Category: Movie Review

If Rocky III (1982) lacks a heart, Rocky IV is missing a brain. This movie is so stupid it’s got a robot in it,…

You know that guy (or girl) in college who’d come up with all these great ideas but then always find a profound philosophical reason…

It strikes me as a fair bit of irony that Ruby Sparks, a fictional character even within her own story, would come across as…

You can’t judge a book by its cover, and you shouldn’t judge a movie by its commercials. Take Safe for example. Its trailer shows…

If urban Canadian youth were made into a video game, it would look something like Scott Pilgrim vs the World. Adapted from the comic…

Slashers don’t get much better than Scream. Directed by long-time master of suspense Wes Craven and written by Kevin Williamson, Grand Poobah of pop…

Scream 2 uses a simple argument as its starting point: sequels are by design creatively bankrupt cash grabs that can only shame the original…

The same way Scream (1996) toyed with the conventions of the slasher genre and Scream 2 (1997) with those of the sequel, Scream 3…

People often ask what I think of “torture porn” flicks like Saw (2004) and Hostel (2005). As it turns out, I feel the same…

I hate it when would-be cinephiles say stuff like, “Clearly, the filmmakers didn’t know where they were going with the story, so they cobbled…