Greetings again from the darkness. I’ll give you the set-up and you tell me how it ends. A workaholic real estate developer drives his yellow Porsche from Chicago to a middle-of-nowhere Ohio farm after his sister and brother-in-law die in a car crash. He’s...

Greetings again from the darkness. It’s been 60 years since ‘Beatlemania’ hit the United States. As impressive as Taylor Swift’s ascendance has been, it pales in comparison to the cultural impact of the Fab Four those many years ago. Documentarian David...

Review by James Lindorf Navigating the pandemic, a writer’s strike, and struggling box office returns have been complicated for every studio, but perhaps none more so than Disney post Infinity War Saga. Warner Bros. famously canceled a project for a tax...

Greetings again from the darkness. Playwright August Wilson has a nice string of his stage work being adapted for the big screen. First, there was FENCES (2018), then MA RANEY’S BLACK BOTTOM (2022), and now this latest is the first feature film from...

Review by James Lindorf “The Wizard of Oz” is one of the most beloved films in history and has been delighting fans for 85 years. In 1995, author Gregory Maguire penned “Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West” where he reimagined what...