The Scooby gang is no novice when it comes to science fiction, as they’ve encountered actual aliens in Scooby-Doo and the Alien Invaders and battled computer simulations in Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase, but for Scooby-Doo! Moon Monster Madness, our plucky heroes leave the safety of Earth and venture off into space in one of…
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Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019) – Review
The Mark Twain quote “Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated” can be considered the backbone of this final chapter of the Skywalker Saga as director J.J. Abrams tries to course-correct the damaged incurred with Star Wars: The Last Jedi. He attempts to accomplish this by bringing back Emperor Palpatine, the big baddie from…
Child’s Play (2019) – Review
In horror films, single moms just can’t catch a break, either their child is being possessed by demonic forces or being menaced by killer toys. It’s not fair, but there you have it. Back in 1988, Dan Mancini gave us one of the best films in this category, and it dealt with a kid’s toy…
Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island (1998) – Review
Back in the late 90s, Warner Brothers Animation did something no Scooby-Doo series had ever done before, and I don’t mean the purported marketing campaign that stated “This time, the monsters are real!” because Scooby and the gang had tackled real ghosts and monsters dating as far back as the 1970s. It began when the…
Village of the Damned: From Book to Screen
In 1957 British science fiction author John Wyndham published The Midwich Cuckoos, and as a follower of H.G. Wells, he believed that science fiction stories worked best if there was only one aberrant event i.e. alien invasion or what have you, and the rest of the story would be the dealings of the everyday world…