Movie Short Review: ‘Lost Kings’

Movie Short Review: ‘Lost Kings’

Greetings again from the darkness. In this, his fourth short film, writer-director Brian Lawes doesn’t tell us everything. We don’t have the benefit of a backstory. What we do know is that two brothers are living in poverty. The kitchen walls are bare plywood, and a...
Movie Short Review: ‘After Class’

Movie Short Review: ‘After Class’

Greetings again from the darkness. You may have a child who doesn’t “like” going to school. Or perhaps you, yourself, were one of those kids who frequently expressed displeasure at having to attend. Well 8-year old Su Min (Yiyi Sun) is not like that. In fact, as she...

Movie Review: ‘Come Play’

Greetings again from the darkness. Hopes are always high this time of year for a creative new horror film. As each Halloween approaches, we search for new movies that will frighten us in an entertaining way, or at least be creepy enough to make us sleep with the...
Movie Review: ‘Fishbowl’

Movie Review: ‘Fishbowl’

Greetings again from the darkness. In the not so distant past, folks who lived in small towns felt like there were no secrets – everyone in town knew each other and what they were up to. Thus, the proverbial “fishbowl” of the title. Of course, these days, people in...

Movie Review: ‘Radium Girls’

Greetings again from the darkness. A huckster or carnival barker is spouting off the many uses and health benefits of radium. He even hails it as “liquid sunshine”. That’s how this film from co-directors Lydia Dean Pilcher (A CALL TO SPY, 2020) and Ginny Mohler kicks...