Pitting these two cinematic titans is certainly nothing new as back 1962 King Kong vs. Godzilla thrilled audiences with these monstrous legends as they duked it out across Japan – well, it certainly thrilled me when I was a kid but experiences may vary – but now with Warner Bros. and their Legendary MonsterVerse we…
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Tarzan and Jane (2018) Season Two – Review
I was pleasantly surprised with what Netflix did with their version of Tarzan and Jane, ditching much of the baggage that had accumulated over a century of books, movies and television shows, all dealing with the world’s most famous jungle man, by taking the fresh premise of Tarzan and Jane meeting as teens and becoming…
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.
John Carter of Mars: Edgar Rice Burroughs – Book Review
John Carter of Mars is the eleventh and final book in the Barsoom series and collects the two stories titled “John Carter and the Giant of Mars,” published in 1941 within the pages of Amazing Stories, and “The Skeleton Men of Jupiter,” published in 1943 also in Amazing Stories.