It isn’t often that cancer is the subject of a young man’s sort of coming-of-age tale but, thankfully, we are all the better for it. 50/50 are the chances of one man’s survival rates against the rare...

While being a huge fan of the gore-tastic Laid to Rest , there’s a bit of disappointment that washed over me while watching its sequel. Sure, the canvas is larger this time but…well, that’s just it…th...

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...

Originally released in 1996, Peter Jackson’s The Frighteners is the only heir-apparent to the throne of ‘Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice’ as it captures Burton’s delicate balance of gothic horro...

Go ahead and expel that breath of anticipation for a real good Sasquatch film, Horror Hounds and Houndettes. Boggy Creek is a monstrous disappointment. First-time writer/director Brian T. Jaynes assem...

Based on Sir Ranulph Fiennes’ novel The Feather Men , Killer Elite brazens across the screen with three leading men- Jason Statham, Clive Owen, Robert De Niro - in one action-packed movie. Unfortunate...

Announced with the loud and proclaiming carnival fanfare of “Casey Jones”, the opening of Walt Disney’s Dumbo , now celebrating its 70 th anniversary, defines the sweetness that is its very soul...

Genre-hopping shifts into high gear with director Nicolas Winding Refn’s Drive . The style switch-up is as violently guttural as a Sam Peckinpah flick and as steely-eyed as Jean-Pierre Melville’s hand...

When Will Ferrell steps out of the comedic roles and dusts off his dramatic dancing shoes, there is a bit of magic that happens. The cartoon charades stop and, for once, we get an honest performance f...

Getting sick is never very much fun. In Steven Soderbergh’s tightly-wound Contagion , getting sick is supremely gross, a wide-spread epidemic, and a matter of life-and-death. You can refer to it as th...

Sometimes a brother’s protection comes at a mighty high cost. Other times, it’s as easy as a classic double cross from a couple of heels. Joel and Ethan Coen’s Miller’s Crossing is a dark and deadly g...

Using the “found” footage style of The Blair Witch Project and countless movies since, Apollo 18 sets the record straight on why NASA never returned to the moon. The movie, while familiar, should thri...

Look, Raising Arizona has its haters. Many cannot look past its lampoonish treatment of reality. Many more can't accept Nicolas Cage's performance as anything more than a physical performance of a Wal...

With their brilliant visuals and unmatched crisp dialogue firmly in place, the announcement of The Coen Brothers’ arrival onto the scene circa 1985 was heard loud and clear. Blood Simple was and is, h...

Sergei Eisenstein’s Strike is one of the few films ever made that absolutely deserves to be touted as a visual tour-de-force. From its spirited beginning to its cattle-slaughtering end, the film’s mov...