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In Search of the Castaways (1962) – Review

Posted on April 7, 2017June 19, 2021 by Mike Brooks

With the success of Walt Disney’s adaptation of the Jules Verne classic 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, it’s no surprise that Disney would try and adapt more works by the world-renowned author, and so almost ten years since James Mason and Kirk Douglas wrestled with a giant squid aboard the Nautilus we got Haley Mills…

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Godzilla Raids Again (1955) – Review

Posted on April 4, 2017March 7, 2021 by Mike Brooks

What do you do when you’ve made an extremely successful movie but killed off the title character? This was the problem facing producer Tomoyuki Tanaka and director Motoyoshi Oda when they were tasked with making the follow up to the 1955 monster hit Gojira.

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Gojira (1954) – Review

Posted on March 28, 2017September 3, 2023 by Mike Brooks

In 1953 Ray Harryhausen introduced the world to the first atomic created monster with The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, spawning such follow up nuclear-created beasts like the giant ants from Them and the towering menace of The Amazing Colossal Man, but the Beast’s most famous descendant was Gojira (Godzilla to those in the English speaking…

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Beauty and the Beast (2017) – Review

Posted on March 24, 2017May 20, 2019 by Mike Brooks

As Disney continues with their trend of churning out live-action remakes of their animated films it’s no surprise that they’d tackle one of their biggest hits, but with Beauty and the Beast, this is the first time they’ve adapted one from the Disney Renaissance period.

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The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953) – Review

Posted on March 21, 2017May 11, 2025 by Mike Brooks

There is something about seeing a giant monster rampaging through city streets that stirs the imagination, from as far back as 1925’s The Lost World, where dinosaurs were let loose in the streets of London, to Warner Brother’s latest take on Japan’s biggest export Godzilla in 2014, that shows that we as a culture have…

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