“Titanic” without the boring exposition. That’s “Poseidon” in a nutshell. And I loved it. Critics are complaining that there’s no story. The characters are paper thin. It’s not like the 1972 original. Who cares? I guess I just don’t expect that much from my action-adventures.Simply said, I don’t want to have to sit through 2.5 [...]

Resist the urge to see “An American Haunting.” I know, the trailer makes you believe that you’ll shudder in your seat, peeking through your fingers. And I know, it has Sissy Spacek and Donald Sutherland in lead roles. But it was written and directed by Courtney Solomon, the man responsible for the 2000 atrocity “Dungeons [...]

Most people know Wes Craven as the man behind two of horror’s biggest moneymaking franchises – Nightmare on Elm Street and Scream. But before those, in 1977, he directed The Hills Have Eyes, a very low budget film about a family that is terrorized by cannibals.
Flash forward nearly 30 years, and the horrormeister decided it [...]

Lucky Number Slevin could be 2006’s answer to Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction. Exhibit A – the story takes place in the seedy underworld of gangsters and assassins. Exhibit B – it has a twisting, turning narrative that takes you down different rabbit holes. Exhibit C- the presence of a very slick Bruce Willis. Exhibit D [...]

Watching a tire deflate is probably more enjoyable than sitting through “The Sentinel,” a Michael Douglas vanity project.
From the trailers, you are led to believe that Kiefer Sutherland and Eva Longoria are actually in the film. Wrong. I might be exaggerating here, but I’m thinking that during the 108 minutes you see them for maybe [...]

Whether it’s a comic book, a video game, a cult book or TV series, adapting it for the big screen is never easy. You don’t want to make everything so generic that you bore the hardcore fans, but you don’t want to make it so arcane that you alienate everyone else. It’s probably like walking [...]

What do you do when you have to review a film, and your choices are two sequels and a B-horror film?
Even though it has an unflattering trailer, you choose the third. Why? In my case, I haven’t seen “Ice Age” or “Basic Instinct” so reviewing the sequels seemed a bit stupid. Also, neither films appealed. [...]

Horror filmgoers generally fall into two categories  those who want to see carnage and those who want a more sanitized spook. Films in the former category have a masked lunatic who wields an axe, knife, chainsaw, meat hook or other such evicerating device. Here you find such classics as Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Friday [...]

The Lion King has made Walt Disney a lot of money. Not only is it the highest grossing traditionally animated feature film ever released in the United States, but it also spawned a highly successful Broadway musical. So what do you do when you’re looking for your next hit? If you’re Disney, you hope that [...]