Your choices are: (a) Ambitious (b) Pedestrian (c) Quaint. Circle one of the words and you could anchor a review of Moontrap , written by Tex Ragsdale, around it. For this review, it works best if I t...

“This stuff is way beyond Ouija boards, you guys.” Do we need to ask why? Someone somewhere at MGM couldn’t leave well enough alone and that’s the only answer you’ll get. Of course, Pumpkinhead has to...

Redefining the slow burn, Los Angeles-filmmaker Blake Robbins takes audiences on a heart-wrenching journey through loss and grief as one family struggles after the death of their three children and th...

Inspired by writer/director/producer and all around film icon Roger Corman, Stuart Gordon – the director of From Beyond and Re-Animator – decided to film another script while he still had the use of a...

In 1965, rebel American director Monte Hellman ( Two-Lane Blacktop ) conceived of two westerns and decided to film them back-to-back in the Utah desert. Surreal and gritty, these two westerns would pr...

It will more than likely go down as the crown prince of sequels that should have never been made. Twenty years is waaaay too long to stay loyal to two rubber-faced morons charging their way through on...

“Whoa. Free toy inside! Free toy inside!” Do I have your attention Cult of UHF ? Because the blu-ray you want and need has just been released. "Weird Al" Yankovic, the reigning king of pop song parody...

Writer/director John Michael McDonagh returns with a vengeance in Calvary , a dark comedy that expertly juggles the sacred with the profane. The film takes its name from the hill where Jesus was cruci...

Relativity is finally portrayed correctly on film thanks to the efforts of Christopher and Johnathan Nolan BUT, with a running time at close to 180 minutes and a climactic event happening offscreen, I...

The forefather of Italian Horror Cinema reanimates the dead … in outer space. Mario Brava’s Planet of the Vampires is not a cinematic masterpiece. It is; however, one of the most influential of narrat...

If one worm can’t kill you, maybe 100,000 could. Writer/director Jeff Lierberman’s Squirm takes a closer look at our fish bait and turns those harmless, wriggling little creatures into mean-spirited s...

Michael Keaton is Birdman. The actor who, in my opinion, played the best cinematic version of Batman turns the role on its head (or is that on its wings??!) in Birdman , the latest art house flick fro...

At long last. Every icon deserves a sequel. Scream Factory’s excellent treatment of the horror films of Vincent Price is continued in another 7-film second serving. The films in this treasured collect...

Keanu Reeves turns 50 this year. With age comes wisdom, I’m told. Perhaps that is why his portrayal as the super lethal John Wick, a former hitman fresh out of retirement, is such a crowd-pleasing goo...

Santos Alcocer’s Cauldron of Blood is such a weird film. After simmering in its own juices for three years after its completion, this bizarre tale about a blind sculptor named Badulescu who uses the b...