by David Ferguson | Jul 30, 2019 | Movie Reviews, Movies, TV, TV Reviews
UNMASKING JIHADI JOHN: ANATOMY OF A TERRORIST (2019, doc) Greetings again from the darkness. When we think of terrorist groups, we usually visualize a shadowy, faceless group, all dressed in black, while carrying out some unspeakable act of violence. Director Anthony...
by David Ferguson | Jul 30, 2019 | Movie Reviews, Movies
Greetings again from the darkness. Viewers of writer-director Joanna Hogg’s semi-autobiographical feature will likely be divided into two distinct groups: those who find it to be a beautifully artistic psychological study, and those who find it to be a painfully slow...
by David Ferguson | Jul 26, 2019 | Featured, Movie Reviews, Movies
Greetings again from the darkness. A twenty-something New York City millennial is having an other-side of-the-globe phone conversation with her Chinese grandmother. It’s immediately clear that, despite the geographic gap, these two share a close bond. We also witness...
by David Ferguson | Jul 24, 2019 | Movie Reviews, Movies
Greetings again from the darkness. Romantic Comedies and Political Parodies are staples in the film industry, and have been for many decades. The combination of the three – a political romantic comedy – is a bit rarer, though we have seen it in such films as DAVE...
by David Ferguson | Jul 18, 2019 | Featured, Movie Reviews, Movies
Greetings again from the darkness. This special screening included a simulcast of the Red Carpet arrivals at the Brooklyn Alamo Drafthouse hosted by Eric Davis of Fandango, and the broadcast went to many cities around the U.S. What immediately struck me from the...
