In Theaters and Digital

Drugs are bad, mkay?  Especially when your particular drug of choice (and in the case of this movie it’s meth) causes a severe hallucination in which you mistake a bunch of teenagers for invading aliens and then go about picking them off of your pot farm one by one.  Damn, stupid meddling ...

What’s the worst thing that could happen to a young student attending college in today’s social media-soaked world? A failing grade? Sleeping through an important exam? How about attending class in underwear? If we’re to buy what Friend Request is selling, the  ...

The biggest battle in Michael Cuesta’s action thriller American Assassin doesn’t come from its jingoistic statements about America’s populist fight against terrorism. Nor do any of the film’s numerous hand-to-hand combat pieces or budget-busting CGI sequences particularly represent its ...

Maybe it’s the binge watching I’ve done of Twin Peaks: The Return recently.  Maybe it’s the anxiety I have of driving at night.  Regardless of the why, there is a smooth seduction to the beginning of Rememory which reminds me of just how powerful headlights slicing  ...

Directed by Rich Ragsdale and shot on location by Pierluigi Malavasi, Ghost House will win over its audience through the use of its creepy visuals alone.  The sight of a skeletonized finger plunging into the open mouth of Scout Taylor-Compton (from Rob Zombie’s Halloween series) ...

Joe Lewis, a friend of Bruce Lee and himself a Karate Champion, gets immortalized in Death Fighter (aka White Tiger) an awesome throwback with a comparable vibe to Cannon’s successful American Ninja series.  While Lewis passed away in 2012, this film was the last thing he  ...

Good Time is the rare but surprisingly effective example of what can happen when a couple of burgeoning filmmakers looking to make a name for themselves are given some money and access to a few big name Hollywood stars. Rarely are such up-and-comers ever given ...

The Hitman’s Bodyguard bludgeons its way into theaters with a rapid-fire hail of machine gun bullets and filthy jokes, neither of which is capable of hitting a target with any amount of consistency. ...

The name is Bang.  Joe Bang.  And, given the chance, he could seriously ROCK your world with one explosion after the other.  He is also merely one in a canvas of eccentric characters that makes Logan Lucky, written and directed by Steven Soderbergh (The Informant and ...

God bless those who’ve waited patiently since the announcement of The Dark Tower’s big screen adaptation. You deserve a medal. The project has been gestating in one form or another for the last decade or so, and after numerous fits, starts, vicious rumors, crew changes, and  ...