It has been almost 30 years since Brendan Fraser starred in an unexpectedly great reboot of a ’60s children’s cartoon, and the movie remains a favourite of ’90s kids everywhere. Disney’s disastrous live-action remake of Moana proves that many cartoons don’t translate well to live-action for an array of reasons. For one thing, the outlandish […]
Although Brendan Fraser and Adam Sandler‘s early-career comedy movie flopped upon release, this nostalgic ’90s classic now needs a belated sequel thanks to their shared career success. In 1994, it would have been hard to guess whether Adam Sandler or Brendan Fraser would go on to become the bigger Hollywood star. Sandler had been a […]
Hollywood history is littered with attempts at rebooting properties that were once popular. More often than not, these attempts fall by the wayside and quickly get forgotten about, but that has especially been the case since the 2000s. A major reason why is that one movie came along in 1999 that rebooted a long-forgotten franchise […]
Universal’s The Mummy franchise turned a pulpy Egyptian adventure premise into one of the defining blockbusters of the late 1990s, with an equally acclaimed sequel repeating the feat in the early 2000s. The Mummy in 1999 and The Mummy Returns in 2001 paired Brendan Fraser’s Rick O’Connell with Rachel Weisz’s Evelyn Carnahan against a resurrected […]
Universal Pictures built one of Hollywood’s most enduring horror brands nearly a century ago, long before “shared universe” became an industry buzzword. Starting in the early 1930s, the studio’s roster of Universal Monsters turned gothic literary villains into movie stars, including Dracula, Frankenstein’s Monster, the Wolf Man, the Invisible Man, the Bride of Frankenstein, the […]
A sequel that fans have been waiting on for decades is finally coming together, with Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz officially returning to The Mummy franchise after decades. The one-two punch of the first two movies back in 1999 and 2001 created a major adventure-horror franchise that, despite a third movie and an entire Scorpion […]