The original Crank was an unexpected joy for action-movie fans. It starred Jason Statham in a DOA-style plot about hitman Chev Chelios, who was dosed with a Chinese poison and had to find the people w

At first, the bare bones of the movie seem familiar to anyone who has ever seen a coming-of-age movie, in which a callow young man has a Summer That Changes Everything, but Superbad director Greg Mott

The next three days feature a wide variety of music-themed movies at the Alabama Theatre, any one of which will please the music or movie fan in you. On Friday night, there's a showing of Widespread P

\ \ Oct. 30: Deep Red (1975):\ Earlier this month, I wrote about Suspiria, the nightmarish horror film from Italian master Dario Argento, who is also known for making several films called gialli, whic

Oct. 31: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974):\ Those few of you who have been following this blog this month (hi, mom) may have noticed that I\'92ve tried to avoid the obvious titles that come to mind

Oct. 29: Videodrome (1983):\ Director David Cronenberg is known for making wildly imaginative films that pioneered a sort of venereal horror, in which our bodies are our last, or perhaps only, defense

Oct. 28: The Wicker Man (1973):\ If you see enough horror movies, even the ones that work can seem a little old hat at times. When something comes along that is truly unique, you really sit up and tak

\ \ \ Oct. 26: The Masque of the Red Death (1964):\ No survey of horror films could be complete without a mention of Vincent Price. He appeared in a lot of campy films, but Price himself was usually q

Oct. 27: A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987):\ Virtually every horror franchise of the 1980s had a good first film followed by a few dozen increasingly terrible abominations, but let us

Oct. 24: Peeping Tom (1960):\ In 1960, the same year that Alfred Hitchcock\'92s Psycho came out, there was another film from a famous British director that centered on a boyish, sexually repressed ser