Inside Llewyn Davis – while being focused on the Greenwich Village scene of the early 1960s – is a timeless masterpiece of sound and vision and perfectly relevant in today’s absurd world. Yes, I said...

Perhaps Smaug (voiced by Benedict Cumberbatch) says it best because there literally is “no place to hide” from this nearly three-hour continuation of Peter Jackson’s overwrought three-picture adaptati...

Como estan, beetches? Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy is one of those comedies – like Animal House , This is Spinal Tap , Caddyshack , and Hot Rod – that only gets better the more times you watc...

When RED , the sleeper hit comedy of 2010, opened, the over-50 audience finally has something to cheer for. So did the all the young turks. That’s certainly an accomplishment when the most of the cast...

Having never even seen one episode of A&E’s Duck Dynasty , I went into this Blu-ray set knowing only two things about it: rich rednecks and camouflage. I am now 46-episodes educated into what makes Th...

Lake Bell, after surviving the supporting actress stranglehold for a number of years, breaks out on her own with In a World… , a movie she writes, directs, and stars in. The movie subverts the romanti...

Writer/director George A. Romero ( The Night Of The Living Dead series) might have made his name with the undead but he doesn’t always wear the horror helmet. With Knightriders , a King Arthur-style R...

Scream Factory, an imprint of Shout! Factory, and its love affair with writer/director John Carpenter continues with the release of Showtime’s anthology of horror, Body Bags . Comprised of three short...

The Horror Show , directed by James Isaac, has an interesting release history. Critically panned, the film was eventually released overseas as the third film in the House series although it has nothin...

Director John Carpenter does director Howard Hawks. Call Assault on Precinct 13 the premiere urban western because, in the era before the action movie craze, that’s exactly what this lean and mean to...

The comets are coming!! The comets are coming!! Science fiction gets satirized in writer/director Thom Eberhardt’s fantastic Night of the Comet . Released the same year as David Lynch’s Dune and 2010...

The heart of America – the real America that is – should be viewed in hard-bitten black-and-white photography. Director Alexander Payne ( Sideways , The Descendants ) knows this about his Omaha birthp...

The critics said it couldn’t be done. After the advent of sound in motion pictures, the silent film reels audiences loved before would be considered passé. The success of Al Jolson in The Jazz Singer...

The script goes, “Fear was lurking in every corner of town. Who was still healthy? Who was sick?” No, this isn’t from the pages of a Dr. Seuss book. This is from the Intertitles of F.W. Murnau’s Nosfe...

This just in: Larry David has quit his job and lost a fortune (along with his razor)... Not really. It’s just a movie. The partnership between HBO and Larry David ( Seinfeld , Curb Your Enthusiasm ) c...