Articles by Scott A. Gray

The Disappeared

Shandi Mitchell

PUBLISHED Oct 31, 2013

Not every lost at sea story needs a gimmick on the scale of Life of Pi, but even a smaller film like Open Water had a distinct tone and an...

Detention of the Dead

Alex Craig Mann

PUBLISHED Oct 31, 2013

Influence is a tricky thing. Every instance of creativity is predicated upon something that came before it. Inherently, there's nothing wro...

Curse of Chucky [Blu-Ray]

Don Mancini

PUBLISHED Oct 31, 2013

Inanimate icons definitely have an advantage when it comes to longevity. Child's Play is the only major horror franchise from the '80s to s...

Much Ado About Nothing

Joss Whedon

PUBLISHED Oct 31, 2013

Crackling with playful energy perfectly suited to Shakespeare's typically witty, comparatively low-key romantic comedy, Joss Whedon's moder...

R.I.P.D. [Blu-Ray]

Robert Schwentke

PUBLISHED Oct 31, 2013

Though consistently fun, in a mentally passive, crowd-pleasing way, this Men In Black meets Dead Like Me rip-off/hybrid sank like a stone a...

American Horror Story: Asylum [Blu-Ray]

PUBLISHED Oct 31, 2013

Proving the effectiveness of the self-contained season anthology format — sort of a yearlong Twilight Zone — season two of Amer...

Empire of Dirt

Peter Stebbings

PUBLISHED Oct 31, 2013

The main problem with Peter Stebbings' first film since intimate vigilante deconstruction piece Defendor is that, more than anything, it fe...

Free Birds

Jimmy Hayward

PUBLISHED Oct 31, 2013

This well-meaning but short-sighted piece of kid-friendly vegetarian propaganda is funnier than material this slight has any right to be. W...