by David Ferguson | Jan 6, 2022 | Featured, Movie Reviews, Movies
Unless you are a Spider-Man fanatic, you likely didn’t venture into a movie theater in 2021. Not many did. However, thanks to the backlog from so many delayed 2020 films, the past 12 months have been a movie lover’s delight with a bevy of excellent films and memorable...
by David Ferguson | Jan 5, 2022 | Featured, Movie Reviews, Movies
Greetings again from the darkness. For those of us who enjoy the burst of adrenaline provided by thrillers, the premise of a blind person in peril is something we’ve seen a few other times, including WAIT UNTIL DARK (1967) with Audrey Hepburn, SEE NO EVIL (1971) with...
by David Ferguson | Jan 4, 2022 | Featured, Movie Reviews, Movies
Greetings again from the darkness. “Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive.” That line from a Sir Walter Raleigh poem hit me early, and stuck with me through this latest superb film from Iranian writer-director Asghar Farhadi. Having won me...
by David Ferguson | Jan 3, 2022 | Featured, Movie Reviews, Movies
Greetings again from the darkness. Since I was unsure of the definition of “gadfly”, I was equally unsure of what I was getting into when I agreed to review the first feature-length documentary from Skye Wallin. It turns out, Wallin anticipated that particular...
by David Ferguson | Dec 25, 2021 | Featured, Movie Reviews, Movies
Greetings again from the darkness. Tala is a young Arab girl whose love of soccer is mitigated by her father’s attempt to protect her from ISIS threats while she’s locked away in a war zone apartment. Despite Tala’s pleas, her father dumps their TV out the window and...
