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Grizz Chapman, ’30 Rock’ Actor, Dies at 52 - Actor Grizz Chapman, who played the character of the same name on NBC’s comedy series “30 Rock,” died Friday. He was 52. Chapman played a bodyguard for Tra...

[New Movie] "Modub" (2026/05/23) - Korean movie 'Modub' added to HanCinema database. Continue reading on HanCinema: https://www.hancinema.net/new-movie-modub-186167.html

Japan's Video Game Rankings, May 11-17 - Tomodachi Life stays at #1 for 5th consecutive week, Pokémon Pokopia crosses 1 million in sales

‘The End of It’ Review: This Messy, Zany Meditation on Aging, Death and Art Heralds the Arrival of a Thoughtful Voice - Cannes 2026: Maria Martínez Bayona directs Rebecca Hall to a cinematic crash out of bleak proportions The post ‘The End of It’ Review: This Messy, Zany M...

‘The Birthday Party’ Review: A Dazzlingly Melancholy Monica Bellucci Powers Léa Mysius’ Predictable but Superbly Directed Home Invasion Thriller - A birthday celebration turns into hell on Earth in this tensely crafted thriller where the production values elevate conventional material.

Finding Emily ★★★★ - Released: 22 May 2026 Director: Alicia MacDonald Starring: Spike Fearn, Angourie Rice Directed by Alicia MacDonald (Too Much) and starring Angourie Rice ...

Cannes 2026: Maverick: The Epic Adventures of David Lean, Dernsie: The Amazing Life of Bruce Dern - On two docs from Cannes about filmmaking legends: Bruce Dern and Sir David Lean.

Grab an Affordable Panasonic Zoom Lens For Your Bag With These Killer Deals - In the film and video game, it's never a bad time to make an investment in yourself. You can make those investments in a lot of ways, of course, as you c...

Love Letter (1995) Dir: Shunji Iwai - Shunji Iwai's visually sumptuous 1995 romance Love Letter radiates pure love through striking visuals that convey the beautiful landscape of its Hokkaido s...

The Royal Hotel - [Kitty Green • 2023]

United by Music, Divided on Campus - Last year, conversations about Eurovision on UK university campuses stopped being about celebrating music and became a platform for anti-Israel hatred. I...

Cannes 2026 Subscriber Exclusive: Join the Party - Dennis Lim, Kong Rithdee, and Antoine Thirion join to unpack this year’s festival

‘Peaky Blinders’ first look reveals Charlie Heaton as Charles Shelby - The BBC has unveiled the first official image from the next chapter of ‘Peaky Blinders,’ offering fans their first glimpse of Charlie Heaton as Charles S...

ZEE5 Global Drops Chilling Trailer for True‑Crime Docu‑Series ‘Hathras – 16 Days’ - Hathras – 16 Days is the latest original docu‑series from ZEE5 Global, and its trailer promises a stark, unflinching look at one of India’s most contenti...

Rubber Masks? What Insanity is Fox “News” Up To Now? - A Fox News guest wore a MASK when speaking about how evil Iran is today. Look at the neck [image: ⬇] pic.twitter.com/FHFjgPVDwQ — Ethan Levins [image: ...

Cannes: Devils May Care - [image: A woman with a short black pixie cut embraces a blond woman with a pony tail, whose face you cannot see.]Cannes, while a real privilege to attend, ...

Give This Piece a Chance - I'm trying to will the care-free mood seen in this photo of Charles Melton into my own existence today -- spoiler alert: it ain't working. I don't know if...

Koi Pond - Film: *Little Amélie or the Character of Rain* (* Amélie et la métaphysique des tubes *) Format: Blu-Ray from Cortland Public Library on gigantic television...

Arlington Road – Winners, Losers, & Lovers - With B. Luciano Barsuglia, Kenny Connolly, Andrew Kubasek, Andrew Roberts, Kyle Roberts. On Spotify and YouTube and elsewhere! On this episode of Winners...

Interview…’Metropolis’ Redux Jam Session with Jazzy Jeff Beal - Five-time EMMY winner Jeff Beal’s improvisatory method, sense of timing, and sophistication have made him a favorite of directors including Ed Harris, Davi...

