For those of you who wanted to know what a mash-up of King Kong and Apocalypse Now would look like Legendary Pictures has done their best to answer that question with this second installment in their “MonsterVerse” series, which started back in 2014 with their American reboot of Godzilla, and pits Kong against Samuel L….
Author: Mike Brooks
Film grad who spends most his time trying to catch up on his "To Watch" pile of movies.
The Last Shark (1981) – Review
When Jaws swam into theatres in 1975 and broke box office records across the globe it was no surprise that Jaws rip-offs were not far behind, but for some reason, it was the Italian horror film The Last Shark (aka Great White for its North American release) that Universal Studios decided to sue for plagiarism,…
Logan (2017) – Review
It’s hard to believe that it’s been seventeen years since we first saw Hugh Jackman and Patrick Stewart in the very first X-Men movie, now almost two decades later they bring this cinematic relationship to a beautiful close.
Santa Clarita Diet: Season One (2016) – Review
Just when you think the zombie genre has reached an over saturation point, and that if you see one more zombie movie or television show you will surely explode, along comes one that not only takes a nice little spin on the genre but is so goofily charming and downright delightfully hilarious that you can’t…
Who Remembers Saturday Afternoon Children’s Matinees?
Movies were a big part of my life growing up, and certainly why I’m such a lover of them now, but there was something special about going to movies when you were a kid, the magic on the screen was as real to you as your parents were, and most likely more interesting as well.