“As surely as the sun shall set, so, too, shall future generations erect glorious cathedrals to honor Paul Rudd and Christopher Meloni for their performances in David Wain's infinitely awesome 2001 '80s summer camp comedy.”

“Every frame filled with bleak, teeth-gritting cold, Debra Granik's 2010 noir set amid the frigid Ozarks is a harsh depiction of a stern, steely 17-year old's grim journey through a damaged landscape of damaged people and rural power structures.”

“It's night of the living derivatives as J.C. Chandor's 2011 boardroom drama captures the dawn of the financial collapse; panic travels up the corporate ladder and, via Wall Street alchemy, becomes ruthless expediency. A cold, harsh and realistic film.”

“Intense and ferocious, Ralph Fiennes' 2012 adaptation of Shakespeare's military tragedy roots timeless themes in the cloistered halls of modern politics, made ever sweet by Elizabethan English words commanded by an inspired cast.”

“Stylish and thrilling, Dario Argento's 1970 directorial debut is the quintessential giallo, laden with psychosexuality, imperiled women and a leitmotif of curation and display that informs much of the Male Gaze/voyeurism at the heart of the plot.”

“The fifth and final film of Universal's Mummy series, produced in 1944, is wildly insane, set in rural Louisiana circa 1990 (not a typo) and populated solely by ethnic and racial stereotypes. It is impossible to take this film seriously.”

“This silly, barely an hour-long 1944 sequel - inexplicably set in rural Massachusetts circa 1970 - is routine B-movie fare; it's melodramatic, cheap and features a drunk Lon Chaney Jr., but the ending is as shockingly dark as it is surprisingly sudden.”

“The outrageous life and times of sex icon Jack Wrangler gets a long, hard look in this tremendously funny 2008 documentary; it needs no embellishment as Wrangler's career - as well as Wrangler himself - is as clever as it is absurd. ”

“Has this not aged well or have I been watching too many genre films? I found Soderbergh's much-loved 1998 Elmore Leonard adaptation thoroughly unengaging; downright lukewarm, really. Genuinely surprised given reputation and pedigree.”

“The fog-swept ruins of a Gothic ghost story are rendered sublimely surreal in Mario Bava's hallucinatory 1966 horror film, a supernatural giallo shot with moody, opulent atmosphere and all the feverish, saturated colors of the dark. ”

“Guy Pearce's biceps notwithstanding, this Luc Besson-produced 2012 reconfiguration of Carpenter's "Escape from New York" set on an orbiting space jail is way too repetitive and choppy to pull off it's modern scifi B-movie ambition.”

“A troubled third act and absurd technobabble aside, Sam Mendes' 2012 installment of the 007 franchise deftly balances spectacle and character in an effective soft reboot but Roger Deakins' magnificent cinematography steals the show throughout.”

“Irradiated mutants, dark familial secrets, teleportation ethics - Don Sharp's 1965 trilogy-concluding sequel is an unconventional dose of Gothic science fiction and, uneven though it may be, it's still cerebral schlock worth your time.”

“It is difficult and humbling to watch someone fight so hard to simply be who they are; Chely Wright, in this 2011 documentary, does just that as she comes out in the cloistered bastion of rural American conservatism: country music. ”

“Culinary combat takes center stage in Stephen Chow's insanely unpredictable 1996 Hong Kong comedy, a far out riff on "Iron Chef" full of slapstick physical comedy, cooking duel buffoonery and pure, bewilderingly weird humor.”