Whether or not you’ve seen the original, the promotion campaign for Straw Dogs lays it out quite clearly; this film boasts a bloodbath. Emotion? Character development? Some sense? Not so much. But, if you’ve got a taste for th [...]
Impressively casted and conceptualized, Contagion manages to infect its audience’s attention from the very beginning. The film stays away from the histrionic conflict involving central characters and the plot focuses on the obvious [...]
Hey, I'm Ryan Michaels, a 14-year-old writing movie reviews for Heritage Newspapers. I've been doing it for three years, and enjoy it a lot. Here's my review of "Contagion." In my time as amateur film critic and f [...]
As you watch the title song of Ali Abbas Zafar's 'Mere Brother Ki Dulhan', you would have a sense of deja vu - Imran Khan doing the popular Salman towel dance, followed by DDLJ-like running after the train and hopping in [...]
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 [...]
Ever wonder why no humans have stomped their boots on the moon in nearly 40 years? Well, if you believe the pundits, the answer's simple: Once the race to beat the Soviets to our crater-studded satellite was over, the political will t [...]
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 [...]