Tag: 2015

Movie Review – Chris Ranson on Poltergeist (2015)

Title: Poltergeist (2015) Director: Gil Kenan Runtime: 93 minutes — I haven’t seen the original Poltergeist film in probably twenty-some years. My memories of it are fuzzy outside of the fact that I did enjoy it, but didn’t care for the sequels. I’ve been racking my brain trying to figure out what was carried over…


Movie Review – Chris Ranson on Tomorrowland (2015)

Title: Tomorrowland (2015) Director: Brad Bird Runtime: 130 minutes — Anyone who knows me knows that I am a huge Disney nerd. I’ve been to both parks in the United States, and I own the entire Disney Animation catalog on DVD and/or Blu-ray. My excitement for Tomorrowland was high, to the point where I bought…


Movie Review – Ashe Collins on Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

Title: Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) Director: George MillerRuntime: 120 minutes  —It’s been thirty years since Max has graced the cinema, so I was decidedly nervous that director George Miller was bringing the anti-hero back to the screen. I shouldn’t have been worried, though, that the seventy-year-old director was returning to the high-speed action genre he…


Movie Review – Chris Ranson on Pitch Perfect 2 (2015)

Title: Pitch Perfect 2 (2015) Director: Elizabeth Banks Runtime: 115 minutes — The original Pitch Perfect was spot-on with what it had to say. Acapella singing wasn’t huge, but had a voice on shows like The Sing Off, which brought us Penatonix, but more on them later. Pitch Perfect came out right when Glee had…


Movie Review – Ashe Collins on Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)

Title: Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) Director: Joss Whedon Runtime: 144 minutes — With the success of the initial Marvel Cinematic Universe: Phase One culminating in the first Avengers film in 2012, it was a forgone conclusion that we’d get more Marvel films tied together. With another Thor, Iron Man, Captain America and a seemingly…


April in The Asylum – Ashe Collins on Hansel vs. Gretel (2015)

For the entire month of April, Cinefessions will once again be locked inside The Asylum, reviewing tons of releases by the famed studio. Every weekday throughout April you will get another Asylum review. Title: Hansel vs. Gretel (2015) Director: Ben Demaree Runtime: 87 minutes — I actually liked Asylum’s mockbuster Hansel & Gretel, which was obviously going after…


April in The Asylum – Chris Ranson on Bound (2015)

For the entire month of April, Cinefessions will once again be locked inside The Asylum, reviewing tons of releases by the famed studio. Every weekday throughout April you will get another Asylum review. April’s podcast will also be devoted to films from The Asylum. Title: Bound (2015) Inspired By: Fifty Shades of Grey (2015) Director: Jared…