The new "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" seemed, for me at least, to arrive out of nowhere. It had been a few years since the last movie and I didn't pay much attention to the movie's development cycle. So this is my first exposure to [...]
From the same director who brought the recent blockbuster "Wild Hogs" to the screen, Walt Becker, we have a film released in 2002 called "National Lampoon's Van Wilder" which has developed something of a rabid cult following for [...]
In 1999 Anchor Bay Entertainment released Lamberto Bava's 1989 horror flick "Demons" on DVD and hasn't revisited the movie since. Sadly the original release featured a non-anamorphic transfer and as such I was glad to revisit this film [...]
Norman Jewison is the director who brought us "Moonstruck" and "Other People's Money". This film, originally released in 2000, earned Denzel Washington an Academy Award nomination and a Golden Globe for Best Actor for his [...]
The slasher film genre has been a mainstay of horror films since the mid 1970s. With so many killers chopping, grinding, and sawing their way through the rubble, one villain has stood a little taller and a little longer than anyone else. Michael Myers, of [...]
When Ludwig Van Beethoven died on March 29, 1827, over 20, 000 people were present at his funeral in Währing paying tribute to this singular musical genius – but he has not always been so popular. Ever since his passing however, his work has [...]
Will Ferrell is such a high profile comedian these days that his films have become a hit-or-miss affair. Some of them are outrageously funny while others are just flat out stupid. Therefore it was with some trepidation that I approached "Blades Of [...]
"Disturbia" is a film directed by DJ Caruso ("The Salton Sea", "Taking Lives", "Two For The Money") and was a huge financial success during its initial theatrical run. Sometimes timing and marketing come together [...]
Luis Buñuel is one of the undisputed artists of the cinema. The Spanish-born director made his name as a darling of the surrealist movement and an enemy of conservative politics as early as the 1920s, effectively getting himself banished from Spain for [...]
Frank Miller has certainly become an icon over the years as his visionary graphic novels have found their way to the big screen, and "300" is probably the most ambitious one yet. This is a cutting edge piece of work, and filmed in such a unique [...]