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The Iconic Shot from *Van Helsing* (2004)
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"What is it, Barrymore?" "Varenesaurs, sir"
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Has everyone seen which Sauron they have cast for the second season of *The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power*?
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The Madwoman of Étretat in Merle and Margaret Lanterman in Lynch, two women with a log
"The Madwoman of Étretat" by the French painter Hugues Merle, 1871, and the Log Lady from Twin Peaks by David Lynch, 1990. The two women are united by a tragic fate: both lost someone they loved. The madwoman of Étretat was a real woman whom Merle met in
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Rights acquired, producers prepare new films based on Tolkien's books
More Tolkien films are on the way. The vast, intricate and dazzling universe devised by Tolkien remains almost entirely unexplored on screen, and the producers mean to put that right. The rights have been bought, and work is under way. Judging by last year's «Rings of Power», with
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Recollection of 17 cats in the family during the war and a love of cats
Judi Dench recalls that during the war there were 17 cats in their house:. “I definitely love cats. During the war nobody could feed their animals, so we had 17 cats; that is how I was brought up, and I have always had a cat ever since.”
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Godzilla Will Come and Set Things in Order
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Otar Ioseliani in an interview with Yury Rost on culture and cinema in Russia
Last year saw the publication of a long interview by Yury Rost with Otar Iosseliani, who passed away today in his 90th year. The director describes how he found culture and cinema in Russia. — You haven't been in the country for a long time. What has changed in
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As for that amusing piece of fan fiction ranking the tallest buildings on Earth, in which the Burj Khalifa in Dubai falls slightly short of the tower of Barad-dûr in Mordor, let me remind you that this is nothing more than conjecture: nowhere in the text
And if, like the author of this infographic, you are working from the visual impressions of Peter Jackson's film adaptation, then one must not forget the Tower of Ecthelion on the uppermost tier of Minas Tirith, or Orthanc, for instance. Still, the comparison of the aesthetics of the
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The BBC Has Made Isaac Newton Black
Beethoven, Cleopatra and Hannibal have already been black, so why not Newton this time?
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The real name of Cary Grant was Archibald Leach
"Everybody wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant" Archibald Leach (the real name of Cary Grant)