Offering nothing really new or wholly fresh to the crime-saga genre, Ben Affleck, in his directorial follow-up to the grossly involving Gone Baby Gone , presents a traditional tale of Irish-American w...

Project X , while full of promise as hinted at by its intriguing title, is a teenage Hangover syphoned through a rambling role-reversed version of Sixteen Candles and that’s about it. Solid for a minu...

I’ll make this easy on you. Exploitation films simply do not get much better than with Nude Nuns with Big Guns . From the title to the actual content, this film explodes with skin, violence, and sex,...

Hard-hitting and full of nightmarish promise, The Ford Brothers absolutely deliver a visually stunning Zombie flick in The Dead . It’s brutal in its gore and situationally nasty in all the write (get...

While better than its predecessor in antics, acting and special effects, the dynamic directing duo of Neveldine/Taylor doesn’t exactly crank the mayhem up to the levels one might expect. It’s largely...

B-movie enthusiasts and cult film fanatics can rest easy now. The darling no-budget creature feature from 1983 finally has found a welcomed home in dazzling high definition. Released by Elite Entertai...

Safe House , directed by Daniel Espinosa, is exactly the formula you expect it to be. Action meets Thriller meets Spy vs. Spy. Unfortunately, Safe House plays it a bit too safe and, in spite of its en...

Released in 1955, Disney’s Lady and the Tramp was the first ever animated feature to be geared for the true CinemaScope experience. It was also the first to be told specifically from a canine’s point...

When it was first announced that Piranha , the 1978 original spoof of Jaws , which was directed by Joe Dante, written by John Sayles, and produced by Roger Corman was going to be remade, an audible gr...

Really good horror is hard to pull off. It takes restraint, attention to story, and a deft director to handle the many, many mechanics of strong atmosphere. Director Lucky McKee, behind the camera for...

The Grey is a survivalist’s Holy Bible. It looks unassuming and, chances are, you’ll roll in to it not expecting much, but – lo and behold – hell hath no fury like humans and their will to live. It’s...

At a whopping 85 years of age and with not a single stand of visible gray hair, Wings , directed by William Wellman, is a marvel of the film industry. Of course you know its history as the first Acade...

What do bathtub toy boats and plastic helicopters have in common with a dude in a monster suit? Hint: the action takes place in Japan. That’s right. Godzilla , the mother of all mega-monster movies, i...

Traffic , directed by Steven Soderbergh, does more to address the complex topic of illegal drugs in and out of this country than the actual “war” on drugs does. Considering the largely naïve and inade...

Opening with a three-minute reminder of where we’ve been with the previous installments, Underworld Awakening , rather surprisingly, soon ditches its celebrated mythology of werewolf vs. vampire and l...