Two New Clips From ‘The Big Bang’ Starring Antonio Banderas
The Big Bang looks like a bug nutty movie, totally the kind of crazy that is either inspired or down right horrible. I appreciate that the film takes stylistic risks to stand out, and the cast...
View ArticleWar Movie Mondays: ‘The Exterminator’
This week’s pick is the 1980 release of James Glickenhaus’s ‘The Exterminator‘ which takes us from the jungles of war torn Vietnam to the urban jungle of the crime stricken and bankrupt New York City...
View ArticleFilm Review: ‘Beautiful Boy’
Beautiful Boy has an undeniably appealing premise—what do the parents of school shooter go through? And it has two very good actors—Michael Sheen and Maria Bello—who fully commit to their roles. Sheen...
View ArticleCheck Out An Action-Packed Clip From The New ‘TEKKEN’ Movie
Video game movies get a bad rap. One one hand, you have films like the Resident Evil series, which managed to skyrocket the video game franchise into a whole new world, and on the other hand you have...
View ArticleLate Monday Picks: John Carpenter’s ‘Halloween’
This week’s pick is John Carpenter’s independent horror classic hit Halloween that held the record as the highest grossing independent film of all time. Halloween helped to usher in a new era of...
View ArticleBlu-Ray Review: ‘Catch .44′– The Poor Man’s ‘Usual Suspects’
Catch .44 is the embodiment of style over substance. The film looks great. Writer/director Aaron Harvey clearly has a good eye. If the budget is as low as he implies in the audio commentary, Harvey...
View ArticleBlu-Ray Review: ‘Texas Killing Fields’ Starring Sam Worthington
Texas Killing Fields is a strong, straightforward crime thriller which tells the story of three cops running the gauntlet in an attempt to solve two brutal crimes. But the film is particularly notable...
View ArticleDVD Review: ‘Cyrus: Mind of a Serial Killer’
As technology gets smaller and cheaper, making films is getting easier and easier. But in a market lousy with low-budget indies, it’s not always easy to score well known actors. This wasn’t a problem...
View ArticleDVD Review: ‘Beautiful Boy’
There are many reasons a film might be hard to watch: unbelievable performances, sloppy writing, unskilled direction. Some movies offend with tasteless portrayals of strong sexual content or graphic...
View ArticleMonday Picks: ‘Dawn of the Dead’ (1978)
George Romero’s second chapter in his Living Dead series, Dawn of the Dead (1978), picks up after the events of Night of the Living Dead (1968). Dawn of the Dead is a fantastic, gory and at times...
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