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RIP: Ewing Miles Brown

Ewing Miles Brown (nicknamed “Lucky”) Film producer, director, and sometime actor Ewing Miles Brown, who was known affectionately to legions of performers and crew members in the industry as “Lucky” Brown, passed away from respiratory failure on Monday, May 27, 2019 at the age of 97 according to his personal friend of forty years, actor and film historian Douglas Dunning.

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Westgate Gallery Movie Poster Sale – 50% Off!!

The WestgateGallery.com movie poster site has extended their Christmas sale for another two weeks. The site offers some truly beautiful vintage film posters for sale, most remarkably in the area of giallo and horror films from directors Dario Argento, Sergio Martino, Albert DeMartino, Juan Antonio Bardem, Maurizio Lucidi, and Mario Bava. There are also some phenomenal adult film posters from the …

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Interview: Lee Lambert, Author of The Illustrated History of Don Post Studios

Sometime in 2017 my brother-in-law, who teaches courses on makeup, asked me about a new book that had just been released on Don Post Studios. I was unaware of it, however when I looked into it I was stunned by the incredible assortment of masks that were featured within its pages. I contacted the books author, Lee Lambert, and asked …

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Actor Mark Damon Scheduled to Appear at BLACK SABBATH Screening in Los Angeles October 11, 2018

Laemmle’s NoHo 7 Theatre in North Hollywood will be presenting a Digital Cinema Package (DCP) screening of the 55th anniversary of Mario Bava’s 1963 vignette film Black Sabbath (known internationally as I Tre Volti Della Paura, or the Three Faces of Fear). The 92-minute film, which stars Boris Karloff, Mark Damon, and Susy Andersen, will be screened on Thursday, October …

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Film Review: The Haunting (1963)

SYNOPSIS: Dr. Markway, doing research to prove the existence of ghosts, investigates Hill House, a large, eerie mansion with a lurid history of violent death and insanity. With him are the skeptical young Luke, who stands to inherit the house, the mysterious and clairvoyant Theodora and the insecure Eleanor, whose psychic abilities make her feel somehow attuned to whatever spirits …

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