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  "I must admit I must have led a sheltered life for whilst obsessed  with film music for most of my adult life-  wrongly as it turned out, but that is another story - Italian Westerns and their music  escaped me, even when films like THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY, THE BIG GUNDOWN etc, were in the Movie Houses. So John Mansell's second tome on this highly popular and ultimately interesting genre is a welcome breath of fresh air after soaking up endless discussions on John Williams, John Barry, et al. The book is truly amazing, I was...

Q & A with Matthew Hahn, author of The Animated Universal Classic Monsters What is the book about?I have attempted to catalogue every cartoon featuring an animated caricature of a Universal Classic Monster. There are seven main monsters—Dracula, Frankenstein’s Monster, the Mummy, the Invisible Man, the Wolfman, the 1943 Phantom of the Opera, and the Creature from the Black Lagoon—plus the Bride. There was a total of approximately forty classic monsters, and we cover about a dozen of them in animation. What do you mean by “animated caricatures”?In the 1930s-50s, no movie show was complete without a cartoon, and exhibitors...

  NEW REVIEW! "The appropriately titled 'We Must Shoot!:' The Life and Art of Gary Graver shines a long-overdue spotlight on Graver's life and career, from working with cinema greats like the aforementioned Welles, John Cassavetes, and Steven Spielberg, B-Movie directors such as Al Adamson and Ed Wood, to his own directorial oeuvre of porn films."- Cineaste Magazine (Contains amazon affiliate link)

  Stephen King Dollar Baby director, Jeff Blankenship.  He directed the Stephen King Dollar Baby film, THE LAST RUNG ON THE LADDER, based on King's short story. The film is wonderful and emotional. One of the top best.  Jeff appears in this new book a few times including an essay he contributed.