Balladeer’s Blog’s annual end-of-year retrospective continues with this look at April’s best.
L’INFERNO (1911) – My review of the epic silent film adaptation of Dante’s Inferno. This production blew me away given its time period. And it was filmed in Italy just a few years before the horrors of World War One. Click HERE.
SARAH BERNHARDT: HER SILENT FILM APPEARANCES – The iconic Nineteenth Century actress lived long enough to appear in multiple silent movies. Click HERE.
ANCIENT SCIENCE FICTION: A DEMIGOD (1886) – A criminally overlooked sci-fi saga about Hector Vyr, whose mad scientist forebears bred him for genetic perfection. The tale of this heroic Platinum Age figure has elements of Philip Wylie’s 1930 sci-fi novel Gladiator but forty-four years earlier. Click HERE.
INDEPENDENT ACTION AND HORROR FILMMAKER LEN KABASINSKI REMEMBERS THE LATE LEO FONG – The one and only Kabasinski was gracious enough to leave a few memories about international action star Leo Fong here at Balladeer’s Blog. Click HERE.
SPIDER-MAN: HIS FIRST 1960s STORIES – The early years of the Stan Lee-Steve Ditko creation. Click HERE.
TRANSGRESS WITH ME: APRIL EIGHTEENTH EDITION – Are you daring enough for this? It’s an ongoing series going back several years. Click HERE.
ANCIENT SCIENCE FICTION: BY AEROPLANE TO THE SUN (1910) – The story of an expedition to the sun and other planets by way of a spaceship that the author calls an aeroplane. Click HERE. Continue reading
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