Clive Cussler is an author of over 50 books, many of which have made it on the New York Times bestsellers list, but when it comes to translating them to the big screen things have not gone so well. Dirk Pitt, the hero of most of Cussler’s sea adventures, seems a natural candidate for a…
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The Many Faces of The Incredible Hulk
In 1962 Marvel’s creative giants Stan Lee and Jack Kirby brought the world The Incredible Hulk a story owing much to Lee’s love of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and as Ben Grimm’s orange monstrous form in Lee and Kirby’s Fantastic Four comic was so…
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947) – Review
Going by the cinema today all ghosts are trying to possess you, drive you mad or drag you to hell if not all three but this was not always the case. In 1945 author Josephine Leslie under the pseudonym of R. A. Dick penned a beautiful story about a widow and a ghost and their…
The Many Faces of Godzilla
Tarzan, Sherlock Holmes and James Bond have each been portrayed by several actors and with vastly differing styles but to me Godzilla stands above all as being the most varied movie icon of all time. So today we take a look back across the ages at the many incarnations of Godzilla to see what makes…
Free Birds (2013) – Review
Yesterday was Community Day at Cineplex. I decided to take my brother to see Free birds as a treat and it shocked me.