“I don’t have money, but what I do have are a very particular set of skills,” and with this iconic line, Liam Neeson proved that a guy in his fifties could be a bankable action hero badass, pulling off two sequels with varying degrees of success, but the question is, “Can a seventy-three-year-old Sylvester Stallone…
Category: Reviews
Scooby-Doo! Pirates Ahoy! (2006) – Review
Scooby-Doo and nautical nasties go together like peanut butter and jam; they’re a classic pairing that almost anyone can enjoy — unless you have a peanut allergy or a ghost pirate phobia — and with this tenth Scooby-Doo direct-to-video outing, we have the fourth time that Mystery Incorporated has encountered ghost pirates, but with Scooby-Doo!…
Child’s Play (2019) – Review
In horror films, single moms just can’t catch a break, either their child is being possessed by demonic forces or being menaced by killer toys. It’s not fair, but there you have it. Back in 1988, Dan Mancini gave us one of the best films in this category, and it dealt with a kid’s toy…
Scooby-Doo in Where’s My Mummy? (2005) – Review
Being chased by ancient mummies is nothing new to the Scooby Gang, having encountered such bandaged monstrosities in the original series episode titled “Scooby-Doo and a Mummy, Too,” and more recently in the episode “Mummy Scares Best” from the 2002 to 2006 series What’s New Scooby-Doo? But what Scooby-Doo in Where’s My Mummy? mostly owes its existence…
The Banana Splits (2019) – Review
If you need proof that the 60s were a trippy-weird time, you need only to take a look back at the fantasy shows created by the legendary Sid and Marty Kroft, with such bizarre programs as The Bugaloos, Lidville, Sigmund and the Sea Monster, and H.R. Pufnstuff to their credit — this was the live-action arm…