On Monday, November 13, 2023, Travel Channel presents an intriguing episode of “Mysteries of the Unknown” titled “Across the Pacific, Project Azorian, and First Marathon.” This episode offers a captivating glimpse into three remarkable stories that have left an indelible mark on history.
The first story takes viewers on a daring aerial adventure that forever changed the course of flight history. It delves into the audacious journey that pushed the boundaries of aviation and opened up new possibilities for human exploration.
The second tale introduces an eccentric billionaire who forms an unusual partnership with the CIA. This unexpected collaboration weaves a narrative filled with intrigue, innovation, and secrets that have had a lasting impact on the world.
Lastly, “Mysteries of the Unknown” explores an ancient battle that inspired an incredible race, shedding light on the historical context and significance of this legendary event.
For those with a thirst for untold stories, mysteries,...
The first story takes viewers on a daring aerial adventure that forever changed the course of flight history. It delves into the audacious journey that pushed the boundaries of aviation and opened up new possibilities for human exploration.
The second tale introduces an eccentric billionaire who forms an unusual partnership with the CIA. This unexpected collaboration weaves a narrative filled with intrigue, innovation, and secrets that have had a lasting impact on the world.
Lastly, “Mysteries of the Unknown” explores an ancient battle that inspired an incredible race, shedding light on the historical context and significance of this legendary event.
For those with a thirst for untold stories, mysteries,...
- 11/6/2023
- by Jules Byrd
- TV Everyday
Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here.
The Hottest August (Brett Story)
Where better than New York City to make a structuralist film? Cities are iterative, their street grids diagrams of theme and variation, and New York most of all—with its streets and avenues named for numbers and letters and states and cities and presidents and Revolutionary War generals spanning an archipelago, intersecting at a million little data points at which to measure class, race, culture, history, architecture and infrastructure. And time, too—from this human density emerge daily and seasonal rituals, a set of biorhythms, reliable as the earth’s, against which to mark gradual shifts and momentary fashions. Summer is for lounging on fire escapes, always, and, today, for Mister Softee. Yesterday it was shaved ice.
The Hottest August (Brett Story)
Where better than New York City to make a structuralist film? Cities are iterative, their street grids diagrams of theme and variation, and New York most of all—with its streets and avenues named for numbers and letters and states and cities and presidents and Revolutionary War generals spanning an archipelago, intersecting at a million little data points at which to measure class, race, culture, history, architecture and infrastructure. And time, too—from this human density emerge daily and seasonal rituals, a set of biorhythms, reliable as the earth’s, against which to mark gradual shifts and momentary fashions. Summer is for lounging on fire escapes, always, and, today, for Mister Softee. Yesterday it was shaved ice.
- 8/6/2021
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Next month’s lineup at The Criterion Channel has been unveiled, featuring no shortage of excellent offerings. Leading the pack is a massive, 20-film retrospective dedicated to John Huston, featuring a mix of greatest and lesser-appreciated works, including Fat City, The Dead, Wise Blood, The Man Who Would Be King, and Key Largo. (The Treasure of the Sierra Madre will join the series on October 1.)
Also in the lineup is series on the works of Budd Boetticher (specifically his Randolph Scott-starring Ranown westerns), Ephraim Asili, Josephine Baker, Nikos Papatakis, Jean Harlow, Lee Isaac Chung (pre-Minari), Mani Kaul, and Michelle Parkerson.
The sparkling new restoration of La Piscine will also debut, along with Amores perros, Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s To the Ends of the Earth, Cate Shortland’s Lore, both Oxhide films, Moonstruck, and much more.
See the full list of August titles below and more on The Criterion Channel.
Abigail Harm,...
Also in the lineup is series on the works of Budd Boetticher (specifically his Randolph Scott-starring Ranown westerns), Ephraim Asili, Josephine Baker, Nikos Papatakis, Jean Harlow, Lee Isaac Chung (pre-Minari), Mani Kaul, and Michelle Parkerson.
The sparkling new restoration of La Piscine will also debut, along with Amores perros, Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s To the Ends of the Earth, Cate Shortland’s Lore, both Oxhide films, Moonstruck, and much more.
See the full list of August titles below and more on The Criterion Channel.
Abigail Harm,...
- 7/26/2021
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Some actors and directors go together like spaghetti and meatballs. They just gel together in a rare way that makes their collaborations special. Here is a list of the seven best parings of director and actor in film history.
