The Simpsons has been on television since 1989. That is truly beyond impressive, it’s downright unbelievable. And while for many, the show isn’t quite as clever as it used to be, we are talking twenty-two episodes a year for the past twenty-one years. It would be impossible to keep things completely fresh. And with the recently released “Thirteenth Season” on Blu-ray, you can see that it started to lose some of its edge as some of the episodes are not what they used to be.

My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done is a sort of hybrid project created by producer David Lynch and director Werner Herzog, a sort of art house dream team. Add to that, the immense talent of Michael Shannon, Chloe Sevigny and Willem Dafoe and you have… something strange, strange and inspired by a true story.

This odd little film focuses on Brad McCullum (Shannon) who murders his mother (Lynch regular, Grace Zabriskie) in a Medea fashion after becoming obsessed by a Greek play. This slow burning tale revolves around flash backs as we learn how Brad seems to lose himself to some sort of mental illness. The police arrive and have him surrounded. They proceed cautiously as it seems he has a couple of hostages. This could have been a by the books Hollywood action thriller, but it is far from it.

Lost was a complex, brave and sometimes frustrating viewing experience for many of its fans. For six years, characters came and went, some died, and some even came back to life. Of course, the entire series could be based on a sort of purgatory, death being a constant throughout, depending on your outlook. Now, looking back at the final season, I came upon the realization that there is much to love and much that is worth re-visiting.

"Thank you all for liking Satan more than Twilight," exclaimed Eli Roth with a devilish grin last night. "Hail Satan!"

Roth's introduction to The Last Exorcism was sly, sharp and succinct, mirroring the movie's snappy tone perfectly. Thousands of teens and chichi Hollywood elite may have flocked to L.A. Live for the Twilight: Eclipse premiere, but the flick the zeitgeist will remember was playing up in the Hollywood Hills.

Neil Marshall is no stranger to violence. He is also very familiar to successful genre pictures. After all, he made what is arguably one of the best horror films of the last decade with The Descent.

His latest feature Centurion is a little different from his previous works. Well, aside from the fact it is extremely bloody, violent and very intense. It has all of those qualities in spades, but this is a history lesson folks. Stop! Don’t worry; it’s not your father’s history lesson. There is a ton of extreme bloodshed as these warriors defend their people in aggressive ways. At one point, a characters neck is repeatedly whacked with a very sharp object. This looks like one of the most painful beheadings that cinema has ever witnessed.

There is a certain kind of audience that will really enjoy a movie like Piranha 3D, basically anybody going to see a movie about man eating fish. While many critics will tear it apart, like a piece of flesh in piranha infested waters, it’s hard to really trash a movie that is so ridiculously extreme. From the trailers alone, you see a bunch of hot girls on spring break with possibly hundreds of piranha attacking. From that sentence alone it’s quite clear that you are going to have nudity and gore (we’re not counting movies made for SyFy here). So get ready to hear words like ridiculous, exploitive, disgusting, sick, and even offensive. In other words, dig in because this is one of the few flicks this summer that actually delivered what it promised.

When Li Cunxin was a child, he was removed from his home and brought to the Beijing Dance Academy to learn ballet. While it may be more common than one would expect, it is certainly a frightening thought if that were to happen. Yet his parents wanted what’s best for him and many others might feel the same.

That is not where the story of Mao’s Last Dancer begins mind you, as many of Li Cunxin’s (Chi Cao) memories of youth appear throughout the film. We first meet the dancer as a young adult, when he arrives in Texas due to a cultural exchange program. It is there he meets Ben Stevenson (Bruce Greenwood) the artistic director for the Houston Ballet. Even more importantly, he meets an American ballet dancer named Elizabeth Mackey (Amanda Schull). After all, it is with Elizabeth he fell in love, and because of their quick marriage that an international incident occurred.

The USA Network sure knows a thing or two about “character”. Each one of their television series features some uniquely strange leading man who has some sort of issue. While Neal Caffrey (Matt Bomer) from the quirky White Collar clearly has problems like the fact that he’s a criminal, there is a lot to appreciate about him. He’s good-looking, super stylish and a genuinely nice guy… well, a nice guy who happens to be a crook, but this is TV, con men can be cool.

Ah, love is so beautiful when “forever” is written on a Converse and there are a ton of cool indie pop songs played. Lest we forget, you can never have enough teen angst because some girls’ lives are all tough and stuff. Thankfully, we can all live vicariously through Miley Cyrus in The Last Song.