Tag: Eureka

His career having begun with The Butterfly Murders of 1979, by the release of 2000’s Time and Tide (順流逆流) Tsui Hark had directed almost thirty films in just

At Checkpoint Charlie on the Berlin Wall, the cobbled streets wet with rain and the barbed wire catching the floodlights which sweep the night, MI6 handler Alec Leamas

Born William Henry Pratt in Camberwell, Surrey, in November of 1887, it is unlikely that had he retained that name that Boris Karloff would have become an international

His fourth film for Universal Studios following his relocation from Germany, The Last Warning of director Paul Leni reunited him with the star of his first, The Cat

Originating as a long-running book series released by New York publisher Simon and Schuster with branded imprints for romance, drama and mystery, it was the latter genre which

The poet arrives at the carnival at Luna Park, led there by an advertisement offering work at the waxworks where he is requested to write stories inspired by

Banned from England, the Comprachicos, the child-buyers, have fled the country, leaving behind the mutilated child Gwynplaine who wanders through the snow where beneath the gallows, the bodies

A Hungarian actor who emigrated to the United States in 1920, Béla Lugosi made almost a hundred and twenty films in his career, his name becoming synonymous with

“People are divided into good and bad. The dead are divided into corpses and vampires… Old Master Yam is a corpse that’s on the verge of becoming a

Sometimes it’s not enough that a relationship be doomed from the start; sometimes it falls in such a way that it is doomed twice over and will drag