From Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce to Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law, cinema has produced no shortage of takes on the world’s most famous detective and his steadfast companion, Dr. Watson. Some versions stick closely to Conan Doyle’s text, while others sprint off in their own, more enthusiastic directions. Then, in 1985, Barry Levinson…
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Grizzly (1976) – Review
Following the success of Spielberg’s summer blockbuster Jaws, the cinema was quickly flooded with killer shark movies but one of the most blatant rip-offs didn’t involve a shark or even take place in the water as this movie dealt with “18 feet of gut-wrenching, man-eating terror!” and by that I mean William Girdler’s Grizzly, a…
We’re Back! A Dinosaur’s Story (1993)
1993 was certainly an interesting year for Steven Spielberg for not only did he release his more than successful adaptation of Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park, a movie that brought dinosaurs brilliantly to the modern-day, but he also released the animated dinosaur movie We’re Back a Dinosaur’s Story, which was also about bringing dinosaurs to the…
Jurassic Park (1993) – Review
Since almost the dawn of cinema, moviegoers have been treated to stories of man’s ongoing battle with dinosaurs, which is rather impressive considering that man and dinosaurs were separated by 65 million years, but the quality of these cinematic entries varied greatly from amazing works by Ray Harryhausen to lesser entries with fins glued to…
The Land Before Time (1988) – Review
Up until Steven Spielberg and Don Bluth teamed up here the typical dinosaurs you’d find rampaging across cinema screens were treated as either life-threatening monsters or simply large dumb prehistoric animals that were best avoided less one gets stepped on, but in 1988 Amblin Entertainment gave the world its first dinosaur story that was from…