The Movie:

Directed by Ming-liang Tsai in 1992, Rebels Of The Neon God is essentially a story of youth gone wild and teenage rebellion, but even here, in his directorial debut, the director manages to put some interesting touches on a genre that's been done to death over the years.

The main story revolves around Hsaio-kang (Kang-sheng Lee, who would work with Ming-liang Tsai quite often in future endeavors) who is feeling the pressure when it comes time to prepare for his college entrance exams. He's got a bit of a temper about him and is prone to occasional outburst, some of which can be pretty over the top. At the same time, two other teenagers, Ah-Tze (Chao-jung Chen) and Ah-Bing (Chang-bin Jen) , are busting the change out of phone booths and hitting up the video arcades. Their worlds sort of intertwine a bit here and there, they live in the same part of Tapei and so that ...Read the entire review

The Movie:
Horror movies have been getting more and more meta and self-referential lately, and it seems as if the apex of this trend may have arrived with You Can't Kill Stephen King. The film concerns a stereotypical group of kids going to a secluded lake house to try and get a chance to meet the horror author, who purportedly lives nearby.

Monroe and his sister Hilary (Monroe Mann and Crystal Arnette) inherited the lake house, and they're taking their pals Lamont (Justin Brown), semi-slutty Nicole and Lori (Kayle Blogna and Kate Costello), and strangely perverted virgin Ronnie (Ronnie Khalil), who is only going because he's obsessed with King, and because he likes ogling the girls.

We hit all of the stereotypical beats here. The locals are standoffish and say cryptic things, and even insist that, contrary to rumor, King doesn't live anywhere in the area. The kids get warned off...Read the entire review

In 10 Words or Less
Kind of like a grown-up The Wizard

Reviewer's Bias*
Loves: Video Games
Likes: Jason Mewes, Jon Gries
Dislikes: Stereotypical gamers
Hates: Single-serving DVDs

The Movie
The core audience for Noobz (which, if you didn't know, is gamer insult for newcomers or beginners) is most certainly evident in the intersection of a Venn diagram featuring Kevin Smith fans and video-game players, which is likely one of the largest overlaps you're likely to find in such illustrations. Making a movie about a quartet of road-tripping gamers seeking to compete in one of the world's largest tournaments and having one of them played by Jason Mewes, Jay to Smith's Silent Bob, may not result in the...Read the entire review

The Movie:

The first feature film directed by Joe Dante in some time, 2009's The Hole makes a slightly late debut on Blu-ray, but better late than never. If this isn't his best movie, and few would argue that it is, it's still a good time at the movies, a nice mix of the type of fantasy and light horror that have made a lot of Dante's earlier pictures so much fun - but it doesn't offer up a whole lot we haven't seen before.

The film follows a woman named Susan Thompson (Teri Polo) who relocates from Brooklyn to a suburban home in Bensonville with her two sons Dane (Chris Massoglia) and Lucas (Nathan Gamble) in tow. Given that the kids have been moved around a lot, neither are particularly happy about having to relocate again, with the older brother Dane taking it unusually hard. Things change for the better when they meet their new neighbor, a beautiful young lady named Jul...Read the entire review

THE MOVIE:

After carving out a name for himself as the director of some pretty gruesome and in-your-face flicks (Saw II - IV, Mother's Day ), Darren Lynn Bousman (also credited with the screenplay) takes a completely different approach with his psychological thriller 11-11-11. With its blend of numerology and religious paranoia, the film desperately wants to be categorized as 'slow burn'. Unfortunately the lackluster pacing, clunky dialogue and dearth of scares make it more of a 'no burn'.

Bestselling author Joseph Crone (Timothy Gibbs) is on the verge of a mental break. He has a legion of loyal fans but ...Read the entire review

The Movie:

When Jason and Grant formed TAPS - The Atlantic Paranormal Society - and brought their exploits to TV, Ghost Hunters became a huge hit for SyFy. The show followed a group that specializes in using high tech equipment, with a deft blend of common sense, experience, education and speculation to figure out what some people consider to be actual hauntings. The success of that series lead to a spin off entitled Ghost Hunters International, which followed an all new team of paranormal investigators who, unlike the original group, travel the world trying to figure out what's haunted and what's not. The core team is made up of four specialists - Robb Demarest, Dustin Pari, Barry Fitzgerald and Brandy Green - though they are joined in this second season by a few new recruits like Ashley Goodwin and Joe Chinn. The premise is pretty much the same as the one used in the Americ...Read the entire review

