Rogue River / The Collapsed
Two new direct-to-DVD horror thrillers begin with much promise, but fizzle before they’re able to provide any sizzle.
05/21/2012 | Comments 1Dark Crimes
Mill Creek Entertainment’s budget pack of noir, Dark Crimes, strongly goes against the notion that films in the public domain are there because they aren't any good. That’s nonsense.
05/18/2012 | Comments 0The Aggression Scale
True to its title, The Aggression Scale
begins quite aggressively: A woman just done with her daytime jog
enters her home, whereupon a gunshot blasts her back out to her front
yard. A hit man emerges and snaps a Polaroid for proof.
05/18/2012 | Comments 0Cinema Verite
In 1971, the all-American, Nixon-loving clan known as the Loud family
made history without even trying. They just allowed cameras into their
lives for six months, and the result was PBS' An American Family, television's first reality series.
05/18/2012 | Comments 0Knights of the Round Table
From 1953, Knights of the Round Table
proudly boasts the CinemaScope logo as it opens, trumpeting itself as
an epic Hollywood costumed drama on a massive scale: no expense spared,
no detail ignored. And no story engagement.
05/17/2012 | Comments 0
