Plenty of Nothing

Sergio Leone and Ennio Morricone as Classmates

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The Tudors in Popular Culture

1910        "I'm Henery the Eighth, I Am" (song)

1933        The Private Life of Henry VIII (film)

1936        Mary of Scotland (film)

1936        Tudor Rose (film)

1937        Gloriana (film)

1948        Anne of the Thousand Days (play)

1960        A Man For All Seasons (play)

1964        "I'm Henery the Eighth, I Am" (song)

1966        A Man For All Seasons (film)

1969        Anne of the Thousand Days (film)

1970        The Six Wives of Henry VIII (TV series)

1971        Elizabeth R (TV series)

1971        Mary, Queen of Scots (film)

1986        Lady Jane (film)

1998        Elizabeth (film)

2001        The Other Boleyn Girl (novel)

2007-10    The Tudors (TV series)

2007        Elizabeth: The Golden Age (film)

2008        The Other Boleyn Girl (film)

2009        Wolf Hall (novel)

2012        Bring Up the Bodies (novel)

2013-17    Reign (TV series)

2015        Wolf Hall (TV series)

2018        Mary Queen of Scots (film)

2020        The Mirror and the Light (novel)

Sex Bob-Omb, "Summertime"

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World opened ten years ago today. Listen as Sex Bob-Omb perform "Summertime".

Jussi

The top film prize in Finland is Jussi, made of gypsum. Source.

Divorce Hernandez Style

Jaime Hernandez did the cover art for the Criterion Collection release of Divorce Italian Style (1961). Source.

Knives and Ramona

Bryan Lee O'Malley comes up with the best ending for Scott Pilgrim, ten years after it opened. Source.

The Usual Suspects

Somehow Akira Kurosawa managed to get the cast of Rashomon (1950) to pose as the cast of The Usual Suspects (1995).

Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)

Star Trek: The Motion Picture opened forty years ago this weekend. James Fitzroy's five-and-a-half-minute Doors/Corridors edit contains everything you need to see of this film.

Mifune as Meiji

Toshiro Mifune portrayed the Meiji Emperor in the 1980 film 203 Kochi. Source.

Being Frank

There's a brand new fantastic documentary film out all about Frank Sidebottom. Source.