http://www.movieweb.com/tv/TEJ16QNNEsLpNM/HUC6THCINZxpGL “I couldn’t help but say to [Mr. Gorbachev], just think how easy his task and mine might be in these meetings that we held if suddenly there was a threat to this world from another planet. [We'd] find out once and for all that we really are all human beings here on this earth ... read more »

The frame is from Screaming Mimi (1958), directed by Gerd Oswald, based on Fredric Brown’s “The Screaming Mimi” (below), which also provided the inspiration – uncredited – for Dario Argento’s The Bird With the Crystal Plumage. The image is a study in oppositions – left frame vs. right frame, light vs. dark, foreground vs. background, ... read more »

Conventional wisdom tells us that the first “true” film noirs were made in the early 1940s, with 1941′s The Maltese Falcon generally considered “the unofficial beginning of the noir cycle” (Alain Silver). Conventional wisdom is sometimes wrong. Take a look at these frames from John Brahm’s Let Us Live (1939), and ask yourself if there ... read more »

The classic ‘60s sci-fi anthology series, The Outer Limits, was conceived by eccentric writer/producer Leslie Stevens. How eccentric?? It was Stevens who later wrote and directed Incubus (1965), starring William Shatner, the only American-produced film ever shot in Esperanto. In 1963, Stevens wrote and directed The Outer Limits’ pilot episode, The Galaxy Being, and it ... read more »

Playwright. Screenwriter. Producer. Known primarily for two major achievments: (1) He wrote the screenplay for Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho (1960). (2) He was the producer and chief writer for the first season (1963-1964) of television’s groundbreaking sci-fi/gothic anthology series, The Outer Limits. And one cannot talk about Psycho without talking about Norman Bates. Bates is the ... read more »