You’re invited to a weekend of hunting, gossip and murder. Dress is formal.

Welcome to “Gosford Park,” a smashing British ensemble that blends together the best of Agatha Christie and Merchant Ivory. It’s “Murder on the Orient Express” by way of “Howard’s End,” and the end result is one of director Robert Altman’s best films in years. Read the rest of this entry »

Talk about bad timing. As Walt Disney Pictures prepares for the release of their annual Christmas movie, the star of the film decides to leave his popular television show. As rumors circulate why he left the show, his theatrical film stock and goodwill begin to melt like the winter snow. Read the rest of this entry »

When there is no more room in hell, the dead shall walk the Earth!

And we’re not talking about the upcoming Presidential election.

You can’t keep a good zombie down, and in the revisionist remake of “Dawn of the Dead,” those zombies are power walking. Gone are the images of lumbering zombies in George Romero’s landmark 1978 original. Read the rest of this entry »

Set in the Philippines in 1945 towards the end of WWII, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Henry Mucci and Captain Robert Prince, the 6th Ranger Battalion undertake a daring rescue mission against all odds. Traveling thirty miles behind enemy lines, they intend to liberate over 500 American Soldiers from the notorious Cabanatuan Japanese POW camp in the most audacious rescue ever. Read the rest of this entry »

Jonathan Cold returns, this time he goes Undercover to stop a group of Terrorists before they bomb Los Angeles. Read the rest of this entry »

Director Peter O’Fallon cut his teeth on television, giving him the perfect credentials to direct this suspenseful ensemble piece in a short period of time on a very limited budget. O’Fallon’s theatrical debut is a stunning one, a high-caliber comedy-thriller that punches all the right buttons. Read the rest of this entry »

Funny thing about zombies. They just won’t stay dead.
The living dead make another appearance in Resident Evil: Apocalypse, a by-the-numbers sequel to the 2002 film based on the popular series of video games. Directed by Paul W.S. Anderson, the original Resident Evil was a nasty exercise in blood and guts, an insular thriller about a small band of survivors trapped in an underground top secret lab with mutant zombies. Read the rest of this entry »

Hell hath no fury like a woman scored, and Libby Parsons is furious. Libby has just been framed for the murder of her husband, and now she has to stew in prison. You can’t blame Libby for being mad. Read the rest of this entry »

Up until 1981, Disneyland relied on ticket books for admission and to ride their attractions. Anyone who has ever been to Disneyland pre-1981 will fondly recall the infamous ticket book, which contained 10 or 15 coupons in various denominations of A-E. A and B coupons were basically throwaways. You don’t how many discarded ticket books we picked up with A and B coupons still attached. Read the rest of this entry »

Like a moth to a flame, director Mark Pellington’s supernatural thriller “The Mothman Prophecies” disintegrates in front of our very eyes. Based on the non-fiction best seller by John A. Keel , supposedly based on true events that plagued a small West Virginia town, “The Mothman Prophecies” will disappoint anyone looking for a good scare. Read the rest of this entry »

Now I know how Goldilocks felt. Finding a good suspense thriller last summer was the equivalent of finding a bed that is just right. “The Haunting” was too big and overblown. “The Blair Witch Project” was basically a non-event, despite all of the hype. Read the rest of this entry »

For three weeks, 14-year-old Hayley Stark has been chatting on-line with ‘Lensmaster319′, a 32-year old fashion photographer, named Jeff. The two agree to meet at a coffee shop called Nighthawks. They hit it off, despite the massive age difference Read the rest of this entry »

I wasn’t exactly overwhelmed the first time that I saw Wes Craven’s “Scream.” Perhaps it was the weirdo sitting across the aisle from me who seemed to be literally “getting off” when Drew Barrymore’s character was getting slaughtered. Honest too goodness. Read the rest of this entry »

Trainer Marty Goldberg has been stuck working on the fringes of the professional circuit far too long. Searching for a way out, he discovers Tommy, a young man with raw talent to burn. Outside the ring however, Tommy displays a self-destructive streak that could end his career before it begins Read the rest of this entry »

Frankie, a young lad on the run from the grimy ghetto of South London, plans his escape and the beginnings of a new life in sunny Spain - the Costa Del Sol to be more precise. Armed with nothing but a bundle of cash stashed in his luggage he heads off, yet Frankie has no idea that this sum of money will catapult him into the seductive world of ex-gangster Charlie. Before he knows it Frankie’s got more then he bargained for - he’s one of Charlie’s gang and slap bang in the middle of the heady world of organized crime Read the rest of this entry »