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…
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 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…
Scooby-Doo! and the Witch’s Ghost (1999) – Review
Following up the successful direct-to-video release of Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island, Warner Bros. Animation once again decided to blend actual ghosts and magical powers with the mystery-solving world of Scooby-Doo, but with Scooby-Doo! and the Witch’s Ghost fans were also introduced to the Hex Girls, the popular eco-goth rock band who later become semi-regular guest…
Checkered Ninja (2018) – Review
What if Chucky from Child’s Play was a Ninja? That sounds like a pretty badass premise, right? And if the idea of a toy performing murderous martial arts hijinks appeals to you then there is a good chance you will love Thorbjørn Christoffersen and Anders Matthesen’s film the Checkered Ninja, as that is pretty much the…