Based on Sir Ranulph Fiennes’ novel The Feather Men , Killer Elite brazens across the screen with three leading men- Jason Statham, Clive Owen, Robert De Niro - in one action-packed movie. Unfortunate...

Announced with the loud and proclaiming carnival fanfare of “Casey Jones”, the opening of Walt Disney’s Dumbo , now celebrating its 70 th anniversary, defines the sweetness that is its very soul...

Genre-hopping shifts into high gear with director Nicolas Winding Refn’s Drive . The style switch-up is as violently guttural as a Sam Peckinpah flick and as steely-eyed as Jean-Pierre Melville’s hand...

When Will Ferrell steps out of the comedic roles and dusts off his dramatic dancing shoes, there is a bit of magic that happens. The cartoon charades stop and, for once, we get an honest performance f...

Getting sick is never very much fun. In Steven Soderbergh’s tightly-wound Contagion , getting sick is supremely gross, a wide-spread epidemic, and a matter of life-and-death. You can refer to it as th...

Sometimes a brother’s protection comes at a mighty high cost. Other times, it’s as easy as a classic double cross from a couple of heels. Joel and Ethan Coen’s Miller’s Crossing is a dark and deadly g...

Using the “found” footage style of The Blair Witch Project and countless movies since, Apollo 18 sets the record straight on why NASA never returned to the moon. The movie, while familiar, should thri...

Look, Raising Arizona has its haters. Many cannot look past its lampoonish treatment of reality. Many more can't accept Nicolas Cage's performance as anything more than a physical performance of a Wal...

With their brilliant visuals and unmatched crisp dialogue firmly in place, the announcement of The Coen Brothers’ arrival onto the scene circa 1985 was heard loud and clear. Blood Simple was and is, h...

Sergei Eisenstein’s Strike is one of the few films ever made that absolutely deserves to be touted as a visual tour-de-force. From its spirited beginning to its cattle-slaughtering end, the film’s mov...

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...