We must thank our lucky stars that Universal’s attempt at a Dark Universe imploded on impact, with Tom Cruise’s The Mummy failing miserably, for without this cinematic misfire we most likely would never have gotten writer/director Leigh Whannell’s wonderful take on the classic H.G. Wells story, The Invisible Man.
Author: Mike Brooks
Film grad who spends most his time trying to catch up on his "To Watch" pile of movies.
It Came from Beneath the Sea (1955) – Review
The threat of nuclear annihilation during the Cold War may have been what kept people on edge during the 50s and 60s, with people building fallout shelters in their backyards, but without it, we wouldn’t have had so many fun atomic-fueled monster movies. One of the earliest examples of this would be the Ray Harryhausen…
Voyagers! (1982) – Review
Today, if you turn on Netflix or Cable television, you’ll most likely come across at least a half-dozen shows involving a variety of heroes travelling through time to fix history, including such shows as Timeless, The Librarians, and the Travelers, yet back in the 80s this was a relatively rare concept for television. Other than…
Scooby-Doo! Shaggy’s Showdown (2017) – Review
The Scooby gang doesn’t spend a lot of time in America’s South West, preferring gothic settings or exotic locales to dusty prairies and ghost towns, but still, they are certainly no strangers when it comes to phantoms of the West. The gang tackled Miner Forty-Niner in the episode “Mine Your Own Business” from the original…
The Terminal Man (1974) – Review
Based on one of Michael Crichton’s “techno-thrillers,” The Terminal Man deals once again with men of science crossing the boundaries of the natural world and the dire consequences such actions eventually lead to. The basic premise of this film involves the use of computers and brain surgery to, if not heal damaged brains, at least…