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One common complaint about modern-day horror is a tendency to spoon-feed plot elements to viewers, revealing not only too much about the resident evil but doing it in a manner that leaves little to interpretation. Whatever its flaws, and there...

Here's a movie that falls into a category titled "Under the Radar and Straight from the Heart." I have now forgiven director Brad Silberling for making Moonlight Mile, the painfully melodramatic weeper from 2002. The Lemony Snicket film helped get ...

Few movies are easier to review or define a recommendation. If you're a die-hard fan of either Jack Black or the band he formed with Kyle Gass, you'll likely love every moment of Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny. For anyone else, the better choic...

Let me be upfront and admit to admiring the artistry and audacity of Maggie Gyllenhaal's overhaul of James Whale's 1935 classic, The Bride of Frankenstein. This film refuses to be ignored, pulsing with a manic, punk-rock energy. Unfortunately, in t...

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single movie in possession of a good box office fortune must be in want of a sequel. (With apologies to Jane Austen.)There can be little other explanation why, some twenty years after the release of th...

Conventional wisdom might argue that Ridley Scott is a great director and, to be fair, he has made several films that aren't just considered great, but are iconic. That, however, was half a lifetime ago and his recent resume is considerably mo...

Note: I have avoided explicit spoilers in this review but there's only so much hinting I can do while still making points. From Norwegian writer/director Kristoffer Borgli, the creative mind behind the surreal Dream Scenario, comes The Dra...