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First Blood: From Book to Screen

Posted on August 26, 2014April 29, 2019 by Mike Brooks

The story of Green Beret Vietnam veteran John Rambo started way back in 1972 with David Morrell’s successful novel titled First Blood, and then it took ten years for it to make its way to the big screen, but what is fascinating is that though the movie is almost structurally identical to the book, hitting almost…

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Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (2014) – Review

Posted on August 22, 2014January 27, 2022 by Mike Brooks

Once again we visit the dark and rain-slick streets of Frank Miller’s Sin City and along for the ride is our old pal Robert Rodriguez, so “Fasten your seat belts, it’s going to be a bumpy night.”

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The Company of Wolves (1984) – Review

Posted on August 21, 2014June 21, 2025 by Mike Brooks

Werewolf movies have never reached the popularity of vampire films – we probably have ten Dracula movies for every werewolf one – but for me the curse of lycanthropy has always been a more interesting idea than that of vampirism, as the werewolf is an intrinsically more tragic figure, not to mention that visually speaking…

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Hercules (1997) – Review

Posted on August 18, 2014September 26, 2024 by Mike Brooks

Disney films heavily mined fairy tales throughout the history of the studio but it wasn’t until the late nineties that they tackled Greek mythology for a feature film – that one segment of Fantasia notwithstanding – and with some fantastic art design by Gerald Scarfe and great songs by Alan Menken and David Zippel we…

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Batman: Assault on Arkham (2014) – Review

Posted on August 15, 2014August 15, 2014 by Isaac

I have a huge Geek crush on Harley Quinn. But who doesn’t. You can tell the creators of this film took that into account and built upon it.

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