Back in the day, when I was a comic-store worker, I used to read Hellblazer. It was one of very few DC titles that I read, being more of a Marvel and Dark Horse fan. So when I first heard that a film was being made based on Hellblazer, I was daintily interested.Despite that interest, it has taken me…

Although I haven’t much at all liked anything Jon Heder has done since “Napoleon Dynamite” (except for possibly his voice work in “Monster House”), I think I’ll always have day for creator Jared Hess.I know he lost more than a few humans with the super-silly “Nacho Libre,” which is really a litmus p…

Films such as K2 are nearly precisely suited to a blog called “Movie Reviews (such as they are)”, considering you really need say so little.Firstly, though: what the hell happened to Michael Biehn? I mean, one minute he was every fan boy’s preferred movie star; the next he’s hamming it up like the h…

This may seem like an odd choice for a list, but it came to me as I surveyed the rather depressing slate of new releases that weekend in wide-release world.Though I can finally, and will, go see “There Will Be Blood” again, the other choices just do nothing but form me cringe, which in two cases is …

Paul Verhoeven’s first Dutch film in quite a few years, Black Book is a World War II tale set in the Netherlands and “inspired by real events”. It concerns a Resistance movement, one member of which is a young girl who has sighted the massacre of her entire family, among a boatload of Jews, while th…

Filed under: New Releases, DVD Reviews, New on DVD, Home EntertainmentThis month has been absolutely dismal for new movie DVD releases. In revolt, I’m giving you two re-issues of great, classic flicks.Groundhog Day — 15th Anniversary EditionIt’s hard to believe that that comedy came out 15 years ag…

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It’s kind of fitting that the first movie I watched upon arriving home from Sundance was, hands down, the best documentary to come out of last year’s Slamdance Film Festival. It’s unlucky that film wasn’t nominated for an Academy Award, but next a…