Scary movies are particularly vulnerable to distractions which take the viewer out of the moment since so many scary movies already struggle to be particularly interesting.

I agree that as ticket buyers, we are […]

Henry Selick can do almost no wrong and it will be interesting to see him direct his own original story. And The Shadow King sounds like a perfect companion piece to Coraline. Let’s hope he gets the financing to […]

Season 2 by was a superior effort and one of the best shows on TV. This season was a perplexing mix of both sophisticated themes and subversive pandering. For every scene of arm ripping (exciting action scene), […]

CommentI liked the overall production values of this film, but that was one seriously inept script, apparently with intentional bad dialogue and mediocre acting(?!?). Jamie King was great as always, but Malcolm […]

“S-n-o-w-f-l-a-k-e”

A movie made for kids usually has to be paired down a little for the younger set. Unfortunately, we can’t all be as immensely sophisticated as those jaded movie critics who hate first and ask questions later. […]

The third part of the ambitious REC series does the unthinkable: it departs from the tone of the series! After two grim and harrowing installments, the third is a more of an homage to the Evil Dead delivering a […]

Having only minimal exposure to the original Dark Shadows, I loved Tim Burton’s campy melodrama. As expected, it’s visually stunning, and often hilarious, thanks in part to screenwriter Seth Grahame-Smith who […]