Based on The Evil Dead (1981) by Sam Raimi
Written by: Fede Alvarez and Rodo Sayagues
Directed by: Fede Alvarez
Starring: Jane Levy, Shiloh Fernandez, Lou Taylor Pucci
US Release Date: Friday, April 5, 2013�
In Short: A bloody and messy, yet enjoyable, reimagining of a classic.
Recommended: Yes, for fans and non-fans alike.
MIA: You’re all going to die tonight.
Five friends venture to a family cabin to help Mia (Jane Levy) kick her drug habit. Things seem off from the start, and only get more bizarre after a few morbid discoveries in the basement – including a flesh covered book covered …

Based on the comic character created by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber, Don Heck, Jack Kirby
Written by: Drew Pearce, Shane Black
Directed by: Shane Black
Starring: Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Guy Pearce, Jon Favreau, Don Cheadle, Rebecca Hall, Ben Kingsley, Ty Simpkins, the voice of Paul Bettany
In Short: Tony Stark faces his (and the country’s) demons.
Recommended: Hell, yes!
TONY: You know, it’s moments like these when I realize how much of a superhero I am.
The Marvel Universe is one of my very favorite vacation spots, but after the mind-blowing awesome that was Joss …

Based on the folk tales Jack the Giant Killer and Jack and the Beanstalk
Story by: Darren Lemke, David Dobkin
Written by: Darren Lemke, Christopher McQuarrie, Dan Studney
Directed by: Bryan Singer
Starring: Nicholas Hault, Ewan McGregor, Stanley Tucci, Eleanor Tomlinson, Ian McShane, Bill Nighy
US Release Date: Friday, March 1, 2013
In Short: A guy called Jack slays giants.
Recommended: Yes and no.
[Jack hesitates while jumping from the beanstalk]
CRAWE: Wanna know a little trick? When I’m afraid I imagine a big piece of cake floating right in front of me.
JACK: Brilliant. Thanks.
CRAWE: Like a reward, …

Based on the Oz series by L. Frank Baum
Written by: Mitchell Kapner, David Lindsay-Abaire
Directed by: Sam Raimi
Starring: James Franco, Mila Kunis, Michelle Williams, Rachel Weisz
In Short: A less-wicked origin story, but less interesting.
Recommended: Kind of – this movie is best served on DVD.
OSCAR: I might not actually be a wizard.
GLINDA: Yes, but they don’t know that.
The Wizard of Oz is all about magic, and ingenuity and a sense of childlike wonder. Even with the other side of the MGM classic: that “not family-friendly” version where adults watch it on mute …

Story by: Chad Kultgen, Tyler Mitchell
Written by: Jonathan Goldstein, John Francis Daley
Directed by: Don Scardino
Starring: Steve Carell, Steve Buscemi and Jim Carrey
US Release Date: Friday, March 15, 2013
In Short: An amusing diversion, but nothing special.
Recommended: Yes, but only as a rental.

GRAY: It’s natural for a dying leaf to be frightened by the autumn wind.
Burt Wonderstone (Steve Carell) and Anton Marvelton (Steve Buscemi) are aging magicians with a popular act on the Vegas strip. Despite being friends for decades, they are clearly growing irritated with each other. After a run-in …

Written by: Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis
Directed by: Ivan Reitman
Starring; Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, Ernie Hudson, Sigourney Weaver, Rick Moranis
Movie Marathon: Gods
In Short: Three odd-ball scientists go into business for themselves as paranormal exterminators.
Recommended: Hell Yes!
VENKMAN: He slimed me.
Ghostbusters has always had a special place in my heart and, I was obsessive about everything Ghostbusters from a very young age. I would watch Ghostbusters and Ghostbusters II (we don’t need to talk about the second one) most weekends and I even went to the dentist via public transport dressed …

Written by: Ron Clements, John Musker, Barry Johnson
Directed by: Ron Clements, John Musker
Starring: [Voices of] Tate Donovan, Danny Devito, James Woods, Susan Egan
In Short: Hercules challenges himself to become a true hero and claim his place among the Greek gods.
Recommended: Hell yes!
PHIL: I trained all those would-be heroes. Odysseus, Perseus, Theseus. A lot of “yeuseus.” And every one of those bums let me down flatter than a discus.
Disney is known for retelling (and entirely reimagining) a variety of classic stories and fairytales, and in 1997, they tackled Greek mythology with …

AKA Q: The Winged Serpent
Written by: Larry Cohen
Directed by: Larry Cohen
Starring: Michael Moriarty, Candy Clark, David Carradine, Richard Roundtree
Movie Marathon: Gods
In Short: New York police receive a spate of reports saying a giant flying lizard that has been spotted around the rooftops of the city, which they assume to be bogus… until the lizard starts to eat people.
Recommended: Hell yes!
KAHEA: I am the plumed serpent, I fly, and I crawl… I have fallen, but I shall rise again!
In 1982, Larry Cohen gave the world something it had been missing …

Based on The Eaters of the Dead by Michael Crichton
Written by: William Wisher, Warren Lewis
Directed by: John McTiernan
Starring: Antonio Banderas, Vladimir Kulich
Movie Marathon: Gods
In Short: Some Norsemen. An Arab. A bunch of crazy folk who eat the dead. Hijinks ensue.
Recommended: Yes.
HERGER: When they come, we form a circle in the center of the room, backs to one another.
IBN: I am not a warrior.
HERGER: Very soon, you will be.
I’m probably going to sound mildly disturbed when I say that The 13th Warrior is a very enjoyable movie. Sure, sure, it can get …

Written by: Dorothy Clarke Wilson, J.H. Ingraham, A.E. Southon, Æneas MacKenzie, Jesse Lasky Jr., Jack Gariss, Fredric M. Frank
Directed by: Cecil B. DeMille
Starring: Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner, Anne Baxter, Edward G. Robinson
In Short: The Exodus story. Shirtless.
Recommended: Of course! (Our usual “Hell, yes!” seems inappropriate in a movie about God).
MOSES: Let my people go!
I am going to go ahead and talk about the whole movie here, spoilers bedam… er, I mean spoilers bedarned. Because, not only is it on ABC every Easter Weekend, but it is also the “Exodus” story. …