The year is 1912. Adèle Blanc-Sec, an intrepid young reporter, will go to any lengths to achieve her aims, including sailing to Egypt to tackle mummies of all shapes and sizes. Meanwhile, in Paris, it’s panic stations! A 136 million-year old pterodactyl egg on a shelf in the natural history m[...]
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March 22nd, 2010 - 5:05 am § in Movies
Luc Besson’s “Les Aventures Extraordinaires d’Adele Blanc-Sec”
March 18th, 2010 - 6:00 am § in Movies, Technology
Thomas Edison’s 1910 film “Frankenstein” Coming to DVD
This Thursday marks the 100th anniversary of Thomas Edison’s ground-breaking Frankenstein movie, and it’s finally coming out on DVD in a restored print. Frankenstein’s actors were paid $5 a day and hid the fact that they were slumming in movies. The restored DVD print of the first [...]
The Young Victoria (2009)
This film has been on my radar for quite some time, and believe me, if The Young Victoria failed to receive a U.S. release date, movie studios would have been on the receiving end of many tersely-worded emails! Thankfully, for my health’s sake and the sake of Homeland Security, The Young Victo[...]
August 29th, 2009 - 12:27 am § in Movies
Film Alert: Dorian Gray (2009)
From wikipedia: The novel tells of a young man named Dorian Gray, the subject of a painting by artist Basil Hallward. Basil is impressed by Dorian’s beauty and becomes infatuated with him, believing his beauty is responsible for a new mode in his art. Talking in Basil’s garden, Dorian me[...]
September 15th, 2008 - 7:15 pm § in Movies
Pre-Order “The Edwardians” today!
The BBC aired this mini-series in 1972, PBS’s Masterpiece Theater broadcasting it three years later, The Edwardians was a series of plays set during the reign of Edward VII, between 1901 and 1910 focusing on its most famous protagonists. According to the BFI, the episodes featured: David Lloyd[...]
