A big piece of modern American history is explored in Robert Stone's Earth Days, which details the origins of the modern environmental movement. Yes, it's global, now. But there was...
Deadgirl is a River's Edge for misogynists, a zombie movie with high schoolers struggling and failing to do the right thing when faced with a big moral choice. Rickie, played...
They were just a bunch of lads from Daytona Beach, musicians wearing matching suits and cranking out jangly pop in the Central Florida of the mid-1960s. They had a hit,...
Junkies and drunks are more than just punks in the land of the midnight sun. But in Chronic Town, they're getting me down, a dramedy that's simply no fun. Apologies,...
Charlize Theron plays another damaged woman running from her past in the modest indie The Burning Plain. It doesn't really take any longer to figure out what she's running from...
As titles go, BLAST! promises a lot. But it's an acronym, for Balloon Launched Astroseismology Telescope. And as interesting as a movie about scientists trying to create and launch a...
Vintage '50s cars, vintage clothes and '50s vintage cheese are the selling points of Alien Trespass, a monster movie that tries to recreate the slick, silly B-movies of the Eisenhower...
"Barstow" has long been the California version of Perth Amboy or Flushing -- the town as regional punchline. Thus, Leaving Barstow, a coming-of-age drama whose title says it all. The...
When you stretch a modestly scripted short-film idea into feature length, the result usually looks something like The Attic Door, a too-easily guessed "What's really going on here?" Twilight Zone...
They were in the thick of that whole 80s "hair metal" craze, touring with Whitesnake, appearing on the same bill with Scorpions, Bon Jovi and the like. They all but...