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18SepSeptember 18, 2024

Hammer Films Retrospective (Part II) Frankenstein Rises!

His nickname was “Props Pete” because of his preferred method of performance. Most actors only interact with props if a director gives them specific instructions to do so. But Props Pete was forever picking up this item or that one during a performance and used it casually with apparent long-accustomed familiarity. It added depth to the role he was playing. He was trying to sell the audience on his character being an expert in whatever field the part was meant to be brilliant...

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18SepSeptember 18, 2024

Hammer Films Retrospective (part I) Gothic Beginnings

I’m honestly not the biggest horror movie guy out there. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t hate them.Exactly.I just hate what they have turned into. There is so little artistry to it these days. So little concern with trying to provoke the “delightful shiver.” These days it’s all built around scenes that spend as little time as possible building tension and then clobbering the audience with a jump scare, followed by gory body horror. Modern body horror only works if you don’t actually look at...

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17SepSeptember 17, 2024

Rings of Power – S2 Ep 5: On the Nature of Evil

From Professor Tom Shippey’s: Tolkien as a Post-War Writer“(The works of these) five authors, Lewis, Orwell, Tolkien, Golding and White, seem to me to hang together in unexpected ways; they are all non-realistic works, whether one regards them as science fiction, fantasy, fable or parable (all descriptions which have been applied); and they are all books insistently marked by war, all works by writers who are “post-war” in more than an accidental or chronological sense.”…“Finally, all five authors share a...

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16SepSeptember 16, 2024

The Dark Herald Recommends: Beetlejuice Beetlejuice

It’s not the worst thing I’ve seen this year. I have to give it that. I’m afraid I can’t give it a lot else.Beetlejuice x 2, is a sequel that feels like a sequel. Tim Burton didn’t really want to make it. Winona Ryder and Jenna Ortega didn’t really want to star in it. But Michael Keaton delivered on it.I suspect this movie only got made in the first place because Ryder and Keaton’s stock has risen in the past...

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16SepSeptember 16, 2024

The ABC Whistleblower Has Come Forth

Normally the Arkhaven Blog isn’t a political blog. But this crosses over onto my turf. Dana Walden has up until now been the most likely candidate to succeed Bob Iger as the CEO of Disney. This may… I must stress, may have just been changed. The ABC WhistleBlower covered his tracks, his affidavits sworn on penalty of perjury were mailed before the debate. Basically he predicted everything that happened that night.Dana Walden is already taking questions from the very friendly Variety. Meaning...

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13SepSeptember 13, 2024

September 13, 1999 Breakaway Day

Twenty-five years ago today, Earth's Moon was blasted out of orbit and into deep space.To this day we have no clue as to the fate of Commander John Koenig and the three hundred souls under his command at Moonbase Alpha. We know from their last transmissions that they had somehow survived the catastrophe but beyond that nothing.The tidal forces of the Moon being ripped out of orbit left Earth in throws of tsunamis, earthquakes, and other seismic upheavals (probably...

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13SepSeptember 13, 2024

The 21st Century of Gerry Anderson – Space 1999 (part 1)

When I first saw the Millennium Falcon as a little kid in 1977, I thought it was the coolest thing in all existence. There was nothing about it that I didn’t love. The WWII AA guns were cool, the B-29 bomber bridge was cool, even the boarding ramp was cool. I had literal dreams about the Falcon. I was in love. That isn’t to say that it didn’t raise a question in my young little head. If this was a freighter, where did you put the...

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13SepSeptember 13, 2024

The 21st Century of Gerry Anderson- Space 1999 (part 2)

One of the biggest disappointments of Gerry and Sylvia Anderson’s professional lives had to be the poor reception of Journey to the Far Side of the Sun. It was their only theatrical release, and it was a bomb. Gerry Anderson had put his heart into the project. The script was as good as he could make it. There were plenty of thrills and chills, and while the basic science of a film that was supposed to be hard science fiction didn’t pass the smell...

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13SepSeptember 13, 2024

The 21st Century of Gerry Anderson- Space 1999 (Part 3)

Part 1, and Part 2Barbara Bain must have loved this DVD coverSpace 1999 completed its first season with a good deal of critical praise and a strong following among genre fans. A strong following doesn’t mean a big one. ITC head, Lew Grade had been very disappointed by the lack of an American network sale and as usual, was seeing very little reason to continue the show. It was pretty expensive and although it wasn’t losing money, it wasn’t making...

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12SepSeptember 12, 2024

It Was Igertha All Along

On February 25, 2020, Bob Iger held a surprise press conference. There was a new CEO of the Walt Disney Company. Standing beside Iger was a shaven-headed man with no charisma. Everybody who watched that press conference could tell there was something way off about Iger. Chapek could see it too, as reporters shifted their attention to him, fifteen years of watching The Boss’s body language told him that Bob Iger was becoming angry.Back in 2015, at the Burbank campus...

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