Region: All
MSRP: $21.99
The Production: 4/5
Anyone whoâs ever built a new house or is a homeowner whoâs gone through renovations to their existing property will identify completely with the nightmarish scenario of H.C. Potterâs
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House, a farcical comedy of domestic exasperation. Cary Grant and Myrna Loy are the unwitting victims of architectural and constructive chicanery in a laugh out loud look at the perils and pitfalls of modern suburban fact and fantasy.
Squeezed into a two-bedroom, one bathroom New York City apartment with bulging closets and crowded cupboards that canât begin hold everything a family of four would want, advertising executive Jim Blandings (Cary Grant) and his wife Muriel (Myrna Loy) begin dreaming of their own colonial home in suburban Connecticut, but when the claptrap structure they finally buy is better bulldozed than renovated, the Blandings find themselves building a new home. With their dreams of d
The bitter life of Anita Ekberg who scandalised the world and scared the Pope
The Swedish bombshell, immortalised by Fellini in La Dolce Vita, became trapped in self-parody
Devil woman: Anita Ekberg c1956
Credit: Silver Screen Collection/Hulton Archive/Getty Images
When Federico Fellini met the Swedish actress Anita Ekberg in 1959 by the Spanish Steps in Rome, he had “that sense of the marvellous, of a hypnotic stupor, of the disbelief one feels confronting exceptional creatures like a giraffe, the elephant, the baobab tree”. He didn’t stop there, comparing her variously to “a powerful panther playing the mischievous young girl”, “a lioness proud of her good health” and “a shark emanating the heat of a summer day”. It was as if her sexiness went beyond what was plausible for a human, and belonged rather to Nature. With her, Fellini apprehended for the first time “the platonic reality of things”. “So,” he said to himself, “
Severin’s Eurocrypt of Christopher Lee box set announced
On May 25, Severin Films is releasing a box set of buried gems from one of cinema’s most seminal figures – Sir Christopher Lee. He remains one of the most beloved horror/fantasy icons in US/UK pop culture history, but Christopher Lee delivered several of the most compelling, acclaimed and bizarre performances of his entire career in 1960s Europe.
The Eurocrypt of Christopher Leebrings together five of these Lee classics – the 1964 gothic shocker
Crypt of the Vampire; the 1964 cult hit
Castle of the Living Dead co-starring an unknown Donald Sutherland; 1962’s celebrated
Severin Films To Release Amazing Christopher Lee Treasure Box!
Our friends at Severin Films take on delivering underseen Christopher Lee masterpieces! By Marcos Codas
Our friends over at Severin Films have reached out to let us know that they’ll be releasing a masterful box set of underseen Christopher Lee treasures. They recently released some of Jodorowsky’s works, too. Find more details in the press release below:
5 Movies, 1 Anthology TV Series, 8 Blu-Rays, 1 CD & 88 Page Illustrated Book By Lee Biographer Jonathan Rigby In One Spectacular Box Set!
(LOS ANGELES, CA) On May 25th,
Severin Films is releasing a box set of buried gems from one of cinema’s most seminal figures –