While there may be no tale of more woe than that of Juliet and her Romeo, there is no love story more grisly, ghastly and gorgeous than that of Benjamin Barker and his Lucy. Tim Burton, after a detour through tales of children's adventures in ...

Movie - Timothy J. Rush - 2008-01-16 01:48 - 0 comments

Generally, I’m the first to say that movie adaptations of literary works need to be considered as separate entities from the progenerating material. Expecting unwavering faithfulness to the original work is not only an unreasonable requ ...

Movie - Julia Merriam - 2008-04-01 12:36 - 0 comments

It would be best to consider writer-director Rob Zombie's remake of John Carpenter's Halloween as a separate entity from its progenitor, allowing Zombie's film the space to create its own identity in the annals of horror. Unfortunatel ...

Movie - Nate Yapp - 2007-09-04 00:07 - 0 comments

It takes an unnatural (oftentimes supernatural) occurrence to send mankind teetering into a state of mass paranoia, and films about such situations often follow the same paths as their characters. At first, there is much running around, littl ...

Movie - John Dubrawa - 2008-03-25 00:38 - 0 comments

I'm going to preface this by saying that I'm not going to be reviewing the film. If you want that, I suggest you go check out Nate Yapp's review of Grindhouse , the double feature experience of which Planet Terror was one part. Ins ...

Movie - Julia Merriam - 2007-12-07 01:01 - 0 comments

For a film that is only 82-minutes long, Unholy has too much plot. It dabbles in the occult, government conspiracies, brainwashing, suicide, time travel, and Nazism but doesn’t have enough time to explain how these pieces fit into t ...

Movie - John Dubrawa - 2007-09-25 01:29 - 0 comments

It is sheer coincidence that holds the two subplots of Primeval together, and it is this lack of a concrete, more complex idea that makes the film such an incoherent mess. These smaller parts do little to compliment one another and never ...

Movie - John Dubrawa - 2007-09-13 01:44 - 0 comments

Originally released as one half of the cinematic double-feature experience Grindhouse , Death Proof stands alone both in the European theatrical release and now on commercial DVD. This version, with the 'missing reel' and extra footage ...

Movie - Timothy J. Rush - 2007-12-04 01:01 - 0 comments

PG-13 horror films can be tricky affairs.  They must walk a fine line, trying to be frightening and suspenseful without being too horrific or graphic.  When not done well, they can seem bland, silly, or both.  However, when don ...

Movie - Eric Miller - 2008-03-31 01:00 - 0 comments

Once there was a time when serial killers walked, zombies lurched, and vampires stalked, but times have most certainly changed. Now serial killers sprint, zombies run, and vampires, like the ones in David Slade’s brutal and stylized 3 ...

Movie - John Dubrawa - 2008-02-26 01:04 - 0 comments