Greetings again from the darkness. It’s been said that we must experience the bad times to fully appreciate the good times. However, while those bad times are occurring, they can feel overwhelming and like it will never get better again. It’s also been said...
Review by Adam Courtliff It’s been almost forty years since the cult classic Masters of the Universe hit the big screen, with fans of both the film and He-Man himself clamouring for his return. After what has seemed like an eternity, Amazon MGM have finally...
Greetings again from the darkness. The “Mother of American Modernism”, while impressive as a moniker, seems to fall short in describing the impact, influence, and lasting legacy of artist Georgia O’Keefe. Oscar winning director Paul Wagner (short film THE...
Greetings again from the darkness. We all love a good (and sneaky) twist in a movie. It takes exceptional storytelling and acting to pull it off, and it’s a bit funny when it becomes obvious that the screenwriter just kind of ran out of ways to maintain the...
Review by Adam Courtliff There’s always been something about John Carney movies that has resonated with me. With music at the forefront of his comedy-dramas, his filmography has consistently delivered standout moments that have helped his work go down as...
Greetings again from the darkness. There haven’t been many documentary trilogies over the years, yet this is the third in a series from husband-and-wife documentarians Joshua Tickell and Rebecca Harrell Tickell. The first two were KISS THE GROUND (2020) and...
Review by James Lindorf We know how D-Day ends. We know the beaches were stormed, the sacrifice was staggering, and the tide of the war turned. What “Pressure” asks is something most war films never bother with: what happened in the 72 hours before all of...
Review by James Lindorf Coming-of-age films live and die by how authentically they capture the feeling of being young. The sense of adventure or finding your place in a world that seems to have handed everyone else a map. “The Midway Point” arrives on...
Review by Adam Courtliff Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu marks the return of the Star Wars franchise to the silver screen 7 long years after the release of The Rise of Skywalker. In that time, fans have only really had television shows to sink their...
Review by Adam Courtliff Jack Ryan is back, on Prime Video returning for Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan: Ghost War, a feature length movie arriving just a few years after seemingly retiring from the spying world following the ending of the highly popular television...