Screen Reviews

Our writers scour the globe, rewind endless tapes, and press pause as many times as it takes to bring you the ultimate collection of film, broadcast, and streaming visual content to feed your endless appetite for movies.

Demons Dance Alone

Screen Reviews

Big dada theater in infrared! Subtext galore, supplicating demons, folding chairs. Giant eyeballs presented as temptation. It could only be The Residents, and Matthew Moyer is transfixed.

Superman Returns

Screen Reviews

Tan, rested and ready, Superman flies onto the big screen once more. Rob Levy dutifully points to the heavens and knows the words by heart: “Look, up in the sky….”

A Prairie Home Companion

Screen Reviews

Though you usually should be worried about a review that starts with, “I am SO glad this movie didn’t suck,” Carl F Gauze is actually quite taken with this big screen version of Garrison Keillor’s timeless radio show.

The Break-Up

Screen Reviews

Break-ups are anything but funny - until now? Brittany Sturges , despite a healthy case of Aniston-phobia, is charmed by the humor and acting chemistry in this film.

The Notorious Bettie Page

Screen Reviews

How does a good church-going girl from Nashville end up launching a bad-girl look that’s still imitated fifty years later? Carl F Gauze fills us in on this biopic of the rightfully (if unwittingly) notorious Bettie Page

The Da Vinci Code

Screen Reviews

Does the film adaptation of Dan Brown’s phenomenal, controversial best-seller live up to the hype? Is The Da Vinci Code Ron Howard’s Last Temptation, a cinematic response to Mad Mel’s biblical epic? Our man in the pews, Steve Stav , delivers his own sermon on the subject.

Loose Change

Screen Reviews

James Mann compares two films about 9/11 – the independent Loose Change and Flight 93.

Tsotsi

Screen Reviews

From the bloody streets of Johannesburg comes this uplifiting tale of life after crime in the ghetto. Rob Levy explains why this film won an Academy Award for Best Foreign Film.

This is Who We Are

Screen Reviews

Brittany Sturges offers a behind-the-scenes glimpse of Hawthorne Heights, as they prepare to release their next album.

Sasha & John Digweed Present…Delta Heavy

Screen Reviews

Sasha & Digweed finally release a videologue of their infamous 2002 nationwide US tour, blood, sweat and beats all included. But is it worth the price of admission? Kiran Aditham finds out.

Underworld Evolution

Screen Reviews

Rob Levy finds that there is even more bloodletting in this sequel to the hugely successful vampire versus werewolf flick.

Final Destination 3

Screen Reviews

Death’s back, and it wants to take you on the (last) ride of your life. Brittany Sturges reviews the third in this series of complex and gruesome demises.

Hostel

Screen Reviews

A backpacking adventure in a small Slovakian town turns deadly. Brittany Sturges gets the chills.

Tony Takitani

Screen Reviews

Master of surrealist literature, Haruki Murakami, gets his first silver screen treatment. Aaron Shaul lets you in on why it’s a gem.

The Ice Harvest

Screen Reviews

A simple plan of embezzlement goes all wrong on a cold Christmas eve in Wichita. But it’s all right – Rob Levy finds it entertaining.

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Dark Water

Dark Water

Screen Reviews

J-Horror classic Dark Water (2002) makes the skin crawl with an unease that lasts long after the film is over. Phil Bailey reviews the new Arrow Video release.

The Shootist

The Shootist

Screen Reviews

John Wayne’s final movie sees the cowboy actor go out on a high note, in The Shootist, one of his best performances.