Rating ‘found-footage’ movies In collaboration with Rotten Tomatoes and its parent company, Flixster, The Chronicle presents the critical consensus of found-footage movies. The figure listed is the percentage of critics who have rated the film positively, based on reviews listed at rottentomatoes.com. Full of creepy campfire scares, this mock doc keeps audiences in the dark about its titular …
Alright, dear readers, the Halloween movie list fun is about to kick into high gear. So far, I’ve named the greatest slashers, ghosts, monsters, and cult films ever made. Now comes a biggie — the greatest sci-fi horror films of all time!
As Halloween draws ever closer, local theaters are finding more and more ways to attract the horror film crowd. Now the Salt Lake Film Society and radio station X-96 are teaming up to sponsor …
Sony redo of PlayStation Store links games, movies LOS ANGELES (AP) — Sony Corp. is revamping its PlayStation Store as it prepares a common storefront across devices from its game console to its Web-connected TVs, Blu-ray players and phones. Sony’s general manager of global digital video and music services, Michael Aragon, said Sony plans to roll out similar storefronts on TVs and other devices …
Movies opening Friday, Oct. 19 Alex Cross Tyler Perry goes all cops and killers in this adaptation of the James Patterson thriller, as a homicide detective dancing a dangerous tango with a sly serial killer (Matthew Fox) who makes it personal.
You can never have enough horror movies, right?
New on DVD and Blu-ray, Oct. 16 Feature: Airborne (2012), Alien Dawn (2012), The Ambassador (2011), The Angel Who Pawned Her Harp (1956), Becoming Blond (2010), Bush Christmas (1947), Chernobyl Diaries (2010), A Christmas Carol (1951), Don’t Answer the Phone (1980), Exorcism/Demoniac Remastered (1974), Female Vampire/Erotikill: Collector’s Edition” (1981), “The Heart of Christmas” (2011), “Ice …
DVD review: ‘Indiana Jones: Complete’ Sure, getting four Indiana Jones movies in one package is a treat almost everyone will enjoy, and seeing it on Blu-ray is really cool – but the real plus is the documentary made in 1981 on the first of the films, “Raiders of the Lost Ark.” All of today’s technology can’t compare with that travelogue mixed in with filmmakers trying to make a movie “without …
DVD review: ‘Crimson Petal and the White’ Gillian Anderson (“Bleak House”) plays the heartless madam of Sugar’s brothel, and Amanda Hale is the sickly, delusional wife of Sugar’s regular patron, played by Chris O’Dowd. The miniseries is sexy but, like Faber’s novel, uses the format of the Victorian novel to explore the theme of sexual and emotional repression.