The Stop Button Posted by on September 24, 2019

This episode tells a loser’s story. He played the game of thrones and he lost. The loser in question is Humphrey Stafford; real guy, wikipedia page and everything, played by Maurice Roëves. Roëves is awesome. He also gets to give more personality to Stafford than anyone else in the episode...   read more

The Stop Button Posted by on September 24, 2019

This episode tells a loser’s story. He played the game of thrones and he lost. The loser in question is Humphrey Stafford; real guy, wikipedia page and everything, played by Maurice Roëves. Roëves is awesome. He also gets to give more personality to Stafford than anyone else in the episode...   read more

Cinematic Catharsis Posted by Barry P. on June 14, 2019

(1974) Directed by Kevin Connor; Written by James Cawthorn and Michael Moorcock; Based on the novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs; Starring: Doug McClure, John McEnery, Susan Penhaligon, Keith Barron, Anthony Ainley and Bobby Parr; Available on Blu-ray and DVD (Out of print). Rating: ***   read more

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on January 28, 2018

The year is 1916. Somewhere in the Pacific Ocean, a German U-boat torpedoes a supply ship and captures its survivors. Among these survivors is Bowen Tyler ( Doug McClure ) who, with a few other surviving crew members, manages to take command of the vessel. However, he soon becomes allies...   read more

Classic Movies Posted by KC on March 4, 2015

At the turn of the twentieth century, photographer Edward S. Curtis made his name documenting Native Americans, striving to preserve memories of a culture that he saw slipping away. Feeling these static images were not enough to capture the richness of native life, he turned to the new medium of...   read more

Backlots Posted by Lara on June 1, 2014

Owing to a long day of movies yesterday plus a 2 AM blog post, followed by a 4 AM wake up call by my yowling cat and my actual alarm at 7, suffice it to say that I went into today’s movies feeling massively sleep-deprived. Fueled only by my enthusiasm (and...   read more

Pretty Clever Films Posted by Lesley Coffin on November 11, 2013

I am a relatively new resident of New York City.  I have lived in the city for 8 years, but compared to lifetime residents, I’m a newbie.  Sometimes New York films can make that fact especially noticeable when you see just how much things can change in a few years. ...   read more

The Stop Button Posted by on September 2, 2011

The Land Unknown has it all—a guy in a Tyrannosaurus Rex suit (the dinosaur’s roar is suspiciously similar to Godzilla’s), lizards standing in for dinosaurs, awful rear screen projection of those lizards to make them seem large, CinemaScope, misogyny, torture, a homicidal rapist being portrayed as   read more