The disaster movie genre has been a captivating and enthralling part of the film industry since almost the very beginning, with stories showcasing epic and catastrophic events that endanger humanity and its surroundings; whether it be natural calamities like earthquakes, tornadoes and volcanic eruptions or man-made catastrophes, such as nuclear accidents and aircraft disasters, not…
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The Giant Worlds of Bert I. Gordon
The Auteur Theory deals with filmmaking in which the director is viewed as the major creative force in a motion picture, a field that would include such luminaries as Martin Scorsese, Wes Anderson, and Dario Argento, but when discussing the Auteur Theory very few critics look to the B-movies and the many talented filmmakers who…
Universal Classic Monsters: A Cinematic World of Horror
With Marvel and DC comics continuing to duke it out as to who can create the biggest cinematic universe one almost forgets that back in the 1930s Universal Pictures unknowingly launched their own franchise with their adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, long before the idea of a cinematic universe even existed.
The Silent Masterpieces of Fritz Lang (1919-1929)
When one looks at the more than five decades of films that make up the career of Fritz Lang it’s hard to think of any other filmmaker who has accomplished so much and influenced so many, becoming a legend in his home Weimar Germany and then later in Hollywood, and though when the name “Fritz…
Ray Harryhausen: The Titan of Special Effects
Today with but a few keystrokes on a computer you can conjurer up anything that the mind could possibly imagine yet many of these modern creations pale in comparison to the practical special effects orchestrated decades earlier by a talented group of effects artists who pioneered the field of special effects, and the king of…