With The Curse of La Llorona we get the eighth installment in The Conjuring Universe franchise — that’s eight films in just six years — and with that James Wan has almost created a horror subgenre all his own. Like many of the films in this series, the supernatural events are loosely, and I mean very loosely,…
Author: Mike Brooks
Film grad who spends most his time trying to catch up on his "To Watch" pile of movies.
Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase (2001) – Review
In the previous animated feature Scooby-Doo and the Alien Invaders, we saw Mystery Incorporated meet honest-to-goodness aliens, making it the gang’s first real foray into science fiction, but with Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase, the franchise ratchets the sci-fi element up to eleven. This time out, Scooby-Doo and friends find themselves digitized and sucked into…
The Quake (2018) – Review
In 2015, the Norwegian film industry put forth their first entry in the disaster genre with a film called The Wave (Bølgen) by director Roar Uthaug, which dealt with a rockslide-tsunami incident that wiped out a small community. Now, three years later, Norway is back at it with its sequel The Quake (Skjelvet), where a…
Scooby-Doo and the Alien Invaders (2000) – Review
Scooby-Doo and the gang have encountered many supposed supernatural threats over the years — though most of them were revealed to be hoaxes perpetrated by criminals — but fake or otherwise, they tended towards being ghosts or monsters with science fiction elements and threats being quite rare. Even back in the day, with the likes of the…
Swamp Thing: The Animated Series (1990) – Review
Toy companies are always eager to launch new toy lines based on popular movies or kid’s cartoons but then we also have cartoons like He-Man and the Masters of the Universe which was basically a thirty-minute commercial for Mattel, and sometimes this worked and sometimes it didn’t. In the early 90s, Kenner teamed up with…