Adapting a novel to the big screen is never going to be easy, time constraints alone limit you a lot, but when doing it as a television show you can put as much or as little from the book as you’d like, case in point the 2017 adaptation of Stephen King’s The Mist for Spike…
Author: Mike Brooks
Film grad who spends most his time trying to catch up on his "To Watch" pile of movies.
Happy (2017) – Review
With seasonal television programming cramming the airwaves with a variety of holiday saccharine material it’s nice to catch something a little different and the SyFy original series Happy is definitely something different.
Bright (2017) – Review
Last year we were treated to a film called La La Land where a heightened and magical version of Los Angeles was given to us, now thanks to Netflix we get another magical version of the City of Angels only this time the magic is more overt and the themes are mean spirited and cynical….
SpaceCamp (1986) – Review
On January 28, 1986, the NASA space shuttle Challenger disintegrated shortly after launch, killing all seven crew members on board, and the whole world mourned the tragic death of those lost souls, but as the world is a bizarre and freaky place 20th Century Fox Pictures just so happened to be making a family-friendly film…
Streets of Fire (1984) – Review
Set in “Another Place…Another Time” this retro-futuristic world of Walter Hill’s rock & roll fable Streets of Fire came and went into theaters in the mid-80s with hardly a ripple, barely grossing over $8 million at the box office, yet over the years it has developed a strong cult following.