Articles by Scott A. Gray

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  Charlie Zone

  Michael Melski

  PUBLISHED Feb 28, 2013

  Canadian director Michael Melski could teach many of his contemporaries south of the border a thing or two about crafting a hardboiled crim...

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  Jack the Giant Slayer

  Bryan Singer

  PUBLISHED Feb 28, 2013

  Fee-fi-fo-fum, I smell the blood of too many cooks in the kitchen. This lowbrow, family-friendly, revisionist amalgamation of two classic f...

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  Tokyo Drifter

  Seijun Suzuki

  PUBLISHED Feb 28, 2013

  Seijun Suzuki's most celebrated film is a bizarre experience, especially for the uninitiated. The workhorse director has a peculiar sense...

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  Camp 14: Total Control Zone

  Marc Weise

  PUBLISHED Feb 25, 2013

  Perceptions of morality are entirely based upon systematic methods of control. There is no right; there is no wrong; there is only what we'...

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  A Liar's Autobiography: The Untrue Story of Monty Python's Graham Chapman

  Bill Jones, Jeff Simpson and Ben Timlett

  PUBLISHED Feb 21, 2013

  There's a fine line between fiction and embellishment. Straddling that thin divide is where history-obsessed British absurdist comedy troup...

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  Sinister [Blu-Ray]

  Scott Derrickson

  PUBLISHED Feb 21, 2013

  By tapping into the voyeuristic impulse that draws people to indulge in the macabre, and through the effective, if manipulative, applicatio...

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  Seven Psychopaths [Blu-Ray]

  Martin McDonagh

  PUBLISHED Feb 21, 2013

  In the supplemental features, apropos of nothing, is an alternate version of the movie trailer with all the actors replaced by live-action...

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  Dark Skies

  Scott Stewart

  PUBLISHED Feb 21, 2013

  Contrary to how it's been marketed, Dark Skies is not a half-baked mash-up of Signs and The Birds. The poorly cut trailer aside, scepticism...