Director Julie Taymor (Frida) has a startling vision, and often accents her films with bizarre and unsettling special effects to punctuate a point. She also has a way with puppets and though she’s no Jim Henson, she still employs marionnettes to good effect, as seen in her stage direction of the musical adaptation of Disney’s The Lion […]

Nicholas Cage has been living out some of his fantasy roles via his production company Saturn Films, however  some feel his material is starting to lag in interest. So, was Next his next flop, or his next hit?
Next was directed by Lee Tamahori and stars Nicholas Cage, Jessica Biel, and Julianne Moore. Cage plays a […]

One of the greatest things about renting loads of random movies that you have never seen or that you may have purposely skipped, is when you land one that ends up taking you by surprise. Whether it is just that good or features a stunning acting performance, or whatever, it is the sort of thing […]

“Dead End” is a horror comedy starring Ray Wise, Lin Shaye, Mick Cane, and Alexandra Holden as a family on their way to Grandma’s house for Christmas vacation and take a dreadful shortcut. The film mostly takes place on a road that seems to never end.
Frank Harrington played by Ray Wise is the father of a […]

A standard action flick thanks to some flaws, however, just the start of the enjoyable ride overall for Bay, Smith, and Lawrence fans; read on.
Bad Boys was director Michael Bay’s debut project to get him away from music or playboy profile videos and into mainstream films. Will Smith, Martin Lawrence, and Tea Leoni ended up […]

The first Pumpkinhead film was released in 1989 and for me personally has one of the most interesting horror characters ever with Pumpkinhead. However, the first sequel spawned from the film was a complete dud and now it seems that the direct to Dvd market is going to jump on the Pumpkinhead wagon and start […]

About a Boy was released in 2002 as directed by Chris Weitz and Paul Weitz, the American Pie producers. However, the sex humor takes a back seat to a more sensitive exploration of a “coming of age” story for an adult man.
Hugh Grant stars alongside Nicholas Hoult, Toni Collette, and Rachel Weisz. The story is […]

….Of action. Let me start by stating a few things that this movie does right, for one it went out and invested money into a set of great actors that it can slap the names of on the poster.  Clive Owen as Mr. Smith the gun-toting hero of a strangers baby, Monica Belluci the sexy […]

The Kingdom, void of knights, fairies, or unicorns this tale of a Kingdom could possibly have used some just to spice it up; though the action is intense.
The Kingdom was directed by Peter Berg, an actor/director/producer that I will always remember for his role in the 1989 horror film Shocker. The main leads consist of […]

From the creators of the Matrix Trilogy Comes V for Vendetta. V for Vendetta stars: Natalie Portman(Evey), Hugo Weaving(V), Stephen Rea(Inspector Finch), and John Hurt(Adam Sutler). Set in future England this action, drama will blow your socks off.
Adam Sutler ,now the leader of England, won the V is trying to change England for the better. […]