We Three Kings: Christmas Favorites is a Christmas album by The Reverend Horton Heat. It was released by Yep Roc Records in October 2005. The album features renditions of twelve popular Christmas songs. It also features one original track. A limited edition Christmas ornament was included with copies of the album that were pre-ordered through […]
John C Worsley – Star Trek Christmas
Continuing on from Yesterday’s post about the latest offering from Captain James T. Kirk, I am delighted to bring you a number of cleverly constructed/edited videos featuring the stars from several of the Star Trek series apparently singing some Christmas songs. Al of these videos are the work of a gentlement by the name of […]
William Shatner – Shatner Claus
William Shatner has released “Shatner Claus: The Christmas Album.” There are some real highlights on an album that includes such a strange potpourri of guests including: Henry Rollins, Brad Paisley, Jethro Tull flutist Ian Anderson, Cars’ guitarist Elliot Easton, studio whiz Todd Rundgren and Artimus Pyle (from Skynyrd), ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons, Rick Wakeman of […]
We Wish You a Metal Xmas and a Headbanging New Year
We Wish You a Metal Xmas and a Headbanging New Year is a compilation album of Christmas songs played by an all-star collection of hard rock and heavy metal artists released in October 2008. Each track puts together a unique supergroup playing a traditional Christmas selection. The mighty, metal blast of holiday cheer, We Wish […]
Christmas – MonaLisa Twins
CHRISTMAS is an album of Holiday and Winter themed songs by the Mona Lisa Twins. It includes an original Christmas song as well as fresh interpretations of Christmas classics well known and loved. MonaLisa Twins are a pop rock band, fronted by twin-sister singer-songwriters Mona Wagner (vocals, rhythm guitar, percussion, harmonica, flute) and Lisa Wagner […]
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Theatre of Blood is a 1973 British horror comedy film directed by Douglas Hickox, and starring Vincent Price as vengeful actor Edward Lionheart and Diana Rigg as his daughter Edwina. After being humiliated by members of the Theatre Critics Guild at an awards ceremony, Shakespearean actor Edward Kendal Sheridan Lionheart is seen committing suicide by […]
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‘All Is True‘ is a 2018 British fictional historical film directed by Kenneth Branagh and written by Ben Elton. It stars Branagh as playwright William Shakespeare. The film takes its title from an alternative name for Shakespeare’s play Henry VIII. After the Globe Theatre burns down in 1613 during a performance of Shakespeare’s play Henry […]
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“The Shakespeare Code” is the second episode of the third series of the revived British television series Doctor Who, first broadcast on BBC Oneon 7 April 2007. According to the BARB figures this episode was seen by 7.23 million viewers and was the fifth most popular broadcast on British television in that week. Originally titled […]
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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is an absurdist, existential, tragicomedy by Tom Stoppard, first staged at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 1966. The play expands upon the exploits of two minor characters from Hamlet, the courtiers Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, and the main setting is Denmark. The action of Stoppard’s play takes place mainly “in the […]
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In the Bleak Midwinter is a 1995 British romantic comedy film written and directed by Kenneth Branagh. Many of the roles in the film were written for specific actors. This was the first film directed by Branagh in which he did not appear. Joe Harper, a depressed and down-on-his-luck actor, asks his agent Margaretta D’Arcy […]