Source Code proves that director Duncan Jones and his particular brand of minimalist sci-fi is not the product of flash-in-the-pan gimmickry. Jones, in his second movie out of the gate, proves that he...

Borrowing a riff from Harold Lloyd’s Grandma’s Boy , Buster Keaton perfects the lovable loser’s battle for the girl – a plot line that is still in play in most comedies today - in this 1923 classic fr...

The film opens upon a closed stage curtain. Slowly, the dull curtain opens to reveal a lone figure on its dusky stage. With back to the audience, Sucker Punch – hiding what it truly is - begins its dr...

Coming straight out of another era of filmmaking, Sharktopus begs to ask the tough question that Hollywood won’t. What’s wrong with a slice of sci-fi cheese? If you ask famed producer of all things mi...

Written by Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, Paul sucks upon the Spielberg/Lucas tit until all the milk and laughs have run dry – and then it keeps on sucking for good measure. Amusing although a little too...

Positioning itself in a believable world where the apocalypse is brought about by soulless zombies, AMC’s The Walking Dead took cable television by storm last year. The show juggled itself between mom...

As the FBI warning flittered across my television screen, I wondered just what impact this movie would have upon me. I had heard the stories; heard just how maddening the documentary was; heard just h...

There’s a sense of timeless purity that encases Walt Disney’s Bambi in a shell of cinematic quality. From the kids’ voices that grace the beginning of Bambi’s life to the first...

Good grief, Charlie Brown, is this movie ever really awful dinner theatre offerings. Uninspired and generally boring, Red Riding Hood plays out its tale of revenge as if it really were a dish best ser...

You’re groaning already. I know you are. Deep down inside, there’s a part of your soul that cannot believe there is yet another retelling, respooling, redux, retread deluxe (the KING SIZED) version of...

Modern crime capers don’t get much better than Steven Soderbergh’s slick take on Elmore Leonard’s Out of Sight . Always a dazzler with rich material, Soderbergh has a wonderful habit of giving his aud...

You know you are dealing with a real “goodfella” when it takes two films to tell your life story. Jacques Mesrine was that type of larger-than-life figure of the criminal scene. Publicity hound or phi...

It’s been ten years since Memento was originally released to universal acclaim. Look at what director Christopher Nolan has accomplished since then: Insomnia , The Prestige , Batman Begins...

From the opening few comical seconds of Paramount’s Rango , it is evident that its primary source of inspiration has its roots in the iconic spaghetti westerns that Sergio Leone once made. The water-d...

There’s an empty sort of spirituality that echoes throughout The Adjustment Bureau . It isn’t concrete and, as a result, it certainly isn’t all that confident in what it’s trying to say about angels a...