“Mommy, can we come home?” With those words, Cookie ( Melissa Leo ) and her kid brother Tim ( Randall Batinkoff ) plead to return to their mother’s house. They’ve been kicked out because her new man h...

Lady Luck has no heart at all in this morality tale! The Lady Gambles begins with a stunning beatdown as its star, Barbara Stanwyck , is repeatedly attacked, smacked, and punched by a couple of thugs...

Arthur Kriticos' dream house - full of shatterproof glass cages and sliding steel panels - has arrived. . . but it’s a damn nightmare! Critically hammered and only very loosely based on William Castle...

Because, sometimes, even babies need the support of the police! Pushing a hard-hitting social commentary, Abandoned - with a colorful set of character names - takes aim at selling unwanted babies as t...

The most successful 3D film of the 1950s has finally arrived on Blu-ray. André de Toth ’s House of Wax brought Warner Bros a lot of fortune and fame during its original run in 1953 but the film is als...

She Dies Tomorrow opens with a close-up of an eyeball. It is, in fact, our lead character’s eyes, and they are full of tears and lights as something incredibly atmospheric and hypnotic takes hold of h...

Sometimes a classic film - or one we now consider a classic of its genre - underwhelms in its original run. This is the curious case of Breakheart Pass , a film that continues - every five years or so...

The Adirondack Mountains are probably best known for their expansive forests and their treacherously high peaks. There are also many wild rivers and streams perfect for traveling upon found around the...

It is said that when a woman fights for a man, she is like an ANIMAL! Vanessa Windsor ( Hedy Lamarr ), a spoiled Hollywood star, and her daughter, Penny ( Jane Powell ), fall head over heels in love w...

In which the nuns get it done! Thanks to the crackling cinematography of William H. Daniels ( Six Bridges to Cross, Harvey, Winchester ‘73 ) and the performance of Claudette Colbert as Sister Mary who...

Bloody Hell! We’re not but three minutes into Invasion Earth and the lasers are already firing as two scientists flee for their lives after discovering that honest to goodness aliens are, as they mist...

Concerning the Afterlife, that’s what comes to mind immediately upon hearing the title of Writer/Director Mark Young ’s Limbo . The old bluegrass song, Old Devil, which plays across the title sequence...

It is no understatement to suggest that Bruce Lee ’s return to Hong Kong, after America refused to make him a star, was the best thing for his career. Lee was pissed off; frustrated by Hollywood’s inh...

What has the world come to when the director of Sasquatch at the Mall can't get a gig? That's what horror auteur Harry Penderecki is wondering. Once considered a horror legend, with a string of hits l...

In which the nuns get it done! Thanks to the crackling cinematography of William H. Daniels ( Six Bridges to Cross, Harvey, Winchester ‘73 ) and the performance of Claudette Colbert as Sister Mary who...