28 Days Later Zombie films, despite being popular staples with amateur low-budget (and low-talent) filmmakers, are always a Catch-22 subgenre of horror since George Romero essentially said everything there is to say with his Living Dead films, but occasionally a fresh idea or two pops to the surface. Here, Danny Boyle makes his contagion a […]
3:10 To Yuma Both an action-packed Western and a compelling allegory of the Christian faith, director James Mangold comes up with the absolute best the genre has seen in a long time. As the legendary Robin Hood / Billy The Kid type outlaw, Russell Crowe pretty much tops himself again, giving us a bad guy […]
300 Of all the military campaigns in history, none may be more extraordinary than in 480 BC, when a small Spartan army of approximately 300 stood alone to defend their land against the massive invading forces of The Persians, eventually going down in battle but not before slaughtering untold thousands of The Persian ranks, decimating […]
9 ½ Weeks Erotic softcore cinema pretty much got kickstarted with this 1986 release based upon a semi autobiographical novel by one Elizabeth McNeill, a woman who allegedly found herself in a serious sadomasochistic relationship all while she was working at a well known feminist magazine, an experience she reportedly never recovered from and may […]
976-EVIL Back in 1988, when Freddy Kruger-mania was at its absolute peak, Robert Englund was actually able to generate enough clout to be able to actually direct his own horror film, and this is the result: a curio-piece that pales next to the classics (including the Nightmare films), but is certainly more watchable than much […]
Clockwork Orange Without a doubt the greatest of all of Stanley Kubrick’s Masterpieces (and that says a HELL of a lot), this 1971 milestone about how a teenage hoodlum (Malcolm McDowell), whose prime interests are rape, ultraviolence, and Beethoven, is captured, sent to prison, and then “cured” through a specialized conditioning / brainwashing technique, only […]