Review by James Lindorf Martin McDonagh has built a career on putting flawed people in beautiful, isolated places and letting them hurt each other in funny ways. “Wild Horse Nine” sends two of them to Rapa Nui, one of the most remote inhabited islands on...
Greetings again from the darkness. Solitude and uncertainty are poor bedfellows, leading to issues with rational thought and behavior patterns. Writer-director Scott Tinkham and co-director Michael Woloson explore this through a setting that may or may not...
Greetings again from the darkness. With his first feature film in eight years, award-winning filmmaker (and novelist) Lee Chang-Dong and co-writer Jungmi Oh have delivered an excellent character study that is South Korea’s official submission for the Best...
Greetings again from the darkness. Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act guaranteed certain rights for those with disabilities. It fell under the purview of the Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) department, later renamed Health and Human Services. In...
Review by James Lindorf “Becky” was a scrappy 2020 indie that turned a thirteen-year-old Lulu Wilson loose on a house full of neo-Nazis, and “The Wrath of Becky” upped the ante in 2023 with a domestic terrorist cell. Now the trilogy wraps with “The Last...
By James Lindorf Jane Fonda has spent decades using her fame for causes, and in “Gaslit” she points it at the oil and gas boom. Director Katie Camosy has worked with Greenpeace for years, making her the perfect choice to helm the organization’s first feature...
Greetings again from the darkness. Residents of the senior center in Aurora, Ontario can now provide quite an answer if they are ever asked the question, “What’s better than Bingo?”. Seriously, when filmmaker Sean Cisterna (THE LONG RIDER doc, 2022) pitches...
A heroic naval officer’s newfound connection to the secretary of defense leads her to uncover a trail of secrets that may tie him to a global threat. TRINITY arrives on Netflix December 1.
This holiday season, one angry bird will face his greatest challenge yet, surviving fatherhood… while saving the world! Executive Producers Louis Koo, Toru Nakahara, Ben Mattes, Hanna Valkeapää-Nokkala, Crosby Clyse, Chris Pflug, Simon Hedges, Christopher...
Review by James Lindorf It’s been fifty years since “Rocky” opened, and a little boxing movie about an underdog became an all-time classic. Now, “I Play Rocky” asks how a struggling actor with a slur in his speech and two producers with very little money got...