The
banner from my newest blog, Shuker In MovieLand (© Dr Karl Shuker)
On this spinning speck of cosmic dust
that we call Planet Earth, if I'm known for anything it's probably as a
zoologist, media consultant, and author specialising in cryptozoology and
animal mythology – at least that what it says on my website and also
here on my ShukerNature blog! In addition, however, I've always had a
passionate interest in the movies, watching and enjoying a diverse range of cinematic
genres down through the decades that include (but are by no means confined to)
monster movies, animation (especially Disney), musicals, science fiction, fantasy,
classic comedies, super-hero franchises, and much more too. Such themes also
characterise my TV viewing tastes.
During the isolating but very necessary
Covid-19 lockdown measures that began in England during March 2020 and which
meant spending virtually all of my time indoors at home, I found myself not only
watching many more movies than I normally do but also preparing mini-reviews of
them that I posted for fun on Facebook and elsewhere. To my surprise but great
delight, these have attracted considerable interest, enthusiasm, and countless
Likes from social media friends. So much so, in fact, that it has finally occurred
to me that it might be worthwhile preserving them and adding to them in a blog
of their own. There they will be permanently and readily accessible for reading
by all interested online movie fans, together with various movie (plus a few
TV) mini-reviews that I'd written and posted in earlier pre-Covid times, as
well as those that I shall be writing in the future in what I hope will be a
long-running ongoing series.
Risking an attack of the acklays – monstrous alien life forms from Star Wars, Episode 2, Attack of the Clones (© Dr Karl Shuker)
So here it is – Shuker In MovieLand – please
click here
to access it directly. As noted above, its scope is the entire spectrum of film
genres that are of interest to me, but prominent among these genres is monster movies,
especially those featuring a cryptozoological plot (which is why I am posting about
this new movie-based blog of mine here on ShukerNature). Consequently, I shall definitely
be including on Shuker In MovieLand a sizeable, ongoing selection of mini-reviews
of such films, both classic and obscure, box-office blockbusters and less successful
but no less fascinating features, plus those that fit somewhere in between these
diametric opposites. And here,
as a taster of what is to come, is my first review of a cryptozoology-themed monster
movie on my new blog. Moreover, I also plan to produce some crossover articles that
will appear both here on ShukerNature and on Shuker In MovieLand, so that followers
from both blogs can access and read them.
I hope that you will enjoy visiting this brave
new world of mine in blog form, and browse through my movie contemplations, commendations,
criticisms, witticisms (should you happen to find any!), and other assorted
film-related fun and folderol. Also, please do feel free to post any thoughts and
comments of your own beneath my mini-reviews, plus any relevant information
that you would like to share concerning the movies under consideration. Last of
all, but by no means least of all, please don't forget to follow and subscribe
to my new blog, because it will feel so lonely out here by itself in this big
old bloggerverse if you don't. Thank you kindly!
One
is a black-hearted, totally merciless scourge of the Universe – and the other
is the Predator… (© Dr Karl Shuker)
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