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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.

Llana of Gathol: Edgar Rice Burroughs – Book Review

Posted on December 4, 2016December 1, 2016 by Mike Brooks

Llana of Gathol is the tenth and penultimate book in the Barsoom series and consists of four connected stories; “The Ancient Dead” (originally “The City of Mummies“), “The Black Pirates of Barsoom,” “Escape on Mars” (originally “Yellow Men of Mars”), and the “Invisible Men of Mars.“

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The Iron Giant: From Book to Screen

Posted on December 1, 2016May 14, 2019 by Mike Brooks

Over the years Brad Bird has become one of the more respected directors in the field of animation, even doing decent work in live action with Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol and Tomorrowland, but once upon a time, long before all this fame and fortune, he was just a recently fired animator from Disney.

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The Green Slime (1968) – Review

Posted on November 29, 2016November 14, 2024 by Mike Brooks

Remember when you were a kid and your mother gave you holy hell for tracking mud onto her freshly mopped floor? Now picture that moment on a space station only it’s not mud you’ve tracked in but alien protoplasm that quickly grows into a legion of monsters.

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Synthetic Men of Mars: Edgar Rice Burroughs – Book Review

Posted on November 27, 2016November 25, 2016 by Mike Brooks

There have been many versions of the “Beauty and the Beast” story since French novelist Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve published her book back in 1740, and in 1939 Edgar Rice Burroughs put his own spin on the tale, but he decided to leave out the Stockholm Syndrome element of the story.

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The Return of Godzilla (1984) – Review

Posted on November 24, 2016May 11, 2019 by Mike Brooks

Also known as Godzilla 1984 (or Godzilla 1985 if you were in North America) The Return of Godzilla was Toho’s reboot of the Godzilla series in the hopes of boosting dwindling ticket sales that the franchise had been getting of late.

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