Basing a movie on a novel or stage play would be considered to be a rather common origin for many productions while basing a movie on a theme park ride is anything but normal. Enter Disney Studios who just so happened to own the most famous theme parks in the world. With corporate synergy being…
Daphne & Velma (2018) – Review
In the fifth instalment of the Scooby-Doo live-action film series, we get another “reboot” that has its own take on how the Scooby gang first met, or to be more accurate, how two of the Scooby gang first met because you won’t find Fred, Shaggy over even Scooby-Doo in this particular mystery. The big question…
A Kid in King Arthur’s Court (1995) – Review
Adapting the stories of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table is nothing new to the people at Disney, as they already gave us the animated classic The Sword and the Stone, yet with A Kid in King Arthur’s Court, we not only get another King Arthur movie from Disney, but also their…
Scooby-Doo! Curse of the Lake Monster (2010) – Review
With Scooby-Doo! Curse of the Lake Monster we get Cartoon Network’s sequel to the 2009 prequel Scooby-Doo! The Mystery Begins, making this the fourth installment in the live-action Scooby-Doo series, but it’s also another made-for-television production.
Assimilate (2019) – Review
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…