by David Ferguson | Mar 21, 2022 | Featured, Festivals, Movie Reviews, Movies, SXSW
Greetings again from the darkness. It seems society has reached a point where most of us are at least a bit skeptical of someone being nice. We assume there is an ulterior motive for acts of altruism. Writer-director-actor Cooper Raiff won a SXSW award for his first...
by David Ferguson | Mar 21, 2022 | Featured, Festivals, Movie Reviews, Movies, SXSW
Greetings again from the darkness. We are informed that the annual New Orleans Jazz and Heritage festival features 7000 musicians across 14 stages over 8 days. It’s a massive and popular event and co-directors Frank Marshall and Ryan Suffern set out to highlight the...
by David Ferguson | Mar 21, 2022 | Featured, Festivals, Movie Reviews, Movies, SXSW
Greetings again from the darkness. There is a fine line between movies that cheat and those that cleverly keep us guessing. The first feature from writer-director Eli Horowitz and Matthew Derby seems to fully embrace cheating as a storytelling structure, relegating us...
by David Ferguson | Mar 19, 2022 | Featured, Festivals, Movie Reviews, Movies, SXSW
Greetings again from the darkness. For as far back as we can trace human existence, the older generation has grumped on the younger one. It’s unlikely Neanderthal parents used the term ‘slacker’, but they undoubtedly got their point across to the youngsters who were...
by David Ferguson | Mar 18, 2022 | Featured, Festivals, Movie Reviews, Movies, SXSW
Greetings again from the darkness. You need only know one thing to put this on your must-see movie list: beloved EGOT Rita Moreno plays a bad*** teacher in a horror-comedy. As a bonus, the film is loads of fun and is actually filled with comedy and suspense. Directed...
