Loron Hays

Filmmaker Charlie Paul’s documentary For No Good Reason isn’t as sharply focused as it could have been. Steadman, who famously illustrated Hunter S. Thompson’s most famous works, is a fascinating arti...
Ah, the mystique of beauty and youth. Woody Allen returns to his existential comedy roots and finds a new leading lady in the muse of the always remarkable Emma Stone with Magic in the Moonlight , his...
With more grit and ambition than your average television series, The Walking Dead continues its mad march toward total zombie annihilation with the release of its 4 th season on blu-ray. The season st...
Ah, the glory of the small-scale UK cinema. Full of tightly-wound tension and white-knuckled suspense, The Legend of Hell House is the quintessential haunted house for the ages. Screenwriter Richard M...
Pierce Brosnan probably still feels like he was let-go from the Bond franchise too soon. I seem to recall him turning to the trade papers to mount his campaign of dismay before he settled into calmer...
The dead amusingly live again! Life After Beth is not only a play on words (just think about that title for a second) but also a comedic look at the ups and downs of young love when it is past time fo...
Ray Harryhausen and his stop-motion work is legendary. While his stuff is slow to trickle out on blu-ray, the high-def picture and the clarity it provides is always insightful into his creative proces...
Scotland’s own Peter Capaldi seems - regionally speaking only - an ill fit in Doctor Who’s shoes. The opposite; however, is the reality. He is exciting in the role of the twelfth Doctor, a beloved tim...
There are two superheroes from New Jersey. The first, of course, is Bruce Springsteen. The second is Melvin Junko. Not ringing any bells? Well, you might know good ol’ tutu-wearin’ Melvin by his other...
Following the discovery of a wrecked Soviet submarine and a spiked flask of vodka, one undersea mining crew is about to have a very bad day in George P. Cosmatos’ Leviathan . This undersea monster mov...
Sex. Violence. Crisp cinematography. Frank Miller’s black and white comic canvas with splotches of color from time to time. Welcome back to Sin City. It’s been nearly a decade since last we walked its...
With Tobe Hooper’s Texas Chainsaw Massacre as its reference point, Motel Hell is a seriously delicious horror film that exploits all the typical genre markers for the sake of comedy. And it’s all beca...
I knew we’d get to the third film in this series eventually. I just didn’t think we’d have to live through a disappointing sequel to get to it. While it certainly feels like a better entry in the seri...
The drama is B-movie level. The acting is high schoolish at best. The “everything is okay” ending is complete silliness. With no Bill Paxton and no Helen Hunt to lead the cause, this destruction heavy...
See truck stop owner Jack Palance take on mentally ill veteran Martin Landau! See an alien on-the-hunt collect Cub Scouts in an isolated shack! See the madness as a young David Caruso gets taken down...
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