One brother is a teacher who struggles to keep home and family together in hard economic times. The other is a brooding brute, home from the war, living with his long-estranged father. Both grown men have daddy issues, issues hinted at in [...]
“This is the way the world ends/ This is the way the world ends/ This is the way the world ends/ Not with a bang but a whimper.” So states T.S. Eliot in “The Hollow Man,” demonstrating that Mr. Eliot was not only a [...]
Review in a Hurry: Hot coeds and a lake full of hungry sharks, all popping out at ya in 3-D should be an easy win. We loved last year's awesome Piranha 3D, and really wanted this movie to have bite. Something's off though, since i [...]
I grew up in that great period in the history of cinema known as the Seventies. The movies of that time had more of a fierce independence about them, and if the ratings board found something offensive about them, they were rated according [...]
Yes, there’s the saying, “nice guys finish last,” and that’s certainly the case for Our Idiot Brother‘s Ned (Paul Rudd) quite often, but when you’re considering movies, nice movies can get a bit of a bo [...]
This much-anticipated Guillermo del Toro-penned remake is a project you really want to like. But… …the end result, as co-scripted by Matthew Robbins and directed by Troy Nixey, eventually wastes all the benefits of all th [...]
Like a 5 a.m. alarm — loud, insistent, unwelcome — "Conan the Barbarian" warns that the dreamy summer is coming to an end. A re-make of the loopy 1982 sword-and-sandals classic — loosely based on Robert E. Howa [...]
As we’re drowning in a flood of big screen remakes, we ask ourselves time and time again; is it worth it? In Fright Night‘s case, yes. As we’re drowning in a flood of 3D features, we ask ourselves time and time again; is [...]
In most people's eyes, Arnold Schwarzenegger is Conan the Barbarian. And, no, it's not because of his barbaric act of cheating on his wife. It's because the guy who would later become the Terminator made his Hollywood breakthr [...]
Haven’t we all been wondering how those apes from Planet of the Apes came to take over the Earth? Well I've got good news my friends: After years of uncertainty, it looks as though Hollywood is finally ready to start answering o [...]
While it's not generally thought of in the same breath as franchises like Friday the 13th and A Nightmare on Elm Street, few horror film series have had the staying power of Final Destination. While most peter out or go the direct-to- [...]
Zombieland was one of the best horror comedies to come out in the last few years, and director Ruben Fleischer has followed it up with yet another flick that relies on pastiche and pop culture. Much like last year’s The Other Guys, [...]
Child Friendly? Any dad with a daughter knows about the show Glee. The series, which follows a choir of students who hail from all social cliques (and who tend to express their inner-most feelings through choreographed songs), is a genuin [...]
Well, I suppose it has been about two weeks or so, so time for the latest crude, one-liner punch-and-jab, summer comedies aimed at pot smoking college kids and overgrown post-grad boy-men who find nothing funnier than a deep vocabul [...]