Loron Hays

Quack! Quack! With the controversy (really?!) over patriarch Phil Robertson’s (shocking?!) comments safely tucked inside a crevice in the recent past, A&E rolls out Season 4 of America’s favorite bear...
The creepy crawlies get deep B-movie fried in director Mike Mendez’s Big Ass Spider! - a flick as non-nuanced as it is devotion to the whole party schlock atmosphere of the drive-in movies of yesterye...
When you think of a romantic comedy your brain doesn’t immediately turn toward science fiction. Or does it? After all, isn’t the dizzying aspect of falling into love comparable to a loss of gravity? C...
"Every time I try to get out, they pull me back in," screams Al Pacino in The Godfather III . I now know how he feels. Honestly, the only way to begin a review of Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones...
Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean dream team of Johnny Depp, director Gore Verbinski, screenwriters Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio, and producer Jerry Bruckheimer go for broke in their adaptation of The...
Ron Burgundy (Will Ferrell) is baaaaaaaaack! From truck commercials to actual news takeovers, Anchorman 2 might possible be one of the most overhyped sequels to come around since the Ghostbusters disc...
Inside Llewyn Davis – while being focused on the Greenwich Village scene of the early 1960s – is a timeless masterpiece of sound and vision and perfectly relevant in today’s absurd world. Yes, I said...
Perhaps Smaug (voiced by Benedict Cumberbatch) says it best because there literally is “no place to hide” from this nearly three-hour continuation of Peter Jackson’s overwrought three-picture adaptati...
Como estan, beetches? Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy is one of those comedies – like Animal House , This is Spinal Tap , Caddyshack , and Hot Rod – that only gets better the more times you watc...
When RED , the sleeper hit comedy of 2010, opened, the over-50 audience finally has something to cheer for. So did the all the young turks. That’s certainly an accomplishment when the most of the cast...
Having never even seen one episode of A&E’s Duck Dynasty , I went into this Blu-ray set knowing only two things about it: rich rednecks and camouflage. I am now 46-episodes educated into what makes Th...
Lake Bell, after surviving the supporting actress stranglehold for a number of years, breaks out on her own with In a World… , a movie she writes, directs, and stars in. The movie subverts the romanti...
Writer/director George A. Romero ( The Night Of The Living Dead series) might have made his name with the undead but he doesn’t always wear the horror helmet. With Knightriders , a King Arthur-style R...
Scream Factory, an imprint of Shout! Factory, and its love affair with writer/director John Carpenter continues with the release of Showtime’s anthology of horror, Body Bags . Comprised of three short...
The Horror Show , directed by James Isaac, has an interesting release history. Critically panned, the film was eventually released overseas as the third film in the House series although it has nothin...