Antoine Fuqua is an interesting director. Most of his movies feature world-weary macho warriors who plow their way through a corrupt and dangerous system, often embracing that corruption themselves in an effort to cope.  These films—among them King Arthur, The Replacement Killers, and Training Day—are mostly slick action thrillers usually featuring stock characters and well-worn [...]

Ruben Genz’s Terribly Happy has been referred to on the festival circuit as a Danish version of a Coen Brothers film. On the surface level, that’s just about accurate. Telling the story of Robert Hansen, a Copenhagen cop who moves to the podunk town of South Jutland to decompress after a nervous breakdown, Happy has [...]

The Secret of Kells is an exquisitely odd family film. Showing up as a surprise nomination for best animated feature in this year’s Oscar race, Tomm Moore’s elaborate and hand-drawn Irish fairy tale is suddenly drawing the interest of movie buffs everywhere. And any effort expended to see this lush intertwining of history, art and [...]

Welcome to the Atomic DVD Shelf. Right here, every Tuesday, we’ll be taking a peek at all of the latest Bluray and dvd releases.

Movie Review: As most probably did, I happened upon Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are in the 1st grade when I found it wedged on a shelf in the school library. I was reading a lot higher than the book’s level by that point, but the sumptuous color illustrations of monsters running about with a boy in [...]

There is a lot going on under the surface of Andrea Arnold’s Fish Tank and it is a testament to the director’s management of her subject that the film is focused and prickly, instead of muted and insubstantial. Telling a story that will probably be off-hand referenced as the white, British version of Precious, Fish [...]

Here now, is the most powerful and emotional film of the year so far; Jacques Audiard’s “Un Prophète, a story of one man’s growing up in a violent prison system. The film is captivating, unrelenting and even kind of epic as it goes about its business of turning a familiar, well-worn story into an engrossing character [...]

Breck Eisner’s The Crazies is a movie unashamed of what it is; a zombie-centric gallery of jump-scares and gore moments. There’s the quaint little town where things start to go horribly wrong, the erstwhile sheriff who wrings his hands with each new terrible discovery, and of course, an endless number of scenes where characters wander [...]