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Author: Mike Brooks

Film grad who spends most his time trying to catch up on his "To Watch" pile of movies.

The Cat from Outer Space (1978) – Review

Posted on November 28, 2017February 20, 2023 by Mike Brooks

By the 1970s the Golden Age of Disney animated movies was clearly over and the studio began to focus on their live-action movies, for not only were they cheaper to make than animated features but you could also make a dozen or more live-action films for the price of one animated feature.

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Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017) – Review

Posted on November 24, 2017January 2, 2025 by Mike Brooks

Can true love save the day? Well in the 1997 science fiction film The Fifth Element writer/director Luc Besson certainly thought so as that film revealed that love was the key ingredient to saving the universe and now 20 years later with Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets Luc Besson once again puts…

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The Punisher: Season One Review

Posted on November 21, 2017May 30, 2024 by Mike Brooks

Season two of Netflix’s Daredevil brought everyone’s favorite gun toting vigilante to the Marvel Cinematic Universe and this particular depiction of The Punisher was so well executed that he completely overshadowed the Elektra storyline, and once Frank Castle was presumed dead what plot was left I became a lot less interested in. Thus when it…

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Justice League (2017) – Review

Posted on November 17, 2017February 8, 2024 by Mike Brooks

With Zack Snyder’s Justice League the DC Extended Universe moves into full gear, unfortunately at times it looks like they’ve stripped a gear or two. As the film’s troubled production has been no secret, with the original concept of it being a two part film being jettisoned in favour a two hour standalone one, and…

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Amityville: The Awakening (2017) – Review

Posted on November 14, 2017December 28, 2017 by Mike Brooks

The Amityville movie series is one of those franchises that just won’t give up the ghost, it doesn’t seem to matter that in the almost forty years since the original movie was released that none of them have been particularly good, or even that profitable as it’s one of those franchises that hopes that brand…

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