"Mama" offers, at most, a handful of worthwhile assets, and unfortunately they never manage to congeal into a completely satisfying whole.
Scott Weinberg
01/17/2013 - 7:00pm
A fun, campy, cheesy direct-to-video flick
01/15/2013 - 8:00pm
It may not seem like it, but 2012 was actually a pretty good year for horror films.
01/04/2013 - 12:00pm
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre has a cinematic legacy that is long, colorful, and pretty darn terrible.
01/01/2013 - 3:00pm
Right off the bat I'm tempted to give Outpost: Black Sun a break because of one simple reason: it offers a potentially ridiculous premise, but it does so with a grim tone and an admirably straight face.
12/31/2012 - 3:00pm
The sequel to "The Hamiltons" is a marked improvement.
12/07/2012 - 2:00pm
There are so many ways for a "biopic" to go wrong: actors who mistake caricature for character, history that's been sanitized to make for a more simplistic story; filmmakers who admire their subjects too much to be truly frank and honest about their flaws, and on and on. The light and unexpectedly colorful new bio-pic known simply as Hitchcock suffers from a variety of the standard problems, and perhaps even a few egregious ones -- but there's also a handsome look, admirable tone, and a lot of amusing novelty to be found in Sacha Gervasi's affectionate story about the mad genius who made Psycho.
11/30/2012 - 11:16am
Scott Weinberg reviews Steven C. Miller's 'Silent Night, Deadly Night' reboot, 'Silent Night' starring Jaime King and Malcolm McDowell.
11/19/2012 - 7:00pm
A wealthy weirdo offers five strangers a large sum of money if they'll spend the night in a notoriously haunted mansion.
10/31/2012 - 5:08pm
If you combine the phrases "Australian," "science fiction," and "horror" into the description of a new movie, I'll be the first guy in line to see it.