Almost twenty years stood between Bryan Singer’s Superman Returns and the last Superman movie, the laughable bad Superman IV: The Quest for Peace, so audiences were more than ready for a good theatrical Superman movie, and don’t get me wrong, what we got was a marketed improvement over that atrocity, unfortunately, it wasn’t without issues…
Author: Mike Brooks
Film grad who spends most his time trying to catch up on his "To Watch" pile of movies.
Captain America II: Death Too Soon (1979) – Review
After the network’s first attempt at a Captain America movie failed at getting a series off the ground they headed right back to the drawing board for another go, and thus, later that very same year, they took another swing at the bat. It also failed.
X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014) – Review
Before the year 2000 superhero films didn’t get a lot of respect, in the 70s we had Richard Donner’s Superman: The Movie and in the 80s Tim Burton’s Batman, but aside from those rare success stories the superhero genre never really took off. Then came Bryan Singer, his X-Men movie not only received mostly…
Pompeii (2014) – Review
I love disaster movies. Weather catastrophes, geological upheavals or cosmic threats it doesn’t matter I love them all. Now throw that all into a Sword & Sandal flick and you’ve almost no chance of disappointing me. So it would seem that director Paul W.S. Anderson made a film with just me in mind. So how…
Godzilla (2014) – Review
Since Gojira in 1954, there have been many Godzilla films. Ranging from the dramatic and terrifying allegory of nuclear destruction, showcased in the original, to the out and out goofiness; with such installments as Godzilla vs Hedorah, where silliness sat right alongside an ecological message, or with the likes of Godzilla vs Gigan, where the…