The Netflix Queue: Batman: The Movie (1966)

Batman: The Movie is now available for streaming on Netflix.

With the announcement last week that Ben Affleck would be donning the cowl in 2015’s Batman Vs. Superman, the Internet reacted as the In...

The Complete Merrie Melodies of Foxy and Roxy

Following the international success of Mickey Mouse in the late 1920s, many major Hollywood studios were eager to carve out a lucrative piece of toonto...

TIFF13 Review: Devil's Knot (2013)

Back in 1993, three eight-year-old boys, Steve Branch, Michael Moore, and Christopher Byers, were found brutally murdered in West Memphis, Arkansas. The crime, which was widely considered to be the work of a satanic cult, stirred West Memphis’ police...

Overlooked Gems: The Adventures of Spin and Marty (1955)

In the transition from summer to fall, freedom to school, I wanted to take a closer look at some images of childhood and teenage life we don't know of.  While the two I've picked aren't "films" I thought for an example of an "overlooked gem," the fou...

Top 5 Tiki Movies

Having spent the past weekend in a drunken stupor at Tiki Oasis, a once-a-year conflagration of Tiki culture enthusiasts that descend upon San Diego, California; I am currently trying to dry out after four days of Mai Tais, Monsoons, Hurricanes, asso...

Documentary: T.V. Junkie (2006)

An impromptu watch this past week, I laid eyes on the extremely engrossing, unexpectedly heart-wrenching documentary, T.V. Junkie (2006) from directors Michael Cain and Matt Radecki. I have to admit, I initially had zero clue as to what I was jump...

5 Films Set Over a Weekend or Less

Time is something often played with in films. Some are epics that stretch over years and years, some can document an entire life and some sci-fi's even travel back and forth through time. However, they're sometimes at their most successful when they ...