Chuck's Movie Breakdown

        Hey guys, Chuck here. And, with Disney releasing the sequel to this movie in a matter of weeks, it seems like the time has come to review the 2016 Disney Animated film Zootopia,  featuring the voices of Jason Bateman, Ginnifer Goodwin, Jenny Slate, Idris Elba, Alan Tudyk, Shakira, and J.K. Simmons.         The movie tells the story of Judy Hopps, a rabbit from a rural town called Bunnyburrow, who has big dreams of being a police officer in the metropolis of Zootopia. Upon her arrival, police chief Bogo assigns her parking duty, but she later volunteers to look in to the disappearances of a number of predators across the city. Judy's first order of business is to get information from a local con artist named Nick Wilde, who joins her in the investigation that leads across the city, leading to run ins with a crime boss named Mr. Big, a pop idol named Gazelle, and many others.           Ultimately, Judy...

       Hey guys, Chuck here. Predator: Badlands, the latest film in the Predator franchise, is directed by Dan Trachtenberg, who returns to the series after his work on Prey , and stars Elle Fanning and Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi.         The movie tells the story of Dex, a young runt among the Yautja (which is the official name of the Predator species), who is sent to a deadly planet, where he teams up with a legless Weyland-Yutani synthetic named Thia to hint down a dangerous beast and claim his place among his race.         As someone who's been hit-or-miss when it comes to these movies, as I personally enjoyed the original Predator with Arnold Schwarzenegger, Predators with Adrien Brody and Laurence Fishburne, and Prey with Amber Midthunder, I gotta say that Predator: Badlands was pretty damn awesome. The performances by Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi as Dex and Elle Fanning as both Thia and her twin synth...

      Hey guys, Chuck here. Happy Halloween. To wrap up this year's  HallowScream , we're going to be celebrating fifty years of the sci-fi comedy musical classic The Rocky Horror Picture Show starring Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon, Barry Bostwick, Richard O'Brien, Nell Campbell, Meat Loaf, and Patricia Quinn.        After an opening credits sequence to a song that references classic sci-fi and monster movies, we cut to the aftermath of a wedding ceremony. Two of the wedding guests, Brad Majors and Janet Weiss, end up engaged themselves, and decide to share the news of their engagement with their old college professor Dr. Everett Scott. However, their car breaks down in the middle of the woods during a rainstorm, and they follow the lights to a massive castle, where a party is being hosted by Dr. Frank-n-Furter, who claims to be a "sweet transvestite from Transsexual Transylvania."        In the upstairs laboratory, Frank-n-Furter ...

      Hey guys, Chuck here. And, as we approach the end of yet another HallowScream , I think that it's time to also wrap up the trilogy of Mummy films with Brendan Fraser with 2008's The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor , which also stars Maria Bello, John Hannah, Luke Ford, Michelle Yeoh, Liam Cunningham, Russell Wong, Isabella Leong, and Jet Li.        So, shifting out of the Egyptian mythology of the first two films, The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor introduces us to the legend of a Chinese warlord named Qin Shi Huang, who united the country's kingdoms, forging them into a single empire, and thus becoming the Dragon Emperor. Unfortunately, the Emperor sought the secret to immortality, and he sends his lieutenant, General Ming, to find the sorceress Zi Yuan, who holds the secret of Shangri-La. Unfortunately, Zi Yuan and General Ming fall in love, and the Emperor has General Ming killed. And, just as the Emperor achieves immortality, he and his ...

       Hey guys, Chuck here. The Life and Death of a Pumpkin is a 2006 short film directed by Aaron Yonda and produced by BlameSociety, the same creative team behind Chad Vader .        The short is told, in first-person narration, from the perspective of a pumpkin. It details the process of being taken from the pumpkin patch, taken to a home, cut open, gutted, carved into a Jack-o'-lantern, placed on a porch with a little candle inside of it on Halloween night, and being nabbed by teens who take it to the middle of nowhere to smash it to bits.         The humor of the short is in how the pumpkin narrates in excruciating detail the fear of being taken from the pumpkin patch and the pain of being cut and carved up, and being set outside as a Jack-o'-lantern, and finally feels the relief of freedom from its pain and suffering when it's smashed into many pieces. And, what makes it even more hilarious is in how Matt Sloan prov...

        Hey guys, Chuck here. Addams Family Values, released in 1993 and directed by Barry Sonnenfeld, is the sequel to the 1991 film The Addams Family .          The movie opens when, after an average night in the Addams household, Morticia is rushed to the hospital, and soon after gives birth to a new baby boy, whom the family names Pubert. And, being an Addams, baby Pubert is born with a moustache similar to his father, Gomez.         However, it seems like the elder two Addams children, Wednesday and Pugsley, are jealous of the newfound attention their new baby brother is getting from the adults, and decide to have fun with multiple attempts at killing the little guy. And this includes everything from dropping him off the roof, only for Gomez to catch him, using a guillotine, which fails, and using a shotgun, which we only hear as Gomez and Morticia sit out in the cemetery. Deciding that the family needs additiona...