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The Meg (2018) – Review

Posted on August 10, 2018August 10, 2018 by Mike Brooks

When making a killer shark movie there is one thing a filmmaker must first come to grips with — that you will not be making a film better than Spielberg’s Jaws; it’s just not going to happen, and with the release of Warner Brothers summer flick The Meg, it’s clear that director Jon Turteltaub understands…

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Doctor Detroit (1983) – Review

Posted on August 7, 2018May 8, 2019 by Mike Brooks

Remember the 80s, when prostitution consisted of wacky hijinks and hookers with a heart of gold, and not underage girls, abused and strung out on various drugs? Hollywood has had a long history with the “oldest profession,” and in a variety of depictions, such as the decidedly sanitized versions seen in Billy Wilder’s Irma la…

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Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018) – Review

Posted on August 3, 2018August 1, 2018 by Mike Brooks

There is a point in Mission: Impossible – Fallout where a character brings up a question that audience members have been asking themselves for over two decades, “How many times has Hunt’s government betrayed him, disavowed him, cast him aside? How long before a man like that has had enough?” Clearly, if it took this long…

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Jack the Giant Killer (1962) – Review

Posted on July 31, 2018November 6, 2023 by Mike Brooks

If imitation is the highest form of flattery, then special effects master Ray Harryhausen should have felt very flattered when producer Edward Small released his fantasy film Jack the Giant Killer back in 1962 – a film that not only borrowed elements from Harryhausen’s 1958 film The 7th Voyage of Sinbad but also its director…

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The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm (1962) – Review

Posted on July 27, 2018June 15, 2019 by Mike Brooks

Most people alive today are familiar with the Grimm fairy tales through their popular Disney incarnations – Uncle Walt having basically made a decades-long career producing animated classic based on those old tales – but in 1962, MGM studios tackled the subject matter with an interesting “biographical” approach: instead of animated versions of the Grimm’s…

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