Offering a new take on ghosts, mysticism and matters of life and death, Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives is also a bit tedious at times. The film is also a criti...

Releasing a meaningful movie at the very end of summer is grossly unheard of from the executives up in Hollyweird and yet that’s exactly what Dreamworks and Touchstone Pictures have done with The Help...

Finally, a serious take on the modern day vampire from a team of Americans arrives. Stake Land , directed by Jim Mickle, is an unsettling and atmospheric post-apocalyptic thriller. Think The Road with...

“We’ve gone up a lot heavier than this.” With that one sentence, the fate of seven people - all desperately trying to catch a flight to Johannesburg - are sealed together forever in Sands of Kalahari...

How quickly the mighty can fall. In the mere two years since the original premiered, Conan the Destroyer presents us with the family friendly version of a barbarian who has no business being friendly...

Popcorn epics don’t get much better than with director John Milius’ action-packed Conan the Barbarian . This is sword and sorcery at its most rugged and (sometimes) goofiest. Yet, never does it lose i...

Going back to the start of Pierre Boulle's mythology, Rise of the Planet of the Apes sets the stage for the ape revolution and delivers their first uprising. Half the movie is welcomed sci-fi soul cou...

Playing more like a poor man’s episode of The X-Files , Dylan Dog: Dead of Night doesn’t have much bite in its tale of vampires, zombies, and werewolves. It’s an interesting attempt to revitalize the...

There seems to be a resurgence of stylized medieval actioners of late. From Black Death to Centurion , these mostly independent features are side-stepping traditional Hollywood paths and pursuing a li...

For many long decades, people have scanned the horizons and wondered if humans were alone in the universe or if there were other creatures just waiting to communicate with us. Yet, fear always sets in...

Turf wars get extraterrestrialized in Writer/Director Joe Cornish’s Attack the Block . The film is rich in concrete jungle atmosphere and gritty laughs making its urban dynamics so grossly enjoyable....

Drugs are bad, mkay? Except when they aren’t. As bad for you, I should add. Science suggests that we only use something like 15% of our brain’s potential at any given time (or maybe throughout our lif...

Director Andrew Traucki thrives on inferring undersea menaces. In 2008, he brought to life alligator attacks in the terrifying thriller Black Water and now, in The Reef , he strands his five-member ca...

Much like he did with The Rocketeer , director Joe Johnston ( Jurassic Park 3 , October Sky , Hidalgo , The Wolfman ) delivers a little slice of heroic Americana circa the 1940’s at the helm of Captai...

Famed writer/director/producer Roger Corman is not one to let a trend pass without notice and monetary capitalization. Still looking to mine the Star Wars vein of golden riches and fortune and glory i...