Post-WWII Atomic Age paranoia produced at least one good by-product: all those wonderfully campy horror flicks that featured mutants grown to enormous size because of radiation. Japan gave us “Godzil
Zombie movies can be easy to make because they are relatively cheap to produce. All you need is an isolated area for the characters to hold up in and some no name actors for fodder. The only area of t
The main review was written by Christopher Long for Criterion's 2004 SD release of “Slacker.” The Video, Audio, Extras, and Film Value sections address the 2013 Blu-ray re-issue by Criterion. "I ma
Ingmar Bergman didn't exactly believe in the healing potential of catharsis. The mother-daughter confrontation that powers “Autumn Sonata” (1978) begins as a cordial, if strained, greeting. Charlotte
They say hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, but have you tried scorning a tech geek lately? Tony Stark did it years ago, and it comes back to bite him—and the President of the United States—in **
Hammer Studio’s “Hands of the Ripper” has been quoted as “expertly mixing the sophistication expected of Hammer's films with the gore its new audiences demanded.” This statement is decidedly true
**“The Smurfs: The Legend of Smurfy Hollow”**is a mystery to me. It’s listed as a 2013 TV movie starring the voice talents of Hank Azaria as Gargamel, Fred Armisen as Brainy, and Alan Cumming as Gutsy
I was born in 1985, just a few years after the first “Friday the 13th” film hit American theaters and freaked audiences out something awful. I remember watching most of the films in this series on net
By the early 1960s, the spy movie had begun to supplant the Western as America's genre of choice, a transformation prompted largely by the staggeringly successful screen debut of James Bond in "Dr. No
The idea of “camp”—performances exaggerated theatrically, for comic effect—has been around since the early 1900s, but it didn’t really take off until the ‘60s, when the definition expanded to include
The main review below was written by John Puccio in regards to the 2001 DVD release of “La Cage Aux Folles” by MGM/UA. The rest of the review was written by Christopher Long and addresses the 2013 Blu
Art is often used as a vehicle in film to mock human nature. It can be done subtly or in an over the top manner that satirizes the lengths that some go to to preserve their artistic mojo. Boris Rodrig