by David Ferguson | Jan 19, 2022 | Featured, Movie Reviews, Movies
Greetings again from the darkness. We don’t typically associate karaoke with life and death matters. And neither do warm-hearted barkeep Louise (Camilla Bendix) or grumpy and miserly bar owner Preben (Ole Boisen). However, their only Tuesday morning customer, Henrik...
by David Ferguson | Jan 18, 2022 | Movie Reviews, Movies
Greetings again from the darkness. Every once in a while a movie captures that magic feeling of being swept away, and this wild film from writer-director Edgar Wright and co-writer Kristy Wilson-Cairns (1917) did just that for me. This is my kind of...
by David Ferguson | Jan 13, 2022 | Featured, Movie Reviews, Movies
Greetings again from the darkness. As a devoted follower of films by Almodovar for more than 35 years, I still find myself enchanted by his stories, his visuals, his characters, and his consistency in writing complex and engaging parts for women. Oscar winning...
by David Ferguson | Jan 12, 2022 | Featured, Movie Reviews, Movies
Greetings again from the darkness. There is nothing wrong with delivering exactly what’s expected for kids’ movies. It’s a bit bewildering that so many fall short. This is the fourth (and final) film in the hugely successful “Transylvania” animated movie franchise,...
by David Ferguson | Jan 7, 2022 | Featured, Movie Reviews, Movies
Greetings again from the darkness. Every writer has a story about what inspired them to put words on the page. What we have here is Eva Husson directing a script from Alice Birch (LADY MACBETH, 2016) who has adapted the 2016 novella from British author Graham Swift....