In 2003 Eric Kripke was hungry to get anything into production – his hit show Supernatural was still on the horizon – so when his pitch for an updated Tarzan series – with Jane as a police detective and Tarzan on the run from an evil uncle – he was at first happy that it…
Author: Mike Brooks
Film grad who spends most his time trying to catch up on his "To Watch" pile of movies.
Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead (2014) – Review
“This morning I shot my wife and child with a nail gun.” This line is from the film’s main protagonist and pretty much sets the tone for brothers Kiah and Tristan Roache-Turner’s Australian zombie movie Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead. It is a dark film but with a deeply twisted sense of humor, which is…
“Heil Honey I’m Home!” (1990) TV Pilot of the Damned
The history of television is littered with many shows that fall into the category of “What the hell were they thinking?” but none as bizarre as “Heil Honey I’m Home!” a British sitcom about the wacky hijinks of Adolph Hitler and his wife Eva Braun. Sounds like a great premise, right?
Tarzan: The End of the Beginning (2003) – Review
We now find ourselves at the last episode of the 2003 Tarzan television series, with the episode titled The Beginning of the End. The show’s abrupt cancellation, after only eight episodes, didn’t even allow the show a chance to go out with a bang, instead, it went with a sad little whimper.
Extinction (2015) – Review
“It’s the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine.” Those lyrics by R.E.M pretty much sum up one of the biggest genres currently flooding the media these days, the zombie apocalypse. From the early days of George Romero’s seminal classic Night of the Living Dead to AMC’s hit show The…