by David Ferguson | Jan 12, 2025 | Featured Post, Movie Reviews, Movies
Tweet Greetings again from the darkness. In the age of sequels, here’s one we can actually give a warm welcome to. Pixar has followed up the brilliant INSIDE OUT (2015) with one that picks up Riley a couple years later as she hits those teenage years, which as all...
by David Ferguson | Jan 12, 2025 | Featured Post, Movie Reviews, Movies
Tweet Greetings again from the darkness. True stories are often at the heart of many movies each year. However, there are true stories and then there is the story of the Paiva family. Marcelo Rubens Paiva has written two books, which along with numerous interviews...
by David Ferguson | Jan 12, 2025 | Featured Post, Movie Reviews, Movies
Tweet Greetings again from the darkness. Realistically speaking, there should be more words for ‘friendship’, designating the multiple levels on which ‘being friends’ can occur. If Financial Advisors can have “A” (like Warren Buffett), B, C, and D (like me) clients,...
by David Ferguson | Jan 11, 2025 | Featured Post, Movie Reviews, Movies
Tweet Greetings again from the darkness. In the year of long movies, this is one of the longer ones at two hours and forty-eight minutes. Also, in the year of only a few great movies, this is one of them. Writer-director Mohammad Rasoulof was arrested and sentenced...
by David Ferguson | Jan 10, 2025 | Featured Post, Movie Reviews, Movies
Tweet Greetings again from the darkness. I don’t recall a more unusual opening seven or eight minutes for a film (even including Terrence Malick). Slightly disorienting fragments of scenes from odd angles are made more obscure through nearly indistinguishable...