It’s All About the Date, and Nothing Else 11-11-11 is a horror movie about a writer plagued by ominous visions, supernatural encounters, and repeated exposure to the number eleven. This would include the date the story leads up to, and how fortuitous that the film was actually given a November 11, 2011 release date. Remember [...]

This Version is More in Step I went into Footloose with very low expectations, since I knew the filmmakers had very little to work with. The original 1984 film, directed by Herbert Ross and starring Kevin Bacon, may have provided us with some classic ’80s songs but was woefully inadequate in all other fields, including [...]

Source Code comes extremely close to brilliance, and perhaps even mirrors the complexities and mystery of a film like Inception with its premise. However, what begins as a thought-provoking and highly engaging science-fiction quandary steadily devolves into a less sincere and confusing predicament that opens itself up for a multitude of plot-holes (or just plain [...]

Visually, this new Conan feels authentic, with gallons of blood spattering against tempered steel as muscular men wage war with beasts and each other alike. Yet while the action and carnage might sate the most bloodthirsty of viewers, the film feels rather soulless as the endless battles carry on with no pause for dialogue, character [...]

When it comes to horror movies, bigger isn’t always better but less is almost always more. In The Thing, we still get a decent helping of thrills, but the changes to the creature, the revealing of its natural state and the expansion of its mythology detract from the overall terror. Seeing more of the alien [...]

The hit list is particularly exciting, fun fantasy world charm in his heart took the idea desirable to eliminate your opponents in real life (be careful what you wish for). As in any good mystery, fantasy finally moved in terror, like the amusing idea fades into a nightmare in cold blood, violent death. The idea [...]

How many movies with a sarcastic, wear flip-flops, gray bird-eating alien voiced by Seth Rogen spewing an obscenity? Probably just one. Unfortunately, the originality ends there, and also with a bizarre protagonist, Paul offers little else as refreshing as the creature vulgar. Even then, one could argue that it's just Seth Rogen stars as himself, [...]