by David Ferguson | Mar 5, 2025 | Featured Post, Movie Reviews, Movies
Tweet Greetings again from the darkness. Even among sports fans and women’s activists, Mildred Burke is not a household name. Writer-director Ash Avildsen and co-writer Alston Ramsay set out to correct this by adapting Ms. Burke’s own writing and the 2010 book “The...
by David Ferguson | Mar 5, 2025 | Featured Post, Movie Reviews, Movies
Tweet Greetings again from the darkness. John Lithgow frequently plays likable characters that take advantage of his innate ability to connect with viewers as an ‘every-man’ type – often reminding us of people we know. However, over his career that spans approximately...
by David Ferguson | Feb 27, 2025 | Featured Post, Movie Reviews, Movies
Below are recaps of some of the short films I watched at this year’s Slamdance Film Festival. FISHMONGER (25:30) No rules apply to film festival shorts and writer-director Neil Ferron and co-writer Alexandra Dennis-Renner succeed in pushing the envelope with their...
by David Ferguson | Feb 27, 2025 | Featured Post, Movie Reviews, Movies
Tweet Greetings again from the darkness. These are the kind of movies that it’s a pleasure to champion. Writer-director Reema Kagti and co-writer Varun Grover have produced a feel-good underdog story based on what a few folks actually accomplished in Malegaon, a...
by David Ferguson | Feb 25, 2025 | Featured Post, Movie Reviews, Movies
Tweet Greetings again from the darkness. Music lovers know very well how radio changed in the 1990’s. Consolidations, mergers, and mandated playlists became the norm. Traveling from city to city and town to town made this abundantly clear. Where once independent...
