by David Ferguson | Feb 6, 2022 | Featured, Movie Reviews, Movies
Slamdance Film Festival 2022 Greetings again from the darkness. It’s best not to take the film or its synopsis at face value. This bears no resemblance to a conventional film and the synopsis would have you thinking this is a traditional crime thriller. Iranian...
by David Ferguson | Feb 3, 2022 | Featured, Movie Reviews, Movies
Greetings again from the darkness. It’s often fun when an innovative filmmaker turns a stodgy genre upside down and offers us a new take. And who better to flip over the frequently stale mode of romantic-comedies than Norwegian auteur Joachim Trier? Co-written with...
by David Ferguson | Feb 1, 2022 | Featured, Movie Reviews, Movies
Slamdance Film Festival 2022 Greetings again from the darkness. Mark Pellington is a renowned music video director, having worked with such acts as Bruce Springsteen, U2, Leonard Cohen, Pearl Jam, INXS, Demi Lovato, and Imagine Dragons. He’s also done TV work, as well...
by David Ferguson | Jan 31, 2022 | Featured, Movie Reviews, Movies
Slamdance Film Festival 2022 Greetings again from the darkness. Spicoli (Sean Penn in FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH) was the poster child for stoners in the 80’s. Julie (Deborah Foreman in VALLEY GIRL) taught us the annoying Valley Girl speech patterns, some of which...
by David Ferguson | Jan 29, 2022 | Featured, Movie Reviews, Movies
Slamdance Film Festival 2022 Greetings again from the darkness. Parenting is difficult. Pandemic parenting is a whole new level of difficult. No helpful guidebook exists and there is no recent similar time in history from which to take lessons. That leaves instinct,...
