Fantasia 2012 Review: MONDOMANILA
Gutter poetry at its finest, Khavn De La Cruz's parade of humanity at its strangest in Filipino caper-doc-musical Mondomanila is not to be missed.  The slums outside of Manila are hell on earth; an unsolvable problem of poverty and the ass... More »
  

AFFD 2012 Review: GYO Is A Scatalogical Smorgasbord
While I cannot honestly say that I am familiar with the manga of the same title, I can say with some authority that Gyo, the anime feature, is likely to be one of the most bizarre films of 2012. As... More »
By J Hurtado   
  

Review: ALPS Fuses High and Low Culture
[After a run on the festival circuit, ALPS opens for a theatrical run in New York and Florida on Friday, July 13, so we're republishing our review from the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival. Check the "Related Links" section for... More »
  

Roman Porno Double Feature #3: ZOOM IN: SEX APARTMENTS & A TRUE STORY OF A WOMAN IN JAIL: CONTINUES
On July 10th, Impulse Films released the latest pair of films in their ongoing and popular Nikkatsu Erotic Films Collection, more commonly known as the Roman Porno series. This latest set of films are related to previous releases in the... More »
  

Blu-ray Review: GOD BLESS AMERICA
Bob Goldthwait's latest film, God Bless America, is really divisive among critics, and it's easy to see why. Goldthwait's story is a liberal revolutionary's wet dream; a violent rampage across the country shooting down the rudest and trashiest that modern... More »
By J Hurtado   
  

Blu-ray Review: MEATBALLS

Are you ready for the summer?Meatballs is one of my very favorite comedies. Bill Murray's feature film debut and Ivan Reitman, straight out of producing National Lampoon's Animal House were a pair of young talents ready to explode onto the... More »
By J Hurtado   
  

Blu-ray Review: DJANGO, KILL (...IF YOU LIVE SHOOT!) Is One Hell Of A Bloody Good Time!
The Spaghetti Western craze of the 1960's produced hundreds of films, the vast majority of which I haven't seen. However, even among those in the know, Giulio Questi's Django Kill (...If You Live Shoot!, ...Se Sei Vivo Spara!) is among... More »
By J Hurtado   
  

Review: ABRAHAM LINCOLN: VAMPIRE HUNTER - Bloody But Toothless
Four Score and one hundred and seventy million dollars ago, our studio moguls brought forth on this pop culture a new movie, conceived in literature, and dedicated to the preposterousness that Abe Lincoln be re-created to kill. Kill vampires,... More »
By Jim Tudor   
  

Blu-ray Review: THE ARMY OF DARKNESS THE NECRONOMICON - Klaatu Barada Nikto!
The Army of Darkness has been recently released by Via Vision Entertainment in a deluxe Necronomicon book-styled set. This is my review of the main elements of this set, the presentation, the Blu-ray disc, the DVD and the Director... More »
  

London Indian Film Festival 2012 Review: GANDU
The London Indian Film Festival opens on June 20th, and among their programming coups is Q's festival smash, Gandu. Along with screening the film, the LIFF will be hosting the Gandu Circus, a live musical performance featuring Q and members... More »
By J Hurtado   
  

DVD Review: THE NURSES COLLECTION Will Cure All Your Ills (Shout! Factory)
This is hot stuff!Shout! Factory is beginning to wind down their Roger Corman Cult Classics collection, but there are still a few gems out there to be shared, and The Nurses Collection certainly qualifies. This two disc set of classic... More »
By J Hurtado   
  

DVD Review: EROTIBOT Starring (Or At Least Getting Naked) Maria Ozawa

(I cannot start with a joke for fear of eclipsing the entire film...) Tomomatsu's "Karei Naru Erogami-ke No Ichizoku: Shinsô Reijô Wa Denki Shitsuji No yume O Miru Ka" (aka. "Erotibot" as it is known in Western markets, or even... More »
By Ard Vijn   
  

Blu-ray Review: MONSTER BRAWL
It's every twisted little child's fantasy, isn't it? To pit the world's great monsters against one another in a battle to the death? Well, while the rest of us jack-offs were thinking about it, Jesse Thomas Cook went and made... More »
By J Hurtado   
  

DVD Review: COUNTESS PERVERSE (Mondo Macabro)
I can now proudly say that with the completion of this, my second Franco review, I've officially covered almost 1% of Jess Franco's career output. To call Jess Franco prolific would be an insult. Very few directors in history can... More »
  