The Series:

Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson are two guys who spend their days working for Roto-Rooter installing toilets and fixing pipes, and at night head out all around the East Coast (and now further, venturing west to California in this sixth season and south towards Georgia for a fair bit this time around as well) of these here United States either proving or, just as frequently, disproving evidence of paranormal activity. This unlikely hit has done good things for SyFy, proving to be one of their longest lasting and more popular original series, which just goes to show that there are a lot of people out there with an interest in this type of material. There have been a couple of spin-offs so far (Ghost Hunters International and Ghost Hunters Academy) and more than a few rip offs on other channels, but the original is still the most popular thanks to its interesting mix...Read the entire review

The Series:

Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson are two guys who spend their days working for Roto-Rooter installing toilets and fixing pipes, and at night head out all around the East Coast (and now further, venturing west to California in this sixth season) of these here United States either proving or, just as frequently, disproving evidence of paranormal activity. This unlikely hit has done good things for SyFy, proving to be one of their longest lasting and more popular original series, which just goes to show that there are a lot of people out there with an interest in this type of material. There have been a couple of spin-offs so far (Ghost Hunters International and Ghost Hunters Academy) and more than a few rip offs on other channels, but the original is still the most popular thanks to its interesting mix of supernatural sleuthing and the regular (and very likeable) cas...Read the entire review

On the one hand, "Magical Music Express" is well intentioned, doing its best to teach young viewers all about the wonders of music. On the other hand, it's not very good.

Made on the (very) cheap, "Magical Music Express" finds co-creator/co-producer/writer Steve Kaminski starring as Mr. Stephens, one of those dopey, aw-shucks types that you often find in low budget children's projects. Mr. Stephens hangs out in his house with his wisecracking dog Keys; also found in the house are Music Box (a trunk of sorts that spouts out musical notes when needed), a few random puppet friends, and window-videophone thingie that allows our host to call up such guests as Mr. Composer, the wise old fellow who's ready to explain the difference between "forte" and "piano."

Now, it pains me to badmouth this series, as anything that helps kids learn the basics of music appreciation is very welcome stuff. And y...Read the entire review

The Movie

OK, I'll admit it: I tend to lookaskance at anything that bills itself as a "Girl's Guide"to something. But I know that Annie Duke is a no-nonsense,honest-to-goodness poker champion, so I was interested in seeing whatshe had to say in Annie Duke's Girl's Guide to Texas Hold'em.

What the title amounts to, I think,is an effort to draw in an audience of female poker players who mayhave the impression that it's going to be tough to break into theundeniably male-dominated world of playing poker. Annie Duke is justas straightforward with her advice here as she is in hernon-gender-specific instructional DVDs; she just takes theopportunity to emphasize that women can compete against mensuccessfully without any special tricks. All it takes is someself-confidence, and certainly Duke's a great role model there: she'st...Read the entire review

The movie

Champion poker player Annie Duke isup-front about the nature of How to Beat the Big Boys: this isan advanced instructional program, not for poker newbies. As she putsit, the idea here is to help good players become great ones, so sheassumes that you're already a good, winning player to start with.I've often noticed that so-called "advanced" instructionalprograms are frequently just the basics trying to puff themselves(and the viewer) up, but in this case it's completely correct: thisreally is all about high-level strategy for Texas no-limit hold 'em.

That focus on high-level strategydefinitely makes How to Beat the Big Boys stand out from moreordinary poker instructional programs. Duke spends a lot of time onthe all-important subject of "tells": how to read youropp...Read the entire review

The Movie:

Hey kids, do you like ghosts? Jason and Grant do. Who are Jason and Grant? They're two guys who spend their days working for Roto-Rooter installing toilets and fixing pipes, and at night head out all around the East Coast of these here United States either proving or, more often than not, disproving evidence of paranormal activity.

These two men of the pipe formed TAPS – The Atlantic Paranormal Society – a group that specializes in using high tech equipment, with a deft blend of common sense, experience, education and speculation to figure out what some people consider to be actual hauntings. The Very Best Of Ghost Hunters Vol. 1 gives them a chance to, with cameras rolling, do their thing and the results are pretty interesting. Grant and Jason aren't the only members of the team, however. There's a heavily tattooed cop who helps out with the cameras, a technica...Read the entire review