“When Man entered the atomic age, he opened a door into a new world. What we’ll eventually find in that new world, nobody can predict” and it was these chilling words that closed out the 1954 classic science-fiction film Them! and set the tone for many such films to follow, a genre filled with nuclear-created…
Author: Mike Brooks
Film grad who spends most his time trying to catch up on his "To Watch" pile of movies.
Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989) – Review
Right off the top it should be mentioned that at no point is Manhattan taken, Jason Voorhees does eventually make it to the Big Apple but not only does he fail to take the city it barely gets a bite taken out of it. So rest easy dear viewer, for when the end credits roll…
Wonder Woman 1984 (2020) – Review
In this much-anticipated sequel to director Patty Jenkins’s 2017 hit we get everyone’s favourite Amazon battling through the COVID-19 crisis to land her invisible jet on the nearest streaming platform – no theatre near me was showing this film – but is the magic back or has the DC Extended Universe stumbled again?
Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood (1988) – Review
The one thing that could be considered missing in the Friday the 13th franchise is a credible antagonist for Jason to fight, especially once he reached the stage where he was an undead supernatural monster, and this was something they intended to fix with the seventh installment in the franchise, a movie that would pit…
Gorgo (1961) – Review
When one thinks of a giant reptile rampaging through a city the first that comes to mind is, of course, the King of the Monsters himself Godzilla, but he is far from the only such creature – he wasn’t even close to being the first – and today we will be looking at Gorgo, an…