When it comes to remakes the danger of incurring the wrath of fans of the original is ever-present and in the case of Irwin Allen’s The Poseidon Adventure, a beloved classic of the disaster genre, the danger was even greater, so director Wolfgang Petersen took the basic premise of “A ship hit by a rogue…
Author: Mike Brooks
Film grad who spends most his time trying to catch up on his "To Watch" pile of movies.
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008) – Review
Up for some high adventuring fun, action-packed sequences and heroes you can really get behind? Then I suggest you go see The Lego Movie again and skip this mess.
Dogs (1976) – Review
I’m not sure if director Burt Brinckerhoff was trying to rip-off Hitchcock’s The Birds or Speilberg’s Jaws, the only thing to be sure of is that he failed to deliver one single cohesive moment in his entire film…so in that way it is kind of a frightening movie. I’ll give him a little credit for…
The Adventures of Superman (1952–1958) – Review
Superman has seen many incarnations from movie serials to cartoons to blockbuster movies, Bryan Singer gave us his love letter to Richard Donner films, with Brandon Routh basically playing Superstalker, while most recently we had Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel which gave us a “hero” with a higher body count than most super-villains have ever…
Deep Impact (1998) – Review
In 1998 we were treated to two big disaster movies, both involving a comet heading for Earth, and while many people took great joy in poking fun at Michael Bay’s Armageddon, I’d be the first to agree that it was utterly stupid if fun film, but as dumb as it was it never took itself…