Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on October 10, 2024

"Draw up to the fire and gaze into the embers as I tell you a hearty tale that will boil your blood..." Old Nancy the witch knew how to tell a good ghost yarn. At over 107 years old ( and aging fast ) she certainly had plenty of years...   read more

The Stop Button Posted by on March 30, 2020

Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and Ross Maxwell co-write, sending off of “Sabrina”’s first season, with a deus ex machine of an episode where Michelle Gomez decides she’s been waiting too long for Kiernan Shipka to embrace the Dark Lord and it’s time to get drastic about things. If Gomez can’t sabotage Shi   read more

The Stop Button Posted by on March 9, 2020

About halfway through The Witch: Subversion, I wondered why they’d opened with a flashback showing presumably chid witch Kim Ha-na escaping from her government “doctors.” The prologue introduces evil scientist lady Jo Min-soo and her chief fixer Park Hee-soon, it introduces the secret castle-like l   read more

The Stop Button Posted by on February 8, 2020

Joey Batey really does belong in the eighties as a sitcom sidekick, doesn’t he? Opening credits for the Netflix series, “The Witcher”, done “Night Court”-style   read more

The Stop Button Posted by on December 22, 2019

There are so many names to learn in this episode. There are at least seven principals and then there’s a bunch of supporting cast and then everyone they’re information dumping about. “Witcher” is all about the exposition. Except when it’s not and then so long as it’s not about titular...   read more

Flickers in Time Posted by Beatrice on June 4, 2019

The Witch (La strega in amore) Directed by Damiano Damiani Written by Ugo Liberatore and Damiano Damiani from a novel by Carlos Fuentes 1966/Italy Arco Film First viewing/Amazon Instant The main attractions of this giallo supernatural “thriller” are erotic scenes with the gorgeous Rosann   read more

The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on October 28, 2018

The Witch is very creepy. It has to be. There’s a lot of scary music, done to scary effect. Cuts to black and the like. Ominous forest. Cut to black. Very creepy. Whether or not it’s scary is another matter. It’s somewhat disturbing. But it’s set in the seventeenth century...   read more

Classic Horror Campaign Posted by Richard on February 6, 2013

Coming to London’s Rio Cinema on Saturday 16th February @11:30pm Cigarette Burns Cinema presents the Tigon horror classic Witchfinder General (1968). Starring Vincent Price as the dreaded Matthew Hopkins, whose sole task was to weed out the witches and the ungodly, this is one cult film that h   read more

The Giddy Blog Posted by chrisgiddens on May 20, 2012

A King is blessed to have fulfilled the fantasy of many men and women: a sorcerer to summon a beautiful mate (with accompanying handmaidens), just for him. But he blows it, of course, after being offended by one of the magician’s follow-up tricks in which the throne is temporarily occupied...   read more

The Movie Rat Posted by Bernardo Villela on October 17, 2011

Most holidays worth their while encompass entire seasons, such as Christmas, for example. However, as you may have noticed there is a corporate push every year for us to think about the next holiday even sooner. While this has many negative side effects I figure I may as well embrace...   read more

Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog Posted by Raquel Stecher on November 30, -0001

On Monday I had the privilege of attending an exclusive event hosted by Showcase at their Super Lux location in Chestnut Hill, MA. Showcase Event Cinema is the theater chain's initiative to bring classic movies, documentaries, anime as well as ballet, opera, stage productions and other entertainmen   read more

Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog Posted by Raquel Stecher on November 30, -0001

On Monday I had the privilege of attending an exclusive event hosted by Showcase at their Super Lux location in Chestnut Hill, MA. Showcase Event Cinema is the theater chain's initiative to bring classic movies, documentaries, anime as well as ballet, opera, stage productions and other entertainmen   read more