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Trouble with the Curve - Movie Review

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Trouble With the Curve - Movie Review When is a movie about baseball not really a baseball movie?  When it has Trouble with the Curve.  Legendary entertainer and veteran of the silver screen Clint Eastwood returns to acting after his solid performance in Gran Torino from four years ...

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TerrorVision/The Video Dead - Blu-ray Review

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Terror Vision/The Video Dead - Blu-ray Review That’s right, fellow freaks, TerrorVision is back in print!  Finally freed from its VHS prison by the kind folks over a Shout!/Scream Factory, TerrorVision gets coupled with another gory gem from the late 1980’s, Video Dead, for a nasty little double feature that will definitely ...

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Resident Evil: Retribution - Movie Review

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Resident Evil: Retribution - Movie ReviewResident Evil: Retribution or as I like to call it Thank God for Black Leather Unitards and the Female Body Kicking Zombie Ass isn't a complete stinker.  It just isn't very good at playing nice with logic in its storytelling and, still operating as game levels for Alice to ...

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The Nest (1988) - Blu-ray Review

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The Nest - Blu-ray Review Bad hairdos, really large insects, and gore, gore, gore is what you’ll find inside this skin-crawling nest.  Yes, it’s the six-legged bug who gets toasted and then roasted in this creature feature produced by Julie Corman. It’s a ow budget disaster and Scream ...

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Arbitrage - Movie Review

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Arbitrage - Movie Review First time filmmaker Nicholas Jarecki capitalizes on both his knowledge of the inner-workings of the financial industry as well as our scarred recollections of the most recent financial meltdown to create a fascinating thriller that smolders with ...

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Skyfall - Blu-ray Review

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Skyfall - Movie Review The first thing you need to understand about Skyfall is that it's nothing like any of the other James Bond films you've seen. One of the grand things about Bond films is the variety of directors who approach the character, as well as the writer who pens the script...

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The Words - Movie Review

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The Words - Movie Review Forming the central theme of The Words is the idea of success and the question of what price we’re willing to pay to achieve it. What if our biggest dreams far exceed our level of individual talent? In today’s look-at-me world of fame-grubbing reality shows and ...

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The Man with the Iron Fists - Blu-ray Review

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The Man With Iron Fists - Blu-ray Review The man behind those Wu-Tang slash and burn head-bobbing beats, the RZA, makes his directorial debut and revitalizes the martial arts genre with a film saturated with ridiculous amounts of blood and high-flying kicks. You will believe a man can fly thanks to ...

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The Possession - Movie Review

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The Possession - Movie Review Three horror films released in three weeks.  Is this a blatant sign of the devil at work or just a sneak attack from a dybbuk?  Neither.  Hollywood knows exactly what time of the year it is.  While The Awakening had its moments and the dangerously dim-witted ...

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Flight - Blu-ray Review

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Flight - Movie Review

Sex, drugs, and Denzel Washington. Director Robert Zemeckis (Forrest Gump), after spending the last decade in dead-eyed motion-capture films, finally returns to a world full of soul, rock ‘n’ roll, and damaged heroics.  Flight is a glorious return to form ...

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Hit and Run - Movie Review

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Hit and Run - Movie Review One of the biggest joys of writing about film comes from the occasional love affair with an independently-produced little gem that thrives on a pressed shooting schedule and reduced budget while still managing to find creatively-conceived ways to entertain without ...

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Killing Them Softly - Blu-ray Review

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Killing Them Softly - Movie Review Andrew Dominick has a history with making movies like this. Back in 2007 he penned the screenplay The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, a movie as long as it's title, that on paper was epic but ultimately failed to be.. It was bloated in ...

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