Alexandre Aja is an interesting cat. Despite having an incredible sense for horror and a great visual style, he tends to choose films that always lose the audience in the last moments of the film. His breakout film High Tension redefined the brutal killer genre until falling flat on its face in the…

If you were to tell me back in August that a Paul W.S. Anderson remake of a Roger Corman camp action classic would prove to be one of my favorite films of the year, I would have given you the stink eye something fierce. Anderson doesn't make great films, I would have told you. He used to make fun…

The year was 1981 and the slasher movie was king of the box office. Pick a holiday and they were making a horror movie about it. The bodies of sexy young coeds were stacked on screen as high as the eye could see. But just as quickly as the fad exploded, it imploded. In an ever-increasing desire to…

If you happened to be at Francis Coppola's Zoetrope studio in 1979 or 1980, you could have seen Wim Wenders filming a detective thriller or watched Gene Kelly eagerly assisting with dance numbers for One From the Heart. But you also might have bumped into one of Coppola's salaried "Filmmakers in…

While not one of the very worst movies of last year, Lionsgate's Nicolas Cage-led remake of Bangkok Dangerous certainly deserves consideration as an honorable mention. An anemic, dull potboiler of an action film, this is a classic example of the type of film that borrows heavily from every other…

While certainly not as terrible as many critics made it out to be, last year's Dane Cook/Kate Hudson romantic comedy My Best Friend's Girl will be more likely remembered for the blog stir it caused rather than for its jokes. While Dane Cook was busy praising it as his funniest film yet (a true…

After seeing Who Killed the Electric Car?, it seems unthinkable to give billions of bailout dollars to corporations with so little regard for the public good.

This vital docu has been out for two years; we have to think that its new reissue has been timed to accompany the inauguration of President…

Everyone knows about the plane that crashed in the Andes Mountains in 1972, and there's exactly one reason why: The survivors resorted to cannibalism. Ask anyone and they'll tell you. "Andes Mountains? Plane crash? Oh, yeah. They had to eat each other." They might get the other details wrong -- I…