Tackling the territory of camp and schlock films from the 1950s with even more camp and schlock requires a bit of skill as those films, while insanely entertaining, were usually never meant to be the...

D. W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation , a groundbreaking film that is quickly approaching its 100 th anniversary, is still – to this day - a controversial film igniting the fear and loathing that inv...

This month Kino fires up its release of Silent Era films by unloading two classics from the towering film pioneer D.W. Griffith onto blu-ray. Way Down East is probably the lesser known of the two rele...

With a new creative zest and the same loveable spirit that guided Jim Henson and company through five seasons of The Muppet Show and a venture into feature films, director James Bobin (HBO’s Flight of...

Celebrating its 25 th anniversary as the sequel that serves as more of a remake, Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn reunites writer-director Sam Raimi and actor Bruce Campbell with the Necronomicon and then pr...

The musical genre of film cannot get any better than with George Cukor’s excellent screen adaptation of My Fair Lady . Stephen Sondheim declares it victorious in the musical comedy department and, to...

The gut-busting and side-splitting laughs found in Frank Henenlotter's Frankenhooker , his 1990 parody of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, are only one part of the film’s many exploitative charms. There’s...

Oy vey. The money-grubbing cynical studio executives have really scraped the bottom of the barrel for this family-friendly flashy mess of recycled pop songs. It is safe to say that Happy Feet 2 comple...

Blue Velvet , now celebrating its 25 th anniversary, remains an intoxicating look at supposed small-town tranquility in which innocence fears to tread. Written and directed by David Lynch ( Mulholland...

Famed director Clint Eastwood continues to pound out film after noteworthy film in a career that seems to stretch back into the very beginning of the motion picture industry itself and, while his work...

While the majority of people probably think Andrew Lloyd Webber when they hear any mention of The Phantom of the Opera , there remains a loyal following of film lovers who, correctly, can’t help but p...

I’ve never read Aimee Bender’s novel and, based on director Marilyn Agrelo's puzzling adaptation, I am not sure that I ever will. An Invisible Sign is a frustrating mess of undeveloped ideas, wasted s...

There couldn’t possibly be a creepier basement in the history of Horror films. Dark, dank, and dangerous, the basement in 1981’s House by the Cemetery is a fright fan’s best worst nightmare. The corne...

Holy hayseeds and chintzy choke-weed, boys and girls! If A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas isn’t the merriest surprise of unholy raunch and salacious retribution then I don’t know what is. In a surpr...

Riding the crest of an economically dissatisfied wave of thought that shows no sign of breaking, Tower Heist spins its timely yarn about some middle class broken down luxury apartment workers who deci...