Doctor Who blogging: “Robot of Sherwood”
So, the Doctor and Robin Hood walk into a spaceship… Oh my god, did I love this episode.
Errol Flynn
True Blood is the gay-friendliest show on TV (and other adventures in social networking)
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John Carter (review)
This dreary Disneyfied inconsequence features all the bigotries of century-old pulp fiction and none of the romance, neither the sexual nor the adventurous kind…
female gazing extra: “Men in Film”
A hundred years of handsome Hollywood hotties, from Douglas Fairbanks Sr. to George Clooney, in three and a half minutes…
tres cool: ‘Errol & Olivia: Ego & Obsession in Golden Era Hollywood’
Olivia de Havilland was 19 and Errol Flynn was 26 when they met doing screen tests for Captain Blood, and the chemistry between them — onscreen and off — was pretty much instant. Their tempestuous relationship encapsulates the heyday of the studio system, as this new book beautifully documents…
female gazing at: Errol Flynn
I’m gonna be talking later today about a really cool new book about Errol Flynn, so I figured I’d prime ya for that…
retro trailer: ‘The Adventures of Robin Hood’
Take a look back at an old trailer… England! It looks remarkably like Southern California! But never mind: Look, it’s Errol Flynn! With a little moustache! As the mightiest adventurer ever! *swoon* Makes me think of that Jimmy Buffett song: That’s why I wish I had a pencil-thin mustache the Boston Blackie kind, or a … more…
‘Gone With the Wind’ 70th Anniversary Ultimate Collector’s Edition: wow
There’s box sets, and then there’s this 70th anniversary Ultimate Collector’s Edition Gone With the Wind set, which is just insane. In a good way, of course. If you’re looking for an impressive Christmas gift for a lover of this movie, this could be pretty sweet. And if he or she is one of those … more…
retro trailer: ‘The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex’
Take a look back at an old trailer… Man, people worked more in the 1930s. Michael Curtiz has five other titles credited to him as director for 1939 besides this one. A movie like this today would consume a filmmaker for years, and he tossed it off between golf games. I love how the trailer … more…
