by David Ferguson | Aug 24, 2023 | Featured, Movie Reviews, Movies
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...
by David Ferguson | Aug 18, 2023 | Featured, Movie Reviews, Movies
Greetings again from the darkness. Alien invasion movies have long been a favorite of science-fiction filmmakers, as well as platform for those who strive to caution us to our societal missteps and wrong choices along life’s muddy path. Within the past couple of weeks...
by David Ferguson | Aug 17, 2023 | Featured, Movie Reviews, Movies
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...
by David Ferguson | Aug 16, 2023 | Featured, Movie Reviews, Movies
Greetings again from the darkness. Adapting literary works for the big screen is common practice; however, the stakes are a bit higher when dealing with a beloved classic Asian work that is more than 400 years old. “Journey to the West” was initially written during...
by David Ferguson | Aug 10, 2023 | Featured, Movie Reviews, Movies
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...