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Stuck in Love is about a family of writers dealing with new and lost love. That sounds like an invitation for the most pretentious movie of the decade and for the first ten minutes, I thought it was. However, the

Zombie Hunter could have been a fun grindhouse like movie with Danny Trejo killing zombies and giving mean looks to the camera. Instead it seems straight from the mind of a 15 year old that has no idea how to

Chuck Palahniuk, author of Fight Club, writes like no other writer–that includes living or dead. There are many talented storytellers with strong voices and originality, but it can be tough to find a writer that seems to construct sentences and

Every October there are a ridiculous amount of horror movies dropped on home video and at your local theater. Most of them are garbage, but sometimes one or two films are perfect if you want to have one hell of

Comedian Jay Mohr stopped by The Tonight Show with Jay Leno last week to crack up both the host and the crowd. In the midst of his joking, Mohr shared a sentiment many Americans feel today. “No more rock concerts

The trailer for the upcoming I, Frankenstein has hit the web. The film is a re-imagining of Frankenstein’s monster from some of the minds that brought the Underworld franchise to life. Check out the trailer and some thoughts below. The

A recent episode of Law & Order: SVU typified the “ripped from the headlines” niche that show creator Dick Wolf famously embraced so long ago. The problem is the episode, titled American Tragedy, seemed to be informed merely by celebrity

Jason Alexander, best known as George Costanza from Seinfeld, questioned public funding for the arts when he attended a Shakespeare-themed event last week. Clearly, we are in a financial crisis in this country so you want tospend money where it

The trailer for the upcoming thriller Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit has hit the web, and it looks like director Kenneth Branagh and company have successfully updated the character of Jack Ryan to the 21st century. Check out the trailer below

We keep hearing how much better the economy is getting under President Barack Obama, yet all we see and hear is bad news. The facts just don’t support the administration’s claim, unless they are influenced in various ways to look

It’s hard to find someone like Keaton Simons these days. He’s an independent musician more interested in pushing his craft and connecting to fans than twerking on stage and doing things for shock value. A real musician is a breath

The opening of This is the End, now available on Blu-ray, is almost unbearable. It confirms our worst fears about movies where actors play themselves. It’s a party at James Franco’s house, and we get to watch as countless celebrities play

The Frozen Ground is a film about the hunt to catch real-life serial killer Robert Hansen. He was an Alaskan man that kidnapped and killed between 17 and 21 girls. Frozen Ground, out on Blu-ray Oct. 1, tracks the police investigation

According to Penn Jillette, the famous Las Vegas performer and the bigger half of Penn & Teller, to make a movie in Hollywood requires you to kiss a lot of ass. He’s turned to the fundraising website FundAnything to raise

I’m not in the mood to write a traditional review so let me tell you a story instead. A few days ago I got a package in the mail. I knew it was a screener and was excited. Who wouldn’t

While Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) spoke on the Senate floor yesterday in opposition to Obamacare and the waivers politicians and big business have received, he earned the support of many Americans. #MakeDCListen was the top trending hashtag repeatedly throughout his

Some still argue that culture and art have nothing to do with politics. Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) proved that wrong in his ongoing filibuster this week when he quoted Teen Choice Award winner Ashton Kutcher and novelist Ayn Rand in

FOX has a fun and ridiculous new show called Sleepy Hollow on its Monday night schedule. It doesn’t have much to do with the famous short story by Washington Irving, but everyone involved from Len Wiseman to Robert Orci and Alex

The big news, and the good news, of Back in the Game is that James Caan is returning to television. Caan is one of the more underrated actors of his generation, and he’s great in the new ABC comedy. In fact, he’s

The new trend in movies is jumping into the crowdfunding pool through sites like Kickstarter or Donald Trump’s FundAnything. Podcast king Adam Carolla earned more than $1.4 million for his upcoming movie, Road Hard, through the latter. Everyone from Zach

Hannibal sounded like a very bad idea when the show was first announced, especially after the disappointing feature film Hannibal Rising in 2006. It seemed like Thomas Harris’ cannibal character would never be properly cracked again without the expertise and

We’ve all had those sick days where we’re laying on the couch, coughing up a storm and looking for something to distract us on the tube. During the day, of course, the same thing seems to be on every channel:

On the surface, Bates Motel seems like a cheap idea motivated by the desire to cash in on the infamous Psycho name. The show follows a young Norman Bates and his mother before the events of the classic Alfred Hitchcock

The fictional boxing match we’ve always wanted to see is on its way. The full trailer recently hit the web for Grudge Match, a comedy about two past their prime boxers who decide to reignite their old feud with one final

The summer blockbuster is a genre unto itself. It used to be these films were headlined by a star, were epic in nature and made audiences grip their chairs in excitement, laughter, suspense or whatever else the large film had

The Starz original series Da Vinci’s Demons is not a bad show. In fact, in many ways, it is a unique production from the cable network and David Goyer (Man of Steel). However, these are the days many are referring

Here’s a match I bet you never saw coming: Jason Statham vs. James Franco. Well, it’s here whether you asked for it or not. Check out the trailer for Homefront below and some thoughts afterwards. Statham has been maturing as

The found footage genre has become a cliche as it is overused to a crazy degree in Hollywood. Most found footage movies can feel gimmicky and pretentious, with many replacing originality with the genre’s simple gimmick. It typically doesn’t hold

Everlast, also known as Whitey Ford, is known to mainstream audiences as the man that gave the world the ’90s hit What It’s Like and as one third of the trio that rocked the world with Jump Around. More recent

A lot of people, like myself, have written a fair amount this summer about the impending loss of drive-in movie theaters come January. As studios complete the switch to digital projection, some drive-in movie theaters could be left behind despite

Sharknado is a film that ignited a Twitter storm when it first premiered on the SyFy channel earlier this summer. The movie openly embraces its B-movie roots and the ridiculousness of its story, promoting itself as the sort of film

Dito Montiel’s newest film, Empire State, may have skipped most theaters, but it’s worth watching for the unbelievable true story, characters and gritty touch the director brings to this New York caper. The movie, now available on Blu-ray and DVD, stars Liam Hemsworth

Horror fans may have missed the modest release of Rob Zombie’s The Lords of Salem, earlier this year but they can catch it Sept. 3 on DVD and Blu-ray–and they should. The Lords of Salem is a horror film with

A new documentary that will most definitely appeal to conservatives, and could change the thinking of some liberals, has just been bought by EPIX. Milius is about writer and director John Milius and how his anti-Hollywood personality and conservative politics made

A new film, titled Reach Me, is the latest to jump into the public funding pool on Kickstarter. It’s a movie starring everyone from Sylvester Stallone to Kelsey Grammer which means it will definitely fuel the fire of those angered

I have no idea what kind of financial maneuvering Michael Bay had to pull off to get funding for a crazy movie like Pain and Gain, but I am so glad he did. Pain and Gain, available Aug. 27 on