: Relation Through the Lens of Relationship in Celine Song’s Past Lives - In the screenplay for Past Lives, Song’s scene descriptions are acutely sensitive to the way in which identity lives in the distance between self and Oth...

Talking Hoppy On Cereal At Midnight. - Had a blast recently talking with Heath Holland over at Cereal At Midnight about the new Hopalong Cassidy set from ClassicFlix — and B Westerns in general....

What Man Can No Longer Afford - The 2025 TCM Classic Film Festival was way back in April which feels like a long time ago by now, but it would be nice to go back for a few minutes. Findi...

Beware: AI may be fueling Antisemitism - How frequently do you message your favorite AI chatbot to answer a quick question? Do you still trust its responses? In its early stages, this technology ...

Recommendations for Selichot Programs This Year - I have tried to choose subjects which are particularly relevant this year. *PTSD* In the post October7th, 2023 period, and during this ongoing war, we h...

A Bird in the Hand - Film: *Cuckoo* Format: Streaming video from Hulu Plus on Fire! There are times when I’m not sure what to think about a movie going in. *Cuckoo* is such a...

The Fantastic Four: First Steps - Based on the Marvel Comics series by Jack Kirby and Stan Lee, *The Fantastic Four: First Steps* is about four people in the retro-futuristic 1960s who ...

Favorite Films of the 1970s Polling Results and Launching of Favorite Films of the 90s Poll on Monday Morning Diary (August 11) - by Sam Juliano The Godfather and The Godfather Part II take top spots in the “Favorite Films of the 1970s” balloting! A whopping 80 ballots were cast, acco...

Discotek Day Otakon Stream! - It's that time again! Discotek will be doing a livestream with their Otakon 2025 announcements, so I'll be doing a watchalong stream so we can watch t...

Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale trailer -

Unjust Cause - Charged as guilty: Roman Polanski‘s *J'accuse*, which dramatizes the infamous Dreyfus Affair, premiered to great acclaim in France—but soon led to further ...

the 100 Greatest Thoroughbreds of All Time - .... The post the 100 Greatest Thoroughbreds of All Time appeared first on Neil Young's Film Lounge.

FQ 78.4 Spring 2025 - FQ‘s new issue features free articles and more great reads for subscribers!https://online.ucpress.edu/fq/issue/78/4/ From the Editor Editor’s Notebook (Fre...

Screening of Tatami and Q&A with the Film’s Director, Guy Nattiv -

The Bermuda Triangle (1978) - The Bermuda Triangle - that area in the South Atlantic where ships, planes and people mysteriously vanish, according to legend - enjoyed its heyday in ...

Amazon Doesn’t Own James Bond—Yet: Making Sense of the 007 Franchise. A guest post by Colin Burnett - Kristin here: Students and faculty in the film-studies division of the Department of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are known fo...

Top 7 địa chỉ mua giày leo núi ở Hà Nội chính hãng uy tín được nhiều người yêu thích nhất - Bạn đang muốn tìm kiếm cho mình những mẫu giày leo núi trekking chính hãng, giá tốt tại Hà Nội? Bạn băn khoăn không biết cửa hàng bán giày trekking nào đ...

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...

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 ...

A Farewell to Ferdy - By Roderick Heath Long ago, in the dimly-remembered time of legend and chivalry that was 2006, my friend Marilyn Ferdinand asked me if I wanted to contribu...

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 ...

The Doug Benson Movie Interruption: The Fate of the Furious - The next installment of Doug Benson’s Movie Interruption, where Doug and friends (who in the past have included everyone from Jon Hamm to Sarah Silverman...

News: Song Kang-ho Drives into 10 Million Viewer Club for 3rd Time with A TAXI DRIVER - By Pierce Conran Jang Hoon's Gwangju drama A Taxi Driver drove past the 10 million viewer mark ($69 million) this morning (August 20), on its 19th day of r...

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

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 ...

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...