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2006    Six teenagers wake up in a grimy, abandoned factory, their every move captured via security cameras, asked by an electronically altered voice to participate in a game where the outcome is literally life-and-death. For instance, a guy has 60 seconds to disarm a bomb using a key surgically implanted in his gut, while […]

1996/2004/2005 A gutter-level view of the Danish mean streets, director Nicolas Winding Refn’s searing “Pusher” trilogy is hard as slate “? echoing the works of Abel Ferrara, Martin Scorsese and Brian De Palma, Refn’s merciless, artful character studies are a hellish triptych, up close and unavoidable. While Refn’s grungy aesthetic may be too much for […]

2006   Horror remakes aren’t necessarily bad; witness John Carpenter’s “The Thing,” David Cronenberg’s “The Fly” and Zack Synder’s “Dawn of the Dead.” But if you have nothing new to bring to it, why bother?   This summer’s redo of the 1976 classic “The Omen” deserves such questioning. Although aping the original’s story of a […]

1981/2006 Film noir is easy enough to imitate; just toss in a femme fatale, a rain-swept street and a few fedoras, and you’re set. It’s considerably more challenging to actually capture the essence of film noir, but writer/director Lawrence Kasdan got it right in his 1981 directorial debut, “Body Heat.”   Echoing such noir classics […]

1995/2006 Yadda, yadda, yadda “? what more could be said about “Seinfeld” that hasn’t been said so many times already? This acclaimed “show about nothing” certainly puts the current slate of network comedies in perspective; with its rapid-fire wit and zeitgeisty catchphrases (“No soup for you!”), it makes you think: When’s the last time you […]