by David Ferguson | Mar 7, 2022 | Featured, Movie Reviews, Movies
Greetings again from the darkness. Jack Ward first appears as the conductor of an orchestra during a live performance. It seems to be going well until he declines a call from his teenage daughter, Melody. See, it’s his day to pick her up from school. When he doesn’t...
by David Ferguson | Mar 7, 2022 | Featured, Movie Reviews, Movies
Greetings again from the darkness. If only the transformation brought on by puberty were half as soft and cuddly as the giant Red Panda in this latest from Pixar, imagine the reduction in slammed doors and the increase in dinner table conversations between parents and...
by David Ferguson | Mar 4, 2022 | Featured, Movie Reviews, Movies
Greetings again from the darkness. Since it is arriving on the heels of Aaron Sorkin’s dramatized BEING THE RICARDOS (2021), it’s tempting to view this documentary as if a professor is grading his work … or at least fact-checking. However, Sorkin’s film, which...
by David Ferguson | Mar 3, 2022 | Featured, Movie Reviews, Movies
Greetings again from the darkness. Writer-director Hany Abu-Assad has had two films nominated for the Best Foreign Language Oscar. OMAR (2013) and PARADISE NOW (2005) were both excellent and deserving of such regard. His latest in ‘based on true events’ from...
by David Ferguson | Mar 3, 2022 | Featured, Movie Reviews, Movies
Greetings again from the darkness. Discotheques and Night Clubs were regularly referred to as ‘meat markets’, and all movie lovers are familiar with the term ‘meet-cute’. It’s rare for meat and meet to merge into a cautionary tale of modern-day dating, but that’s what...
