Fewer people are asking that question these days thanks to the 2006 documentary which, against all odds, John Scheinfeld spent several years assembling and which seemed to take even longer…
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Jeff Giles: It’s Anne Hathaway! As Catwoman! And she’s riding the Batpod! Michael Parr: If you say so… Dw. Dunphy: Huh. Looks like Liv Tyler. Michael: I actually agree with…
Jeff Giles: Ladies and gentlemen, your new Superman. Dw. Dunphy: He’s all dark and stuff. Chris Holmes: Looks more like Bizarro to me. Ted Asregadoo: It’s like the they combined…
Jeff Giles: Can we finally stop feeling a tingle of apprehensive dread when the words “Lucasfilm Ltd.” flash across the screen? Jack Feerick: It’s about goddamn time somebody made this…
Jeff Giles: So…is Brett Ratner going to make Eddie Murphy funny again? Let us discuss. David Medsker: I saw this in front of Cowboys and Aliens (which is all sorts…
Comics don’t stay in comics. For better or worse, most comics are produced in the hopes they will lead to films, cartoons, action figures, video games, backpacks, beach towels and…
Scott Malchus expected more… much more from John Wells’ drama, “The Company Men.”
Aliens was released 25 years ago and this week’s Revival House takes a look back.
In honor of the final Space Shuttle launch, Kelly the space nerd reminisces about the Shuttle program and revisits a film that is a sentimental favorite, 1986’s SpaceCamp.
The Oscar-winning director of “Man on Wire” returns with a documentary that’s in no way monkey business.
Das Boot, the critically acclaimed World War II drama, has just been released on a 2-disc Blu-ray. In the film, a young submarine crew heads out to sea on a…
Joe Dante, Guillermo Del Toro, Roger Corman and more share some of their favorite movie trailers in “Trailers from Hell, Vol. 2,” and Tony Redman is there with a review.
Is a movie that’s 90% awful still worth seeing? If it’s (Optimus) prime Michael Bay, yes, almost. Other, less awful movies are also considered.
Lord of the Rings: The Motion Picture Trilogy (Extended Editions) (Warner Bros., 2011) Well, you knew it was coming. If you went ahead and bought the Lord of the Rings…
“This is no fantasy…” A DVD megaset of all things “Superman” has made it to Blu-ray.
Soundtrack Saturday returns with a look at the hilarious and bizarre 1988 Tim Robbins/John Cusack film, Tapeheads.
Popdose.com looks at everyone’s favorite special-effects-laden popcorn flick about child abandonment, Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
Unknown (Warner Bros., 2011) Liam Neeson ass-kicked his way out of the art house and into action hero territory with Taken, and for a minute, we all thought he was…
Hall Pass (Warner Bros., 2011) Take a promising cast full of comedic talent, give them a perfectly humorous premise, and put the directors of There’s Something About Mary behind the…
This week’s Revival House celebrates the 30th anniversary of Raiders of the Lost Ark.
American: The Bill Hicks Story (BBC, 2011) One of the sharpest, funniest comic voices of his generation, Bill Hicks never achieved the level of recognition he deserved during his too-brief…
The Outlaw Josey Wales (Warner Bros., 1976) Clint Eastwood and the Old West go together like Adam Sandler and dick jokes, so if you aren’t a film buff or a…
Manufactured-on-demand discs bring the rockin’ 60s artifacts Hold On! and How I Won the War to light.
Jeff Johnson looks back at a horror classic from the ’70s that turns 35 this month.
Comics don’t stay in comics. For better or worse, most comics are produced in the hopes they will lead to films, cartoons, action figures, video games, backpacks, beach towels and…
Flamboyant filmmaker Alejandro Adams invokes Lawrence Durrell, James Agee and Jean Renoir while dismissing Terrence Malick’s highly anticipated Palme d’Or winner THE TREE OF LIFE; Walter von Tagen proposes a…
Comics don’t stay in comics. For better or worse, most comics are produced in the hopes they will lead to films, cartoons, action figures, video games, backpacks, beach towels and…
The French classic Diabolique and the Korean thriller I Saw the Devil will tingle spines in any language.
