What if Ma and Pa Kent had found an evil alien baby instead of Superboy? This is the basic premise to the horror film Brightburn, where writers Mark and Brian Gunn give us a dark fantasy tale of a being with incredible powers, one who doesn’t seem to care about Truth, Justice or the American…
Author: Mike Brooks
Film grad who spends most his time trying to catch up on his "To Watch" pile of movies.
Road Games (1981) – Review
The 1980s were literally exploding with slasher films — with the likes of Michael Myers, Jason Voorhees, and Freddy Krueger quickly becoming horror icons — so it’s not surprising that other countries would try and cash in on the genre, which did lead to such gems as Clive Barker’s Hellraiser. But down under in Australia, during…
A-X-L (2018) – Review
Do you remember the fun 80s science fiction comedy Short Circuit? The one where a robot designed for war is hit by lightning and somehow this installs it with life and sentience, causing it to go on the run and befriend a sweet civilian protagonist? This is basically the same premise of writer/director Oliver Daly’s sci-fi…
Cold Skin (2017) – Review
A major question that has been raised in many a horror and science fiction stories is, “Who exactly are the monsters?” Now, going by such works as Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Rod Serling’s The Monsters are Due on Maple Street, it’s pretty clear that mankind are the true monsters here — there being enough war…
Scooby-Doo! and Kiss: Rock and Roll Mystery (2015) – Review
Scooby-Doo and the gang have been hooking up with celebrities since the 70s in their series The New Scooby-Doo Movies, where they teamed up with such notables as the Harlem Globetrotters, Sandy Duncan, Don Knotts, and Tim Conway, and it didn’t matter if they were fictional characters or not as they also hooked up with…