There were sixteen Italians in Tietsin in 1901.
These are the things one learns doing historical research.
And one can also get an article out of it, and sell it. Because bills won’t pay themselves. Continue reading
My brother asked me why I never did a post about Into the Badlands. Because my memory is like a sieve, was the only possible answer.
But now that I have been reminded that I have been intending to do a post on the series, why wait?
Here we go.
Into the Badlands is an original TV series produced by AMC. It started in 2015, and it is currently in its third season. And I like it a lot, and I highly recommend it to anyone sharing my interest in adventure, science fiction, action, intrigue and a good solid entertainment, with a brain.
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It all started with a movie clip.
This movie clip.
It’s from the 1975 The Land That Time Forgot, based on the Edgar Rice Burroughs novel of the same title, and adapted for the screen by Michael Moorcock and Nigel Cawthorn.
I first saw this in the parish cinema the priests had put up to attract the kids that would not be hooked by the football field by the church.
In the end, I never became a good Catholic kid, but I did develop a passion for Edgar Rice Burroughs, dinosaurs and old movies. Continue reading
I’ve just presented a very early first draft for a new project. There’s not much I can say about it right now, but let’s say there’s dinosaurs in it, and a lost world of sorts, and I’m trying not to do a rehash of The House of the Gods, and have fun.
My outline includes Mole People.
Because I loved that old movie, and Mole People are just cool, and I’d love to do a bit, as part of this project of mine, called Queen of the Mole People – featuring a character I cannot but envision as Sza Sza Gabor.
But it was suggested I use Lizardmen instead. Continue reading
I discovered a few hours ago that there exists in the Internet Archive an acceptable copy of Jack the Giant Killer, a 1962 fantasy movie, loosely based on the classic folk tale, and one of my childhood’s fond memories.
So I went and re-watched it.
The movie features the same stars (Kerwin Mathews and Thorin Thatcher) and the same director (Nathan Juran) as The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad, as the producer – who had rejected the Harryhausen project – tried to cash-in on that movie’s success. Many viewers today do in fact consider Jack as a rip-off of Sinbad, down to the sub-par Harryhausen-esque special effects.
But this is in my opinion a too harsh evaluation. Continue reading
“See you in Prague,” Graham Nash used to say – and today marks the 400th anniversary of the Defenestration of Prague, a rather obscure to most but pretty violent episode of European History that traditionally marks the start of the Thirty Years War.
Now, I am quite fond of the Thirty Years War, and this despite the fact that Continue reading
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