Director Jim Mickle has spent the past several years serving up some truly head turning films such as ‘Mulberry Street’ and the post-apocalyptic vampire tale “Stake Land.” His latest cinematic endeavor, 2013’s ‘We Are What We Are,’ is no less beautifully horrifying. “We Are What We Are” focuses in on the Parker Family, who hail […]
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Ghosts of Christmas Past: The Huffy Sigma Experience
Reminiscing about Christmases past, this tale came to mind. As many of you know, if you were a boy growing up in the 1980s, all you wanted to be was RAD. BMX was all the rage and to stand out on the streets, you needed a kickass rig. I had little idea when I scrawled […]
Review: The Legendary ‘Mad Max Trilogy’ Explodes Onto Blu-ray!
Before Mel Gibson shot to superstardom as one of action cinema’s biggest names, he was known as Mad Max! Set in the near-future in Australia, a fresh-faced Gibson stars as Max Rockatansky, a highway cop traveling through the Outback in a society descending into chaos. When ‘Mad Max’ exploded onto movie screens in it’s limited […]
Blu-ray Review: Tom Hanks and Halle Berry Star In ‘Cloud Atlas’ – Available May 14th!
Groundbreaking filmmakers Lana Wachowski, Tom Tykwer, and Andy Wachowski have returned with one of their most profilic films to date. ‘Cloud Atlas’ is a remarkably beautiful film, an adaptation of David Mitchell’s bestseller of the same name, the film weaves us through six stories, each of which take place in their own unique era between […]
Review: “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey” Comes Home On Blu-ray!
The internet was all abuzz when it was announced Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Peter Jackson would return to the fabulous cinematic universe he helped create with “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.” Even if you were not a fan of the fantasy genre, there is no denying the spellbinding nature of his “Lord of The Rings” trilogy. […]
Movie Review: ‘Would You Rather’ Starring Brittany Snow and Sasha Grey
In recent months, IFC Midnight has been churning out some very interesting films for fans of horror. Their latest offering is ‘Would You Rather,’ which is helmed by director David Guy Levy. The film gets it name from the popular parlor game almost all of us have played in our youth. The film centers on […]
Film Review: Antonino D’Ambrosio’s ‘Let Fury Have The Hour’
Director Antonino D’Ambrosio’s feature debut has certainly established as a young filmmaker to watch in the years to come. “Let Fury Have The Hour” is a fast paced documentary that sprung from D’Ambrosio’s spellbinding book of the same title. The title comes from a lyric from “Clampdown,” a song from the Clash’s 1979 masterpiece ‘London Calling’. While the […]
Book Review: James M. Cain’s Lost Novel “The Cocktail Waitress”
Renowned crime noir author James M. Cain speaks from the dead in “The Cocktail Waitress,”his nearly finished novel discovered 35 years after his death thanks to Hard Case Crime, an American publisher of hardboiled crime novels. The paperback crime novels of the ‘40s and ‘50s are resurrected in their fictional works, showcasing suspense and drama […]
Book Review: ‘The Twenty-Year Death’ By Ariel S. Winter
Ariel S. Winter’s debut novel, “The Twenty Year Death,” features three separate crime novels that create a single saga of violence and tragedy intruding on the lives of a couple. Described as a 3-in-1 noir, each novel is set in a different decade, penned in a different style and told from a different perspective, starting […]