Movie Review: "The Road"
The one thing I remember about Cormac McCarthy's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "The Road" is the color gray. Gray is everywhere in the novel, which takes place in a world that has been decimated by an unspecified disaster. Grey ash covers the ground and the characters live

Movie Review: "Ninja Assassin"
Originally written for the Nov. 29 edition of "The Source": Things heard upon leaving a recent screening of “Ninja Assassin.””That was more like a slasher movie than an action movie.”

Movie Review: "Precious"
I will admit to being surprised when Lee Daniels' new film "Precious" opened in third place at the box office this weekend, bringing in $5.8 million on less than 200 screens across the nation.After all, "Precious" (which opens in Detroit

Movie Review: "The Box"
Richard Kelly's "The Box" is a fantastic short film padded out unnecessarily to feature length and weighed down by some of the most preposterous science-fiction plotting this side of "The Matrix" sequels.It's a shame, because the film, based on Richard Matheson's short sto

DVD Review: "Trick 'R Treat"
What kind of trick was Warner Brothers playing on audiences by hiding such a fun film for so long? I had first heard about Michael Dougherty's horror anthology "Trick 'R Treat" when I saw the trailer for it attached to the DVD of "300." It looked like a sur