The Wilderness Years of Doctor Who – sorry, I mean the First Wilderness Years of Doctor Who – were a game of two halves, with the TV movie marking half time. In the first half, the…

The official trailer for ‘Revolution’ (1968) by Jack O’Connell, slightly edited for hippie nudity. It’s pretty much the best film document of Haight-Ashbury at its peak.…

Emily St. John Mandel’s “Sea of Tranquility“ is difficult to review because the less you know about it going in, the more impactful it will be when you read it. Like “This is How You Lose the Time…

I used to read Blue Period back when a friend of mine bought it, but then she moved away and I stopped despite really liking it. A few days ago, I started from the beginning and started saving some…

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I'll watch just about anything with John Cena, but I couldn't make it through this. I didn't find it funny enough, often enough, so I bailed after about 30 minutes.

Lately, I’ve been binging the back catalog of videos from my internet friend Willow on their YouTube channel: Questing Refuge. Willow is an autistic transgender parent who explores being…

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I devoured this book. Told from the perspective of a defense attorney, it explores sexual offenses, critiques the legal system, and exposes the immense obstacles victims face in seeking justice, as…

I sent the photo above to my friend who recommended me this book with the message "This book is so poorly written that it made my vase sad and my flowers die" which pretty much sums up my review.

AlbumsMonsta X - UnfoldToonaleaves - Ballads of Innocence and ExperienceCasket Cassette - ReducerAve Mujica - Ave MujicaMatenrou Opera - CinematographePurple Hell - AstheniaShe's Green - Close Your…

❤ Beginning in Anderson, Indiana, Wanda started singing on radio station WHBU when she was ten. Her stage career began at fourteen in Anderson with her uncle who Wanda describes as "sta

Here's our second outtake which belatedly saw the light on the Soft Boys ' 1981 posthumous vinyl collection Two Halves For The Price Of One . (It was also released as a 1981 single and later showed…

In the summer of ’76, Dogwood, Georgia, had a beauty queen named Mary Pickford, a man named Joe she couldn’t stop fighting, and a road sign that said ‘SLOW MONKEYS.’ What follows is the true (ahem)…

Backrooms 2026, Kane Parsons My rating: Didn't like it There is no way a movie with this concept would be good, but I gotta praise that this movie isn’t afraid of being weird , and went in a totally…

T he big event this week is the investiture of Prince Charles as Prince of Wales, broadcast live and in color via satellite from Caernarvon Castle in Wales on July 1, 1969. I wonder, even gi

This week sees a cyberpunk setting for an apparently obscure RPG system.

Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger's The Enthusiast is that novel! It's even about newspaper comic strips,…

Words by Jamie Downsworth, artwork by Jorclank Over the course of May and into June, we’ve added a whopping 14 shows to Gizz Tapes; these are a mix of previously completely uncirculated recordings,…

These photos were taken 27 years ago today - on June 17, 1999.

I am listening to the playlist of hopecore. Music from the 2010s. They all sound kinda hopeful, hence the name. 2010s were a good time. Things were going upwards instead of wars and all that trash.…

Nick Cave on the worst thing about becoming a really old rockstar. Which, it turns out, is just one variation on the worst thing about anything that goes on a while. Nicely written though.

Two attorneys, both named Harvey but each operating with their own set of rules - It was only a matter of time before they crossed paths.

Little Women (1933)

Behind the Instagram flex: A deep dive into the aviation data and logistics behind Yungblud’s custom-branded Boeing 737.

i forgot how funny this film is. it really illustrates that there's something awesome in being a repellent sadsack. Twombly: Play a melancholy song. Phone [Playing song]: When you know you're gonna…

Man, five of them, huh. Pixar’s initial offering and the first-ever CG feature is far meaner than I remembered as a kid, my own child was put off by its snarling jealous energy for most of the…

Review of The Folded Sky by Elizabeth Bear.

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Is it coincidence, or was it planned, that you can sing the words to Silkworm’s “Slow Hands” to the tune of “The Weight” by The Band Went out in a thunderstorm and…

(What if the life we lived is the one we needed?) I watched Eternity on a business flight home from IAD last week. Somewhere between takeoff and landing, it stirred questions about love, loss, and…

Melvin Hoover (Donald O'Connor), a photographer's apprentice for Look magazine, wants to impress Judy (Debbie Reynolds), a budding stage actress, and so he claims he is a photographer doing a spread…

My Instagram Reels algorithm served me up a couple of Nashville singer-songwriters on what I assume is the come up. Who knows in the current music landscape? Both have two very DIY looking videos…

With names like “Asphalt Lament” and the title track, “TokyØhum,” you know DJ Krush is back to his trademark urban atmospherics. He has described the album’s theme as “the pulse of the city.”…

Needing laughs big time today, along with guffaws, chortles, chuckles, giggles and howls, so slapstick scenarios involving funny fat guys falling down sound FANTASTIC! Thankfully, film historians,…

After La Chinoise and Weekend, JLG was hired to film the Rolling Stones for some reason. If the Stones were happy for this and Gimme Shelter to be released, then Cocksucker Blues must be really bad.…

After visiting Marilyn Monroe , I noticed the glorious, generous and really cool Cinémathèque française allowed Parisians to access its permanent collection for free during these heatwave days.…

★★★★: Another excellent fantasy mystery full of political intrigue and layers of deception. Had me guessing at every step. There's a lot to keep track of, but it builds its case well. The…

Once again, coming to you from the "I had no idea how complicated this would be when I started" department, we have Dinty Moore, the well known brand…

An ode to a Minnesota Folk Hero

For much of my adult life I have been a fan of the Criterion Collection . About fifteen years ago I did subscribe to the Criterion Channel in order to stream their movie collection on demand, but I…

This was going to be an updated/added footnote or postscript to the last post , but now it’s its own post. It’s basically just a full transcript of a conversation. (I got explicit permission to call…

What tarts! Gene Loves Jezebel must have seen Love and Rockets enjoying Stateside sucksess with the T. Rexy "So Alive" and they thought " we'll ave summathat, eh boyo? " That said, I do really enjoy…

Evangeline was reviewed at The Glitch, London. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ The musical would feel much stronger with some editorial judgement that could focus the storytelling and performance more…

I remember abuot twenty years ago realising that I didn't want to attempt to collect Bad Brains records. Someone on HYE had a huge long list of Bad Brains records, which made me appreciate how many…

The screenings are part of GKids’ efforts to celebrate the iconic anime series’ 30th anniversary.

I have no idea who said it first, but there is a saying, "Live your life so that even if you die at 100 years old, people will say you died too soon." For many of us that holds true of legendary…

Film Just briefly. There are typically two indicators that I'm not really enjoying a movie: either (a) I fall asleep, or (b) my film studies brain cells kick in and start looking for flaws. Supergirl…

How would you like to see the Music Pro ’26 conference through the eyes of an attendee? Well, you’re in luck, because while in Hollywood, CA, at the Musicians Institute, […] The post Becoming a…