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Wanted: Dead or Alive (1986) – Review

Posted on January 16, 2024January 5, 2024 by Mike Brooks

Running from the late 1950s to the early 1960s there was a Western television series called “Wanted Dead or Alive”  which was about a Confederate soldier turned bounty hunter in the Wild West of the 1870s starring Steve McQueen, flash forward to the late 1980s and we have a movie dealing with the descendant of…

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Never Too Young To Die (1986) – Review

Posted on January 12, 2024January 12, 2024 by Mike Brooks

In the 1980s it was Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone who were battling it out as to who could be the king of the action movie genre, each of them cutting a swath of destruction across cinemas worldwide, but in 1986 one young man entered the ring to challenge these two cinematic titans of testosterone…

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Runaway (1984) – Review

Posted on January 9, 2024January 10, 2024 by Mike Brooks

When it comes to depicting science and technology going horribly awry no one comes close to author Michael Crichton, with such entries like Westworld and Jurassic Park becoming cornerstones of the genre, but in 1984 he helmed a little-known sci-fi flick that pitted Tom Selleck and his trademark moustache against Gene Simmons and an array…

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Gymkata (1985) – Review

Posted on January 5, 2024January 5, 2024 by Mike Brooks

The blending of gymnastics and martial arts for an action movie certainly seems like a natural idea, Jackie Chan practically made a career out of it, but in 1985 director Robert Clouse adapted a short story by Dan Tyler Moore called “The Terrible Game” and the result was a terrible movie. But how can such…

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Invaders from Mars (1953) – Review

Posted on January 2, 2024December 30, 2023 by Mike Brooks

What could be more terrifying to a child than the idea that your parents aren’t actually your parents? This element of pure horror is infused throughout William Cameron Menzies’s science fiction classic – enough to give any kid nightmares – and it was this aspect that makes this film so memorable.  And sure, it has…

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