I've been trying to listen to Bill Maher's interview with Maureen Dowd for a few days now. It's been hard because my internet ...

Richard Chamberlain passed away on Saturday, two days before his 91st birthday. From Doctor Kildare to Twin Peaks: The Return , here was an...

Jean Gabin romances two women in Marcel Carne's 1939 film Le jour se leve . This is another example of "poetic realism" in F...

Shinoda Masahiro (篠田 正浩) died four days ago at the age of 94. Shinoda was a prominent director in Japan's New Wave though, until yeste...

I like to think I can meet any challenge, at least as far as movies are concerned. But I just can't get through 2024's Moana 2 . It...

Two new episodes of Daredevil: Born Again premiered on Disney+ last night and the contrast between the two of them most tellingly shows t...

Another Earthman must save Mars from barbarian hordes and bizarre aliens in Leigh Brackett's 1951 novel Black Amazon of Mars . The Ama...

I watched 2003's Lost in Translation last night. I know it'd been at least twenty years since I'd seen it last. I suppose, si...

Disney+ in Japan has been aggressively promoting the new season of Gannibal , the horror detective series that began in 2022 based on a 20...

A big man in a soldier's uniform, a deserter, hitches into town and becomes a magnet for trouble but also for the affections of the ab...

On Thursday, I found myself impulsively reading "The Man of the Crowd" by Edgar Allan Poe. Here's a story that certainly break...

I found a 1972 BBC production of George Bernard Shaw's 1893 play Mrs. Warren's Profession on YouTube. It stars Coral Browne as th...

What a difference a week makes. The fourth episode of Daredevil: Born Again was so much better than the third, it was like night and day....

For my last night of Saint Patrick's Day, I gave myself two choices: The Quiet Man or Miller's Crossing . I asked myself, which d...

Happy Saint Patrick's Day again. I fell asleep watching The Butcher Boy last night. It's strange how hard it is to find that movi...

Happy Saint Patrick's Day, everyone. Yes, I watched 1993's The Snapper for it last night. I have to celebrate Saint Patrick's...

In 1996, eight climbers died on Mount Everest as they attempted to descend from the mountain during a blizzard. The story has been adapted...

Sometimes, you just can't win. The Academy was getting so much shit for anointing Emilia Perez that they turned around and made Anora...

Season two of Ally McBeal is filled with a lot of goofy shit in between intelligent legal drama moments. It's rare for one of the pratf...

Good grief, last night's Daredevil: Born Again was bad. It's no wonder even Disney realised the show needed to be drastically ret...