Lake Bell, after surviving the supporting actress stranglehold for a number of years, breaks out on her own with In a World… , a movie she writes, directs, and stars in. The movie subverts the romanti...

Writer/director George A. Romero ( The Night Of The Living Dead series) might have made his name with the undead but he doesn’t always wear the horror helmet. With Knightriders , a King Arthur-style R...

Scream Factory, an imprint of Shout! Factory, and its love affair with writer/director John Carpenter continues with the release of Showtime’s anthology of horror, Body Bags . Comprised of three short...

The Horror Show , directed by James Isaac, has an interesting release history. Critically panned, the film was eventually released overseas as the third film in the House series although it has nothin...

Director John Carpenter does director Howard Hawks. Call Assault on Precinct 13 the premiere urban western because, in the era before the action movie craze, that’s exactly what this lean and mean to...

The comets are coming!! The comets are coming!! Science fiction gets satirized in writer/director Thom Eberhardt’s fantastic Night of the Comet . Released the same year as David Lynch’s Dune and 2010...

The heart of America – the real America that is – should be viewed in hard-bitten black-and-white photography. Director Alexander Payne ( Sideways , The Descendants ) knows this about his Omaha birthp...

The critics said it couldn’t be done. After the advent of sound in motion pictures, the silent film reels audiences loved before would be considered passé. The success of Al Jolson in The Jazz Singer...

The script goes, “Fear was lurking in every corner of town. Who was still healthy? Who was sick?” No, this isn’t from the pages of a Dr. Seuss book. This is from the Intertitles of F.W. Murnau’s Nosfe...

This just in: Larry David has quit his job and lost a fortune (along with his razor)... Not really. It’s just a movie. The partnership between HBO and Larry David ( Seinfeld , Curb Your Enthusiasm ) c...

The wait is over. The extended edition of The Hobbit is upon us. The result, however, is more of the same. The additional scenes still don’t slow down the headache-causing pace of the film and there’s...

The release of Jimi Hendrix: Hear My Train A Comin’ , which premiered on PBS’ acclaimed American Masters series earlier this month, is a magnificent journey through Hendrix’s multi-colored life. It is...

Alan Taylor’s Thor: The Dark World might feel - with its Anthony Hopkins-narrated beginning concerning a war with elves – a bit like the next installment of The Hobbit but when it comes down to it, Ma...

It was the cult of personality that – for a long, long time – kept me away from totally embracing Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead. It was the tie-dye worshippers; the Dead Head antics; the endless...

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: Four friends enter the city limits of Las Vegas for some casual hedonism… Yeah, I thought so. There’s certainly nothing new in Last Vegas and, if you are anyth...