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Shuker In MovieLand

Shuker In MovieLand is a film-themed blog of mine in which I channel my longstanding passion for movies of many kinds into an ongoing series of thought-provoking self-penned film reviews and recollections. Below is a complete clickable listing of my review articles posted so far in Shuker In MovieLand (click here to access this blog):

• Orc Wars (aka Dragonfyre) (7 June 2025)
• The Artifice Girl (19 April 2025)
• Like A Bat Outta Hell (aka Bat Outta Hell aka Nowhere Else (31 March 2025)
• "Bring Me the Head of King Kong!" - From the Empire State Building To a Scottish Pantomime? (26 February 2025)
• Track of the Moon Beast (31 January 2025)
• A Thousand Words (23 December 2024)
• From a Millionairess and a Million Pound Note to a Good Lookin' Bakshi Movie and More! (17 December 2024)
• The Giant Claw, and So Much More! Mini-Reviewing Another Six Science Fiction and Fantasy Movies (27 November 2024)
• Fantasia and the Mandela Effect? Recalling a Perplexing Movie Mystery From My Childhood (24 November 2024)
• Guns Akimbo (9 November 2024)
• Society (19 October 2024)
• Cryptozoo (15 October 2024)
• Mad God (12 October 2024)
• The Primevals (29 September 2024)
• La Passione (27 September 2024)
• Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (25 September 2024)
• From Frankenfish, Octaman, and a Planet of Apes, to a Robotic War Dog, the Last Lovecraft, and a Weird World Where Strings are the Things! - Or, Reviewing a Scintillating Six-Pack of Science Fiction and Fantasy Films! (23 September 2024)
• Jack the Giant Killer (1962) (20 September 2024)
• Small Soldiers (16 September 2024)
• Spring (14 September 2024)
• Lost Time (aka Body Snatchers) (13 September 2024)
• Sorry To Bother You (4 September 2024)
• Limbering Up For Lambada Movies! (22 August 2024)
• The Burnt Orange Heresy (8 July 2024)
• When The Quiff Was King (5 July 2024)
• Cool World (3 July 2024)
• Shuker In MovieLand Meets Fortean Times! Sharing Some Monstrously-Entertaining Creature Feature Reviews! (9 June 2024)
• Moonchild (11 May 2024)
• The Bronx Warriors (aka 1990: The Bronx Warriors aka The Riffs) (23 April 2024)
• Cabin Boy (14 April 2024)
• The Battle of the Mods (aka Crazy Baby) (5 April 2024)
• A.I. Artificial Intelligence (31 March 2024)
• Day of Reckoning (31 December 2023)
• The Ash Lad: In the Hall of the Mountain King (31 December 2023)
• Gemini Man (1976 TV show) (29 December 2023)
• Titans and Giants and Monsters - Oh My!! (28 December 2023)
• Alexander the Greatest (28 December 2023)
• Chico and the Man (27 December 2023)
• The Pyramid (26 December 2023)
• Not Quite Jerusalem (aka Not Quite Paradise) (25 December 2023)
• The Night The Animals Talked (25 December 2023)
• Razortooth (24 December 2023)
• Carnifex (18 December 2023)
• Teen Wolf Too (12 December 2023)
• The Wizard of Oz (silent b/w 1925 version) (7 December 2023)
• Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart (5 December 2023)
• The Bite (aka Curse II: The Bite) (3 December 2023)
• A Portable Door, and So Much More! A Scintillating Six-Pack of Sci Fi/Fantasy Movie Mini-Reviews (1 December 2023)
• The Nightmare Before Christmas (29 November 2023)
• Vienna Waits For You (aka Lace) (28 November 2023)
• Real Steel (26 November 2023)
• Drop Dead Fred (19 November 2023)
• Click (2006) (14 November 2023)
• The Twonky (9 November 2023)
• Soulkeeper (5 November 2023)
• Colossus: The Forbin Project (1 November 2023)
• Wonderwell (18 October 2023)
• Arthur and the Invisibles (aka Arthur and the Minimoys) (5 October 2023)
• Death Note (1 October 2023)
• Angel-A (28 September 2023)
• The Gardener aka Seeds of Evil aka Garden of Death (18 September 2023)
• The Fifth Element (13 September 2023)
• Azur & Asmar - The Princes' Quest (31 August 2023)
• The Secret of Dorian Gray (10 August 2023)
