"10,000 BC" does not deserve its bad rap. It is not the worse reviewed film in director Roland Emmerich's oeuvre (that distinction belongs to "Moon 44"), but it is perhaps his most infamous. "Boring" is a word that I often hear from casual moviegoers who have watched...

The “Pulse” trilogy is to the Internet what certain episodes of “The Twilight Zone” are to space travel and computers. (I am going to focus on the second movie, “Pulse 2: Afterlife,” but also discuss the other two films.) That anachronistic take on tech is one of the...

I want an action figure of Robby the Robot... but with a metallic face under his translucent dome, as opposed to the tubes, wires, spheres and flashing lights seen in the 1956 sci-fi film "Forbidden Planet." The reason for this is simple: Without that cold, cruel...

The opening scene in "Paths of Glory" should appear in a dictionary next to the word "Machiavellian." It is World War I and a French military official, Major General Georges Broulard (Adolphe Menjou), has been given an impossible assignment. His superiors, who are...

Call it "Final Prayer," as they do in the USA, or call it "The Borderlands," as they do everywhere else. Just don't forget to call it the best found footage horror ever! The concept of found footage horror has, alas, usually been better than the execution. In theory,...