Synopsis: A troubled family must face the facts when something goes terribly wrong at their son’s desolate military post. Release Date: March 30, 2018 MPAA Rating: PG-13 Genre(s): Drama, Film Review Production It’s no secret that overseas films take a while to get released in America. The Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film had already […]
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The Great Possibilities And Great Disappointment In Juan Solaris’ ‘Upside Down’
There is a great deal that can be inferred by writer-director Juan Solaris’ Upside Down, depending on the context in which you view the film. At the simplest level it is a love story about two people from different stations in life who desperately want to be together even though it is forbidden–a tale as […]
Underworld: Awakening
Synopsis: UNDERWORLD AWAKENING brings a stunning new dimension to the epic battle between Vampires and Lycans, as the first film in the franchise to shoot in 3D. Kate Beckinsale, star of the first two films, returns in her lead role as the vampire warrioress Selene, who escapes imprisonment to find herself in a world where humans […]
Cinema Fearité Continues Its Tribute To Women In Horror Month With ‘Pet Sematary’ – Mary Lambert’s Faithful Adaptation Of A Horrifying Stephen King Story
Last week, Cinema Fearité celebrated Women in Horror Month by taking a look at Mary Harron’s American Psycho. We’re continuing the party this week by featuring another classic fright flick directed by a member of the fairer sex – Mary Lambert’s 1989 Stephen King adaptation of Pet Sematary. Pet Sematary is about a […]
Impressive Visuals In ‘R.I.P.D.’ Almost Make Up For The Film’s Glaring Weaknesses…Almost
Synopsis: Veteran sheriff Roy Pulsifer (Bridges) has spent his career with the legendary police force known as R.I.P.D. tracking monstrous spirits who are cleverly disguised as ordinary people. His mission? To arrest and bring to justice a special brand of criminals trying to escape final judgment by hiding among the unsuspecting on Earth. Once the wise-cracking […]
‘Overlord’ Brings New Meaning To ‘The Horrors Of War’
Not a ‘Cloverfield’ movie, nor a zombie movie, ‘Overlord’ brings the horror to a group of paratroopers in World War II.
AFI FEST 2012 Film Review: Like Someone In Love (Dir. Abbas Kiarostami France/Japan 2012 )
Abbas Kiarostami has gone to Japan, and why not? Like Someone In Love is less obviously tricksy than his last, and his first outside of Iran, Certified Copy [2010]; and it reveals a little more of what was obvious all along – that Kiarostami’s interests lie in people, identity, and communication (between characters, and with […]
The Making of The Pirates! Band of Misfits, Crew Featurette
Columbia Pictures, Sony Pictures Animation Inc., and Aardman Animations Limited present The Pirates! Band of Misfits on April 27, 2012, an animated claymation feature film starring, what else but, Pirates! Arrgghhh… Go behind the scenes and see just how The Pirates! Band of Misfits came to be. Columbia Pictures, Sony Pictures Animation Inc., and […]
Zero Dark Thirty
Synopsis: For a decade, an elite team of intelligence and military operatives, working in secret across the globe, devoted themselves to a single goal: to find and eliminate Osama bin Laden. Zero Dark Thirty reunites the Oscar winning team of director-producer Kathryn Bigelow and writer0producer Mark Boal (The Hurt Locker) for the story of history’s greatest […]
‘Wreck-It Ralph’ Confidently Addresses Self Confidence, Acceptance
Themes of self-discovery and acceptance are heavy subject material for an animated film, but Wreck-It Ralph handles them with confidence and never becomes too preachy or saccharine.
