It’s no secret that Vin Diesel is a fan of the role playing game Dungeons and Dragons, which is seriously cool, so it’s no surprise to learn that Mister Diesel would produce a movie based on one of his D&D characters, and to be fair what gamer wouldn’t love to see one of his D&D…
Author: Mike Brooks
Film grad who spends most his time trying to catch up on his "To Watch" pile of movies.
My Science Project (1985) – Review
In the 50s science fiction movies featured pipe-smoking scientists devising ways to get to other planets, while square-jawed heroes battled aliens and atomic enlarged insects, but in the 80s it was teenagers who took over the genre. It was high school kids who were creating life with Weird Science, travelling Back to the Future with…
The Son of Tarzan: Edgar Rice Burroughs – Book Review
News Flash! Tarzan and Jane actually had sex. Sure this is something we all assume they did (how else were they passing all that time in their treehouse?), but the MGM movies of the 30s and 40s couldn’t obviously show us steamy jungle love so we just had to assume what went on in the…
The Wave (2015) – Review
Norway is a gorgeous country, what with its magnificent mountains and beautiful fjords I’ve always assumed more people didn’t live there because of the danger of being eaten by trolls, but it turns out being wiped out by a tsunami is the real threat to life in limb to many Norwegians.
Hook’s Revenge by Heidi Schulz: Book Review
Do you like pirates? Does the thought of having a swashbuckling adventure on the high seas appeal to you? 12-year-old Jocelyn Hook certainly feels that way, though she has a huge advantage over the rest of us when it comes to achieving that goal being she is the daughter of the infamous Captain Hook.