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: ...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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’...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
Your first time is not always your best time. Perhaps the audience for The Virginity Hit, the new mockumentary by veterans of the genre Huck Botko and Andre...
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.
