Movies Ye Olde Dragon Guest-Hosting #TCMParty!! draconicverses, May 28, 2024 Tune in TOMORROW NIGHT (May 28, 2024) when Yours Truly will return to host the #TCMParty for the first time in almost FIVE YEARS!! We’ll be watching, & posting about, JASON & THE ARGONAUTS (1963) – the classic stop motion film from the skilled hands & mind of the immortal… Continue Reading
Movies Ye Olde Dragon Reviews: The Valley of Gwangi on Blu-Ray from @WarnerArchives draconicverses, April 8, 2017 Greetings, Friends and Fiends! Ye Olde Dragon here with the promised follow-up to my Video Review of the Warner Archives Blu-Ray release of the Ray Harryhausen effects classic, Jim O’Connolly’s THE VALLEY OF GWANGI (1969)! I want to thank Warner Archives once more for sending me a copy to review,… Continue Reading
Movies Digital Den: @WarnerArchives Releases a Remastered Blu-Ray Edition of a Harryhausen Classic! draconicverses, March 15, 2017 Greetings, Friends & Fiends! Ye Old Dragon here with some cool news for fans of Dinosaur Movies! As most of you know, I am a HUGE Ray Harryhausen fan. I have most of his films on DVD, and even still a few hangers-on in VHS format. Several have been transferred… Continue Reading
Movies Prince Sirki Summons the Master of Stop-Motion draconicverses, May 7, 2013 Greetings my friends. It is with a very heavy heart that I write today’s column. No doubt, many of you have heard by now of the passing of the wizard of stop-motion – or as he dubbed it, DYNAMATION – Ray Harryhausen. I had the privilege of briefly making his… Continue Reading
Movies Happy 59th Anniversary, BEAST FROM 20,000 FATHOMS! draconicverses, June 13, 2012 Greetings friends! Ye Olde Dragon here, reminiscing about one of my all time fave films, THE BEAST FROM 20,000 FATHOMS. The creation of special effects legend Ray Harryhausen was relased on this day back in 1953. Today it is still regarded as a classic monster film. Very basic story: H-Bomb… Continue Reading
Movies Happy Anniversary, PERSEUS! draconicverses, June 12, 2012 Wow. Can it really be THIRTY-ONE years since the release of CLASH OF THE TITANS (1981)? Yes. Yes, it is. I saw it in a theatre, before the advent of the multiplex. As a callow youth of seventeen, I knew that the effects were by the same guy that did… 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
The Dragon Remembers... Sirki’s Summons: January 21: A Producer of Myths and Monsters draconicverses, January 21, 2012 Welcome to the first Summons of 2012. First off, a new header. Please let me know if you like the new one, or prefer the old logo. Thanks. Greetings from beyond the veil. It was just 3 years ago on this date in 2009, that Prince Sirki summoned a man… Continue Reading
Movies HAPPY 48th, JASON & THE ARGONAUTS! draconicverses, August 15, 2011 August 15, 1963 – Special effects wizard Ray Harryhausen and his co-producer Charles Schneer released what would come to be known as a masterpiece – JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS. Since its release nearly 50 years ago, this film has been the inspiration for many of today’s film makers from John… Continue Reading