The 1950s were certainly the glory days when it came to monster movies and science fiction — two great tastes that taste great together — and if atomic testing wasn’t awakening creatures like Godzilla and The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, then mad scientists were creating Monsters on Campus and giant Tarantulas, but in 1958, a…
Author: Mike Brooks
Film grad who spends most his time trying to catch up on his "To Watch" pile of movies.
Scooby-Doo! Frankencreepy (2014) – Review
The Scooby gang has encountered the likes of Dracula, the Wolfman, the Mummy and Frankenstein’s monster on multiple occasions, but with Scooby-Doo! Frankencreepy, we get a movie that is more of a clear homage to the Universal Monster movies of the 30s and 40s than we’ve ever seen before, and then to add a little…
The Addams Family (2019) – Review
“They’re creepy and they’re kooky, mysterious and spooky. They’re all together ooky, The Addams Family!” and with these opening lyrics to the 1960s classic television sitcom, viewers were perfectly set up to what they were going to experience over the following thirty minutes of that original show, which mostly involved “normal” people encountering the delightful…
Scooby-Doo! WrestleMania Mystery (2014) – Review
It’s not unusual for the Scooby gang to run into famous characters or real-life celebrities, in fact, that was the whole basis of The New Scooby-Doo Movies, but with Scooby-Doo! WrestleMania Mystery, it’s not so much a case of Mystery Incorporated helping out a group of celebrities, as it is Warner Bros. Animation becoming a…
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (2019) – Review
“You poor simple fools, thinking you could defeat me. Me? The mistress of all evil?” There is no more iconic Disney villain than that of Maleficent, a woman who commands “All the forces of Hell” and is most known for casting a death curse on a baby, yet with the 2014 live-action film Maleficent, the…