Nancy Drew has been solving mysteries going on 90 years now, and as such, this teen sleuth has constantly been evolving with the times. In films, she first appeared in the 1930s film series starring Bonita Granville, which ran four films concluding with Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase, then she made her television debut…
Category: Reviews
GoodFellas (1990) – Review
For as long as I’ve known, I wanted to study movies and understand what makes certain ones so great, and GoodFellas is one of those movies, one that carries a legendary status with it that can make someone like me slightly intimidated to look and review it. It’s a very full movie with great characters…
The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo (1985) – Review
In five decades of Scooby-Doo mysteries, there is one show that really stands apart from the other incarnations and that would be the 1985 series The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo — not to be mistaken for William Castle’s 13 Ghosts — and it stands apart not because it had the gang encountering real ghosts and…
Hellboy (2019) – Review
In 2004, visionary director Guillermo del Toro adapted the Mike Mignola comic Hellboy to the big screen — it didn’t make much money — then in 2008, Del toro followed up that film with Hellboy II: The Golden Army, a film even better than the original — and it also didn’t make much money —…
The Little Mermaid (1989) – Review
Believe it or not, there was a time that Disney didn’t own every major property that gets released nowadays. They relied on adapting fairy tales with their animated magic by adding songs and making the story a bit more child friendly. Many people believe that the 90’s was the peak of the Disney Renaissance as…