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
Sirki’s Summons – May 26: The Reluctant Director of Monsters draconicverses, May 26, 2012 Greetings from beyond The Veil, my friends. It was 21 years ago today that Prince Sirki paid a call to the Director of such classic giant monster films as THE BEAST FROM 20,000 FATHOMS (1953), THE GIANT BEHEMOTH (1959) and GORGO (1961). Eugene Lourie had started out as a production… 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
The Dragon Remembers... Sirki’s Summons – May 20: The Third Doctor draconicverses, May 20, 2012 Greetings from beyond the veil, and beyond time, this err..time around. It was sixteen years ago today that Prince Sirki did what The Master, The Daleks, The Cybermen & The Autons couldn’t do – he defeated the Third Doctor, the Timelord from Gallifrey. That was the day that Jon Pertwee… 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
Dracomics Sirki’s Summons – May 1: Hercules & Captain Marvel draconicverses, May 1, 2012 Greetings from beyond the veil, Effendi. Or maybe the Rock of Eternity might be more appropriate for this entry. It was upon this date that Prince Sirki did summon forth two great heroes of the silver screen. In 2000, the man who became synonymous with his portrayal of mythic hero… 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
Sirki’s Summons – April 23: The Doctor, Flash Gordon & Mr. Freeze draconicverses, April 23, 2012 Greetings from beyond the veil, Effendi! This was a busy date for the Prince in past years. Next year, DOCTOR WHO, a cultural phenomenon, will celebrate its fiftieth anniversary. For the first four years, the Doctor was played by veteran character actor William Hartnell. It was during Hartnell’s incarnation that… Continue Reading
News Prince Sirki Summons Barnabas Collins draconicverses, April 19, 2012 Weeks before a lavish feature film version is set to be unleashed upon the world, the first actor to play the central figure of the classic Gothic soap opera DARK SHADOWS, vampire Barnabas Collins – Jonathan Frid – has died at age 87. Though it just broached the news earlier… 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