Entries from May 2008
This is a guest post written by Greg Davies. Greg is known in social media circles as cGt2099, and runs the sites The-TrukstoP.com and DayoftheJedi.com
With Universal Day of Jedi set for May 25, Star Wars fans around the globe will be celebrating the legacy of George Lucas; his creative and pioneering vision of what happened [...]
Tags: 633 Squadron · A New Hope · Akira Kurosawa · Attack of the Clones · Casablanca · Flash Gordon · Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe · George Lucas · George Lucas in Love · Joseph Campbell · Lawrence of Arabia · Once Upon a Time in the West · Return of the Jedi · Revenge of the Sith · Saving Private Ryan · Seven Samurai · Shakespeare in Love · Star Wars · The Dam Busters · The Empire Strikes Back · The Good The Bad and The Ugly · The Guns of Navarone · The Hidden Fortress · The Searchers · Yojimbo · Zatoichi
This is a guest post written by Darius Monsef. Darius is the Creator & Executive Editor of COLOURlovers.com. He is a creative consultant, entrepreneur and Internet Astronaut.
When a new viral video pops up on the internet it can reach upwards of 20,000,000 views… that’s more than can be said about any of Eddie Murphy’s [...]
Tags: Cloverfield · Eddie Murphy · George Lucas · Jack Black · Mos Def · MTV · Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation · Spike Lee · Steven Spielberg · The Blair Witch Project
When Swede Warner Oland was hired to play Asian characters Charlie Chan and Dr. Fu Manchu in the 1930’s, it was because at the time Hollywood was reluctant to hire authentic Asians as leads. You’d think in the years since, casting agents would leap at the chance to prove how much progress we’ve made. You’d [...]
Tags: Akim Tamiroff · Al Pacino · Bernardo Bertolucci · Breakfast at Tiffany's · Charlton Heston · Christopher Lambert · Dick Van Dyke · Fu Manchu · Highlander · John Wayne · Keanu Reeves · Little Buddha · Marlon Brando · Mary Poppins · Mickey Rooney · Mike Myers · Pete Postlethwaite · Peter Sellers · Ricardo Montalban · Scarface · Sean Connery · Space Seed · Star Trek · Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan · The Conqueror · The Teahouse of the August Moon · The Usual Suspects · Tony Montana · Touch of Evil · Walt Disney · Warner Oland
We apologize for the recent dearth of entries on Cineleet, but Cineleet staff has been busy recently with our “real” jobs. Updates are coming soon, however, so stick around, it’s gonna be a fun summer. In the meantime, I’d like to point some traffic towards my personal favorite film podcast, Filmspotting, featuring Adam Kempenaar and [...]
Tags: Adam Kempenaar · Charlton Heston · Filmspotting · Logan's Run · Matty Robinson · podcast · Silent Running · Soylent Green · The Andromeda Strain · The Man Who Fell to Earth · The Omega Man