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If the hand-drawn frames aren’t enough to garner your interest in Jacques Tati’s beautiful semi-autobiographical narrative, the simplicity of this father-and-daughter story will certainly win you over...
The objective voice when it comes to religion and morality in film is often the weakest heard. By casting Christians and Pagans in shrouded light of grayish ambiguity, Christopher Smith’s Black Death...
The good news is that the second collaboration between director Scott Stewart and actor Paul Bettany is a marked improvement on the pseudo-religious muck that was Legion The bad news is that fact does...
To say that the Roger Corman-produced Dinoshark is a bit of letdown is an understatement. While it is refreshing to know that Corman is back doing what he does best with B-movies, this one is simply a...
Co-directors Stephen Carpenter and Jeffrey Obrow’s The Dorm That Dripped Blood aka Death Dorm aka Pranks was a minor little horror gem from 1982. Perhaps best known for launching actress Daphne Zuniga...
It’s unfortunate that Mel Gibson gives what many will hail as the performance of his career inside Jodie Foster’s grossly uneven handling of The Beaver . The film is a disturbing look at adult depress...
There are so many ways in which a modern movie about a hammer-wielding god from Old Norse mythology could fail. Oh, so many ways. Thankfully, under the kinetically skilled direction of Shakespearean w...
In the afternoon of Day Two at Texas Frightmare Weekend – long before the rainy weather tried to sour the day – Roger Corman, wearing a black Sharktopus running jacket, sat down with Frank’s Reel Revi...
In the early morning hours before Day 3 of Texas Frightmare Weekend, Frank’s Reel Reviews caught up with actor – no, scratch that – the silver screen icon of all things badass and beautiful, Sid Haig....
Day two of the Texas Frightmare Weekend began with the ever famous Zombie Walk. Sponsored by Moxley Manor, the walk took its participants from Freeport Parkway by HWY 114 and straight on in to the fro...
The official start day of all things terrorific has begun, Horror Hounds and Hordettes! And from the looks of it, Dallas is in for one hell of a grisly weekend. The doors opened around 5pm and hundred...
When a successful franchise hits film number five, it’s time to pay it some well-earned attention. Finally graduating from the street racing culture, Fast Five , reinvigorated by a return of nearly al...
Who is Johnny Marco? The world knows him as a famous Hollywood celebrity, but he himself can’t pin down his own being. Perhaps it’s the drugs, the alcohol, the woman, and the schedule that has numbed....
I wish every family reunion could be this weirdly exciting. They aren’t. There’s a reason most people groan at the very thought of reunions, yet most of us don’t imagine the horror of it all. Enter wr...
There’s no denying the intelligence of Steven Spielberg’s A.I. nor is there any denying of the film’s passion toward the subject of human responsibility toward technology. The subject broached isn’t.....