When George Lucas penned the first script for Star Wars: A New Hope he liberally borrowed from Errol Flynn swashbucklers, Flash Gordon serials, and Akira Kurosawa’s The Hidden Fortress, now decades later we have Rogue One: A Star Wars Story which though dealing with the same galaxy “A long time ago and far far away”…
Tarzan and Friends: The Worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs
Edgar Rice Burroughs, a man who quit the pencil-sharpener wholesale business to give writing a stab, is most known for his creation of Tarzan of the Apes but that jungle swinging pulp hero was just the tip of the iceberg in the fertile imaginative mind of one of the 20th Centuries most influential writers.
Shin Godzilla (2016) – Review
Godzilla is no stranger to reboots, there have been several of them since the original film hit theaters back in 1954, and the nature of Godzilla himself has gone through many incarnations over the years, but the interesting thing here is those past reboots just wiped the slate clean of sequels while still considering the…
Lights Out (2016) – Review
Are you afraid of the dark? It’s plying on this age-old fear that has kept the horror industry in business, whether it be malevolent spirits or machete-wielding serial killers it’s the fear of what is hidden in the shadows that both terrifies us but also intrigues us.
John Carter of Mars: Edgar Rice Burroughs – Book Review
John Carter of Mars is the eleventh and final book in the Barsoom series and collects the two stories titled “John Carter and the Giant of Mars,” published in 1941 within the pages of Amazing Stories, and “The Skeleton Men of Jupiter,” published in 1943 also in Amazing Stories.