When it comes to alien invasion films Hollywood has a few good examples under their belt, with George Pal’s adaptation of War of the Worlds and Ray Harryhausen’s Earth vs. the Flying Saucers being particularly good entries, but in 1961 moviegoers were treated to a science fiction adventure film from Italy, one where mankind would…
Author: Mike Brooks
Film grad who spends most his time trying to catch up on his "To Watch" pile of movies.
The Boy Who Cried Werewolf (2010) – Review
Remaking a classic horror film is nothing new and has brought such classics as John Carpenter’s The Thing and David Cronenberg’s The Fly, but while those films were remakes of true classics of the genre the one we are looking at today is, at best, an in-name-only remake of the 1973 film The Boy Who…
Scooby-Doo! in Arabian Nights (1994) – Review
In the history of Scooby-Doo movies, which does cover a lot of ground, Scooby-Doo! in Arabian Nights has two very key noteworthy points, number one being that this would be the last movie production to be produced by its original creators at Hanna-Barbera Cartoons, afterwards, they would be produced by Warner Bros. Animation, and secondly,…
This Island Earth (1955) – Review
Aliens visiting Earth are rarely depicted as your typical friendly neighbours, for every E.T. the Extraterrestrial there are at least a dozen of the nasty Predators variety, but in 1955 we were treated to a group of aliens whose time on our Blue Planet was of a more complicated nature as it had a hidden…
Scooby-Doo! And Krypto, Too! (2023) – Review
Many fans of Scooby-Doo were saddened to hear of several projects being cancelled during the Warner Bros/Discovery tax write-off purge, including the animated feature Scooby-Doo! Holiday Haunt as well as the live-action Batgirl movie, and while those cancellations left many in mourning at least one item seems to have escaped the chopping block by being…