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You Only Live Twice (1967) – Review

Posted on June 29, 2021June 29, 2021 by Mike Brooks

What happens when you get the author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory to write the screenplay for a Bond film? As odd as that question sounds the world was treated to the answer in 1967 when children’s author Roald Dahl adapted Ian Fleming’s You Only Live Twice to the big screen.  With this film,…

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Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959) – Review

Posted on June 25, 2021May 24, 2023 by Mike Brooks

With the release of his novel Journey to the Center of the Earth in 1864 author Jules Verne broke new ground in the area of “Subterranean fiction” a genre that dates back as early Dante’s The Devine Comedy where the narrator enters a vast cavern to travel through the center of the Earth and out…

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Howling V: The Rebirth (1989) – Review

Posted on June 22, 2021October 28, 2023 by Mike Brooks

As a horror franchises go the Howling films are of a very different breed of dog as they’re mostly a series of fairly unconnected film that has the barest amount of loose continuity between them just so that the producers can claim they are all part of a franchise and not just a collection of…

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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954) – Review

Posted on June 18, 2021September 10, 2023 by Mike Brooks

Author Jules Verne has often been called the “Father of Science Fiction” and with such titles as From the Earth to the Moon and Journey to the Center of the Earth in his bibliography that’s a fair assumption but it was his novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea that is most heralded as the…

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Thunderball (1965) – Review

Posted on June 15, 2021October 11, 2023 by Mike Brooks

The fourth Bond film has a very interesting genesis as it was based on a book that originally started out as a screenplay by Jack Whittingham which was based on an original story by Kevin McClory, Jack Whittingham, and Ian Fleming. To say this led to some very complicated rights issues would be a massive…

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