The Great Dictator: Stink, Sacrifice, and Private Power in Hynkel’s Speech - Chaplin is not merely parodying how a dictator sounds. He is anatomizing how fascism recruits, extracts, degrades, appropriates, scapegoats, and lies. * ...

A Fascism of “Violent Absorption”: An Interview with Luna Sabastian - by Vishal Verma

What is the Best Line in Casablanca? - In last year’s Oscar-nominated “Blue Moon,” holding court at Sardi’s, celebrated Broadway lyricist Lorenz Hart (Ethan Hawke) cites the best line in the 1...

Magellan (Magalhães) - Director Lav Diaz director on the set director with Sanny Joaquin and cinematographer Artur Tort Diaz with assistant director Sanny Jo...

Frida Kahlo - Jennie Kermode - 20335 - An extended version of Exhibition on Screen’s previous treatment of the iconic Mexican artist, this film ends wth an all-new ten minute segment exploring...

Blu-Ray News #404: The Maverick Queen (1956). - Directed by Joe KaneStarring Barbara Stanwyck, Barry Sullivan, Scott Brady, Mary Murphy, Wallace Ford, Howard Petrie, Jim Davis, John Doucette The Maverick...

LED: MOVES + MOVIES—RUIN (2022) - LED’s choreocinematic project *Ruin (2022)*, directed by Aidan Brezonick and written and choreographed by Lauren Edson, insinuates presence through absen...

Breakdown: 1975 trailer - I found this documentary to be surprisingly enjoyable.

Hidden Face: Caged Heat - What up-and-coming conductor (Song Seung-heon) is going to hire a replacement cellist (Park Ji-hyun) based solely on the USB drive that she's brought wit...

SwissX Island Sargassum Based BioChar Releases State Lab Results And Its Good News For Antigua’s Cannabis Growers - SWISSX ISLAND RELEASES LAB RESULTS FOR ANTIGUA-MADE CARBONIZED SUPERCOMPOST – Order Now At Shirley’s Apothecary – SwissX Island, Antigua St John’s Antigu...

Up Your Teddy Bear (1970) - If one scene encapsulates the pervy strangeness of *Up Your Teddy Bear*, it may be the dream sequence during which an adult man wearing a Littl...

Ida Lupino #22: The Light That Failed (US 1939) - The Light That Failed is the third adaptation of Rudyard Kipling’s story with the same title published in 1891 as the first of his full length novels. Ther...

Bob Clark’s “Dreamcatchers,” Tenth Annual Allan Fish Online Film Festival, Miroirs No. 3, Blue Heron, The Stranger, The Drama, Two Prosecutors, Marc by Sofia, I Swear, The Christophers, Hamlet, Continental ’25, The Devil Wears Prada 2 and Last Summer (1969) on Monday Morning Diary (May 4) - by Sam Juliano In the photo, Sammy IV and Lucille flank longtime friend and Wonders in the Dark film writer Bob Clark at Manhattan University’s Kelly Commo...

Black-And-White World [BLACK GIRL] - *From the Chicago Reader, April 21, 1995. It’s lamentable that, although Black Girl is now available on DVD from New Yorker, the color sequence in it app...

Films That I Saw: April 2026 - Another staged assassination attempt happened and unfortunately, no one of less importance died. Still, a lot of dumb shit has happened in the past mon...

The Anime Nostalgia Podcast - Guest Spot: Wakakusa no Charlotte with Zannen Canada - 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 ...

Scar Tissue: Souvenirs from the Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival 2026 - The golden rule of falling when running: get up, get going, don't make a fuss! (unless bones are broken...) The post Scar Tissue: Souvenirs from the Thes...

Politics Is Perception - The things you respond to in life change. This is inevitable. It should be, at the very least. Maybe I was sort of a political junkie long ago, but by a c...

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...

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...

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...

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

Happiness of the Katakuris & Tetsuo: The Iron Man with Flying Lotus in person! - *Co-presented by Shudder and Worldwide FM* Double feature programmed and introduced by Flying Lotus! *Happiness of the Katakuris* After a Jan Svankmajer...

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...