The opening sequences of Scream remain one of the most frightening elements of the movie throughout the trilogy. It’s not just about seeing someone murdered, but how those murders are executed that key into an almost universal fear. In the first movie, Ghostface’s victim’s family can hear her final breaths on the phone, knowing she is dying nearby. In the second film, the victims remain helpless,... 

The moment the maniacal Stu unleashed the statement, “These days, ya gotta have a sequel,” fans of Scream knew it wouldn’t be long before a second chapter came forward. Sure enough, less than a year later, Scream 2 continued the tale of Sidney Prescott, now in college, as a new killer emerged to build upon the Ghostface legacy. But while the stakes are always higher in the second chapters, traditionally... 

One of the problems with the horror genre is that it tends to be very derivative. Someone figures out how to build a better slasher movie and suddenly you have a million copycats. Someone figures out that the new style is to import horror concepts from another country and suddenly you have a million more copycats. It doesn’t take long for the whole thing to get weary, which is part of why Scream... 

Earlier this year, Clash of the Titans got a remake, and when I revisited the original Clash of the Titans in anticipation of the remake, my analysis was simple: this is a movie in need of a remake. Now we’re going into the weekend that Disney is releasing their long-time-coming sequel, Tron: Legacy, a new chapter in another beloved movie that also could use some updating (although, we hope with... 

I’ve never been opposed to chick-flicks. I’m usually even a fan of a lot of the manly-maligned pictures. Yet, for some reason, Sex and the City was a movie that put me off conceptually. I wasn’t a fan of the television show; the times I encountered it on late night cable and tried to give it a chance, I just wasn’t impressed. Therefore taking those characters and ideas and adapting them for... 

If you haven’t listened to this week’s Audio Show, let me fill you in on a point of contention. As part of this month’s Artist of the Month program, one of our viewing selections was the 1966 film The Fortune Cookie, directed by Billy Wilder and starring Jack Lemon, Ron Rich, and (most importantly for our purposes) Walter Matthau. The movie received quite a bit of accolades in its time, including... 

Iron Man came to theaters in May of 2008, mixed in the wake of all of the other “comic book/graphic novel” genre movies that had come before it. While some of the superhero flicks had rocked, others had flopped, and what we really needed was a no-nonsense, cocky, charismatic, powerful, and smart weapons manufacturer to make us remember just how good a superhero movie could be. Iron Man, starring... 

When I first saw Michael Bay’s Transformers, it was in a theater filled with die-hard fans of the franchise. After all, who else would show up to a midnight screening besides those who had lived and breathed Autobots and Decepticons since they first appeared in the mid-80s? Yours truly, that’s who. Still, seeing the movie in that context, among the fans who could identify every change Bay’s movie...