Loron Hays

The Bean is back! Newly remastered from the original SD video sources, Mr. Bean has never looked better than he does with this new set from Shout! Factory, the reigning kings of exceptional taste. The...
The off-kilter hit man. The three lines of plot to follow. The dark comedy. Kill Me Three Times is what happens when a gritty film noir tours Australia with Simon Pegg as its guide. Reminiscent of Blo...
Because we don’t give up on family. Spanning Tokyo, the Dominican Republic, Azerbaijan, Abu Dhabi and LA, the gas tank of Furious 7 should already be sputtering on empty. The fact that the series – an...
Gather your wits, the elderly super-sleuth returns for a second round of investigations. While many actresses have filled her shoes, none but the great Joan Hickson can boast about being “favorite” to...
Operating like a fever dream about some bizarre nightmare in a haunted house, The Beyond – directed by Lucio Fulci – is still considered the director’s masterpiece. This underrated film is still, in m...
You’ve probably already heard the bad word of mouth about Get Hard , kiddos. The critics have spoken. Now, you get your say. Oh, it’s a dumb comedy and full of offensive jabs at almost every living th...
Turn up the schlock, man. The B-movie genre gets elevated with this bucktoothed bloodletting bonanza. Having just seen it, I am here to testify that Zombeavers , a film that is as cracked as its title...
Suddenly, every other horror movie coming out this year now looks better. Thrusting audiences straight into the horror of isolation, Muck takes that GEICO commercial – the one spoofing the horror genr...
Ronald D. Moore, the showrunner who turned a rebooted Battlestar Galactica into a modern classic series, is back again doing what he does best. This time, though, his aim is not for the stars. It’s 17...
Don’t Go In The Woods … Alone! , a cult horror film from 1981, is the attention-grabbing title that always screamed at me to watch when I used to frequent the VHS rental store tucked inside a row of s...
Many years ago, there used to be such a thing as life without reality programming on the television. Call it boring. Call it slow. Call it whatever you want. The fact remains that the medium used to h...
And you thought Jar Jar Binks was annoying. Neill Blomkamp, the director behind the Oscar-nominated District 9 , continues to disappoint in his beloved Science Fiction genre. Having publicly acknowled...
Originally titled The Mask of Satan , Mario Brava’s feature length debut, released here in the United States as Black Sunday , was a gothic-sized hit for Roger Corman’s American International Pictures...
Bringing the dead back to life is tricky business. Director David Gelb (last seen behind the lens of the documentary Jiro Dreams of Sushi ) doesn’t unearth any new treasures with The Lazarus Effect ,...
Roger Corman, famed producer and director of exploitation cinema from the 1950s through the early 1980s, captures the very essence of the biker counterculture years before Easy Rider would the be the...