by David Ferguson | Dec 22, 2025 | Featured Post, Movie Reviews, Movies
Tweet Greetings again from the darkness. ‘Do what you love’ and ‘Pursue your passion.’ That’s the traditional advice we give youngsters, so they won’t grow up to live a mundane life filled with regrets. Perhaps there is no better example of living your dream than the...
by David Ferguson | Dec 21, 2025 | Featured Post, Movie Reviews, Movies
Tweet Greetings again from the darkness. Horror films are a dime a dozen (meaning there is no shortage from the genre), so it’s a revelation when a filmmaker has a legitimate feel for psychological horror – the kind that creeps us out and (likely) causes a nightmare...
by David Ferguson | Dec 19, 2025 | Featured Post, Movie Reviews, Movies
Tweet Greetings again from the darkness. The next entry in the HBO Music Box documentary series comes from director Amy Scott and provides a textbook example of what can happen when a band hits it big ‘overnight’. It’s not always pretty, and sometimes it’s downright...
by David Ferguson | Dec 19, 2025 | Featured Post, Movie Reviews, Movies
Tweet Greetings again from the darkness. Director Paul Feig hit it big with the outrageous comedy BRIDESMAIDS in 2011, and then he got a lot more interesting as a filmmaker by directing screen adaptations of Darcey Bell novels that were so popular with Book Clubs – A...
by David Ferguson | Dec 10, 2025 | Movie Reviews, Movies
Tweet Greetings again from the darkness. The phrase ‘Third time’s the charm’ loses impact when the first two times were also charmed. Such is the case for writer-director Rian Johnson and his ‘Knives Out’ trilogy (so far). The filmmaker has really tapped into the joy...