Review: PROMETHEUS, the Maddening Beauty
PROMETHEUS is one of the most maddeningly exhilarating moviegoing experiences in years. Exquisitely, beautifully shot in amazing 3D, this could be the Ridley Scott film of the last decade, fulfilling the promise of "Ridley Scott, World's Greatest Shooter". Too bad... More »
By Jim Tudor   
  

SyFy: JERSEY SHORE SHARK ATTACK, PIRANHACONDA, ARACHNOQUAKE and BIGFOOT!
The box this little feller came in said these four original movies are part of SyFy's MOST DANGEROUS MONTH On Televison. Most dangerous to what? Our eyes? Our ears? Our souls? Surely I jest because SyFy original movies are far,... More »
  

Blu-ray Review: THE FP (Drafthouse Films #2)
Hoo boy, The FP.The FP is a film about which most people will make up their minds before the trailer even ends. Its overtly stylized dialogue and aesthetic is something that film fans will either find appealing as a lark... More »
By J Hurtado   
  

Blu-ray Review: THE RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD (Second Sight UK RB)
This is it. Dan O'Bannon's The Return of the Living Dead, my favorite movie ever, has finally been given the home video treatment it deserves. No more augmented audio, no more full-screen transfers, no more stupid zombie "commentary" tracks, just... More »
By J Hurtado   
  

Review: PIRANHA 3DD Pumps Up The Tits, Still Falls Flat
When I heard that John Gulager of Feast had been hired to direct the sequel to Alexandre Aja's Piranha 3D, I was wary, but I thought, "Hey, I liked Feast, let's give this guy a chance!" Of course, my mistake... More »
  

Review: PROMETHEUS IMAX 3D Brings Fire Down From The Heavens
UPDATE: Beware of spoilers in the comments below the review!!! I don't know what Brian was smoking before he saw this, but it might very well be my brand (this is a link)... Thanks to the wonder of the Internet... More »
By Ard Vijn   
  
  Next »
Page 4 of 56
Leading Voices in Global Cinema
More »
Featured Videos
1.
Donnie Yen Cometh In ICEMAN 3D. Watch The Trailer Now!
2.
Watch The Trailer For Jodorowsky's LA DANZA DE LA REALIDAD
3.
More Is Not Always Better. Extended EMPIRES OF THE DEEP Trailer Every Bit As Laughable As The First.
Featured Articles

Destroy All Monsters: I Think We've Been This Way Before, Mr. Spock

They can remember it for you wholesale, and they do. At some point, we licensed our pop cultural nostalgia to a handful of multinational conglomerates (well, to be fair, they always owned the licenses) and now they're selling them back to us - though, I guess, not at wholesale, but... More »

Interview: Twitch Talks to HANGOVER III's Ken Jeong

Ken Jeong may often play a lunatic on both big and small screen, but in person it's quite disarming to see just how calm and considerate he comes across. While he got his big screen start in Judd Apatow's Knocked Up, Jeong's real breakthrough was taking a small-on-paper role... More »

Hollywood Beat: Notes On Cutting The Cord And NBC's Genre Programs

I cut the cable cord last year, but I'm not always happy about it. I had to wait a year before seeing Season 2 of Game of Thrones, for example, and will have to wait to see Season 3 until next year. I only have to wait to see Mad... More »

Twitchvision: Talking STAR TREK: INTO DARKNESS, MUD and THE ICEMAN

Another Twitchvision chat with Scott Laurie, this time me gushing about J.J.'s latest Star Trek film, which I unabashedly loved.Also talked about he fabbo Mud, and the less fabbo The Iceman, both with Michael Shannon doing his thing.Video embedded below.Update: Was asked to come in today and pick a few... More »

Learning from the Masters of Cinema: Henri-Georges Clouzot's THE MURDERER LIVES AT 21

While Henri-Georges Clouzot is best remembered for many of his later films, including The Wages of Fear and Diabolique, the French filmmaker's 1942 debut has gone largely unseen by Western audiences until now. The Murderer Lives at 21 (L'Assassin Habite au 21), based on the novel by Belgian author Stanislas-Andre... More »
Most Popular
Follow Twitch

Never miss a thing! Headlines delivered daily.
E-mail address:

Recent Comments
More »
​