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Head back to the past with old-time radio A wealth of radio shows from the 1930s through 50s, the golden age of the medium, are available free online. Miguel Porlan/The New York Times. by Barry Yourgrau (NYT NEWS SERVICE) .- In the image and video cacophony of our world, there’s an old-fashioned medium that rouses and works with our own powers of imagination, one that suits these cooped-up inner-world days of ours. It’s radio drama, especially from its golden age, in the 1930s through the ’5...

Head Back to the Past With Old-Time Radio A wealth of radio shows, constructed from dialogue and sound effects, and with a touch of narration and music, is free on the internet. Credit...Miguel Porlan Feb. 20, 2021 In the image and video cacophony of our world, there’s an old-fashioned medium that rouses and works with our own powers of imagination, one that suits these cooped-up inner-world days of ours. It’s radio drama, especially from its golden age, in the 1930s through the ’50s, whe...

The Major Sci-Fi and Fantasy Anniversaries of Summer 2021 Share V for Vendetta and Spy Kids have milestone anniversaries this year. (Photo: Warner Bros/Dimension) To sign up for our daily newsletter covering the latest news, features and reviews, head HERE. For a running feed of all our stories, follow us on Twitter HERE. Or you can bookmark the Gizmodo Australia homepage to visit whenever you need a news fix. Let’s face it. We’re all old. Even if that’s not technically true, there’s al...

Photo: Warner Bros/Dimension Let’s face it. We’re all old. Even if that’s not technically true, there’s always something a person can say or do to make you feel that way. For us, one of those things is when we realize a movie we feel an affinity for is way older than we remember it being. The best course of action? Use the fact that your favorite movie is about to celebrate a landmark anniversary and watch it again! Advertisement We’ve collected a slew of sci-fi and fantasy films tha...

Mike Rowbottom: Flips and flops - the ups and downs of sporting innovations Twitter… sorry, let me start again. One of the good things about Twitter - depending on what you think it’s for - is how you can be looking for one thing and get distracted by others. Thus a search for, say, reaction to the anniversary of a 2018 Winter Olympics gold-medal performance can end up with Kim Novak’s recollections of Alfred Hitchcock, followed by a trip out to Wikipedia for a check that leads on to Fr...

Best Disney classic movies on Disney Plus These are the live action classics you need to watch on Disney Plus. 04 February 2021 Disney Plus isnt just about The Mandalorian and WandaVision, you know. The best Disney classic movies are also on the service - those live-action delights that we all enjoyed as children. Disney Plus has a brilliant assortment of cinematic gems from it’s, and the studio-formerly-known-as 20th Century Fox’s, back catalogue. Alongside the plenty of animat...

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Cloris Leachman, winner of multiple Emmys, dies aged 94 Leachman was best known for her roles in the TV series "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," and films like "Young Frankenstein" and "The Last Picture Show." Leachman appeared in everything from early episodes of Lassie in the 1950s right through to American Gods in 2017 Cloris Leachman, winner of multiple Emmys and star of "The Last Picture Show," the film that won her an Academy Award, has passed away at the age of 94. The actress died of nat...

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Tom Cruise as Dr. Bill Harford in "Eyes Wide Shut" (screenshot from the WB film) The New York of “Eyes Wide Shut” is a dream of New York—a sex dream about an emotionally and carnally wound-up young man who denies his animal essence, his wife’s, and almost everyone’s. It’s a comedy. Stanley Kubrick’s movies are comedies more often than not—coal-black; a tad goofy even when bloody and cruel; the kind where you aren’t sure if it’s appropriate to laugh, because the situations de...