Many years ago, there used to be such a thing as life without reality programming on the television. Call it boring. Call it slow. Call it whatever you want. The fact remains that the medium used to h...

And you thought Jar Jar Binks was annoying. Neill Blomkamp, the director behind the Oscar-nominated District 9 , continues to disappoint in his beloved Science Fiction genre. Having publicly acknowled...

Originally titled The Mask of Satan , Mario Brava’s feature length debut, released here in the United States as Black Sunday , was a gothic-sized hit for Roger Corman’s American International Pictures...

Bringing the dead back to life is tricky business. Director David Gelb (last seen behind the lens of the documentary Jiro Dreams of Sushi ) doesn’t unearth any new treasures with The Lazarus Effect ,...

Roger Corman, famed producer and director of exploitation cinema from the 1950s through the early 1980s, captures the very essence of the biker counterculture years before Easy Rider would the be the...

Writer/director Adam Green is still the horror genre’s independent darling. His Hatchet trilogy kicked up a fair amount of dust among Horrorhounds but it was the Hitchcockian Spiral and the chilling F...

John Candy had Uncle Buck . Bill Murray has St. Vincent . The role of the grizzled and unexpected father figure makes its comeback with the release of Murray’s latest on blu-ray this week. Written and...

A child history buff. Six angry dwarfs spat out from one closet. One hell of an adventure. You guessed it. Time Bandits has returned. Writer/director Terry Gilliam’s classic fairy tale mixes science f...

Matthew Vaughn – the acclaimed director of Layer Cake , Stardust , Kick-Ass , and X-Men: First Class - returns to the comic book-minded genre with the wildly irreverent Kingsman: The Secret Service an...

From the silent opening sequence to the arrival of Ndugu’s drawing at the very end, About Schmidt is a fantastic depiction of a lone man facing important choices at several of life’s crossroads all at...

A soulless and very much psychotic totalitarian government gets a proper “F--- You” in Terry Gilliam’s Brazil . Named after a song from 1939 (“Aquarela do Brasil”) that’s often heard playing in the ba...

Are you ready kids?! Stephen Hillenburg’s TV toon that’s all about nautical nonsense returns to the silver screen with The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water . While the television show and its hour...

As a self-confessed hound of the horror genre, I find myself happily unleashed in cinematic cemeteries and very familiar with the format of a good haunt. It takes quite a bit of atmosphere and gore to...

From producer Guillermo del Toro and director Jorge Gutierrez comes The Book of Life , an animated comedy with a unique visual style. The film was (mostly) ignored upon its release last October. It is...

Romance - past romance, present romance and the promise of future romance - is in the air for As the Abbey Turns ! For a program that began its life intending to be merely a seven-part miniseries that...