A movie about making movies always has a sort of bizarre allure to it and Richard Rush’s The Stunt Man , first appearing in 1980, is not a stranger to either quality. Praised and, in fact, buoyed by p...

George Lucas’s ode to the social phenomenon of cruisin’ is a remarkably candid affair. Often a victim of adlib and off-the-cuff antics and guffaws from its teenage cast, American Graffiti has a unique...

There has always been something special about Ridley Scott’s Legend . Too bad it never gets the recognition it deserves. Maybe, with a new coat of HD paint and a look into the Director’s Cut of the fi...

Super 8 is sci-fi fantasy fulfillment at its most complete. Like the finest of wine-accompanying meals, J.J. Abrams’ sleek homage to the feel and look of the classic films directed and/or produced Ste...

In 1970 the western genre received a much needed injection of honest viciousness in storytelling courtesy of director Elliot Silverstein and writer Jack De Witt. Their adaptation of a short story by D...

Director Matthew Vaughn ( Layer Cake , Kick-Ass ) has done it again. In what goes down as an epic battle between differing philosophies and alternate histories, Vaughn has delivered the perfect comic...

In Charlie Chaplin’s two-role classic, The Great Dictator , we get his final salute to the silent films of his youthful exploits and the first words ever spoken by The Tramp. It’s a haunting film; one...

The nostalgic themes and past perfect philosophy running through Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris are certainly familiar to his loyal devotees, but never before have they been presented so perfectly an...

The Wolf Pack is indeed back. Unfortunately, the originality of their first foray into super drunken and super funny territory does not return along with them. In what goes down as a note-for-note ret...

Another mash-up in a long list of pop culture suicides; this is the largely inane territory of D.J Caruso’s I Am Number Four , a film that presents itself as X-Men meets Twilight by way of Close Encou...

Come gather round, children, it is cinematic confession time. I love me some old-school kung-fu films. I love them for being so riddled with clichés and candy coated cornball enthusiasm and extreme vi...

Owing a huge debt to the beauty of Genndy Tartakovsky's Samurai Jack , Jennifer Yuh's Kung Fu Panda 2 exploits what worked best about the 2008 original but wraps itself in a less satisfying narrative...

Considering the backhanded critical response On Stranger Tides is getting, file this review under Pirates of the Caribbean: In Defense of the Sublime . Rob Marshall, veteran director of the musicals C...

Attention Comic-Book Crusaders! The Dallas Comic-Con arrives this weekend for two days (May 21 st & 22 nd ) of fun-filled super hero escapades and celebrity sightings. In a much larger venue this year...

They call it the savage journey into the heart of the American Dream. Some call it America’s Season in Hell. For Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is the true Lost Weekend of writers,...