In the wake of the unheralded success of Steven Spielberg’s Raiders of the Lost Ark , many a fancy knockoff was produced for film and television. The Allen Quartermain film series with Richard Chamber...

Writer/Director Delmer Dave’s eerie classic from 1947, The Red House , finally gets its just reward. Long listed as a favorite film from many critics (but not often seen by the public), the suspense c...

Jason Statham is no stranger to the mess of pulp found inside his latest redemptive mission, Safe . Written and directed by Boaz Yakin ( Remember the Titans ), the rock’em, sock’em movie plays for eye...

The legacy of Bob Marley – who died at 36 – sometimes gets a bit corroded with talk of prophet and holy figure. Numerous documentaries have presented the iconic reggae figure as a saint worthy only of...

Leave it to the French to redefine both ‘apocalyptic’ and ‘nightmare’. With one unflinching swipe of the hand, director Xavier Gens ( Frontiers ) wipes away any lasting memories of The Road or Doomsda...

What a great exploitation idea: the Marines vs. Charlie Manson. The sentence alone should have grossed $50 million, right? Not in 1985. Not by a long shot. Yet, somehow Thou Shalt Not Kill…Except mana...

Snake Plissken is back. Whoops. I mean, a super-spy go-to-government stud named Snow (Guy Pearce, playing Kurt Russell, adorned in a ‘Warning: Offensive’ t-shirt) is back on the job in co-directors St...

In what amounts to the soft rock version of Alexander Payne’s hard-hitting The Descendants , one family – led by the accomplished acting skills of Matt Damon - mourns the loss of their mother (and his...

The Horror genre just got a much needed kick in the pants courtesy of Drew Goddard ( Cloverfield ) and his co-writer Joss Whedon ( The Avengers ). I won’t mince words here; Cabin in the Woods is indee...

War Horse is a beautifully shot throwback to another era of filmmaking. Sentimental in style and full of clichés it wholeheartedly rides straight into the sunset, this World War I epic about a boy and...

Man will probably never be able to conquer and control the forces of nature. The fate of the RMS Titanic is proof enough of the high price for playing “King of the World” with nature. Tales like this...

Rule breaker. Savvy business man. Trend setter. Lover of the bare female form. Forget Don Draper, legendary director/producer Roger Corman is the original Mad Man. No other man could get actor Jack Ni...

With better special effects and a more effective 3D tooling, Wrath of the Titans attempts to make up for the lackluster 2010 remake that undazzled critics and somehow still earned a buck or two. It do...

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...