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If there’s one thing students of history agree on, it’s that there’s a lot of it. Seriously, do you know how many years there have been? By our count, just over two thousand. Plus there are six billion people alive on the planet right now, and those are just the living ones. How many have [...]
Posted by JF Sargent on Sunday, January 27, 2013 at 12:01 am
Filed under History · Tagged birth control, Christopher Columbus, Christopher Marlowe, Declaration of Independence, gandhi, Illuminati, lizzie borden, Mahatma Gandhi, Margaret Sanger, meteors, Ming, ming dynasty, New World, printing, printing press, Samuel Morse, Science fiction, sensationalism, Shakespeare, Sherlock Holmes, telescope, The Joker, volcano
The first commercially screened movie was Workers Leaving the Factory, and it was… workers leaving a factory. With competition like that, and in the notoriously repressive nature of Elizabethan times, you probably expect the early movies to all be dull and predictable. Don’t you believe it. In the days before censors, focus groups, or rules [...]
Posted by Dustin Koski on Thursday, October 27, 2011 at 12:01 am
Filed under Movies · Tagged Abel Gance, Boris Karloff, edison frankenstein, Edwardian era, Emile Cohl, execution of mary queen of scots, fantasmagorie, Fiction, film, Frankenstein, Frankenstein in popular culture, George Melies, Horror film, Incoherent Movement, jaccuse, Mary Queen, Mass media, model for future vampires, movie firsts, Night of the Living Dead, Nosferatu, Santa Claus, serpentine dance, Shaun of the Dead, Sherlock Holmes, sherlock holmes a game of shadows, Sherlock Holmes Baffled, The Temptation of St, the temptation of st anthony, The Widow Jones, Thomas Edison, Twilight, Victor Frankenstein, Victorian era, weird movie firsts
Ah, 1950s horror films… Part sci-fi flick. Part action-adventure. Part scary movie. 100% creepy! These movies are all true cinema classics and well worth watching. If you’re older than 35 like me, chances are you grew up watching re-runs of these movies on “pre-cable” television. (You know, back in the days when there were only [...]
Posted by Brian Douglas on Monday, February 14, 2011 at 12:01 am
Filed under Movies · Tagged 3-D, alien, amazon river, Army of Darkness, B movies, Coney Island Amusement Park, Creature from the Black Lagoon, Doomsday films, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Gill Man, Henry Baskerville, Henry Jarrod, House of Wax, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, invented teleportation device, Ivan Igor, Jack Deitz, Klaatu, Klaatu barada nikto, Kurt Neumann, Miles Bennell, Monster movies, orson welles, Paramount films, Peter Cushing, scientist, Sherlock Holmes, Steve McQueen, The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, The Black Lagoon, The Blob, The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Fly, The Glob, The Hound of the Baskervilles, the Oscar, The War of the Worlds, Them!, Tom Nesbitt, Top 10 Horror Films, Vincent Price, Warner Brothers
They use their cunning, and their expertise and courage to solve crimes. From quaint English spinsters to hard drinking gumshoes, we love the page turning tales of detectives. There is a mystery at the heart of each story. Here is a list of characters that have had an impact on our culture. 10. V.I. [...]
Posted by Anne Iredale on Tuesday, December 29, 2009 at 12:13 am
Filed under Literature · Tagged Agatha Christie, author, Books, Dashiell Hammett, Hercule Poirot, Humphrey Bogart, Kathleen Turner, Mickey Spillane, Mike Hammer, Miss Marple, Myrna Loy, Nancy Drew, Nick and Nora Charles, Philip Marlowe, Raymond Chandler, Sam Spade, Sara Paretsky, Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The BIg Sleep, The Hardy Boys, The Maltese Falcon, The Thin Man, V.I Warshawski, William Powell, writer
Every now and then everyone needs a helping hand, and that is the exact purpose for a sidekick. They are there to bail the “main man” out of trouble, provide a sounding board and a word of encouragement when things get tough. I think you will agree that all the sidekicks listed below provided support, [...]
Posted by Shell Harris on Tuesday, May 27, 2008 at 12:32 am
Filed under Humor, Television · Tagged Andy Griffith, Andy Griffith Show, Andy Taylor, Barney Rubble, Batman, captain kirk, Chewbacca, Deputy Barney Fife, Donkey, Dr. Watson, Ed McMahon, Ed Norton, Fred Flintstone, Frodo, Han Solo, Johnny Carson, lone ranger, Mr. Spock, Robin, Samwise, Sherlock Holmes, Shrek, sidekicks, Star Trek, Television, Tonto, top 10 list
