Retro Review - Maverick (1994)

Directed by: Richard Donner
Starring: Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster, James Garner, Alfred Molina, James Coburn

During the 1990's, film-makers loved to take classic TV shows and try to make them into full-length movies.  The results were real hit and miss, so when "Maverick" came out in 1994, one didn't know whether the film would prove to be comic genius or whether James Garner would disown it.

New Release Review - Liberal Arts

Directed by: Josh Radnor

Starring: Josh Radnor, Elizabeth Olsen, Zac Efron, Richard Jenkins, Alison Janney, Kate Burton

Thirty-something Radnor returns to his old college to honor retiring professor Jenkins. Once there he succumbs to nostalgia and embarks on a relationship with student Olsen.

New Release Review - Sinister

Directed by: Scott Derrickson

Starring: Ethan Hawke, Juliet Rylance, James Ransone, Fred Dalton Thompson, Vincent D'Onofrio

Unbeknownst to his long suffering family, true crime writer Hawke has moved them into a house whose previous residents were brutally murdered. 

New Release Review - Stolen

Directed by: Simon West

Starring: Nicolas Cage, Josh Lucas, Danny Huston, Sami Gayle, Malin Akerman, Mark Valley, MC Gainey

Following his release from an eight year prison term, former bank robber Cage is blackmailed by an old member of his crew (Lucas) who is holding his daughter captive in the trunk of his taxi.

Waffleween - Halloween (1978)

Directed by: John Carpenter

Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis, Donald Pleasance, Nick Castle, Tony Moran, PJ Soles, Nancy Loomis, Charles Cyphers

Fifteen years after brutally murdering his sister, Michael Myers escapes his sanitarium and returns to his home town of Haddonfield.

New Release Review - Frankenweenie

Directed by: Tim Burton

Starring: Winona Ryder, Catherine O'Hara, Martin Short, Martin Landau, Christopher Lee, Charlie Tahan

New Release Review - Taken 2

Directed by: Olivier Megaton

Starring: Liam Neeson, Famke Janssen, Maggie Grace, Rade Serbedzija 

While vacationing in Istanbul, Neeson and family are stalked by the Albanian mob who kidnapped his daughter in the first movie.

Waffleween - Tony Moran Interview

Tony Moran was the face of Michael Myers in John Carpenter's "Halloween". We caught up with him for a chat about those days and what he's been up to since.

New Release Review - The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Directed by: Stephen Chbosky

Starring: Logan Lerman, Emma Watson,Ezra Miller, Nina Dobrev, Dylan McDermott, Joan Cusack, Kate Walsh, Paul Rudd, Mae Whitman

Following a breakdown brought on by his friend's suicide, freshman Logan enters High School, making friends with seniors Watson and Miller.

New Release Review - Skyfall

Directed by: Sam Mendes

Starring: Daniel Craig, Javier Bardem, Judi Dench, Ralph Fiennes, Helen McCrory, Bérénice Marlohe, Ben Whishaw, Naomie Harris, Albert Finney 

Daniel Craig returns as James Bond in the series' 23rd installment.

New Release Review - Looper

Directed by: Rian Johnson

Starring: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis, Emily Blunt, Paul Dano, Piper Perabo, Jeff Daniels, Noah Segan, Garrett Dillahunt

In 2044, Gordon-Levitt is a "looper", a hitman who disposes of victims sent back in time from thirty years in the future. His latest target however is his future self.

Great Movie Posters - Halloween

First Time Watches - September 2012

Elmer Gantry (1960)

Burt Lancaster is thrilling as a travelling salesman who hooks up with  an evangelist troupe, initially with the intention of seducing young preacher Jean Simmons.

New Release Review - Savages

Directed by: Oliver Stone

Starring: Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Taylor Kitsch, Blake Lively, John Travolta, Salma Hayek, Benicio Del Toro

When Lively is kidnapped by Hayek's Mexican drug cartel, it's up to her two lovers, Taylor-Johnson and Kitsch, to get her back.

Hooray for Wakaliwood!

Isaac Nabwana is a true maverick, producing, directing and editing action movies from his home in the slums of Wakaliga, Uganda. American film-maker Alan Ssali Hofmanis was inspired to make him the subject of his new documentary "Wakaliwood". The Movie Waffler caught up with Hofmanis to hear his fantastic story.

New Release Review - Tower Block

Directed by: James Nunn, Ronnie Thompson

Starring: Sheridan Smith, Jack O'Connell, Ralph Brown, Russell Tovey

The residents of a tower block's top floor find themselves held under siege by a sniper.

New Release Review - House at the End of the Street

Directed by: Mark Tonderai

Starring: Jennifer Lawrence, Elisabeth Shue, Max Thieriot, Gil Bellows

Lawrence falls for neighbor Thieriot whose sister disappeared after killing his parents.

New Release Review - Arbitrage

Directed by: Nicholas Jarecki

Starring: Richard Gere, Susan Sarandon, Brit Marling, Tim Roth, Laetitia Casta, Nate Parker

New York magnate Gere flees the scene of an accident and calls in help from the son of a deceased employee, Parker.

New Release Review - Killing Them Softly

Directed by: Andrew Dominik

Starring: Brad Pitt, Ray Liotta, Richard Jenkins, Scoot McNairy, Ben Mendelsohn, James Gandolfini, Vincent Curatola, Sam Shepard

Pitt's hitman is hired by Jenkins to punish those responsible for the armed hold-up of a poker game.

Pre-Code Retrospective - Little Caesar (1931)

Directed by: Mervyn LeRoy

Starring: Edward G. Robinson, Douglas Fairbanks Jr, Glenda Farrell, William Collier Jr, Stanley Fields

The violent and ruthless rise of gangster Caesar Enrico Bandelli (Robinson).