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The success of the previous television specials bolstered Hasbro’s confidence in the My Little Pony property to venture into a theatrical release. It didn’t succeed as well as Hasbro had hoped, and while this might be one of the better offerings, it was clear the movie was meant to be part of the marketing push…
Yes, that is Steve Guttenberg you see in the beginning of the film. The Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele is in Paraguay. This was a bit of speculation when the film came out in 1978, but the film was a bit prophetic in this respect. What The Boys From Brazil offers up is a story…
Hey, Shout Factory, I’m still waiting on seasons 2 & 3. At the end of the 3rd season things changed for the cast of “My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic”. No, not like changed, but CHANGED. So much so that if you haven’t gotten caught up with the 3rd season stop reading because there are…
The game 80 Days is based on the Jules Verne book, but definitely takes a different, ahem, path. Here the action is firmly entrenched with Passepartout, newly employed as the valet for Phieas Fogg. Of course, just as in the novel, a wager to journey around the world in 80 days sends these two on…
I will admit that my first real exposure to the Mars Attacks property was Tim Burton’s 1996 film. I had heard in various reports that it was based on a series of trading cards from the 60s but never did see any of the cards. I liked the film, and that was the end of…
It’s no secret how much my family loves Munchkin. Castle Panic was a game I had heard a lot about and wanted to bring it into the house. When we heard Fireside Games was going to be making a Munchkin Panic game we were excited. This seemed like a great excuse to pick up a copy…
Maleficent is a twist on the classic Sleeping Beauty tale, one told by Disney in the studio’s classic 1959 animated film. Here we get the same story, but told very differently – and not due to the difference in medium. The film opens with a young fairy living in a land filled with magical beings…
This game is not easy. I wound up having to go back and start over at the “normal” difficulty level, despite Styx: Master Of Shadows being a game within a genre I am somewhat good at. Styx is a “stealth action” game, meaning there’s a lot of time spent avoiding others by hiding in shadows,…
I was skeptical about Planes when it first came out. Initially a direct-to-video spin-off of Cars it wound up getting a theatrical release and would test well enough to warrant a sequel to be put into development before its release. Planes: Fire & Rescue tricked me initially because I thought it was a second story…
Nightbreed came out in 1990 and was poised to change the way we saw vampire films. At least, that’s what I thought when I went in to see it back then. Or maybe it was a more standard horror/slasher film with a vampire protagonist. Yeah, I was wrong. I walked out of the theater glad…