The convincing “downtrodden” world of District 9 is echoed. Liberal ideas of “Free Health Care for all” is the message its good guys send. More liberal ideas regarding immigration laws are defended by...

Predicting the right wing's media dominance with an intelligent script and a captivating group of actors of course WUSA – upon on its initial release in 1970 – was a giant flop. I’ll wager a bet that...

James Mangold’s The Wolverine is a comic book movie that attempts to atone for the sins of 2009’s X-Men Origins: Wolverine by bringing a more grounded and wounded Weapon X to the story while, at the s...

Created by the rich mind of J.G. Quintel, Cartoon Network’s newest original series Regular Show is anything but what its title suggests. The animated series focuses on the hilarious misadventures of a...

Finally, after what seems like years (maybe decades) of waiting, Hollywood manages to produce a modern-made haunted house tale worth a damn. No longer do we have to run to films like 1963’s The Haunti...

Spring Breakers is a film about the current “Me” Generation that most members of that said grouping will fail to understand. Why? Because consequence and condemnation is not what their unearned sense...

Offering a tongue-in-cheek solution to the homeless problem that plagued nightly news during the 1980s, Street Trash is a horror-comedy that goes out of its way to offend everyone … regardless of thei...

With Pacific Rim , Guillermo del Toro has turned in an almost perfect summer blockbuster. It's been hyped to death and it might not live up to the hype - but it is a whole lot of fun. And in a summer...

“ There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and su...

Upside Down is not a very good romance as far as storybook fables go. It is; however, fairly strong and needlessly complicated science fiction. For my money, I’ll take the latter any day of the week....

When it was first announced that Piranha , the 1978 original spoof of Jaws , which was directed by Joe Dante, written by John Sayles, and produced by Roger Corman was going to be remade, an audible gr...

At long last, Harold Lloyd arrives in high definition. Buster Keaton got his respect from Kino. Charlie Chaplin continues to get his from Criterion and now, with the lovingly restored Safety Last , th...

Writer/Director Joe Dante ( Gremlins ) humorously takes on America’s culture of violence with 1981’s The Howling . Manically led by a charging performance from Patrick Macnee (BBC’s The Avengers ), Th...

When it comes to intelligence in zombie flicks, World War Z takes the undead crown. It is indeed a compliment but – in a summer with a dumbed-down Superman as reigning champ of the box office – smarts...

“Use my body.” With that enticing command, Tobe Hooper’s science fiction bonanza, Lifeforce , (s)explodes onto the screen with an interesting premise involving Haley’s comet and a smokin’ hot chick wh...