In 1975, Tim Curry led a cast of misfits, including Barry Bostwick and Susan Sarandon, in a big-screen version of a modest musical hit from the London theater scene. Although the Broadway version closed after just fifty performances, the film version is s

Twenty-five years ago, director Paul W. S. Anderson followed up his video game adaptation Mortal Kombat with an R-rated hard sci-fi scary movie. Starring Sam Neill after Jurassic Park and Laurence Fishburne before The Matrix, this cosmic horror was rushed

Director Edgar Wright followed his work on the TV series Spaced with his 2004 “Zom-Rom-Com” movie, which would retroactively become the first installment of the Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy. Reuniting Spaced stars Simon Pegg and Nick Frost as two s

Anne Rice had enormous success in the 70’s with her best selling novel, which launched a series of books. Its gothic and romantic tale of two men and their adopted daughter was consumed by readers of the occult all over the world. Film rights to the b

1974 saw the release of such treasured hits like The Godfather Part 2, Death Wish, The Longest Yard, Zardoz and Get Christy Love. But the one film that set audiences rolling in the floor with laughter, was set in 1874, with a star studded cast of comedy

Released this February, Venom director Ruben Fleisher’s take on Sony’s hit puzzle platformer video game series was a thing that happened. Starring Tom Holland as Nathan Drake and Mark Wahlberg as his mentor Victor Sullivan, the film also includes Anto

Ten years ago, Gareth Evan’s fists-and-fury action thriller busted out of Indonesian theaters and took the world by storm. Showcasing the Indonesian martial art of pencak silat, the film garnered international recognition for its stars Iko Uwais and Joe

Willkommen, bienvenue, welcome… to the 1972 film adaptation of the 1966 Broadway musical set in the last days of Weimar Germany. Starring Liza Minelli, Michael York, and Joel Grey, the film version was directed by choreographer Bob Fosse and won eight O

This week, we’re wrapping up the month with the direct-to-video sequel to one of our first Aug-Heist movies. Spike Lee’s 2006 film Inside Man was his most financially successful film, but a follow-up was stuck in development hell for over a decade, de

This week, we’re getting wetter with Mikael Salomon’s natural disaster movie meets heist thriller from 1998. When a group of robbers led by Morgan Freeman try to steal the payout from an armored car in a town evacuated due to flooding, it’s up to ro