On December 22nd, 1932, Universal Studios premiered The Mummy starring Boris Karloff and a cast which included Zita Johann, David Manners, and Edward Van Sloan (also of Frankenstein). Directed by Karl Freund who not only made his directorial debut but had cut his teeth as cinematographer to the great Fritz Lang on the classic science-fiction movie Metropolis, the screenplay Read More …
Because someone posted this to YouTube a few days ago. Here’s hoping it stays up for a while.
When it’s early May and you’re remembering the wonders of Gladiator and in anticipation of the coming of yet another The Mummy, it was easy to forget that on May 7th of 1999, there was yet another mummy movie from Universal Studios. However, unlike its’ 2017 successor, it was not considered some ‘tent pole’ for a Dark Read More …
At least in the United States, it’s released today. So will YOU be going opening weekend? Your Keeper has been seeing a somewhat new commercial, new only in that we hear Russell Crowe’s voice right at the beginning of it. It’ll be interesting to see if the movie can hold its’ own against the juggernaut Read More …
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 …
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 …
Per Tom Cruise’s own Twitter feed, this is it:
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 …
First, we have Nick Fury, one-time director of the government agency known as S.H.I.E.L.D. And we have Samuel (get those m***** f****** snakes off my m***** f***** plane) L. Jackson as he was seen as Fury in Captain America: Winter Soldier. On the right, we have Russell Crowe as Doctor Henry Jekyll, the head of a Read More …
This contains several of the trailers combined into one, including the most recent with the Dr. Jekyll reveal lots of people are talking about. In reading some of the most current YouTube comments, moviegoers who were ho-hum about the movie a week or two ago, are saying Russell Crowe’s Jekyll and Hyde may get them Read More …