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...

Popcorn epics don’t get much better than with director John Milius’ action-packed Conan the Barbarian . This is sword and sorcery at its most rugged and (sometimes) goofiest. Yet, never does it lose i...

Going back to the start of Pierre Boulle's mythology, Rise of the Planet of the Apes sets the stage for the ape revolution and delivers their first uprising. Half the movie is welcomed sci-fi soul cou...

Playing more like a poor man’s episode of The X-Files , Dylan Dog: Dead of Night doesn’t have much bite in its tale of vampires, zombies, and werewolves. It’s an interesting attempt to revitalize the...

There seems to be a resurgence of stylized medieval actioners of late. From Black Death to Centurion , these mostly independent features are side-stepping traditional Hollywood paths and pursuing a li...

For many long decades, people have scanned the horizons and wondered if humans were alone in the universe or if there were other creatures just waiting to communicate with us. Yet, fear always sets in...