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…
Author: Mike Brooks
Film grad who spends most his time trying to catch up on his "To Watch" pile of movies.
Thunderball (1965) – Review
The fourth Bond film has a very interesting genesis as it was based on a book that originally started out as a screenplay by Jack Whittingham which was based on an original story by Kevin McClory, Jack Whittingham, and Ian Fleming. To say this led to some very complicated rights issues would be a massive…
The Lost World (1925) – Review
When one thinks of author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle most will simply consider him the father of Sherlock Holmes, one of literature’s greatest detectives, but what many don’t know is that he practically birthed the dinosaur adventure genre and filmmakers like Ray Harryhausen and Steven Spielberg owe a great debt to him. Published in 1912…
Howling IV: The Original Nightmare (1988) – Review
What do you do when your horror franchise has gone so far off the rail that it is barely recognizable from whence it came? To screenwriters Freddie Rowe and Clive Turner the obvious answers was to get back to the basics and return to the source material, in this case, that meant trying to make…
Ninja III: The Domination (1984) – Review
You can pick up a lot of interesting pieces of information by watching movies – you can learn about great moments in history or about how important it is not to run upstairs when a serial killer is chasing you – but it was with the viewing of 1984’s Cannon film classic Ninja III: The…