Move over Rhona Mitra, Kate Beckinsale and Uma Thurman – sexy, tough and awe inspiring to watch in action, it’s Milla Jovovich . Don’t expect more of this movie than what it is. Special effects and fight choreography were outstanding. The CGI? Well, we can’t have everything. Ultraviolet is the story [...]
1983′s Krull is a story about a young prince who battles aliens and sorcerers to rescue his princess from the Beast on the fantastic planet Krull. The glaive, the Beast, his minions, and the Dark Fortress, Rell’s foreseen, but noble sacrifice, and Widow of the Web…. I remember this one from the theater. [...]
Highlights of this day in history: Martin Luther King, Jr. gives his ‘I Have a Dream’ speech; Clashes mar the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago; Britain’s Prince Charles and Princess Diana granted a divorce. (Aug. 28)
Highlights of this day in history: Soviet coup against Mikhail Gorbachev fails; Exiled revolutionary Leon Trotsky murdered in Mexico; Nat Turner leads a slave rebellion; U.S. flag gets 50th star; Count Basie and singer Kenny Rogers born. (Aug. 21). Count Basie born. Kenny Rogers born in Houston.
D.O.A. (1950), a film noir drama film directed by Rudolph Mata, is considered a classic of the genre. The frantically-paced plot revolves around a doomed man’s quest to find out who has poisoned him – and why – before he dies.
Leo C. Popkin produced the film for his short-lived Cardinal Pictures, but failed to renew [...]
Highlights of this day in history: U.S. cruise missiles hit Afghanistan and Sudan after American embassies bombed in Africa; The Soviet Union invades Czechoslovakia; NASA’s Voyager 2 launched; Singers Issac Hayes and Robert Plant born. (Aug. 20)
Genghis Khan dies in 1227. The 19th amendment is passed giving women the right to vote. James Meredith is the first black person to graduate the University of Mississippi in 1968. 1958. Lolita is publishing the US. Baseball player Roberto Clemente is born in 1934. In 1937, Robert Redford is born in Santa Monica.
Highlights of this day in history: Allies mark VJ-Day as World War II effectively ends; Woodstock begins; France’s Napoleon Bonaparte born; India gains independence; Blast hits Omagh, N. Ireland; ‘The Wizard of Oz’ premieres in Hollywood. (Aug. 15)
George Milton (Gary Sinise) is in a train boxcar, reminiscing upon the events that have just happened. He thinks back to when he and his companion Lennie Small (John Malkovich) are fleeing from their previous employment in Weed. They were run out of town after Lennie was accused of attempted rape when he touched a [...]
The Terror is a 1963 American horror film produced by Roger Corman, starring Boris Karloff and Jack Nicholson. A young officer in Napoleon’s army pursues a mysterious woman to the castle of an elderly Baron where he discovers that she is the pawn of an old witch bent on driving the Baron to suicide. The [...]
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