Hollywood loves a good disaster movie and one of the more popular sub-genres of this is the post-apocalyptic film, where heroes must survive in a topsy-turvy world after some natural or man-made disaster. In the case of Damnation Alley they decided to adapt a novel by science fiction author Roger Zelazny, a book that dealt with…
Author: Mike Brooks
Film grad who spends most his time trying to catch up on his "To Watch" pile of movies.
Exterminators of the Year 3000 (1983) – Review
In the 80s Road Warrior rip-offs almost became a genre of their own with such titles as Battle Truck, Hell Comes to Frogtown, and Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn littering the cinema landscape, but today’s entry is easily one of the most blatant.
Tarzan and the Valley of Gold (1966) – Review
When one thinks of Tarzan “Globetrotting Adventurer” is not the first thing that comes to mind but in this series, produced by Sy Weintraub, that’s exactly what Tarzan has become, and it’s actually quite a good idea. Elephants in trouble get help when Tarzan Goes to India, in Thailand, he helps put a boy on…
Black Moon Rising (1986) – Review
I dig car chase movies and who doesn’t love a great heist flick, the Fast & Furious movies certainly prove that these are two great tastes that taste great together.
Steel (1997) – Review
In 1992 one of the biggest events in comic-dom happened, Superman died, of course he didn’t stay dead, but his brief absence was filled by a group of Supermen, one being John Henry Irons, who donned power armour and high-tech weaponry and called himself Steel. In 1997 Warner Brothers made a live action movie based…