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Best of Netflix: Thug Life
Let's face it -- when you want your Gangster Movie fix, you want it now. Luckily, Netflix Instant has plenty of options to get your crime on -- here are some of the best gangster movies you can watch, well, instantly.
New On Netflix
What's new on Netflix Instant this week and what's worth your time. We do the legwork so you can lean back and enjoy the show.
What’s New in Games This Week
You're weekly look at what upcoming games is worth your time and money is back!
Skyline Movie Review: Blue Light Special
You don't walk in saying "I want to see what this film says about mans struggle." You buy a ticket to to find out what those blue alien ball things are exactly, just how much property damage does the Earth take during this invasion, and are we really supposed to take Angel from Dexter and Turk from Scrubs seriously as action heroes?
Unstoppable Movie Review: On The Wrong Track
Unstoppable is the fifth collaboration between director Tony Scott and star Denzel Washington. For the love of all that is holy, will someone separate these two?
Saw 3D Movie Review: It’s a Trap!
As a child growing up in the 80s, it never occurred to me that I was witnessing a Golden Age of Monster Movies. The Friday the 13th, Nightmare on Elm Street, and Halloween franchises were all producing sequels at a clip that basically promised that you were going to get a film from one of them once a year.
Stone: Movie Review
This prison yarn stars Edward Norton as a convicted arsonist using his wife (Milla Jovovich) to manipulate his parole officer (Robert De Niro) into securing his parole. It sounds like something we've all seen a variation of a thousand times before, but what we end up getting is something extraordinary.
28 Days Later: High-Class, Low-Budget Horror
Upon the success of 28 Days Later, Danny Boyle was credited with revitalizing the zombie movie. There's something else he should be credited with revitalizing: the art -- and the intimacy -- of the low-budget horror film.
No Rest For The Wicked: Ozzy’s Tour Extended
The Prince of Darkness takes his show to the Holy Land before setting off to reconquer North America with pals Slash and Rob Halford.
Van Helsing’s Monster Jamboree
Who wouldn't want to see a movie that featured not one, but three of Universal's classic monsters: Dracula, Frankenstein's Monster, and the Wolf Man? Such a gathering is the stuff of Hollywood magic and childhood dreams. That dream became a reality with the release of Van Helsing in 2004.
A Nightmare On Elm Street: The Making Of A Remake
We've all been chased by something horrible in our dreams, and we (quite naturally) long to re-live that terror. If we're still running from the thing, we're still alive. And the quintessential "horrible thing" in our dreams is a man by the name of Freddy Krueger.
Sleepy Hollow: Fictionalizing Fiction, The Movie vs. The Book
Where does Washington Irving end and Tim Burton begin? We compare the two Legends.
The Five Most Unsettling Moments in Splice
The sci-fi horror film Splice isn't afraid to go to extremes. Here are the five moments where it really went there.
The Amityville Horror Is A Sham, And That’s That
The Amityville Horror is a great ghost story. It's also a damn lie.
Faster Movie Preview
Get a look at Dwayne Johnson's upcoming return to action movies with Faster, coming out this November.
10 Facts About The Shower Scene Of Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho
The famous shower scene in Psycho has spawned myths and legends. Time to get clean on the facts.
Freddy vs. Jason: There Can Be Only One
We trace the long, hard road from development to production of Freddy vs. Jason and take a look at some other "Vs." projects that never came to be.
Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds: Pre-CGI Ingenuity
How was something like The Birds made before the age of computer graphics technology? You got a bunch of real birds, trained them as much as you could and hoped for the best.
Happy 25th Birthday NES!
Help celebrate the birth of what basically made gaming what is today by checking out some of its somewhat obscure offerings.
Never Let Me Go Review: Lucy, You Got Some Spleenin’ To Do
We review Never Let Me Go, a quirky drama about children who are raised to be organ donors, staring Keira Knightley.
Bloody Hell in America: Behind The Prom Scene In Carrie
Here's how you can destroy a high school gym with Karo syrup, rubber cement, monofilament wire and a crane.
Hostel: Where Did Eli Roth Come From?
He's been credited as being the godfather of "torture porn." We expose the man behind the Hostel curtain.
Mega Man Legends 3 Is For The People, By The People
Fans prayers have been answered and Mega Man Legends 3 is on the way! But they're gonna have to work to get it.
Secret Pea Soup Recipe From The Exorcist And Other Secrets Revealed
In this article we take a behind the scenes look at how with a little old fashioned elbow grease, they pulled off some of the classic effects shots in The Exorcist.
Six Favorite Traps From the Saw Movies
Upon the coming of Saw 3D, we look back at our favorite traps from the Saw movies, from the Reverse Beartrap of the first Saw to the Shotgun Carousel in Saw VI.
Cha, Cha, Cha, Cha, Changes – The Wolfman and Other Favorite Transformation Scenes
From Spirit gum to CG, we take a look at some of the best all time horror transformations scenes from the silver screen.
The Silence of the Lambs: Favorite Lecter Lines
He only had 16 minutes of screen time in The Silence of the Lambs, but Hannibal Lecter had all the tastiest lines.
Secretariat Review: Beats Two Hours at OTB
When I think of horse racing, I think of innocence lost in a midtown Manhattan OTB. Since Secretariat is a Disney product, I expected something with a little more, shall we say, flair. Did they deliver? Find out inside...
Se7en: The Godfather of Cool Opening Credits
You remember the opening credit sequence of Se7en: the fractured images of John Doe writing in his notebooks, creating his various dastardly props, the scratched-on lettering, the flash frames of police evidence photographs, all set to the soothing sounds of a thumping remix of NIN's "Closer."
I Know and Still and Always and Will Never Forget What You Did Last Summer
It's hard to believe I Know What You Did Last Summer came out 13 years ago this month. Here's our imagined fourth installment of the series.
