Release Date: September 27th, 2011 Running Time: 82 minutes The Film I despise how the Twilight franchise, among others, have turned vampires into a tweeny heartthrob joke. Vampires should be sadistic, violent murderers–the things of nightmares. Anytime I see an R-rated vampire film, I still...

Gerard Butler Finds Revolution, Redemption in Machine Gun Preacher Gerard Butler has played some epic characters in his Hollywood career—Beowulf and King Leonidas come to mind, as well as his upcoming turn in Ralph Fiennes’ Coriolanus. But perhaps his latest role, as a crusading American missionary...

There are no doubts about the authenticity or the good intentions of director Marc Forster’s Machine Gun Preacher, starring Gerard Butler as a real life hardened American career criminal who undergoes a spiritual conversion and finds himself in Africa building orphanages while a revolution wages....

Release Date: September 27th, 2011 Running Time: 484 minutes The Show Like most people, I had major reservations when I heard that Cleveland was leaving Family Guy for his own show. Now years later with two seasons in the bag, the show has me laughing just as much as Family Guy or American Dad, often...

Release Date: September 20th, 2011 Running Time: 1022 minutes The Show Crime procedurals have never been my cup of tea, but with a seemingly endless variety on the air, the genre certainly has its fans. I’ve checked out a few shows here and there, but nothing keeps me watching from episode to episode....

Release Date: September 25th, 2011 (Best Buy Exclusive) Running Time: 87 minutes The Film There’s nothing like a solid, shtick-filled satire comedy. If you can believe it, I had never seen Airplane! until a few days ago. Watching it for the first time, the thirty-year-old film holds up remarkably...

Release Date: September 25th, 2011 (Best Buy Exclusive) Running Time: 92 minutes The Film Not having grown up while John Hughes was at his zenith of popularity, I discovered his work much later in life. Over the years I found myself enjoying his more adult-oriented films far more than his teen classics,...

Release Date: September 20th, 2011 Running Time: 64 minutes The Film Disney has been on a roll with impressive Blu-ray releases of their catalog animated classics. Following the commercial failure of Fantasia, Disney needed a hit to keep the studio afloat. Released in 1941 as Disney’s fourth animated...

Release Date: September 13th, 2011 Running Time: 110 minutes The Film The works of William Shakespeare are not strangers to film adaptations, often employing his original language as seen in projects like Romeo + Juliet. The Tempest is a fantastical but flawed tale, and is not one of Shakespeare’s...

Perhaps as provocative as it was in 1971 yet likely in different ways, Rod Lurie’s gothic rendition of Straw Dogs, the story of an effete, milquetoast intellectual who goes mano-a-meno with a collection of Mississippi rednecks, is a gorgeously shot, scored and acted update of a now-classic picture...