ITV's new four-part drama Tutankhamun, about Howard Carter's discovery of the tomb of one of Ancient Egypt's long lost pharaohs, comes with a fair few familiar faces attached. Max Irons plays Carter, while Sam Neill plays the eccentric Lord Carnarvon, the man who funds Carter's expeditions into the desert.
Everyone knows Psycho and the character of Marion Crane, who steals $40,000 from her boss, goes on the road, and winds up at the Bates Motel, where she encounters a very unhappy old lady and her very sharp knife in her room's shower. But did you know that Anthony Perkins, who played the motel manager Norman Bates, was paid $40,000 for his performance the exact same amount Marion stole? That's just one of the Psycho facts featured in the newest episode of You Think You Know Movies ! The shower scene from Psycho is one of the most famous moments in movie history.
Note: This post on GUNSIGHT RIDGE is my contribution to the Joel McCrea Blogathon being hosted this weekend by Toby at 50 Westerns From the 50s. The blogathon, which celebrates McCrea's November 5th birthday, runs all weekend.
Techno-allegories, futuristic thrillers, and Anne Hathaway obsessives: The latest round of announcements for sci-fi film festival Other Worlds Austin and its Under Worlds Austin horror sub-strand has it all. Heading up the list with its world premiere is extraordinary new thriller Domain .
A small slice of movie history sits on a stretch of Texas 304 in Bastrop. It's a quaint enough spot, well past the charred-tree graveyard from the 2011 wildfires that devastated the area, and nothing that would demand attention from the road.
Diane Ladd is an American actress, film director, producer and author. She has appeared in more than 300 film and television roles.
PanARMENIAN.Net - Jon Spaihts has shared new details about what to expect from the upcoming "Van Helsing" movie remake. The writer, who also served as the co-scribe of 2012's "Prometheus" and Marvel's "Doctor Strange", tells Collider that "Van Helsing " will have different time period from other Universal's shared monster universe movies, AceShowbiz reports.
The 1975 frontman Matthew "Matty" Healy once told The Guardian that his band's namesake was found scribbled in the back of a hand-me-down book about The Beat Generation. It's a strange coincidence, then, that much of the Manchester, England indie rock group's sound and aesthetic hinges on what was certainly a benchmark year in popular culture.
Tippi Hedren played the beautiful blond woman that Alfred Hitchcock liked to put in peril - as in the famous scene in which she opens the door into a dark attic in The Birds , and is pecked by a flock of the title characters. Hedren survived the attic.