Don Pendleton’s pulp action book series “The Executioner,” told the story of a Vietnam veteran and his wars against organized crime after his family was brutally killed by the Mafia, sound familiar? Yeah, it was this book series that Marvel comic book writer Gerry Conway took for inspiration when he created one of the most…
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The Trial of the Incredible Hulk (1989) – Review
With the ratings success of The Incredible Hulk Returns it was a no-brainer that NBC would want another Marvel Team-up, despite the fact that the previous film failed at its primary mission which was to serve as a backdoor pilot for a Thor series, but if at first you don’t succeed try, try again. This…
The Incredible Hulk Returns (1988) – Review
Superheroes crossing over into each other’s comics is certainly nothing new, the comic book Marvel Team-Ups was founded on that very premise, but when it came to live-action versions of these four-colour heroes that simply wasn’t the case, that is until the New World Television produced this made-for-television movie that brought the Asgardian hero Thor…
Alligator (1980) – Review
The urban legends surrounding the idea of alligators living in the sewer date back to the late 1920s and early 1930s, which makes it rather surprising that it took until 1980 for such an ideal subject matter to make its way into a horror movie. We got giant ants in the sewers back in 1954…
White Zombie (1932) – Review
The idea of a zombie apocalypse, with hordes of the undead roaming the Earth, is something the world owes to George Romero because his Night of the Living Dead took the basic idea of the zombie and left behind all of the mystical aspects of the zombie mythos, ditching the creature’s Haitian roots and their…