• Warbirds (5 August 2023)
• The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (1 July 2023)
• The Twilight People (24 June 2023)
• Smooth Talk (18 June 2023)
• The Wasp Woman (15 June 2023)
• The Happytime Murders (11 June 2023)
• Post #300 - My Third, Fully-Updated, All-Time Top Reviews Listing On Shuker In MovieLand (5 June 2023)
• Heavy Metal (18 May 2023)
• Fire and Ice (15 May 2023)
• Think Like A Dog (8 May 2023)
• The Last Unicorn (4 May 2023)
• The Rift (aka Endless Descent) (21 April 2023)
• Hancock (18 April 2023)
• Wizards of the Lost Kingdom (16 April 2023)
• Busted Up (aka Killing Town) (7 April 2023)
• Just For Fun (29 March 2023)
• Skywhales (26 March 2023)
• Shape-Shifting Battledogs, Nightmares In Slumberland, Cowboys & Aliens, Sea Beasts Aplenty, And Who Knows What Else Besides?? (17 March 2023)
• Pierrot In Turquise Or The Looking Glass Murders - Reviewing A Very Early, Extremely Obscure, And Exceedingly Strange David Bowie Mini-Movie Musical (28 February 2023)
• The Green Knight (24 February 2023)
• Pin (15 February 2023)
• Cruella (11 February 2023)
• The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T (aka Crazy Music) (10 February 2023)
• Raging Angels, Crystal Skulls, Human Centipedes, A Monster In Uranus... - Enough Already! (9 February 2023)
• Black Leather Jacket (8 February 2023)
• The Atlantis Interceptors (aka Raiders of Atlantis aka Atlantis Inferno) (7 February 2023)
• Eliminators (6 February 2023)
• Encanto (5 February 2023)
• Lapsis, Plus a Litany of Other Lately-Viewed Movie Offerings of the Offbeat Kind (3 February 2023)
• The Howling - #3 in a Terrifying Trio of Classic Horror Films Finally Ticked Off On My 'Must-See' Movies List (1 February 2023)
• A Nightmare On Elm Street - #2 in a Terrifying Trio of Classic Horror Films Finally Ticked Off On My 'Must-See' Movies List (30 January 2023)
• The Silence of the Lambs - #1 in a Terrifying Trio of Classic Horror Films Finally Ticked Off On My 'Must-See' Movies List (28 January 2023)
• Moomins, Movies, and Memories (25 January 2023)
• Anonymous Rex (19 January 2023)
• Sadko & The Magic Voyage of Sinbad (17 January 2023)
• Almighty Thor (16 January 2023)
• Strange World (13 January 2023)
• From A Cursed Werewolf To A Singing Crocodile - My Boxing Day Blockbuster Quartet! (8 January 2023)
• Moose The Movie (5 January 2023)
• Pinocchio Vs Pinocchio - Or, Del Toro Original Vs Disney Remake (31 December 2022)
• Night Train To Venice (aka Train To Hell) - Or, The Curious Case Of Two Movies In One! (19 December 2022)
• Raya and the Last Dragon (17 December 2022)
• Manticore & Mandrake - Monstrous Encounters of the Curious Kind (9 December 2022)
• Riddles of the Sphinx (aka Curse of the Pharaoh) (8 December 2022)
• Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (7 December 2022)
• All About Eve (25 November 2022)
• The Fabulous Journey to the Centre of the Earth (aka Where Time Began) (24 November 2022)
• Fire Serpents, Sand Serpents, and a Serpent King - A Trio of Crypto-Creature Features Uncoiling On-Screen! (16 November 2022)
• Klumpok & The Yellow Monster of Sundra Strait - A Couple of Spectacular Sci Fi Movies...If Only They Could Get Made, That Is! (15 November 2022)
• Billy Badd (aka Motor Psycho) (1992) (12 November 2022)
• The Monster Of Dread End - The Creepiest Creature Feature That Never Was? (23 October 2022)
• Limitless (22 October 2022)
• Aladdin and the Death Lamp (21 October 2022)
• The Boy With Green Hair (20 October 2022)
• Come Away (19 October 2022)
• Brightburn (27 September 2022)
• R.I.P.D. (31 August 2022)
• The Knack ...And How To Get It (30 August 2022)
• The Jungle Book 2 (28 August 2022)
• Red Sonja (27 August 2022)
• Reign of the Gargoyles (3 August 2022)
• 4D Man (2 August 2022)
• Monster Hunter (2020) (1 August 2022)
• Crystal Fairy & The Magical Cactus (31 July 2022)
• Shadow Hours (30 July 2022)
