Movie Review: ‘Home’

Movie Review: ‘Home’

Review by James Lindorf German actress Franka Potente best known for her roles in “Run Lola Run” and the Bourne franchise, makes her feature film debut as a writer and director with the emotional drama “Home.” This story of an ex-con looking for a bit of normalcy and...

Movie Review: ‘Benedetta’

Greetings again from the darkness. Filmmaker Paul Verhoeven has long made his cinematic living on the fringes: the brutality of the Middle Ages in FLESH + BLOOD (1985), the violence and thirst for power through technology in ROBOCOP (1987), the buried dark side (and...

Movie Review: ‘Silent Night’

Review by James Lindorf It was the best of times, it was the worst of times in writer and director Camille Griffin’s apocalyptic Christmas movie “Silent Night.” Travel delays, being seated next to the cousin with extreme political views, or a broken oven are usually...