Since the first dinosaur fossil was unearthed people of all ages have been fascinated with these giant prehistoric creatures that once dominated the Earth and back in the Victorian Era parks in England were populated by menageries of lifelike dinosaur sculptures, of varying degrees of accuracy, but it’s when the motion picture industry was born…
Category: Reviews
Dinosaur (2000) – Review
Back in the late 80s, stop-motion artist Phil Tippett recommended to director Paul Verhoeven a “dinosaur picture” that would take a more naturalistic approach to the subject matter, none of that talking dinosaur nonsense found in The Land Before Time, but years later, with Disney Studios now attached, things took a bit a departure from…
Theodore Rex (1995) – Review
There has been many a Buddy Cop movie over the years, from the likes of Lethal Weapon and Tango and Cash to less than stellar attempts such as Cop and a Half and Top Dog, the latter pairing Chuck Norris with a sheepdog, but when it comes to Buddy-Cop films there is one film that…
Dinosaur Island (1994) – Review
When Roger Corman’s Carnosaur made some nice pocket change this legendary B-movie producer turned to Jim Wynorski and Fred Olen Ray to come up with another film that could also cash in on the dinosaur buzz surrounding Steven Spielberg’s colossal hit, but instead of a Jurassic Park rip-off what Wynorski and Ray decided to make…
Prehysteria! (1993) – Review
One can’t help but admit that 1993 was a helluva year for dinosaur movies as not only did it see the release of Steven Spielberg’s groundbreaking film Jurassic Park but also his animated dino-pic We’re Back! A Dinosaur’s Story and then we also got the first installment of Roger Corman’s Carnosaur franchise, but one film…