Interview: Cast and Crew of Dead Wood

Another low budget horror film set in the woods. Great. Great? Well, actually, it is great. Really great. The reason it is great is because it is low budget and therefore it shows the Hollywood hacks how to do it. Dead Wood concerns four friends on a camping trip in the woods, they meet a mysterious...

November 1st, 2009 | Read More

Palisades Tartan’s Asian Horror: Essential Collection Review

Just in time for Halloween, Palisades Tartan has grouped together three of the most successful Asian horror films of recent years in one region 2 DVD collection. Although terms such as ‘essential’ are woefully overused when it comes to such compilations, in this case it certainly rings true, as the...

October 30th, 2009 | Read More

Great Sound Design in Cinema

It is not uncommon for a movie to harbor great music, but perhaps it is even rarer for a film to use music in such an innovative way that it enhances the story beyond what mere sound can suggest. This list is not the best integrated sound – otherwise musicals would dominate – but the best...

October 17th, 2009 | Read More

How to Not Make Spider-Man 4 A Total Mess

The original Spider-Man (2002) film was released to rave reviews, garnering a 90% on Rotten Tomatoes, and the sequel (2004) was even more critically acclaimed with an average of 94%. Now, the similarity between these two movies (besides the cast, setting, and name) is that each one only had one villain,...

October 14th, 2009 | Read More

Top 10 Patrick Swayze Movies

As you all should by now know, Patrick Swayze succumbed to cancer yesterday after a lengthy battle which was revealed to the press only just last year. Upon hearing the news I was shocked and saddened, and my condolences go out to his family during this painful time. Hence, in honor of the late and...

September 15th, 2009 | Read More

Ninja Flicks: A Retrospective

With the recent surge of Ninjas on celluloid marked by the upcoming releases of Ninja, Ninja Assassin and G.I. Joe (because of Snake Eyes of course…) I felt it was time to take a look back and pick out some of what I deem the best movies featuring the mysterious deadly assassin archetype. Following...

September 12th, 2009 | Read More

Interview: Ruggero Deodato

The main guest at this year’s Grossmann Film and Wine Festival (Ljutomer, Slovenia) was the great Italian director Ruggero Deodato. Last year Roger Corman and Brian Yuzna were there and interviews with them can be found at Beyond Hollywood. Now, exclusive to this site, comes a talk with the director...

August 30th, 2009 | Read More

Ruminations of a Comic-Con Virgin

(The original title of this article was “Ruminations of a Comic-Con Virgin, or How I Learned to Enjoy Standing in Line for 3 Hours in the Hot Sun Next to a Guy in an Ill-Fitting Storm Troopers Costume”. Alas, that title would have screwed up the site’s theme something awful, so I’ve...

July 28th, 2009 | Read More

Top 5 Great Moments in Movie Pleather

Moviedom has supplied the fantasies of bored men with a lot of fetishes over the years. Oh-so-tight corsets, wet T-shirts, tall leggy beauties walking around in nothing but a man’s shirt. But perhaps the best wardrobe the movies ever introduced to the world at large is pleather — a combination...

June 13th, 2009 | Read More

Top 5 Eighties Cartoons That May Never Get the Hollywood Treatment

If you grew up watching cartoons during the eighties then you’ve no doubt noticed how some of that period’s most beloved shows are now being turned into Hollywood blockbusters. What with the sequel to the Transformers movie and GI Joe coming to theaters soon, and Thundercats and Voltron...

May 15th, 2009 | Read More

5 Great and Underappreciated Action Movies

Boom! Bang! Ka-blooy! Making an action movie is easy, especially if you have Hollywood’s resources. But sometimes even the big Hollywood movies go underappreciated upon release, destined to be forgotten and lost to the ashes of time aka the back rooms of Blockbusters. Hey, they can’t all...

May 14th, 2009 | Read More

Horror’s 10 Sexiest Bloodsuckers of the Night

Vampires are probably the only undead creatures of the night that we don’t immediately run away from. To be sure, there’s nothing good about getting bitten and turned into a bloodsucking creature, but it sure helps that a lot of the vampires that have appeared in the movies and on TV have...

March 22nd, 2009 | Read More

Ten Comedies That Won’t Insult Your Intelligence

Comedy and intelligent are not exactly synonymous, or at least not anymore. The era of sex /gross-out comedies and parodies is here, and it seems that any truly funny movie you can show to your friends or family and still feel cultured and intelligent is just a dream. Judd Apatow and his crew are doing...

March 17th, 2009 | Read More

The Best Films of 2008

When compiling a Best of Film list, it’s always difficult to remember the ones that came at the beginning of the year. Learning from past mistakes, I kept a list of every film I saw in 2008, noting the ones that had an impact. All of the ones listed are either four or five star films, and are in no...

February 6th, 2009 | Read More

5 Awesome Movie Trailers That MADE the Movie

Movie trailers. What can’t they do? The good ones make you sit up and take notice. The bad ones — eh, they make you flip through the channel to see what’s playing on the Lifetime Channel. Sometimes the best part of movies are the trailers; who doesn’t rush to the theaters to catch...

December 5th, 2008 | Read More

Halloween Special: Five Movies That Scared Me

This article comes with a caveat: These movies scared the hell out of me when I first saw them. Years later, the scare factor would decrease for a variety of reasons (the special effects didn’t stand up through the years, the story became imitated to within an inch of its life, the director became...

October 31st, 2008 | Read More

Top 5 Steven Seagal Movie Babes

Steven Seagal is not an easy man to love. Being one of those tough guy action heroes, he’s liable to get into a world of trouble at the drop of a dime, with everyone from the mob to serial killers to ninjas coming at him full-bore. Hey, that’s just how the Ponytail One rolls. You got a problem...

April 5th, 2008 | Read More

5 Comic Book Characters I Want to See as a Movie

I used to be a big, big-time comic book fan when I was younger. In fact, like all diehard comic book collector, I have boxes and boxes full of comics, nicely kept in their mylar bags (with backing board, of course), tucked away somewhere in a corner of my house. Throughout the years, I have seen comic...

April 2nd, 2008 | Read More

5 Reasons to Love Uwe Boll (Instead of Hating Him with a Passion)

Okay, so he’s the maker of bad, bad, really bad movies based on videogames. How one man can love videogames so much (the dude is, like, in his ’40s!) to make so many movies based on videogames is a mystery I don’t think anyone can really answer, and I doubt if the man himself knows....

March 25th, 2008 | Read More

2008 New Years Resolutions for Hollywood

Let’s face it, Hollywood will never make a New Years resolution that they’ll keep for more than a few seconds after delivering their list, but that’s not going to stop us from offering up these resolutions for Hollywood to co-op as their own anyway. It took a couple of days, and a lot...

December 28th, 2007 | Read More