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Author: Mike Brooks

Film grad who spends most his time trying to catch up on his "To Watch" pile of movies.

Live and Let Die (1973) – Review

Posted on January 19, 2021October 4, 2021 by Mike Brooks

With Bond entering the 70s he was struggling to feel relevant in what was a changing cinematic landscape, Connery’s Diamonds are Forever seemingly particularly out of touch, and with the blaxploitation era in full-swing, it wasn’t too surprising that producers Harry Saltzman and Albert R. Broccoli would try to capitalize on this growing genre. Of…

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Jason X (2001) – Review

Posted on January 15, 2021October 13, 2023 by Mike Brooks

When a long-running franchise reaches the point where the idea of “In Space” seems to be the only viable option it may be time to cash in the chips and call it a day, and this was the problem New Line Cinema was facing after the disappointing fan reaction to Jason Goes to Hell, yet…

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Tremors (1990) – Review

Posted on January 12, 2021January 11, 2021 by Mike Brooks

In what was basically a throwback to the creature-features of old director Ron Underwood and writers S.S. Wilson and Brent Maddock came up with an idea they first dubbed “Land Sharks” – which was basically Jaws on land – but where they would stray from that classic monster formula was in the protagonists who wouldn’t…

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Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday (1993) – Review

Posted on January 8, 2021January 8, 2021 by Mike Brooks

After the low box-office returns of Jason Takes Manhattan, Paramount Pictures decided that enough was enough and sold the character rights of Jason Voorhees to New Line Cinema. Now, it would make the most sense to any sane person that New Line would reboot the franchise, but instead, they made a Friday the 13th movie without Jason Voorhees.

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Them! (1954) – Review

Posted on January 5, 2021November 16, 2022 by Mike Brooks

“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…

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