When I was in tenth grade in high school, the mention of William Shakespeare name always seemed to turn me off in English class. In my previous years in school I had either Romeo and Juliet or Hamlet handed to me almost every year to read. Needless to say after a...

Famed German director Fritz Lang’s first talkie, M, is a meditative examination of the criminal mind and how society reacts to it as the filmmaker unabashedly presents the subconscious acknowledgement of a nation facing the upcoming social upheaval at the hands of the...

"Monty Python's Life of Brian" handled a topic that many considered to be blasphemy and the film worked so well because their brand of humor is hysterical. The movie simply ends with a musical number on the crucifix to the Eric Idle tune "Always Look on the Bright...

When most people hear the name Jim Carrey they think of all the comedy films he's been in. The number of Golden Globe awards as well as nominations he has received for his performances in comedies has been unbelievable. However as of late Carrey has been in a number...

Michael Ferris Gibson’s Numb is a thinking-person’s sci-fi film that is, at turns, insightful and chillingly honest in its proposal of humanity’s potential future while, at others, as soporifically languid as most of his secondary cast of addicts. In short, Numb...

I normally get scared when a short film hits my desk. Because it either means that it's a low budget film or it's a really bad student film. Most of the time I get bad student films, and maybe about twenty five percent of the shorts that have passed though my door and...

"Nothing" is one of those rare gem direct to video films that you just can't help but fall in love with. It's not the greatest piece of work when it comes to making a great Hollywood feature, but it would be considered a great indie fantasy film. I personally had a...

Although many of them are now out of the realms of obscurity thanks to DVD, Australian exploitation movies were for a long time the kind of unheralded jewels genre fans would stumble upon on occasion in the local video store alongside all the better known American...

There’s no question that nobody has launched more legendary careers than Roger Corman. The legend introduced the film world to legends such as Francis Ford Coppola, Jonathan Demme, Jack Nicholson, James Cameron, and Joe Dante amongst many others. In the 1980s Corman...

As the father of what is soon to be two girls, one of my worst nightmares is having one of them kidnapped and sold into the slave trade. Lets face it: This is a problem that goes on around the world, and in some countries, poor families even will sell their children...

North By Northwest is the Hitchcock film that many say was the middle child in his career. Bookended by his most notable films, Vertigo and Psycho, North By Northwest is a picture that is often over looked today, yet was one Hitchcock’s most successful and notable...

I'm writing this review in a attempt that it might end up being shorter than my normal reviews, however I think that I might be jumping the gun by saying that. Pretty much, Old Country for Old Men is probably one of the greatest films I've ever seen. So I don't have...

NOBODY LOVES ALICE, and either do I. Ever since the term "Torture Porn" or as I like to put it "the Torture Slasher" like HOSTEL, SAW, and the recent foreign films INSIDE & Frontier(s); it seems that a flocculation in these kind of films has made it impact on the...

So far in 2006, the only other film I gave four stars too was "Running Scared" which you al know is not a horror film, but an action/thriller. Thus I will now give my first four star horror film review of the year, which just so happens to be this great masterpiece...

Timur Bekmambetov’s Night Watch is a conglomeration of the philosophy of George Lucas’s Star Wars, the effects of the Wachowski Brothers’ The Matrix, vampire lore, and Christian mythology with George Romero’s The Dark Half or Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds thrown in as...