It was in 1925 when the first giant monster rampaged across the silver screen, stunning audiences at the time with amazing prehistoric creations, that film was Arthur Conan Doyle’s Lost World, and it heralded a new age in cinema. Close on its heels was the 1933 classic King Kong, a film that still stands today…
Author: Mike Brooks
Film grad who spends most his time trying to catch up on his "To Watch" pile of movies.
Tarzan’s Quest: Edgar Rice Burroughs – Book Review
Originally published as a six-part serial called Tarzan and the Immortal Men, and released in Blue Book Magazine through 1935 and 1936, this book would be the last time we see Jane as a major character.
These Final Hours (2013) – Review
“Life is stronger than death,” states one of the characters from writer/director Zak Hilditch’s end of the world movie These Final Hours, but as a meteor has hit the Earth, and all life will be soon extinguished, that may be a nice sentiment but not all that accurate.
Harbinger Down (2015) – Review
When is a film an homage and when is it a blatant rip-off? This is a question most viewers will be pondering when viewing director/writer Alec Gillis and producer Tom Woodruff Jr.’s independently funded film Harbinger Down.
Tarzan and the Leopard Men: Edgar Rice Burroughs – Book Review
Tarzan has taken on many villains over the years, and in most cases, they are fictional creations from lost cities or are villainous treasure hunters, but in Tarzan and the Leopard Men, we get our hero tangling with a secret cult that actually operated in West Africa in early-to-mid 20th Century.