Chuck's Movie Breakdown

         Hey guys, Chuck here. Back at a time when Marvel Television and Marvel Studios were two relatively separate entities adapting Marvel Comics characters to the screen, Marvel Television cut a deal with Netflix to adapt a number of Marvel Comics characters into live-action streaming shows. Those characters were as follows: Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, and Iron Fist, all of whom would eventually team up as a team known as the Defenders.         Of course, the first of the Marvel/Netflix streaming shows would be Daredevil , which would run for three seasons between 2015 and 2018. Developed by Drew Goddard, with showrunners including the likes of Steven S. DeKnight, Doug Petrie, Marco Ramirez, and Erik Olsen, Daredevil would star the likes of Charlie Cox, Deborah Ann Woll, Elden Henson, Rosario Dawson, Toby Leonard Moore, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Ayelet Zurer, Jon Bernthal, Elodie Yung, Wilson Bethel, and Vincent D'Onofrio.  ...

      Hey guys, Chuck here, and it's been exactly one month since we began the road to WrestleMania . But, before the Showcase of Immortals kicks off in Las Vegas, there's one bump in that road in the form of a 26-foot high steel monstrosity known only as the Elimination Chamber. Yep, it's officially time to discuss this year's WWE Elimination Chamber .        So, to break down just what the hell the Elimination Chamber is, it's a massive steel structure, predominantly made of chains, that surrounds the wrestling ring, with elevated floors on each side of the ring, and four plexiglass pods set up at each of the four corners of the ring. The original design was circular, but the Chamber got a more angular redesign in 2016, with padding added to the floors. The Elimination Chamber match works as follows: six wrestlers participate in the match, with two wrestlers starting in the ring, and the other four being housed in the pods. At regularly timed interva...

       Hey guys, Chuck here. Well, we're back talking about Scooby-Doo, and this time it's the 2004 film Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed . This film was, once again, directed by Raja Gosnell, written by James Gunn, and sees the returns of Freddie Prinze Jr., Sarah Michelle Gellar, Linda Cardellini, and Matthew Lillard. Joining them in this movie are Seth Green, Peter Boyle, Tim Blake Nelson, and Alicia Silverstone, with special appearances by Pat O'Brien, Big Brovaz, and Ruben Studdard.        The movie opens in Coolsville at the red carpet grand opening of the Coolsonian Criminology Museum, run by Patrick Wisely, and Mystery Inc. is, of course, in attendance. The museum is dedicated to the many exploits of Mystery Inc., and thus has many of the monster costumes from criminals they unmasked the past. And, the costumes all come the many Scooby-Doo cartoons throughout the years, and include the following: the Black Knight Ghost, Captain Cutler's Gh...

        Hey guys, Chuck here. In memory of actress Michelle Trachtenberg, who tragically passed away at the age of 39, this is my review of the 2005 teen sports movie Ice Princess.          The movie focuses on Casey Carlyle, a brilliant teenager who is knowledgeable in physics, but also has a passion for ice skating. Combining her two passions, Casey decides to make a summer project that will go towards her scholarship to Harvard focus on the applications of physics and mathematical angles to figure skating.         However, as she gets more personally involved in the world of figure skating, her priorities begin to shift. Casey winds up growing close to several others including Gennifer "Gen" Harwood and her brother Teddy, as well as Gen's fellow skaters Tiffany and Nikki. Gen and Teddy's mother, Tina, winds up coaching Casey to compete in figure skating competitions, but tension soon grows between Tina and Casey's ...

       Hey guys, Chuck here. When it comes to superhero video games, I have, of course, talked in length about Batman with the Batman: Arkham series. But, there's been a recent lineup of video games centered around Marvel's flagship superhero: Spider-Man. Now, there have been plenty of Spider-Man games over the years produced by Activision, although many of them are crappy movie tie-in games related to the Spider-Man movies with Tobey Maguire or The Amazing Spider-Man movies with Andrew Garfield. But in 2018, we finally got a proper Spider-Man game from Insomniac Games, the same studio behind the likes of Spyro the Dragon, Ratchet & Clank, and the Overdrive series. So, here it is: my review of the 2018 PlayStation 4 game simply called Spider-Man .         So, the game opens with Peter Parker/Spider-Man taking off from his New York City apartment to aid the New York Police, led by Captain Yuri Watanabe, on their attempt to apprehend and ar...

         Hey guys, Chuck here. Well, we're talking about some Star Wars again, and in this case we're wrapping up the Disney+ series The Mandalorian with its third and final season.           Airing on Disney+ in 2023, the third season of The Mandalorian sees Din Djarin, along with his ward Grogu, go on a journey for Din's redemption by way of the Mandalorian Creed. To do this, Din must bathe in the Living Waters on the planet Mandalore. Unfortunately, Din runs into some trouble, so Grogu is sent to get help from Bo-Katan Kryze, who not only rescues him, but also defeats those who captured him and is able to reclaim the Darksaber. Din and Bo-Katan track the Living Waters, and Din goes into the water, falls deep, and Bo-Katan saves him, and the two leave Mandalore, returning to Din's covert.          On the planet where the covert has made their temporary home, the Armorer confirms that what Din brought, was,...