I’m not trying to be funny here, but how many of you heard about The Jazz Singer before you actually saw it? It turns out the revolution was televised (in a roundabout manner of speaking). Moving pict...

While far from perfect, Brian Cunningham and Matt Niehoff’s Overtime isn’t the total loss that it easily could have been. You’ve got a low-budget film starring former WWE superstar Al Snow and a cast...

House at the End of the Street (otherwise known as 101 Generic Minutes ) is a bad career location for Jennifer Lawrence. She’s too talented of an actress to get caught up in a supposed suburban horror...

If you missed the lackluster Stolen in its initial 14 day theatrical run, well, I don’t blame you. Easy to watch when the brain is switched off, the film is largely a sloppy affair that can’t decide o...

This movie – no, this phenomenon – will change your life. Permanently. Tommy Wiseau’s The Room , having already earned freakish line-quoting followers in Los Angeles and New York through its communal...

With a rat-a-tat throwback style that echoes the gangster films of yesteryear and a fedora-wearing swagger that suggests dark alleys and women with dangerous curves, director Ruben Fleischer ( Zombiel...

While it certainly isn’t high art and, at times, as awful as you expect it to be from the wrong-headed trailers, Texas Chainsaw 3D – being billed as the direct sequel to Tobe Hooper’s 1974 original (a...

Stand-up comedian Mike Birbiglia’s Sleepwalk With Me reads more as a testimony from within the bleak halls of a go-nowhere relationship than about his marvelously dry stand-up comedy routine. Yes, he...

“A Liberal Arts education will solve all your problems,” jokes writer/director/actor Josh Radnor (from CBS’ How I Met Your Mother ). It’s an ironic statement from the character he plays in his own Lib...

Something is wrong with the children of Mars and only Santa Claus can solve their mystery moodiness. With enough misguided Christmas cheer to make the Hallmark channel all a-quiver with silent fright,...

Much like the actual midnight raid that resulted in the discovery of and immediate killing of Osama bin Laden, Katheryn Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty sneaks up and packs a mighty powerful emotional wallo...

Seth MacFarlane, creator of Family Guy and American Dad , knows a thing or two about subversive comedy. With Ted , he creates a live-action movie about a teddy bear that comes to life as part of a lon...

You’ve probably never heard of this film (and I suppose I’d worry about you if you had). Be that as it may, the producers of Death Valley were betting that it’d be a hit back in the day with horror ho...

Michael Ritchie’s The Island , written by Jaws scribe Peter Benchley and based upon his book, might have sunken quickly at the box office during its original deployment in 1980 but that hasn’t stopped...

The debut feature film of writer/director Benh Zeitlin is an unshakable force of nature that is not soon forgotten. Winner of the Camera d'Or at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival as well as the Grand Jury...