Now, THIS is how you restart a stalled franchise. Violent, gritty, and powerful, Mad Max: Fury Road is one hell of an over-the-top thrill ride. Imagine the western attitude of Red Dead Revolver mashin...

Ray Milland steps into the obsessive role Vincent Price normally played for American International Pictures in Roger Corman’s adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Premature Burial . While that makes th...

Writer, director, producer Roger Corman, the celebrated King of the B-movie, has very rarely let me down as a member of his audience. I found his book, How I Made a Hundred Movies in Hollywood and Nev...

Old hat. Battered suitcase. Duffle coat. Marmalade. Paddington Bear has been a fixture in children’s literature since 1958. The character hasn’t always been fashionable, mind you, but he has always be...

Produced and directed by Aaron K. Carter, Dead Kansas is the current darling of the underground zombie genre. The horror-comedy is as independently spirited as modern filmmaking gets. It’s raw, comica...

Reese Witherspoon goes a mile-a-minute with a Texan drawl in an unfunny Hot Pursuit as Officer Cooper. Forgetting what made previous characters like Elle Woods and Tracy Flick so memorable, Witherspoo...

There is a robust earnestness surrounding Richard Donner’s Ladyhawke that, to this day, remains praiseworthy. While Warner Bros does the film a favor with this freshly minted blu-ray release, the film...

“For as long as I can remember I always wanted to be a gangster. To me that was better than being president of the United States. To be a gangster was to own the world.” t seems rather daunting. Writi...

Getting Vincent Price out of retirement was no easy task. The boils and ghouls over at Scream Factory have assembled a collection of supplemental material to accompany their release of 1987’s From a W...

The western genre is familiar territory for a lot of audiences, no matter their location. From directors like John Ford, Clint Eastwood, and Sergio Leone, the film community has reinforced some of the...

Time to climb aboard the Grantchester bandwagon before it leaves you in the gravel! The latest British crime drama imports wit, jazz, and murder in a scenic post-war Cambridgeshire. PBS’ Masterpiece M...

Action. Atmosphere. And Kurt Russell as Snake Plissken saying things like, "Sad story. You got a smoke?" Do I really need to say any more? Escape from New York , from writer/director John Carpenter, i...

Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the bathroom, Ghoulies return from the toilets. Making their blu-ray debut, courtesy of Scream Factory, the films responsible for the hilariously awful...

Alex Garland’s directorial debut, Ex Machina , is, as far as I’m concerned, the first must-see film of 2015. More human than human indeed. This is breathtaking art that is meticulously assembled to bu...

Sometimes less of something is better. The Blacksmith is back in RZA’s The Man with the Iron Fists 2 . It is, at once, a movie no one thought possible considering the original film’s lukewarm response...