Gooble Gobble: Tod Browning’s Notorious Horror Film ‘Freaks’
Tod Browning’s career never fully recovered after he made Freaks in 1932, the notorious horror film that was centered around the lives of sideshow performers.…
Author: Paul Gallagher Archives: 12/2010
Buckfast the ‘Commotion Lotion’ of Scotland’s Working Class
The author Evelyn Waugh once described New Year’s Eve as ‘‘drunk men being sick on a pavement in Glasgow,” which is probably true, for part…
Werner Herzog Doesn’t Read ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas..But It’s a Nice Thought
Well, I admit it. I was fooled. And yes, it seemed almost too good to be true. And yep, it was. So, this isn’t Werner…
Jiří Trnka: The Walt Disney of the East
His book illustrations and animations have influenced generations of children. Understandable then that Czech artist, puppeteer and stop-motion film-maker, Jiří Trnka was known as the…
Cool Sixties Music from The Man from U.N.C.L.E.’s David McCallum and Nancy Sinatra
David McCallum has long been a TV icon, since his early days as the pin-up sidekick Illya Kuryakin to Robert Vaughn’s Napoleon Solo in The…