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The Fly and Science Fiction Horror (1958 – 1989)

Posted on June 10, 2025June 7, 2025 by Mike Brooks

The history of The Fly in film is a fascinating journey of horror, science fiction, and transformation, while spanning decades of cinematic innovation. Originating from a short story by George Langelaan, The Fly has morphed into a cultural icon through its various iterations on the big screen. Versions of this story have often reflected the…

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The Airport Franchise (1970 -1979) Four Classic Disaster Movies

Posted on June 6, 2025June 5, 2025 by Mike Brooks

It was in the 1970s that we saw the true beginning of the disaster movie genre because while films of catastrophic destruction had been around since almost the beginning of the medium itself it was during this period that the genre literally exploded, where Irwin Allen became known as the “Master of Disaster” but it…

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The Time Tunnel (1966-1967) – Review

Posted on June 3, 2025June 3, 2025 by Mike Brooks

Irwin Allen may have been known as The Master of Disaster, giving the world such theatrical classics as The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno, but he was also a powerful force on television with such great shows as Lost in Space, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea and Land of the Giants, and…

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Zero Woman: Red Handcuffs (1974) – Review

Posted on May 30, 2025May 29, 2025 by Mike Brooks

In the 1960s, a rather bizarre genre exploded into Japanese theatres called “Pink Films,” which were movies produced by independent studios that included nudity (hence ‘pink’) and most often dealt with sexual content. Then, in the 1970s, major studios started producing a line of what came to be known as “Pinky Violence films,” and while…

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Branded to Kill (1967) – Review

Posted on May 27, 2025May 25, 2025 by Mike Brooks

Seijun Suzuki’s Branded to Kill is not your typical gangster film, nor is it your typical anything. This 1967 film is not just a crime thriller – though it does feature the yakuza and a variety of hitmen – it’s more a fever dream where the boundaries between reality and fantasy blur, creating a cinematic…

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