Children of Men
April 2, 2007
Children of Men (2006) may be set in 2027 but it is a film for our times. It imagines a world where women are infertile and this has plunged society as we know it into chaos, plagued by environmental collapse. England has become a police state with armed...
Monsters and Madmen
January 23, 2007
This box set by the folks at the Criterion Collection is sure to divide fans of B-movies and the company’s traditional arthouse aficionados as to the validity of the films included. It’s true that Criterion has released these kinds of films before...
Night of the Living Dead
January 4, 2007
With a simple plot, limited budget, and amateurish acting, Night of the Living Dead should have been a complete and utter failure, but it wasn’t. In fact it has become one of the staples of the horror movie diet and the father figure of all zombie-infested...
Idiocracy
January 4, 2007
If director Mike Judge didn’t have bad luck, he wouldn’t have any luck at all. When he made his feature film debut with Office Space (1999), a hilarious comedy about the drudgery of 9-to-5 office culture, 20th Century Fox (who bankrolled the film)...
Godzilla Raids Again
December 18, 2006
You just can’t keep a good monster down. After the success of Gojira (1954), Toho quickly put a sequel into production and Godzilla Raids Again (1955) pitted a newly resurrected Godzilla (hey, didn’t he die in the first film?) against another monster...
Transformers: The Movie: 20th Anniversary Special Edition
November 17, 2006
For those of us who grew up watching the Transformers cartoon every day after school in the early 1980s, the movie came as quite a shock. Most of us, at that early, impressionable age, were unprepared for the much darker tone and the increased level of...
X:Men: The Last Stand
September 21, 2006
After two impressive outings, The X-Men franchise was handed over to Brett Ratner when Bryan Singer was unavailable due to his commitment with Superman Returns (2006). This caused fans to grumble due to Ratner’s less than stellar track record and reputation...
Lost: Season 2
September 8, 2006
Going into the 2005-2006 television season, Lost found its niche market as one of the only major network T.V. science fiction/horror themed shows challenged by a whole slew of newcomers: Invasion, Night Stalker, Supernatural, Surface and Threshold. Would...
Gojira: Deluxe Collector’s Edition
August 30, 2006
As Steve Ryfle’s excellent liner notes point out, Godzilla is more than just some guy in a cheesy rubber suit terrorizing badly dubbed Japanese actors and stomping miniatures, but the original film, made in 1954, is actually a tragedy of epic proportions,...
Surface: The Complete Series
August 29, 2006
Along with Night Stalker, Surface was one of the new crop of science fiction/horror themed television shows to get cancelled early in its run lasting only 15 episodes. The show originally aired on NBC and was heavily promoted but was unable to garner...
