“If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don’t actually live longer; it just seems longer.”-Sir Clement Freud
On December 22nd, 2007, the BBC Radio 4 quiz show Just A Minute officially turned forty, making it one of BBC Radio’s longest running shows and just a little younger than Radio 4 itself, which […]
In an interview on G4 television’s Attack Of The Show, scriptwriters Neil Gaiman and Roger Avary said they’d never heard that Beowulf is a kind of Hollywood joke until they’d started working on a script. Other filmmakers have tried to bring Beowulf to the big screen, one of the most recent efforts being director Sturla […]
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Posted by Christopher Waldrop
November 2, 2007 | 1 Comment
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The recently opened Sherlock’s Book Emporium & Curiosities, in Lebanon, Tennessee, is, in many ways, itself a curiosity. While owner Steve Guynn opened his first bookstore as a way of getting his expanding book collection out of his house, the new 14,000-square foot store offers new books, used books, DVDs, board games, action figures, comic […]
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Posted by Christopher Waldrop
October 29, 2007 | 2 Comments
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Even a man who is pure of heart
And says his prayers by night
May become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms
And the moon is full and bright.
–from the movie The Wolf Man (1941)
Because of Universal Studios’ golden age of horror films in the 1930’s and early 1940’s, the Wolf Man forms part of an unholy trinity […]
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Posted by Christopher Waldrop
October 26, 2007 | 2 Comments
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What are some of your favorite science fiction films? And, just as important for Halloween, do you like scary movies? Check with The Movie Maven for one list of the thirty best horror films of all time, as well as a tantalizing look at an upcoming release.
Personally I like the classics: Forbidden Planet remains one […]
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Posted by Christopher Waldrop
October 22, 2007 | 2 Comments
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Every once in a while someone, usually a Yankee, will ask me, “What or who is the Bell Witch?” It’s a difficult question to answer because, on the one hand, I believe it must be mostly a story, a bit of local legend that might have begun as pranks and which became, over time, exaggerated […]
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Posted by Christopher Waldrop
October 19, 2007 | 3 Comments
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This year, 2007, marks the 25th anniversary of the release of John Carpenter’s classic The Thing. The film remains terrifying even now, a masterpiece of both psychological horror and fantastic special effects that are as good as any computer-generated effects you’ll see in today’s film, and even more impressive when you consider the time, effort, […]
Before Bela Lugosi, before Max Schreck, even before Bram Stoker, there were vampire legends, but there was also Vlad Tepes, “the impaler”, son of Vlad II of Romania, a member of the Order of The Dragon (Dracul), who imparted to his son the name Dracula. A Fifteenth Century prince, Vlad Tepes defended his country against […]
There’s something about zombies that, no pun intended, keeps them coming back. The classic zombie of contemporary cinema, appearing in low-budget classics like The Last Man On Earth with Vincent Price and, of course, George Romero’s original Night Of The Living Dead, with its vacant stare and shuffling walk is the stuff of our deepest […]
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Posted by Christopher Waldrop
October 3, 2007 | 1 Comment
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There’s a down town fairy singing out “Proud Mary”
as she cruises Christopher Street,
And some Southern Queen is acting loud and mean
where the docks and the Badlands meet.
This Halloween is something to be sure
Especially to be here without you.
-Lou Reed
Don’t feed the plants!
I’ve always enjoyed costumes. In recent years I’ve been a gargoyle, Seymour […]
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