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Author: Mike Brooks

Film grad who spends most his time trying to catch up on his "To Watch" pile of movies.

The Eternal Savage: Edgar Rice Burroughs – Book Review

Posted on April 12, 2015December 4, 2016 by Mike Brooks

The Eternal Savage could be considered one of the more “out there” stories by Edgar Rice Burroughs as although it has many of the elements and tropes of his other books, this one comes across more Twilight Zone-ish than one might expect.

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La Belle et la Bête (2014) aka Beauty and the Beast – Review

Posted on April 9, 2015October 16, 2021 by Mike Brooks

Bringing a fairy tale to life outside of an animated film is no easy task but director Christophe Gans is following in the steps of Jean Cocteau who adapted Beauty and the Beast way back in 1946, and so with today’s technology it should be much easier to accomplish… right?

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Disney’s Beauty and the Beast vs Jean Cocteau’s La Belle et la Bête

Posted on April 6, 2015February 23, 2025 by Mike Brooks

One could say that the story of Beauty and the Beast is a “Tale as old as time” as it has been told in varying degrees many times over the years from live-action theatrical releases to television shows to animated juggernauts.

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Savage Pellucidar: Edgar Rice Burroughs – Book Review

Posted on April 5, 2015March 20, 2015 by Mike Brooks

Savage Pellucidar is the last of the “hollow earth” stories by Burroughs and like Land of Terror it is more of a collection of loosely connected short stories than a novel; The Return to Pellucidar, Men of the Bronze Age and Tiger Girl and Savage Pellucidar. This book was not published until twelve years after…

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Furious 7 (2015) – Review

Posted on April 2, 2015May 28, 2023 by Mike Brooks

If back in 2001 someone told me there would be six sequels and counting about an undercover cop and the world of street racing I’d have told them they’d been inhaling too much exhaust fumes, but low and behold the Fast and the Furious franchise is still going strong.

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