Directed by Nelson Shin.
Continue reading “40×40: Transformers: The Movie (1986)”“I got better things to do tonight than die!”
40×40: Transformers: The Movie (1986)
40×40: House Of Frankenstein (1944)
Directed by Erle C. Kenton.
Continue reading “40×40: House Of Frankenstein (1944)”“Last night I suffered the tortures of the damned.”
40×40: Frankenstein Meets The Wolfman (1943)
Directed by Roy William Neill.
Continue reading “40×40: Frankenstein Meets The Wolfman (1943)”“Life is short, but death is long.”
40×40: Ghost Of Frankenstein (1942)
Directed by Erle C Kenton.
Continue reading “40×40: Ghost Of Frankenstein (1942)”“You weave a pretty fairytale, crooked-neck.”
40×40: Son Of Frankenstein (1939)
Directed by Rowland V Lee.
Continue reading “40×40: Son Of Frankenstein (1939)”“I beg of you, let the dead past remain buried!”
40×40: Murders In The Rue Morgue (1932)
Directed by Robert Florey.
Continue reading “40×40: Murders In The Rue Morgue (1932)”“After the carnival last night, I performed an autopsy.”
40×40: The Mask Of Fu Manchu (1932)
Directed by Charles Brabin
Continue reading “40×40: The Mask Of Fu Manchu (1932)”“My friends, out of courtesy, call me Doctor.”
An Unkindness Of Ravens – Never Say Nevermore Again
A Special Feature by Dan Bean.
Whether you know much about Edgar Allan Poe’s work or not, there’s a decent chance you’re familiar with his poem The Raven – it was adapted in one of The Simpsons’ earliest Treehouse Of Horror episodes, and I reckon if anyone asked you to finish the line “Quoth the raven…”, you’d respond “Nevermore”… right?
But how do you adapt a poem about a man being distracted from his reading and mourning of his dead wife by a crow into a feature film? The answer is – you don’t.
Continue reading “An Unkindness Of Ravens – Never Say Nevermore Again”Films to be pleasantly surprised by…
I don’t know what’s worse when going into a film – a feeling of dread, or a feeling of apathy.
The majority of the films I watch, I watch because I want to, because I’m curious, or because they’ve been sitting on my shelf for a decade and it’s time to write about them.
But sometimes I’ll go into a film with little or no expectations, only to be completely wowed by a flick I wasn’t expecting to enjoy – those are the best kinds of cinematic experiences, right?
This is far from a comprehensive list, but here are a few of my recent favourites.
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