On This Day In Movie History, 11.11.12 November 13, 1921: After gaining fame in The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Italian-born leading man Rudolph Valentino mesmerizes female filmgoers as The Sheik. November 15, 1935: The Marx Brothers’ first feature for…
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The James Bond Bad Guys Will Return
Guest blogger Blair Kramer writes: Here’s the nitty gritty on GoldenEye: The laser satellite from Diamonds Are Forever was dusted off, a modern sheen was added, and the ancient 1970s script was brought before the cameras once again in…
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November 13, 1921: After gaining fame in The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Italian-born leading man Rudolph Valentino mesmerizes female filmgoers as The Sheik. November 19, 1924: Mystery surrounds the death of director Thomas H. Ince. Rumors suggest he was…
Read more →Nobody Does Bond Better, 006: A Craig-Like Face
For a moment Bond looked up into two glittering eyes behind a narrow black mask. There was the impression of a crag-like face under a hat-brim, the collar of a fawn mackintosh. He could take in nothing more before his…
Read more →Nobody Does Bond Better, 005: Pierced Through the Heart
After numerous false starts and (failed) attempts to maintain the hoity-toity façade of arguing “nobody does Bond better” for this current entry, I have decided to take a somewhat different approach this time out. Many readers announcing themselves as genuine…
Read more →Nobody Does Bond Better, 004: The Dangerous Timothy Dalton
Timothy Dalton’s unlikely route to Universal Exports was full of twists and turns. He originally turned down the chance to replace Sean Connery for On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, and was later approached for a second time to replace not Connery…
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