Author: A.J. Hakari

“Grindhouse” is a gloriously violent and unabashedly sleazy three-hour love letter to exploitation cinema, penned by none other than directors Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino.

It was around the time I was in middle school that I started to pick up on the line Disney was and continues to feed the world, noticing the manufactured…

I’ve always dug Adam Sandler’s dramatic work more than his comedies. He’s always good for a few laughs, but I get an even greater feeling from seeing him pull off…

By the time you read this review, it will be approximately two weeks after I first saw “300.” By then, I’ll still be trying to determine exactly how many varieties…

If one didn’t know better, one might think that “Black Snake Moan” is a rather lurid tale of a black man keeping a white woman literally chained up in his…

“Reno 911!: Miami” is, obviously, the Comedy Central show’s first stab at generating laughs on the big screen, and fortunately, its format is one that’s fairly easy to adapt for…

When I first heard about “Bridge to Terabithia,” my curiosity wasn’t all that piqued. On top of being yet another cinematic tale of fantasy for the kiddies, this is the…

Thump. Thump. You hear that? That’s the sound of a dead horse being beaten. In this case, the brutalized equine is none other than the Hannibal Lecter franchise.

After “The Chronicles of Narnia,” “Eragon,” and “Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events,” I thought I’d had just about enough of fantasy movies featuring kids going on grand, epic…

You may have noticed lately that the action genre has been undergoing a minor overhaul. “Smokin’ Aces” illustrates how these flicks are starting to be a little rougher, a little…