What do you get if you combine "Night of the Living Dead" with "Snakes on a Plane"? OK, too easy, I know. George Romero's 1968, super-low-budget "Night of the Living Dead" was a landmark motion pictu
Karma is a funny thing--especially when a trailer-park philosopher gets a hold of it. In Season One, loser Earl Hickey (Jason Lee) was hit by a car after he won $100,000 in the lottery, his ticket and
This may sound odd, but it's refreshing to see a sex farce without sex. In this film, written and directed by Francis Veber, there's little in the way of leering and lechery, no gratuitous nudity, no
R.L. Stine is often called the Stephen King of children's literature. His Goosebumps series of novels were a phenomenal success and inspired a television series that aired on Fox in the mid 90's. Hi
"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. " Any film version of Shakespeare's "Hamlet" has formidable competition from Laurence Olivier's acclaimed 1
To recycle a famous line from Mark Twain, reports on the death of the sitcom have been greatly exaggerated. Recent hits like "My Name is Earl," "Everybody Hates Chris," and "Ugly Betty" are living pro
From 1956 to 1969, in the second phase of his phenomenal career, Elvis Presley made a whopping thirty-one films! I had no idea until I looked it up. It's probably because he made so many films in so s
First off, you have to understand that Prince is a much better singer than he is an actor. Second, it helps to remember that "Purple Rain," in which Prince made his screen debut in 1984, is a much be
In the DVD's accompanying featurette, the filmmakers explain that they were trying to create the noir feel of "Blade Runner" and James Ellroy crime novels in their 2006, black-and-white, animated sci-
Note: In the following HD DVD joint review, John and Dean wrote up their comments about the film, and John wrote up the rest of the disc details. The Movie According to Dean: Walter Hill's 1979
The knock on "Camelot" when it first came out in 1967 was that it was overblown. It was too long, too busy, too opulent, too fussy, too gaudy, too sprawling, too unfocused, and too slow. Well, it is t
What can one say about Dino Stamatopoulos' "Moral Orel"? As a claymation kid, he's a mixed up, confused, little do-gooder trying his best to please God. As a TV show "Moral Orel" is a twisted, sometim