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…
Author: Mike Brooks
Film grad who spends most his time trying to catch up on his "To Watch" pile of movies.
Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island (1998) – Review
Back in the late 90s, Warner Brothers Animation did something no Scooby-Doo series had ever done before, and I don’t mean the purported marketing campaign that stated “This time, the monsters are real!” because Scooby and the gang had tackled real ghosts and monsters dating as far back as the 1970s. It began when the…
The Manitou (1978) – Review
Demonic possession has been a staple of horror films for decades, with such notable entries ranging from William Friedkin’s The Exorcist in the 70s, to the latest James Wan’s Conjuring film, but the movie we will be looking at today takes a step in a very different direction with its possession story, a rather interesting…
Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019) – Review
“I think Nick Fury just hijacked our summer vacation,” and with these words, Peter Parker begins one of the most perilous missions of his superhero career — which is saying something when you consider the fact that he died on his last adventure — but with Spider-Man: Far From Home, we don’t just get a big sprawling superhero…
Dumbo (2019) – Review
How do you take an animated classic like Dumbo, a film that was barely over an hour in length, and then turn it into a two-hour live-action summer blockbuster? This was the problem facing director Tim Burton but the fact that he was also the man who started this whole Disney live-action-remake binge in the…