Tag: Nita Naldi

• Conquest of Time Cryonics Suspended animation The New Man Time Travel

  

  The Man from Beyond

  (2/10) Harry Houdini is frozen in ice for a hundred years, and is too busy longing for love and escaping from danger to realise it is no longer 1820, but 1922. Houdini is charismatic, but the film derivative, and the escape acts don’t transfer well to the screen. The Man…

  June 3, 2018
• Futurism Monsters The New Man

  

  Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

  In a career-defining role as Jekyll/Hyde screen legend John Barrymore elevates this 1920 adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel from a run-of-the-mill potboiler to a minor masterpiece. Barrymore’s amazing physical transformation and magnetic charisma makes him this reviewer’s favourite Jekyll & Hyde of all time. (8/10) Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.…

  May 19, 2018