Today is Christopher Lee’s 100th birthday. To celebrate the occasion I thought I’d share some recent digital art I created inspired by one of my favorite films, The Wicker Man (1973). I turne...
https://cinebeats.wordpress.com/2022/05/27/dont-keep-the-wicker-man-waiting/
I have a soft spot for just about every film version of A Christmas Carol. This is partially due to the fact that one of my first and last acting roles was in a stage adaptation of Charles Dicken...
https://cinebeats.wordpress.com/2021/12/20/the-ghost-of-christmas-yet-to-come/
“And there’s another country, I’ve heard of long ago, Most dear to them that love her, most great to them that know; We may not count her armies, we may not see her King; Her fortress is a ...
https://cinebeats.wordpress.com/2021/06/02/spies-among-us-another-country-1984/
“This world is the nurse of all we know, This world is the mother of all we feel, And the coming of death is a fearful blow To a brain unencompass’d by nerves of steel: When all that we know,...
https://cinebeats.wordpress.com/2021/01/04/remembering-barbara-shelley-1932-2020/
Susan Denberg (aka Dietlinde Ortrun Zechner) was blond, beautiful, and unapologetically curvaceous. A German-Austrian Kim Novak look-alike with strong sex appeal and an endearing screen presence....
https://cinebeats.wordpress.com/2020/10/31/frankenstein-created-susan-denberg/
Since director Michael Reeves’s unfortunate death in 1969 at the age of 25 his life has become the stuff of cinematic legend. His reputation as a sort of Byronic hero who challenged the British...
https://cinebeats.wordpress.com/2020/10/27/mind-over-matter-the-sorcerers-1967/
Today Sterling Hayden is best remembered by film lovers for his memorable roles in a number of classic noirs and westerns that air on TCM regularly as well as subsequent standout parts in Kub...
https://cinebeats.wordpress.com/2020/10/21/pastoral-suspense-deadly-strangers-1975/
On its fog-shrouded surface, Kevin Billington’s VOICES (1973) is an unusual supernatural thriller involving ghosts and a haunted house but if you take the time to look beyond its spooky exter...
https://cinebeats.wordpress.com/2020/10/18/the-voices-of-terror-twisting-two-minds/
Are human beings inherently cruel or do we learn cruelty by example? Does our genetic makeup dictate our personalities at birth or are we shaped by numerous circumstances including our environmen...
https://cinebeats.wordpress.com/2020/10/17/authority-is-the-child-of-obedience/
“Though I wait for thee a thousand years, through waiting will I love thee yet the more. And though I fill an ocean with my tears, my joy will thus be greater than before. And this my prayer fo...
https://cinebeats.wordpress.com/2020/10/14/something-is-always-left-behind-a-place-of-ones-own-1945/
Hammer Films produced four Mummy movies between 1959 and 1971 and one of my favorites is Seth Holt’s BLOOD FROM THE MUMMY’S TOMB (1971). This unabashedly sexy horror extravaganza was the ...
https://cinebeats.wordpress.com/2020/10/07/mummy-dearest-blood-from-the-mummys-tomb-1971/
Nothing But the Night (1972) opens with a series of puzzling homicides. Each one is meant to look like an accident or suicide but in the tradition of Italian giallo thrillers, the murders are car...
https://cinebeats.wordpress.com/2020/10/04/paranormal-police-procedural-nothing-but-the-night-1972/
Sean Connery is celebrating his 81st birthday today so I thought it would be a great time to share my appreciation for his terrific performance in Basil Dearden’s entertaining thriller, WOMAN O...
https://cinebeats.wordpress.com/2020/08/25/woman-of-straw-1964/
A beautiful young woman named Sapphire (Yvonne Buckingham) has been murdered. Her bloodied corpse was found in London’s Hampstead Heath park and a seasoned detective (Nigel Patrick), along with...
https://cinebeats.wordpress.com/2020/06/19/bigotry-bloodshed-sapphire-1959/
On Sunday many will be glued to their television sets watching the annual Oscar ceremony unfold. At this time of year I tend to contemplate all the new releases I’ve seen in the past 12 months ...
https://cinebeats.wordpress.com/2020/06/19/the-brutal-truth-found-in-12-years-a-slave-2013/