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A Game of Death (1945) – Review

Posted on January 7, 2025January 6, 2025 by Mike Brooks

By 1945 director Robert Wise had already made a name for himself having helmed such classics as Curse of the Cat People and The Body Snatcher – with 1944’s Mademoiselle Fifi being his one critical failure – and today we will be looking at his fourth feature film, A Game of Death, which was a…

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The Body Snatcher (1945) – Review

Posted on May 3, 2024May 2, 2024 by Mike Brooks

Working for RKO, producer Val Lewton brought to screen some startling moments of cinematic horror with such offerings as Cat People and I Walked with a Zombie to his credit, but in the case of The Body Snatcher, he and director Robert Wise were given the keys to the horror kingdom with Boris Karloff in…

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The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) – Review

Posted on March 29, 2022March 27, 2022 by Mike Brooks

When it comes to alien visitors the Earth does seem to attract a lot of the “evil invader” types because for every E.T. The Extraterrestrial or Starman we get a half-dozen aliens who have “regarded this Earth with envious eyes and slowly and surely, they drew their plans against us” but in 1951 director Robert…

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The Hindenburg (1975) – Review

Posted on August 16, 2016September 8, 2023 by Mike Brooks

Everyone knows what sank the Titanic (arrogance and ice) but the cause of the great airship disaster that was the Hindenburg remains a mystery to this very day.

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