IMAGI-MOVIES ON TCM, MAY, 2024 draconicverses, May 2, 2024 Greetings, Friends, Fiends, & #TCMParty goers! I’m back! I’m taking time off from making videos/streaming until August, due to prepping for the family’s big move, so I figured I’d do some posting here on my admittedly oft-neglected blog. What better way than to revive one of my more popular regular… Continue Reading
Japanese Monster Movies Happy Birthday Mechani-Kong draconicverses, July 22, 2012 Today marks the 45th anniversary of the release of Ishiro Honda’s KINGU KONGU NO GYAKUSHU (1967). It would be released 11 months later in the USA as KING KONG ESCAPES (1968). Co-produced by Rankin-Bass, it’s a loose adaptation of the cult classic KING KING SHOW cartoon series, produced by Rankin-Bass… Continue Reading
Movies Happy Ant-iversary, THEM! draconicverses, June 17, 2012 Greetings Friends, Ye Olde Dragon here once again with a blast from Ye Olde Past! It was 58 years ago today that Edmund Gwenn, James Arness & James Whitmore faced off against giant, carnivorous ants, mutated by the first nuclear test blasts at Alamogordo. Of course, I’m talking about THEM!… 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
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
Japanese Monster Movies Happy Birthday, GAMERA Vs. GYAOS (1967) draconicverses, March 15, 2012 Forty five years ago today, saw the release of the third entry in Daiei’s Showa Era Gamera series, Daikaiju Kuchusen: Gamera Tai Gyaosu (Giant Monster Mid-Air Battle: Gamera Vs. Gaos) or, as it was released on TV in the US, RETURN OF THE GIANT MONSTERS. This AIP version is what… Continue Reading
Movies Happy Anniversary, FORBIDDEN PLANET draconicverses, March 15, 2012 It’s been called a masterpiece. It’s been called a seminal title of Science Fiction films. It’s said to have defined a genre to come. Fifty six years ago today, audiences were thrilled as they were introduced to Robby the Robot and the world of Altaire 4, otherwise known as The… Continue Reading
Movies Happy Birthday METROPOLIS! draconicverses, January 10, 2012 IT was an amazing EIGHTY-SIX years ago that Fritz Lang unleashed his masterpiece, METROPOLIS (1926) upon the world and film was never the same again. Continue Reading
Movies Sirki’s Summons – November 13: Let’s Get Technical draconicverses, November 13, 2011 Greetings from beyond the veil. Today we’re more behind the camera as opposed to those in front of it. Maury Gertsman was a senior Cinematographer with Universal. The first major work he put his mark on was JUNGLE CAPTIVE (1945) He also lensed the final two Rathbone Sherlock Holmes films… Continue Reading