From stunning, widescreen vistas in Colorado's Royal Gorge National Park to some deftly handled underwater scenes (filmed in Santa Monica, California), Big House, U.S.A. does not disappoint, going dar...

The new comedy starring Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson called The Hustle is an almost identical remake of the 1988 classic comedy Dirty Rotten Scoundrels which starred Michael Caine and Steve Martin -...

“You don’t want to go out. You don’t want to go home. What do you want to do, Andie?” The pink, volcanic ensembles. The cast - Molly Ringwald, Harry Dean Stanton, Jon Cryer, Annie Potts, James Spader...

Classic film noir - with its emphasis on atmosphere and futility - simply doesn’t get any more claustrophobic than in Cornel Wilde ’s directorial debut, Storm Fear . A classic thriller which has West...

It begins, hilariously enough, with some fairly shitty-looking stock footage of glaciers sliding off into the sea. Big budget this Yeti flick is not. Relatively quickly, we are whisked away to a fishi...

If the opening few frames of Coven - as five scantily clad females (later referred to as "Josie and The Pussylickers") make their way toward us through smoke and a pitch-black night - doesn’t get your...

“You’ll eat my dinner or one of you walks out of here with a bullet in his head.” John Garfield , one of the original rebels in film cinema, is absolutely on fire in He Ran All The Way and, sitting ri...

The “witness” in this film noir title is Barbara Stanwyck . The murderer is George Sanders . I’m not spoiling anything for those who have never seen Witness to Murder . In fact, we see the murder happ...

“No one would have believed, in the middle of the 20th century, that human affairs were being watched keenly and closely by Intelligences greater than man's. Yet, across the gulf of space on the plane...

Never mess with another man's melons! Once that sick theme song from composer Charles Bernstein kicks in, you know that this film is going to be an epic showdown. It doesn't disappoint either. No clea...

“ Imagine plunging the murderous edge of your knife into the beating red heart of your enemy. Imagine the satisfaction of wrapping your fingers around the neck of someone you can’t stand. Imagine how...

The horror! The hilarity! The frauleins! Insanity follows in Horrors of Spider Island , a Z-grade schlockfest, from Germany! Released here in the United States as It's Hot in Paradise , with some cuts...

Displacement. That’s EXACTLY what Parallax , a psychodrama science fiction thriller from writer and director Michael W. Bachochin ( Cascadia; God Forgive Us ), is about as a young artist wakes up to a...

Hell yes! The 1980s’ VHS vibe, complete with a fabulous post-punk synthwave score and a fetish for gross-out gore, is alive and well thanks to the horror and hilarity of Parts Unknown !...

In the wake of composer Ennio Morricone ’s passing, there are few things as beautiful and as moving as his score set to the playful opening of prolific movie mogul Dino De Laurentiis ’ Orca: The Kille...