[Review] Yogi Bear
Yogi Bear is a live-action/animated hybrid that follows very closely in the tradition of the well-established sub-genre of Warner Brothers cartoons. Not wit...
John Fink
[Review] How Do You Know
Several years ago, perhaps while out of my formative years, I saw the music video for Seether’s “Fine Again,” which contains a particularly striking image: ...
[Review] Skyline
How can one make a boring film about aliens from outer space that beam down to earth to eat brains? Skyline is about as boring and bland as its title: here we ...
[Review] Score: A Hockey Musical
The themes of “coming of age” and “staying true to one’s self” on screen are as American as white bread. Score: A Hockey Musical (as you can tell from it’s ...
[Review] N-Secure
It is no wonder that Nashville entrepreneur Julius Lewis wrote more than just the checks for N-Secure. You know your seeing a film written by a guy who sim...
[Review] Heartbreaker
Why do we care about a privileged young beautiful woman who is about to marry a guy she may be wrong for? Cinema, is aspirational, escapist, and when it isn’...
[Review] Saw 3D
The Saw franchise has operated on a bell curve, where Saw II and III improved on the first, and then it was downhill from there. They serve a purpose and have ...
[Review] Shooting April
This year's Buffalo International Film Festival offered a program of horror films that opened with Alfred Hitchcock’s Pyscho. Shooting April, the first narr...
[Review] My Soul To Take
My Soul To Take is bland cinematic comfort food, evoking pleasant childhood memories of the Scream series, the type of pre-9/11 horror film that wasn’t so s...
[Review] Streetdance 3D
I’m convinced everything sounds better with a British accent. Streetdance 3D is the British 3D version of Step Up in reverse. In Max Giwa and Dania Pasquini...
John Fink
John Fink is a New York City area-based critic, filmmaker, educator and curator. He currently serves as the Artistic Director of the Buffalo International Film Festival.