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The Absent-Minded Professor (1961) – Review

Posted on November 17, 2016February 12, 2023 by Mike Brooks

Long before Doc Brown was installing a time-travelling device inside a DeLorean Professor, Ned Brainard was outfitting his Model T with an anti-gravity material in this Disney classic from 1961which is a perfect example of the trope of the befuddled scientist that the movie was named after and Fred MacMurray played the part brilliantly, and…

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A Fighting Man of Mars: Edgar Rice Burroughs – Book Review

Posted on November 13, 2016March 30, 2018 by Mike Brooks

The only thing possibly more dangerous than love at first sight is walking through a palace garden on Mars. In this seventh book in the Martian Tales by Burroughs, first released in the pages of Blue Book Magazine in 1930, we find our hero falling immediately for a pretty face, and said pretty face is…

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The Master Mind of Mars: Edgar Rice Burroughs – Book Review

Posted on November 6, 2016November 5, 2016 by Mike Brooks

The Martian tales by Edgar Rice Burroughs can almost be considered an anthology series by this point; in the first few books we followed the adventures of Earthman John Carter as he explored this new world while falling in love with the beautiful Dejah Thoris

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Thuvia, Maid of Mars: Edgar Rice Burroughs – Book Review

Posted on October 23, 2016October 31, 2016 by Mike Brooks

Winning ones true love is a difficult thing, if you find yourself in a story written by Edgar Rice Burroughs it’s about four times as hard. In the fourth of the Barsoom books Burroughs sets aside the heroic John Carter and instead we have his son Carthoris fighting across the desert lands of Mars.

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The Stepford Wives: From Book to Screen

Posted on October 11, 2016May 26, 2024 by Mike Brooks

The term “Stepford Wife” entered the world’s lexicon shortly after author Ira Levin’s book was published back in 1972, and I’d say more people are familiar with the term and it’s meaning (i.e. a woman who seems to conform blindly to an old-fashioned subservient role in relation to her husband) than they are with the…

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