Green Room (2015) The Plot: After playing a last-minute gig at a sketchy club in Middle of Nowhere Oregon, a punk band finds themselves in a difficult situation when the lead singer, Pat (Anton Yelchin), accidentally witnesses a murder. Now trapped in the club with a gang of skinheads—led by the calmly unsettling Darcy (Patrick…
Look, I don’t watch a ton of TV[1]. It takes a lot to get me invested in a TV show, because it is a considerable time commitment, and if I plan on devoting that many hours of my life to watching something, it had better be good[2]. So far this decade, I have only watched…
Last week, before exploring the dark, dark place known as the two live action Scooby-Doo movies, I gave a brief review of Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island, a 1998 straight-to-video film that just about singlehandedly revived the franchise after—depending on how you count and how you feel about A Pup Named Scooby-Doo—about two decades of stagnation.…
“It was a tumultuous time for our nation. The clear beverage craze gave us all a reason to live, the information superhighway showed the average person what some nerd thinks about Star Trek, and the domestication of the dog continued unabated.” Homer Simpson’s concise scene-setting of the early 1990s is only somewhat corroborated by the…
In 1969, Scooby-Doo captured the hearts and imaginations, etc., of children all over the world, or at least definitely in America. As I discussed in last week’s instalment, the original two season run of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? built a dynasty of mystery-solving fun on a foundation of predictability and repetition, as well as a…
“Octoberween is a celebration of life and death, of the very foundation of our humanity.” -My Editor-in-Chief, Yesterday With that in mind, I bring you a comprehensive history of Scooby-Doo. In 1969, four meddling kids and their talking dog first graced the television screen, and with them they brought a gaggle of galloping ghosts, a…
You know how sometimes you see a trailer that combines so many perfectly good elements in the most spectacularly off-the-wall, inventive, horrible ways, and you think to yourself, “Well, surely that will be a good movie.” Okay, maybe “good” is the wrong word. Maybe even “movie” is a little too generous, but I will not…