• Soylent Green (29 July 2022)
• Mini-Reviewing Monsters, Masters, Mandibles, and More! (20 July 2022)
• The Talking Parcel (2 July 2022)
• The Mouse and His Child (30 June 2022)
• Wish Dragon (11 June 2022)
• Just Ask For Diamond (aka Diamond's Edge) (10 June 2022)
• Chander Pahar (aka Mountain of the Moon) (4 June 2022)
• The Prestige (1 June 2022)
• The Sin Eater (aka The Order) (30 May 2022)
• Mune: Guardian of the Moon (26 May 2022)
• Mr Horatio Knibbles (24 May 2022)
• Querelle (22 May 2022)
• Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga (14 May 2022)
• The Prisoner (1967) (7 May 2022)
• Rumble Fish (28 April 2022)
• Angels and Panthers and Yetis, Oh My! Mini-Reviewing a Dozen Recently-Watched Movies (25 April 2022)
• Hearts In Atlantis (16 April 2022)
• The Talented Mr Ripley & Purple Noon (aka Plein Soleil) (10 April 2022)
• Terrordactyl (aka Jurassic Wars) (7 April 2022)
• Fade To Black (30 March 2022)
• Land of Doom (aka Raiders of Death) (19 March 2022)
• Real Genius (11 March 2022)
• Rock N' Roll Cowboys (6 March 2022)
• 9 (2 March 2022)
• Horns (28 February 2022)
• Ron Stryker's Motorbike and The Lightning Tree - Revisiting Follyfoot (16 February 2022)
• Oliver in the Overworld / Little Big Time - Seeking A Lost Tv Show From My Childhood (15 February 2022)
• Rock 'N' Roll High School (14 February 2022)
• The Singer Not The Song (12 February 2022)
• The Champions (11 February 2022)
• Titan A.E. (10 February 2022)
• Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book (aka Adventures of Mowgli) (9 February 2022)
• Repo! The Genetic Opera (8 February 2022)
• The Ugly Duckling (7 February 2022)
• Jungle Run (6 February 2022)
• Dougal and the Blue Cat (5 February 2022)
• Artemis Fowl (4 February 2022)
• Paulie (3 February 2022)
• Renegade (aka They Call Me Renegade) (2 February 2022)
• Rapa-Nui (1 February 2022)
• Chico and Rita (31 January 2022)
• Post #200 - My Second, Fully-Updated, All-Time Top Ten Reviews On Shuker In MovieLand (13 January 2022)
• Princess Mononoke (6 January 2022)
• Born To Ride (aka The Recruit) (31 December 2021)
• Who Killed The Cat? (24 December 2021)
• Free Guy (23 December 2021)
• Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (22 December 2021)
• Nightbreed - The Second of Two Visits to the Dark Cinematic World of Clive Barker (21 December 2021)
• Hellraiser - The First of Two Visits to the Dark Cinematic World of Clive Barker (20 December 2021)
• Down in the Valley (19 December 2021)
• Love and Monsters (18 December 2021)
• Lookin' Italian (aka Showdown) (26 November 2021)
• Abba: The Movie (20 November 2021)
• Oz: A Rock 'N' Roll Road Movie (aka 20th Century Oz) (6 November 2021)
• Blue Sunshine (4 November 2021)
• Loose Change (aka Those Restless Years) (1 November 2021)
• Crank & Crank 2: High Voltage (24 October 2021)
• Ator: The Fighting Eagle (21 October 2021)
• Mr Piper (12 October 2021)
• If You Go Gown The Woods Today - A Visit From Vegetable Man! (7 October 2021)
• Napoleon and Samantha (6 October 2021)
• Vivarium (25 September 2021)
• From Falling Stars to Undersea Aliens - Flexing a Further Six-Pack of Mini-Reviews (21 September 2021)
• The Little Shop of Horrors (1960) (16 September 2021)
• Near Dark (9 September 2021)
• Micmacs (29 August 2021)
• The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec (28 August 2021)
• Paul (27 August 2021)
• 47 Ronin (2013) (22 August 2021)
• Terra Incognita (20 August 2021)
• Midnight In Paris (17 August 2021)
• Almost Human (aka Uncanny aka Android) (16 August 2021)
• A Boy And His Dog (15 August 2021)
• The Red Balloon (aka Le Ballon Rouge) (24 July 2021)
• After Earth (14 July 2021)
• Psychomania (aka The Death Wheelers) (30 June 2021)
• The Wizard of Speed and Time & The Amazing Panda Adventure - Two Blasts From My Movie Past Viewed and Reviewed At Last! (15 June 2021)
