So I saw Dario Argento’s Mother of Tears at Seattle’s International Film Festival, the biggest film festival in the United States (but not North America, no, that honor goes to Toronto).
Argento’s colorful four-decade career as an Italian horror master and auteur has been well-documented and much-commented-upon. His creativity was really at its zenith in the [...]

So sue me.
Aside from a few shitty script detours (Mutt swinging through the jungle on vines to catch up with the car chase, certain pockets of awkward dialogue, the ants(overdone), not enough with the undead Indian warriors) it was everything I had hoped it would be. It was pure popcorn and Jujubes, pulp cinema with [...]

My 6-year-old son and I flipped a coin to determine what movie we should drop $14 worth of coin on (I hate that term… ‘coin’); Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Kingdom, Ironman, or the latest Narnia yawn-fest. The Legend of the Cursed Nickel struck and we ended up seeing Indiana Jones.
I’m an [...]

I’m assuming you’ve all seen the trailer for this recent rom-”com,” so you’re familiar with the plot. Joy (Cameron Diaz)–recently dumped at a surprise party thrown for her fiancé (Jason Sudeikis) in front of all her friends–and Jack (Ashton Kutcher)–recently fired by his father (Treat Williams) for being a goof-off–both run off to Sin [...]

Stop me if you’ve heard this one - a hideously deformed outcast child in a setting with other children falls victim to a cruel prank gone wrong, causing his untimely and unintentional demise! Also, just as if it can’t get any worse, his spirit starts to haunt the orphanage he lived in along with the [...]

After Marvel’s success with the Fantastic Four and the X-men trilogy it was only a matter of time before someone converted the Iron Man comic book into a movie. After all, there’s plenty to do with a guy who can fly, no? You probably wouldn’t guess it, but this movie already has a pretty long [...]

i’m going to a movie called Expelled tonight, but before i get to that…
what with the impending lapse of mein kampf’s copyright looming over us all, it seems these days that everyone’s clamoring to get on the hitler train. though i have no specific memories of my own to support the following claim, i suspect [...]

In the first five minutes of this movie you’re confronted with a full blown sex scene, featuring a pretty Oscar winner, and a bloody murder. Sets the mood quite nicely. Without spoiling anything, the plot goes as following: two brothers urgently need money and plan to rob a jewellery store. Minor detail; the store they [...]

Why is it that in every horror movie, cell phones don’t work? They’re trash: no matter where you are, they won’t get a signal! In this case, our main victim here is Angela, an overworked businesswoman that begins her night of stress when her car won’t start. She calls a cab, but she’s locked out [...]

The trailers for this film intrigued me. Jack Gramm (Al Pacino) is a college professor-cum-FBI forensic psychiatrist who has been thrust into the public eye when his testimony alone convicts Jon Forster (Neal McDonough) as The Seattle Slayer–a serial killer who strung up his female victims before killing them. However, the day before Forster’s [...]