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Earlier in the week we ran down the best of the Best Pic winners, so its only fitting that we do the worst as well.

Of the 79 Best Pictures named, some films have stood the test of time and remain classics while others are have become duds that leave the viewer scratching their head.

Not just the best Christmas film, but one of the best films ever made.

Evan Almighty is a change in tone for the series. Bruce was a romantic comedy. Evan is a children’s movie, which may explain why the writers felt they could get away with such a dumb script.

I’ll admit I’m a fan of the horribly kitschy B horror movies out there. None of them are really scary, but they’re all hilarious in their own way. Each October there are at least ten movies you have to see. So here you go…

On Wednesday, October 3, 2007, the American Film Institute celebrates its 40th Anniversary at the Arclight Hollywood with an amazing, star-studded event that is so good, it could very well make you reconsider your position against human cloning. Eleven of the greatest American films will be screened concurrently at 7pm, each being introduced by a star from the film or its director.

What rules the universe: order or chaos? Is there a plan set forth by a supreme being or are we all making it up as we go? How do your answers affect the way you live your life? Are you bound by the rules agreed to by society or do you instead choose to do what’s best for you? And does that change when life treats you unfairly? Director James Mangold deals with thought-provoking ideas in this update of the 1957 western based on Elmore Leonard’s short story.

This three-disc set features 75 digitally remastered cartoons from The Walter Lantz Archive. The biggest star to come out of his productions is Woody Woodpecker and this set features the character in 45 cartoons, from his first appearance in 1940’s Knock Knock, an Andy Panda cartoon, to 1952’s The Great Who-Dood-It.
Over the 12 [...]

This movie is a sequel to The Hills Have Eyes (2006), a remake of the 1977 film by horror legend Wes Craven; however, it’s not a remake of his sequel from 1985, which was titled Part 2. That may sound confusing, but there’s no reason for concern as there isn’t much in the way [...]

Kenneth Keith Kallenbach, a name known only by long-time fans of Howard Stern, first appeared on Stern’s syndicated television show of the early ’90s after writing a letter that claimed he was able to blow smoke out of his eyes. Stern brought him in, and the six minutes of failed attempts was funny. Kallenbach became [...]

Breach is the true story of the FBI’s takedown of former agent Robert Hanssen, the man responsible for the United States’ greatest security breach, as told by Eric O’Neill, the agent who worked most closely beside him during the final days before his arrest.
O’Neill is assigned to an undercover operation that has him working as [...]

Michael Moore is back with another documentary that is sure to get the country involved in another debate, which, even if you vehemently disagree with his point of view, is much better than the usual passive experience of movies. Sicko will make you think, make you learn, and hopefully make you act.

Classic Media continues their release of Godzilla films on DVD with Ghidorah, The Three-Headed Monster. It was the fifth in the series, premiering in Japan in 1964 and in the U.S. in 1965. This was the last Godzilla film that received major edits before crossing the Pacific, eight minutes were cut and scenes were altered. [...]

The cartoon character Mr. Magoo is an old man who gets himself involved in very funny misadventures due to his poor sight, his poor hearing, and his stubbornness. The jokes come fast and furious as he barely comprehends what he’s looking at, which is why he unknowingly finds himself bowling in a bottling company, [...]

Invasion of Astro-Monster known in The United States as Godzilla vs. Monster Zero, is a sequel to Ghidorah. The film was released in 1965 in Japan and in The U.S. five years later. It is notable because it is the last Godzilla film to feature the creative team of director Ishiro Honda, screenwriter [...]

In celebration of the series’ 25th anniversary, Cagney & Lacey 1 arrives on DVD presenting the second season, which ran 22 episodes from October 1982 to May 1983. The set is subtitled “The True Beginning” because this was when Sharon Gless and Tyne Daley started their partnership.
Writer-producers Barbara Corday and Barbara Avedon shopped the [...]

Robert T. Ironside was the Chief of Detectives for the San Francisco Police Department until a sniper’s bullet paralyzed the lower half of his body. Though he lost the use of his legs, his mind remained as strong and sharp as ever, which combined with his dogged determination allowed him to stay on the force [...]

