by David Ferguson | May 21, 2020 | Featured, Movie Reviews, Movies
Greetings again from the darkness. The PSAs that frequently popped up on my childhood TV are vivid memories, though it took many years before I had any concept of what the Peace Corps was, how it was formed, and what it did. Director Alana DeJoseph, herself a Returned...
by David Ferguson | May 20, 2020 | Movie Reviews, Movies
Greetings again from the darkness. I got hooked on “Monster” movies as a kid, and even all these years later, I still get a kick out of them. Of course, with today’s special effects, the look of these films is much different than in the early days. The big challenge...
by David Ferguson | May 18, 2020 | Featured, Movie Reviews, Movies
Greetings again from the darkness. “Desperate times, desperate measures” is a phrase that dates back to ancient Greek physician Hippocrates (he of the Hippocratic Oath), and has been applied in many and varied situations since … war strategy being one of the most...
by David Ferguson | May 18, 2020 | Featured, Movie Reviews, Movies
Greetings again from the darkness. We open on a blank screen, but immediately recognize the audio. “I did nothing.” Producer-Director Roee Messinger slowly brings up the all-too-familiar video of Eric Garner being wrestled to the ground by multiple police officers....
by David Ferguson | May 14, 2020 | Featured, Movie Reviews, Movies
Greetings again from the darkness. “Who is Jean Seberg?” A reporter asks the question to her, just before the movie star’s agent escorts him away as she prepares for publicity shots on PAINT YOUR WAGON, the outlandish 1969 musical-comedy in which she co-starred with...
