Leave it to the Swedes to think up something as fascinatingly bizarre as Troll Hunter . Using the cinema vérité style of The Blair Witch Project and combining it with strict adherence to a bit of Scan...

Producer/Writer/Director and genuine gothic genius Guillermo Del Toro ( Hellboy , Pan’s Labyrinth ) continues to flirt with the idea of man and monster cohabitation in his latest production. Reducing...

The collective cry of The Big Lebowski ’s cult has been answered. Finally, after many DVD releases and Special Editions and whatnot, The Coen Brothers’ detective farce of mayhem, murder, and marijuana...

With my “cool” card revoked for my favorable review of Fright Night , let me go ahead and suggest that maybe the mid-to-late 1970s and '80s were a better fit for writer/director John Carpenter ( Hallo...

More than half a century since its original release, the announcement made from The Killing still rings loud and clear: director Stanley Kubrick, the auteur of the detached antirealism voice in cinema...

Beginning during the coldest part of the original Bambi , this direct-to-video sequel fills in the gaps of Bambi’s maturation under his father’s guidance. The animation isn’t as sharp as the original...

Were Marcus Nispel’s Conan the Barbarian remake only 30 minutes long, it might be heralded as the only blood-riddled version you ever need to see of Robert E. Howard's scantily clad hero. Schwarzenegg...

As smooth (like butter) as David Tennat’s tight leather pants, director Craig Gillespie’s remake of Fright Night is an equally revealing look at the how, the why and the when of remake necessities...

For these turbulent times, there simply is no other film as influential and as important as Gillo Pontecorvo’s The Battle of Algiers . Its black-and-white images are gritty and powerful and uncommonly...

Splashy but predictable and a wee bit uninspired, Rio will certainly keep the kids in check but adults looking for something a bit more out of the unusual will have to go elsewhere. It’s from the make...

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...