There is absolutely nothing wrong with Robert Wise’s Star Trek: The Motion Picture . Many critics and fans have dismissed it because, to them, it’s …ehem… boring. Okay, sure, soap operatic Star Wars i...

Writer/director Shane Black ( Kiss Kiss Bang Bang ) unleashes a heavy metal assault with Iron Man 3 and I couldn’t be happier. He might not be the man inside the suit but that doesn’t mean Black (the...

Anyone who knows me or reads my reviews or has a brief conversation with me knows I cannot stand Michael “Mr. Awesome” Bay films. His adolescent shenanigans just do little for me … except make me feel...

Writer/director Alex Cox ( Sid and Nancy , Straight to Hell ) gets the deluxe treatment with Criterion’s release of the now-classic Repo Man . The film – as absurd as it is – has its own cult legacy t...

Texas writer/director/actor Larry Wade Carrell comes bucking out of the gate with a modest but forgettable full-length horror debut. While murky with a convoluted storyline that includes strange towns...

Welcome back to the Interzone. This is not a place for those unfamiliar with the lasting effects of strong narcotics and paranoia. It is a place for the sad and lonely or quite possibly the sad junkie...

Imagine if Freddy Krueger took the night off from his familiar Elm Street haunts and called in a favor to his good friend Stitches the Clown to get some revenge killing done. Stitches is that movie. C...

Jackie Robinson still matters. Major League Baseball, retiring his number at the end of this year with Yankee closer Mariano Rivera’s last season, knows this. Writer/director Brian Helgeland also know...

Sometimes stark naked ambition alone can create a lasting legacy. Morris Engel’s Little Fugitive is all the proof you need. It’s not much to look at but its visual poetry has an unmatched beauty. It’s...

Roaring onto Blu-ray and VOD everywhere, are the notoriously funny Baytown Outlaws. This gang of dirtball sleazoids – much like the film with its mesh-up spaghetti western meets 1970s drive-in vibe –...

You’ve got my attention, Mr. Wong. Opening with a riddle involving an ax, a slug, and a reanimated neo-nazi who has had his head stitched back on with weed trimmer line, John Dies at The End proudly a...

Sam Raimi’s spooky old cabin – isolated in the deep, dark, twisted woods of rural, America – somehow exists outside of time. The newly reimagined Evil Dead – appearing some thirty plus years after the...

Let the re-release buzz begin! No, it’s not another Star Wars film needlessly prepped for 3D distribution. This time we’re going way back and celebrating the 90th anniversary of a classic film. Janus...

Serialized science fiction rarely gets as good as Canada’s Continuum . Created by Simon Barry, Continuum centers on the dramatic conflict between a group of socially aware rebels from the year 2077 wh...

Making an inferior and unnecessary sequel to a seriously solid film is nothing new to Hollywood. Producers and studios gamble all the time with sequels. Sometimes they win big and sometimes they lose....