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War of the Worlds (2005) – Review

Posted on April 16, 2021October 18, 2023 by Mike Brooks

There have been several adaptations of H.G. Wells’s seminal book of aliens from Mars invading the Earth but only three have really stood the test of time, these would be the 1938 Orson Welles radio play, the 1953 film adaptation by legendary producer George Pal and finally, the Steven Spielberg production released back in 2005,…

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War of the Worlds (1953) – Review

Posted on April 13, 2021January 1, 2025 by Mike Brooks

When H.G. Wells, the grandfather of science fiction, released his serialized story of War of the Worlds he not only created one of the best examples of the genre but also a template for all the alien invasion books and movies for generations to come, and his book itself has been adapted many times from…

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Them! (1954) – Review

Posted on January 5, 2021November 16, 2022 by Mike Brooks

“When Man entered the atomic age, he opened a door into a new world. What we’ll eventually find in that new world, nobody can predict” and it was these chilling words that closed out the 1954 classic science-fiction film Them! and set the tone for many such films to follow, a genre filled with nuclear-created…

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Barbarella (1968) – Review

Posted on December 1, 2020December 14, 2024 by Mike Brooks

Adapting comic books to the big screen is nothing new but in 1968 producer Dino De Laurentiis and director Roger Vadim weren’t interested in the likes of Batman or Superman, instead, they set their sights on a French science-fiction comic book about a space-going heroine who solved many her problems through her sexual liberation. This…

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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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