Movie Reviews Archive

Greetings again from the darkness. Revenge movies have long been popular because they let us live out the fantasy of getting even … a chance real life rarely offers. Of course, few of us actually cross paths with Russian mobsters or have a secret ...Read More

Review by James Lindorf Imagine for a moment that our world is in peril. Gaia, the spirit of the Earth, can no longer stand the terrible destruction caused by the technology and pollution plaguing our planet. But instead of sending five magic rings to ...Read More

Greetings again from the darkness. There she sits. Rita Moreno looks directly into the camera as she tells her own story. And what a story it is. She talks about the good times and bad. She recalls the challenges of being a Puerto Rican ...Read More

Greetings again from the darkness. It’s inexplicable how so much hate-based violence was ignored by the mainstream media for so long. Documentarian Dawn Porter is here to correct some of that. The film opens as a backhoe breaks ground in search of a mass ...Read More

Greetings again from the darkness. Even those of us who aren’t “Southies” know the name James “Whitey” Bulger. Johnny Depp portrayed him in BLACK MASS (2015) and Jack Nicholson’s character was inspired by him in THE DEPARTED (2006). Of course, that’s just cinema taking ...Read More

By James Lindorf It has been 115 years since the first horror movie was filmed in France. In all those years, one of the genre’s constant companions has been religion. “The Wicker Man,” “The Omen,” “Rosemary’s Baby,” and of course “The Exorcist” are some ...Read More

Picture credit: Biran Aris Greetings again from the darkness. What’s it like to grow up in the shadow of a successful older sibling? What if that sibling is the famous actress Joan Collins? Documentarian Laura Fairrie profiles Joan’s younger sister, Jackie, who overcame challenges ...Read More