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Christmas Review - Mickey's Magical Christmas: Snowed in at the House of Mouse (2001)

        Hey guys, Chuck here. Well, it's the holiday season once again, which means it's time for some fun Christmas reviews. And, while in the past, this has been done in the form of 12 Reviews of Christmas , I feel as though I've exhausted so many Christmas titles worth talking about, that there simply isn't enough to warrant twelve days of them. So, going forward, there will instead be a handful of Christmas reviews spread intermittently throughout the month of December.         And, we're kicking off our Christmas reviews with the 2001 direct-to-video Disney special Mickey's Magical Christmas: Snowed in at the House of Mouse . For some background, in the year 1999, Disney aired a series called Mickey Mouse Works , which introduced a new collection of shorts starring Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and Goofy. However, after two seasons, Disney replaced it with the similarly themed House of Mouse , which saw Mickey, Donald, and Goofy, along with...
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Review - Hazbin Hotel Season Two (2025)

       Hey guys, Chuck here. And, we have another season of streaming television to talk about. The second season of Vivienne Medrano's animated series Hazbin Hotel has recently wrapped up its run on Amazon Prime, and here are my thoughts.         So, since the events of the first season, Charlie Morningstar, Vaggie, Alastor, Husk, and Nifty have gotten many more guests from n the recently remodeled Hazbin Hotel. However, there seems to be some confusion, as many of them are at the hotel to learn to kill angels, as opposed to the hotel's purpose of rehabilitation and redemption. A rising voice from Vox, the demon with a television for a head, spreads doubt about the whole redemption thing, as there's no evidence that a soul from Hell can be redeemed and enter Heaven.         Even in Heaven, there is a question of how Sir Pentious, who was the only one from the Hazbin Hotel to redeem himself and enter Heaven, managed t...
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Review - The Running Man (2025)

       Hey guys, Chuck here, and this is my review of the new Edgar Wright film The Running Man , starring Glen Powell, Katy O'Brian, Colman Domingo, Michael Cera, Lee Pace, Jayme Lawson, William H. Macy, Amelia Jones, and Josh Brolin.        Based on the novel by Stephen King, this movie is set in a dystopian future, and tells the story of Ben Richards, who is desperate for money to help his daughter, who is sick with the flu and needs proper treatment. On a whim, Ben auditions to participate in the deadliest game show in this future: The Running Man . The rules: survive thirty days, and take home a massive sum of money. The stakes: everyone in the country is now hunting him down. So, the question is this: does Ben have what it takes to survive an onslaught of people wanting to kill him to earn enough money to take care of his wife and daughter?        Now, before I go further, I have to admit that I have never seen the origin...
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Review - Now You See Me: Now You Don't (2025)

       Hey guys, Chuck here. Now You See Me: Now You Don't is the highly anticipated and long overdue third chapter in the magical heist franchise Now You See Me . Directed by Reuben Fleischer, this movie features the returns of Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Isla Fisher, Dave Franco, Lizzy Caplan, and Morgan Freeman, who are joined by newcomers Justice Smith Ariana Greenblatt, Dominic Sessa, and Rosamund Pike.         So, it's been ten years since the group of magicians known as the Four Horsemen (J. Daniel Atlas, Merritt McKinney, Jack Wilder, and the returning Henley Reeves) were seen, and the four of them must team up with a new trio of magicians (Charlie, Bosco, and June) to bring down a corrupt businesswoman named Veronika Vanderberg and expose her company for wrongdoing.         As someone who has been a fan of the series since the beginning, it was truly great to see the Four Horseman on the big screen once...
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Review - Zootopia (2016)

        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...
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Review - Predator: Badlands (2025)

       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...
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HallowScream - The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)

      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 ...
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