Movie Review: ‘Retribution’

Movie Review: ‘Retribution’

Greetings again from the darkness. Fully deserving of a tip of the cap is Liam Neeson, who used the popularity of TAKEN (18 years ago) to create a new sub-genre: the annual Liam Neeson action film where he gets to be the hero. This latest is from director Nimrod Antal...
Movie Review: ‘Birth/Rebirth’

Movie Review: ‘Birth/Rebirth’

Greetings again from the darkness. When Colin Clive bellowed, “It’s alive. It’s alive”, in James Whale’s classic FRANKENSTEIN (1931), it instantly became an iconic moment in cinema history, and inspired many new readers to seek out Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel. Since...
Movie Review: ‘Jules’

Movie Review: ‘Jules’

Greetings again from the darkness. Senior citizens sometimes nearly cease to exist for the outside world, or at best, are humored in a ‘there-there’ manner. So, what do you think happens when an elderly gentleman in a small western Pennsylvania town repeats the same...