With the success of Walt Disney’s adaptation of the Jules Verne classic 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, it’s no surprise that Disney would try and adapt more works by the world-renowned author, and so almost ten years since James Mason and Kirk Douglas wrestled with a giant squid aboard the Nautilus we got Haley Mills…
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The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953) – Review
There is something about seeing a giant monster rampaging through city streets that stirs the imagination, from as far back as 1925’s The Lost World, where dinosaurs were let loose in the streets of London, to Warner Brother’s latest take on Japan’s biggest export Godzilla in 2014, that shows that we as a culture have…
Kong: Skull Island (2017) – Review
For those of you who wanted to know what a mash-up of King Kong and Apocalypse Now would look like Legendary Pictures has done their best to answer that question with this second installment in their “MonsterVerse” series, which started back in 2014 with their American reboot of Godzilla, and pits Kong against Samuel L….
Tarzan and Jane (2017) Season One – Review
I’m what one might call a bit of a Tarzan nut, in fact, I’m a massive fan of most of Edgar Rice Burroughs’s works and it drives me crazy how often his writings are mucked up in the translation from book to screen. I’ve read and reviewed almost everything he’s written, having seen all the…
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.