In 1982, DC comics revived their Swamp Thing character to capitalize on Wes Craven’s Swamp Thing movie, but after a couple years, the book found itself nearing cancelation, with the title’s sales plummeting, so with nothing to lose, DC gave a relatively unknown English writer named Alan Moore free rein to revamp the title as…
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 Monster of Mexico (2003) – Review
In this sixth entry in the series of direct-to-video films, we find the Scooby Gang taking a little trip south of the border — surprisingly, not to score drugs — where our heroes end up embroiled in a real estate scheme involving the urban legend known as El Chupacabra. Now, when viewing Scooby-Doo! and the Monster of…
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019) – Review
With the success of the film adaptation of Goosebumps, it’s not that surprising to see another movie based on a children’s book series hitting theaters — though a little early for Halloween, but I’m guessing they wanted to avoid competing with part two of Andy Muschietti’s adaptation of Stephen King’s It — and yet Scary Stories…
Scooby-Doo! And the Legend of the Vampire (2003) – Review
How would you like to watch a Scooby-Doo travelogue? With Scooby-Doo! And the Legend of the Vampire, we get a direct-to-video that is pretty much that, a movie that not only is a return to the “dudes in masks” format — so no actual zombies, witches, or aliens in this outing — but much of the run-time…
Hobbs & Shaw (2019) – Review
The Fast and the Furious franchise departed the whole “Street Racing” element at around the fifth film, and since then they’ve focused mostly on crazy heists with high-octane action sequences — each one trying to outdo the previous entry — and then with The Fate of the Furious, any semblance of reality was gleefully dispatched. Now, with…