Bad hairdos, really large insects, and gore, gore, gore is what you’ll find inside this skin-crawling nest. Yes, it’s the six-legged bug who gets toasted and then roasted in this creature feature prod...

O McClane, Mclane! Wherefore art thou John McClane? Lacking the tone, the mood, and the feel of the Die Hard pictures before it (including the inferior 4 th entry), A Good Day to Die Hard massively di...

The man behind those Wu-Tang slash and burn head-bobbing beats, the RZA, makes his directorial debut and revitalizes the martial arts genre with a film saturated with ridiculous amounts of blood and h...

Side Effects is supposed to be writer/director Steven Soderbergh’s goodbye to the cinema and filmmaking and while most are not convinced that he can successfully fade away we have to, at this point, t...

Easily the best thing about Here Comes the Boom is that its executive producer, Adam Sandler, does not make an appearance. Designed to be a feel good movie in the vein of Rocky and Warrior , Frank Cor...

Digital or film? Those are your choices for the future of moviemaking. Do we fall forward or fall back and rely on the natural look of film to carry us into the future? Discuss. Chris Kenneally’s new...

Yippee ki yay, double-dipper! It’s Die Hard ’s 25 th anniversary celebration but you won’t find much of a party going on here. The disappointing collection from 20 th Century Fox is essentially the sa...

It’s been heralded as a minor classic. It’s also the first movie to showcase zombies – whether the walking dead or just poisoned. Let’s be honest, though. It’s far beyond the appropriate time to recog...

Well, at least it tries to do something different with the whole superhero genre. Imagine if DC’s Justice League or Marvel’s The Avengers were fractured and driven apart by one of their villains for a...

It has been a decade since last we heard from director Walter Hill ( The Warriors , 48 Hours ) and his latest, Bullet to the Head , offers no explanation for the ten year silence. No apology needed fr...

Searching for Sugar Man clocks in a swift 85 minutes but the true story it tells – about an unknown folk-rock artist from Detroit, Michigan who doesn’t even know he’s bigger than Elvis in South Africa...

Ready for something new from Jason Statham? Something like a romantic comedy? Look elsewhere. This is meat and potatoes Statham. The protagonist of a series of thrillers by the author Donald Westlake,...

“Gross,” my wife said to me while studying the artwork on Olive Films Blu-ray release of Paramount’s Ticks , a low-budget creature feature from 1993. It was followed by, “what the hell is wrong with y...

Bursting with the same joy captured inside Domenico Modugno’s recording of Volare, To Rome with Love continues Woody Allen’s successful European vacation. The comedy is just shy of the usual laughter...

Sweat. Dust. Violence. And beer. These are the outback facts of life in Ted Kotcheff’s hard-hitting Wake in Fright . An Australian film long thought lost due to the ravages of time, Wake in Fright sta...