We're feeling a bit nostalgic this week at Movie Retriever, wistfully remembering those heady days of 2007, back when gas only cost $4 per gallon and we hadn't yet seen The Bucket List (damn you, Meathead). To crave our yearnings for those earlier, simpler times, the Movie Retriever editorial ...Read more

As most of the world has already heard, Australian actor Heath Ledger was found dead in his Manhattan apartment on Tuesday, January 22. He was 28 years old. For such a young man, Ledger developed a beyond-impressive film resume, working with some of the best filmmakers of his generation. While ...Read more

Now that the low-budget Cloverfield broke all January box office records, you can expect two things from Hollywood — a flood of new movies told from first-person POVs (romance movies recorded on cellphones, crime movies filmed on ATM security cameras, and so on) and a big, big resurgence in ...Read more

Anyone's who been to the Hound's head office knows how much the MovieRetriever staff loves — and we mean, unabashedly LOVES — director Uwe Boll. And we're not being ironic hipsters or anything, we honestly, truly love both the man and his films. Why? Because if Monty Python and Judd ...Read more

Even though (not surprisingly), there are a fair number of old school comic book nerds on the MovieRetriever payroll, we're really conflicted about the recent news that Warner Brothers has shelved their formerly fast-tracked Justice League movie. According to Variety [http://www.variety.com/VR1117979189.html], "Warner Bros. let the options lapse ...Read more

Many thanks to the excellent Best Week Ever blog [http://www.bestweekever.tv] for putting John Boorman's 1974 classic Zardoz back on the Hound's radar. One of the things we miss most about the 1970s — aside from Mummenschanz and Billy Beer — is how the success of 2001:A ...Read more