When a priest dies before he can meet with a Cardinal in Los Angeles, he leaves behind a key and a diary explaining his role in the church. The priest was a guardian of a vault beneath a mission in a decaying area of the city. Inside that vault isContinue Reading
In the 1970s and early 1980s, Roger Corman’s New World Pictures was responsible for churning out some of the most memorable B-movies of all time. Piranha, made in 1978 for an estimated budget of $660,000, is one of the best. That doesn’t mean it’s a great movie, but it doesContinue Reading
A conflict is brewing in the forests of Maine. Native Americans who inhabit the area are being forced out by a lumber company that has recently purchased a sizeable plot of land to expand their paper-making business. The Environmental Protection Agency recruits Dr. Robert Verne (Robert Foxworth) to investigate theContinue Reading
2003’s Underworld was entertaining and possessed a low-budget sensibility that made for a surprisingly stylish film. 2006’s Underworld: Evolution, had all the symptoms of a sequel that owed its existence entirely to the first film’s unexpected success rather than a true continuation of the storyline. Since the first movie hadContinue Reading
Leon Kauffman (Bradley Cooper) is an aspiring photographer. His live-in girlfriend, Maya (Leslie Bibb), has arranged for a meeting between Leon and Susan Hoff (Brooke Shields), an art dealer who could take his career to the next level. After seeing his work, however, Susan advises Leon to become more daringContinue Reading
When the makers of 1978’s Halloween scored a $47 million box office bonanza with their $300,000 creation, they felt tempted to make another grab at the till. On paper, Halloween II looks like it has a proper pedigree. The script was co-written by John Carpenter, the co-writer and director ofContinue Reading
When Halloween was released in 1978, there was no such thing as the modern “slasher movie.” Some may argue that 1974’s The Texas Chainsaw Massacre deserves some credit but it was undoubtedly Halloween that jump started the genre into overdrive. And while it may seem tame today when compared against theContinue Reading