Category: Looking Back On..

  • AI upscaled 4K Horror Show Intro HD: Goosebumps, Tales from the Crypt, Are You Afraid of the Dark, Tales from the Darkside

    AI upscaled 4K Horror Show Intro HD: Goosebumps, Tales from the Crypt, Are You Afraid of the Dark, Tales from the Darkside

    Happy Halloween and today I bring you thanks to the magic of machine learning and A.I. some spooky intros from old horror shows restored in 4K, 8K and HD. Depending on the quality of the source material of course but even if the original source material may be hard to come by or not available…

  • Animated Mortal Kombat in the 90s

    Animated Mortal Kombat in the 90s

    The Mortal Kombat live action movie rode the popularity of the video game and also helped propel the franchise into the mainstream outside arcades and home consoles. It had a GI Joe Toyline and of course came cartoons. The movie had such a big impact of what and how the franchise was that both of…

  • Mortal Kombat Movie Duology Memories (1995 & Annihilation)

    Mortal Kombat Movie Duology Memories (1995 & Annihilation)

    I remember watching Mortal Kombat the movie on Pay-Per-View as a kid, I had only played Mortal Kombat II so I didn’t know much about the story or characters but the movie amazed me and I became a big fan of the franchise. I had already liked the game but it was really the movie…

  • Gotham was the perfect Batman TV show

    Gotham was the perfect Batman TV show

    When the Batman prequel Gotham TV series was announced I thought it’d be somewhat similar to Smallville where you would see all these things happening before they should and I was interested in this I read it’d also have a 10 year old Bruce Wayne, that made no sense and killed the potential for me.…

  • Live Action Transformers is perfect for casuals

    Live Action Transformers is perfect for casuals

    Too young to have grown up with Transformers in the 80s and too old to have grown up with Transformers in the 2000’s so I never became a fan, not a huge fan of cars anyway so I don’t think it mattered had I been born a decade earlier or later. I do like dinosaurs…

  • Pixar Movie Memories & Reviews Vol. 1: Onward, Wall-E, Up, Inside Out

    Pixar Movie Memories & Reviews Vol. 1: Onward, Wall-E, Up, Inside Out

    Pixar used to be the king’s of the animation industry when they brought us hit after hit and there seemed to be no duds from them, but eventually the newness of CGi wore off and other studios started making higher quality films Pixar started to feel less special or perhaps they weren’t just unique anymore.…

  • Peter Jackson’s King Kong 2005 is the definitive Kaiju Gorilla

    Peter Jackson’s King Kong 2005 is the definitive Kaiju Gorilla

    King Kong is really the king of the kaijus being the first giant monster to be iconic and popularize the genre and inspired tons of kaijus like Godzilla, who he has fought twice despite being the underdog in terms of size and abilities. So let’s take a look at Peter Jackson’s 2005 King Kong movie…