This week on video store shelves, Phil Brown stays home with Jeff, Who Lives at Home before developing Wanderlust, while heads out west to deal with zombies in Exit Humanity and Christian Slater in Dawn Rider before returning home to wreck the place with Project X Also, a few words about the now cancelled Canadian cult series Being Erica and the intriguing family documentary My Reincarnation.
Bad Medicine is a gritty new series by Oni Press that debuted at Free Comic Book Day, featuring a questionable cast of characters thrown together to solve a crime drama with some serious sci-fi elements. How do you find a perp you can't see? This is the paradox facing Detective Joely Huffman in the case of a body found with an invisible head with all signs pointing to an invisible murderer.
Although overstuffed, lazily plotted, and autotuned nearly into oblivion, the big screen adaptation of the jukebox musical Rock of Ages still has a real kind of shaggy dog charm evocative of the 1980s hair metal scene (minus, you know, any sort of crippling addictions, of course).
A bit of an interesting failure, Pawel Pawlikowski's The Woman in the Fifth comes tantalizingly close to becoming a great thriller before losing the thread.
For those who have already completed the immersive story of Gotham’s sprawling prison city, Harley Quinn's Revenge touches on the main game’s strongest notes in a well-crafted couple of hours. (Contains spoilers for Batman: Arkham City)
Thanks to woefully diminished expectations and a willing desire to offend anyone and everyone in its path, the Adam Sandler comedy That's My Boy still offers more for Sandler fans than his last handful of movies.
The environmental advocacy documentary Kivalina Vs. Exxon could show Al Gore a thing or two by effectively putting a human face onto the issue of global warming in this portrait of a community faced with near extinction.
Thanks to the natural charm and grace of leading lady Greta Gerwig, Lola Versus fares better than a lot of similarly unrelatable NYC hipster fare.
Despite some narrative messiness and a somewhat miscast leading lady, the supporting cast, winning script and tone help make Safety Not Guaranteed rise above the trappings of a standard indie comedy.
We review a whopping 7 films currently out on DVD. There's a whole bunch of good, not great and a couple of real stinkers as we look at Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, Machine Gun Preacher, The Collapsed, Madison County, The Prodigies, and Demoted
Purposefully trippy, artful, and really well done for a low budget debut feature, Beyond the Black Rainbow feels evocative of John Carpenter, Alejandro Jodorowsky, and Daft Punk all at the same time.
As we head into the final weekend of the 18th annual Worldwide Short Film Festival, Brandon Bastaldo and Jenna Hossack take a look at some of the great programs taking place during the WSFF's stacked final weekend.
This week's archival DVD and re-release column looks at two different bands out outlaws: Clint Eastwood's Josey Wales and the hardcore wrestlers of ECW.
A forced attempt to resurrect the Alien franchise, Prometheus disappoints with a jarring combination of stunning visuals and a terribly half-baked script.
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