Cinefantastique Spotlight Podcast: The Cabin in the Woods
Joss Whedon has just been the busy, busy little bee lately, hasn't he?
Joss Whedon has just been the busy, busy little bee lately, hasn't he?
The Huffington Post | Mike Ryan | Posted 04.11.2012
In 2009, Richard Jenkins featured heavily in Drew Goddard's horror film (but not really a horror film), "The Cabin in the Woods." Then, nothing happen...
Gregory Weinkauf | Posted 01.05.2012
The Rum Diary is veteran English writer-director Bruce Robinson's wild and wonderful first new feature in twenty years (!), as well as his explosive adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson's very early, long-unpublished novel.
Marshall Fine | Posted 12.31.2011
It's the rare film that offers a long-time character actor the opportunity to take center stage - to play a full-bodied lead role that allows him to u...
Carole Mallory | Posted 12.26.2011
It is a pleasure to see Johnny Depp in Rum Diary a film of substance. Finally Depp is without his black pirate eye makeup though he wears shades a go...
Marshall Fine | Posted 12.28.2011
The Rum Diary is like a lengthy drinking binge of a movie: It's fun for a while, seems to offer more meaning than it actually does -- and leaves you wishing it hadn't ended so badly.
Marshall Fine | Posted 12.24.2011
When you've got a main character who's pretending to have cancer - and whose father is actually dying of the disease - and your movie is at least part...
Marshall Fine | Posted 12.21.2011
In Norman, Norman (Dan Byrd) seems like a normal high-school kid: He's smarter than he probably knows, he feels like he's carrying world is on his sho...
Posted 12.12.2011
In 1998, Johnny Depp found a manuscript amongst a pile of old artifacts he was searching through while visiting the home of his good friend Hunter S. ...
Regina Weinreich | Posted 09.21.2011
Summer may be a time to chill, but when it comes to movies, some like it hot. The romantic comedy, Friends With Benefits, may sound smart and snappy with sex that sizzles, but in the end, the message is old fashioned: never let her go.
Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011
The Grateful Dead song title and the involvement of writer Oliver Sacks aside, the first 45 minutes or so of The Music Never Stopped seem to offer a w...
Zorianna Kit | Posted 05.25.2011
How can a film with such a great premise, coupled with with a quartet of genuinely funny and talented actors, end up being such a terrible misfire? B...
Carole Mallory | Posted 05.25.2011
Hall Pass is great fun for both men and women. The Farrelly brothers -- who directed this laugh fest -- rock. Run for the hills from this film if you can't laugh at your humanness.
Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011
I'm not about to debate the value of vulgar humor. But I will say that I welcome the Farrelly brothers back to the R-rated fold with Hall Pass, their funniest film in a decade.
Dan Persons | Posted 05.25.2011
Can a disturbed young boy find true love with the vampire next door? Can Los Alamos, New Mexico afford more than one police officer? Can an American r...
Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011
American remakes of foreign films? That would be a 'no' vote. Having said that, I can heartily recommend Let Me In, the moody, touching American remake of the Swedish vampire film, Let the Right One In, from 2008.
Posted 05.25.2011
Julia Roberts showed a lot of leg at a photocall for 'Eat Pray Love' at the San Sebastian International Film Festival on Monday in Spain. Here she is ...
Tamar Abrams | Posted 05.25.2011
Sunday night, stars will strut on the red carpet showing off their sleek size 2 bodies. Although Nikki Blonsky, star of Hairspray and ABC Family's Hug...
Jenna Busch | Posted 05.25.2011
In Eat Pray Love, Julia Roberts plays a woman who travels around the world for a year to find herself after realizing that the life she was living was not the one she planned.
Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011
I don't think I'm giving much away to say that Dear John is the first of the cinematic adaptations of his books I've encountered in which one of the two lovers at the center of the story doesn't die.
Zorianna Kit | Posted 05.25.2011
The Visitor has earned Jenkins wins and nominations from various film festivals, critics groups, Hollywood guilds and the now the golden goose itself, a nomination from The Academy.
Dan Persons | Posted 04.16.2012