Is that person in your house really your mom or dad, or have they been insidiously replaced by someone or something else? This element of horror hinges on the innocence and vulnerability of a child, an aspect well explored in such films as the 1953 Invaders From Mars, but in Goodnight Mommy writer and co-directors…
Author: Mike Brooks
Film grad who spends most his time trying to catch up on his "To Watch" pile of movies.
Tarzan the Ape Man (1932) – Review
When one thinks of the iconic characters of Tarzan and Jane most think of Johnny Weissmuller and Maureen O’Sullivan who starred in the early MGM Tarzan movies – Edgar Rice Burroughs himself was so enamored with Maureen O’Sullivan that he told the studio heads that Maureen should play the heroine in all movies based on…
Battlestar Galactica: Greetings from Earth – Review
“Greetings from Earth” was a special two hour episode that has the our ragtag fleet finally encountering the first humans that were not part of the original Twelve Colonies, unfortunately part of that encounter involves Space Nazis.
City Beneath the Sea (1971) – Review
Writer, producer, and director Irwin Allen is probably most known as the “Master of Disaster” because of his successes with such films as The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno, but in the 1960s he was most notably a producer of high adventure science fiction television shows. Programs such as Lost in Space, Voyage to…
Tarzan and the Trappers (1958) – Review
Tarzan and the Trappers is the result of producer Sol Lesser trying to get a Tarzan television series off the ground but when all three networks turned it down he decided to edit three pilots together into one 70 minute long black and white movie. Who cares if it’s a bit of a disjointed mess?