R.I.P. Richard Todd "Ian Fleming's choice to play James Bond" British actor Richard Todd has died of cancer at the age of 90, according to the Associated Press . Although Todd is probably best known for his performances in some great war films of the Fifties and Sixties (including The Dam Busters and The Longest Day ) and Alfred Hitchcock's Stage Fright , spy fans will likely remember him...
Ursula Andress in She (1965) My favorite moment in She (1965) occurs about 90 minutes into the movie when Ursula Andress glides by Peter Cushing playing Professor Holy and Bernard Cribbins as his aspiring man servant Job. Cushing declares “By Jove!” at the sight of Ursula and Cribbins turns to his costar and utters the line, [...]
‘A brass unicorn has been catapulted across a London street and impaled an eminent surgeon. Words fail me, gentlemen.’ Indeed! I am sure the knowledgeable and film geeks amongst you will recognize these stunned word, spoke in such a way you know the words are spoken by an Edwardian Gentleman (in Capitals, of Course! Emphasizing he is a Proper Gentleman!) No? Well ok, I’ve only managed...
A sermon by Kim Fabricius Do you like horror films? I do. Good ones I mean. (Angie doesn’t even like the good ones, so I have to watch them when she’s out or gone to bed. Then I turn the lights off and watch in the dark.) The first horror film I ever saw in the cinema was The Curse of Frankenstein , starring Peter Cushing as the mad doctor and Christopher Lee as “the Creature”....
Kimberley at Cinebeats is hosting a Hammer Glamour week , 24th to 30th November. Which is the only excuse I needed to post some archetypally 60s/70s cheesecake shots of the knee-weakeningly gorgeous Valerie Leon ... ... as well as a more recent picture that proves she still has that inimitable touch of glamour. Valerie Leon's onscreen career was - perhaps unfairly - defined by her physical charms:...
Print: Good - Sound: Good - Label: BBC - Year: 1968 - Cover: Good - Format: 4:3 - Length: 1h40m/1h38m - Before: No - Again: Maybe - Price: £1 - Rating: 6/10. This is the BBC version of Sherlock Holmes The Hound Of The Baskervilles , first transmitted in 1968 starring Peter Cushing as the legendary detective, and is one of the most faithful versions of the book ever put on film or TV. Its such...
12.00 My prologue added after the writing in much the same way as the prologue was added to the Lord of the Rings at the end of their creation. After a short period of hesitancy I decided to undertake the experience I have planned for several years, that is to watch the three extended versions of the Lord of Rings Films in one sitting with appropriate intervals and written commentary. I have the full...
Dave, Mac, and a slowly recovering Erich talk Under the Dome , the new Stephen King novel; Discovery Channel's new documentary on Jack the Ripper ; review MST3K: Volume XVI , Ben 10 Alien Force: Volume 5 , Stunt Rock , and Roland Emmerich's Godzilla (Blu-ray) ; determine who really was inside that Chewbacca costume; identify unsuspecting fictional serials killers; and play everyone's favorite new...
The Twilight phenomenon is nothing new. It’s just the apotheosis of a sort of pop-cultural nosferatu makeover that has been chugging along since Anne Rice sent moody young romantics swooning with Interview With a Vampire way back in 1976. Purists may scoff at the melodrama and angst that have been infused into the sinister [...]
Some years ago, as a small child, I had an unhealthy habit of staying up and watching the late night horror flicks, usually a 30s Hollywood-made Dracula film or some old Hammer re-run, neither of which were particularly frightening even...
Synopsis: After Professor Joseph Van Helsing (Peter Cushing) gives a lecture on Chinese vampire legend, a student informs him that the legend is true and that he knows the location of the village in the legend. The student asks Professor Van Helsing if he would be willing to travel to the village and destroy the vampire menace. Van Helsing agrees and embarks with his son, the student and his six kung-fu...
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