Loron Hays

Woody Allen’s creative second wind continues in the sails of his latest overseas production. Leaving Manhattan once again, after the ill-received Whatever Works (a film that should have worked a lot b...
Unknown wants to be an edge-of-your-seat thriller. It wants to recapture the glory of Taken and The Bourne Identity and even grabs at some basic Hitchcockian themes. Unfortunately, it never lives up t...
Beginning with the celebration of the arrival of spring by means of a massive bonfire in the center of town, Frederico Fellini’s Amarcord ignites in a blaze of heavy childhood memories. That’s its pur...
Skyscrapers and Storytelling: There’s something about Valentine’s Day that makes me recall the glory of Woody Allen. Let’s forgo any conversation about...
Now, this is hardcore ‘70s cinema. Brutally engaging and rough around the edges, the original I Spit On Your Grave returns like an avenging siren to home theatres with this splendid
In what feels more like an epic Western from the 1970’s than a sword-and-sandal piece of celluloid fun, Channing Tatum stars as the hero who travels to the edge of the world in pursuit of his father’s...
Walt Disney’s 1951 take on Lewis Carroll’s beloved children’s books never got the praise the film deserved from most critics. Sure, it doesn’t follow the books down to the letter and, yes, it barely.....
It probably took a hell of a lot of weed smoking to produce the general wackiness behind Touchstone’s (their first animated feature since 1993) take on Shakespeare’s classic tragedy of Romeo & Juliet...
From its stylized opening, Hatchet II begins with much better production values than its predecessor. Yet, the homage to 1980’s horror schlock remains. Adam Green’s Hatchet II picks up exactly where t...
Based very, very, very loosely upon the events of an Australian cave-diving accident in 1988, Sanctum provides a chilling look at heavy-handed adventure and at Hollywood acting inside what can only be...
The Rite isn’t exactly the horror experience it is being marketed as. It isn’t exactly all that good either. While it has its fair share of plagues and puking and haunted houses, horror aficionados sh...
Director : Kieran Mulroney; Michele Mulroney Writer : Kieran Mulroney; Michele Mulroney Cast: Jeff Daniels; Emma Stone; Ryan Reynolds Our imaginations are funny things. They can drive us forward to me...
An unnamed source has suggested that True Blood 's own werewolf, Joe Manganiello, is currently being considered for the coveted role of Superman in the Christopher Nolan-produced reboot to be directed...
Doing exactly what he does best, Jason Statham delivers the body count numbers that matter in this re-imagined and re-tooled 1972 Charles Bronson action revenge flick. The action is bloody and high-sp...
Director : Philip Seymour Hoffman Writer : Robert Glaudini Cast: Philip Seymour Hoffman; John Ortiz; Robert Petrocelli; Amy Ryan Bringing a stage play to the big screen poses some problems, but mostly...