Tag: Chris Ranson

Graphic Novel Capsule Review – Chris Ranson on David Cantero’s Little David (2015)

Movies may be our first love here at Cinefessions, but we are proud dorks in the truest sense of the word. We love not only movies, but video games, books, comics, board games, men and women in spandex, and everything else that goes along with nerd culture. As longtime readers of graphic novels, comics, and…


Graphic Novel Capsule Review – Chris Ranson on Victor Hodge’s The Collected Black Gay Boy Fantasy #1 (2015)

Movies may be our first love here at Cinefessions, but we are proud dorks in the truest sense of the word. We love not only movies, but video games, books, comics, board games, men and women in spandex, and everything else that goes along with nerd culture. As longtime readers of graphic novels, comics, and…


Movie Review – Chris Ranson on No Escape (2015)

Title: No Escape (2015) Director: John Erick Dowdle Runtime: 103 minutes — The Dywer family moves from Austin, Texas, to a fake Asian country (No Escape was filmed in Thailand, but they go out of their way to make sure you know these characters are not in Thailand). Sadly, they happen to arrive just in…


Movie Review – Chris Ranson on Love in the Time of Monsters (2014)

Title: Love in the Time of Monsters (2014) Director: Matt Jackson Runtime: 97 minutes — There I am, minding my own business on Twitter, talking about Zombeavers, when the Twitter account for Love in the Time of Monsters sends me a message saying that their film has something in common with the movie I was…


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 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…


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…