Modernizing Little Orphan Annie is certainly not a bad idea as one would have a hard time releasing a movie today featuring a war profiteer who rails against organized labour and is portrayed as an idealized capitalist and not be the film’s bad guy. Adopting a dozen red-headed moppets couldn’t soften that image for today’s…
Author: Mike Brooks
Film grad who spends most his time trying to catch up on his "To Watch" pile of movies.
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014) – Review
I don’t think you will find too many people that will dispute the fact that the book The Hobbit in no way warranted three movies let alone three overly long movies, but with Middle-earth source material drying up the studios convinced Peter Jackson to help them make as much money as possible. The parallel between MGM…
Santa Claus: The Movie (1985) – Review
As genres go Christmas movies are sadly more miss than hit, for every Miracle on 34th Street we get a dozen films like Santa Claus Conquerors the Martian, and in 1985 the men who brought us Superman: The Movie decided to take a stab at the Christmas movie, and with Supergirl director Jeannot Szwarc at…
The People That Time Forgot: Book vs Movie
Nestled inside the world’s largest volcanic crater is the land of Caspak. Its jungles teaming with countless varieties of prehistoric life, and it is in this terror-fuelled land that adventurer Tom Billings must look to find his lost friend, Bowen Tyler. Edgar Rice Burroughs returns us to this mysterious world where evolution has been turned…
Sorceress (1982) – Review
Fantasy films of today, with their epic scope and amazing visual effects, bear little resemblance to the Sword & Sorcery movies of the ’80s that I grew up with, still they were vastly entertaining and I will always have a soft spot for them, but today’s entry is one that I completely missed…until now.