Obituaries

George Segal (1934-2021)

WARNING: This Article May Contain Spoilers Born: 13th February 1934 Died: 23rd March 2021 Most of us know George Segal as the fun ‘Pops’ from The Goldbergs but he started his life in New York City born the fourth child of George and Bonnie Segal. Both sets of grandparents were Russian-Jewish migrants but he was …

Extreme Fear Can Neither Fight Nor Fly

Ochophobia

WARNING: This Article May Contain Spoilers I’m sure none of you will be surprised when I say that this article was inspired by my watching of John Carpenter’s adaptation of Christine. I wanted to focus mainly on haunted vehicles as ochophobia is the fear of vehicles in general – but unfortunately it’s rare to find …

Articles

Strong Female Characters

WARNING: This Article May Contain Spoilers Truthfully, this article may have been the inspiration for this whole blog – it’s just taken a long time for me to write it. Remember when Elizabeth Banks openly said, when talking about her ‘reboot’ of Charlie’s Angels, ‘If this movie doesn’t make any money, then it reinforces a …

To Remake or Not To Remake

Mother’s Day 1980 vs 2010

WARNING: This Review May Contain Spoilers I’ve mentioned this film previously in my A Mother’s Love article and believe I referenced the fact that more detail was incoming. Truthfully, when I saw the words ‘loosely based on’ I didn’t think this article was actually going to see that light of day but here it is! …

If Music Be The Food Of Love, Act On

Kris Kristofferson

WARNING: This Article May Contain Spoilers I’m going to go into this in a little more depth later on, but the fact that my first introduction to Kris Kristofferson was watching Blade at the age of 15 – I honestly had no idea he was a singer. I always thought of him as an actor …

Before They Were Marvel-ous Heroes

Nick Fury AKA Samuel L. Jackson

WARNING: This Article May Contain Spoilers This may seem a little out of left field for a lot of people as the majority of these articles have been about the marvel superheroes. However, you would not have The Avengers if it wasn’t for Nick Fury and S.H.I.E.L.D so I think in a weird way he …

To Remake or Not To Remake

My Bloody Valentine 1981 vs 2009

WARNING: This Review May Contain Spoilers I don’t think anyone will understand quite how long I have been waiting to do this article! I covered the original in Chick-Flick Free Valentine’s but it was almost IMPOSSIBLE to find the remake. What I love is that in a weird way, the title works on two levels …

If We Prequels Have Offended

Before the Tremor

WARNING: This Review May Contain Spoilers I think I’ve said this before, but there’s a lot of times that turning a film into a franchise can really ruin a great concept. Now I don’t know what the sequels are like, however what I will say is that the prequel definitely turned out better than expected…wait, …

Obituaries

Donald Pleasence (1919-1995)

WARNING: This Article May Contain Spoilers Born: 5th October 1919 Died: 2nd February 1995 (aged 75) Donald Henry Pleasence was born in Worksop, Nottinghamshire in 1919, to a family of rail workers, he also followed in their footsteps before becoming an actor at the age of 20 – he made his stage debut on the …

Obituaries

Stanley Holloway (1890-1982)

WARNING: This Article May Contain Spoilers Born: 1st October 1890 Died: 30th January 1982 (age 91) Stanley Augustus Holloway was born in Newbury Park, East London to a lawyer’s clerk and a housekeeper and dressmaker. He was named after the reporter and explorer Henry Stanley (he of “Dr Livingston, I presume?” fame). Stanley left school …

error: Content is protected !!