WARNING: This Article May Contain Spoilers For those are avid readers of my articles, you will be fully aware of the fact that I love a film with a small cast. What’s smaller than a film with only one actor? I’ve already covered two films that would fit perfectly in this article, Buried and 127 …
Singer to Actress: Cassie Ventura
WARNING: This Article May Contain Spoilers There was a lot of discussion earlier this year regarding Cassie when she took to the stand to testify in the P. Diddy trial and strangely that got me thinking about her career. Of course, I knew her as a singer when I was younger – I was obsessed …
Steve McQueen (1930-1980)
WARNING: This Article May Contain Spoilers Born: 24th March 1930 Died: 7th November 1980 (aged 50) Terrence Stephen McQueen was born to William McQueen, a flying circus stunt pilot, and Julianne Crawford. He was raised by his grandparents and Great Uncle on a in Missouri until the age of eight when his mother, and her …
Horror Director – George A.Romero
WARNING: This Article May Contain Spoilers Much like Wes Craven, to most people Romero is well known for the Night of the Living Dead franchise which is currently 6 films (with a potential 7th and final in the works) – so once again I wanted to focus on his directorials outside of this. I mentioned …
Horror Director – Lucio Fulci
WARNING: This Article May Contain Spoilers It’s interesting to think that Lucio Fulci is referred to as the “Godfather of Gore” when I honestly don’t find any of his films, the ones that I’ve seen of course, especially gory. What I did notice however is that he seems to have a fascination with focusing on …
Horror Director – Tobe Hooper
WARNING: This Article May Contain Spoilers It seems that this spook-tacular month is turning into a tribute to directors that found their way on to the video nasties list, Tobe Hooper being one to have only a few in comparison to others but more on that later. What I like about Hooper is that he …
Horror Directors: Dario Argento
WARNING: This Article May Contain Spoilers I wonder if people would consider Dario Argento as a “controversial” director as four of his films made the DPP (Director of Public Prosecutions) list of so-called “video-nasties” – including Tenebrae and Inferno which featured in Sections 1 and 2 respectively as well as Suspiria and Deep Red, which …
Horror Directors: Wes Craven
WARNING: This Article May Contain Spoilers So, I think to a lot of people Wes Craven would probably be considered as the King of the Franchise when it comes to horror the fact that he was the director of the first 4 Scream films (I for one think that’s where they should have stopped), all …
Paul Newman (1925-2008)
WARNING: This Article May Contain Spoilers Born: 26th January 1925 Died: 26th September 2008 (aged 83) Paul Leonard Newman was born to Theresa Garth and Arthur Newman Snr. in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. From an early age he showed an interest in acting but did not get pursue his interest because of the onset of World …
Loki AKA Tom Hiddleston
WARNING: This Article May Contain Spoilers Now, I feel like a lot of people are going to disagree with me including Loki as a Marvel hero. Well, in my opinion – by Infinity War – he has become exactly that! He fights alongside his brother in Thor: Ragnarok and Infinity War actually opens with him …