“They’re creepy and they’re kooky, mysterious and spooky. They’re all together ooky, The Addams Family!” and with these opening lyrics to the 1960s classic television sitcom, viewers were perfectly set up to what they were going to experience over the following thirty minutes of that original show, which mostly involved “normal” people encountering the delightful…
Scooby-Doo! WrestleMania Mystery (2014) – Review
It’s not unusual for the Scooby gang to run into famous characters or real-life celebrities, in fact, that was the whole basis of The New Scooby-Doo Movies, but with Scooby-Doo! WrestleMania Mystery, it’s not so much a case of Mystery Incorporated helping out a group of celebrities, as it is Warner Bros. Animation becoming a…
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (2019) – Review
“You poor simple fools, thinking you could defeat me. Me? The mistress of all evil?” There is no more iconic Disney villain than that of Maleficent, a woman who commands “All the forces of Hell” and is most known for casting a death curse on a baby, yet with the 2014 live-action film Maleficent, the…
Scooby-Doo! Adventures: The Mystery Map (2013) – Review
With Scooby-Doo! Adventures: The Mystery Map, we get another Scooby-Doo mystery involving ghost pirates — having most recently tackled the ghost of Captain Skunkbeard in Scooby-Doo! Pirates Ahoy! — but this particular outing stands out from all their other adventures (be thee nautical in nature or other), by being the first to give us the…
A View to a Kill (1985) – Review
The fourteenth Bond film opens with a pre-credit sequence of James Bond fleeing across a Siberian glacier to the music of The Beach Boys’ “California Girls,” while using the front runner of a snowmobile as a snowboard, which pretty much sets the tone for this particular Bond film, as director John Glenn was clearly stating…