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House (2008) Movie Review
(Movie Review by Anthony Casella) On their way to counseling, young, pretty couple Jack (Reynaldo Rosales) and Stephanie (Heidi Dippold) take a few wrong turns and end up getting lost on a desolate, country...
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…Around (2008) Movie Review
(Movie Review by Anthony Casella) For a movie about a wannabe filmmaker struggling to find inspiration for his movie while in New York City, there’s seemingly little having to do with subject of celluloid...
Read More »Fissure (2008) Movie Review
(Movie Review by Dan MacIntosh) The plot for Fissure works on several different levels: First, it takes our commonly held concept of time, and turns that on its head. Detective Paul Grunning (played by...
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Red (2008) Movie Review
(Movie Review by Laurence Bush) The film, Red, turns good and evil inside out. Everyone loves Avery. He is a dog-lover, war veteran, fisherman, beer drinker, and widower living in a typical small American...
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Mother of Tears: The Third Mother (2007) Movie Review
(Movie Review by Dustin Adrian) In the 70s Dario Argento’s films married two unlikely things-lurid violence and gorgeous visuals. His vibrant set design, use of color and imaginative direction made him a hit with...
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My Blueberry Nights (2007) Movie Review
(Movie Review by Kevin Nickelson) Have you ever been to a coffee shop or diner and noticed one of the desserts under glass that’s never been touched? The donuts that look like they’ve been...
Read More »Speed Racer (2008) Movie Review
(Movie Review by Laurence Bush) “Speed Racer” is a visual oil spill, lushly colored, slick and thin. Doing a live action, big budget version of a 1960′s Japanese animated series sounds doomed to failure....
Read More »The Hammer (2007) Movie Review
(Movie Review by Wes Topher) “Some guys don’t know their destiny till it hits them in the face.” Can the currently reigning King of the Unibrow really make a decent movie? YES, quite actually....
Read More »Come Drink With Me (1966) Movie Review
(Movie Review by Kevin Nickelson) Remember those days when you went through the junk in your attic and stumbled across a piece of treasure that you’d forgotten about. Maybe it was an embarrassing photo...
Read More »James Bond: Devil May Care (2008) Book Review
(Book Review by Wes Topher) In celebrating the centennial of literary legend Ian Fleming’s birth, the trustees of the author’s estate appointed one of Britain’s most popular novelists to revisit the world’s most famous...
Read More »Under the Same Moon (2007) Movie Review
(Movie Review by Dan MacIntosh) Those of us living in Southern California cannot escape the illegal immigration issue. Whether it is men in The Home Depot parking lot looking for work or the busboy...
Read More »Contour (2006) Movie Review
(Movie Review by James D. Bass) What if you took a group of American Martial Artists, gave them the green light on a picture, and let them run the entire production with no regard...
Read More »Heroes of the East (1979) Movie Review
(Movie Review by Kevin Nickelson) Have you ever visited a home where the décor wildly differs from room to room? There is the main living room, usually reserved for guests, decked out in something...
Read More »The Echo (2008) Movie Review
Guest Movie Review by Lance Curtis — Twitch.com says it is the most “art-house oriented film” to come out of Vertigo Entertainment, the producers behind horror films The Ring, The Grudge, and now The...
Read More »Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) Movie Review #2
(Movie Review by Dustin Adrian) So who is Indy battling in the new Indiana Jones movie? The Nazis? The Russians? No — it’s fan expectations. There are two Indiana Jones movies in theaters right...
Read More »Undoing (2006) Movie Review
(Movie Review by James D. Bass) The genre of Noir in filmmaking is receiving a resurgence of popularity due primarily to the fascination with most audiences towards it’s capacity to promote ambiguity of social...
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Gumby: The Movie (1995) Movie Review
(Movie Review by Dan MacIntosh) You may approach Gumby: The Movie with some trepidation, and rightly so. After all, that little green glob of clay might represent a memorable period in your early television...
Read More »Kinky Killers (aka Polycarp, 2007) Movie Review
(Movie Review by Kevin Nickelson) In the early 1980’s, the then-new home video market needed product to sell in between the release of major films. Video companies turned much of the time to independent...
Read More »88 Minutes (2007) Movie Review
(Movie Review by Kevin Nickelson) I must confess to being skeptical when Hollywood produces a suspense thriller these days. Generally, they tend to be very slick but overtly superficial time-killers. These films have dog-eared...
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