Archive for March, 2008
Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
El Orfanato (The Orphanage)
Watching El Orfanato right after Juno is a peculiar thing: the scene with the blueberry pie (as normal as it could’ve been intended) gives you quite an awkward feeling. And not the sort of awkwardness the horror movie El Orfanato wanted to you to get.
The two biggest misconceptions about The Orphanage (to use its English [...]
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Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon
Welcome to part two of this Sherlock Holmes double bill. Part one was a classic adaptation of the Arthur Conan Doyle stories, part two not. Tonight: Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon.
Before joining director Neill on the set of Frankenstein Meets The Wolf Man as the Mayor, Lionel Atwill played the archrival of Sherlock [...]
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Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
Holmes double bill: Terror By Night
So many actors have played Sherlock Holmes, but to most people Basil Rathbone is the ultimate Holmes. Between 1939 and 1946 Rathbone portrayed Holmes in no less than 15 movies. Even more interesting, during the Rathbone era World War II took place, something that got reflected in the Holmes movies. Whereas some movies were set [...]
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Sunday, March 9th, 2008
Kilink In Istanbul (Kilink in Istanbul’da)
Why are some evil people opening a coffin and giving some serum to a dead body? Because they’re evil and they want to revive the corpse, none other than evil mastermind Kilink. Blimey, it works too! Kilink needs only one second of life before he wants to get his hands on a secret formula, because [...]
