In this 90s big budget Arthurian epic, Hollywood decided to give Thomas Malory’s Le Morte d’Arthur a rest — it being the basis for such Arthurian classics as John Boorman’s Excalibur — and instead embraced the romances written by French poet Chrétien de Troyes, who actually invented the character of Lancelot. This version of the…
Author: Mike Brooks
Film grad who spends most his time trying to catch up on his "To Watch" pile of movies.
Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (2004) – Review
With the first live-action Scooby-Doo movie pulling in $275 million worldwide, a sequel was never in doubt, and with director Raja Gosnell, screenwriter James Gunn, and the rest of the cast back for more, one could have expected more of the same this time out. Sadly, our predictions were true and we don’t find much…
Hero at Large (1980) – Review
Who wouldn’t want to meet a superhero in real life? Many of us grew up pouring over countless Marvel or DC comic books, hoping to if not be bitten by a radioactive spider at least to someday meet one of those larger-than-life-heroes for ourselves. Martin Davidson’s film, Hero at Large, wonderfully taps into the hopeful…
Scooby-Doo: The Movie (2002) – Review
With over three decades of various incarnations of Scooby-Doo, it’s actually quite surprising that it took Hollywood this long to try for a live-action version of Mystery Incorporated — one could assume that they were waiting for computer graphics to reach a certain point where an animated Scooby-Doo would work in live-action, but they could…
Sword of the Valiant (1984) – Review
It’s common knowledge that Cannon films are done on the cheap, and as a result, most of their output is of a less-than notable quality — they basically killed the Superman franchise with their installment — but with Sword of the Valiant: The Legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, we get a film…