LAFF Film Review: The Guard

Sgt. Gerry Boyle is an Irish Guard, aka policeman, in a small town in the West of Ireland.  As the man in charge he takes little, if anything, seriously.  When his newest recruit and he discover a dead body of a man they do not recognize it is with dark humor, and a general sense […]

The Smurfs

Synopsis: The Smurfs make their first 3D trip to the big screen in Columbia Pictures’/Sony Pictures Animation’s hybrid live-action and animated family comedy, The Smurfs. When the evil wizard Gargamel chases the Smurfs out of their village, they’re forced through a portal, out of their world and into ours, landing in the middle of New York’s […]

The Help

Synopsis: Based on one of the most talked about books in years and a #1 New York Times best-selling phenomenon, “The Help” stars Emma Stone (“Easy A”) as Skeeter, Academy Award-nominated Viola Davis (“Doubt”) as Aibileen and Octavia Spencer as Minny-three very different, extraordinary women in Mississippi during the 1960s, who build an unlikely friendship around […]

Cinema Fearité presents Nightmares (Dir. John D. Lamond 1980

After the success of John Carpenter’s Halloween, scores of slasher movies flooded theaters with hopes of being the next big scare.  It was only a matter of time before the Australian low-budget “Ozploitation” filmmakers would get on board.  In 1980, director John D. Lamond (Felicity) made his only horror film, a psychological thriller called Nightmares […]

‘Arrival’ Takes A Classic Science Fiction Theme And Thrusts It Into The Modern Age

Synopsis: A linguist is recruited by the military to assist in translating alien communications. Release Date: November 11, 2016     MPAA Rating: PG-13 Genre(s): Drama, Mystery Film Review Production Remember that old episode of “The Twilight Zone,” the one called “To Serve Man,” where aliens landed on Earth and all the humans were running around suspicious […]

‘Spy’ Is More Than Just Your Average ‘James Bond’ Spoof

Synopsis: Susan Cooper (Melissa McCarthy) is an unassuming, deskbound CIA analyst, and the unsung hero behind the Agency’s most dangerous missions. But when her partner (Jude Law) falls off the grid and another top agent (Jason Statham) is compromised, she volunteers to go deep undercover to infiltrate the world of a deadly arms dealer, and prevent […]

Shark Night 3D

Synopsis: Arriving by boat at her family’s Louisiana lake island cabin, Sara (Sara Paxton) and her friends quickly strip down to their swimsuits for a weekend of fun in the sun. But when star football player Malik (Sinqua Walls) stumbles from the salt-water lake with his arm torn off, the party mood quickly evaporates. Assuming the […]

‘Big Stone Gap’ – A Slice Of Small-Town Living That May Be A Little Too Authentic

Synopsis: In a small town nestled in the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia, self-proclaimed spinster Ave Maria Mulligan finds her life shaken up and forever changed after learning a long-buried family secret. Release Date: October 9, 2015     MPAA Rating: PG-13 Genre(s): Comedy, Romance Film Review Production Set in 1978 in the coal mining town in Virginia […]