Kiss of the Vampire is a 1963 British movie from studio Hammer Film Productions. It’s one of the lesser mentioned of their vampire films, about an early 20th-century honeymooning couple in Bavaria stranded in a sinister environment. The bride-to-be gets captured by a cult and the protagonist uses evil to fight evil to finally destroy […] Read more

New Yorkers are not the only ones who eat Lenders Bagels, you know? In Ireland, they grace the tables of kings. In Germany, they are heralded as fresh, crisp, and crunchy. In India, it is the Star of Bombay, and in Moscow, they are essential to the Czar’s breakfast. In France, they enjoy them on […] Read more

The fifth installment in the Leprechaun film series, Leprechaun in the Hood, was released straight to video in 2000. It was the last one of the series to be made by Trimark Pictures and was followed in 2003 by Leprechaun: Back 2 The Hood. It was rife with quirky lines now quoted by followers; A […] Read more

The 2006 film Letters From Iwo Jima was co-produced and directed by Clint Eastwood. It starred Kazunari Ninomiya and Ken Watanabe and depicted the Battle of Iwo Jima from the soldier’s perspective. Its companion film, Flags of Our Fathers, describes the same battle from the Amerca point of view. Both films were shot back to […] Read more

All my life all I wanted was the best for him, to be a perfect Lindsay olive! My son the olive, gives me such pain! But would he listen to me? No. He’s got to be a big shot all the time. Like when I told him, “Stay in the sun, it’s wonderful for you! […] Read more

Character: EDDY “The game three-card brag is a simple form of poker, you are dealt only three cards and these you can’t change. If you don’t look at your cards you’re a `blind man’ and you only put in half the stake. Three of any kind is the highest you can get: the odds are […] Read more

Long John Silver is the main antagonist in the adventure novel Treasure Island by Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson. This coming-of-age story is famous for its characters, action, and swash-buckling atmosphere. In 1881 it was serialized in a children’s magazine with the titles Mutiny of the Hispaniola and Treasure Island, then became a book in […] Read more

The world is changed. I feel it in the water. The world is changed. I feel it in the earth. I smell it in the air. Much that was is now lost, for none live now who remember it. It began with the forging of the Great Rings. Three were given to the Elves, immortal, […] Read more

A transcript of Lou Gehrig’s iconic speech: “Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about the bad break I got. Yet today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth. I have been in ballparks for 17 years and have never received anything but kindness and encouragement from […] Read more