“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…
Scooby-Doo! Mecha Mutt Menace (2013) – Review
Scooby-Doo and the gang are no strangers to mechanical monsters; in fact, most of the villains they’ve encountered over the years have used robotics to create such terrors as abominable snowmen and rampaging dinosaurs, but with Scooby-Doo! Mecha Mutt Menace, the threat is a straight-up rogue robot… or is it actually rogue? Could someone be…
Dinosaurus (1960) – Review
Movies featuring man pitted against prehistoric beasts have been popular since 1925’s The Lost World, where Arthur Conan Doyle’s tale featured a mysterious plateau rife with dinosaurs, and with the success of modern films like Jurassic World, where genetic engineering replaced lost continents, the dinosaur genre has proven itself to always have a spot in…