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...

If this is the future of filmmaking, count me out. I hate to say it, folks. It seems that writer/director Peter Jackson might have gone the way of Star Wars guru George Lucas. In look, in tone, in spi...

Anthology horror, especially if you grew up in the 1980s and thrived on those awfully bloody VHS finds you discovered, rarely gets any better than V/H/S . That being said, if you don’t have a clue as...

Spielberg’s recurring motif of fathers and sons gets a cat-and-mouse twist in this comedic caper from 2002. Starring Tom Hanks and Leonardo DiCaprio, Catch Me If You Can gets much of its gusto from th...

The Day is as trying and as bleak as its opening scene – of five savaged survivors on a wearily constant move - suggests. Too bad it’s also as empty as the road they travel as far as meaningful film e...

Riddle me this, dear readers. What’s sexy and snarky and full of enough world mythology tidbits to please any serious fan of Joseph Campbell? Here’s a hint. It’s Canadian. Here’s another hint. You pro...

Social taboos be damned! Opening with a statement that reads, “This picture is dedicated to those who are disturbed by today’s lax moral codes and who eagerly await the return of corporal and capital...

Rise of the Guardians , directed by Peter Ramsey, is what happens when various figures from our collective calendar holidays team up to play superhero against a soul-sucking force that threatens to st...

What if someone good made a horror film? This is the question Hitchcock , directed by Sacha Gervasi, asks its audience. It is also the question the maestro himself poses to his wife and longtime busin...

Greed and revenge are two of the most primal motivators in all of storytelling. Combine these elements with a fantastical setting that practically bleeds brooding splendor and you have the dense drago...

The election’s over, friends. It’s time to chew bubblegum and kick ass again! Director John Carpenter had a nice run, didn’t he? Between the late 1970’s and the early 1990’s, Carpenter was king of sci...