There have been many adaptations of Jack Finney’s classic science fiction tale The Body Snatchers, where alien organisms arrive on Earth and quickly proceed to duplicate the inhabitants, but as this has now become almost a subgenre, I see no problem with anyone taking another swing at the bat. Right off the top, I’ll state…
Category: Reviews
Scooby-Doo! The Mystery Begins (2009) – Review
With Warner Bros. losing faith in the live-action Scooby-Doo films as a theatrical property, a team-up with the Cartoon Network to make lower budgeted live-action versions seemed like an almost natural next step, but instead of going with a continuation of the Scooby gang’s adventures following Scooby-Doo 2: Monster Unleashed, we got a prequel that…
First Knight (1995) – Review
In this 90s big budget Arthurian epic, Hollywood decided to give Thomas Malory’s Le Morte d’Arthur a rest — it being the basis for such Arthurian classics as John Boorman’s Excalibur — and instead embraced the romances written by French poet Chrétien de Troyes, who actually invented the character of Lancelot. This version of the…
Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (2004) – Review
With the first live-action Scooby-Doo movie pulling in $275 million worldwide, a sequel was never in doubt, and with director Raja Gosnell, screenwriter James Gunn, and the rest of the cast back for more, one could have expected more of the same this time out. Sadly, our predictions were true and we don’t find much…
Hero at Large (1980) – Review
Who wouldn’t want to meet a superhero in real life? Many of us grew up pouring over countless Marvel or DC comic books, hoping to if not be bitten by a radioactive spider at least to someday meet one of those larger-than-life-heroes for ourselves. Martin Davidson’s film, Hero at Large, wonderfully taps into the hopeful…