Coming straight out of another era of filmmaking, Sharktopus begs to ask the tough question that Hollywood won’t. What’s wrong with a slice of sci-fi cheese? If you ask famed producer of all things mi...

Written by Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, Paul sucks upon the Spielberg/Lucas tit until all the milk and laughs have run dry – and then it keeps on sucking for good measure. Amusing although a little too...

Positioning itself in a believable world where the apocalypse is brought about by soulless zombies, AMC’s The Walking Dead took cable television by storm last year. The show juggled itself between mom...

As the FBI warning flittered across my television screen, I wondered just what impact this movie would have upon me. I had heard the stories; heard just how maddening the documentary was; heard just h...

There’s a sense of timeless purity that encases Walt Disney’s Bambi in a shell of cinematic quality. From the kids’ voices that grace the beginning of Bambi’s life to the first...

Good grief, Charlie Brown, is this movie ever really awful dinner theatre offerings. Uninspired and generally boring, Red Riding Hood plays out its tale of revenge as if it really were a dish best ser...

You’re groaning already. I know you are. Deep down inside, there’s a part of your soul that cannot believe there is yet another retelling, respooling, redux, retread deluxe (the KING SIZED) version of...

Modern crime capers don’t get much better than Steven Soderbergh’s slick take on Elmore Leonard’s Out of Sight . Always a dazzler with rich material, Soderbergh has a wonderful habit of giving his aud...

You know you are dealing with a real “goodfella” when it takes two films to tell your life story. Jacques Mesrine was that type of larger-than-life figure of the criminal scene. Publicity hound or phi...

It’s been ten years since Memento was originally released to universal acclaim. Look at what director Christopher Nolan has accomplished since then: Insomnia , The Prestige , Batman Begins...

From the opening few comical seconds of Paramount’s Rango , it is evident that its primary source of inspiration has its roots in the iconic spaghetti westerns that Sergio Leone once made. The water-d...

There’s an empty sort of spirituality that echoes throughout The Adjustment Bureau . It isn’t concrete and, as a result, it certainly isn’t all that confident in what it’s trying to say about angels a...

There’s a dangerous sense of urgency that outlines the case for first-time director Michael Webber’s The Elephant in the Living Room . In spite of its playful and clever title, this is one documentary...

There may be only one reason to see this film. Maybe two if you are a fan of Charlie Chaplin, but – speaking from strictly the filmgoer’s point of view – the true value of this film lies with Robert D...

Bursting forth with the cinematic speed of zooming muscle cars and the urgency of flooding nose bleeds, Drive Angry is a 70’s cinephile’s pleasure. I’d add “guilty” to that pleasure terminology if the...