Loron Hays

Following the discovery of a wrecked Soviet submarine and a spiked flask of vodka, one undersea mining crew is about to have a very bad day in George P. Cosmatos’ Leviathan . This undersea monster mov...
Sex. Violence. Crisp cinematography. Frank Miller’s black and white comic canvas with splotches of color from time to time. Welcome back to Sin City. It’s been nearly a decade since last we walked its...
With Tobe Hooper’s Texas Chainsaw Massacre as its reference point, Motel Hell is a seriously delicious horror film that exploits all the typical genre markers for the sake of comedy. And it’s all beca...
I knew we’d get to the third film in this series eventually. I just didn’t think we’d have to live through a disappointing sequel to get to it. While it certainly feels like a better entry in the seri...
The drama is B-movie level. The acting is high schoolish at best. The “everything is okay” ending is complete silliness. With no Bill Paxton and no Helen Hunt to lead the cause, this destruction heavy...
See truck stop owner Jack Palance take on mentally ill veteran Martin Landau! See an alien on-the-hunt collect Cub Scouts in an isolated shack! See the madness as a young David Caruso gets taken down...
Not even Megan Fox and her moody eyes can save this unremarkable crap. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is what happens when a poorly stitched together movie climbs out of the sewer of bad ideas and spews...
Twin Peaks . Regardless of your feelings about this two season show, there is no denying that David Lynch’s vision of small town America left an impact on the popular culture – one as deeply felt as t...
The summer of 2014 will probably go down as the box office that wasn’t. The films – while profitable – are nowhere near what industry insiders want to hear from the summer months. Other than two films...
Never before in the history of motion pictures have the changes that happen inside the female body when a girl gets her first period been explained so clearly then in Ginger Snaps , a female-led werew...
Once again, a film company bungles a summer marketing strategy. This time it is Paramount and MGM with Dwayne Johnson in Hercules . The trailers for this sword and sandal picture simply suck and leave...
Bummer. Well, at least Lucy looks pretty. The return of Luc Besson to the director’s chair after the massive failure of The Family doesn’t come without a few glitches as he guides Scarlett Johansson t...
The seemingly impossible rise of the man who played Mr. Sulu in Star Trek many, many moons ago as a modern day cultural icon and gay rights activist is, in itself, worthy of attention. It’s a story th...
Like the movie industry, video games and the people who design them have had their fair share of ups and downs. There is a landfill full of E.T. Atari cartridges to remind folks of the low period if y...
Roger Ebert might have been robbed of his ability to talk but he was never robbed of his voice. That’s the point of director Steve James’ documentary about this recently passed true American icon. Tha...