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Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977) – Review

Posted on February 13, 2024June 24, 2024 by Mike Brooks

If the idea of seeing the great James Earl Jones in a locust costume sounds appealing then have I got a film for you. As everyone knows, sequels are fairly dodgy propositions as the failures greatly outnumber the success, for every Godfather Part II we have dozens of films like Speed 2 and Highlander II:…

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The Exorcist (1973) – Review

Posted on February 9, 2024February 6, 2024 by Mike Brooks

Horror stories can take place in a variety of places, from an isolated cabin in the woods to a Gothic manor full of dark hallways and mystery, but one of the scariest locations in cinema history is that of a 12-year-old girl’s bedroom. Based on William Peter Blatty’s novel of the same name, director William…

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Dreamscape (1984) – Review

Posted on December 31, 2021December 29, 2021 by Mike Brooks

Long before Christopher Nolan was incepting Leonardo DiCaprio into people’s dreams a little film by Joseph Ruben called Dreamscape had pretty much done that very same thing, mind you, with an incredibly lower budget and a lot less metaphysical mumbo jumbo to confound the viewer, nonetheless, it turned out to be an interesting if problematic…

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Never Say Never Again (1983) – Review

Posted on August 10, 2021August 10, 2021 by Mike Brooks

Twelve years after departing the franchise, for the second time, Sean Connery returned to go head-to-head with the official Eon Production’s Bond film, Octopussy, in what was is considered a non-canon remake of Connery’s 1965 Bond outing Thunderball – due to a successful lawsuit by producer Kevin McClory which allowed him to maintain the movie…

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Flash Gordon (1980) – Review

Posted on October 9, 2020August 19, 2023 by Mike Brooks

In the early 70s, a young filmmaker by the name of George Lucas wanted to make an exciting space opera that harkened back to the serials of Flash Gordon that he grew up watching, unfortunately, securing the licensing rights to the stories of Flash Gordon’s adventures ended up being strangely difficult to obtain so he…

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