Ted's Salmagundi

When I first started writing here (and porting my posts over from Google+ when it closed its doors in 2018), I didn’t set out with a grand p...

Directed by Federico Zampaglione and starring Lauren LaVera (Terrifier 2), The Well is an unabashedly retro throwback to classic Italian spl...

I was trying to put a photo into one of our Recording Notes GDoc that is used for one of our podcasts today and it wouldn't play ball. J...

I'm back on the Golshifteh Farahani trail again and stumbled into this one, which I'd not heard of before. It's available very b...

This is a German crime thriller directed by Sebastian Schipper and starring Laia Costa and Frederick Lau. Famous for being shot in a single,...

This Iranian film was originally entitled Darbareye Elly and was directed by Asghar Farhadi, who won an Oscar in 2012 for his 2011 film A Se...

        ...a roundup of our month of podcasting. Links to the team, communities and podcast homes on the net at the foot, so scroll down! Th...

This French film, originally entitled L'événement, was directed by Audrey Diwan and based on Annie Ernaux’s semi-autobiographical 2000 n...

Fairphone is a company that continues to comfortably defy industry standards. While the rest of the smartphone world pushes sealed glass san...

I went into this wondering how they were going to stretch a tight, film-length thriller into a ten-episode TV show - and how on earth Javier...