Augustine is one of the harder sorts of films to write about, being handsomely mounted, with appealing leads and an interesting story, a minimum of pandering or condescension towards the audience, and fully aware of the ramifications of its subject matter. The problem is, it’s just not very interesting. Augustine was a patient of […]
2013
Film Rant: ‘Assault On Wall Street’ Is A Sickening Display Of Domestic Terrorism
Assault On Wall Street is one of the most confounding movies you could ever watch; although I am not necessarily suggesting you watch it. Set amidst the most recent financial crisis in the United States, it tells the story of a man who has every possible negative outcome occur in his life stemming from the […]
Cinema Fearité Remembers The Influential Work Of Ray Harryhausen In ‘It Came From Beneath The Sea’
This week, the motion picture industry lost one of its most influential figures. Special effects artist Ray Harryhausen passed away in London at the age of 92. Harryhausen’s stop-motion animation techniques are the stuff of legends, from the ape in Mighty Joe Young (which won an Oscar for best visual effects) to the medusa in […]
Film Rave: Favoring Style Over Substance, Baz Luhrmann’s ‘The Great Gatsby’ Is A Frenetically Paced Extravagant Affair
Oh, the green light. If you have read the novel “The Great Gatsby,” by F. Scott Fitzgerald, you are well aware of the green light, and everything it stood for in the story. It exists in the most recent film adaptation by director Baz Lurhmann, The Great Gatsby, coupled with an exaggerated quality of decadence […]
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 […]