Once again, director Tim Burton gets the quirk right and, once again, he’s come under fire for doing what he does so well: recapturing the world as he sees it with the camera. Regardless of your feeli...

The fine art of deconstruction has a name and it is Haywire . Director Steven Soderbergh has found himself a brand new muse. Mixed Martial Arts champion, Gina Carano steps out of the ring and in front...

Wings (1927) - Fully Restored, Breathtaking Epic to Screen at Select Cinemark Theatres Wednesdays, May 16, 2012. If you’ve got a mad crush on all things Oscar and have a burning desire to...

Rage monster Mel Gibson is proving to audiences that he still has that maverick edge. While unmedicated antics continue in his private life, the actor can still make for an appealing good-spirited cri...

Is there a more influential 15 minutes in film history? Famed director Martin Scorsese – who featured the celebrated Georges Melies and his film in his award-winning Hugo – doesn’t think so. You shoul...

When is a horror film not a horror film? Essentially, that’s the question when writing a review for writer/director Ti West’s latest release, The Innkeepers . Like Rosemary’s Baby and The Shining befo...

In the wake of the unheralded success of Steven Spielberg’s Raiders of the Lost Ark , many a fancy knockoff was produced for film and television. The Allen Quartermain film series with Richard Chamber...

Writer/Director Delmer Dave’s eerie classic from 1947, The Red House , finally gets its just reward. Long listed as a favorite film from many critics (but not often seen by the public), the suspense c...

Jason Statham is no stranger to the mess of pulp found inside his latest redemptive mission, Safe . Written and directed by Boaz Yakin ( Remember the Titans ), the rock’em, sock’em movie plays for eye...

The legacy of Bob Marley – who died at 36 – sometimes gets a bit corroded with talk of prophet and holy figure. Numerous documentaries have presented the iconic reggae figure as a saint worthy only of...

Leave it to the French to redefine both ‘apocalyptic’ and ‘nightmare’. With one unflinching swipe of the hand, director Xavier Gens ( Frontiers ) wipes away any lasting memories of The Road or Doomsda...

What a great exploitation idea: the Marines vs. Charlie Manson. The sentence alone should have grossed $50 million, right? Not in 1985. Not by a long shot. Yet, somehow Thou Shalt Not Kill…Except mana...

Snake Plissken is back. Whoops. I mean, a super-spy go-to-government stud named Snow (Guy Pearce, playing Kurt Russell, adorned in a ‘Warning: Offensive’ t-shirt) is back on the job in co-directors St...

In what amounts to the soft rock version of Alexander Payne’s hard-hitting The Descendants , one family – led by the accomplished acting skills of Matt Damon - mourns the loss of their mother (and his...

The Horror genre just got a much needed kick in the pants courtesy of Drew Goddard ( Cloverfield ) and his co-writer Joss Whedon ( The Avengers ). I won’t mince words here; Cabin in the Woods is indee...