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Amityville II: The Possession (1982) – Review

Posted on May 12, 2023February 18, 2024 by Mike Brooks

When the film The Amityville Horror was released in 1979 it was, at the time, the most successful independent film ever released so a sequel following the continuation of the horror plaguing the Lutz family would seem to be a given, but that was not to be, what we got instead was a prequel based…

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Scooby-Doo! The Mystery Begins (2009) – Review

Posted on June 16, 2020October 22, 2023 by Mike Brooks

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…

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Captain Marvel (2019) – Review

Posted on March 8, 2019August 23, 2019 by Mike Brooks

With twenty-one films currently making up the Marvel Cinematic Universe, one has to be chagrined that it took this long for the studio to give us a superhero movie with a female lead — it took the DC Extended Universe only four films to break out Wonder Woman, yet we’re still waiting for a Black…

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Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018) – Review

Posted on May 25, 2018May 25, 2018 by Mike Brooks

Did we need a Han Solo origin story? The obvious answer is no – we learned everything we needed to know about the character in Star Wars: A New Hope – but with Disney hell-bent on making the Star Wars brand as big a money-maker as the Marvel movies, we can expect to see a…

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Ouija: Origin of Evil (2016) – Review

Posted on November 3, 2016February 18, 2024 by Mike Brooks

Way back in 1973 Linda Blair was using a Ouija board to contact an entity she called Captain Howdy in The Exorcist; decades later we see more kids messing with this “harmless toy” in two films co-produced by Hasbro and Platinum Dunes, and these kids have even less fun then Blair did with demonic spirits.

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