Just when you think Hollywood can’t get any more predictable, it decides to recycle the same thing over and over again. Whether its Jurassic Park, Star Wars or the 100th Star Trek show, new ideas are few and far between. Mortal Kombat‘s turn came in 2021 when a long awaited …

“Everybody be cool….YOU…be cool” ~Seth Gecko. Welcome back to The Black Box Chronicles where we take a look at some of the best and most memorable movies from my childhood. As the calendar turned to 1996, a new vampire movie was coming out directed by Desperado’s Robert Rodriguez and written …

“THIS is history” -Peter Keyes Its 1991. Imagine you’re five years old. You’re looking for something to watch and you are leafing through your father’s VHS tapes. You’re a big fan of the Robocop action figures and the arcade game. Then you see “Robocop 2” on the side of a …

As mentioned many times previously, most remakes are unnecessary or worse. Then you have ones that were actually good such as The Thing and Ocean’s 11. There was another one that many felt was just as good as the original, and that was the 2000 comedy BEDAZZLED.  To understand BEDAZZLED …

About 7 years ago I covered one of the original first person shooter video games called Isle of The Dead. In that review, I mentioned that the game faded into obscurity because the legendary game DOOM was released the same year (1993). DOOM the game created a legacy that still stands …

For connoisseurs of parody movies, the gold standard are films such as Hot Shots, The Naked Gun and Scary Movie. Then you have the opposite end of the spectrum with some of the biggest atrocities committed to film (looking at you Friedberg and Seltzer!). Then you have the middle. The …

Jared Padelecki has been in a ton of movies and films in his life. Whether he’s Thomas Kinkade, Dean Forester, Walker Texas Ranger or Sam Winchester, Jared has been a busy man the last 26 years. At a recent interview conducted during Fan Expo Boston, Jared was asked if he …

“Are you ready for my wisdom?” ~Nix Welcome back to The Black Box Chronicles as we take a look at a movie I DIDN’T see back when it first came out. As mentioned before, back in 1995 the pay-per-view movie channels would show trailers of not only the movie you …

Welcome back to The Black Box Chronicles where I take a look at some of the movies I used to watch again and again back in 1995. For those that followed Congo and Species know that 9 year old me sat in front of my TV and watched the hot new …

Back in 1994, my father’s best friend installed a Black Box in our house. If you don’t know what that is, it was a device that bypassed the lockout codes on the paid channels. Nowadays the equivalent would be getting apps for free such as Netflix, Hulu, Max, etc. Back …