Disturbing is a word that comes to mind after finally seeing this horror anthology. Interesting also comes to mind. Unfortunately, this doesn’t all add up to be a winning combination. While largely un...

Created, produced, and written by Bob & Harvey Weinstein, The Burning is a slasher picture about summer camp, horny teenagers, and a prank gone seriously awry. Released in 1981, The Burning – directed...

Start your engines! The summer blockbuster of 2013 has arrived. Yes, with Justin Lin’s Fast & Furious 6 , our collective need for speed lives on. Now, I was late to the franchise as a whole but – afte...

Saying goodbye is a hard thing to do. Given that most television dramas overstay their welcome and most science fiction shows never get the chance to say hello, the fifth and final season of Fringe is...

Academy Award-winning filmmaker (turned producer here) Alex Gibney ( Taxi to the Dark Side , Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room ) teams up with past and present members of the Eagles and produces a...

Produced by Guillermo Del Toro, Andy Muschietti’s Mama is not unlike an atmospheric fairy tale. It’s focused on a pair of orphaned siblings left to fend for themselves for five years. They aren’t alon...

Writer/director Shane Carruth is one bold son of a bitch. Upstream Color is proof of that. He is also the thinking man’s filmmaker and delivers, four years after Primer - his stunning debut - a follow...

You know Academy Award nominee Michael Shannon’s face. You just don’t know his name. You will, though. Mark my words. You will. Threatening enough for you? Well, it just might be. He plays, after all,...

Romantic comedies don’t get more manipulative than writer/director David O. Russell’s Silver Linings Playbook . They typically can’t get any more damaged either. Centered rather seriously upon mental...

I’ll be blunt. Star Trek V: The Final Frontier , both as a film and a Star Trek entry, is not very good. It isn’t completely without joy (it’s the few chuckles that save this from being a complete dow...

There is absolutely nothing wrong with Robert Wise’s Star Trek: The Motion Picture . Many critics and fans have dismissed it because, to them, it’s …ehem… boring. Okay, sure, soap operatic Star Wars i...

Writer/director Shane Black ( Kiss Kiss Bang Bang ) unleashes a heavy metal assault with Iron Man 3 and I couldn’t be happier. He might not be the man inside the suit but that doesn’t mean Black (the...

Anyone who knows me or reads my reviews or has a brief conversation with me knows I cannot stand Michael “Mr. Awesome” Bay films. His adolescent shenanigans just do little for me … except make me feel...

Writer/director Alex Cox ( Sid and Nancy , Straight to Hell ) gets the deluxe treatment with Criterion’s release of the now-classic Repo Man . The film – as absurd as it is – has its own cult legacy t...

Texas writer/director/actor Larry Wade Carrell comes bucking out of the gate with a modest but forgettable full-length horror debut. While murky with a convoluted storyline that includes strange towns...