The Secret World of Arrietty is the newest film from Studio Ghibli, the animation studio behind such films as Ponyo, Howl’s Moving Castle, and Spirited Away. Directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi with a script written by Hayao Miyazaki and Keiko Niwa, The Secret World of Arrietty is an adaptation of the novel “The Borrowers” by Mary […]
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Cinema Fearité Presents ‘Attack Of The Puppet People’
Samuel Z. Arkoff’s American International Pictures made a habit of capitalizing on the successes of Universal Pictures movies in the 1950s. The production and distribution company pumped out modernizations of the classic monster films, including I Was a Teenage Werewolf and I Was a Teenage Frankenstein. In 1958, hot on the heels of Universal’s The […]
‘The Human Centipede III (Final Sequence)’ – It’s Exactly The Movie That You Think It Is
Synopsis: Taking inspiration from The Human Centipede films, the warden of a notorious and troubled prison looks to create a 500-person human centipede as a solution to his problems. Release Date: May 29, 2015 MPAA Rating: PG-13 Genre(s): Horror, Film Review Production Just when you thought it was safe to go back to your local […]
Anonymous
Synopsis: Set in the political snake-pit of Elizabethan England, Anonymous speculates on an issue that has for centuries intrigued academics and brilliant minds such as Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, and Sigmund Freud, namely: who actually created the body of work credited to William Shakespeare? Experts have debated, books have been written, and scholars have devoted their […]
‘A Fantastic Woman’ Explores Grief And Mourning While Celebrating Love And Strength
Synopsis: Marina, a transsexual woman who works as waitress who moonlights as a nightclub singer, is bowled over by the death of her older boyfriend. Release Date: March 9, 2018 MPAA Rating: PG-13 Genre(s): Drama, Film Review Production Now that the Academy Awards are over, American audiences are finally getting a chance to see the […]
In ‘2012,’ Roland Emmerich Displays His Wicked Sense Of Humor
Roland Emmerich clearly has a great sense of humor for politics because 2012 is full of winks and nods to us while destroying the world in outrageous fashion.
AFI FEST 2012: Film Program Announcements and Festival Events
AFI FEST 2012 is nearly upon the filmmaking community and eager moviegoing audiences while the slate of films to be shown at the festival are slowly being announced. It may be the anticipation over this year’s, and every year’s, AFI FEST that makes it seem like it takes so long to know what is […]
Review: ‘Shame’
‘Shame’ Review Style and performance make ‘Shame’ a must-see. Release Date: December 2, 2011 MPAA Rating: R Synopsis In Shame, Brandon (Michael Fassbender) is a New Yorker who shuns intimacy with women but feeds his desires with a compulsive addiction to sex. When his wayward younger sister (Carey Mulligan) moves into his apartment stirring memories of their shared […]
‘Pixels’ Visuals Are Stunning, Everything Else Only Tolerable
Synopsis: As kids in the 1980s, Sam Brenner (Adam Sandler), Will Cooper (Kevin James), Ludlow Lamonsoff (Josh Gad), and Eddie “The Fire Blaster” Plant (Peter Dinklage) saved the world thousands of times – at 25 cents a game in the video arcades. Now, they’re going to have to do it for real. In Pixels, when intergalactic […]
‘The Big Short’ Is More Fun Than A Movie About The Housing Market Has Any Right To Be
Synopsis: Four outsiders in the world of high-finance who predicted the credit and housing bubble collapse of the mid-2000s decide to take on the big banks for their lack of foresight and greed. Release Date: December 23, 2015 MPAA Rating: PG-13 Genre(s): Biography, Drama Film Review Production At first, one would not think that a […]