2012 in film: Pre-Theatrical VOD goes mainstream...

This will be the first in a series of essays detailing 'the year in film', spotlighting certain trends (mostly positive, I'm tak...

Review: ATM (2012) is a lean genre exercise that does its business and sprints.

ATM 2012 90 minutes rated R by Scott Mendelson ATM isn't high art and it's not even great trash.  But it has a clever set-up, somew...

Review: Kill List (2012) is an experiment in genre-switch that fails to truly engage.

Kill List 2012 95 minutes rated R by Scott Mendelson Ben Wheatly's Kill List suffers from the believe that it is far more clever and or...

Review: The Human Centipede II (2011) - I get the joke, but it's still boring.

The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence) 2011 85 minutes Not Rated by Scott Mendelson I get the joke.  Really, I do.  I get that Tom Six has m...

How Kevin Smith's Red State could have been the new face of Video On Demand.

There are people with stronger feelings one way or another about Kevin Smith than I. I loved Clerks II and Dogma , hated Jay and Silent Bo...