by David Ferguson | May 6, 2025 | Featured Post, Movie Reviews, Movies
Tweet Greetings again from the darkness. There may have been a movie that surprised me more than this one during 2024, but off the top of my head, I can’t think of one. My expectations were low for a film based on the true story of a British boy band pop star whose...
by David Ferguson | May 1, 2025 | Featured Post, Movie Reviews, Movies
Tweet Greetings again from the darkness. There are a few actors who regularly take on roles that leave us hoping they are nothing like those characters in real life. Willem Dafoe comes to mind, but the president of that club would be Nicolas Cage. Over the last 18...
by David Ferguson | Apr 30, 2025 | Featured Post, Movie Reviews, Movies
Tweet Greetings again from the darkness. Documentarian Alan G Parker is not the British director Alan Parker who was twice Oscar nominated (MISSISSIPPI BURNING, 1988; MIDNIGHT EXPRESS, 1978), but he is the same Alan G Parker who has directed numerous music-based...
by David Ferguson | Apr 26, 2025 | Featured Post, Festivals, Movie Reviews
Tweet USA FILM FESTIVAL Greetings again from the darkness. One need only watch a couple of episodes of “Leave it to Beaver” to comprehend just how ideal and perfect family life in the 1950’s was. Only that was a Hollywood façade and real life was much different,...
by David Ferguson | Apr 26, 2025 | DIFF, Featured Post, Festivals, Movie Reviews, Movies
Tweet Dallas Independent Film Festival Greetings again from the darkness. ‘Keep Austin Weird’. That’s one of the more popular and fitting city slogans in the United States. For five plus decades there has been an ongoing battle of conservationists versus developers …...