• Island of the Lost (11 June 2021)
• Midnight Lace (7 June 2021)
• Malpertuis (2 June 2021)
• Alien Intruder (30 May 2021)
• Alien Autopsy (29 May 2021)
• Maleficent (21 May 2021)
• Imaginaerum: The Other World (15 May 2021)
• Shadow of Death (aka Destroyer) (1 May 2021)
• Carmen Jones (30 April 2021)
• Lord of the Elves (aka Clash of the Empires) (24 April 2021)
• The Pit (aka Teddy) (17 April 2021)
• From Selkies To Space Vampires - Flexing a Six-Pack of Mini-Reviews! (14 April 2021)
• Toys (12 April 2021)
• Needle (10 April 2021)
• The Hand of Night (8 April 2021)
• Copacabana The Movie (7 April 2021)
• The Bermuda Depths (6 April 2021)
• The Man Who Killed Hitler And Then The Bigfoot (5 April 2021)
• The Lost Continent (4 April 2021)
• Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (30 March 2021)
• Isle of Dogs (28 March 2021)
• James Dean: Race With Destiny (aka James Dean: Live Fast, Die Young) (19 March 2021)
• The Barbarians (15 March 2021)
• Mack the Knife (12 March 2021)
• Dragons On Television (9 March 2021)
• Where Has Poor Mickey Gone? (6 March 2021)
• Birdman (1 March 2021)
• Nijinsky (27 February 2021)
• Sinbad of the Seven Seas (25 February 2021)
• The Invaders & Land of the Giants - Two Classic TV Sci Fi Series From the 1960s (24 February 2021)
• Streets of Sin (22 February 2021)
• Kill Slade (20 February 2021)
• 20 Million Miles To Earth & It Came From Beneath The Sea - A Ray Harryhausen Double-Bill (19 February 2021)
• Max Steel (17 February 2021)
• Rampage (1963) - Disenchanted By The Enchantress (14 February 2021)
• James Dean - 90 Years On, The Rebel Without A Pause (8 February 2021)
• Being Human (British version, Season One) (7 February 2021)
• Il Fantasma Dell'Opera (Dario Argento, 1998) (3 February 2021)
• Daredreamer (30 January 2021)
• Love Bites: The Reluctant Vampire (28 January 2021)
• Where The Wild Things Are (26 January 2021)
• The Monroes - Finally Finding The Forest Devil (24 January 2021)
• Rango (20 January 2021)
• The Ghosts of Oxford Street (17 January 2021)
• The War of the Worlds (BBC TV mini-series, 2019) (12 January 2021)
• Blink (a Doctor Who episode) (10 January 2021)
• Free Jimmy (8 January 2021)
• Black Pumas in the Movies (6 January 2021)
• The Lady is a Square (4 January 2021)
• Reptisaurus (3 January 2021)
• Once Upon A Deadpool (31 December 2020)
• The City of Lost Children (30 December 2020)
• Jason and the Argonauts Vs Talos, Titan of Bronze! (28 December 2020)
• The Little Matchgirl (26 December 2020)
• Santa Claus Conquers The Martians (25 December 2020)
• Powder (24 December 2020)
• Mary Poppins Returns (22 December 2020)
• Aquaman (20 December 2020)
• A Meeting With Medusa - When I Visited Valence House Museum's 'Dinosaurs, Harryhausen and Me' Exhibition in Dagenham, England (18 December 2020)
• The Nutcracker and the Four Realms (16 December 2020)
• The Dark Crystal (14 December 2020)
• The Great Wall (12 December 2020)
• Norwood (10 December 2020)
• Interview With The Vampire (8 December 2020)
• Post #100 - My Top Ten Reviews On Shuker In MovieLand (6 December 2020)
• Dolittle (4 December 2020)
• Jurassic Island (2020 movie) (2 December 2020)
• Destino (30 November 2020)
• The Lion King (2019 Disney version) (28 November 2020)
• Rockula (26 November 2020)
• Young Sherlock Holmes (24 November 2020)
• Tremors (21 November 2020)
• Space Jam (20 November 2020)
• Seeds of Destruction (18 November 2020)
• The Greatest Showman (16 November 2020)
• Mr Loveday's Little Outing (Plus A Perplexing Parrot Episode) (14 November 2020)
• Magic in the Mirror (12 November 2020)
• Catch Us If You Can & What A Crazy World - A Couple of Cult British Rock 'N' Roll Movies From the 1960s (10 November 2020)
• The Lost City of Z (8 November 2020)
• Yolanda and the Thief (6 November 2020)
• Howard the Duck (4 November 2020)
• Mr Sardonicus (2 November 2020)
• Aladdin (2019 Disney version) (31 October 2020)
