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…
Author: Mike Brooks
Film grad who spends most his time trying to catch up on his "To Watch" pile of movies.
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…
Scooby-Doo and the Reluctant Werewolf (1988) – Review
Continuity has never been Scooby-Doo’s strong suit, with ghosts and monsters switching between fake and real depending on the particular run of the show, but Scooby-Doo and the Reluctant Werewolf hits new lows by completely ignoring the previous film; one that came out the same bloody year! In Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School, our heroes…
The Turning (2020) – Review
A modern take on Henry James’ novella The Turn of the Screw is certainly an interesting idea, sadly, the makers of this film failed to provide anything interesting to the proceedings. Worse is the fact that not only does the film fail to tell a comprehensible story but it’s also not all that scary.
Scoob! (2020) – Review
With the release of Scoob! we finally see the Scooby-Doo gang making their big move into computer animation, which is about time considering we’ve already had live-action and even puppet versions of Scooby-Doo. But with this particular outing, the writers veered into Scrappy-Doo territory without actually including Scrappy-Doo, and by that I mean Fred, Daphne…