There have been several incarnations of Mary Shelley’s famous monster over the years from James Whale to Kenneth Branagh, and being that in the last ten years there has been decent money made off of re-inventing the classic monsters it’s no surprise that the producers of the Underworld series would have a go at Shelley’s…
Author: Mike Brooks
Film grad who spends most his time trying to catch up on his "To Watch" pile of movies.
Captain America (1979) – Review
Captain America was created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby as an answer to Adolph Hitler but has since then grew out of his WWII origins to team-up with modern heroes to eventually end up leading The Avengers, thus we now have Captain America the heroic icon of honor and perseverance. Steve Rogers does not…
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014) – Review
Marc Webb brings us his second installment in his Spider-Man saga and for me it landed with a big halting thud, a one hundred and forty-two-minute long thud. This time out Spider-Man tries to give us more banter and quips than what we got in all three of the Sam Raimi films, and we do…
The Spectacular Spider-Man: The Complete Series – Review
With Sony Pictures crapping the bed with numerous “Spider-Man” associated projects, and only the Spider-Verse movies getting any respect from fans and critics, let us take a look back at one of the other shining moments in Spider-Man’s history, one that is also and animated adventure.
Super Friends: “The Power Pirate”
In 1973 kids everywhere were overjoyed that their favorite superheroes were coming to Saturday morning cartoons, produced by the giants of televised animation Hanna-Barbera, comic fans were finally able to see the likes of Batman and Superman battling the forces of evil…well, to be honest they mainly inconvenienced the forces of evil (and by…