Loron Hays

I have a great and genuine appreciation for director Steven Spielberg’s 22 nd film, The Terminal . From the set design to the love of America’s jazz, the delicate film is – for me – a touching and bea...
Endless wonder. That’s what Warehouse 13 promised when it debuted on Syfy in 2009. To its credit, endless wonder is exactly what the show delivered. The five seasons that make up this set are a fan’s...
When you think of a romantic comedy your brain doesn’t immediately turn toward science fiction. Or does it? After all, isn’t the dizzying aspect of falling into love comparable to a loss of gravity? C...
The passing of time favors 1981’s Evilspeak , a film a little too late to ride the whole Satanic scene of the late 1970’s but way in front of the curve as far as computers are concerned. Starring Clin...
At long last, writer/director Jimmy Huston’s Final Exam arrives to once again fill dorm rooms with its own particular brand of horror. It is the appropriate time of the year to release this cult class...
Leave it to Godzilla to restore the balance as the 2014 summer box office begins to warm up and go nuclear. That’s right the King of the Monsters returns! From Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures, dir...
Mothra and the two singing fairies return in the 27 th Godzilla film, Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S. much to the satisfaction of die-hard fans. The errors of director Masaaki Tezuka and Masahiro Yokotani’s sc...
…which brings us to the death of the original Godzilla. After 22 films and countless battles, Toho paves the way for the American version of Godzilla and kills off the one and only King of the Monster...
When the winged menace of Rodan – long thought dead – returns to attack the innocent, who are you gonna call? Godzilla, that’s who! As long as you can guarantee that the mutated dinosaur is on your si...
This May the Toho Company, Ltd – known around the world for their special effects bonanza of man-in-a-rubber-suit monster flicks - strikes back with quite an impressive haul of Godzilla vs. titles for...
From the sharp writing to the clever plotting, The Spectacular Spider-Man – appearing on the Kids' WB programming block of The CW and later on Marvel's sister network Disney XD from 2008 to 2009 – end...
And the controversy continues. Violent and heavy on the nudity, Get Carter is a rather mean-spirited revenge flick that earns its reputation alongside Michael Caine’s badass performance as Jack Carter...
Leave it to Judi Dench, who squeezes every bit of emotion from each and every closeup in Stephen Frears’ movie, to actually bring a tear to my eye. Philomena is a heart wrenching road trip from Irelan...
“I close this memo with a very earnest plea that you consent to this brief visual pattern to which I gave so many long hard days of work.” That is the closing line in writer/director Orson Welles’ 58-...
The slow burn of Transcendence , the directorial debut from cinematographer Wally Pfister ( The Dark Knight Trilogy ) isn’t due to its mesmerizing story or its intoxicating visuals. It isn’t due to th...