Recommended The Movie: When this masterpiece of gothic horror begins, an accused witch named Asa Vajda (Barbara Steele) has the Mask Of Satan pounded onto her face before she's burned at the stake.
Rent It The Movie: Directed by Brett Simmons (and produced by Drew Barrymore, yes that Drew Barrymore), 2014's Animal is hardly going to win any awards for originality but for the creature feature fans out there who appreciate guys in suits' over CGI rendered beasties, this is worth a look. The movie revolves around a camping trip led by Jeff (Parker Young) who is accompanied by his foxy …
Highly Recommended Though it takes place during the American Civil War—which has no shortage of big and small screen “adaptations”, for lack of a better word—Chris Eska's The Retrieval (2013) doesn't feel like many period-specific historical dramas that have come before it.
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. David Dobkin's The Judge is the kind of stuffed-to-the-brim drama that draws critical guff
Rent It Track the Man Down (1954) is an extremely mild thriller about the manhunt following a greyhound track robbery, of interest today mainly for its cast, and because it was one of a small handful of pictures made by Republic Pictures' British subsidiary. (Presumably, Republic made films there to access funds that could only be spent in Britain.) Like the contemporaneous co-productions …
Highly Recommended The Movie: As the holiday video gifts of December transition into January, we get the occasional underrated film before February's release of films aspiring for any award possible. And with The Drop , we experience a film that came and went perhaps a little too quickly, also was perhaps noted for something out of its control. Yet on its merits, the film deserves a place in (or …
Recommended Directed and co-written by stand-up comic Bonnie Hunt, Return to Me (2000) feels several decades out of place…but for almost all the right reasons. Our story revolves around Bob Rueland (David Duchovny), an architect who—without venturing too far into spoiler territory—is separated from his wife and wading through unmarried life
Rent It Despite a good cast, a great title, and an even better poster (see below), World for Ransom (1954) is a terrible Cold War thriller, though not without interest. It was Robert Aldrich's second film as director following Big Leaguer (1953), though quite possibly World for Ransom was made first and released after. Many consider World for Ransom a dry run for Aldrich's great nihilistic noir …
Highly Recommended The Movie: The directorial debut of Chad Stahelski (a prolific stunt coordinator/stunt double who has worked on everything from The Matrix to The Crow to The Expendables ), 2014's John Wick stars Keanu Reeves as the titular character. When the film begins, his wife passes away from a terminal illness
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Anyone taking Luc Besson's Lucy to task for its junk science is missing the point. OK, so humans really do use more than ten percent of the brain's capacity, and no magic pill is going to increase that power tenfold