It’s too bad this one wasn’t better. It could have been a lot of fun. Insttead, it’s releegated to cult status and is a delightful, but flawed romp. Arnold Schwarzenegger is obviously playing Conan, but they can’t call him Conan in this sword and sorcery adventure that introduced the world to Brigitte Nielsen, the towering,…
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The Shadow of the Gods (2021) – John Gwynne
The Shadow of the Gods, is the first book in a fantasy trilogy, collectively called The Bloodsworn Trilogy, that uses Norse mythology as it’s launching point. The gods are dead, their bones litter the landscape, trapping power within them. It is a world of magic and monsters and introduces the reader to a trio of…
Star Trek: The Haunted Asteroid (1973)
Gold Comics conintued to boldly go in July 1973, with their next Star Trek issue. The Haunted Asteroid featured a story by Arnold Drake, with art by Alberto Giolitti and Sal Trapani. It had another cover painting by George Wilson. The story’s opening splash page seems to suggest we’re in for a ghost story. How…
Dracula (1931) – George Melford
Sometimes there’s a glowing hole in my film education. I had no idea that Universal, in 1931, released two versions of Dracula, there was the iconic Bela Lugosi version which cast a long bat-shaped shadow over the entire 20th century, setting the standard for reserved, charming and well-dressed nosferatu. At the same time George Melford,…
Love and Monsters (2020) – Michael Matthews
The charming and likeable Dylan O’Brien stars in the adventure comedy Love and Monsters which serves as a bit of a coming-of-age tale for his character, Josh. Seven years ago, Earth was able to launch enough missiles to stop an asteroid from wiping out the planet, unfortunately, the chemicals used perverted the environment and mutated…
R.I.P.D. (2013) – Robert Schwentke
I wanted to see this movie when it first came out, but after it got a drubbing by the critics and the viewers I stayed away from it. Despite the casting of Jeff Bridges and Ryan Reynolds, this one didn’t hit with the audiences. But I finally gave in, and checked it out. And honestly…
Yokai Monsters: Along with Ghosts (1969) – Yoshiyuki Kuroda, and Kimiyoshi Yasuda
The third and final film in the Yokai Monsters series Along with Ghosts makes the monsters and ghosts almost a peripheral and unnecessary collection of characters. That being said, I enjoyed this one more than the second, which just seemed a little too light-hearted for me. This time out, the narrative follows a group of…
Yokai Monsters: 100 Monsters (1968) – Kimyoshi Yasuda
Wow, did I have fun with this one. I had never heard of it, but I do love a lot of J-horror, and this one definitely had an interesting sound to it, a Japanese monster movie with practical effects, costumes and a touch of animation, what’s not to like? The monsters are allowed to show…
Star Trek: Picard (2022) – Monsters, and Mercy
Monsters is probably my least favourite episode of Star Trek: Picard Season Two, and perhaps the whole series in general. It changes several things about Picard’s (Patrick Stewart) established past, though they can be argued the other way, the age of his mother, Yvette (Madeline Wise) when she died, there’s next to no mention of…
Star Trek: Invasion! First Strike (1996) – Diane Carey
Diane Carey launched a cross-generational story that swept through all four of the then-existing series, The Original Series, The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, and Voyager. Each novel featured a standalone story that connected with the other tales, and the first featured Captain Kirk and the crew of the USS Enterprise. Set a very short…
The Mind Reels 