by David Ferguson | Aug 19, 2024 | Featured Post, Movie Reviews, Movies
Tweet Greetings again from the darkness. Even before the opening credits roll, we get a scene with gunpoint humor, as Antonio Banderas skips right over ‘chewing scenery’ and dives into devouring the scene. Banderas takes his crime lord Gabriel over-the-top, quoting...
by David Ferguson | Aug 15, 2024 | Featured Post, Movie Reviews, Movies
Tweet Greetings again from the darkness. It’s understandable if this movie makes you consider whether penguins might make better friends than people. David Schurmann directs a script from Kristen Lazarian Paulina and Lagudi Ulrich that is ‘inspired by a true story’....
by David Ferguson | Aug 15, 2024 | Movie Reviews, Movies
Tweet Greetings again from the darkness. Losing a parent is a difficult time that most of us will deal with at some point. Sorrow and guilt and anger are typically part of the grieving process, and that’s precisely what writer Brett Ryland and director Robert...
by David Ferguson | Aug 14, 2024 | Featured Post, Movie Reviews, Movies
Tweet Greetings again from the darkness. Billed as “a fictional story inspired by true events”, the film pretty obviously draws from the 2014 case where aesthetician Dawn DaLouise was accused of plotting the murder of rival Gabriel Suarez. This is the first feature...
by David Ferguson | Aug 8, 2024 | Featured Post, Movie Reviews, Movies
Tweet Greetings again from the darkness. Some slack and a certain level of compassion is due director James Marsh’s (Oscar winner for MAN ON WIRE, 2008) biopic on the enigmatic writer Samuel Beckett. The reasons no other filmmaker has previously attempted to profile...