While the majority of people probably think Andrew Lloyd Webber when they hear any mention of The Phantom of the Opera , there remains a loyal following of film lovers who, correctly, can’t help but p...

I’ve never read Aimee Bender’s novel and, based on director Marilyn Agrelo's puzzling adaptation, I am not sure that I ever will. An Invisible Sign is a frustrating mess of undeveloped ideas, wasted s...

There couldn’t possibly be a creepier basement in the history of Horror films. Dark, dank, and dangerous, the basement in 1981’s House by the Cemetery is a fright fan’s best worst nightmare. The corne...

Holy hayseeds and chintzy choke-weed, boys and girls! If A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas isn’t the merriest surprise of unholy raunch and salacious retribution then I don’t know what is. In a surpr...

Riding the crest of an economically dissatisfied wave of thought that shows no sign of breaking, Tower Heist spins its timely yarn about some middle class broken down luxury apartment workers who deci...

Finally, the truth about the walking dead can be told (and sold) to the masses. Cretins and Clodettes, I bring you the blood-curdling classic known as Zombie ! Arriving fresh from its sabbatical at th...

When the Golden Age of Horror goes off the deep end with all its pre-Hollywood Production Code perversions, the result is a long out of print masterpiece of makeup and maniacal terror. Island of Lost...

Considering this release of The Ray Harryhausen Double Feature from Legend has only a small connection to the imaginative wonder we know Harryhausen capable of and contains two films on Blu-ray and a...

Pig-headed bastards will dismiss Bruce Robinson’s The Rum Diary – his first film in nineteen years - as wildly indulgent; a calliope of sounds and sights in a Puerto Rican trip that is ultimately not...

Maybe it took the wicked sting of Cop Out to bring writer/director Kevin Smith back into the world of low, low, super low budget independent film. Not since Clerks has his writing and his directing fi...

Boo! Paramount is at it again; third straight year and third straight sequel to their and America’s seemingly favorite paranormal phenomenon. While the creep factor is still solidly in place for the p...

As it deals with constant and continued isolation in Québec circa 1995, one shouldn’t be surprised that Good Neighbors never saw the light of the day here in the United States. Ah, let me count the st...

The coldness of director Matthijs van Heijningen’s remake/reboot/whatever you want to call it of The Thing isn’t due to its icy Norwegian camp setting (although, even the obvious is taken for granted...

Marching forward with a madcap frenzy of make-up and special effects, director Tim Burton’s imagination gets more and more far-reaching and out there. His take on Roald’s Dahl’s famous Charlie and the...

There are a million reasons to list explaining why Real Steel shouldn’t work. Much will be made of the obvious comparisons between Over the Top and its many Rocky punching bag beats. So much so, the c...