Salvable (2025) Review: Toby Kebbell & Shia LaBeouf in a Gritty British Boxing Crime Drama – Powerful Performances but a Frustrating Ending? Welcome back to the AKAPad Film Buff Podcast! I’m Peter DeLuca, aka AKAPad the Film Buff. In this episode, we break down Salvable (2025), the raw British boxing crime drama starring Toby Kebbell […]
Before we get into this, let me let you inside a regular practice of mine. To understand something I like being in front of it for a long period. You can imagine this practice of mine is in direct conflict when I visit a museum—this is why upon leaving any museum or showing, in fact, […]
I will admit it: I started using Moleskines through a lie—one I wasn’t totally familiar with because that lie was… marketing. To push shit. Because already I am crying on the altar, admitting how naïve and desperate I was at one stage in my life to be original. I believed that Ernest Hemingway, in the […]
In short, this piece was an absolute failure—the type that makes me want to rip this thiccc smooth Bristol board in half, on the spot, into multiple pieces (I almost did). But I kept it mostly intact for anyone who visits the site through the livestream replay. Oh, did I not mention that? This absolute, […]
Recently, I had the pleasure to ride the hype and cave in on the McDonald’s Changables, mostly because I ended up close to one during my Philadelphia wandering and said to myself, what the hell, get a Happy Meal. I was not expecting this promotion to be so retro-charged. There’s so much retro—some of this […]
AKAPAD the FILM BUFF podcast · Honey Bunch (2025) – The Film Buff Review – Already one of the films of the year 00:00:01Quiet on the set production stage one action. Here we go. AK pad. It’s the AKA pad fil podcast. I can do nothing but gleefully and joyfully welcome you back to the […]
AKAPAD the FILM BUFF podcast · The Hand Behind the Mouse: The Ub Iwerks Story (1999) – The Film Buff Review 00:00:01Quiet on the set speed down production stage one action. >> Let’s go. Let’s go. Let’s go. I I just want to start this aka it’s it’s the weekend. It’s night time. So it’s […]
I can’t imagine a more magical way to discover this movie than on a rainy London evening, after a night out that culminated in the live production of The Phantom of the Opera at the historic Her Majesty’s Theatre. It was an unforgettable experience. Later, back in my hotel room, I’ll never forget the thrill […]