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…
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…