Sam Raimi

You're Going To Sing, Chainsaw.

Rise of the Planet of the Apes: Simian Disobedience

Ooking 'bout a revolution.

Big Screen Darkness

Ooking 'bout a revolution.

Turn Your Pad into a Haunted House With These Small-Screen Scares

Ooking 'bout a revolution.

Ash Sings!

Ooking 'bout a revolution.

Sam Raimi is back to his devilish ways in Drag Me to Hell

Ooking 'bout a revolution.

Elvis Is Everywhere

Ooking 'bout a revolution.

Good Clean Smut

Ooking 'bout a revolution.

Spider Bites

Overstuffed plot, empty action ruin Spidey's run

Popcorn Flick

Overstuffed plot, empty action ruin Spidey's run

Chin Up

Bruce Campbell on making love and screaming brains

Bat Cave-In

The Dark Knight's origin story can't overcome its Baleful side

Mad About It

Costner and Allen are the upside to The Upside of Anger

Attack of the Clones

The ghosts of Takashi Shimizu's Ju-On series return--again--in The Grudge

Scare Fair

Screams is four times the fear

The Phantom Menace

The ghosts of Ju-On: The Grudge are here to annoy you

Run, Do Not Crawl

Spider-Man swings in this touching, thrilling, superior sequel

Hail to the King, Baby

Even cast as an aging Elvis, Bruce Campbell must do battle with the evil, undead

Creeping Crud

Cabin Fever revisits the gore flick, with obvious results

For Love of the Game

Kevin Costner doesn't make friends. He makes movies, dang it.

Bloody Hell

Daredevil is a grown-up adaptation, but still too two-dimensional

Fight Club

When it comes to producing movies, it's a fine art (or Art Linson)

Dream Weaver

Spider-Man slings pop mythology for the masses

Flame On

Out of financial and creative bankruptcy, Marvel Comics is mighty once more

Feel His Pain

Billy Bob has a simple plan: to sing about life and lovin' his wife

Chin Up

Bruce Campbell knows why bad movies happen to great actors

Dead Again

The Mummy Returns, but what's the point?

Soundtracks

O Brother, Where Art Thou?(Mercury) & The Gift(Will/Lakeshore)

Dying of Laughter

Sweet November is bad all year long

Evil Twin

Sam Raimi peaked long ago, and The Gift proves that now he's coasting downhill

Private Defective

Alan Rudolph's Trixie is happily stuck between a rock and the deep blue sea

Young Blood

Joel and Ethan Coen pull down the pants on their first film

Win, lose, or draw

Or: How do you bring a comic book to life without killing a superhero?

Pitcher's duel

Schmaltzy and then some, For Love of the Game is still mighty persuasive

Armies of darkness

Schmaltzy and then some, For Love of the Game is still mighty persuasive

I was a headlessteenage zombie

Thanks to Hollywood's endless pursuit of today's youth, horror movies are -- yes! -- fun again

Eight is enough

Hollywood mainstream in the slipstream: hits, misses, remakes, and blasts from the past

A slightly dirty dozen

Although many standout films were released in 1998, no one movie really stood out

Money changes everything

A Simple Plan dishes up a frozen treat from a moral deep freeze

As bad as it gets

Peter Berg's sour Very Bad Things earns a one-way ticket to filmic Palookaville

USA Film Festival Schedule

Peter Berg's sour Very Bad Things earns a one-way ticket to filmic Palookaville

Kicking the corpse

Why the new wave of horror films can't scare us

Rushes

Why the new wave of horror films can't scare us

Dead bang

Sam Raimi's gonzo Western The Quick and the Dead is ludicrously entertaining

Fever dream

The adolescent fantasy Heavenly Creatures is the best film Terry Gilliam never made