7: Tim Burton & Johnny Depp:
Edward Scissorhands; Ed Wood; Sleepy Hollow; Charlie and the Chocolate Factory; Corpse Bride; Sweeney Todd; Alice in Wonderland; Dark Shadows
Of all the parings on this list, these two make the oddest films. (In a good way.) Tim Burton is one of the most visually imaginative filmmakers of his generation and Johnny Depp was once the polymorphous master of playing a wide variety of eccentric characters. They were a natural combo. Depp made most of his best films with Burton, before his current ‘Jack Sparrow’ period began. The duo had the knack for telling stories about misfits and freaks, yet making them seem sympathetic and likable.
7: Tim Burton & Johnny Depp:
Edward Scissorhands; Ed Wood; Sleepy Hollow; Charlie and the Chocolate Factory; Corpse Bride; Sweeney Todd; Alice in Wonderland; Dark Shadows
Of all the parings on this list, these two make the oddest films. (In a good way.) Tim Burton is one of the most visually imaginative filmmakers of his generation and Johnny Depp was once the polymorphous master of playing a wide variety of eccentric characters. They were a natural combo. Depp made most of his best films with Burton, before his current ‘Jack Sparrow’ period began. The duo had the knack for telling stories about misfits and freaks, yet making them seem sympathetic and likable.
- 9/5/2016
- by feeds@cinelinx.com (Rob Young)
- Cinelinx
When John Huston went to war he took his mission seriously... as an artist. He made four wartime docus for the army. San Pietro and the long suppressed Let There Be Light are the classics we studied in film school; Winning Your Wings is typical enlistment booster material and Report from the Aleutians a remarkably good record of how the war was really fought in far-flung locations. Let There Be Light: John Huston's Wartime Documentaries Blu-ray Olive Films 1942-1945 Color and B&W 1:33 flat full frame 281 min. Street Date January 19, 2016 available through the Olive Films website 29.95 Directed by John Huston
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
Of the Hollywood directors who 'went to war' and made high-profile Signal Corps films for the public, John Huston was surely the most innovative. He made one enlistment booster for the Army Air Corps and then three pictures that the Army thought were either too long,...
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
Of the Hollywood directors who 'went to war' and made high-profile Signal Corps films for the public, John Huston was surely the most innovative. He made one enlistment booster for the Army Air Corps and then three pictures that the Army thought were either too long,...
- 1/19/2016
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
WWE.com
The professional wrestling industry has undergone a lot of changes over the decades. From the days of being a carnival attraction involving strong men, to Joseph ‘Toots’ Mondt’s introduction of ‘Slam Bang Western Wrestling’ in the 1920s, to the phenomenon of ‘sports entertainment’ seen in WWE today, it is an industry that is constantly evolving.
Across the Pacific Ocean, pro wrestling in Japan has also changed over time. What started off as a slight offshoot of sumo wrestling turned into a very ‘strong’ sport with elements of mixed martial arts and legitimately tough wrestlers.
This article will look at the 15 biggest differences between WWE and Japanese pro wrestling, a.k.a. puroresu. It will feature physical differences, such as format of arenas and number of wrestlers in the matches, as well as the differences in psychology and presentation of wrestling as a whole.
Of course, pro wrestling is at its core,...
The professional wrestling industry has undergone a lot of changes over the decades. From the days of being a carnival attraction involving strong men, to Joseph ‘Toots’ Mondt’s introduction of ‘Slam Bang Western Wrestling’ in the 1920s, to the phenomenon of ‘sports entertainment’ seen in WWE today, it is an industry that is constantly evolving.
Across the Pacific Ocean, pro wrestling in Japan has also changed over time. What started off as a slight offshoot of sumo wrestling turned into a very ‘strong’ sport with elements of mixed martial arts and legitimately tough wrestlers.
This article will look at the 15 biggest differences between WWE and Japanese pro wrestling, a.k.a. puroresu. It will feature physical differences, such as format of arenas and number of wrestlers in the matches, as well as the differences in psychology and presentation of wrestling as a whole.
Of course, pro wrestling is at its core,...
- 12/10/2014
- by Alexander Podgorski
- Obsessed with Film
Baffled! It was revealed this past week that Hello Kitty, the popular cartoon character with whiskers and triangular-shaped ears, is not a cat. "Hello Kitty is not a cat," Christine R. Yano, an anthropologist and the author of Pink Globalization: Hello Kitty's Trek Across the Pacific, told the L.A. Times on Wednesday, Aug. 27. "She's a cartoon character. She is a little girl. She is a friend. But she is not a cat." Yano even dissected Hello Kitty's behavior. "She's never depicted on all fours. She walks [...]...
