‘Southpaw’ Is A Predictable Boxing Melodrama With Solid Performances

Synopsis: From acclaimed director Antoine Fuqua (Training Day) and screenwriter Kurt Sutter (“Sons of Anarchy”), Southpaw tells the riveting story of Billy “The Great” Hope, reigning Junior Middleweight Boxing Champion of the World (Academy Award nominee Jake Gyllenhaal). Billy Hope seemingly has it all with an impressive career, a beautiful and loving wife (Rachel McAdams), an […]

AFI FEST 2012: Film Program Announcements and Festival Events

AFI FEST 2012 is nearly upon the filmmaking community and eager moviegoing audiences while the slate of films to be shown at the festival are slowly being announced.  It may be the anticipation over this year’s, and every year’s, AFI FEST that makes it seem like it takes so long to know what is […]

Safe House

Synopsis: Oscar winner Denzel Washington and Ryan Reynolds star in the action-thriller Safe House. Washington plays the CIA’s most dangerous traitor, who stuns the intelligence community when he surfaces in South Africa. When the safe house to which he’s remanded is attacked by brutal mercenaries, a rookie (Reynolds) is forced to help him escape. As the […]

As Hard As It Tries, ‘The Bye Bye Man’ Is Not Going To Be The Next Big Horror Icon

Synopsis: Three friends stumble upon the horrific origins of the Bye Bye Man, a mysterious figure they discover is the root cause of the evil behind man’s most unspeakable acts. Release Date: January 13, 2017     MPAA Rating: PG-13 Genre(s): Horror, Thriller Film Review Production January is typically a dumping point for movies, particularly for the […]

Spike Jonze’s ‘Her’ Presents The Beauty Of Love Through Technology

Synopsis: Set in Los Angeles in the slight future, Her follows Theodore (Joaquin Phoenix), a complex, soulful man who makes his living writing touching, personal letters for other people.  Heartbroken after the end of a long relationship, he becomes intrigued with a new, advanced operating system, which promises to be an intuitive and unique entity in […]

Cinema Fearité Presents ‘Grotesque’ – Linda Blair, Scary Punks, And The Halloween III Masks

In a way, Linda Blair had it easy; her breakout role as Regan, the possessed child in The Exorcist, came very early in her career when she was barely into her teens. The down side to this is that Blair has never been able to duplicate the success of her signature performance. Since The Exorcist, Blair has worked fairly steadily in the mainstream, making guest appearances on television shows such as “The Love Boat” and “Supernatural,” but has also never stopped making cult horror movies like Hell Night and The Chilling. One of her lesser-known horror outings was a movie that she produced as well as starred in, a 1988 gore-fest called, appropriately enough, Grotesque.

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest

Synopsis:  Release Date: October 29, 2010     MPAA Rating: PG-13 Genre(s): Drama, Thriller Film Review Production Beginning exactly where the second film ended this third installment in the Millennium trilogy fails to acknowledge the possibility of a new viewer to the series. For the returnee it will require a very good memory as to prior […]