Peter Avellino

Kevin Costner and Susan Sarandon in Ron Shelton's BULL DURHAM. New at Mr. Peel's Sardine Liqueur. mrpeelsardineliqueur.blogspot.com/2026/10/some...

George C. Scott and Gene Hackman Terrific Together, 10/27/72

The greatness of Michael Gothard in THE DEVILS got me to revisit the very oddball SCREAM AND SCREAM AGAIN in which he plays a mysterious serial killer. It’s a film that almost seems designed to annoy, which I’ve always liked about it.

This is a fantastic lineup but one film you should definitely go see if you haven't is PETER IBBETSON.

Final lines from Chekov’s Enterprise: A Personal Journal of the Making of Star Trek: The Motion Picture by Walter Koenig, RIP

Last night, with a packed house, I attended the Academy's US premiere of the impeccable 4K restoration of the Hammer classic Horror of Dracula. Jack Asher's Technicolor cinematography looks fabulous. James Bernard's score sounds even better. If you can find it playing theatrically, go for it!

Once more with THE DEVILS at the Vista.

Opening day of Claudia Weill's IT'S MY TURN, 10/24/80 mrpeelsardineliqueur.blogspot.com/2023/02/as-f...

Bring back Dirty Harry double bills.

Vanishing point soundtrack, The Jimmy Bowen orchestra-Love theme www.youtube.com/watch?v=IX7H...

Tom Skerritt (1933–2026)

The other day I saw THE DEVILS and last night I watched PADDINGTON IN PERU so the large presence of nuns in both is making me imagine a recut combining the two films.

A Tarot Spread for the Week Ahead: Week of October 19, 2026 www.youtube.com/watch?v=hshi... @redhairglasses.bsky.social

Eve - So Tired www.youtube.com/watch?v=43f7...

Tuesday at the Vista with THE DEVILS.

Laserdiscs still serve a purpose.

RIP Richard Riehle of THE FUGITIVE, CASINO and OFFICE SPACE plus I used to see him walking around Los Feliz all the time.

Opening day of Billy Wilder’s THE FORTUNE COOKIE. 10/19/66 (Happy 60th)

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Opening day of THE COLOR OF MONEY, 10/17/86 (Happy 40th)

Friday night pre-Code horror at the @newbeverly.bsky.social

A beautiful piece about a movie that is very dear to this erstwhile Durhamite’s heart (even if, as Peter notes, it’s not really about Durham).

Wednesday night double at the @newbeverly.bsky.social

I loved watching EXORCIST II: THE HERETIC, but I couldn't recommend it to anyone without starting to grin shamefacedly. (1981)

In The City (From "The Warriors" Soundtrack) www.youtube.com/watch?v=jB9B...

Opening day of THE FABULOUS BAKER BOYS, 10/13/89 mrpeelsardineliqueur.blogspot.com/2022/05/this...

A Tarot Spread for the Week Ahead: Week of October 12, 2026 www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgEt... @redhairglasses.bsky.social

Watching TRUCK TURNER (Tubi!) in which a hitman character is named “Joe Dante”.

Late night Blake Edwards double bill tonight with S.O.B. followed by “10”, good reasons to stay up.

Opening day of PEGGY SUE GOT MARRIED, 10/10/86 (Happy 40th)

Walked by Walter Neff’s apartment in DOUBLE INDEMNITY this morning.

Opening day of THE FRENCH CONNECTION, 10/7/71 (Happy 55th)

Because some nights you just need to do the GRIZZLY/MANITOU double bill. @newbeverly.bsky.social

Just saw this (it's on tubi) last night. What a strange, beautiful movie. Really conveys what it must have felt like to live in the early 70s, one absurdity after another. Insightful look at a lost treasure by @peterapeel.bsky.social.

Saw this at the Chinese on opening weekend and stood in the popcorn line behind Steven Soderbergh, I guess on a day off from shooting OCEAN'S THIRTEEN.

Opening day of MARATHON MAN, 10/6/76 (Happy 50th)

Opening day of Blake Edwards’ “10”, 10/5/79

What’s going on this week? Let me tell you… youtu.be/yg2uTuSxhYM?...

Opening day of John Frankenheimer’s SECONDS, 10/5/66 (Happy 60th, Mr. Wilson)

"So Close" - Jake Holmes www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1mZ...

#BOTD in 1923 #filmsky #moviesky

Opening day of Ken Russell’s WHORE, 10/4/91, so Happy 35th to the time I saw WHORE on opening night.

Anyway, I loved DIGGER.

Let’s do this.

Opening day of THE LAST PICTURE SHOW, 10/3/71

Van Morrison - "Into The Mystic" (Live at The Orphanage 1974) www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0gv...

Elvis Presley in “Midnight Cowboy.” He would have been fucking amazing. No damn way the Colonel would have let him do it. But Elvis is Joe Buck: “Women like me, goddammit. Hell, the only one thing I ever been good for is lovin’. Women go crazy for me, that’s a really true fact!”