It’s disappointing to be letdown by a film that wants to be warmly received by all its audiences. While not ever as sharp or as blissful as Adventureland , the aim for its emotional appeal is the same...

Suffer the Sadomasochistic! Murder the Merrymakers! Court the Claustrophobic! Your perfect host for the evening’s anguish has arrived! Turning the tables on a fugitive-turned-party crasher is done del...

With the release of The Big Lebowski on blu-ray last week and this week’s release of Fargo, Miller’s Crossing, Blood Simple , and Raising Arizona (also on blu-ray), the Coen Brothers are all the rage...

Exploitation fans rejoice! Shout! Factory has seen fit to bring their ongoing Roger Corman Triple Feature DVD releases to the Blu-ray market. Their initial release is also one of their best-selling: T...

While never released in America, Blitz is immediately entertaining. This gritty London-based serial killing actioneer might not have the smarts to survive even the most rudimentary of afterthought ana...

Leave it to the Swedes to think up something as fascinatingly bizarre as Troll Hunter . Using the cinema vérité style of The Blair Witch Project and combining it with strict adherence to a bit of Scan...

Producer/Writer/Director and genuine gothic genius Guillermo Del Toro ( Hellboy , Pan’s Labyrinth ) continues to flirt with the idea of man and monster cohabitation in his latest production. Reducing...

The collective cry of The Big Lebowski ’s cult has been answered. Finally, after many DVD releases and Special Editions and whatnot, The Coen Brothers’ detective farce of mayhem, murder, and marijuana...

With my “cool” card revoked for my favorable review of Fright Night , let me go ahead and suggest that maybe the mid-to-late 1970s and '80s were a better fit for writer/director John Carpenter ( Hallo...

More than half a century since its original release, the announcement made from The Killing still rings loud and clear: director Stanley Kubrick, the auteur of the detached antirealism voice in cinema...

Beginning during the coldest part of the original Bambi , this direct-to-video sequel fills in the gaps of Bambi’s maturation under his father’s guidance. The animation isn’t as sharp as the original...

Were Marcus Nispel’s Conan the Barbarian remake only 30 minutes long, it might be heralded as the only blood-riddled version you ever need to see of Robert E. Howard's scantily clad hero. Schwarzenegg...

As smooth (like butter) as David Tennat’s tight leather pants, director Craig Gillespie’s remake of Fright Night is an equally revealing look at the how, the why and the when of remake necessities...

For these turbulent times, there simply is no other film as influential and as important as Gillo Pontecorvo’s The Battle of Algiers . Its black-and-white images are gritty and powerful and uncommonly...

Splashy but predictable and a wee bit uninspired, Rio will certainly keep the kids in check but adults looking for something a bit more out of the unusual will have to go elsewhere. It’s from the make...