by David Ferguson | Jun 17, 2020 | Featured, Movie Reviews, Movies
Greetings again from the darkness. The first airplane hijacking movie I remember seeing was AIRPORT (1970, with Burt Lancaster and Dean Martin). Since then, it’s been a recurring, relatively common cinematic topic blending our natural fears (flying and terrorism) with...
by David Ferguson | Jun 15, 2020 | Featured, Movie Reviews, Movies
Greetings again from the darkness. Filmed in Canada with a mostly Canadian cast by a Canadian director, we are reminded how challenging it is to make a low budget action-thriller. Writer-director Brent Cote delivers a masterclass in genre clichés, yet there’s enough...
by David Ferguson | Jun 12, 2020 | Featured, Movie Reviews, Movies
Greetings again from the darkness. We wouldn’t expect a 19 minute crime drama to have sufficient time to create the tension needed for impact. Writer-director Ben Reid and his co-writer Owen Gower serve up a short film that packs a punch, a twist, and also some...
by David Ferguson | Jun 12, 2020 | Featured, Movie Reviews, Movies
Greetings again from the darkness. “That’s not a word.” “It’s a word.” Anyone who has ever played Scrabble has both shrieked the phrases and been the target of those same screeches from opponents. Word play is in full effect during the feature film debut of director...
by David Ferguson | Jun 12, 2020 | Featured, Movie Reviews, Movies
Greetings again from the darkness. Euthanasia, ‘Dignity in Death’ or assisted suicide. Whatever you prefer to call it, those against the idea have likely never been in the situation where medical treatment provides no hope. Max Isaksen (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, “Game of...
