“Into Hell’s mouth, we march.” Zack Snyder’s 300, an adaptation of the graphic novel by Frank Miller (Sin City), has already seen life on home video several times, with a two-disc DVD, and shiny next gen Blu-ray and…
My sidekick is cooler than me. The Green Hornet character has been around since the 1930s, and he has shown up off and on in pop culture throughout the decades. His debut was on the radio, and from…
Do we really know our loved ones? In the early scenes of 45 Years, Kate Mercer (Charlotte Rampling, Farewell, My Lovely) and her husband Geoff (Tom Courtenay, The Dresser) share the kind of relaxed mutual affection that suggests…
The famous story about 1953’s House of Wax is that although it was made during the 3D craze of the 1950s, director Andre de Toth was blind in one eye, and could only see it in 2D. Whether…
Welcome to the family! To watch Frank Henenlotter’s Basket Case trilogy is to watch a trajectory from the gross, grimy original film — the kind of cult movie that was perfectly at home in the glory days of…
Where’s Star Command? There are blockbusters, and then there are blockbusters—and then there’s Jason and the Argonauts. Way back in ancient Greece, the sinister Pelias (Douglas Wilmer) took over the kingdom. The rightful heir to the throne, Jason…
The MAN who put the MAN in roMANce! Richard Hannay (Robert Donat, Goodbye, Mr. Chips) is an ordinary Canadian man who finds himself caught up in an extraordinary series of circumstances. After an evening of entertainment in London turns…
“Da da-daaa. Da da da da da da-daaa.” Documentaries that cover the history of individual Hollywood studios have been common releases in the video era. Warner Brothers, Universal, MGM, and Republic have all issued quite entertaining and informative…
The strangest things can happen suddenly. Whenever I start lamenting the lack of good roles for women in mainstream Hollywood movies — something that I do every year save for those three months that the awards-bait movies are…
Drip, drip, drip. Slowly, ever so slowly, the prodigious film catalog of French new wave film pioneer Claude Chabrol (Les Cousins) makes its way to English speaking audiences. This latest triple-feature release dips into the esteemed auteur’s later…