Review by Brian Tallerico It has a lot to do with the strength of the source material, but there’s a rule that you can follow when it comes to superhero movies - trust the “man." Batman, X-Men, Spider-Man - with the exception of a bit ...Read more

 Review by Brian Tallerico  A film festival could already be formed around the documentaries made about the U.S. involvement in the Middle East under the Bush administration. (You could make one with the narrative films too but, based on the critical and commercial returns of films like Rendition and ...Read more

Since Iron Man has launched the summer movie season with superhero bravado and a surprisingly hefty Rotten Tomatoes rating, the Hound thought it fitting to revisit those comic book-inspired movies that would have probably been best left to the funny book. Don’t get us wrong, in theory, we love super heroes ...Read more

 Review by Brian Tallerico  It either takes nerves of steel or a brain of pudding to make a family film that's 129 minutes long, but no one ever said the Wachowski Brothers played by the rules (or even by common sense). Forget the fact that Speed Racer is a kid’s movie. ...Read more

It's a sad fact that "buzz" - the ethereal spectre of public opinion, either good or bad - can very often make or break even the most well-funded Hollywood blockbuster. This should be particularly troubling to the Wachowski Brothers, since the buzz surrounding their big-screen Speed Racer adaptation is, for ...Read more

 Review by Brian Tallerico  When I asked one of the child actors in Monster House about how old he thought audience members should be to see his darker-than-most children's film, he brilliantly responded "if you're old enough to have jumped off a roof." Men everywhere remember that age - the age ...Read more

 Review by Brian Tallerico  At first, Redbelt might seem like a departure for David Mamet. “A martial arts movie from the man who gave the world Glengarry Glen Ross? What is this? Never Back the F**k Down?” Mamet has always written about people who use words as weapons (all those f-bombs ...Read more

 Review by Brian Tallerico  Following the pattern of The Empire Strikes Back and The Two Towers, The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian is significantly darker than its predecessor. How dark you may ask? While it never reaches the blackness of Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End's pre-title hanging of children, ...Read more

 Review by Brian Tallerico  Since Harrison Ford first cracked a whip in one of the best movies of all time, Raiders of the Lost Ark, countless imitators have stepped forward to try and take the action/adventure throne away from Indiana Jones. The Mummy and National Treasure franchises are the most blatant ...Read more

Review by Brian Tallerico Hide the women and children. Uwe Boll has made a comedy. Actually, hide the men and old folks too. The man who has made several unintentional comedies over the last few years actually goes for laughs in Postal and, to no one’s surprise, comes up incredibly short. ...Read more

Now that our critic at large, Brian Tallerico, has given his opinion on the new Indiana Jones film, we here at MovieRetriever.com thought you might enjoy some additional perspectives from the VideoHound editors on Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. So, without further adieu, here are the ...Read more

It's no secret that the Hound has a big, big man-crush on Uwe Boll, a film director who could alternately be described as either the P.T. Barnum or Ed Wood of our generation. Though Uwe has built up a wide canon of video game-based movies (House of the Dead, Alone ...Read more

Welcome to MovieRetriever.com! To celebrate our arrival on the Web, we’re giving away three copies of VideoHound’s Golden Movie Retriever 2008 every week until July 6, 2008. Because we want you to have fun on our site and not be assaulted with countless rules or be forced to jump through a never-ending series ...Read more

Acclaimed director Sydney Pollack died Monday, May 26, at his home in Pacific Palisades in Los Angeles. He was 73. Although best known as a director of such films as Out of Africa (for which he won a Best Director Oscar), Tootsie and They Shoot Horses Don't They? (both of which ...Read more

Review by Brian Tallerico The Strangers is the most surprisingly effective thriller of the year to date. While the genre has turned to exploitative junk or gratuitous violence in the last few years, Bryan Bertino's debut film works largely because of what it doesn't do, as much as what it does. ...Read more

 Review by Brian Tallerico Tarsem Singh's The Cell (2000) was a visually sumptuous but incredibly hollow theatrical experience. Despite its shortcomings, the film heralded the debut of a cinematic painter who needed only to marry his original eye with a more consistent voice to become a very interesting director. Six years ...Read more

 Review by Brian Tallerico To put things in context and fend off any accusations of my gender rendering me incapable of competently appraising the film version of Sex and the City, a caveat is required - I've seen every episode of the landmark HBO series. Not only did I watch the ...Read more