To celebrate the mid-season return of AMC's hit TV show The Walking Dead tonight, we took a look at Telltale Games' first set of The Walking Dead video game episodes, which were also based on the original comic book series from which the show was developed. And like the critically acclaimed and popular TV zombie drama, the cerebral and emotional game left us hungry for more. Telltale's character-driven point-and-click adventure is a companion piece that complements the television sh... Read More »

Prior to Side Effects, Oscar-winning director Steven Soderbergh’s previous three movies had gotten progressively worse. Contagion, dishonored as one of the most disappointing movies of 2011, was followed the next year by Haywire and Magic Mike, one of the last year’s worst movies. However, TV spots hail Soderbergh’s new film, Side Effects, as 2013’s first good movie. False. Side Effects is the year’s first great movie. Perfectly complemented by Thomas Newman’s eerie scor... Read More »

It's not a satirical spoof like A Haunted House, and it's not like Movie 43, an unconventional collection of sketches. Identity Thief is the first traditional comedy of the year. Or it tries to be... and like a fat girl chased by a Kenyan, doesn't get away with it. Director Seth Gordon, who started off excellently with video game documentary The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters but stumbled with his follow-up romcom Four Christmases, was back on top again just a year and half ago... Read More »

Despite turning 67 years old later this year, Sylvester Stallone will probably keep doing what have made him an international star over the past four decades: action movies. And I'll probably keep watching them, even after getting through a yawner like Bullet to the Head, in which Stallone plays the same sort of role he's had throughout most of his storied cinematic career. Bullet to the Head puts a New Orleans hitman named Jimmy Bobo (Stallone) in an unlikely alliance with a D.C. d... Read More »

With young adult literature adaptations being all the rage these days and studios snatching up books left and right, Warm Bodies seems like the perfect fodder for a surefire hit from the studio that brought us the The Twilight Saga. I mean, it’s got everything in the formula that draws people to these books: an unlikely relationship, young love being tested under extreme circumstances, and oh yeah . . . ZOMBIES! The unlikely protagonist of the film is “R” (Nicholas Hoult from ... Read More »

Peter Farrelly running the show, 4 years, 13 directors, 14 storylines, 18 writers, an ensemble cast of 43897507, many of whom were guilted into roles and ultimately didn't promote the film at all because they eventually wanted nothing to do with it. Sounds like a recipe for disaster, right? And to many people who will watch Movie 43, "disaster" would be the perfect word to describe this comedy sh!tshow. But not me. There's barely a plot, if any at all, to relate to you here. All you... Read More »

I've had my eye on this "classic tale, new twist" ever since I first saw the trailer. I thought maybe Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters, an ultraviolent tongue-in-cheek monster mash-up about the now grown-up brother-and-sister duo shootin' and slicin' their way through an action-packed adventure, could offer some decent entertainment and 3D, much like Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, one of our picks for best 3D and best horror movies of 2012. Or maybe it would try to do way too much ... Read More »

Leave it to Moms to clean up the mess Leatherface left earlier this month. The third weekend of the new year has already brought us a second serving of frights, and this time Mama's done it right. Executive produced by Guillermo Del Toro, this Spanish short film-based spooky story is about a six-year-old and eight-year-old assimilating back into society after spending the past five years somehow surviving in the wilderness. The two animal-like sisters are taken in by their uncle and hi... Read More »

With the recent saturation of found footage horror flicks, you knew something like this bound to be made sooner or later. Itself a very low-budget project, A Haunted House primarily spoofs the Paranormal Activity series and recent exorcism films like The Devil Inside. Starring Marlon Wayans and Essence Atkins as a couple that moves in together and then deals with an unwanted supernatural guest, the parody is basically what Scary Movie 5 might have been had the Wayans brothers were stil... Read More »

A decade ago, producer Michael Bay introduced the iconic Leatherface to a new generation for the third time via The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, the second remake of 1974's The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. The titles keep getting shorter as this year's remake, Texas Chainsaw, drops the last word altogether while adding the 3D aspect for a more immersive experience. You'd have a better experience with either of the two previous massacres. The opening act, which continues directly from the... Read More »

Your girlfriend’s missing, your boat’s been destroyed, you’re trapped on a mysterious island where everyone is crazy... and best of all, like one of last year's best games, you don't have to worry about any of that if you don't want to. That's because in Far Cry 3 you can either worry about all that serious stuff by strictly playing the campaign, or you can ignore it all for as long as you want and instead hunt wild animals in the jungle, discover secrets scattered throughout the... Read More »

With the Xbox 360 in its twilight years, the franchise that built the house of Xbox has returned one last time this generation with its iconic hero back at the helm. It's been five years since we've last seen Master Chief and Cortana after Halo 3's post-credits stinger cliffhanger that left their fates up in the air (literally). With Bungie's last Halo game not involving the Chief or Cortana and the studio stepping away from the series, many were left questioning not only the fate of t... Read More »

Admittedly, I was pretty hard on Resident Evil 5 in my review three years ago that was almost more of a rant than a review. Being a fan of the series since the very first game, I had high expectations after Resident Evil 4, and the next-gen sequel was sadly a train wreck of dated gameplay mechanics and a story that seemed to be straying even further away from the classic Resident Evil universe than the movies. Surprisingly, unlike most people, I actually really enjoyed the latest n... Read More »

After debuting at Comic-Con back in July to unanimous fan approval and creating a ton of buzz in the process, everything seemed to be heading towards a perfect box office opening when the futuristic dystopian Dredd reboot finally hit theaters in September. Fan approval for remakes is hard to come across these days (see all the recent backlash for Total Recall and Robocop), but with 1995's Judge Dredd starring Sylvester Stallone and Rob Schneider being anything but a classic that was pa... Read More »

After watching the less-than-awesome trailer for Taken 2 a few months ago, I was concerned that the sequel was merely banking on the success of the original's under-the-radar surprise. The sequel retained Luc Besson as co-writer and producer (which could be hit or miss, but a good sign to me recently at least); however, the replacement of the first movie's director, Pierre Morel, with Olivier Megaton was a red flag. I've enjoyed all three of Morel's films so far (including District ... Read More »

Two of my all-time favorite of the favorites movie franchises, Back to the Future and Terminator, revolve around time travel. So naturally, if I had known about Looper a few months earlier before its attention-grabbing first trailer came out, it would have easily landed on our list of most anticipated movies of 2012, especially because I also really liked director/writer Rian Johnson's feature film debut, the low-budget neo-noir Brick. Armed this time with 60 times the financial fuel, ... Read More »