Erase any memory you might have of Paul Verhoeven’s Total Recall with Arnold Schwarzenegger. Yes, even the three-breasted midget lady. As fun as that one was, it’s time to get serious. The memories of...

For those of you who feel that only Johnny Depp and Walt Disney can effectively promote the rabid pirate craze, the British have a fairly long-winded rebuttal. Aw, screw it. Ahoy, mates! The folks ove...

The film that effectively put out the fire in Val Kilmer's Hollywood hot streak has arrived on blu-ray. If there’s anything else to be said about John Frankenheimer’s The Island of Dr. Moreau it’s tha...

Let’s face it. Ben Stiller and Vince Vaughn aren’t getting any younger and both are in serious need of a hit. Their collective dry spell is a bit overlong and both are capable comedians… but their gua...

Jack Finney's 1955 novel "The Body Snatchers" gets remade almost every decade. If that isn’t the mark of eternal entertainment then I don’t know what is. Having read the novel, I can tell you that it...

Releasing Casa de mi Padre in theatres was a gamble. Take Will Ferrell and place him in the middle of a supremely melodramatic telenovela. His nonsensical brand of humor subtitled. Indeed, a very inte...

Think you know westerns? If you haven’t seen High Noon , then you are two boots short of a genuine cowboy outfit. In 1952, this “little” film defied the genre and saved all its bullet-slinging action...

Expectations are at an all time high for Director Christopher Nolan. Coming off of the one-two pop culture punch that was The Dark Knight followed by Inception , it might be a little unreal of audienc...

The success and timeless longevity of Buster Keaton’s career probably owes much to his use of physical slapstick and his own intricate direction (Wes Anderson owes his career to the techniques Keaton...

Ah, the psychedelic journey. It’s a twisted and tortured trip and in Ken Russell’s Altered States , it’s a very primitive one. Russell (director of The Devils , Gothic , and Lair of the White Worm ) w...

High Noon in outer space? Starring James Bond? Yes, please. Written and directed by Peter Hyams ( The Presidio , Timecop, 2010 ), Outland – upon its initial release in 1981 – failed to win over most c...

What’s it going to take, America? What’s it going to take for us to act a little more kind to each other? That’s the question director Robert "Bobcat" Goldthwait puts forward in God Bless America , a...

“A good many dramatic situations begin with screaming,” says Barbarella (Jane Fonda) on her way to save her winged friend. Such is the reaction many people have to Fonda in the title role of Roger Vad...

Spaghetti Westerns don’t tend to dip into the surreal. Usually violent, the genre is soaked with cold-blooded killers, heathens, and thieves. Django Kill (…If You Live, Shoot) adds a bit of psychedeli...

In just five short years, Marvel’s Spider-Man gets the redbooted remake in Marc Webb’s thrilling The Amazing Spider-Man . While, before seeing the picture, one could argue the rationale of such a move...