Last fall's surprise smash "Eagle Eye" concerned the nightmare of a NSA computer system gone haywire, using the deep technological reach of modern society to control the fate of the human race. "The Echelon Conspiracy" is about the nightmare of a NSA computer system gone haywire, using the deep technological reach of modern society to control the fate of the human race. You see the difference? While "Echelon" walks accidentally (I hope) in very recognizable footprints, this latest take on Bush-era paranoia and cell phone alarm might arrive in theaters somewhat dramatically moldy and short-sheeted in the budget department, yet it's actually a more rewarding sit than "Eagle Eye" if viewed with minimal attention paid to the details.

Max Peterson (Shane West) is a computer securit...Read the entire review

The Movie:

The feature length directorial debut from director (and co-writer) Jim Mickle, Mulberry St. is kind of a mix between plague/zombie films like 28 Days Later and killer rat films like Food Of The Gods. While that might sound like an odd mix, when you consider that rats are notorious for carrying disease and that they inhabit pretty much every major city on the planet in untold numbers, maybe it's not such a strange concept after all...

A middle aged former boxer named Clutch (Nick Damici) is excited that his daughter Casey (Kim Blair), a soldier who was injured in the Iraq war, has been let out of the hospital and is coming home to his Lower East Side Manhattan apartment to visit. What neither or them, or anyone else for that matter, realize is that a plague is spreading through the city courtesy of the rats that live on the island. As the rats bite human...Read the entire review

The Film:
Where do you start when reviewing a film like Forced Entry?

Part of me feels like I should apologize for simply watching it. It's almost as if by watching this film, and then taking the time out to write about, I am some how making the world a worse place. But I guess since that's how Forced Entry made me feel, it is as good a place as any to start.

Even though I knew what I was getting into with Forced Entry, I was still taken aback by what I saw. Not since watching the uncut version of They Call Her One-Eye (a.k.a. Thriller) have I seen a film some morally repugnant. If I am lucky, I hope to never see another film like either one ever again.

Porno legend Harry Reems, without his trademark mustache and acting under the name Tim Long, stars as a nameless Vietnam veteran suffering from a serious case of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Clear...Read the entire review

Are you tired of bad movies that are bad in the normal, boring ways? Then "Skinwalkers" could be the answer to your prayers!

"Skinwalkers" is bad in fun, laughable ways, and I'm not using "laughable" figuratively. I mean I literally laughed out loud at some of the things that happen in the film, things that were meant to be taken seriously. It's the kind of ridiculous "horror" "thriller" that "Mystery Science Theater 3000" used to love: lots of odd-looking supporting characters, a meaty plot, and thick, chewy acting. Any movie in which someone fears for the safety of a loved one by declaring "They'll torture him mercilessly!" is probably a bad one. But boring? Never!

Oh, where to start, where to start. There are two groups of werewolves, the good ones who have assimilated into human society and lock themselves up during the full moon so they don't hurt anyone; and the bad ones who...Read the entire review

Pay close enough attention to 30 years worth of cheesy movies, and you begin to notice all the tacky little shortcuts: The Flashback, The Dream Sequence, The Sudden Loud Noise, The Voice-Over Narration, and The "Based on Fact" Ploy are only a few of the weapons in the arsenal of the lazy filmmaker. An American Haunting is a 70-ish minute compilation of cinematic shortcuts, topped off with a doe-eyed Sissy Spacek and a wild-eyed Donald Sutherland.

It's been over five years since writer/director Courtney Solomon made a feature film, and if I explained that that film was Dungeons & Dragons - that'd be all the explanation you'd need. Solomon's sophmore effort, the brazenly dull and high-school pageant-y An American Haunting is equal parts The Exorcism of Emily Rose, Little House on the Prairie, and large glass of warm milk.

We open with a modern-day framing story,...Read the entire review