Review by James Lindorf Dylan O’Brien gives an excellent performance playing wildly different twins Roman and Rocky in writer and director James Sweeney’s second feature “Twinless.” The movie made waves at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, not just for the...
Review by James Lindorf If you ask someone how they feel about romantic comedies, you often get one of three responses. They either love them, hate them, or used to love them. With the possible exception of people who claim superhero fatigue, no other genre...
Greetings again from the darkness. Having one’s name or work associated Hitler typically (but somehow not always these days) marks one as a pariah or persona non grata. For artists, the rules can be a bit blurred, and filmmaker Andres Veiel takes on the...
Greetings again from the darkness. Ben Masters’ follow-up to his outstanding documentary, DEEP IN THE HEART: A TEXAS WILDLIFE STORY (2022) is even more stunning, more remarkable, and more important. Narrated by environmentalist, model, and actress Quannah...
Expanding upon the world created by Danny Boyle and Alex Garland in 28 Years Later but turning that world on its head - Nia DaCosta directs 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple. In a continuation of the epic story, Dr. Kelson (Ralph Fiennes) finds himself in a...
Review by James Lindorf Toxie is back and ready to avenge the put-upon citizens of his small town once again. “The Toxic Avenger” took his first toxic waste bath in 1984, leading to three sequels, even if two of them have been disowned, and a spin-off...
Greetings again from the darkness. The reality of today’s world is that some folks aspire to ‘go viral’ on social media, while others struggle to imagine anything worse. There are those who dream of being famous – even if it’s for only a moment in time....
Greetings again from the darkness. For fourteen-year-olds, there’s often very little difference in passion for something and obsession with that same thing. Writer-director Nicholas Colia (reimagining his 2017 short film, ALEX AND THE HANDYMAN) brings us the...
Greetings again from the darkness. This is the type of movie that almost begs to be criticized, while at the same time, deserves to be enjoyed for being exactly what it tries to be. Author Richard Osman now has five books in this series, and the first has...
Greetings again from the darkness. Car chases are prevalent throughout movie history. Some are quite exhilarating and famous: BULLITT (1968) and THE FRENCH CONNECTION (1971). Some are over-the-top: pretty much every driving sequence in the F&F franchise. The...