Loron Hays

Reese Witherspoon goes a mile-a-minute with a Texan drawl in an unfunny Hot Pursuit as Officer Cooper. Forgetting what made previous characters like Elle Woods and Tracy Flick so memorable, Witherspoo...
There is a robust earnestness surrounding Richard Donner’s Ladyhawke that, to this day, remains praiseworthy. While Warner Bros does the film a favor with this freshly minted blu-ray release, the film...
“For as long as I can remember I always wanted to be a gangster. To me that was better than being president of the United States. To be a gangster was to own the world.” t seems rather daunting. Writi...
Getting Vincent Price out of retirement was no easy task. The boils and ghouls over at Scream Factory have assembled a collection of supplemental material to accompany their release of 1987’s From a W...
The western genre is familiar territory for a lot of audiences, no matter their location. From directors like John Ford, Clint Eastwood, and Sergio Leone, the film community has reinforced some of the...
Time to climb aboard the Grantchester bandwagon before it leaves you in the gravel! The latest British crime drama imports wit, jazz, and murder in a scenic post-war Cambridgeshire. PBS’ Masterpiece M...
Action. Atmosphere. And Kurt Russell as Snake Plissken saying things like, "Sad story. You got a smoke?" Do I really need to say any more? Escape from New York , from writer/director John Carpenter, i...
Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the bathroom, Ghoulies return from the toilets. Making their blu-ray debut, courtesy of Scream Factory, the films responsible for the hilariously awful...
Alex Garland’s directorial debut, Ex Machina , is, as far as I’m concerned, the first must-see film of 2015. More human than human indeed. This is breathtaking art that is meticulously assembled to bu...
Sometimes less of something is better. The Blacksmith is back in RZA’s The Man with the Iron Fists 2 . It is, at once, a movie no one thought possible considering the original film’s lukewarm response...
It has been 16 years since The Blair Witch Project caught audiences off-guard with its creative use of previously recorded material in order to tell a story. The narrative style stuck, much to chagrin...
Cinematic horror has worn many faces over the years. Few actors such as those of Vincent Price have actually earned a reputation for being the genre’s torchbearer. The man “gets it” and made a bankabl...
The opening sequence. Pulsing music surges. An unnamed red liquid drizzles out over the darkness. Our lady of justice is formed, bathed by this crimson element. Familiar cityscapes are covered, too. N...
Imagine what the earth would look like without its green foliage. Imagine the heat. Imagine the barren and scarred landscape. Widespread deserts as far as the eye can see. That’s the future imagined i...
While it may roll out of its cinematic jar as slow as molasses, Journey to the Far Side of the Sun remains a strong spread of science fiction gooeyness. Released in 1969, this Gerry and Sylvia Anderso...