4+ day, 17+ hour ago   (441+ words) Although still billed as a horror festival, last year Wreak Havoc expanded its parameters to include fantasy films, and this year expanded further to include films of all genres — although it still leans toward the cinema of the fantastic. Many…...

4+ day, 17+ hour ago   (454+ words) “ONCE UPON A TIME IN A CINEMA”(Kino Lorber): Taking a page from his family’s history – they owned and operated a cinema in Limerick, Ireland – writer/director David Gleeson has fashioned a winsome, winning look at one very choatic night…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (274+ words) The event, which was co-founded with the UNCSA School of Filmmaking and a/perture cinema, will include a post-screening conversation with Riley and Abrea Armstrong, the executive director of Triad Cultural Arts. When Laystrom was unable to attend the conference,…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (327+ words) “ENEMY AT THE GATES”(Paramount Home Entertainment): Based on William Craig’s 1973 non-fiction book “Enemy at the Gates: The Battle of Stalingrad,” producer/director/co-screenwriter Jean-Jacques Annaud’s 2001 World War II epic takes some historical liberties but remains a taut, absorbing portrait…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (581+ words) The summer movie season closes out on a high note with “Coyote vs. Acme,” one of the best movies of the entire year, and the craziest thing is that it almost wasn’t released at all — for reasons we’ll get to…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (320+ words) “THE ISLAND”(Kino Lorber Studio Classics): In terms of a “guilty pleasure,” this big-budget 1980 flop is more guilty than pleasure but remains a textbook example of how hype doesn’t always translate into hit. Touted as a “superthriller,” the film was…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (272+ words) “SOYLENT GREEN”(Arrow Video/MVD Entertainment Group): Time, if not necessarily technology, has been very kind to director Richard Fleischer’s prescient, award-winning 1973 science-fiction saga loosely based on Harry Harrison’s best-selling 1966 novel “Make Room! Make Room!” As depicted here, the year…...