“I thought that beauty alone would satisfy. But the soul is gone. I can’t bear those empty, staring eyes.” Generally acknowledged as the first zombie film, White Zombie features a…

“I ain’t going nowhere.” A critically acclaimed independent drama that deserves a wider audience, Winter’s Bone was directed by Debra Granik (Down to the Bone) and stars Jennifer Lawrence as…

“She was a junkie for the printed word. Lucky for me, I manufactured her drug of choice.” I once knew an old gray-haired professor with a scraggly beard who was…

“This ain’t the American Dream here. This is the Third World!” One of my favorite road movies, this low-key comedy-drama teams hot-tempered Native American activist “Buddy Red Bow” (A Martinez)…

“I know we were meant to be together. The strands of our lives are woven together and neither the world nor time can tear them apart.” Based on a 1940…

"There are two kinds of people in his up-tight world: his victims and his women. And sometimes you can't tell them apart." After he’s shot and left for dead on…

“A story about man’s most desperate need … and woman’s!” A well-acted, engaging melodrama directed by Robert Aldrich (Kiss Me Deadly), Autumn Leaves stars Joan Crawford as a lonely freelance…

“Like father. Like son. Like hell.” A couple of aimless teens in rural Pennsylvania start stealing tractors under the tutelage of career criminal “Brad Whitewood Sr.” (Christopher Walken), the sinister…

“What would we really like to see if we could stand outside ourselves and look at us?” Directed by Mike Cahill (in his feature film debut), Another Earth is an…

“A little ride in sunny France …” Before I actually watched this film for the first time, I envisioned some sort of early slasher flick and yet it actually plays…