• Earth Vs. The Spider (2001 version) (29 October 2020)
• Jurassic City, Jurassic Galaxy, The Jurassic Games, & Jurassic Hunters - A Quartet of Mesozoic Monster Movies! (27 October 2020)
• Harlequin (aka Dark Forces) (25 October 2020)
• The Snow Queen (23 October 2020)
• Shazam! (21 October 2020)
• Godspell (19 October 2020)
• The Golden Compass (17 October 2020)
• The Incredible Mr Limpet (15 October 2020)
• Dragons in the Movies (13 October 2020)
• Hydra (11 October 2020)
• Rocketman (9 October 2020)
• Bohemian Rhapsody (7 October 2020)
• The Wicker Man (5 October 2020)
• Venom (3 October 2020)
• Mimic (1 October 2020)
• Jonathan Livingston Seagull (30 September 2020)
• A Night at the Magic Castle (29 September 2020)
• Judy and Punch (28 September 2020)
• Grace Quigley (27 September 2020)
• Terror Birds (26 September 2020)
• Kazaam - And the Curious Case of Shazaam, the Missing Movie (25 September 2020)
• Kong: Skull Island (24 September 2020)
• Hanna-Barbera's New Alice in Wonderland or What's a Nice Kid Like You Doing in a Place Like This? (23 September 2020)
• A Missing Link Double-Bill - Same Title, Two Very Different Movies! (22 September 2020)
• Life of Pi (21 September 2020)
• The Wanderers (20 September 2020)
• Pegasus Vs. Chimera (19 September 2020)
• Nosferatu the Vampyre (18 September 2020)
• The Monster Club & Die Monster Die! - A Horror Movie Double-Bill! (17 September 2020)
• Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 1 (16 September 2020)
• They Live (15 September 2020)
• The Arrival (14 September 2020)
• Hell Comes To Frogtown (13 September 2020)
• My Neighbour Totoro (12 September 2020)
• Freaks (11 September 2020)
• Time Masters (aka Les Maîtres du Temps) (10 September 2020)
• Cronos (9 September 2020)
• Cats (8 September 2020)
• The Secret Of My Success - The 1960s UK Movie Featuring Monster Spiders (NOT The 1980s USA Movie Featuring Michael J. Fox!) (7 September 2020)
• Jocks (6 September 2020)
• Sssssss (aka Ssssnake) (5 September 2020)
• Thale (4 September 2020)
• The Swordsman (3 September 2020)
• Megamind (3 September 2020)
• David Beckham: Into The Unknown (2 September 2020)
• Pan's Labyrinth (1 September 2020)
• What a Whopper (31 August 2020)
• Border (29 [30] August 2020)
• The Odd Life of Timothy Green (29 August 2020)
• The Boy Who Could Fly (26 August 2020)
• The Meg & Meg 2: The Trench (25 August 2020)
• The Croods (24 August 2020)
• The Wind Guardians (23 August 2020)
• The Shape of Water (22 August 2020)
• Saving Mr Banks (21 August 2020)
• Hyper Sapien: People From Another Star (20 August 2020)
• A Deadpool Double-Bill! (19 August 2020)/LI>

• Wolfen (18 August 2020)
• Mr India (17 August 2020)
• King Cinder (16 August 2020)
• Meet the Applegates (15 August 2020)
• Electric Dreams (14 August 2020)
• The Man Who Haunted Himself (13 August 2020)
• Dinosaurus! (12 August 2020)
• A Monster In Paris (11 August 2020)
• Malice in Wonderland (10 August 2020)
• The Great Land of Small (9 August 2020)
• Gods of Egypt (8 August 2020)
• Yesterday (7 August 2020)
• Monkeybone & Volere Volare - A Double-Bill of Exceedingly Strange (But Very Funny!) Live-Action/Animated Movies (6 August 2020)
• Florence Foster Jenkins (5 August 2020)
• Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band: The Movie (4 August 2020)
• Caveman (3 August 2020)
• The Lair of the White Worm (Versus The Legend of the Lambton Worm) (2 August 2020)
• Black Orpheus (1 August 2020)
• The Reluctant Dragon - The Original 1941 Feature-Length Movie (Not The Later Featurette) (31 July 2020)
• The Asphyx (30 July 2020)
• Evening Primrose (29 July 2020)
• Dreamchild (28 July 2020)
• The Dark (aka The Relic aka The God Rat) (27 July 2020)
• Welcome to Shuker In MovieLand - Monsters, Mini-Reviews, Musicals, and More! (27 July 2020)

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