Review by James Lindorf The latest feature from filmmaker Blake Calhoun (Spilt Milk) takes us back to the sunbaked Texas summer of 1981. The coming-of-age story celebrates the friendships, music, and family that fueled the lives of teens as they tried to...
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...
Set against the sun-bleached grit of Los Angeles, CRIME 101 weaves the tale of an elusive thief (Chris Hemsworth) whose high-stakes heists unfolding along the iconic 101 freeway have mystified police. When he eyes the score of a lifetime with hopes of this...
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,...
Academy Award winning writer/director, James L. Brooks, brings you the humor, the headaches, and the heart that makes a family. #EllaMcCay arrives only in theaters December 12. An idealistic young woman juggles her family and work life in a comedy about the...
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. Real life doesn’t offer too many opportunities for ‘do-overs’. Fortunately, movies do. Dallas born-and-raised (now Los Angeles-based) Adam Saunders wears many hats for this film that was inspired by his own life. Mr....