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‘The Great Celebrity Bake Off’ Pulls Scott Mills Episode - Channel 4 has pulled the last episode of “The Great Celebrity Bake Off” because it features former BBC DJ Scott Mills. “Having carefully considered the cir...

Benjamin Voisin on Becoming “The Stranger” in François Ozon’s Latest Film - This Interview was edited for lenght and clarity. There’s a real intensity to French actor Benjamin Voisin—a performer who, even in conversation, seem...

A Family Comedy - *Big Leagues* (ליגה של גדולים), directed by Yaniv Berman, is a feel-good, family comedy for those who enjoy soccer! This week, during the war against Ir...

Exit 8 Star Recreates Anomaly in New York Subways on Wednesday - Can you escape the real-life Exit 8?

Quick Coupler Systems for Excavators: Efficiency, Safety, and Operational Flexibility in Modern Job Sites - Image byPaul Seling Quick Coupler Systems for Excavators: Efficiency, Safety, and Operational Flexibility in Modern Job Sites In the United States, const...

Korean Movies Opening Today 2026/04/08 in Korea (2026/04/08) - Korean movies opening today 2026/04/08 in Korea: 'Salmokji: Whispering Water' and 'ENHYPEN : IMMERSION IN CINEMAS'. Continue reading on HanCinema: https:/...

Matthew Perry’s Stepmom Asks Court to Give ‘Heartless Woman’ Jasveen Sangha the Maximum Prison Sentence - "The pain you’ve caused to hundreds, maybe thousands, is irreversible," Debbie Perry writes The post Matthew Perry’s Stepmom Asks Court to Give ‘Heartles...

Unified Theory [METROPOLIS] - *This appeared in the August 16, 2002 issue of the Chicago Reader. I more recently had occasion to return to this film and some of my thoughts about it w...

8 Iconic Anthony Hopkins Quotes That Define His Legacy - Anthony Hopkins is one of those *transformative actors* whose performances carry precise, and quite chilling, intensity, which he combines with controlle...

Data Center Resistance - Politician in my hometown was just shot at because he supports poisoning the city with data centers because as it turns out, people don't like being poi...

Interview…William Sadler on Acting From Experiences and Maintaining Surprise on Stage - William Sadler is not just a fantastic character actor, he is a main stay in the Stephen King cinematic universe, he’s able to pull you in to the story, he...

Blu-Ray News #398: Monogram Matinee, Volume 3 (1946, 1949). - Two Johnny Mack Brown Monogram Westerns on Blu-Ray? Better check my blood pressure before I fall out. The third installment in Warner Archive’s Monogram Ma...

Christopher Abbott One Time -

The Oscars Are Sticking with March — and That Won’t Change for Years - If *ever*? The Academy and ABC have set the airdates for the next two telecasts before the Oscars move to YouTube.

“What Solidarity Really Looks Like”: Yael Bridge on Who Moves America - [image: A Black male UPS worker unloads packages from the back of his truck.]When the UPS Teamsters—the largest bargaining unit in the country at 340,000 s...

A Summer’s Tale - [Éric Rohmer • 1996]

The mighty Amazon by Paul Risker - [image: The Blue Trail] The Blue Trail Brazilian director Gabriel Mascaro’s The Blue Trail (O Último Azul), tells the story of 77-year-old Tereza (Den...

Humint: Human Intelligence Vs. Meth and Sex-Trafficking - "If you open fire, there's no turning back." That's the kind of statement that would immediately be followed by gunshots in an American movie but in the ...

Final Season of “Hacks” Ends a Perfect Run for HBO Max Hit - A closing routine that’s about legacy, friendship, and the power of a perfect punchline.

Mayday Rain, Boku o yobu koe TOKYO STRANGE TALE, Yakeishi to amatsubu, Detective Conan Movie 29: highway no datenshi, Patlabor WXIII 4K, Girls & Panzer: Motto Love Love Sakusen desu! Part 4, Japanese Film Trailers -

Scar Tissue: Souvenirs from the Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival 2026 - I saw a total of ten films in my five days at the 28th Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival (see some notes below), which ran from the 5th to ...

