The New Poster For Oz The Great and Powerful Is Positively Wicked

A brand-new poster has been released for Oz The Great and Powerful and it is positively wicked; wicked witch wicked of course.  A brand-new poster has been released for Oz The Great and Powerful and it is positively wicked; wicked witch wicked of course.  Disney’s fantastical adventure Oz The Great and Powerful, […]

Film Review: ‘The Fantastic Mr. Fox’

Synopsis: A group of angry farmers try and get rid of a fox and his family so they will not have to share their chickens any longer. Release Date: November 25, 2009     MPAA Rating: PG-13 Genre(s): Animation, Adventure Film Review Production This movie may be animated but it’s not a movie for children alone. It […]

RIFF Film Review: Soul Kitchen

It was a slightly chilly day in Reykavik, Iceland with small bouts of rain and winds that breathe a shock into your system.  What better way to spend the day then in a movie theater?  Or as I see it, the opposite of what people did during the heatwaves in the United States prior to […]

The Informant

Synopsis: Based on the true story of Mark Whitacre, a bipolar man, who blew the whistle on Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) for the company’s price fixing tactics. Release Date: September 18, 2009     MPAA Rating: PG-13 Genre(s): Thriller, Drama Film Review Production Welcome to the wonderful world of white-collar crime. The Informant! is the mostly true […]

Cinema Fearité Presents ‘Deadly Blessing,’ An Early Wes Craven Shocker

Although he wouldn’t become a household name until A Nightmare on Elm Street in 1984, Wes Craven spent the seventies building up his legacy with low budget shockers like The Last House on the Left and The Hills Have Eyes.  In retrospect, these films are highly revered, but they were seen as little more than […]

Cinema Fearité presents Crawlspace (Dir. David Schmoeller 1986)

For the past five years or so, the horror genre has been saturated with a new subset of films that critics have dubbed “torture porn,” meaning that the films pay more attention to sickening gore than a cohesive plot.  While films like Saw and Hostel seem fresh and new, one only needs to look back […]

The Last Exorcism Part II

Synopsis: Continuing where the first film left off, Nell Sweetzer (Ashley Bell) is found terrified and alone in rural Louisiana. Back in the relative safety of New Orleans, Nell realizes that she can’t remember entire portions of the previous months only that she is the last surviving member of her family. Just as Nell begins the […]

The Back-Up Plan

Synopsis: After becoming pregnant through artificial insemination, a woman meets the man of her dreams. Release Date: April 26, 2010     MPAA Rating: PG-13 Genre(s): Romantic Comedy, Film Review Production In life, nothing ever seems to go as planned and well, that is what makes it so much fun; as this film points out time and […]