Blu-ray Review: The Frozen Ground
The strength of The Frozen Ground is its cast. Nicolas Cage turns in a controlled and understated but nonetheless powerful performance, perhaps his best in a decade.
Blu-ray Review: Cheech and Chong’s Animated Movie
If you’re a fan of Cheech and Chong this is a must have for your collection. If you’re a fan of watching flicks through what Kev Smith calls the green prism: we're sure you’ll find Cheech and Chong's Animated Movie a fat sack of laughs! Good fun, good animation, and some good laughs despite the mildly dated material.
Blu-ray Review: Pawn
A night shift cop on a routine visit to his favorite diner interrupts a robbery in progress. And that’s nearly all we can say without giving away key pieces of Pawn, a compelling straight to Blu-ray crime flick from first time director, David A Armstrong. Pawn contains some attractive elements: the story is told in anachronic flashback, the setup is deliciously intriguing (what team of professional thieves robs a nearly empty diner at 11:30pm?) and the cast is top shelf.
DVD Review: Curandero: Dawn of the Demon
by Chris Learned Kane, Reporter I confess I’m a fan of bad movies. To be a bit clearer I’m fan of intentionally bad flicks. I count Black Dynamite, Death Proof and Machete among my favorites in the aforementioned genre. So…
DVD Review: Truth or Die
by Chris Learned Kane, Reporter Ever been on a roller coaster that had a particularly long lift hill? One that just ratchets away for what seems like an inordinate amount of time, pulling you at a glacial pace to the…
Blu-ray review: Werewolf: The Beast Among Us
by Chris Learned Kane, Reporter It could be that one of the first movies to ever really scare me was a werewolf movie (An American Werewolf In London) or it could be that weary contrarian motif in my life, but…
CD/DVD Review The English Beat Live! at the US Festival
by Chris Learned Kane, Reporter “There can only be one truly great festival of a lifetime, and it’s the US Festival.” – Homer Simpson. “What’s your best band?” was a common question heard round the playgrounds and municipal swimming pools…
SDCC 2012: Oz The Great and Powerful- Panel Coverage
by Chris and Kim Learned Kane, Reporters One does not simply walk into Hall H – Hallrat axiom! If you’ve been there then you know: no one braves the Hall H line (especially not during the final Twilight appearance) without…
SDCC 2012: The Expendables 2 – Panel Coverage
by Chris Learned Kane, Reporter The Expendables (2010) was, for those of us who spent long hours playing Rambo, Predator, Conan or Aliens, a hearkening back to the early pubescence of our imaginations. A 45 caliber monument to our…
SDCC 2012: Before Watchmen – Brief Conversation with Comic Book Legend Len Wein
by Chris and Kim Learned Kane, Reporters What is best about San Diego Comic-Con? Is it the cramped excitement of the immense sales floor? Is it the delight made of equal parts relief and incredulity born of making a panel…
Blu-ray Review: Meatballs (1979)
by Chris Learned Kane, Reviewer. One of the most perplexing and annoying (but nonetheless true) ironies of adulthood: walking down a candy aisle and realizing at once two things: you could totally afford to buy ALL of it; and that…
Editorial: Hide and Go Geek!
by Kimberly Learned Kane, Reporter So my boss asked me what I did this weekend. My friends and I went to a small town called Raven’s Claw where we met a band of dwarves, and after tipping a number of…
DVD Review: Your Highness
by Chris Learned Kane and Kimberly Learned Kane, Reviewers I was excited to see Your Highness. On paper, the movie justifies my excitation: it stars James Franco, Danny McBride, Natalie Portman, and Zooey Deschanel. The film boasts director David Gordon…