Film grad who spends most his time trying to catch up on his "To Watch" pile of movies.
Science fiction movies released prior to 1969 and the actual moon landing ranged from the somewhat series entries like George Pal’s Destination Moon (1950) to the more campier type of Cat-Women of the Moon (1953) variety, but regardless of the…
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When Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley released her novel “Frankenstein: or The Modern Prometheus” back in the year 1818 I doubt even her fertile imagination could have guessed the journey her creation would take, and over the following two hundred years it…
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Scooby-Doo, everyone’s favorite mystery solving Great Dane, has been chasing ghosts (or being chased by them) for almost fifty years but with this twelfth incarnation of Scooby-Doo the show takes a decidedly more comedic tone.
In 2010 Warner Bros Animation teamed up with the Cartoon Network to produce the eleventh and possibly the best personification of Scooby-Doo and the gang in a two season series that works as a prequel to the original 1960’s Scooby-Doo,…
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There are low budget movies, there are next-to-nothing budgeted movies, and then there is 1978’s Laserblast which looked as if it’s budget consisted mostly of whatever loose change producer Charles Band managed to find under the seat cushions in a…
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When person embarks on making any kind of murder mystery one must ask the question, “What makes my thriller about a crazed killer stand out from others of its kind?” Does the movie have a brilliant but eccentric detective? Is…
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Having ten films in a franchise may seem impressive at a glance but if said franchise is in the horror genre that’s not necessarily the case, as one successful film can launch countless low budget sequels, and a perfect example…
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The 80s saw a big boom in sword and sorcery flicks, with Schwarzenegger’s Conan the Barbarian being the real kicking off point for the genre, but unlike Conan most of those films were shot with incredibly low budgets and even…
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It’s almost hard to believe that now with eighteen films making up the Marvel Cinematic Universe the studio has yet to land a dud, even the less than great entries are still better than any other current superhero movies out…
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The third installment in a horror franchise is always a tricky thing, the filmmakers often having made a quick buck on a sequel to their successful first outing have completely run out of ideas come the third chapter. Now in…
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