Articles by Will Sloan

The Spy Next Door

Brian Levant

PUBLISHED May 14, 2010

It's easy to see why Jackie Chan might choose to ally himself with a project as transparently shoddy as The Spy Next Door. Always more busi...

The Superhero Squad Show: Hero Up, Squaddies!

PUBLISHED May 13, 2010

While Muppets from Space isn't anybody's favourite Muppet movie, it did do one interesting thing: it posited a world in which all of the Mu...

The Superhero Squad Show: Titanic Team Ups!

PUBLISHED May 13, 2010

And lo, we arrive at volume two of Vivendi Entertainment's DVD release of Marvel Animation's kid-targeted cartoon, which, you may recall fr...

Gamera The Giant Monster

Noriaki Yuasa

PUBLISHED May 6, 2010

The Japanese monster films of the '50s, '60s and '70s are said to have "cheesy" special effects, but that dismissive tag is a little too ea...

John Carpenter's Escape From L.A. [Blu-Ray]

John Carpenter

PUBLISHED May 6, 2010

In the opening scenes of John Carpenter's Escape from L.A. (which I understand was directed by John Carpenter), the President forces Snake...

The Parking Lot Movie

Meghan Eckman

PUBLISHED Apr 30, 2010

"Parking lot attendant" is probably not the job most people would want to pop up on their tenth grade CareerCruising.com profile, but Charl...

Space Tourists

Christian Friel

PUBLISHED Apr 30, 2010

During the height of the Soviet era, when Sputnik made the Empire's space program a bona fide threat to that of the United States, rockets...

The Story Of Furious Pete

George Tsioutsioulas

PUBLISHED Apr 30, 2010

Hockey had Wayne Gretzky, boxing had Muhammad Ali and competitive eating has "Furious Pete" Czerwinski. Not since Mike Tyson was in his glo...