One must admit that the people behind the recent live-action adaptations of once popular cartoons have not been all that worried about pleasing an adult audience – the Yogi Bear, The Chipmunks and the Smurf movies have been varying degrees of cinematic cancer, yet for some reason kids love them. Unfortunately, a new level have…
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Movies
Late Phases (2014) – Review
Who would bring a blind man to a werewolf fight? Well apparently director Adrián García Bogliano would as his film Late Phases pits a blind Vietnam veteran against a group of nasty lycanthropes, and surprisingly at times is does seem to be a fair fight.
Batman: Gotham by Gaslight (2018) – Review
What if Batman was on the trail of Jack the Ripper? This was the idea that writer Brain Augustyn and artist Mike Mignola brought forth back in 1989 in what was to be DC’s first Elseworlds book (stories that take place outside the DC canon) as it placed everyone’s favorite caped crusader in the Victorian…
Crystal Inferno (2017) – Review
Do you find elevators and elevator shafts fascinating? How much do you enjoy annoying kids yelling at each other? Have you seen Irwin Allen’s The Towering Inferno? Your answers to those questions will greatly impact your enjoyment of the disaster movie Crystal Inferno.
The Magic Sword (1962) – Review
When it comes to low budget science fiction films the name Bert I. Gordon is easily one of the most forefront, as he’s produced such on-the-cheap “classics” as The Amazing Colossal Man, Village of the Giants and The Food of the Gods, but not only did he produce such films he also directed, wrote and…