Science Fiction is certainly no rarity for Burroughs but his short novel Beyond Thirty is speculative fiction which is not his usual bailiwick. Written in 1915 and first published in All Around Magazine this story does not take place on Mar or Venus nor at the depths of the Earth’s core but over two hundred…
Author: Mike Brooks
Film grad who spends most his time trying to catch up on his "To Watch" pile of movies.
Interstellar (2014) – Review
Christopher Nolan is a very talented filmmaker; movies like The Prestige, Memento and The Dark Knight has put him on my list of all-time favourite directors, now his latest movie Interstellar moves just a bit out of his comfort zone but is still a damn fine movie.
Raise the Titanic (1980) – Review
Clive Cussler is an author of over 50 books, many of which have made it on the New York Times bestsellers list, but when it comes to translating them to the big screen things have not gone so well. Dirk Pitt, the hero of most of Cussler’s sea adventures, seems a natural candidate for a…
The Lad and the Lion: Edgar Rice Burroughs – Book Review
The Lad and the Lion is an interesting book as it not only tells the adventures stories of a young man with a lion but a parallel story about a small European country struggling with revolution, but strangely neither story has much impact on the other. Written in 1914 and first appearing as a three…
The Many Faces of The Incredible Hulk
In 1962 Marvel’s creative giants Stan Lee and Jack Kirby brought the world The Incredible Hulk a story owing much to Lee’s love of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and as Ben Grimm’s orange monstrous form in Lee and Kirby’s Fantastic Four comic was so…