Michelle Williams will silence a lot of her critics with this role. From the first shot of her, she becomes Marilyn Monroe.
Cinema Fearité presents Trick or Treat (Dir. Charles Martin Smith 1986)
Before either of them were famous reality T.V. stars, Gene Simmons from Kiss and Ozzy Osbourne from Black Sabbath were serious musicians. In 1986, both rockers lent their names and talents to a heavy metal horror film called Trick or Treat, foreshadowing the career path they would follow in the decades to come. While Simmons’ […]
The Rum Diary
Synopsis: Based on the early novel by Hunter S. Thompson, The Rum Diary tells the increasingly unhinged story of itinerant journalist Paul Kemp (Johnny Depp). Tiring of the noise and madness of New York and the crushing conventions of late Eisenhower-era America, Kemp travels to the pristine island of Puerto Rico to write for a local […]
Cinema Fearité presents The Brain That Wouldn’t Die (Dir. Joseph Green 1962)
The fifties and sixties were a fertile time for B-movies, and everyone with a half-decent story idea and a little money could make a film that, little did they know, would be kept alive by cult followers and public domain archives. Written by producer Rex Carlton and director Joseph Green, The Brain That Wouldn’t Die […]
Toast
Synopsis: Young Nigel Slater (Freddie Highmore) has big culinary aspirations, even though all his mother (Victoria Hamilton) knows how to make is toast. When his mother dies, relations grow strained between Nigel and his father (Ken Stott), especially when he remarries a woman (Helena Bonham Carter) who wins his heart with a lemon meringue pie. Nigel […]
