"Starship Troopers" has become probably one of the most expensive cult classics in the history of modern film history (leave "Dune" out of this, please). Universally panned by critics and audiences alike, the film now has an active fan [...]
David Mamet is the type of director who has grown on me over the years. His unpredictable output is often either widely hailed or universally panned. He brought us his masterwork with an excellent and award winning play "Glengary Glen Ross", [...]
It's been a little while now since the hype surrounding Michael Bay's "Transformers" has peaked and when finally the Blu-Ray version of this blockbuster movie arrived on my desk, I was eager to revisit this impressive film and see if [...]
Oliver Stone has a hand for making political history popular despite the fact that his films are typically shrouded in controversy and questioned on their accuracy. Regardless of what really happened, "JFK," for example, is certainly the most [...]
"Step Up 2 The Streets" is the new urban dance drama brought to us by director Jon Chu. Audiences don't go into a film like his with ideas of following some well arranged plot, or to get deeply involved in the characters, they come to see [...]
Martin Lawrence seemed to have it all going for him at one time, his hit show "Martin" ran on Fox for a highly successful five year run from 1992 through 1997, and in the show he introduced a wide variety of characters and displayed an edgy [...]
After so many recent disastrous remakes of foreign horror movies you would think that the executives who green light certain projects would get a clue, but instead they just keep cranking out these dreadful products, usually with mixed results, and this [...]
There are certain films that for some strange reason seem to ring true with certain people and critics and become successes despite the fact that they are steeped in mediocrity. "The Ruins" is clearly one such movie and I understand that I am [...]
Michel Gondry writes and directs "Be Kind Rewind", a quirky comedy that follows in the footsteps of his recent theatrical features and yet is still in many ways one of his more accessible tales. I remember when I first discovered his work, he [...]
I knew absolutely nothing about "Doomsday" until recently a press release appeared indicating the film would appear on DVD and Blu-Ray. I had not caught any theatrical buzz or trailers and as such the film was a complete novelty to me. It [...]