Woman on the Verge - Screentime: Radu Jude‘s *Kontinental ‘25* adapts its neorealist influences to our media-addled, morally bankrupt times

Hombre Secreto - Film: *The Secret Agent* (*O Agente Secreto*) Format: Streaming video from Hulu on Fire! There were times when I was watching *The Secret Agent* (*O Agent...

Political Materialism and the History of Ideas: When Duty Turned in Early Modern Europe - by Peter Bloom

Some Drivel On...the first 30 Minutes of Apollo 11 - Culled from previously unreleased 70mm footage documenting the preparation, launch, flight, and surrounding hoopla of the July 1969 Apollo 11 lunar missi...

Vicky Cristina Barcelona - Director Woody Allen director on the set Scarlett Johansson with Woody Rebecca Hall with Woody Bardem and Cruz with Woo...

Berlinale 2026 – Animol ★★★★ - Released: 23 October 2026 Director: Ashley Walters Starring: Tut Nyuot, Ryan Dean, Sharon Duncan-Brewster, Stephen Graham, Vladyslav Baliuk After winning...

Closing with the Past: Marco Bellocchio’s Cinema and the Movement of History - Even after the radical shift in register with his collaboration with Massimo Fagioli, everything still holds up: the essence of historical struggle remai...

Strongroom (UK 1962) - Strongroom is the perfect primer for anyone wanting to understand the British crime ‘B’ film. It’s 80 minutes of almost unbearable tension with no star nam...

Fairplay (1971) - *Fairplay* is an adequately produced but otherwise inept frontier comedy featuring a number of vaguely familiar actors with marginal credits in mainstre...

TREEFORT MUSIC FEST 14 (2026)—DAY FIVE (Sunday, March 29, 2026) - Yellow Days was one of the main acts I wanted to catch at this year’s Treefort Music Fest and so I was determined to claim a spot on the rail of the Main ...

The Deception of Replacement Theology - Carrie Prejean Boller, a Catholic antizionist politician, was recently removed from Trump’s religious liberty Commission for hijacking a session about re...

Films That I Saw: March 2026 - Spring has arrived. Shit. I hate Spring. I prefer longer winters instead of having to deal with all the fucking pollen as this year’s pollen season fuc...

STEADROY BENJAMIN – ANTIGUA’S TRAITOR: A Court Record, a Complaint, and a Question That Won’t Go Away - Here it is… The question posed to the court and to AG Steadroy Benjamin. Still waiting for an answer. This side-by-side comparison shows why the dispute ...

Hell Comes to Frogtown – Winners, Losers, & Lovers - With B. Luciano Barsuglia, Kyle Roberts, Kenny Connolly, Andrew Roberts, & Andrew Kubasek. On Spotify and YouTube and elsewhere! The post Hell Comes to F...

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Sinners (2025) - Ryan Coogler's *Sinners* (2025) is a stylish, nifty and surprisingly thoughtful experience. A skillful blend of genres (period crime drama, horror movie,...

444. Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc (#234) - Tatsuya Yoshihara's *Chainsaw Man - The Movie: Reze Arc*, with Graham Day. At time of recording, it was ranked 234th on the list of best movies of all time...

The Anime Nostalgia Podcast - Guest Spot: Adolescence of Utena with The Bomb Squad - Subscribers! Be sure to go to the blog to read the description easier & check out links for this episode! *Miss my TokyoTreat Twitch streams? Use code ...

John Ford in a whole new light - Kristin here Last year at the Le Giornate del Cinema Muto film festival in Pordenone, Italy, attendees had the first opportunity to purchase Lea Jacobs’ fr...

Allan Fish: Wonders in the Dark–A Memoir of Friendship” and “Project Hail Mary” on Monday Morning Diary (March 23) - by Sam Juliano I am thrilled to publicly announce a new writing project I began last month, which pays tribute to my late friend and fellow site colleague,...

The Limitlessness Of Our Hopes - The mood in the air isn’t so good. You know what I’m talking about. Call it cynicism, call it disillusionment, call it fear, call what’s causing it even w...

Film Quarterly Spring 2026 - FQ‘s latest issue features great reads!https://online.ucpress.edu/fq/issue/79/3 From the Editor Editor’s NotebookJ. M. Tyree Features The Surprising Folklo...

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 ...

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

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...