Movies Happy Birthday, Metaluna! draconicverses, June 1, 2012 June, 1955: A month where Mickey Mantle hit his 100th home run; Bill Haley & the Comets hit #1 with Rock Around the Clock; Disney released LADY & THE TRAMP; Pres. Eisenhower became the 1st U.S. President to appear on color TV; and audiences thrilled to the (now) Science-Fiction classic,… Continue Reading
Movies Happy Birthday Star Wars! draconicverses, May 25, 2012 Can it be? Can it really be that 35 years ago today, before the crap piled onto the legend, before it became ‘Chapter 4: A New Hope”, a little movie called STAR WARS was first released. Science Fiction films would NEVER be the same again. There’s prety much nothing else… Continue Reading
Movies Happy Anniversary, ATLANTIS! draconicverses, May 3, 2012 It was 49 years ago today, that George Pal’s epic, ATLANTIS, THE LOST CONTINENT (1961) was released. I’ve already talked about this one on my first Movie of the Day post here on Draconic Verse. It’s also currently available from Warner Archives and my long-overdue DVD review will be up… Continue Reading
Movies Happy Birthday, Hand of Death (1962) draconicverses, May 1, 2012 It was fifty years ago today that THE HAND OF DEATH (1962) (aka FIVE FINGERS OF DEATH) – NEITHER title related to martial arts films of the same names – was released. It’s the story of a scientist (John Agar) who works on a nerve gas & a serum/antidote and… Continue Reading
Movies Happy Birthday, KONG! draconicverses, April 7, 2012 This is the anniversary of a very special film. It was 79 years ago today, that the world of cinema was forever changed with the release of a film that would influence many generations of film makers to come – KING KONG (1933). The tale of Merian C. Cooper’s giant… Continue Reading
Japanese Monster Movies Happy Birthday, Mechagodzilla (Mk 1) & King Seesar! draconicverses, March 21, 2012 Wow. THIRTY EIGHT years ago today, the world was first introduced to the very first Mechagodzilla, as Toho released GOJIRA TAI MEKAGOJIRA (1974). It would be released thre years later in the US as GODZILLA VS THE BIONIC MONSTER (1977). That didn’t go over terribly well with Universal, because of… Continue Reading
Japanese Monster Movies Happy Birthday, GORATH! draconicverses, March 21, 2012 Here’s a BIG anniversary! It was 50 years ago today, that YOSEI GORASU (1962) was released in Japanese theatres. It would see release in the US as GORATH two years later, in May, 1964. This was Ishiro Honda’s third space opera, following BATTLE IN OUTER SPACE (1959) and THE MYSTERIANS… Continue Reading
Japanese Monster Movies Happy Birthday X2 to Gamera (YET AGAIN!!) draconicverses, March 21, 2012 Hot on the heels of YESTERDAY’S double anniversary for Gamera movies, comes TODAY’S double anniversary. I guess Daiei had a thing about release dates. At any rate, today marks the 43rd anniversary of GAMERA TAI DAI KAIJU GIRON (1969) (Gamera vs. Guiron) being released to Japanese theatres. It would be… Continue Reading
Japanese Monster Movies Happy Birthday X2 to Gamera! draconicverses, March 20, 2012 Greetings, Kaiju-fans. Today marks a unique anniversary for the original mutant turtle, Gamera. Back in 1968, Japanese audiences were introduced to the tentacled space villain Viras, in GAMERA TAI UCHU KAIJU BAIRASU (Gamera vs Space Monster Biras) which US TV audiences would see as DESTROY ALL PLANETS a few years… Continue Reading
Movies Happy Birthday, Dr. Lao! draconicverses, March 18, 2012 It was 48 years ago today that George Pal introduced Audiences to the mysteries of the 7 FACES OF DR. LAO (1964). I’m not going to go into details, as I’ve already covered the good Doctor twice now, including my review of the Warner Archive re-release of the DVD. I’ll… Continue Reading