Film Review: ‘Surrogates’

Synopsis: In Surrogates, FBI Agents investigate the murder of the man who created a high-tech surrogate program where people can purchase unflawed robotic versions of themselves. Release Date: September 25, 2009     MPAA Rating: PG-13 Genre(s): Science Fiction, Thriller Film Review Production In this world of freaky doll-like surrogates the term ‘plastics’ takes on a whole new […]

Disney at CinemaCon Brings Out The Stars to Showcase Their Slate of Movies

Walt Disney Pictures showcased a very large slate of movies coming to theatres in the next year, give or take, from Disney/Marvel/Pixar/DreamWorks.  They also brought out the stars of the films to Cinemacon to join in the festivities.  Johnny Depp was there for The Lone Ranger, John C. Reilly for Wreck It Ralph, Jennifer Garner […]

AFI FEST Film Review: Cargo

  Shown during the midnight movie portion of AFI FEST, 2010, Cargo is the first ever science fiction film from Switzerland. Made over a period of eight years it has the much needed visual style to compete with the more mainstream science fiction films and enough mystery and suspense to appease the casual viewer. […]

‘Final Portrait’ Wastes A Pair Of Great Performances On The Tedium Of Portrait Modeling

Synopsis: The story of Swiss painter and sculptor Alberto Giacometti. Release Date: April 20, 2018     MPAA Rating: PG-13 Genre(s): Biography, Comedy Film Review Production In 1964, American art lover and writer James Lord sat for a painting by his friend, the legendary painter Alberto Giacometti. What initially was supposed to only be a two-hour session […]

Film Review: ‘Gigantic’

Great movies transform the bored spectator into an active participant by completely transporting him or her to another world. It could be a fantastical world full of adventure or a bleak reality full of loneliness and despair. Either or, the viewer expects some kind of fulfillment from a film after dedicating two hours of life to sitting in front of a flickering screen. If it’s a comedy, we want to laugh, if it’s a drama, we long for tension and emotion, and even from a documentary based on actuality, we crave insight and the sense that we learned something new. In a way, Gigantic tries to be all of these things, but it fails miserably because it tries too hard to be original, quirky, and to be “real.”

Coming Soon: Men In Black 3

Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones return this Summer in Men In Black 3, with a little help from Josh Brolin as well, playing a young Jones’ character, Agent K.  The need for younger counterparts to varying characters is simple, this time around Agent J (Smith) is going back in time.  I wonder what aliens […]

Cinema Fearité presents Home Sweet Home (Dir. Nettie Peña 1981)

There seems to be a slasher film about every holiday imaginable – Halloween, Christmas, Birthdays, even April Fools’ Day, they all have their own movies.  The holiday of Thanksgiving is ruefully underrepresented in the catalog of horror.  In 1981, director Nettie Peña tried to exploit the thus-far unexploited with Home Sweet Home, and the resulting […]

LAFF Film Review: ‘Haunters’ (Choneung ryukja)

From Korea comes Director Kim Min-suk’s Haunters.  A film centered around two men specifically who both harbor exceptional abilities.  Kyu-nam (Koo So) believes himself to be ordinary.  Having just lost his job at a junk yard he is seeking employment.  He finds work at a pawn shop, and believes this is the moment his life […]