by David Ferguson | Dec 10, 2020 | Featured, Movie Reviews, Movies
Greetings again from the darkness. Few would understand the pressures of celebrity better than Drew Barrymore. She’s 45 years old and has been in front of the camera for 40 years. Most of us recall her as young Gertie in Spielberg’s ET: THE EXTRATERRESTRIAL (1982),...
by David Ferguson | Dec 10, 2020 | Featured, Movie Reviews, Movies
Greetings again from the darkness. By nature, an ambitious filmmaker takes risks that other filmmakers don’t, sometimes to the detriment of their own success. However, for those of us who maintain a crazy pace of movie watching, we tend to relish those who find a way...
by David Ferguson | Dec 10, 2020 | Featured, Movie Reviews, Movies
Greetings again from the darkness. Awkwardness abounds in the opening scene as Walter, his wife, and their teenage daughter reunite at JFK airport. The Angolan family has been separated for 17 years, and reality hits as the threesome grasp that they don’t even really...
by David Ferguson | Dec 9, 2020 | Featured, Movie Reviews, Movies
Greetings again from the darkness. While I have Irish ancestors, the uproar of the Irish press over the accents in the film is a bit puzzling to me. Any frequent movie watcher can tell you that cinema history is filled with actors giving difficult accents their best...
by David Ferguson | Dec 7, 2020 | Featured, Movie Reviews, Movies
Greetings again from the darkness. It’s a trivia question likely to stump most of your friends: Who has more number one Blues albums than anyone else? The answer is guitarist extraordinaire Joe Bonamassa, and co-directors Phillippe Klose and Kevin Shirley serve up a...