Port of Los Angeles Scores Global Environmental Award

Port of Los Angeles Scores Global Environmental Award



The Port of Los Angeles has scored another green thumbs-up, having received an award by Containerisation International lauding the port for its environmental practices and innovation in the container industry.

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Doc of the Dead Digs Into Zombie Culture (and Wants to Borrow Your Shovel)

<em>Doc of the Dead</em> Digs Into Zombie Culture (and Wants to Borrow Your Shovel)

The upcoming documentary from The People vs. George Lucas director Alexandre O. Philippe will feature interviews with zombie experts as well as crowdsourced fan videos

Universal Studios monster movies, 1923-1955

Film: Primer: A guide to the Universal Studios monster movies, 1923-1955




Universal Monsters 101In the 1920s, Universal Studios enjoyed some of its greatest successes with movies featuring monsters, murder, and the macabre; but it was nothing like what happened in the ’30s, when Universal produced a string of horror pictures that were international hits and helped codify how some perennially popular monsters should look, sound, and behave. Take Tod Browning’s 1931 adaptation of Bram Stoker’s gothic novel Dracula: There had been film and stage adaptations of Dracula before (including F.W. Murnau’s unauthorized 1922 classic Nosferatu). But just as Stoker’s book synthesized several existing stories and pieces of historical folklore, the Carl Laemmle Jr.-produced movie Dracula took from the best of the 1927 Broadway play and the earlier films, with cameraman Karl Freund (who according to some reports directed much of the movie when Browning grew bored) using expressionistic effects to highlight the monster’s ...

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