- 8/29/2014
- Us Weekly
Big screen adaptations of popular novels by Irishman Michael Scott and Englishman Tom Holt are to be produced in Australia. Mario Andreacchio bought the rights to The Alchemyst, the first in the series of Scott.s six fantasy novels entitled The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel. Andreacchio will serve as one of the producers on the $75 million film along with Los Angeles-based Greg Coote and other partners who are yet to be revealed. Todd Fellman (Bait, Mental, A Few Best Men) will produce a family film adapted from Holt.s novel The Portable Door for the Jim Henson Co. Both projects came to light on Tuesday at the session Working with the USA- The Eagle & The Kangaroo: Co-financing Across the Pacific at the Screen Forever conference. Coote told the session Andreacchio bought the rights and brought the project to him. He said it would be an Australian production, thus qualifying for the 40% producer offset,...
- 11/19/2013
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Co-financing with Us production companies and selling Australian formats internationally will be among the key topics on the agenda at Spaa.s Screen Forever conference.
Among the other sessions at the November 18-21 event in Melbourne will be a focus on deal making in the broadcast, theatrical and online sectors amid fast-changing release windows; an update on international digital distribution and Video-on-Demand; and ABC TV Director Richard Finlayson outlining his vision for the network.
A panel of Hollywood-based executives will explore ways of using the producer offset to raise finance in the Us via equity, distribution guarantees, P&A and debt in the session entitled Working with the USA: The Eagle and The Kangaroo . Co-financing Across The Pacific.
It will also focus on the issues of significant Australian content, copyright and the extent to which the offset can or should be considered equity. Speaking will be Tracey Vieira, Executive Vice President,...
Among the other sessions at the November 18-21 event in Melbourne will be a focus on deal making in the broadcast, theatrical and online sectors amid fast-changing release windows; an update on international digital distribution and Video-on-Demand; and ABC TV Director Richard Finlayson outlining his vision for the network.
A panel of Hollywood-based executives will explore ways of using the producer offset to raise finance in the Us via equity, distribution guarantees, P&A and debt in the session entitled Working with the USA: The Eagle and The Kangaroo . Co-financing Across The Pacific.
It will also focus on the issues of significant Australian content, copyright and the extent to which the offset can or should be considered equity. Speaking will be Tracey Vieira, Executive Vice President,...
- 10/11/2013
- by Staff writer
- IF.com.au
Movies from the “golden age” of black and white films (approximately the 1930’s through the 1950’s) almost invariably contain well-written dialogue and strikingly subtle humor, making them a favorite among many fans of cinema. The horror movies of this more subtle period in film history are therefore of a cerebral nature, primarily relying on the viewer’s imagination to generate the true sense of horror that modern movies generate through more visual means. It is these oft-ignored horror movies that will be the focus of a series of articles detailing the reasons why true fans of horror movies should rediscover these films.
Here we are with the 10th component in the Forgotten B&W Horror series. With this installment, we continue to look at movies that blur the line between horror and science fiction – a blurring that occurred with many sci-fi movies of the 1950′s.
The Deadly Mantis (1957) regales us...
Here we are with the 10th component in the Forgotten B&W Horror series. With this installment, we continue to look at movies that blur the line between horror and science fiction – a blurring that occurred with many sci-fi movies of the 1950′s.
The Deadly Mantis (1957) regales us...
- 9/5/2012
- by Tim Rich
- Obsessed with Film
There are many actors who might get a 24-film set released which would make for a collection of great and/or important films, but few would be so filled with legendary efforts. This is not only true today, as The Humphrey Bogart Essential Collection makes its way to stores, but it will probably always be true. The combination of talent, charisma, and timing is unlikely to come together in such a way again, and no matter what actors come along, none of them will exist in the right decade.
Certain films may leap to mind, of course, like – Casablanca, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The Big Sleep, The Maltese Falcon, etc. – and these giants are wonderful to own, but the collection really gets its value from some of the films that aren’t on the short list of titles that everyone automatically thinks of when they hear his name.
Certain films may leap to mind, of course, like – Casablanca, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The Big Sleep, The Maltese Falcon, etc. – and these giants are wonderful to own, but the collection really gets its value from some of the films that aren’t on the short list of titles that everyone automatically thinks of when they hear his name.
- 11/23/2010
- by Marc Eastman
- AreYouScreening.com
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