DVD Reviews
- Details
- By Frank Wilkins
In Andrew Niccol’s In Time, we learn of an alternate reality in the near future, where time really is money… or more specifically, currency. Everyone is born with a body clock embedded in the wrist which is activated when the frontal lobe of the brain ...
- Details
- By Loron Hays
Considering this release of The Ray Harryhausen Double Feature from Legend has only a small connection to the imaginative wonder we know Harryhausen capable of and contains two films on Blu-ray and a bonus film on DVD ...
Read more: Ray Harryhausen Double Feature: She & Things to Come - Blu-ray Review
- Details
- By Loron Hays
Finally, the truth about the walking dead can be told (and sold) to the masses. Cretins and Clodettes, I bring you the blood-curdling classic known as Zombie! Arriving fresh from its sabbatical at the Mount of All Things Gooey and Gross, Zombie should satisfy your need for babes and brains and ...
- Details
- By Loron Hays
Riding the crest of an economically dissatisfied wave of thought that shows no sign of breaking, Tower Heist spins its timely yarn about some middle class broken down luxury apartment workers who decide to strike a big one against a Bernie Madoff-type character ...
- Details
- By Loron Hays
Holy hayseeds and chintzy choke-weed, boys and girls! If A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas isn’t the merriest surprise of unholy raunch and salacious retribution then I don’t know what is. In a surprise twist of events, the film to enjoy more this weekend is a hellish ...
Read more: A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas - Movie Review
- Details
- By Frank Wilkins
The poster for The Double - a movie that is yet another eolith in the burgeoning rebound of the cinematic espionage thriller - displays Richard Gere’s character prominently alongside the film’s title graphic intimating, not so subtly, that he ...
- Details
- By Loron Hays
I’ve never read Aimee Bender’s novel and, based on director Marilyn Agrelo's puzzling adaptation, I am not sure that I ever will. An Invisible Sign is a frustrating mess of undeveloped ideas, wasted story lines, and a series of mental illnesses ...
- Details
- By Loron Hays
There couldn’t possibly be a creepier basement in the history of Horror films. Dark, dank, and dangerous, the basement in 1981’s House by the Cemetery is a fright fan’s best worst nightmare. The corners are tight, the door always slams shut (then locks), the shadows...
- Details
- By Loron Hays
While the majority of people probably think Andrew Lloyd Webber when they hear any mention of The Phantom of the Opera, there remains a loyal following of film lovers who, correctly, can’t help but picture Lon Chaney’s ...
- Details
- By Loron Hays
Blue Velvet, now celebrating its 25th anniversary, remains an intoxicating look at supposed small-town tranquility in which innocence fears to tread. Written and directed by David Lynch (Mulholland Drive, Twin Peaks) after suffering through ...
- Details
- By Loron Hays
Oy vey. The money-grubbing cynical studio executives have really scraped the bottom of the barrel for this family-friendly flashy mess of recycled pop songs. It is safe to say that Happy Feet 2 completely stumbles over itself in this largely unnecessary and rather ridiculous sequel. While the glossy 3D animation ...
- Details
- By Loron Hays
The gut-busting and side-splitting laughs found in Frank Henenlotter's Frankenhooker, his 1990 parody of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, are only one part of the film’s many exploitative charms. There’s an abundance of blood, boobs, and bad acting to boot. No, Frankenhooker isn’t a great film by any ...
- Details
- By Loron Hays
Celebrating its 25th anniversary as the sequel that serves as more of a remake, Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn reunites writer-director Sam Raimi and actor Bruce Campbell with the Necronomicon and then proceeds, on a somewhat better budget, to re-create the ...
Read more: Evil Dead 2: 25th Anniversary Edition - Blu-ray Review
- Details
- By Loron Hays
With a new creative zest and the same loveable spirit that guided Jim Henson and company through five seasons of The Muppet Show and a venture into feature films, director James Bobin (HBO’s Flight of the Conchords), actor/writer Jason Segal and co-writer ...
- Details
- By Loron Hays
This month Kino fires up its release of Silent Era films by unloading two classics from the towering film pioneer D.W. Griffith onto blu-ray. Way Down East is probably the lesser known of the two releases (The Birth of a Nation being the other ...
- Details
- By Frank Wilkins
Equal parts dishy expose and intimate confession, My Week With Marilyn is the fact-based memoir of Colin Clark (Eddie Redmayne) that recounts a brief period during the summer of 1956, in which the life of the lowly aspiring filmmaker crossed ...
