by David Ferguson | Mar 14, 2022 | Featured, Festivals, Movie Reviews, Movies, SXSW
Greetings again from the darkness. The synopsis for this documentary had me excited to learn about the Tendai sect of monks on Mt Hiei in Japan. Known as “the Marathon Monks”, the sect has been a part of the mountain for more than 1200 years and are known for their...
by David Ferguson | Mar 13, 2022 | Featured, Festivals, Movie Reviews, Movies, SXSW
Greetings again from the darkness. How about a modern day version of THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT (1999) leaning heavily into our social media world? Co-writers and co-directors Joseph Winter and Vanessa Winter include touches of the multitude of Ghost Hunter-type TV shows...
by David Ferguson | Mar 13, 2022 | Featured, Festivals, Movie Reviews, Movies, SXSW
Greetings again from the darkness. For those of us who spend entirely too many hours of our life watching movies, it’s always a welcome pleasure to stumble upon one that is creative and innovative and entertaining. The second feature film from writer-director Colin...
by David Ferguson | Mar 11, 2022 | Featured, Movie Reviews, Movies
Greetings again from the darkness. At a certain age, most of us have given some thought to what we might say to our younger self if we had the opportunity to go back in time. The familiar phrase goes, “Hindsight is 20/20”, but what if we had foresight? What if we knew...
by David Ferguson | Mar 10, 2022 | Featured, Movie Reviews, Movies
Greetings again from the darkness. This isn’t the first documentary profile of a Holocaust survivor, but given the timeframe involved, it’s likely to be one of the last. It’s the first feature length documentary from Jordy Sank, and he was a teenager when he first met...