For one who was not a fan of the first Mission Impossible by Brain De Palma – I’ll never forgive him for making Jim Phelps the villain – and less said of John Woo’s attempt the better, but I’ve really enjoyed these later installments.
Author: Mike Brooks
Film grad who spends most his time trying to catch up on his "To Watch" pile of movies.
Battlestar Galactica: The Young Lords – Review
We’ve already seen a couple of Space Western planets – ripping off Shane and The Magnificent Seven – so for the episode The Young Lords it’s nice to see Glen A. Larson and Donald Bellisario giving us a Space Medieval Fantasy planet for a change.
Warlock (1989) – Review
“He comes from the past to destroy the future.” This was the tagline for Steve Miner’s supernatural thriller Warlock and it owes a little to James Cameron’s The Terminator as it also has a hero chasing the villain through time and landing in modern-day California. The difference here being magic instead of science.
Escape on Venus: Edgar Rice Burroughs – Review
This installment was published in Fantastic Adventures between 1941 and 1942 just as our world was readying itself for a global war, and elements of this certainly slip into Burroughs’ writings.
Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No! (2015) – Review
No one expects a SyFy original movie to be good, and back in 2013 when the first Sharknado aired it affirmed that fact, and then for some strange reason it we got Sharknado 2: The Second One which was also bad but gained a little love by embracing the goofiness of it all, and now…