REPOST: It's Halloween season so a few things are getting bumped for the next few days.********************In 1931 Universal Film Studios was faced with a fairly serious problem. They had a decision to make and no matter what that decision was, they were going to lose money on it. They had to do it now, they couldn't put it off any longer. Al Jolson's The Jazz Singer (1927) had completely rewritten the rule book. It was a rulebook that was only about 15...
REPOST: It's Halloween season so a few things are getting bumped for the next few days.********************“I am quite convinced that there is no doubt whatever that the events here described really took place, however unbelievable and incomprehensible they might appear at first sight. And I am further convinced that they must always remain to some extent incomprehensible.” – Bram StokerI debated calling this piece Vampire Rules Suck. Nominal good taste won out. Midnight’s War is the Arkhaven title that currently holds...
This show is both a success and a failure.It succeeds in being a truly excellent gangster drama. The series takes place in The Batman movie setting, at the end of which, the seawall surrounding Gotham City was broken (just accept it) and the city had been flooded. That’s just background setting and continuity. More important so far as this show is concerned, Gotham’s Godfather, Carmine Falcone is dead. Shot down in the street.The new head of the Falone family is...
https://twitter.com/Grummz/status/1840479811376201880 For those that don't know, Godot is a an open source game engine. Which means that the vast majority of its employees volunteers. If there's one thing the Bug People love, it's volunteer organizations. There is rarely someone who's job it is to keep useless people out.Discuss on Social Galactic
It will be decades before we discover how The Rings of Power was really made. Success has many fathers, but failure is an orphan. MacKay and Payne are nothing but lightening rods at this point, everyone who’s leaking says that is their only function, they have no power at all over the production, they are there to take the blame. Which makes it very difficult to tell who is in charge, assuming it’s anyone at all. A couple of years...
I'm trying to learn how to write headlines for Variety.But as you can see the reality show Secret Lives of Mormon Housewives did indeed score almost (but not quite) 120 million viewer minutes less than Amazon's $1 billion production of Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.This. Is. Achievement!Discuss on Social Galactic
She could make you laugh and cry in the space of five minutes. She could portray intimacy while projecting emotional distance. Laurence Olivier admired her so much he slapped her across the face during Othello, and could hold her in physical comedy against Carol Burnett. Dame Maggie Smith has left the building at age 89.Margaret Smith Natile Smith was born in 1934 to Scottish Secretary and an English Pathologist who worked in Oxford. When she was seventeen she took to...
UNSPECIFIED - CIRCA 1921: Conrad Veidt as "Cesare" in the film "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari". Photograph. 1921 (Photo by Imagno/Getty Images)Sure, you’ve heard of Lon Chaney Sr. You would know Boris Kharloff’s voice anywhere. Dracula wouldn’t have been a thing without Bela Lugosi. Price, Lee, and Cushing carried the horror genre on their shoulders during its darkest decades.But one of the greatest horror actors of all time, you’ve probably never heard of.Okay, you probably do know of...
Okay, it is Hammer Films so gold-plated is probably a little more accurate.You could always tell a Hammer Film just by the look of it, even if you had surfed in, just flipping channels on a Saturday night. There was something about its aesthetic. Something about its style. Hammer in the Mid-Sixties was at its height. Their gorgeous look was and still is unmistakable. On a minuscule budget, Hammer delivered films that seemed pretty close to C. B. DeMille’s epic.For a...
Called it!Assassin's Creed Shadows has been pushed back to February 14, 2025.
