Owing a huge debt to the beauty of Genndy Tartakovsky's Samurai Jack , Jennifer Yuh's Kung Fu Panda 2 exploits what worked best about the 2008 original but wraps itself in a less satisfying narrative...

Considering the backhanded critical response On Stranger Tides is getting, file this review under Pirates of the Caribbean: In Defense of the Sublime . Rob Marshall, veteran director of the musicals C...

Attention Comic-Book Crusaders! The Dallas Comic-Con arrives this weekend for two days (May 21 st & 22 nd ) of fun-filled super hero escapades and celebrity sightings. In a much larger venue this year...

They call it the savage journey into the heart of the American Dream. Some call it America’s Season in Hell. For Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is the true Lost Weekend of writers,...

If the hand-drawn frames aren’t enough to garner your interest in Jacques Tati’s beautiful semi-autobiographical narrative, the simplicity of this father-and-daughter story will certainly win you over...

The objective voice when it comes to religion and morality in film is often the weakest heard. By casting Christians and Pagans in shrouded light of grayish ambiguity, Christopher Smith’s Black Death...

The good news is that the second collaboration between director Scott Stewart and actor Paul Bettany is a marked improvement on the pseudo-religious muck that was Legion The bad news is that fact does...

To say that the Roger Corman-produced Dinoshark is a bit of letdown is an understatement. While it is refreshing to know that Corman is back doing what he does best with B-movies, this one is simply a...

Co-directors Stephen Carpenter and Jeffrey Obrow’s The Dorm That Dripped Blood aka Death Dorm aka Pranks was a minor little horror gem from 1982. Perhaps best known for launching actress Daphne Zuniga...

It’s unfortunate that Mel Gibson gives what many will hail as the performance of his career inside Jodie Foster’s grossly uneven handling of The Beaver . The film is a disturbing look at adult depress...

There are so many ways in which a modern movie about a hammer-wielding god from Old Norse mythology could fail. Oh, so many ways. Thankfully, under the kinetically skilled direction of Shakespearean w...

In the afternoon of Day Two at Texas Frightmare Weekend – long before the rainy weather tried to sour the day – Roger Corman, wearing a black Sharktopus running jacket, sat down with Frank’s Reel Revi...

In the early morning hours before Day 3 of Texas Frightmare Weekend, Frank’s Reel Reviews caught up with actor – no, scratch that – the silver screen icon of all things badass and beautiful, Sid Haig....

Day two of the Texas Frightmare Weekend began with the ever famous Zombie Walk. Sponsored by Moxley Manor, the walk took its participants from Freeport Parkway by HWY 114 and straight on in to the fro...

The official start day of all things terrorific has begun, Horror Hounds and Hordettes! And from the looks of it, Dallas is in for one hell of a grisly weekend. The doors opened around 5pm and hundred...