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…
Category: Reviews
Scooby-Doo! Return to Zombie Island (2019) – Review
The Warner Brothers Animation division has been making a lot of money from their direct-to-video movies over the years, a venture that really kicked into gear back in 1998 with Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island, a film that took Scooby-Doo and friends into darker territories with an adventure that was genuinely scary, and though this was…
It Chapter Two (2019) – Review
Don’t play with your food. If any advice were to be given to the murderous entity known as Pennywise the Dancing Clown, that would be it. It’s just not going to end well for the villain. This adaptation of Stephen King’s 1986 horror opus continues where the 2017 movie finished off, with the now much…
Aloha, Scooby-Doo! (2005) – Review
In this eighth entry in the series of Scooby-Doo direct-to-video movies, we find the members of Mystery Incorporated venturing to the paradise state of Hawaii where we will see, as sure as shooting, a mass amount of cultural insensitivity around every turn. In 2003’s Scooby-Doo! and the Monster of Mexico, we had the misappropriation of…
The Peanut Butter Solution (1985) – Review
Meriam Webster’s Dictionary defines non sequitur as “an inference that does not follow from the premises” which, funnily enough, could also sum up the premise for director Michael Rubbo’s film The Peanut Butter Solution, a film that constantly has the viewer wondering what the hell is going on. Now, I’ve seen some pretty weird kid’s…