Grandma is a highly enjoyable movie, and the lead role fits Lily Tomlin’s comedic sensibilities like a glove, but it’s not all rainbows and unicorns.
Cinema Fearité Presents ‘The Drums of Jeopardy’ – A Talkie Remake Of A Silent Adaptation Of A Broadway Play That Was Based On A Serialized Novel
The introduction of sound in motion pictures was a fairly gradual thing; it’s not like every movie suddenly had synchronized sound one weekend, the slow transformation occurred over several years in the late twenties and early thirties. Over that time, many studios double-dipped, remaking silent movies with sound and releasing them as a whole new […]
Cinema Fearité Presents ‘They Live’ – A Fond And Fighting Farewell To ‘Rowdy’ Roddy Piper
Last week, the world lost a bona-fide icon when professional wrestler/action star Roderick George Toombs, better known as “Rowdy” Roddy Piper, died of cardiac arrest at the age of 61. Inside the ring, the fan-favorite Piper was primarily a villain in the WWF (later the WWE) and WCW, but on the screen, he was a […]
‘Listen to Me Marlon’ Lets Marlon Brando Tell His Own Story, In His Own Words, With His Own Voice
In the early eighties, legendary actor Marlon Brando had the features of his head scanned and digitized by a special effects house, thinking that someday in the near future, actors would be replaced by computer generated images of themselves, therefore rendering themselves obsolete. It is both fun and fitting that director Stevan Riley (Fire in […]
‘A LEGO Brickumentary’ Teaches You Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About LEGOs But Were Afraid To Ask
To the uninitiated, it would seem as if the LEGO toy brand was thrust into the limelight by last year’s The LEGO Movie, but truthfully, the beloved construction toy was always there. Now, A LEGO Brickumentary tells curious viewers everything they ever wanted to know about one of the world’s most popular toy companies. […]