The American

Synopsis: An assassin hides out in Italy for one last assignment. Release Date: September 1, 2010     MPAA Rating: PG-13 Genre(s): Action, Mystery Film Review Production The title of this film makes complete sense as the main character is an American in Italy. The rest of it is nothing like its marketing campaign would have you […]

Asghar Farhadi’s Clever And Nothing More ‘The Past’

Like Asghar Farhadi’s previous film, A Separation (2011), Le passé (The Past) is a superb feat of narrative construction and mise en scène, keeping three to four characters at the centre of attention, and balancing their motives and desires with careful equanimity. The problem is that there’s little more to recommend the film than this […]

Cedar Rapids

Synopsis: To call insurance agent Tim Lippe (Ed Helms), “naïve” is a gross understatement. He’s never left his small hometown. He’s never stayed at a hotel. And he’s never experienced anything like Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Sent to represent his company at the annual insurance convention, Tim is soon distracted by three convention veterans (John C. Reilly, […]

Film Review: ‘Bedtime Stories’

Synopsis: While an uncle babysits his niece and nephew for a week he finds the bedtime stories they tell together are affecting his real life, by coming true. Release Date: December 25, 2008     MPAA Rating: PG-13 Genre(s): Children and Family, Comedy Film Review Production The film is highly entertaining, exciting and imaginative for both adults […]

Gentlemen Broncos

Synopsis: An eccentric home-schooled boy sets off on an offbeat journey when his story gets ripped off by a legendary fantasy novelist and adapted into a disastrous movie. Release Date: October 30, 2009     MPAA Rating: PG-13 Genre(s): Comedy, Film Review Production The mixing of comedy and science fiction in this film turns out something that […]

If You Can’t Beat Them, Join Them…The Movie Theatre and Video-On-Demand

-An Alternative Method for Theatre Chains to Keep Films Their Own, and Cater to the At-Home Audience.- There has been lots of talking, scoffing, and downright outrage as of late about the recent news that certain film studios will begin distributing their movies via at home service providers (DirecTV launches a VOD service this week) […]

Cinema Fearité presents Deranged (Dir. Ormsby and Jeff Gillen 1974)

In all the annals of the horror movie archives, perhaps no real person has inspired more films than the serial killer Ed Gein.  Gein’s life has provided the basis for such legendary villains as Norman Bates in Psycho, Leatherface in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and Buffalo Bill in The Silence of the Lambs.  Not […]