by David Ferguson | Jul 29, 2020 | Featured, Movie Reviews, Movies
Greetings again from the darkness. We realize very quickly that octogenarian Gordon Lightfoot isn’t about to cater to co-documentarians Martha Kehoe and Joan Tosoni, or establish a new reputation as being a sweetheart at this stage of life. Instead he is filmed with...
by David Ferguson | Jul 24, 2020 | Featured, Movie Reviews, Movies
Greetings again from the darkness. Horror films tend to serve up relatively simple plot points so that viewers are controlled by emotions rather than deep thinking. The exceptions typically use multiple story lines and atmosphere to build up suspense that often ends...
by David Ferguson | Jul 23, 2020 | Featured, Movie Reviews, Movies
Greetings again from the darkness. “I still ain’t made it to my goal.” One of the dancers admits this is what keeps him going, though he never actually discloses what that goal is. In this 13 minute documentary short, director Jun Bae takes it to the streets of the...
by David Ferguson | Jul 22, 2020 | Featured, Movie Reviews, Movies
Greetings again from the darkness. There can never be enough movies made or books written about remarkable people with incredible accomplishments. Marie Curie was certainly a remarkable woman and her accomplishments were such scientific break-throughs that we are...
by David Ferguson | Jul 20, 2020 | Featured, Movie Reviews, Movies
Greetings again from the darkness. “Based on an incident which became a play which became a movie.” It’s with this note, the film version of Jeff Daniels’ 2006 play begins. Daniels also stars as (fictional) playwright Joseph Harris, who won a Pulitzer Prize, an...
