See No Evil

See No Evil is the first film brought to you by WWE films, and yes, that’s WWE as in World Wrestling Entertainment. Wrestlers are everywhere these days – they write best-selling novels, they race bikes and cars, they are on the radio, they rap... 

Spider-Man 2.1

In a blatant attempt to cash in on the theatrical release of Spider-Man 3 (2007), the powers that be have revisited Spider-Man 2 (2004), added eight minutes and re-released it on DVD with the nifty 2.1 moniker and a few new extras so that Spidey completists... 

Deja Vu

Director Tony Scott and Denzel Washington team up for another noisy, hyperactive action film for producer Jerry Bruckheimer but this time out they try to add a bit more substance and thought between the car chases and explosions with Déjà Vu (2006). When... 

Bobby

Bobby (2006) is Emilio Estevez’s comeback from obscurity with an earnest look back at the fateful night Presidential-hopeful Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated at the Ambassador Hotel on June 4, 1968. Instead of focusing on the man, Estevez creates... 

Smokin’ Aces

Quentin Tarantino and Guy Ritchie have pretty much cornered the market on the ultraviolent, pop culture-laden crime film. Unfortunately, someone forgot to tell filmmaker Joe Carnahan who follows up Narc (2002), his ode to gritty police procedurals of... 

Curse of the Golden Flower

Curse of the Golden Flower (2006) is a Chinese historical drama about the deeply dysfunctional royal family of the Later Tang Dynasty in the year 922, which was during the turbulent Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period. The film depicts a story filled... 

Overlord

Stuart Cooper’s Overlord (1975) is proof that you can make an epic movie about World War II with very little money. His film depicts one man’s journey from basic training to D-Day. He did this by blending archival war footage from the Imperial War... 

Payback Straight Up: The Director’s Cut

When Payback was originally released in 1999, it was surrounded by a bit of controversy when it was reported that the studio was not happy with writer/director Brian Helgeland’s original cut and with Mel Gibson’s approval, the actor filmed a new third... 

Black Christmas: Unrated

Bob Clark’s Black Christmas (1974) was a clever little horror film that came out of Canada and spawned the slasher genre including, most notably John Carpenter’s Halloween (1978). Unfortunately, Clark’s film isn’t as celebrated or nearly as widely... 

Brute Force

Jules Dassin brought his style of hard-hitting, unflinching realism to the prison melodrama genre as he depicts the harsh world behind bars in Brute Force (1947). The first shot of the prison is a low angle one looking up at a watch tower at night in... 

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