Flashback Review: Atlantis: Milo’s Return

After Atlantis: The Lost Empire failed to make enough revenue at the box office, Disney worked on a follow up to the original called Atlantis: Milo’s Return. Atlantis: Milo’s Return was released in 2003 as one of Disney’s direct-to-video sequels, or as TV Tropes calls them, “Cheapquels” next to unnecessary clunkers like Beauty & The […]

Flashback Review: Atlantis: The Lost Empire (Disney’s Flops Vol. 1 #5)

In 1996, one day at a Mexican restaurant, producers at Disney Animation celebrated after completing The Hunchback of Norte Dame. While pigging out and drinking margaritas, one of the producers brought up an idea about another animated entry, this time, it’s not a musical, but an action-adventure film similar to Indiana Jones. The producers packed […]

Flashback Review: Stargate

In The Early 1990’s, German filmmaker, Roland Emmerich, (Independence Day, The Day After Tomorrow, 2012) was hired to direct a film called Universal Soldier starring Jean-Claude Van Dame, after its director decided not to participate in this project. After finishing the film with his sidekick/business partner, Dean Devlin, the two of them came up with […]

Black Panther

The 1960’s was a very important decade in history. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke to the American people on his “I Have A Dream Speech” in his quest to abolish racism. The U.S. military enlisted men to fight in Vietnam. Lyndon B. Johnson took over JFK’s role as president after his tragic assassination. Neil Armstrong, […]

Unfriended

To make a movie involving the found footage genre, it must be incredibly difficult to replicate the success the genre once did for The Blair Witch Project, Cloverfield & the Paranormal Activity series. One movie underwhelming attempted to experiment with found footage using only a Skype camera, is a movie called Unfriended. Unfriended was released […]

Cloverfield

Showrunner, J.J. Abrams (Lost, Star Trek, Super 8, Star Wars: The Force Awakens) visited Japan to promote “Mission Impossible III” with his children. One day, he and his kids went to a toy store featuring Godzilla action figures. After purchasing his kids some toys, J.J. decided to come up with his own giant monster movie […]