David Archive

Greetings again from the darkness. It happens sometimes where the most memorable part of a movie is its setting. Plenty of non-descript westerns (and also some really good ones) took place in Monument Valley. MAMMA MIA! was fine, but that Greek isle of Skopelos ...Read More

Greetings again from the darkness. It seems reasonable to ask why someone didn’t take it upon themselves to stop Hitler before things went so far. Of course we now have 80 years of hindsight to benefit our thoughts, but surely there were those who ...Read More

Greetings again from the darkness. We don’t typically associate karaoke with life and death matters. And neither do warm-hearted barkeep Louise (Camilla Bendix) or grumpy and miserly bar owner Preben (Ole Boisen). However, their only Tuesday morning customer, Henrik (Rasmus Hammerich), is adamant that ...Read More

Greetings again from the darkness. Every once in a while a movie captures that magic feeling of being swept away, and this wild film from writer-director Edgar Wright and co-writer Kristy Wilson-Cairns (1917) did just that for me. This is my kind of psychological-horror-thriller ...Read More

Greetings again from the darkness. There is nothing wrong with delivering exactly what’s expected for kids’ movies. It’s a bit bewildering that so many fall short. This is the fourth (and final) film in the hugely successful “Transylvania” animated movie franchise, although it’s the ...Read More

Unless you are a Spider-Man fanatic, you likely didn’t venture into a movie theater in 2021. Not many did. However, thanks to the backlog from so many delayed 2020 films, the past 12 months have been a movie lover’s delight with a bevy of ...Read More

Greetings again from the darkness. “Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive.” That line from a Sir Walter Raleigh poem hit me early, and stuck with me through this latest superb film from Iranian writer-director Asghar Farhadi. Having ...Read More