Loron Hays

Released from Kino International this month, a company set to conclude its run of Keaton high definition transfers soon, is a glimpse at the rarely seen and hardly heard version of the silent comedian...
The Hunger Games , based on the first book in a trilogy by Suzanne Collins about a state-run TV talent show where 24 teenagers fight against each other for food, will capture everyone’s attention this...
21 Jump Street is an unexpectedly weird and wild ride down the nostalgic turnpike. Full of expected vulgarity, explosive action beats, and sudden turns full of sweetness and character only to slam int...
Played for laughs and not for scares, famed producer/director Roger Corman’s cult classic from 1960 arrives on blu-ray with little fanfare, but what a celebration it is for its fans. The Little Shop o...
While truly never a fan of director Tarsem Singh’s work (movies such as The Cell and The Fall ), there’s no denying his visual style makes for a convincing foundation with which to build a movie upon....
It. Has. Arrived. Plan 9 from Outer Space is believed to be the worst movie of all time. It was originally made in 1959, long before the days of M. Night’s The Happening or The Last Airbender which ar...
From the so-bad-it’s-good camp comes this little slice of 1970’s low-budget cheese and PG-rated sleaze. The year was 1971 and, from the colorful lab sets and hilarious man-in-a-monster-suit attacks, A...
Riffing on Alfred Hitchcock’s one-take experiment with Rope , Silent House presents horror aficionados with a spellbinding tale of tension that works more often than it doesn’t during its “real” 88-mi...
John Carter is a pulp-soaked spectacle of science fiction sound and vision. With eye-popping 3D effects that “whiz-bang” and “golly-gee” the senses down to their sockets, John Carter is a planet-hoppi...
Fritz Lang’s Scarlet Street is a gripping and forgotten classic of the film noir era. Lang, being one of the several German filmmakers that helped shaped and mold and experiment with the film medium,...
With a little more zing to its art and a lot more zap than the laser brain shenanigans that the Shrek series has become, Puss in Boots manages to be an artful and fun spin-off. It tickles the funny bo...
Offering nothing really new or wholly fresh to the crime-saga genre, Ben Affleck, in his directorial follow-up to the grossly involving Gone Baby Gone , presents a traditional tale of Irish-American w...
Project X , while full of promise as hinted at by its intriguing title, is a teenage Hangover syphoned through a rambling role-reversed version of Sixteen Candles and that’s about it. Solid for a minu...
I’ll make this easy on you. Exploitation films simply do not get much better than with Nude Nuns with Big Guns . From the title to the actual content, this film explodes with skin, violence, and sex,...
Hard-hitting and full of nightmarish promise, The Ford Brothers absolutely deliver a visually stunning Zombie flick in The Dead . It’s brutal in its gore and situationally nasty in all the write (get...