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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.

Wonder Woman (1975) – Pilot Review

Posted on December 29, 2016March 19, 2023 by Mike Brooks

A year after ABC and Warner Bros failed attempt at a strangely powerless and updated Wonder Woman the studio decided to go back to the source material and give the world the hero everyone had been waiting for, and finally, Wonder Woman was allowed to wear the costume from the comic book.

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Wonder Woman (1974) – Pilot Review

Posted on December 27, 2016September 20, 2023 by Mike Brooks

The second attempt at a live-action Wonder Woman television show, that is if you can count the terrible 1967 Wonder Woman screen test as an attempt, was a combined effort by ABC and Warner Brothers to bring Wonder Woman to life, but if possible it had even less to do with the Wonder Woman of…

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Wonder Woman: Who’s Afraid of Diana Prince? (1967) Pilot Test

Posted on December 22, 2016March 20, 2023 by Mike Brooks

With Marvel and DC filling movie houses with a seemingly endless array of superhero movies, not to mention the countless superhero television shows and Netflix series, it’s almost hard to believe that at one time live action movies or shows about spandex-clad heroes weren’t a safe bet.

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Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016) – Review

Posted on December 20, 2016May 14, 2025 by Mike Brooks

When George Lucas penned the first script for Star Wars: A New Hope he liberally borrowed from Errol Flynn swashbucklers, Flash Gordon serials, and Akira Kurosawa’s The Hidden Fortress, now decades later we have Rogue One: A Star Wars Story which though dealing with the same galaxy “A long time ago and far far away”…

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Tarzan and Friends: The Worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs

Posted on December 18, 2016May 8, 2021 by Mike Brooks

Edgar Rice Burroughs, a man who quit the pencil-sharpener wholesale business to give writing a stab, is most known for his creation of Tarzan of the Apes but that jungle swinging pulp hero was just the tip of the iceberg in the fertile imaginative mind of one of the 20th Centuries most influential writers.

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