Snapshots of the ancient past: My adventure uncovering the Goddess Aquae Sulis beneath layers of metal and mosaic at the Roman Baths… — September 2004 — Roman Baths (Temple of Aquae Sulis) Somerset England The pre-Roman Goddess Aquae Sulis’s Temple built in 700BC by the Celts was being excavated. It had, after its service to the Celtic Goddess, become the Roman Baths we talk of so often, but it had been buried in…

Updated monthly (filming, Upcoming projects news) — Updated monthly (filming, Upcoming projects news) (UPDATED 15 April 2022) FILMING COMPLETED—Indiana Jones 5 (release date PUSHED BACK to 6/30/23 from the previous date of 07/2022) PLAYING NOW! — Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore — trailers have been dropping since December (Latest trailer on YouTube), the film released in 6…

Tom Cruise’s impossible mission: How he fired the film insurance company on Ghost Protocol to perform a legendary stunt atop the Bur Khalif — Sometimes you need to change the rules to manifest a project that has great potential. That was Tom Cruise’s impossible mission (pun intended) when producing, starring in, and stunt-driving Ghost Protocol, his 2011 Mission Impossible entry into that Hollywood-blockbuster franchise. He’s still making that franchise happen, filming MI:7 and MI:8…

Hannibal Closer to Revival as Amazon Cuts Major Deal to Acquire its Rights Holder MGM. — Hannibal Closer to Revival as Amazon Cuts Major Deal to Acquire its Rights Holder MGM. The two major entertainment powers announced their big move this week: storied and iconic MGM is to be acquired by giant player Amazon, whose PrimeVideo service just celebrated 10 years in a deal that appears to have been in the works for some time.

Mads Mikkelsen elevates the graphic novel to rollercoaster film ride in violent action adventure Polar (2019) and is writing a Polar 2. — Film Commentary, Polar (2019), Netflix Hr. Mads Mikkelsen(R) takes what could have been just a gorefest gratuitous action film in Polar (2019), based on a graphic novel, and elevates its status to a rollercoaster ride that’s equal parts Sin City and John Wick. Certainly, it’s an ALL-Mads vehicle. …

The San Diego Premiere of Top Gun: Maverick drops today, 4 May 2022, as Lady GaGa drops her music title Hold My Hand from the Soundtrack — The San Diego Premiere of Top Gun: Maverick drops today, 4 May 2022, as Lady GaGa drops her music title Hold My Hand from the movie’s soundtrack. Red carpet events take place today aboard the USS Midway in San Diego, while screenings take place at the Gaslamp, with a U.S…

Who stars, stunt-drives, and produces their own films? Fires the film insurance co, puts costars through fighter jet school? Who delivers? — Riddle Me This . . . Which celebrity, Puts his co-stars through real fighter pilot training, and realistic flying antics on-screen, using military aircraft carriers, on a blockbuster franchise film, so they can fully understand and handle themselves both in-flight and on stunts as well as operate cameras inside the cockpits by themselves?. . . …

An Arrow Through the Heart of My life & My Mother’s — a Singer & A Catholic Nun — An Arrow Through the Heart of My life & My Mother’s — a Singer & A Catholic Nun Miley Cyrus’s 2019 song Mother’s Daughter reminded me how easy it is to feel trapped and helpless inside a culture that was not designed to support you in even existing as a human being — never mind living authentically. …

Halsey’s “If I Can’t Have Love I Want Power” reflects American women’s self-narrative in an androcentric world. — I knew the album titled “If I can’t have love, I want power” was approaching along Halsey’s career trajectory as soon as I heard the lyrics in her song “You Should Be Sad” several years ago: You’re not half the man you think that you are And you can’t fill the…