Confession time, Boils and Ghouls!  I grew up  - even as fat as I was – wanting to be Michael Paré’s cool as a cucumber Tom Cody from Streets of Fire.  Most my age wanted to be cracking shit with a bullwhip and making off, just like Indiana Jones,  with golden idols and, while I was keen to  ...

A swinging sixties marital comedy with the charming Shirley MacLaine and the prim and proper Richard Attenborough? Sure! Why not? It’s an innocent request from the workaholic brasserie manufacturer Robert Blossom ...

What does family really mean? Is it the people who are related by blood through no choice of your own? Or is it more? Is it the people who choose to protect you and stick with you – the people who genuinely care about you? Well, this conversation is the driving theme of acclaimed director  ...

Live one day at a time.  Forever.  This is what Will (Scott Hamm Duenas), a devastated father, is supposed to do after the death of his daughter.  But instead he drinks himself into oblivion.  You can read it on the lines in his face.  He’s not stopping anytime soon.  He is broken and his  ...

In a family-owned butcher shop situated in a sun-scorched small town, we meet Sara (Laura Galán) – an overweight teenager who is constantly bombarded with the merciless bullying and gossip of other kids her age. To them, she’s “Piggy.” ...

On a Wing and a Prayer is an inspiring story of faith, hope, and determination. The poster and trailer, which you can check out below, hint at the heart-warming events that will occur in the film as well as a stellar cast ...

Sometimes the perfect spot to call home completely turns against you.  That’s what one couple discovers when they, wanting to get away from the big city, settle down in a remote location.  It is an ideal spot, well, except for what awaits them in the forest . . .

Tis hard to believe in this century that the name Peter Jackson wasn’t known to that many in the mid- 90s. Film nuts like myself were aware of him, devouring the likes of Bad Taste and Meet the Feebles eagerly. I remember distinctly saying to a friend, after viewing Jackson’s R-rated puppet movie, that I ...

We’ve all been in the middle of family feuds.  Especially when politics are involved.  Nothing divides us quicker than being on opposite sides of the political spectrum.  Taking that situation in a very literal sense, This Land arrives on Digital and Demand to rile up all the Thanksgiving ghosts of  ...

Can a movie that is a mess also be considered genius? Well, that is the perpetual debate about Orson Welles’ The Lady from Shanghai. Based on the novel If I Die Before I Wake by Sherwood King, this film takes all of the noir essentials and twists them in such an entertainingly strange  ...