In cine-massacre history, there are few films that compare to the in-the-gut feeling Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chainsaw Massacre leaves you with.  Every imperfection in this low-budget Slasher works in the movie’s favor and adds to the overall grisly experience.  The movie is not as violent or as ...

What do you get when you combine the elevated emotions of a melodrama and the seedy, back-stabbing beats and visuals of a noir? This concoction is the exact recipe for Michael Curtiz’s delectably dark Mildred Pierce starring the incomparable Joan Crawford as the iconic title character ...

In many cases, all that remains of our precious American folklore, history, and culture are a few old photographs, film clips, or rusty roadside relics. However, in the case of drive-in movie theaters, there are a handful of determined people who not only refuse to let go of their own outdoor movie  ...

Tom Hanks does grumpy in A Man Called Otto, the American remake of the Oscar-nominated Swedish film called A Man Called Ove from a few years back. Though certainly not the first actor who comes to mind for a role featuring the most cantankerous old man this side of Gran  ...

The Reaper Man from Gravitas Ventures is soon to be released and the poster and trailer for this horror feature have just been revealed. ...

“Everytime we come here, someone has to get topless.” Truly, this one had me at the idea of Kane Hodder butchering more beauties in bikinis, but this slasher is a bit more than just his performance as Goatface.  Let’s see, there’s the beautiful location (on Cape Cod in Massachusetts)., an interesting storyline (which begins in the  ...

Confession time, Boils and Ghouls!  I grew up  - even as fat as I was – wanting to be Michael Paré’s cool as a cucumber Tom Cody from Streets of Fire.  Most my age wanted to be cracking shit with a bullwhip and making off, just like Indiana Jones,  with golden idols and, while I was keen to  ...

A swinging sixties marital comedy with the charming Shirley MacLaine and the prim and proper Richard Attenborough? Sure! Why not? It’s an innocent request from the workaholic brasserie manufacturer Robert Blossom ...

What does family really mean? Is it the people who are related by blood through no choice of your own? Or is it more? Is it the people who choose to protect you and stick with you – the people who genuinely care about you? Well, this conversation is the driving theme of acclaimed director  ...

Live one day at a time.  Forever.  This is what Will (Scott Hamm Duenas), a devastated father, is supposed to do after the death of his daughter.  But instead he drinks himself into oblivion.  You can read it on the lines in his face.  He’s not stopping anytime soon.  He is broken and his  ...