When Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley released her novel “Frankenstein: or The Modern Prometheus” back in the year 1818 I doubt even her fertile imagination could have guessed the journey her creation would take, and over the following two hundred years, it did take some marvelous turns.
Author: Mike Brooks
Film grad who spends most his time trying to catch up on his "To Watch" pile of movies.
Be Cool, Scooby-Doo! (2015-2017) – Review
Scooby-Doo, everyone’s favourite mystery-solving Great Dane, has been chasing ghosts (or being chased by them) for almost fifty years but with this twelfth incarnation of Scooby-Doo, the show takes a decidedly more comedic tone.
Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated (2010-2013) – Review
In 2010 Warner Bros Animation teamed up with the Cartoon Network to produce the eleventh, and possibly the best personification of Scooby-Doo and the gang, in a two-season series that basically works as a prequel to the original 1960s Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?
Laserblast (1978) – Review
There are low budget movies, there are next-to-nothing budgeted movies, and then there are movies like 1978’s Laserblast, which looked as if it’s budget consisted mostly of whatever loose change producer Charles Band managed to find under the seat cushions of a Tijuana brothel.
Eyes of Laura Mars (1978) – Review
Irvin Kershner’s Eyes of Laura Mars boasts a cast that suggests something far more refined than the pulpy thriller it ultimately delivers. Faye Dunaway and Tommy Lee Jones do what they can with material that teeters between stylish intrigue and outright absurdity. It all builds toward a twist that feels less like a clever reveal…