Bummer. Well, at least Lucy looks pretty. The return of Luc Besson to the director’s chair after the massive failure of The Family doesn’t come without a few glitches as he guides Scarlett Johansson t...

The seemingly impossible rise of the man who played Mr. Sulu in Star Trek many, many moons ago as a modern day cultural icon and gay rights activist is, in itself, worthy of attention. It’s a story th...

Like the movie industry, video games and the people who design them have had their fair share of ups and downs. There is a landfill full of E.T. Atari cartridges to remind folks of the low period if y...

Roger Ebert might have been robbed of his ability to talk but he was never robbed of his voice. That’s the point of director Steve James’ documentary about this recently passed true American icon. Tha...

Grateful Dead. Janis Joplin. The Band. Buddy Guy. What do they all have in common? Well, other than being fantastic rock bands, artists, and live performers, they once upon a time in 1970 shared the s...

Hailing from the early part of the dreaded 1980’s, it is safe to say that Deadly Eyes is not the most technically brilliant film ever made about marauding rats terrorizing humans and trains alike in s...

Kill or be killed. That’s the thematic thrust behind The Purge mythos as the real America totters on the ever increasing gulf between the rich and the poor. The surprise hit of last year’s The Purge m...

Jason Bateman is on quite a roll. After having his career resuscitated by starring (and starring again) in Arrested Development, he seems to earn only goodwill from all his projects – even the ones th...

It is a movie we didn’t know how to talk about. Released in 1999 and written on-spec by David E. Kelley, Lake Placid and its R-rated mixture of horror and comedy scared audiences away. Why? Because it...

Finally. Want to see an ape win an Academy Award? Look no further than Andy Serkis as Caesar in Dawn of the Planet of the Apes for the chance. He is seriously that good and the two hour movie, expandi...

Mad genius. Visionary. Prophet. Egomaniac. Whatever word you use to describe cult film director Alejandro Jodorowsky would probably be correct. This Chilean-French filmmaker is also a playwright, an a...

Helix , when you get to the midway point of Season One, will otherwise be known as a squandered possibility. Don't believe me? Well, watch for yourself. Co-produced by Ronald D. Moore (of the re-outfi...

What has been seen can never be unseen. It is a saying as old as the wise man who told it to me and Cannibal Holocaust – with its graphic rape, cannibalism, torture, and on-screen REAL killing of anim...

A fun-filled weekend for some park rangers and their girlfriends turns deadly when they find themselves on the wrong side of a killer’s blade in The Final Terror . Long out of print and available only...

Tammy means well. She really does but this road trip comedy is as unfunny as its trailers suggest. Co-written and directed by Melissa McCarthy’s husband, actor Ben Falcone, the film suffers from lack...