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Swamp Thing (2019) – Review

Posted on August 23, 2019July 1, 2021 by Mike Brooks

In 1982, DC comics revived their Swamp Thing character to capitalize on Wes Craven’s Swamp Thing movie, but after a couple years, the book found itself nearing cancelation, with the title’s sales plummeting, so with nothing to lose, DC gave a relatively unknown English writer named Alan Moore free rein to revamp the title as…

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Cloak & Dagger (2018) Pilot Review

Posted on June 12, 2018June 10, 2018 by Mike Brooks

Marvel may be kicking butt and taking names with their Cinematic Universe – the latest Avengers movie having earned literally all the money – but on the small screen they haven’t been as consistently successful. With Netflix doing most of the heavy lifting on television – the less said about ABC’s Inhumans the better- one…

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The Mist (2017) Season One: Review

Posted on January 2, 2018March 24, 2023 by Mike Brooks

Adapting a novel to the big screen is never going to be easy, time constraints alone limit you a lot, but when doing it as a television show you can put as much or as little from the book as you’d like, case in point the 2017 adaptation of Stephen King’s The Mist for Spike…

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Gilligan’s Island: Gilligan Meets Jungle Boy (1965)

Posted on July 4, 2017November 15, 2022 by Mike Brooks

Gilligan’s Island aired for three years before being cancelled but in those three years the seven castaways had many wacky adventures while marooned on a deserted island, located somewhere in the Pacific Ocean, but what made their stay somewhat bearable was that they would occasionally encounter a variety of guest stars.

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Lost in Space: The Challenge (1966) – Review

Posted on May 12, 2017May 27, 2019 by Mike Brooks

Kurt Russell is no stranger to science fiction – long before taking the role of Peter Quill’s father in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 he’d appeared in such sci-fi offerings as Solider, Stargate and John Carpenter’s The Thing – but his first foray into the genre was way back 1966 as a guest star…

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