In The Magnificent Warriors we find writer/creator Glen A. Larson still lifting elements from popular movies, and in this case it’s back to westerns with a lame rip-off of The Magnificent Seven.
Author: Mike Brooks
Film grad who spends most his time trying to catch up on his "To Watch" pile of movies.
Parallels (2015) – Review
The idea of a “multiverse” is certainly nothing new; we’ve seen countless movies and books about alternate Earths and parallel universes, but in Parallels, a movie directed by Christopher Leone and from a story by Leone and Laura Harkcom, we are given a nice science fiction mystery that raises a lot of questions.
Lost on Venus: Edgar Rice Burroughs – Book Review
In this 1933 sequel to Pirates of Venus Burroughs continues the adventures of Carson Napier as he tries to win the love of the beautiful Duare, but in reality this book is a travelogue through various political ideologies. The last book ended with Napier being captured by the Thorists (not very thinly veiled communists) while…
Battlestar Galactica: The Gun on Ice Planet Zero – Review
Glen A. Larson and Donald P. Bellisario love movie mash-ups, in the episode The Lost Warrior we got a Shane rip-off with laser guns, but now in The Gun on Ice Planet Zero Larson and Bellisario put the blender on high speed as they manage to cram not one but three movies into this two-parter as…
Prom Night (1980) – Review
In the 80s if kids weren’t been stalked by knife-wielding lunatics through the woods they were most likely being chased by ax wielding nut cases through their school hallways.