Sex, drugs, and Denzel Washington. Director Robert Zemeckis ( Forrest Gump ), after spending the last decade in dead-eyed motion-capture films, finally returns to a world full of soul, rock ‘n’ roll,...

Fox Network is notorious for killing promising shows without giving them a fair shake. Alcatraz , produced by J.J. Abrams, came in as a mid-season replacement in January 2012 and lasted for a whopping...

The film adaptation of British author David Mitchell’s bestselling novel, Cloud Atlas , is what happens when two (or three or four) different styles collide. The unevents of your standard Merchant Ivo...

No one screams like Jamie Lee Curtis. No one. Combine those ear-piercing screams with a creepy Groucho Marx mask, a young David Copperfield, a ghostly train ride, and you have sure fire success for a...

Know this, your car - locked or heavily armed - is not safe from H.B. Halicki's badass crew of car thieves. It might not be as sleek as the Nicolas Cage remake from 2000, but H.B. Halicki’s original G...

The Funhouse , being director Tobe Hooper’s ode to the classic Universal monsters and to late-night carnivals everywhere, is an odd slice of americana horror. It, when slashers were all the rage, deci...

Directors Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman ( Catfish ) are back in the paranormal saddle again. They deserve much better material. Straining the found footage concept in an effort to top themselves, Par...

Writer/director Stephen Fung’s Tai Chi Zero , the first in a proposed trilogy of frenetic martial arts actioneers, is a glorious mess of styles with very little substance. It’s marital arts gone gonzo...

And, with this release, Spielberg makes good on his promise to never revisit his classic films and tweak them with newly-minted special effects, additional footage, and whatever PC changes modern time...

Released towards the tail end of The Cold War, 1984’s Red Dawn serves as writer/director John Milius’ follow-up to his compromised stab at epic fantasy Conan the Barbarian . With MGM finally releasing...

Time has not been kind to Mary Lambert's adaptation of Stephen King’s Pet Sematary . Wait. Another lousy Stephen King movie, you ask? Big surprise, I know, as there are a ton of them. More so than the...

The Oscar for Best Picture is going to be a tight one. If Ben Affleck’s Argo is any indication of the type of films we are going to see this awards season, the race is also going to be a tough one. Ar...

Universal’s original run of monster flicks, stretching from 1925’s The Phantom of the Opera to 1956’s The Creature Walks Among Us , produced what many consider to be the Mount Rushmore of Horror. From...

Oy vey. Taken 2 , or as I like to call it How ITaught My Daughter Grenade Location Skills , is nowhere near the substance of the original. This time, it's a laughable family affair. Bring the kids, da...

With all the fabulous charm of old school Burton, Frankenweenie arrives in theaters just in time to wag its electrified tail (or tale as the case may be) for all the costumed kiddies and adults this H...