With Scooby-Doo Meets the Boo Brothers, we get our first full-length Scooby-Doo movie (if we discount Scooby-Doo Goes Hollywood as it was barely 49 minutes in length), but not only was this their first “real” movie, it continued with the inclusion of real ghosts as part of the mystery, which we’d seen in the 1980s’…
Author: Mike Brooks
Film grad who spends most his time trying to catch up on his "To Watch" pile of movies.
The Black Knight (1954) – Review
“There comes a time in every man’s life when he must fight for what he wants most,” and with those stirring words the adventures of The Black Knight begin, a film that wonderfully illustrates the dream of Camelot and the heroic ideal. Unfortunately, aside from namechecking the likes of King Arthur and Guinevere, there isn’t…
Scooby-Doo Goes Hollywood (1979) – Review
What exactly are the key ingredients for a good Scooby-Doo mystery? There should be a spooky locale for the gang to visit, some sort of ghost or monster, and the required comic shenanigans for our cowardly canine and friends to be caught up in, but most importantly, there should be a god-damned mystery. Unfortunately, in…
Knights of the Round Table (1953) – Review
Though credited as being based on Sir Thomas Malory’s Le Morte d’Arthur, Richard Thorpe’s Knights of the Round Table bares but a passing resemblance to Malory’s collection of Arthurian tales. Instead of covering the numerous exploits of Arthur and his knights, this movie focuses almost solely on the forbidden love affair between Lancelot and Guinevere.
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (1949) – Review
Of all the stories of King Arthur one of the most adapted has to be the Mark Twain novel A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, a tale of a modern American who finds himself thrown back through time to 6th-century England. This particular story has seen almost every possible form of adaptation, from radio…