movies

  • Ever since I was a kid I loved watching Laurel & Hardy movies and I believe I have them all in my collection. The humour in their films has remained fresh till today and they never dated. But it is only since recently I started to appreciate that some of their movies had very advanced…

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  • The Wilhelm Scream

    What do the movies. Star Wars-The Empire Strikes Back,Toy Story 3,Juno,Where Eagles Dare and Distant Drums(and a few hundred more) have in common? It’s not the cast or screenplay or even the studio but there are 2 seconds in all these movies which are identical. Those 2 seconds are called “The Wilhelm Scream” which is a…

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  • Nazis and Cinema

    Ever since its inception , the media of  film has been a perfect tool to inform the masses be it in an entertaining way or in a more sinister manner. It was and still is the perfect way to distribute propaganda material en mass, although in more recent  years social media has taken over that…

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  • I am not going to say that every movie sequel is bad, because there are some good ones out there. However in general most sequels are really money making vehicles especially when they are following a very successful movie. I could easily fill this page with hundreds of bad sequels but I am limiting it…

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  • This is more of a personal blog then factual although the facts are real, but when I say personal it is more a matter of taste. In 1978 Michael Cimino directed the classic movie “the Deer Hunter” Even though I was only 10 at the time I did recognize it to be a genuine masterpiece…

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  • The forgotten James Bond

    Everyone knows there have been 7 actors who played the illusive 007. Sean Connery,Roger Moore,George Lazenby,Timothy Dalton,Pierce Brosnan,Daniel Craig and David Niven(who played Bond in the parody Casino Royale) And when you exclude the parody Casino Royale there have been 24 movies and number 25 due out in the cinemas in April 2020. Well on…

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  • Who doesn’t remember the iconic car from Back to the Future? Or should I perhaps say the ironic car from Back to the Future,because although it couldn’t have  hoped for a better marketing tool then the movie franchise, the DeLorean DMC-12 completely failed. Despite it’s ultra-cool appearance  not many people actually bought a DeLorean car. They were…

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  • It is a well known fact that the  North Korean dictator Kim Jong -Un has “issues” (to keep it PC). But this has been running in the family for generations. In the late 1960s, Kim Jong-il, heir to the North Korean dictatorship at the time, became interested in making propaganda films. Kim was already deeply…

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  • In a galaxy far far away.

    Well actually it was not that far far away. It was actually on this planet all along. These are just some “behind the scene” images of Star wars. The above picture is lunch time on set. Filming Star Wars inside of the iconic “Millennium Falcon” spacecraft. Would you care for a dance your higness Getting…

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  • Harry Baur (12 April 1880 as Henri-Marie Baur in Montrouge, Hauts-de-Seine – 8 April 1943 in Paris) was a French actor.. Thanks to his impressive performance and his melodic voice he became one of the most important French actors of his time. His father died in 1890 when his business was left ruined  after a…

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