When Ivan Locke – played by Tom Hardy – leaves work for the evening, he has a job he’s insanely good at, a welcoming home, and a happy family that is eagerly awaiting his arrival. By the time he gets...

Based on the popular television serial, Hammer Studios produced a trilogy of science fiction gems featuring the talents of Professor Bernard Quatermass in the 1950s and 60s. Their first film, The Quat...

You know there’s going to be an issue with a movie, set on California’s west coast during the drugged-out ex-hippie year of 1970, when Benicio del Toro is playing the one and only straight man. Playin...

Classic films are often ahead of their times. L’Avventura is living proof of that statement because the mysteries in Michelangelo Antonioni’s masterwork are still being discussed and unveiled. The lan...

Wanna get devastated? And I mean heartbroken to the nth degree, completely unable to crawl to the fridge for another beer. If so, then Tommy Lee Jones has the movie for you this holiday season. The Ho...

There are little things more unsettling than zombie Nazis rising from calm waters somewhere off the coast of Florida. These top secret storm troopers cannot be stopped once they’ve risen from the dept...

Holy crap. Holy crap. HOLY CRAP. That’s the only thing I could stammer after releasing my grip from the theater armrests upon the completion of writer/director Jennifer Kent’s chilling The Babadook....

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is the tale of a madman told through the eyes of another madman; a film so daunting it’s horrifying. Yes, here it is: the very first horror film and still its influence is...

Katniss Everdeen will indeed go down as one of the most influential teenage literary characters of our time. Safe to say that Harry Potter still tops that list. A disclaimer first, as to say that I ha...

Your choices are: (a) Ambitious (b) Pedestrian (c) Quaint. Circle one of the words and you could anchor a review of Moontrap , written by Tex Ragsdale, around it. For this review, it works best if I t...

“This stuff is way beyond Ouija boards, you guys.” Do we need to ask why? Someone somewhere at MGM couldn’t leave well enough alone and that’s the only answer you’ll get. Of course, Pumpkinhead has to...

Redefining the slow burn, Los Angeles-filmmaker Blake Robbins takes audiences on a heart-wrenching journey through loss and grief as one family struggles after the death of their three children and th...

Inspired by writer/director/producer and all around film icon Roger Corman, Stuart Gordon – the director of From Beyond and Re-Animator – decided to film another script while he still had the use of a...

In 1965, rebel American director Monte Hellman ( Two-Lane Blacktop ) conceived of two westerns and decided to film them back-to-back in the Utah desert. Surreal and gritty, these two westerns would pr...

It will more than likely go down as the crown prince of sequels that should have never been made. Twenty years is waaaay too long to stay loyal to two rubber-faced morons charging their way through on...