Judd Apatow’s directorial debut, The 40 Year-Old Virgin, belongs to this new genre and he returns to it with his latest romantic comedy, Knocked Up. Ben Stone is aptly named because he is a stoner with no job. He hasn’t figured out how to get paid for having a head full of pop culture and pot smoke.

Canadian filmmaker Jennifer Dysart was an entrant in the Latino Cinemedia Shorts Program of the 22nd Santa Barbara International Film Festival with I’ll Sing To You. The film tells the story of a city girl who visits her family’s reservation for the first time and meets a half-brother she was previously unaware of.

El Bicho: While [...]

While many may not know his name, Tex Avery is a legend in the world of animation. He left an indelible stamp during his tenure at Warner Brothers. He introduced Daffy Duck in Porky’s Duck Hunt (1937), created the character Egghead, who slowly morphed into Elmer Fudd, and not only directed the first [...]

Waitress is such a terrible creation I wanted to send it back to the kitchen. The characters are one-dimensional and poorly realized, the story is trite and clich©d, and the editing suffers from a sluggish pace and unnecessary moments. Except for the fact that going to a screening allows you to spend time [...]

MXC takes video from Takeshi’s Castle, a late ’80s Japanese game show, where individuals competed against each other through a series of silly, yet dangerous-looking stunts for chance at one million yen. Through the magic of post production, most notably the hysterical commentary, ranging from witty to crude, MXC appears as a team competition [...]

Dino Stamatopoulos has an amazing resume as a television comedy writer. He has worked on the late night talk shows of David Letterman and Conan O’Brien, the sketch comedy shows of Ben Stiller, Dana Carvey, and Mr. Show, and the difficult-to-describe TV Funhouse and Tom Goes to the Mayor. He can now list “creator” with Moral Orel, which airs on Adult Swim and has its first 15 episodes, all of season one and half of season two, available on DVD as Volume 1.

The Internet has replaced campfires, coffee shops, and the halls of academia as the place where mankind’s greatest questions about life are debated endlessly, because they are never answered. Although there never has been nor will there ever be any accepted universal truths by the planet’s entire population, a great many opinions are presented on [...]

Brian Helgeland is an award-winning screenwriter, earning both an Oscar and a Razzie a few days apart. He made his feature film directorial debut with Payback, starring and produced by Mel Gibson. It is based on Donald E. Westlake’s novel The Hunter, written under the pseudonym Richard Stark, and was made into a movie once before, John Boorman’s Point Blank starring Lee Marvin.

The word “grindhouse” used to refer to the old, run-down theaters that showed double bills of B-movies. Back before there was a home video market, these were the only places you could see the redheaded stepchildren of cinema: movies filled with plenty of over-the-top violence, sex, and/or gore, not necessarily in that order, because producers knew they could make a buck with it. They could only afford to create a handful of prints, so the films traveled across the country, each playing at many theaters, most of which didn’t have high quality equipment or projectionists, resulting in quite a bit of wear and tear in the process. However, it wasn’t just the celluloid that suffered degradation as the film’s characters usually did as well.

The film is loosely based on real life hustler Alan Conway, a sociopathic alcoholic con man who posed as director Stanley Kubrick around London during the early ’90s. What made Conway’s ability to continually get away with the ruse all the more remarkable is not only did he know very little about Kubrick, he didn’t resemble him at all. Kubrick was American while Conway was English. Kubrick had a beard while Conway was clean-shaven. Kubrick was married while Conway was gay.

The Departed is an entertaining crime drama that Martin Scorsese refers to as his “B-Movie” because it was, in part, influenced by Warner Brothers’ 1930s gangster movies. While his welcome return to America’s mean streets finally won him an Oscar, all serious film aficionados and Scorsese fans know an asterisk needs to go into the record books because the Best Director and Best Picture awards were really bestowed to give the Academy credibility for their embarrassments of not awarding those honors to his previous works Raging Bull and Goodfellas. The Departed is good, but it doesn’t rise to the level of best.

About 90 miles northwest of Los Angeles is the city of Santa Barbara, California, which claims to be the American Riviera.

Throughout the years many musicians have recorded their exploits on film and video, mostly concert performances. There are a select few that capture key pivotal events in an artist’s career away from the stage. The most famous is probably Don’t Look Back, featuring Bob Dylan on tour in London 1965 as he changed his sound [...]