Released in 1955, Disney’s Lady and the Tramp was the first ever animated feature to be geared for the true CinemaScope experience. It was also the first to be told specifically from a canine’s point...

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...

Really good horror is hard to pull off. It takes restraint, attention to story, and a deft director to handle the many, many mechanics of strong atmosphere. Director Lucky McKee, behind the camera for...

The Grey is a survivalist’s Holy Bible. It looks unassuming and, chances are, you’ll roll in to it not expecting much, but – lo and behold – hell hath no fury like humans and their will to live. It’s...

At a whopping 85 years of age and with not a single stand of visible gray hair, Wings , directed by William Wellman, is a marvel of the film industry. Of course you know its history as the first Acade...

What do bathtub toy boats and plastic helicopters have in common with a dude in a monster suit? Hint: the action takes place in Japan. That’s right. Godzilla , the mother of all mega-monster movies, i...

Traffic , directed by Steven Soderbergh, does more to address the complex topic of illegal drugs in and out of this country than the actual “war” on drugs does. Considering the largely naïve and inade...

Opening with a three-minute reminder of where we’ve been with the previous installments, Underworld Awakening , rather surprisingly, soon ditches its celebrated mythology of werewolf vs. vampire and l...

There are two trains of thought barreling toward each other when it comes to Contraband and both share the same track. One train speeds on a course that suggests actor Mark Wahlberg has outgrown this...

The “found footage” phenomenon hits an all-time low with this budget-friendly piece of horror schlock. Mixing hand-held footage with scratchy camcorder video, The Devil Inside uses the medium of the s...

Not since Sylvester Stallone in Rocky has a fighting movie had such an exceptionally profound statement to say to its own era. Warrior , directed by Gavin O’Connor ( Pride and Glory ), pits two estran...

With a “whatever they’re paying you, I’ll double it” half-baked mentality, Colombiana offers virtually no surprises in the overstuffed female-as-action-star genre that could be so much more than what...

Opening with a movie-within-a-movie sequence that promises actor Jean Dujardin as George Valentin, Hollywood action star, absolutely will not speak, The Artist , a silent film about Hollywood during t...

Love is a funny thing and, in the hands of master comedian Buster Keaton, it is celebrated as a fantastic riot of elaborate setpieces and outrageous stunts. Seven Chances, from 1925, is Keaton’s sweet...

Celebrating the 20 th anniversary of Joe Johnston’s The Rocketeer , Disney – at long last – allows the film to breathe a bit in spectacular High Definition. Let the fist pumping and high-fives begin!...