by David Ferguson | Jan 29, 2022 | Featured, Movie Reviews, Movies
Slamdance Film Festival 2022 Greetings again from the darkness. My second film at this year’s Slamdance Film Festival is the first feature from writer-director Justin Zuckerman. After some retro opening credits showing 1970’s New York City, the story focuses on...
by David Ferguson | Jan 28, 2022 | Featured, Movie Reviews, Movies
Slamdance Film Festival 2022 Greetings again from the darkness. What a terrific film to kick off this year’s Slamdance festival! Writer-director Clay Tatum and co-writer Whitmer Thomas co-star in their own story that brings the “old” meaning of ghosting back to the...
by David Ferguson | Jan 27, 2022 | Featured, Movie Reviews, Movies
Greetings again from the darkness. “You gotta tell a horse when it’s time to stop running.” That line of dialogue is uttered in this racing film from writer-director Clint Bentley and co-writer Greg Kwedar, but the sentiment holds true for many others, including...
by David Ferguson | Jan 27, 2022 | Featured, Movie Reviews, Movies
Greetings again from the darkness. How quickly we make assumptions and judge the actions of others. We all do it, and writer-director Michel Franco (NEW ORDER, 2020) seizes on this common human trait in this unconventional film centered on a man who simply doesn’t act...
by David Ferguson | Jan 27, 2022 | Featured, Movie Reviews, Movies
Greetings again from the darkness. I’ll try to avoid the temptation of including overtly cute food references … especially those that might leave a bad taste (!). Writer-director Cristoffer Boe and his talented co-writer Tobias Lindholm (ANOTHER ROUND, THE HUNT) have...