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23SepSeptember 23, 2024

Hammer Films Retrospective (Part III) Dracula

Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee was first and foremost a gentleman. If not necessarily a gentle man. His father was a Colonel in the King’s 60th Rifles and his mother was an Italian Contessa. His parents separated at a young age and he and his sister lived with their mother when she moved to Switzerland. He took an early interest in acting at school when his mother remarried, he returned to Britain. He was Stepcousins with Ian Fleming and was introduced to Prince Yusupov and Grand Duke Pavlovich,...

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21SepSeptember 21, 2024

How High Does DiddyGate Go?

"Are you kidding me? Compared to the music industry, we're Boy Scouts!" - Anonymous porn producerThis isn't the usual stuff I cover but my sources won't shut up about it. According to them, people who weren't at all concerned when Epstein was arrested are looking into Brunei, Morroco, Russia, or any country that doesn't have a US extradition treaty.There is a panic going on in the entertainment industry over Sean Combs, the likes of which no one has ever seen...

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20SepSeptember 20, 2024

Concord the Aftermath

Concord was so much worse than we thought. The claims that it cost $200 million appear to have been just a rumor. Try $400 million.Sony is starting to leak largely because people are starting to get the ax because Sony has to cut corners now. Sony’s PlayStation CEO Herman Hulst was a relentless champion of Concord. So far as he was concerned it was going to be Sony’s biggest franchise. He was convinced it would be a (pre-Disney) Star Wars level hit....

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20SepSeptember 20, 2024

Agatha All Along: First Impressions

This show started life as a gag. Truthfully it wasn’t a bad gag. WandaVision was a show that was half good and half godawful. Wanda Maximoff having lost her mind and created a TV show world she could hide in was not itself a terrible concept. But it was the first of the M-She-U entertainment products. Regardless, the Agatha All Along demi-Munsters theme song was genuinely funny and became something of a novelty hit on YouTube.A novelty hit is no...

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19SepSeptember 19, 2024

Hammer Films Retrospective (Part IV) The Mummy

The poster was ready before the picture was finished. When Peter Cushing saw it, he insisted on running his friend through with a spear so as to not cheat the audience. “Cursed be those who disturb the rest of a Pharaoh. They that shall break the seal of this tomb shall meet death by a disease that no doctor can diagnose.” - Translation of the Curse of Wadjet. That was the actual curse placed upon those who would dare disturb the tombs...

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19SepSeptember 19, 2024

SFWA Has Found Its New President

Probably. But just look at her. If anything she's overqualified.Muppet Hair and Berekley Smirk.

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18SepSeptember 18, 2024

HBO Is Making a Comedy About Marvel Films

I'd heard about this but I didn't believe it. Warner has too much of its own skin in the game but Zaslav actually greenlit this thing.This is the team that did The Thick of It, The Veep, and The Death of Stalin a Comedy of Terrors. In the trailer below you can see a very clear reference to Kevin Feige. They are actually going there. This is supposedly based on all the stuff that everyone in Hollywood...

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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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