Cinefantastique Spotlight Podcast: TREK NATION
The Great Bird Has Landed: Gene Roddenberry and Majel Barrett in a candid moment from TREK NATION. A son goes in search of the father he never quite knew, and the CFQ crew gets introspective enough to...
View ArticleFernando Trueba, Javier Mariscal and Tono Errando on CHICO & RITA
Hot Soul: A singer's love and success in the world of Cuban jazz is explored in CHICO & RITA. Amidst the swashbuckling felines, fast-talking lizards, and kung-fu pandas — plus a cat in Paris — that...
View ArticleBIRDEMIC: SHOCK AND TERROR: A Critics Roundtable
Fear Has a New Name, and It's BIRDEMIC: SHOCK AND TERROR. It’s the rare film that comes along and totally redefines the medium, but such a film is BIRDEMIC: SHOCK AND TERROR. From its striking visual...
View ArticleTemple of Bad: AN AMERICAN CAROL
Wrong thinking is punishable. Extremely right thinking will be as quickly rewarded: Kelsey Grammer (right) tries to show Kevin P. Farley the error of his ways in AN AMERICAN CAROL. Could there be a...
View ArticleGeorge Takei and ALLEGIANCE – A NEW MUSICAL
The Kimura family on the way to internment: Left to right, Lea Salonga (Kei Kimura), Telly Leung (Sammy Kimura), George Takei (Ojii-san) and Paul Nakauchi (Tatsuo Kimura) By Anna Kaplan With Alexander...
View ArticleCinefantastique Spotlight: CLOUD ATLAS
Doona Bae (left) and Jim Sturgess confront a dehumanizing future as two participants of the vast canvas that is CLOUD ATLAS. Who knew that a movie based on an “unfilmable” literary property with a...
View ArticleCinefantastique Spotlight: THE PURGE
Lena Headey and Ethan Hawke play a well-off couple who discover that steel shutters and high-tech surveillance systems are not enough to keep out THE PURGE. THE PURGE had a happy weekend at the...
View ArticleTemple of Bad: BLACKENSTEIN
Joe De Sue demonstrates a keen insight into the human condition in his title role as BLACKENSTEIN. As we’ve previously noted, in the sixties, the revolution wasn’t televised, and film wasn’t always an...
View ArticleHour of the Wolf Movie Review: DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES
Human Jason Clarke finds relations strained with simian neighbors (l to r) Andy Serkis, Toby Kebbell, and Karin Konoval in DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES. This is a trivial question, but it’s been...
View ArticleZOOTOPIA: The Furry Fight Against Trump – Hour of the Wolf Movie Review
Here’s a curious thing: A fun, funny, action-packed animated family film that just by happenstance strikes at the very core of the ugliness behind the presidential campaign of a certain,...
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