Category: Movie Related

13 Days of Halloween: Day 3 – Ashe Collins on Crystal Lake Memories (2013)

Title: Crystal Lake Memories: The Complete History of Friday the 13th (2013) Director: Daniel Farrands Runtime: 400 minutes — Chris actually picked Crystal Lake Memories for me to stonewall my efforts in this past year’s Cinefessions Summer Screams Challenge. The idea was that I would spend over six hours of time earning one measly point. …


13 Days of Halloween: Day 2 – Branden Chowen on Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2012)

Title: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2012) Director: Timur Bekmambetov Runtime: 105 minutes — Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter gained fame back in 2011 when Seth Grahame-Smith released his novel of the same name. I remember my mom bringing me home the book after it started getting popular, but I never did get around to reading it. I…


13 Days of Halloween: Day 1 – Chris Ranson on See No Evil 2 (2014)

Title: See No Evil 2 (2014) Director: The Soska Sisters Runtime: 90 minutes — Sometimes I can’t help but wonder why some films get a sequel. Back in 2006, the world got to “See No Evil”. It was a WWE film with their very own Glenn “Kane” Jacobs playing a serial killer that stabbed people’s…


A Lifetime of Film: Ashe’s Top Ten from 1990

A Lifetime of Film covers one specific year of a Cinefessions’ writers existence, from birth to now, and goes over their top ten films from that year. It stems from a meme on Letterboxd, and is simply being expanded upon here. This week, Ashe covers 1990. I was just 13 in 1990, turning into that teenage geek…


Cinefessions Series Review – Chris Ranson on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Series

A Cinefessions Series Review is a periodic column that sees one more writers watching and reviewing an entire film series. Cinefessions considers any film franchise that has two or more films a series, and thus available for review in this column. This is an excellent way to get a quick look at an entire collection…


A Lifetime of Film: Ashe’s Top Ten from 1989

A Lifetime of Film covers one specific year of a Cinefessions’ writers existence, from birth to now, and goes over their top ten films from that year. It stems from a meme on Letterboxd, and is simply being expanded upon here. This week, Ashe covers 1989. 1989 was one of those years. Blockbusters were my thing, and…


Cinefessions Series Review – Branden Chowen on the Friday the 13th Series

A Cinefessions Series Review is a periodic column that sees one or more writers watching and reviewing an entire film series. Cinefessions considers any film franchise that has two or more films a series, and thus available for review in this column. This is a way to get a quick look at an entire collection…