What young boy wouldn’t want a robot as a best friend? This very idea is the premise for Brad Bird’s amazing animated film The Iron Giant but the concept dates back to 1954 and a low-budget science-fiction flick called Tobor the Great, a film that pits nefarious individuals against an 11-year-old boy and his robot…
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Future Cop: The Complete Series (1976-77) – Review
A decade before Robocop was patrolling the streets of Old Detroit ABC was trying to get their own robot cop to the masses, without much success. In May of 1976, ABC released a pilot movie called Future Cop; it was about a grizzled veteran street cop who finds himself partnered with an android.
Gunpla – An Introduction
Ever since the creation of plastic (well, maybe a bunch after), people have molded it to look like other things; cars, boats, airplane. All that jazz. Then at some point, giant robots got mainstream. Like, very mainstream. This is partially due to a show called “Mobile Suit Gundam“. And from that, as time went on,…
King Kong Escapes (1967) – Review
How do you top a film like King Kong vs Godzilla? Well, one step in the right direction is to make Kong’s nemesis a giant robot version of himself. There is so much to enjoy from a viewing of King Kong Escapes as it has something for all ages – when I was a kid…