Middle-Earth Ultimate Collector’s Edition Directed by Peter Jackson. Starring Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Liv Tyler, Viggo Mortensen, Sean Astin, Cate Blanchett, John Rhys-Davies, Christopher Lee, Billy Boyd, Dominic Monaghan, Orlando Bloom, Hugo Weaving, Andy Serkis, Sean Bean, Martin Freeman, Richard Armitage, Benedict Cumberbatch, Evangeline Lilly, Lee Pace, Luke Evans, James Nesbitt, Ken Stott, Stephen Fry, […]
The B to Z of Movies: How B Movies Ruled the Cinema
In this short series of features, Tom Jolliffe will look at the humble B Movie and everything below. From the golden period of B cinema, to the rise in popularity of the B picture, to the underground mavericks making films on a shoe string from the 50’s right up to the present. To begin with, […]
Hammer classics The Mummy and Frankenstein and The Monster From Hell receiving new limited edition Blu-ray releases
Second Sight Films has announced the Peter Cushing-starring Hammer Horror classics The Mummy and Frankenstein and The Monster From Hell are set for special limited edition Blu-ray releases in the UK this August; check out the details here… In 1890s Egypt, a team of British archaeologists, John Banning (Peter Cushing), his father Stephen Banning […]
Countdown to No Time To Die: The Top 10 Bond Villains
Chris Gelderd on the top ten James Bond villains… The James Bond series in both book and film introduced villains that would become household names and echo through popular culture decades later. The villains of the Bond universe are unlike anyone audiences have seen or read about before. They have evil plans that are bafflingly […]
Hot Toys’ Star Wars: Episode II: Attack of the Clones Count Dooku collectible figure revealed
Hot Toys has released a batch of promotional images for its 1/6th scale Count Dooku collectible figure which is based on the likeness of Christopher Lee as the Sith Lord Darth Sidious in Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones; take a look here… SUPPORT FLICKERING MYTH: Order via Sideshow Collectibles “I have become […]
October Horrors 2019 Day 15 – The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)
The Curse of Frankenstein, 1957. Directed by Terence Fisher. Starring Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Hazel Court, and Robert Urquhart. SYNOPSIS: Baron Victor Frankenstein is a burgeoning mad doctor who decides to embark upon a dangerous and controversial experiment, building a creature from the remains of the dead in the hopes of creating a new life. […]
Blu-ray Review – Broken Flowers (2005)
Broken Flowers, 2005. Directed by Jim Jarmusch. Starring Bill Murray, Christopher Lee, Sharon Stone, Jessica Lange, Jeffrey Wright, Tilda Swinton, Julie Delpy, Frances Conroy, Christopher McDonald, Chloe Sevigny, Larry Fessenden. SYNOPSIS: As the extremely withdrawn Don Johnston is dumped by his latest woman, he receives an anonymous letter from a former lover informing him that […]
Horror Rewind – The Wicker Man (1973)
The Wicker Man, 1973 Directed by Robin Hardy Starring Edward Woodward, Britt Ekland, Diane Cilento, Ingrid Pitt and Christopher Lee SYNOPSIS: Police Sergeant Howie arrives on the small Scottish island of Summerisle to investigate the alleged disappearance of a 12-year-old girl. However, despite Howie’s inquiries, it seems that either no one on the island knows […]
October Horrors 2018 Day 8 – Dracula (1958)
Dracula (a.k.a. Horror of Dracula), 1958. Directed by Terence Fisher. Starring Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Michael Gough, Melissa Stribling, and Carol Marsh. SYNOPSIS: After his friend Jonathan Harker goes missing, vampire hunter Dr Van Helsing finds himself locked into a battle against his murderer, the centuries-old vampire known as Count Dracula. To say that Bram Stoker’s […]
Blu-ray Review – Howling II: Your Sister is a Werewolf (1985)
Howling II: Your Sister is a Werewolf, 1985. Directed by Philippe Mora. Starring Christopher Lee, Sybil Danning, Annie McEnroe, Marsha J. Hunt, Reb Brown, Jimmy Nail, Ladislav Krecmer, James M. Crawford and Hana Ludvikova. SYNOPSIS: The brother of a girl murdered by werewolves hires an investigator to track the beasts from the US across to […]
