Synopsis: Six years after the violent death of her husband, Amelia (Essie Davis) is at a loss. She struggles to discipline her”out of control’ 6-year-old, Samuel (Noah Wiseman), a son she finds impossible to love. Samuel’s dreams are plagued by a monster he believes is coming to kill them both. When a disturbing storybook called ‘The […]
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LA Film Fest Review: Neighboring Sounds (O soma ao redor) (Dir. Kleber Mendonça Filho 2012 Brazil)
The sounds are heard around a burgeoning middle-class street in Brazil’s Recife, half of which used to be owned by silver-bearded patriarch Francisco, but which is now mostly tower blocks. First-time feature director Kleber Mendonça Filho reworks some of his shorts material to lay out a mosaic of life on this particular, present-day street, both […]
Touch Of Noir: Fritz Lang’s Noir Nightmares ‘Scarlet Street’ and ‘The Woman In The Window’
Film noir was born from the evocative shadow play of German Expressionism. As one of the greats of Expressionist cinema, it is only fitting that after fleeing the Nazis Fritz Lang would reinvent himself by making highly stylized noir films in Hollywood. Fritz Lang is best remembered for his classics Metropolis and M, but […]
With ‘You Were Never Really Here,’ Lynne Ramsay Gets Dark Again
You Were Never Really Here is simultaneously gorgeous and ugly, and the score by Jonny Greenwood of Radiohead matches the tone perfectly.
‘The Isle’ Stumbles Despite Mild Intrigue
The Isle is pretty like a travel commercial but does not provide anything new for the horror genre, besides making you recall what better horror movies there are to see.
Jonah Hex
Synopsis: A supernatural gunslinger faces an old enemy. Release Date: June 18, 2010 MPAA Rating: PG-13 Genre(s): Western, Horror Film Review Production Listless: Having or showing no interest. That about sums up the feeling a viewer has while watching “Jonah Hex”. The film quickly establishes the backstory of Jonah and why he now leads the […]
‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ Starts Strong Then Unravels
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World starts out strong and then unravels, leaving you to wonder why anyone would find this character or story interesting.
Cinema Fearité Presents ‘Cannibal Holocaust’ – A Legendary Faux-Documentary That Did Its Job A Little Too Well
The reason that The Blair Witch Project was so effective is that audiences thought that it was real; the movie had a genius viral internet marketing campaign that helped fool the public into believing that the three filmmakers were really missing and presumed dead. Unfortunately, now that the hoax has been exposed and every aspiring […]
Film Rave: The Five-Year Engagement as presented by Film Independent at LACMA
The romantic comedy genre doesn’t leave room for too many surprises. We know that at some point a boy will meet a girl, the boy will do something foolish and lose the girl, and then the boy will eventually get the girl back with a heartfelt speech, or a symbolic gesture of some sort. And […]
Cinema Fearité Presents Ida Lupino’s ‘The Hitch-Hiker,’ A Simply Suspenseful Noir Thriller
Renaissance woman Ida Lupino knew more about filmmaking than most, and the noir thriller The Hitch-Hiker shows just how talented and inventive she could be.