It might've been a fever dream, but then, fever dreams tend to make more sense. I'd heard the legend of Birdemic: Shock and Terror -- a film allegedly so bad that it has rapidly become a contender for the worst film ever made -- but not until I sat down...

Hunger will compel people to some extreme acts: lie; kill; volunteer your child to appear on Toddlers & Tiaras. Who knew it could also lead to one of the best movies of the year? The highly anticipated The Hunger Games takes the...

For your listening and smoking pleasure, here's the latest episode of my new, short radio series, The Indie on Demand Movie Review. This time, we focus on High Road, the new, mostly improvised road comedy in which James F. Pumphrey plays an...

Buck Rogers, Flash Gordon, James Kirk, Luke Skywalker. Bleep those guys; as an interplanetary adventurer, John Carter has 'em all beat by at least ten years. Bringing the star of Edgar Rice Burroughs' series of Barsoom novels to the screen has been...

There was no shortage of curiosity when George Lucas announced that he was converting his Star Wars features to 3D, and no little disappointment when it was revealed that the first film to undergo the process would be the almost universally reviled...

The balmy days of February have triggered an uncommon sense of renewal, nowhere more so than in the cinema, where, after a customarily dismal January (we're looking at you, The Devil Inside), there now come glimmers of hope in the entertaining and atmospheric The Woman in Black. Featuring a post-Potter...

A story as relevant as yesterday's headlines, or too late a tale? Some thirty years ago, Cinefantastique hailed Robin Hardy's The Wicker Man as "the Citizen Kane of horror," lauding the Anthony Shaffer-scripted story of a god-fearing police detective trying to solve a mystery within a community of Scottish pagans...

The Underworld franchise's relentless, death-dealing vampire, Selene (Kate Beckinsale), goes under ice at the beginning of Underworld: Awakening, and so does most of the series' political intrigue, swapping out the power struggles from the previous entries in favor of even more chases, gunplay, and explosions -- lots and lots of...

What kind of film is worthy of the sacrificial lamb slot that is the first release of January? What sort of slipshod storytelling does it take for audience members to start hurling epithets at the screen as the credits crawl? How disposable...