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…
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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.
Child of Glass (1978) – Review
Not all ghosts are hell-bent on dragging poor mortals to their deaths, some just want to find peace after roaming the spectral plain for ages, and it is this is the kind of ghost that we find in Disney’s Child of Glass, a made-for-television movie based on the book “The Ghost Belonged to Me” by…
Pumpkinhead (1988) – Review
When you think of iconic movie monsters you have Frankenstein’s monster, The Creature From the Black Lagoon, the xenomorph from Alien and the alien hunter from Predator, just to name a few, and the last one I mentioned was a creation of the late great creature effects genius Stan Winston. In a career spanning over…