Over the years, animated films have made leaps and bounds in both the quality of writing and the animation itself, ranging from the family-friendly fair at Disney to the more adult works of Ralph Bakshi’s Fritz the Cat and Wizards. But with the Danish animated film Terkel in Trouble, we get a crasser and lower-budgeted…
Author: Mike Brooks
Film grad who spends most his time trying to catch up on his "To Watch" pile of movies.
Scooby-Doo! Legend of the Phantosaur (2011) – Review
What could be scarier than a rampaging dinosaur? Why, a rampaging ghost dinosaur of course, which brings us to the sixteenth direct-to-video Scooby-Doo movie, Scooby-Doo! Legend of the Phantosaur. This particular outing is more action-comedy driven than many of the other Scooby-Doo movies, focusing on having bigger action set-pieces rather than scary atmospheric ones, but…
Terminator: Dark Fate (2019) – Review
When a franchise deals heavily with time travel, each additional sequel can easily cause the wheels to wobble until they eventually fall off. Case in point, Terminator Genisys, but with Terminator: Dark Fate, producer James Cameron and director Tim Miller took a page out of Halloween (2018) by ignoring the existence of unwanted sequels and…
Scooby-Doo! Camp Scare (2010) – Review
Scooby-Doo and the gang have crossed paths with some truly legendary monsters in their time, from the Loch Ness Monster to the Abominable Snowman; even tackling such classic foes as Dracula and the Wolfman but with Scooby-Doo! Camp Scare, our heroes must face off against something altogether different…the 80s’ slasher genre. In a clear homage…
Little Monsters (2019) – Review
Just when you think the zombie genre is completely played out, with the likes of The Walking Dead going on well past their best before date, along comes another excellent zombie movie from Australia. Little Monsters is a film that could be best described as the first “feel-good zombie movie” of our generation.