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The Mighty Charlton Heston

The words icon and legend are bandied about a great deal in modern society. Most of the time they mean nothing or at the very least they are simple hyperbole. However, when these words are used to describe Charlton Heston they come across as an [...]

October 4, 2021

Remembering James Cameron’s TITANIC Starring Leonardo DiCaprio & Kate Winslet

James Cameron’s Titanic was a huge cultural phenomenon when it was released in 1997. Cameron’s film became the highest grossing film of all time (before it was beaten by Avatar), grossing $600 million at the US box office and another $1.2 [...]

June 27, 2021

Forget The Chariots! Behind The Scenes Of BEN-HUR With Charlton Heston and Stephen Boyd

There’s something captivating about photographs of actors on-set doing something which is the antithesis of the character they are supposed to be portraying on-screen. This is even more exciting when it’s an older movie. Case in point [...]

November 9, 2019

BEN-HUR Featurette Highlights How Cheap And Terrible The Movie Could Be

I don’t know how many tens of millions MGM spent on Timur Bekmambetov’s Ben-Hur, but it looks cheap and terrible. The CGI is listless and everyone appears to be miscast. Who is the target audience for this thing? Teenagers, adults with [...]

July 9, 2016

Trailer: The Cinematic Anti-Christ Will Arrive With The Remake Of BEN-HUR

Man-o-man. This trailer for Ben-Hur is everything I feared it would be – and worse. CGI-d to within an inch of its life, this will never even be mentioned in the same breath as William Wyler/Charlton Heston’s 1959 epic. It’ll be forgotten [...]

March 16, 2016

New Poster For THE HATEFUL EIGHT: No One Comes Up Here Without A Damn Good Reason

Quentin Tarantino hit the San Diego Comic Con with seven of The Hateful Eight (Kurt Russell, Tim Roth, Walton Goggins, Demian Bichir, Bruce Dern, Michael Madsen, and Jennifer Jason Leigh). The writer/director showed about 8 minutes of footage and [...]

July 12, 2015