Director John Carpenter does director Howard Hawks. Call Assault on Precinct 13 the premiere urban western because, in the era before the action movie craze, that’s exactly what this lean and mean to...

The comets are coming!! The comets are coming!! Science fiction gets satirized in writer/director Thom Eberhardt’s fantastic Night of the Comet . Released the same year as David Lynch’s Dune and 2010...

The heart of America – the real America that is – should be viewed in hard-bitten black-and-white photography. Director Alexander Payne ( Sideways , The Descendants ) knows this about his Omaha birthp...

The critics said it couldn’t be done. After the advent of sound in motion pictures, the silent film reels audiences loved before would be considered passé. The success of Al Jolson in The Jazz Singer...

The script goes, “Fear was lurking in every corner of town. Who was still healthy? Who was sick?” No, this isn’t from the pages of a Dr. Seuss book. This is from the Intertitles of F.W. Murnau’s Nosfe...

This just in: Larry David has quit his job and lost a fortune (along with his razor)... Not really. It’s just a movie. The partnership between HBO and Larry David ( Seinfeld , Curb Your Enthusiasm ) c...

The wait is over. The extended edition of The Hobbit is upon us. The result, however, is more of the same. The additional scenes still don’t slow down the headache-causing pace of the film and there’s...

The release of Jimi Hendrix: Hear My Train A Comin’ , which premiered on PBS’ acclaimed American Masters series earlier this month, is a magnificent journey through Hendrix’s multi-colored life. It is...

Alan Taylor’s Thor: The Dark World might feel - with its Anthony Hopkins-narrated beginning concerning a war with elves – a bit like the next installment of The Hobbit but when it comes down to it, Ma...

It was the cult of personality that – for a long, long time – kept me away from totally embracing Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead. It was the tie-dye worshippers; the Dead Head antics; the endless...

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: Four friends enter the city limits of Las Vegas for some casual hedonism… Yeah, I thought so. There’s certainly nothing new in Last Vegas and, if you are anyth...

The films in the collection might be at random and, as a result, it might be incomplete but Shout Factory’s release of The Vincent Price Collection is truly something any fan of classic horror can cel...

MTV’s Jackass franchise – now in its 13 th year – grows old rather gracefully and spins off with Johnny Knoxville under heavy old man-prosthetic-makeup as he sends up the golden years of life. Yes, Kn...

Falling in love with an abandoned seaside house can be bad for your health. Just ask music critic/composer Roderick Fitzgerald (Ray Milland) and his sister Pamela (Ruth Hussey). Directed by Lewis Alle...

I’m still not sure how Syfy managed to wrangle up the dough for Defiance , a science fiction series that is the first of its kind due to its multi-platform approach to the narrative. The show is a tru...