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 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 Anniversary to THE LOST WORLD (1925) draconicverses, June 22, 2012 Today is a very special anniversary in the world of Imagi-Movies. It can be said that it was the day the Monster Movie was born. Not ‘Horror Movie’, as that was (technically) created by none other than Thomas Edison with his production of J. Searle Dawley’s FRANKENSTEIN (1910), and refined… 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
Movies Sirki’s Summons – November 10: Father of Kong, Farewell* draconicverses, November 10, 2011 Forty-nine years ago, Prince Sirki called to the man who made King Kong move into movie history – Willis O’Brien. O’Brien was a master of stop-motion animation, who was the first to bring dinosaurs and other large creatures to ‘life’ on-screen. O’Brien first came to prominence with the silent film… Continue Reading