‘While We’re Young’ – A Coming-Of-Age Film For Those Who Have Already Come-Of-Age

Synopsis: A middle-aged couple’s career and marriage are overturned when a disarming young couple enters their lives. Release Date: April 3, 2015     MPAA Rating: PG-13 Genre(s): Comedy, Drama Film Review Production It’s said that everything old is new again. That explains why teenage girls shop for vintage dresses and twenty-something music snobs buy expensive stereo […]

Cinema Fearité Presents ‘The Mask,’ A Canadian 3D Classic With A Great Gimmick

Nowadays, the big gimmick at the cinema is 3D.  From silly monster movies like I, Frankenstein and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter to Oscar-bait films such as Gravity and Avatar, seemingly every modern big-budget movie gets a 3D release.  Hollywood even trips over itself to re-release hits like Titanic and Jurassic Park in 3D in an […]

With ‘Digging Up The Marrow,’ Adam Green Makes A “Good” Found Footage Movie

Synopsis: A filmmaker (Adam Green) sets out on a bone-chilling odyssey after meeting a man (Ray Wise) who says that he can produce hard evidence that monsters are real. Release Date: February 20, 2015     MPAA Rating: PG-13 Genre(s): Horror, Film Review Production The idea for Digging Up the Marrow was spawned out of the real-life […]

LALIFF Film Review: Bedrooms

One of the most anticipated films of the Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival, 2010, was Bedrooms.  A unique film in that it tells four separate stories, directed by three different men.  The first and second, “Anna, Sal and Harry” and “Marnie, Walter and Roger” (Youssef Delara); the third, “Janet, Max and Daisy” (Michael D. […]

Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance

Synopsis: Nicolas Cage reprises his role as Johnny Blaze in Ghost Rider Spirit of Vengeance. In this gritty new vision for the character, directed by Neveldine/Taylor (Crank), Johnny is still struggling with his curse as the devil’s bounty hunter – but he may risk everything as he teams up with the leader of a group of […]

‘White Bird In A Blizzard’ Is A Mystery That No One Is Trying To Solve

Synopsis: Kat Connors is 17 years old when her perfect homemaker mother, Eve, a beautiful, enigmatic, and haunted woman, disappears – just as Kat is discovering and relishing her newfound sexuality. Having lived for so long in a stifled, emotionally repressed household, she barely registers her mother’s absence and certainly doesn’t blame her doormat of a […]

‘Gone Girl’ Plays A Little Too Fast And Loose With Tone

Synopsis: Gone Girl – directed by David Fincher and based upon the global bestseller by Gillian Flynn – unearths the secrets at the heart of a modern marriage. On the occasion of his fifth wedding anniversary, Nick Dunne (Ben Affleck) reports that his beautiful wife, Amy (Rosamund Pike), has gone missing. Under pressure from the police […]

Film Review: ‘The Descendants’

The Descendants’s is full of natural and honest performances and a script that leaves nothing to chance on what reaction the viewer will exhibit. The film stays with you, it challenges you to examine your own relationships, the good and the bad. The Descendants is a movie for people who truly love great dramatic movies–award worthy movies.