and here is that video of the talk.
The Glenkens is the wide valley of the Ken river and Loch on the eastern end of #Galloway. flanked by the Rhins of Kells on the west, with the Southern Upland Way going through it Travelling from north to south, we will take you on three walks that give both a flavour of the beautiful landscape of the glen, but also a flavour of the history and folklore of this corner of #Scotland .
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MOVIE REVIEW: "GAIL DAUGHTRY AND THE CELEBRITY SEX PASS" - IN THEATERS
'Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass' is a charming and decently funny absurdist tale.
https://hotchka.com/gail-daughtry-and-the-celebrity-sex-pass-review
#GailDaughtryMovie #SonyPicturesClassics #MovieReview #Entertainment #Movies #Film #Cinema
MOVIE REVIEW: "THE FLOATERS" - IN THEATERS
‘The Floaters’ gets close to emotional authenticity in this oddball dramedy.
https://hotchka.com/the-floaters-review
#TheFloaters #BrainstormMedia #MovieReview #Entertainment #Movies #Film #Cinema
"Wicked: For Good" arrives on Digital format December 30, and on 4K/Blu-ray/DVD January 20. Order your copy today!
https://www.hotchkaplus.com/2025/12/wicked-for-good-home-video-release.html
#WickedForGood #WickedMovie #UniversalPictures #Entertainment #Movies #Film #Streaming #HomeVideo #Musical #Music
Silent classic "Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ" turns 100 this week! Find out what other movies are celebrating milestone anniversaries in Hotchka's Movies by the Decade!
https://hotchka.com/movies-by-the-decade-283
#Hotchka #MoviesByTheDecade #BenHur #Entertainment #Movies #Film #Cinema
New Projector Short! Sunray: Fallen Soldier is a movie made by and starring ex-Royal Marines Commandos. As you expect, all the action stuff is accurate and pretty good. The dramatic side of it, trying to tackle veterans and their PTSD, not so much. #film https://www.youtube.com/shorts/On6rIiQJCFo
Cultural Round-up - 10 May ‘26 - Zuhur News on: #Iran #Turkiye #Karnak #Archaeology #Film #NizarQabbani #MayZiadeh #Morocco #SaudiArt #Gaza #Embroidery #Palestine#BlackMuslimArts #SoheirZaki
#Art #ArtDubai2026 #Conducting #Iraq please subscribe if you can
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James Gunn's new "Superman" film debuts next week. "While the likes of Batman and Wolverine are popular because they break the rules, Superman has to be a law-abiding, upstanding all-American Mr. Nice Guy," Nicholas Barber writes. But that hasn't always been the case for Man of Steel. Read more from @BBCNews:
Someone just reminded me that as we are now in 2026, we are in the future the iconic, 1920s classic Metropolis was set in.
Meanwhile the far-future world of the original Blade Runner is now seven years in our past, and the future of Space 1999 was the last century! A funny thing, time...
#film #cinema #History #Histoire #ScienceFiction #Metropolis #ClassicFilm #SilentFilm #1920sFilm #ScienceFictionFilm #2026
Leni Riefenstahl, The Controversial Filmmaker Behind The Nazis’ Most Notorious Films
With "Triumph of the Will" and "Olympia," Leni Riefenstahl celebrated and glorified the Nazi regime in the 1930s, but she always denied that her films were propaganda.
13th Annual Broken Lens #Palestinian #Film Festival to be held 23 & 24 January, 2026. Film starts at 6:30pm on Friday and 2:00pm on Saturday. See flyer for details (alt included). Trinity #Presbyterian Church, 2200 N Bell Ave, #Denton
It's #CinemaCon, so here are some movie-related #SurfFeeds we love, covering everything from expert reviews to highly specific feeds about kung-fu cinema and Disney. To start,
@Flipboard's Cinephiles:
https://surf.social/feed/surf%2Fcustom%2F01jhkq1rer409yckqa0b6x33tf
“A man ready, willing and able to walk bravely into familiar genre territory and then ingeniously rearrange everything that makes it familiar, Scotsman Alan Sharp proved himself an astute chronicler of America’s dark heart, and captured it with a stunningly honed outsider’s eye.”
—FilmInk celebrates author & screenwriter Alan Sharp (1934–2013) – born #OTD, 12 Jan
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Lost 19th century film by Méliès discovered at the Library
https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2026/02/lost-19th-century-film-by-melies-discovered-at-the-library/
Books about motion pictures at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subjects/search/?query=motion+pictures
National Film Registry announces 25 films selected for preservation, including "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan", "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre", "Dirty Dancing", "Spy Kids" and "Beverly Hills Cop".
https://www.hotchkaplus.com/2024/12/national-film-registry-2024.html
#NationalFilmRegistry #FilmPreservation #Entertainment #Movies #Film #Cinema