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Posts tagged “Kenneth Branagh”

Monster Bisque: Hawkins and Haney Talk Frankenstein

Posted on October 26, 2013

Last Halloween, I’d asked a few Nervous Breakdown contributors to share their favorite terrifying movie scenes, and D. R. Haney was among them with his contribution from Rouben Mamoulian’s 1931 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. I, on the other hand, had picked the tunnel scene from Willy Wonka, which I explain so you understand why I like collaborating with Duke. My brain grows three sizes bigger by association. He’s like a cinematic moral compass for which true north is James Dean. And this year for Halloween, Duke and I decided to discuss the classic tale that produced another old-school Hollywood icon.

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Categories: On Movies

Tagged: Boris Karloff, D. R. Haney, film, Frankenstein, James Whale, Kenneth Branagh, Mary Shelley, Young Frankenstein

We Few, We Happy Few, We Band of Branagh Fanatics

Posted on May 14, 2011

KBI really love Kenneth Branagh.  I don’t understand people who don’t love Kenneth Branagh (I’m looking at you, Joe Hawkins).  But because I know such people exist (Joe Hawkins), I recently tried very hard to review Thor without my Branagh bias.  It required that I get my Holly Golightly outfit on and explain a few things in an accompanying video I’m sure to regret.  Find it all here and enjoy!

Categories: On Movies

Tagged: film review, Kenneth Branagh, Thor

  

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