Hollywood lost another icon this week as influential writer Richard Matheson passed away at his home in Calabasas, California at the age of 87. Even if his name is not immediately recognizable, his stories certainly are. He wrote the most instantly recognizable episodes of “The Twilight Zone,” including “Nightmare at 20,000 Feet” and “Steel.” His […]
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AFI FEST 2012 Film Review: A Highjacking (Kapringen) (Dir. Tobias Lindholm Denmark 2012 )
Director Tobias Lindholm’s first feature film R was a gritty prison drama that upheaved the generic genre conventions that came before. His second feature takes a drastic look at a very topical subject, and one very much ignored in detail in the media–except for the sensationalizing of pirates sailing the open sea. A Highjacking is […]
Box Office Battle: April 2019 Movie Releases
Every April 2019 movie release in theaters plus who will win the box office each weekend – can any movie beat Avengers: Endgame? Maybe.
‘Pet Sematary’ (2019) Breathes New Life Into An Old Classic
This is not your parent’s Pet Sematary. The 2019 Pet Sematary is better, with scares that you cannot escape (it will get you one way or another).
‘Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit’ Brings The Clancy Hero Into A Post-9/11 World
Synopsis: Based on the CIA analyst created by espionage master Tom Clancy, Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit is a blistering action thriller that follows Ryan (Chris Pine, Star Trek) from his quiet double-life as a veteran-turned-Wall Street executive to his all-out initiation as a hunted American agent on the trail of a massive terrorist plot in Moscow. […]
The Adjustment Bureau
Synopsis: Do we control our destiny, or do unseen forces manipulate us? Matt Damon stars in the thriller The Adjustment Bureau as a man who glimpses the future Fate has planned for him and realizes he wants something else. To get it, he must pursue the only woman he’s ever loved across, under and through the […]
Coming Soon: What To Expect When You’re Expecting
The New York Times best-selling book, “What to Expect When You’re Expecting” by Heidi Murkoff, has been read by millions of soon-to-be mothers and fathers since its publication. Screenwriters Shauna Cross (Whip It) and Heather Hach (Freaky Friday) draw their inspiration for the film of the same name with What To Expect When You’re Expecting, […]
For Better And For Worse, ‘Dunkirk’ Immerses Its Audience In The Horrors Of War
Christopher Nolan tells a compelling story in an interesting way with Dunkirk and continues his auteur streak of films.
‘A Walk Among the Tombstones’ Recycles The Same Liam Neeson Character Into A Paint-By-Numbers Crime Drama
Synopsis: Formerly a detective with the NYPD, now a recovering alcoholic haunted by regrets, Matt Scudder has a lot to make up for. When a series of kidnappings targeting the city’s worst drug criminals escalates to grisly murder, the circuit’s ruthless leader convinces Scudder to find the culprits and bring them to bloody justice. Working as […]
Cinema Fearité Presents ‘The Silence Of The Lambs’ – Horror Oscar Gold Twenty-Six Years Before ‘The Shape Of Water’
Horror fans everywhere are celebrating the Oscar success of Guillermo del Toro’s The Shape of Water, which won best picture and best director (among a handful of other honors), and Jordan Peele’s Get Out, which took best original screenplay, at this year’s awards. Horror(ish) movies at the Oscars are rare, but not unheard of. The […]
