When it comes to teenage terror, one cannot get any better than the menacing red gelatin threat of director Irvin S. Yeaworth’s The Blob . It’s an efficient horror house scare and, as far as entertain...

In just over an hour, silent comedian Buster Keaton achieves more laughs in College than most comedians do in their entire career. His mastery of physical comedy is in its peak form and the short, mad...

Imagine Steven Spielberg's film career without direction. What would that look like? Well, as a survivor of his output in the mid-to-late 80's, I can tell you it isn't very pretty. The adult fantasy m...

Yul Brynner’s iconic silver-eyed gunslinger makes his debut on blu-ray this month and, as if no time has passed, Westworld reclaims its throne as the unstoppable thriller that it is. This lean and mea...

Disney’s $200-million return to the wonderful world of Oz is neither great nor powerful. It is interesting that Sam Raimi, director of The Evil Dead series and the Tobey Maguire Spider-Man franchise,...

What’s big and tall and heading to theaters across the nation? Jack the Giant Slayer and, yes, it’s every bit as fee-fi-fo-FUN as it should be. It’s sure to anger the cynical moviegoer with its Prince...

Ladies and gentlemen, in my time as a film reviewer I have journeyed to many a far off foreign place to bring you the news – good or bad – about new, domestic releases. I have combed the bottom of the...

Elia Kazan’s On the Waterfront won 8 academy awards in 1955 and could still win those awards if released, as is, today. This is more than just a movie. Kazan’s ability to capture reality is more than...

Poor Renny Harlin. What went down as arguably his best (and certainly most atmospheric) film and intended American debut, Prison , never saw the light of day in what was supposed to be its big theatri...

That’s right, fellow freaks, TerrorVision is back in print! Finally freed from its VHS prison by the kind folks over a Shout!/Scream Factory, TerrorVision gets coupled with another gory gem from the l...

I’m pretty sure no one saw this coming. Pay little attention to the “inspired by a true story” opening suggestion. The statement comes with its fair share of expected emotional bear traps for cynics a...

Bad hairdos, really large insects, and gore, gore, gore is what you’ll find inside this skin-crawling nest. Yes, it’s the six-legged bug who gets toasted and then roasted in this creature feature prod...

O McClane, Mclane! Wherefore art thou John McClane? Lacking the tone, the mood, and the feel of the Die Hard pictures before it (including the inferior 4 th entry), A Good Day to Die Hard massively di...

The man behind those Wu-Tang slash and burn head-bobbing beats, the RZA, makes his directorial debut and revitalizes the martial arts genre with a film saturated with ridiculous amounts of blood and h...

Side Effects is supposed to be writer/director Steven Soderbergh’s goodbye to the cinema and filmmaking and while most are not convinced that he can successfully fade away we have to, at this point, t...