Synopsis: Co-directors Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller reunite to bring Miller’s visually stunning “Sin City” graphic novels back to the screen in Sin City: A Dame To Kill For. Weaving together two of Miller’s classic stories with new tales, the town’s most hard boiled citizens cross paths with some of its more reviled inhabitants. Release Date: […]
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‘Trial By Fire’ Fizzles Its Way Through An Important Texas Death Row True Story
Trial By Fire profiles the failures of the criminal justice system as seen in Cameron Todd Willingham’s Texas Death Row case – but it doesn’t do it well enough.
‘Into the Woods’ Captures The Spirit Of Sondheim In A Fun Hollywood Mashup
Adapted from James Lapine’s book and with the music of Sondheim, Rob Marshall’s Into the Woods is a great deal of fun to watch.
Cinema Fearité Presents Mario Bava’s Fantastically Surreal And Intentionally Confusing ‘Kill Baby, Kill’
Because of the overwhelming volume of Hollywood films that are made and the success of the horror genre, the modern horror movie is a fairly American phenomenon. However, the influence of European filmmakers on these films cannot be understated, whether those roots fall within the surrealism of German Expressionism or the eerie Gothicism of Britain’s […]
‘Percy Jackson: Sea Of Monsters’ Is A Quick And Dirty Fantasy-Adventure You Won’t Hate
Synopsis: Percy Jackson, accompanied by his friends Annabeth Chase, Clarisse La Rue and Tyson, his half brother, go on a journey to the Sea of Monsters to retrieve the Golden Fleece and save Camp Half-Blood. Release Date: August 7, 2013 MPAA Rating: PG-13 Genre(s): Action, Fantasy Film Review Production Based on the best-selling “Percy Jackson […]
The Eagle
Synopsis: In 2nd-Century Britain, two men – master and slave – venture beyond the edge of the known world on a dangerous and obsessive quest that will push them beyond the boundaries of loyalty and betrayal, friendship and hatred, deceit and heroism Release Date: February 11, 2011 MPAA Rating: PG-13 Genre(s): Action, Adventure Film Review […]
‘Kung Fu Killer’ – Come For The Fighting, Stay For The Fighting
Synopsis: A martial arts instructor from the police force gets imprisoned after killing a man by accident. But when a vicious killer starts targeting martial arts masters, the instructor offers to help the police in return for his freedom. Release Date: May 22, 2015 MPAA Rating: PG-13 Genre(s): Action, Thriller Film Review Production Kung Fu […]
‘Wonder Woman’ Is Here To Save The DC Cinematic Universe…Or At Least Get It Some Respect
Like any good superhero movie, Wonder Woman is more action than talk.
‘Suffragette’ Is An Woefully Passionless Passion Project
Synopsis: The foot soldiers of the early feminist movement, women who were forced underground to pursue a dangerous game of cat and mouse with an increasingly brutal State. Release Date: November 6, 2015 MPAA Rating: PG-13 Genre(s): Drama, History Film Review Production This year, there has been a surprising number of movies about civil disobedience. […]
Cinema Fearité Presents ‘Mazes And Monsters’ – Or Is It ‘Dungeons And Dragons?’
Cinema Fearité Presents ‘Mazes and Monsters’ Satanic Panic hits the small screen with ‘Mazes and Monsters.’ The Satanic Panic of the late seventies and early eighties was legendary. Stuffy parents and politicians found references to Satanism and Devil Worship in just about everything fun, from rock music to computer games. And when the smoke cleared, […]
