When one looks at the more than five decades of films that make up the career of Fritz Lang it’s hard to think of any other filmmaker who has accomplished so much and influenced so many, becoming a legend in his home Weimar Germany and then later in Hollywood, and though when the name “Fritz…
Author: Mike Brooks
Film grad who spends most his time trying to catch up on his "To Watch" pile of movies.
Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins (1985) – Review
Based on The Destroyer pulp paperback series, Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins was a film that Orion Pictures had hoped would spawn a new action film franchise, not only did they hire James Bond writer Christopher Wood to pen the script but they also brought in Bond director Guy Hamilton to helm the project, so…
Jack Frost 2: Revenge of the Mutant Killer Snowman (2000) – Review
It’s fair to say that a filmmaker who sits down to make a horror film may have the slight hope that his little offering will spawn a franchise like Friday the 13th or, to a lesser extent, even something like The Howling franchise, but the 1997 release of the horror film Jack Frost didn’t quite…
Jack Frost (1997) – Review
It should be made clear that at no point, in this movie, does Michael Keaton come back to life as a snowman to reconnect with his son, that is a completely different movie, though horrifying in its own right, while the film we will be looking at today is a low-budget slasher flick that came…
Ray Harryhausen: The Titan of Special Effects
Today with but a few keystrokes on a computer you can conjurer up anything that the mind could possibly imagine yet many of these modern creations pale in comparison to the practical special effects orchestrated decades earlier by a talented group of effects artists who pioneered the field of special effects, and the king of…