Greetings again from the darkness. With healthcare in the headlines most every day, this documentary short film from co-directors Shari Cookson and Nick Doob couldn’t be more timely, nor more important. Rather than present a general overview of the crisis in...
Greetings again from the darkness (on the edge of town). My connection to Bruce Springsteen’s music dates back more than 50 years and includes hitchhiking (from San Antonio) to a gig at the Armadillo World Headquarters in Austin. As much as I loved the early...
Greetings again from the darkness. Most everyone, especially lovers of Broadway musicals, knows the work of Rodgers and Hammerstein. And they should. Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II are regarded among the most prolific musical production writers in...
Greetings again from the darkness. It’s unusual for a documentary to credit three directors, but these three have been involved with some of the best Texas-based documentaries. Sam Wainwright Douglas, David Hartstein, and Andrew Alden Miller have each worked...
WHERE THE WIND BLOWS (2025) Greetings again from the darkness. If the Hallmark Channel produced a Western Romance movie, it would likely look much like this one from writer-director John Schimke, who along with co-writer Mike Maden, adapted the 2009 novel...
Directed by: Andrew Erwin and Brent McCorkle Written by: Brent McCorkle Produced by: Kevin Downes, Andrew Erwin, Cindy Bond, Bart Millard, Daryl Lefever, Joshua Walsh Cast: John Michael Finley, Milo Ventimiglia, Sophie Skelton, Arielle Kebbel, Sammy Dell,...
Genre: Romantic Drama Cast: Maika Monroe, Tyriq Withers, Rudy Pankow, Lainey Wilson, Lauren Graham,Bradley Whitford Directed by: Vanessa Caswill Screenplay by: Colleen Hoover and Lauren Levine, based on the novel by Colleen Hoover Producers: Colleen Hoover,...
Greetings again from the darkness. Watching this film is how I imagine it would be to view a poem. It’s meditative and slow … somehow calming us as we contemplate the topics broached. Director Charlie McDowell (THE ONE I LOVE, 2014) and screenwriter Robert...
Review by James Lindorf Three years ago, Brendan Fraser’s “The Whale” closed out the Heartland International Film Festival before going on to earn the beloved actor an Oscar. Now his latest film, “Rental Family,” is opening the 34th annual version of the...
Review by James Lindorf The famous quote from Oscar Wilde might state, “Life imitates art far more than art imitates life,” but the art being created and, more importantly, released is influenced by the political landscape of the time. After the #MeToo boom...