Review by Adam Courtliff Noah Segan in his latest feature The Only Living Pickpocket in New York has taken on a nearly impossible task: make a New York crime thriller feel fresh and interesting without treading the familiar ground countless movies within the...
Movie Review: ‘The Uprising’
Greetings again from the darkness. It can be challenging to relate to an historical drama set in the 14th century, yet the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381 in medieval England sometimes hits quite close to home. Writer-director Paul Greengrass directed three of the...
Documentary Review: ‘Don’t Forget Me: Eddie Cochran’
Greetings again from the darkness. With new music being created every day, it’s important to keep alive the history of those early musicians who, decades later, are still influencing contemporary songwriters and musicians. This is exactly what Kirsty Bell...
Documentary Review: ‘Who Moves America’
Greetings again from the darkness. Whether it’s flight attendants, dock workers, or Amazon, we tend to think about, and dread, the inconvenience a labor strike will cause us personally. Documentarian Yael Bridge gives us a rare peek inside … sometimes behind...
Movie Review: ‘Mayday’
Greetings again from the darkness. I guess we were due for a “Cold War Buddy Comedy”. And who better to deliver than co-directors John Francis Daley and Johnathan Goldstein, the team behind GAME NIGHT (2018) and DUNGEONS & DRAGONS: HONOR AMONG THIEVES...
Documentary Review: ‘Occupational Hazard: The First Coral Reefers’
Greetings again from the darkness. With the mere mention of Jimmy Buffett, we immediately envision a sea of ‘Parrot heads’ sipping margaritas and having a blast as they sing along to the feel-good coastal tunes being played at a sunny outdoor venue. The...
Movie Review: ‘Minions & Monsters’ Blu-ray
Review by Adam Courtliff The Minions are back with their third solo outing and the seventh time they have graced the big screen. In that time, the weird, yellow, capsule-shaped creatures have taken the world by storm, even having the power to turn a singing...
Movie Review: ‘Buddy’
Review by James Lindorf Casper Kelly is best known for “Too Many Cooks,” the viral 2014 Adult Swim short that took classic television opening sequences and turned them into something unsettling through repetition and the introduction of a killer. “Buddy”...
Movie Review: ‘Coyote vs. Acme’
COYOTE VS ACME (2026) Greetings again from the darkness. For those of us who grew up belly-laughing at Looney Tunes, the characters are considered sacred ground, so a bit of anxiety hits when movies like SPACE JAM (1996) hit the big screen. This especially...
Movie Review: ‘The Deb’
Review by James Lindorf Before "The Deb" reaches American streaming audiences, it is worth understanding the journey that brought it here. Hannah Reilly wrote the original stage musical, which ran briefly in Australia, with music by Megan Washington and...
