by David Ferguson | Dec 19, 2020 | Featured, Movie Reviews, Movies
Greetings again from the darkness. A modern-era woman (Alia Shawkat) is hiking along an Oregon river with her trusty dog. Something catches her eye and she begins tentatively brushing away decades of leaves and soot. Ultimately it turns into an excavation of two human...
by David Ferguson | Dec 19, 2020 | Featured, Movie Reviews, Movies
Greetings again from the darkness. The initial assumption is that this is a story of a lone wolf stalking a family. Early on, it shifts into the story of Joseph Mersault, a throwback trapper teaching his 13 year old daughter how to survive off the land. Yet, what...
by David Ferguson | Dec 17, 2020 | Featured, Movie Reviews, Movies
Greetings again from the darkness. A group of kids chasing a chicken through the streets and back alleys for the privilege of choosing teams is the light-hearted way the movie opens. It may only be a 20 minute film, but that chicken chase provides one of the very few...
by David Ferguson | Dec 16, 2020 | TV, TV Reviews
Greetings again from the darkness. Very few documentaries can also be labeled political crime thrillers, but that description fits Paul Taylor’s film based on Francisco Goldman’s 2014 book. It’s a blend of history, religion, corruption, and investigative work as it...
by David Ferguson | Dec 15, 2020 | Featured, Movie Reviews, Movies
Greetings again from the darkness. In 2003, Jack Baxter and Joshua Faudem were in the process of making a documentary on Mike’s Place, a blues club in Tel Aviv located next door to the American Embassy. The purpose of the project was to show that there was more to...
