• September 9, 2013
• At Home, Drama, Thriller

This “no-budget Jaws” scared the crap out of people at the Sundance festival, where it was quickly snapped up by Lion’s Gate Films. It is a great triumph of...

• October 31, 2012
• Action, At Home, Horror, Thriller

Now, before you can say, “Wait… what?”, here’s the plot: A tsunami hits an idyllic Australian beach town, flooding a supermarket, and trapping customers, employees, and (yes!) a couple...

• September 9, 2011
• At Home, Drama, Science Fiction, Thriller

I have to admit Matt Damon is growing on me. He is one of a passel of quality actors filling up the large cast in Contagion, and in my...

• April 12, 2009
• Books

There are some books that should be pre-stamped “Coming Soon to a Theater Near You!” These books have about the depth of a summer movie, and the same simple,...

• March 28, 2009
• At Home, Documentary

Timothy Treadwell loved bears. He loved them so much that every summer he went to live with them in the Alaskan wilderness. He spent months on end just hanging...

• August 27, 2004
• Action, At Home, Horror

Apparently someone somewhere thought maybe, just maybe, if they dumped this film into the cinematic wasteland that is late-August, it might ring up a little box office change. So...

• May 28, 2004
• Action, At Home, Science Fiction

Disaster film formula: Heal a broken family by putting them in the middle of a disaster. Estranged father makes up for past of broken promises by saving estranged teenage...