Maybe it took the wicked sting of Cop Out to bring writer/director Kevin Smith back into the world of low, low, super low budget independent film. Not since Clerks has his writing and his directing fi...

Boo! Paramount is at it again; third straight year and third straight sequel to their and America’s seemingly favorite paranormal phenomenon. While the creep factor is still solidly in place for the p...

As it deals with constant and continued isolation in Québec circa 1995, one shouldn’t be surprised that Good Neighbors never saw the light of the day here in the United States. Ah, let me count the st...

The coldness of director Matthijs van Heijningen’s remake/reboot/whatever you want to call it of The Thing isn’t due to its icy Norwegian camp setting (although, even the obvious is taken for granted...

Marching forward with a madcap frenzy of make-up and special effects, director Tim Burton’s imagination gets more and more far-reaching and out there. His take on Roald’s Dahl’s famous Charlie and the...

There are a million reasons to list explaining why Real Steel shouldn’t work. Much will be made of the obvious comparisons between Over the Top and its many Rocky punching bag beats. So much so, the c...

For the past year and a half, Kino International has been steadily releasing their acquired Buster Keaton catalog on blu-ray. Each release is a bit better than the one before it; from artwork to resto...

With faces frozen in horror, Death’s carriage arrives for the terrible soul of David Holm. A reckless sinner, fouled with drink and consumption, and responsible for a great many grievances and other h...

Timeless is one of the many adjectives you could use to describe. Beautiful is another. There is a soul-stirring joy that washes over a person while watching Walt Disney’s Beauty and the Beast . Perha...

The Biblical themes and Shakespearean influences running throughout Disney’s masterpiece, The Lion King , are part of why this gem is more than a perfect film. The rich music - songs by Elton John and...

The murder mystery format turns sleazy in this exploitation offering from genre-hopping director Sergio Martino. The Italians have always had an eye for exposing skin and mixing beauty with...

It isn’t often that cancer is the subject of a young man’s sort of coming-of-age tale but, thankfully, we are all the better for it. 50/50 are the chances of one man’s survival rates against the rare...

While being a huge fan of the gore-tastic Laid to Rest , there’s a bit of disappointment that washed over me while watching its sequel. Sure, the canvas is larger this time but…well, that’s just it…th...

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...

Originally released in 1996, Peter Jackson’s The Frighteners is the only heir-apparent to the throne of ‘Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice’ as it captures Burton’s delicate balance of gothic horro...