by David Ferguson | Dec 5, 2024 | Featured Post, Movie Reviews, Movies
Tweet Greetings again from the darkness. J.D. Salinger once wrote, “Mothers are all slightly insane.” Rachel Yoder’s critically acclaimed 2021 novel has been adapted for the big screen by writer-director Marielle Heller, and it seems to confirm the Salinger theory....
by David Ferguson | Dec 5, 2024 | Featured Post, Movie Reviews, Movies
Tweet Greetings again from the darkness. Some filmmakers have earned the benefit of the doubt to the point where each film they release is worthy of consideration. Luca Guadagnino is one such filmmaker. He first captured my attention with I AM LOVE (2009) and has...
by David Ferguson | Dec 3, 2024 | Featured Post, Movie Reviews, Movies
Tweet Greetings again from the darkness. Every movie review provides the opportunity to walk the line between telling enough, but not too much. Some movies pose more of a challenge than others, and this is one. Director Steffan Haars (the ‘New Kids’ movies) and...
by David Ferguson | Nov 27, 2024 | Featured Post, Movie Reviews, Movies
Tweet Greetings again from the darkness. I’ll give you the set-up and you tell me how it ends. A workaholic real estate developer drives his yellow Porsche from Chicago to a middle-of-nowhere Ohio farm after his sister and brother-in-law die in a car crash. He’s there...
by David Ferguson | Nov 27, 2024 | Featured Post, Movie Reviews, Movies
Tweet Greetings again from the darkness. It’s been 60 years since ‘Beatlemania’ hit the United States. As impressive as Taylor Swift’s ascendance has been, it pales in comparison to the cultural impact of the Fab Four those many years ago. Documentarian David...
