The motive behind aliens visiting the Earth in movies varies from the benevolent and often misunderstood aliens, to the outright malevolent creatures with the destruction of mankind on their evil little minds, and in 1953 Universal released their first 3D picture with extra-terrestrial beings that kind of fell in the middle of that spectrum as…
Author: Mike Brooks
Film grad who spends most his time trying to catch up on his "To Watch" pile of movies.
Resident Evil : The Final Chapter (2017) – Review
Creating a movie franchise that lasts six films and spans fifteen years is no easy task, making it a “good” franchise is even trickier, add in the simple fact that there haven’t been very many good movies based of video game properties and it makes this achievement quite remarkable.
The Many Faces of Wonder Woman
Over the years Wonder Woman has gone through some remarkable changes, from being a groundbreaking superhero in a genre that was mostly an “all-boys club” to being a feminist icon supported by the likes of Gloria Steinem, and then to being a star of her own television show that ushered a generation of boys through…
The Six Million Dollar Man (1973) – From Book to Screen
In 1972 writer Martin Caidin wrote a speculative science fiction story called Cyborg, where astronaut and test pilot Steve Austin loses an eye, one arm, and both legs after a disastrous crash during a test flight but with advanced cybernetics, they are then able to replace them with bionic ones.
Rats: Night of Terror (1984) – Review
When it comes to post-apocalyptic movies they mostly fall into two categories; there is your Road Warrior type of film with its bands of leather-clad survivors battling to stay alive in a world ravaged by nuclear war or some such disaster, and then there is your modest science fiction outings like Damnation Alley where we…