- Details
- By Christopher Symonds
Bigger than Ben-Hur’ has been in the world’s vernacular for generations, and having just seen the film for the first time in 30 years, William Wyler’s epic quickly reminded this reviewer why. For a film made in the 50s, the sheer scale of this production makes ...
- Details
- By Christopher Symonds
It’s hard to reconcile fifteen years has already gone by since Wes Craven struck gold twice with a new horror franchise. It’s equally hard to reconcile that this style of self-referential and self-aware horror is nothing but a cliché. But of course ...
- Details
- By Christopher Symonds
News broke that the Weinsteins were bringing Scream back to the masses, ten years after the last one. It actually got a lot of folk excited. I had forgotten what a good film Scream was and just filed it in ‘don’t give a shit’ with most of the horror ...
- Details
- By Christopher Symonds
There are few genre fans in the world that don’t know the name Guillermo del Toro, but in 1997 he was still a relatively unknown entity to the western world. The Spanish director was hired by the Weinsteins to helm what was originally conceived as ...
- Details
- By Frank Wilkins
If not because of its twisty, turny plot chock full of delicious intrigue and deception, then Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy cements itself as a rock in the pantheon of great spy thrillers with its strong performances. Especially from Gary Oldman, who commands every frame of the film and will ...
- Details
- By Loron Hays
Tackling the territory of camp and schlock films from the 1950s with even more camp and schlock requires a bit of skill as those films, while insanely entertaining, were usually never meant to be the stuff of self-referential spoof. Writers/directors Adam Rifkin ...
- Details
- By Loron Hays
There are several things Steve McQueen’s Shame isn’t trying to be. Sexy is one of them. The titillating aspects of its explicit sexual content – as this is a movie about sex addiction – are icily downplayed in favor of a fascinating character ...
- Details
- By Loron Hays
Writer/Director Wes Anderson is sort of a modern-day filmmaking hero of mine. From the opening few minutes of Bottle Rocket, I felt I had a socially awkward brother out there; another who grew up on Woody Allen films and knew too much about The Kinks for ...
- Details
- By Loron Hays
The sense of dread that comes bubbling from the soil of Martha Marcy May Marlene is an oily one indeed. Sticky and messy, it is also rich with promise. Within minutes, the pastoral opening of men slinging their tools and women prepping meals shifts seamlessly ...
- Details
- By Loron Hays
Tom Cruise might be returning as Ethan Hunt but director Brad Bird, responsible for helming the beloved animated films Iron Giant, Ratatouille, and The Incredibles, is the real hero of Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol. His live-action debut is a ...
Read more: Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol - Blu-ray Review
- Details
- By Frank Wilkins
Four years after they struck cinematic gold with the oddball indie hit Juno, Diablo Cody and Jason Reitman are at it again, but this time minus the slangy clangor and stylistic flourishes for which they were so unfairly derided in the film that made it fun to laugh at teen pregnancy. Ironically, this ...
- Details
- By Loron Hays
Produced by Lawrence Bender, directed by Scott Spiegel (writer of Evil Dead 2) and starring Sam and Ted Raimi, Intruder is exactly the type of supermarket slasher film you’d expect from those wacky minds. Intruder has one hand slopped in a bucket of gore and the other hand in the era of slapstick ...
- Details
- By Loron Hays
Celebrating the 20th anniversary of Joe Johnston’s The Rocketeer, Disney – at long last – allows the film to breathe a bit in spectacular High Definition. Let the fist pumping and high-fives begin! Created by writer/illustrator Dave Stevens, the character ...
Read more: The Rocketeer 20th Anniversary Edition - Blu-ray Review
- Details
- By Loron Hays
Love is a funny thing and, in the hands of master comedian Buster Keaton, it is celebrated as a fantastic riot of elaborate setpieces and outrageous stunts. Seven Chances, from 1925, is Keaton’s sweet answer to the subtleties ...
More Articles ...
Page 66 of 119
Movie Reviews
Morbidly Hollywood
- Colorado Street Suicide Bridge
- Death of a Princess - The Story of Grace Kelly's Fatal Car Crash
- Joaquin Phoenix 911 Call - River Phoenix - Viper Room
- Screen Legend Elizabeth Taylor Dies at 79
- Suicide and the Hollywood Sign - The Girl Who Jumped from the Hollywood Sign
- The Amityville Horror House
- The Black Dahlia Murder - The Death of Elizabeth Short
- The Death of Actress Jane Russell
- The Death of Brandon Lee
- The Death of Chris Farley
- The Death of Dominique Dunne
- The Death of George Reeves - the Original Superman