The eye-roll Ignatiy gives as Dowd describes the plot is perfect.

That was Khondji.

John Carpenter's The Fog and The Thing both underwent drastic changes. The Fog was actually fully edited and scored before Carpenter admitted it was a disaster, leading to him re-writing, re-shooting, re-editing, and re-scoring it in a month.

It's eaten by an actor playing Christ in a film, who then dies of indigestion while on the cross.

Let's not forget Cecil B. DeMille's The Sign of the Cross, an orgy of sex and violence dressed up as pious Christian entertainment to avoid censorship. It's got everything!

It's a great movie, with Odetta on the soundtrack to boot. The stamp of approval the movie received from the Catholic Church is particularly hilarious given that Pasolini had been prosecuted for blasphemy only one year prior, thanks to a short film called La Ricotta starring Orson Welles.

It's worth noting that Left Behind was, bizarrely, directed by Vic Armstrong - a veteran stunt co-ordinator who doubled for Harrison Ford on the Indiana Jones films and also worked on a number of Bond films.

Yep, this is the clincher right here. There are a few new plants opening up around the place, but the problem is the lack of equipment. Everyone's stuck using refurbished old presses because nobody has been willing to invest the money necessary to manufacture new machines. Even though the vinyl market is inexplicably…

Always nice to get a full list of all the bullshit major label re-issues and useless gimmick releases that are causing 6 month delays at every pressing plant.

I've got some picture discs that sound great, but if you're the type to get annoyed by mild surface noise it's best to pass on them just in case.

Along with Danger: Diabolik it's probably the best demonstration of Bava's ability to create evocative fantasy worlds using the bare minimum of resources. I mean Hercules is basically slapped together using a few pillars built for another movie, a bunch of smoke, some Schüfftan process mattes, and a strategically…

Fox actually owns the distribution rights to A New Hope in perpetuity. Though I'm not sure they would ever block any distro plans, they're probably happy just to keep the money rolling in.

He's said that he was inspired to make it after seeing Bergman's Scenes from a Marriage and feeling like its realism didn't allow it to show the sheer emotional anguish of a fraught divorce.

I love you Dannis Ree.

There are so many great examples of directors endangering their actors (either with or without their permission) but for me nothing tops Fritz Lang's Die Nibelungen. The climax sees not only flaming arrows being shot inches away from extras, but great actors like Rudolf Klein-Rogge having large chunks of flaming…

Given there were 500 Shakespeare movie adaptations in the silent era alone, probably a decent chuck of change. Adjusted for inflation of course.

The shot of a food trolley slowly sliding across the floor is great cinema, a chilling depiction of impending doom achieved with the most minimal of special effects. It's one of the shots that Cameron directly lifted for his film, though to greatly diminished effect.

I still have no idea how I feel about this film, need to revisit it.

I'm still amazed that "More" was covered so often by so many amazing artists given that it was written as the theme song to the infamous Italian shockumentary Mondo Cane.

That's the thing though - it doesn't. You never see a knife touch flesh. I realised I owned a copy of it so I actually went back and re-watched that scene to make sure I wasn't mis-remembering it.