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…
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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…
Dollman (1991) – Review
Science fiction stories about tiny protagonists have been around for quite some time; Universal Pictures adapted Richard Matheson’s story of a man shrunken due to exposure to a radioactive cloud into the classic film The Incredible Shrinking Man and, of course, Disney’s popular Honey I Shrunk the Kids dealt with the classic idea of a…