Month: May 2017
Twenty Years Ago Today…” In the world of magic, the hand is quicker than the eye and love is the wild card.”
On May 30th, nearly two years following its’ release in France, the Russell Crowe-Bridget Fonda comedy vehicle Rough Magic was released in the United States on twenty-eight screens. Directed by Clare Peploe with a screenplay by Peploe, Robert Mundi (or Mundy) and William Brookfield, the movie is loosely based on the novel, Miss Shumway Waves a Wand, Read More …
Jekyll and Hyde and Elmer and Kirk and Cooper and Baywatch – A Look At ‘The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde’ Thru the Years
I had to laugh. I started researching the various actors who have played Robert Louis Stevenson’s titular characters, and the following appeared before anything else: We have from left to right Mark Ruffalo, Lou Ferrigno, Edward Norton, Eric Bana and Bill Bixby. No, they haven’t played Jekyll or Hyde as far as I know, but Read More …
The Dark Universe Begins!
As the United States release date for The Mummy fast approaches, we are beginning to see more about Universal Studio’s plans for their Dark Universe, which is supposed to resurrect – so to speak – their classic monsters of the Golden Age. There’s a lot of speculation going on (figures), and of course, I’m wondering how many Read More …
Playing Nice – More of The Nice Guys
First, pretend you’re back in the Seventies. I know – creepy, right? Anyway, pretend you’re back in the Seventies. You’re at your local theater. Maybe you’re setting in to watch Jaws or Star Wars or The Exorcist, and all of a sudden, this trailer pops up right after you come back to your seat with the popcorn. Pretty good Read More …
Twenty-Three Later!
Twenty-three years following the release of a little Australian movie Love in Limbo, Academy Award winner (and the now much better known) Russell Crowe appeared opposite Ryan Gosling (The Notebook) in Warner Brothers’ The Nice Guys, a comedy-action flick directed by Shane Black. The movie also reunited Crowe with his Oscar-winning co-star Kim Basinger, the two having appeared Read More …
May 20th 1993
On this date, the movie Love in Limbo had its’ Australian debut. IMDB describes it as: 1950’s. Gawky teenager Ken Riddle has a wealth of sexual knowledge, but has yet to lose his virginity. Ken is forced to join the workforce after he’s thrown out of school for selling explicit drawings to students. At work Ken befriends Read More …
Third and Final Trailer for The Mummy
Per Tom Cruise’s own Twitter feed, this is it:
Gaslight Historic Date: May 18th
On this date in 1804, Napoleon Bonaparte declared himself Emperor of France, also announcing his wife, Josephine would become his Empress. The coronation would not be conducted until December of the same year.
To a New World…
With the release of the new The Mummy trailer, Russell Crowe’s Doctor Jekyll utters one of the greatest lines in the annals of monster movie history. https://youtu.be/9qG-E7jnxvg?t=1m57s In 1935, James Whale directed what is – to your Keeper, a bit of a rarity, that is, a sequel which was greater than or equal to the Read More …