Chuck's Movie Breakdown

      Hey guys, Chuck here. Well, fans have waited decades to see Tim Burton do a take on The Addams Family , and we got it in the form of a Netflix series. Wednesday , developed by Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, stars Jenna Ortega as a teenaged Wednesday Addams, and also features the likes of Gwendoline Christie, Emma Myers, Christina Ricci, Steve Buscemi, Billie Piper, and as the remaining members of the Addams Family: Catherine Zeta-Jones as Morticia, Luis Guzmán as Gomez, Isaac Ordonez as Pugsley, Fred Armisen as Uncle Fester, and Joanna Lumley as Grandmama.        So, the series opens on an ordinary high school where, after pulling her brother Pugsley out of a locker, Wednesday Addams gets revenge by dropping two bags of piranha into the pool during a swim team practice, leading to her expulsion. This prompts her parents, Gomez and Morticia, to send her to their alma mater: the boarding school Nevermore Academy. During her time at Nevermore, Wedne...

       Hey guys, Chuck here. Well, I just went to check out DreamWorks Animation's new movie Forgotten Island , which features the voice talents of H.E.R., Liza Soberano, Dave Franco, Jenny Slate, Manny Jacinto, and Lea Salonga.          Set in the '90s, Forgotten Island follows the story of Jo and Raissa, two lifelong friends in the Philippines who are about to part ways, as Raissa is preparing to travel to America to attend college at CalTech. However, the night before Raissa is set to leave, the two girls find a sand dollar, which opens the portal to the land of Nakali, where they find they had a hell of an adventure, but wake up unable to remember it. Can they regain their memories, find the portal key, and return home, or will the island consume their most precious memories?         Okay, so, the island of Nakali, as well as the many mythical creatures that inhabit it, a come from Filipino mythology, and all real...

       Hey guys, Chuck here, and this is my review of new movie Resident Evil , based on the game franchise by Capcom. Co-written and directed by Zach Cregger, this movie stars Austin Abrams, Zach Cherry, Kali Reis, Will Merrick, and Paul Walter Hauser.        So, the movie follows Bryan, a medical courier assigned to deliver a vital medical package to the general hospital in Raccoon City, where a deadly mutagenic virus has been unleashed by the Umbrella Corporation. In Bryan's path are deadly monsters that he must get past to make his delivery in tact.         So, obviously, this plot is one made specifically for this movie, as are the characters in the movie. The only elements from the Resident Evil games in this movie are the location, Raccoon City, and the Umbrella Corporation unleashing a deadly mutagenic virus. And, you know what? The movie still works even without such characters as Albert Wesker, or Leon Kennedy, o...

      Hey guys, Chuck here. Well, it's spooky season once again, which means HallowScream begins again. To kick things off, let's take a look at Martin Scorsese's 2010 thriller Shutter Island , based on the novel by Dennis Lehane, and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Michelle Williams, Emily Mortimer, Ted Levine, Jackie Earle Haley, Patricia Clarkson, Max Von Sydow, and Ben Kingsley.         The movie focuses on a pair of U.S. Marshals, Edward "Teddy" Daniels, a war veteran who was at the liberation of Dachau, and Chuck Aule, who are sent to investigate the disappearance of a patient from Ashecliffe, a mental hospital located on Shutter Island and built from a military compound left over from the Civil War. Teddy and Chuck are taken from the docks to Ashecliffe by the facility's deputy warden, who explains the three main wards: Ward A for male patients, Ward B for female patients, and Ward C for the most dangerous patients on the island, ...

       Hey guys, Chuck here. Say, have you ever dreamed about getting to visit a real life version of Willy Wonka's famous chocolate factory? Well, twelve teams of adult pairs got the.golden opportunity to do so in a new reality competition series currently streaming on Netflix called Wonka's The Golden Ticket .        So, the series starts off with the reveal that twelve Golden Tickets were sent out, and collected by twelve adults, who were allowed to bring a friend or relative to compete with them for a grand prize of $3 million. And, I will say it was a nice touch to have Peter Ostrum, who played Charlie in the film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory open a Wonka Bar that DOESN'T contain a Golden Ticket and remark "Not this time, Wonka "         Each episode features several challenges, all with brilliant recreations of things we loved from the original film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory . For instance, a...

       Hey guys, Chuck here, and it's finally time to return to the world of Buffy  with its spin-off series Angel . Airing for five seasons on The WB, Angel was created by Joss Whedon and David Greenwalt, and stars David Boreanaz as Angel, along with a revolving door of series leads such as Charisma Carpenter, Glenn Quinn, Alexis Denisof, J. August Richards, Andy Hallett, Amy Acker, Vincent Kartheiser, James Marsters, and Mercedes McNab, along with recurring cast members like Elisabeth Röhm, Christian Kane, Stephanie Romanov, Daniel Dae Kim, Keith Szarabajka, Alexa Davalos, Jenny Mollen, Sarah Thompson, Gina Torres, and Adam Baldwin, with  Buffy cast members Sarah Michelle Gellar, Alyson Hannigan, Seth Green, Eliza Dushku, Julie Benz, Juliet Landau, and Tom Lenk all appearing in a mix of recurring and guest roles.          Starting off around the same time as Buffy season four, Angel debuts with the title character in Los Ange...