In 2003, rocker Rob Zombie released one of the greatest horror films of all time, HOUSE OF 1000 CORPSES, on an unsuspecting public who, after being weaned for the past five years on Teen People horror-lite films like Scream, I Know What You Did Last Summer, etc., were shocked at this brutally depraved sojourn into the depths of horrific madness. A stylistic quasi-tribute to low-budget ‘70’s hell-billy shockers like THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE and MOTEL HELL, HOUSE OF 1000 CORPSES was a beautiful return to true horror filmmaking with the most original characters to splatter across the screen since Freddy Kruger appeared back in ’84. 

What if John Hughes had directed the X-MEN?

Chances are you’d have SKY HIGH, a super-fun film about a family of super-heroes and their son’s first day of school at Sky High, the only high school for the offspring of super-heroes.

The DUKES OF HAZZARD has taught us many things. Among them: how to be good ol’ boys, how to never mean any harm and how to deal with being in trouble with the law since the day you were born. And let’s not forget about learning how to fight the system like a true modern-day Robin Hood.

If you’re a male (or an extraordinarily awesome female) between 25 and 35, you should be a huge DUKES fan. There’s no way around it. You should have memories of playing Dukes on your bikes with the neighborhood kids, have owned at least one replica of the General Lee (Hot Wheels or otherwise) and absolutely, positively must have gotten your first boner from seeing Catherine Bach strut around in those incredible cut-offs.

In the entire annals of film history, I have never seen a film so happy to wallow in it’s own idiocy more than DEUCE BIGALOW: EUROPEAN GIGOLO. And normally I would be saying that as kind of a back-handed compliment, but in this case, it’s an insult because DB: EG is a tired, barely funny retread of the original DEUCE BIGALOW:MALE GIGOLO, which I liked a whole lot upon it’s original release and to this day every so often pop in the DVD player when I want some time-wasting easy laughs.

Trim and lean is the ideology behind writer/director Cassandra Nicolaou’s psychological thriller appropriately entitled SHOW ME.  Made with a screenwriting grant from Telefilm Canada, shot (hand held) on Super 16 and outputting to 35mm via Cinema Dl and performed by three relatively unknown but no less talented actors and shot on location in the Canadian wilderness, this is the kind of film that excels in terms of monetary input to entertainment output ratio.