When one hears the name Irwin Allen the title “Master of Disaster” leaps readily to mind as he was the man behind some of the greatest disaster movies of all time, such as The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno, but before that, he was a well-respected television producer with such classic shows as Lost…
Author: Mike Brooks
Film grad who spends most his time trying to catch up on his "To Watch" pile of movies.
You Only Live Twice (1967) – Review
What happens when you get the author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory to write the screenplay for a Bond film? As odd as that question sounds the world was treated to the answer in 1967 when children’s author Roald Dahl adapted Ian Fleming’s You Only Live Twice to the big screen. With this film,…
Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959) – Review
With the release of his novel Journey to the Center of the Earth in 1864 author Jules Verne broke new ground in the area of “Subterranean fiction” a genre that dates back as early Dante’s The Devine Comedy where the narrator enters a vast cavern to travel through the center of the Earth and out…
Howling V: The Rebirth (1989) – Review
As a horror franchises go the Howling films are of a very different breed of dog as they’re mostly a series of fairly unconnected film that has the barest amount of loose continuity between them just so that the producers can claim they are all part of a franchise and not just a collection of…
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954) – Review
Author Jules Verne has often been called the “Father of Science Fiction” and with such titles as From the Earth to the Moon and Journey to the Center of the Earth in his bibliography that’s a fair assumption but it was his novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea that is most heralded as the…