Articles by Scott A. Gray

Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure

Stephen Herek

PUBLISHED Jan 31, 2013

For the many highs (The Matrix, My Own Private Idaho) and lows (The Watcher, The Lake House) that followed, we have Bill & Ted's Excellent...

Warm Bodies

Jonathan Levine

PUBLISHED Jan 31, 2013

One of popular entertainment's most prodigious fallacies — "love conquers all" — sucks the life right out of what is otherwise...

30 Minutes or Less

Ruben Fleischer

PUBLISHED Jan 28, 2013

More of an excuse to practice shooting comedy and action scenes than a thoughtfully constructed film, 30 Minutes Or Less works only as well...

End of Watch [Blu-Ray]

David Ayers

PUBLISHED Jan 28, 2013

When purporting to employ a gimmicky conceit like shooting in "documentary style" to capture an enhanced sense of realism, a little stylist...

Episodes: The Complete First & Second Seasons

PUBLISHED Jan 28, 2013

Including both the first and second seasons of David Crane (Friends, Joey) and Jeffrey Klarik's refined Brits-meet-American-buffoons comedy...

For a Good Time, Call...

Jamie Travis

PUBLISHED Jan 28, 2013

For a typically structured, relatively lightweight odd couple comedy, Toronto, ON director Jamie Travis's feature-length debut punches abov...

Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning [Blu-Ray]

John Hyams

PUBLISHED Jan 28, 2013

Reverence for the two elder statesmen of action, who receive top billing despite barely having enough screen time to qualify as supporting...

Ugetsu

Kenji Mizoguchi

PUBLISHED Jan 26, 2013

An interpretation of a selection of Udea Akinari's versions of ancient Japanese ghost stories as collected in his classic 1776 book, Tales...