Archive for August, 2006

Sunday, August 20th, 2006

The Pocket Essential Guide to Horror Films

Writing an essential book on someone’s work isn’t easy, so you can expect how hellish it must have been to write an essential guide to horror films. Oh, and could you do that in 95 pages? Michelle Le Blanc and Colin Odell did it.
Such a work is bound to be incomplete: how can you compile [...]

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Friday, August 18th, 2006

Orca: Killer Whale (1977)

PRE-REVIEW INTRODUCTION (a.k.a. rant)
This weekend I got a letter from someone who said she liked my reviews over at the IMDb. I’d considered never posting there again because of their new system where you can vote whether you think a comment is useful or not.
I don’t mind criticism, but that system is so stupid… I’ve [...]

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Thursday, August 17th, 2006

Mabuse nights on German television

Sprechen Sie Deutsch?
If so, it might be a good idea to tune in to ZDF on Saturday nights because the second German channel will show the entire series of Mabuse films in two nights.
Doctor Mabuse was an evil mastermind, concocted by director Fritz Lang and Thea von Harbou in 1922 (though based on a novel [...]

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