Synopsis: Two Puerto Rican NYPD detectives head to Paris to track down a stolen handbag. Release Date: June 10, 2016 MPAA Rating: PG-13 Genre(s): Comedy, Film Review Production From Beverly Hills Cop to Hot Fuzz, people love fish-out-of-water cop movies. At least, they used to; there’s not a whole lot to love about Puerto Ricans […]
Cinema Fearité Presents ‘Graduation Day’ – Helping All Of The Grads Out There Celebrate With A Golden Age Slasher
It’s graduation time, the point of the year where students switch the tassels over to the other side before tossing the whole cap into the air. Cinema Fearité’s quest to remain timely is just as fervent as any recent grads’ thirst for knowledge, so this week, we’ve got a movie that is both seminal and […]
Cinema Fearité Presents ‘First Man Into Space’ – Sci-Fi Creature Feature That Beat The Russians By Two Years
On April 12, 1961, the Soviets put a man into space. Twenty-three days later, the Americans repeated the feat. Both events played a huge part in the so-called Space Race, but Hollywood beat them both to the punch, putting a human into space two years earlier in 1959 with the aptly-titled First Man Into Space. […]
Cinema Fearité Presents ‘Final Exam’ – A Golden Age Slasher That Passes…With A Solid C-
In the world of slasher movies, there are two never-fail scenarios. The first is the killer-in-the-woods, which Cinema Fearité has explored several times over the years with features about Madman, The Burning, The Final Terror, Sleepaway Camp, and Just Before Dawn. The other is the university-kids-being-stalked motif, which we’ve covered with Terror Train and The […]
Cinema Fearité Remembers Wayne Crawford With ‘Barracuda’ – A Mutant Fish Movie Made By A True Renaissance Man
This past weekend saw the untimely death of Wayne Crawford at the comparatively young age of 69. Crawford is probably best known for producing such cult classics as Valley Girl and Night of the Comet, but he was also a talented writer, director, and actor. And sometimes, he did it all in the same movie. […]