Up until Steven Spielberg and Don Bluth teamed up here the typical dinosaurs you’d find rampaging across cinema screens were treated as either life-threatening monsters or simply large dumb prehistoric animals that were best avoided less one gets stepped on, but in 1988 Amblin Entertainment gave the world its first dinosaur story that was from…
Category: Reviews
Caveman (1981) – Review
In 1981 two films were released that were set during the dawn of mankind, with humanity struggling to survive in a hostile world where cavemen faced untold dangers at every turn, now, one of these films was a Canadian-French co-production called Quest for Fire, which told the story of a tribe of cavemen in search…
Thundarr the Barbarian (1980-1981) – Review
Created by Marvel Comics writer Steve Gerber and produced by animation house Ruby-Spears Productions the Saturday morning cartoon Thundarr the Barbarian may have only thrilled children for two years but forty years later and you will still find many fans of this animated classic, a series that could be considered the precursor to shows like…
Salvage 1 (1979) – Review
“Once upon a time, a junkman had a dream,” and that dream was to kick start a science fiction adventure series, of course, this was not actually the dream of a junkman but that of Salvage 1’s creator Mike Lloyd Ross, who had the notion of a program dealing with the wild adventures of a…
Josie and the Pussycats (2001) – Review
The fictional all-girl music group Josie and the Pussycats has had quite the storied history, with their origin dating back to the early 1960s as simple guest stars in Archie Comics, that is until eventually landing their own title and a competing Saturday morning cartoon in the 70s, but their rocky road to stardom wouldn’t…