1993 was certainly an interesting year for Steven Spielberg for not only did he release his more than successful adaptation of Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park, a movie that brought dinosaurs brilliantly to the modern-day, but he also released the animated dinosaur movie We’re Back a Dinosaur’s Story, which was also about bringing dinosaurs to the…
Author: Mike Brooks
Jurassic Park (1993) – Review
Since almost the dawn of cinema, moviegoers have been treated to stories of man’s ongoing battle with dinosaurs, which is rather impressive considering that man and dinosaurs were separated by 65 million years, but the quality of these cinematic entries varied greatly from amazing works by Ray Harryhausen to lesser entries with fins glued to…
The Land Before Time (1988) – Review
Up until Steven Spielberg and Don Bluth teamed up here the typical dinosaurs you’d find rampaging across cinema screens were treated as either life-threatening monsters or simply large dumb prehistoric animals that were best avoided less one gets stepped on, but in 1988 Amblin Entertainment gave the world its first dinosaur story that was from…
Caveman (1981) – Review
In 1981 two films were released that were set during the dawn of mankind, with humanity struggling to survive in a hostile world where cavemen faced untold dangers at every turn, now, one of these films was a Canadian-French co-production called Quest for Fire, which told the story of a tribe of cavemen in search…
Thundarr the Barbarian (1980-1981) – Review
Created by Marvel Comics writer Steve Gerber and produced by animation house Ruby-Spears Productions the Saturday morning cartoon Thundarr the Barbarian may have only thrilled children for two years but forty years later and you will still find many fans of this animated classic, a series that could be considered the precursor to shows like…