It is easy to pick on the abysmally edited, slow fight scenes, where elbows and kicks clearly miss their target.

… beyond the embarrassingly bad visual effects, Phantom is Fun (and yes, that is a capital “F”).

Hidden beneath a thick layer of 1980’s cinematic cheese in Running Man lies a timely parable about government control, media manipulation, and oppressed people.

The sheer graphic nature of the violence, all for the pleasure of a blood-thirsty audience, dilutes any meaningful attempt at commentary.

In the plethora of Jackie Chan stunt scenes to choose from, the bus disaster in New Police Story may be the most visually stunning…

Gerard Butler must be proud. His crowing achievement in Gamer is getting drunk and then projectile vomiting into the gas tank of a truck… and urinating for the same purpose. He has come a long way from 300.

There is a difference between Eduardo Sanchez’s 1999 Blair Witch Project and Seventh Moon. While they share the camera style, someone was behind the camera in Blair Witch. The camera was a character, much like the person holding it.
Here, the nauseating, constantly moving camera is disconnected from the characters. It moves away from them to [...]

Offspring is reliant on children for many of its shocks. The first on-screen kill has a drunk mother coming home to a kitchen covered in blood, while savage children dressed in furs munch on the babysitter. They attack her, and seconds later the camera goes black.
There is nothing wrong with the situation in terms of [...]

Films have moved on from electricity, nuclear radiation, and DNA experiments to spawn their creatures. With The Thaw, the threat is now global warming, however unsubtle it may be.
Painful delivery and forced dialogue deliver the meat of the message. Two of the main characters, Atom (Aaron Ashmore) and Federico (Kyle Schmid), sit on a helicopter [...]

Kids are creepy. They don’t need to talk. They don’t even need to move. A quiet child standing on the top of a hill staring at nothing can be terrifying.
The Children knows this. Tom Shankland directs for sheer terror and succeeds in turning otherwise friendly, quiet children into monsters. Yes, this is a creature feature [...]