In this final installment of the Moon Trilogy Burroughs forgoes the previous opening format of having the author encounter Julien the 3rd to learn about the further adventures of the his descendants and instead jumps right into the story of Julien the 20th in the year 2430. Taking place three hundred years after the revolution…
Author: Mike Brooks
Film grad who spends most his time trying to catch up on his "To Watch" pile of movies.
Croczilla (2012) aka Million Dollar Crocodile – Review
Stories of Man vs Nature have been around since the dawn of time, ever since man first painted images of themselves fighting sabre-toothed cats on the walls of caves, but modern audiences now seem to be inundated with movies where some type of giant beastie is out to get us, sadly very few of them…
Deathstalker (1983) – Review
With the success of the fantasy film Sorceress it’s no surprise that Roger Corman would strike while the irons were hot and begin to churn out more of the barbarian/fantasy genre films. This time New World Pictures heads to Argentina where you could find skilled labour at low-budget prices and even better when you could…
The Moon Men: Edgar Rice Burroughs – Book Review
Originally titled by Burroughs as Under the Red Flag the second chapter of the Moon Trilogy was later re-titled The Moon Men with few key and drastic alterations.
Meteor (1979) – Review
For cinephiles, the 70s was the heyday of the disaster movie beginning in 1972 with Irwin Allen’s excellent film The Poseidon Adventure and ending with today’s feature, the less-than-stellar outing from American International Picture in an attempt to blend the Cold War political thriller with the elements of your standard disaster movie, and for that,…