The wait is over. The extended edition of The Hobbit is upon us. The result, however, is more of the same. The additional scenes still don’t slow down the headache-causing pace of the film and there’s...

The release of Jimi Hendrix: Hear My Train A Comin’ , which premiered on PBS’ acclaimed American Masters series earlier this month, is a magnificent journey through Hendrix’s multi-colored life. It is...

Alan Taylor’s Thor: The Dark World might feel - with its Anthony Hopkins-narrated beginning concerning a war with elves – a bit like the next installment of The Hobbit but when it comes down to it, Ma...

It was the cult of personality that – for a long, long time – kept me away from totally embracing Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead. It was the tie-dye worshippers; the Dead Head antics; the endless...

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: Four friends enter the city limits of Las Vegas for some casual hedonism… Yeah, I thought so. There’s certainly nothing new in Last Vegas and, if you are anyth...

The films in the collection might be at random and, as a result, it might be incomplete but Shout Factory’s release of The Vincent Price Collection is truly something any fan of classic horror can cel...

MTV’s Jackass franchise – now in its 13 th year – grows old rather gracefully and spins off with Johnny Knoxville under heavy old man-prosthetic-makeup as he sends up the golden years of life. Yes, Kn...

Falling in love with an abandoned seaside house can be bad for your health. Just ask music critic/composer Roderick Fitzgerald (Ray Milland) and his sister Pamela (Ruth Hussey). Directed by Lewis Alle...

I’m still not sure how Syfy managed to wrangle up the dough for Defiance , a science fiction series that is the first of its kind due to its multi-platform approach to the narrative. The show is a tru...

A genuine classic of the long running Doctor Who BBC series has finally seen the light of day on DVD. Terror of the Zygons remains a terrifying experience of Celtic proportions. Opening its thirteenth...

It’s in the voiceover upon first seeing Hill House; that’s what always sends me over the edge. “It’s staring at me,” says Eleanor Lance (Julie Harris) and, indeed, the house is truly staring at her. T...

Directed by Kimberly Peirce with a screenplay by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Carrie is yet another reshaping of Stephen King’s novel that, rather quickly, bites the dust. Hollywood will never learn to lea...

“Blessed be the New Founders! Blessed be the new America!” The Tea Party, born out of frustration from having their conservative voices and agenda ignored, finally have a movie they can offer as proof...

Levon Helm, that backbeat-keepin’ dirt farmer with a very recognizable voice, is still with us. His fans know his struggles with addiction, bankruptcy, and throat cancer but, with the documentary Ain’...

Insanity. Nuns. Aliens. Serial killers. Possession. The Devil. Abortion. And the Holocaust. Is there anything that the second season of American Horror Story doesn’t include? Created by Ryan Murphy an...