LA Film Festival: ‘Frank’ (d. Lenny Abrahamson)

A provincial young man dreams of writing songs. He is not very good at it. A chance encounter with a touring American band with an unpronounceable name leads to his stepping in for their sectioned keyboard player, travelling to Ireland to spend a year of musical experiments and recording and, through slightly underhand methods, getting […]

Life of Pi

Synopsis: Director Ang Lee creates a groundbreaking movie event about a young man who survives a tragic disaster at sea and is hurtled into an epic journey of adventure and discovery. While marooned on a lifeboat, he forms an amazing and unexpected connection with the ship’s only other survivor…a fearsome Bengal tiger. Release Date: November 21, […]

The Crazies

Synopsis: A small town’s water supply is contaminated and turns the townspeople into lunatics. Release Date: February 26, 2010     MPAA Rating: PG-13 Genre(s): Horror, Drama Film Review Production There’s something in the water and it’s giving this small town in Iowa something to scream about, though I doubt you’ll be screaming with them. The water […]

Valhalla Rising

Synopsis:  Release Date: July 16, 2010     MPAA Rating: PG-13 Genre(s): Action, Film Review Production Watching Valhalla Rising requires an incredible amount of patience and mental stamina. Telling the story of a man named One-Eye, a mute warrior with tremendous strength, who escapes his captors only to journey on a quest into unknown lands, with […]

It’s (Nearly) All About Barbra Streisand At The Guilt Trip Press Conference

On December 19, 2012 Seth Rogen and Barbra Streisand are heading out on the open road in the comedy The Guilt Trip.  I had the pleasure to attend the press conference for The Guilt Trip with Barbra and Seth in attendance, as well as director Anne Fletcher and screenwriter Dan Fogelman.  The questions posed to […]

The Academy Award Nominees And Winners, 2013

The full list of nominees and winners of the 2013 Academy Awards.  Or as we like to call it here at FilmFracture…the Super Bowl of Movies. The full list of nominees and winners of the 2013 Academy Awards.  Or as we like to call it here at FilmFracture…the Super Bowl of Movies. BEST MOTION […]

Cinema Fearité presents The Dunwich Horror (Dir. Daniel Haller 1970)

Aside from Edgar Allan Poe (and possibly Richard Matheson), no writer has had their short stories adapted into horror films more often than H.P. Lovecraft.  Lovecraft has been so influential to the genre that even films which are not direct retellings of his stories, like Sam Raimi’s The Evil Dead series, are based around one […]