Spiders have too many goddamn legs, and this simple truism has led the arachnid to be one of the chief villains in countless horror films over the years and during the 50s era of big insect attack films a movie called Tarantula was one of the better examples of that genre. It was this “magic”…
The Return of Tarzan: Edgar Rice Burroughs – Book Review
When one thinks of Tarzan the term “Secret Agent” does not immediately leap to mind, but in this first sequel that is exactly what Tarzan becomes.
Daredevil, Season 2 (2016) – Full Season Review
Sweet Jesus. Has it really been almost a year since Matt Murdock graced our TV screens on a Friday in April and proved to us that he was here to say? I could tell you exactly where I was and how I felt watching him in costume beat the shit out of seedy crooks in…
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016) – Review
Do you remember when comic book based movies were fun? I’d site Bryan Singer’s first X-Men movie as the beginning of this new age of superhero movies, as before that good comic based movies were few and far between sure we had Donner’s Superman films in the 70s and Tim Burton’s Batman films in the…
The Sword and the Sorcerer (1982) – Review
With the success of John Boorman’s Excalibur the movie-going public was treated to an onslaught of fantasy films of varying degrees of quality, mostly ranging from poor to terrible, but Albert Pyun’s directorial debut The Sword and the Sorcerer is a surprisingly decent offering. I’m not saying it’s a great example of the genre, the…