Greetings again from the darkness. Creating a 5-minute short film that shocks us, makes us laugh, and leaves us understanding the main character is quite a feat. And that’s exactly what director Julien Lasseur and screenwriter Brian Groh have accomplished...
Wolf Man has great visual effects and some effective (even if predictable) jump scares. It is supported by interesting premises and has a perfect isolated setting. And the actors play their parts decently enough. However, the overall story is a bit dull and...
Review by James Lindorf Over the last seven years, writer and director Christian Gudegast has taken a near-complete break from Hollywood. His only credited position since 2018 was as an executive producer on Gerard Butler’s action movie “Plane.” He has fully...
If it seems the local cineplex is filled with sequels, prequels, remakes, and spinoffs … well, that’s because it is. The 2024 worldwide box office totals show the top 16 grossing films fit one of those descriptions. This just makes things a bit more...
Greetings again from the darkness. In the age of sequels, here’s one we can actually give a warm welcome to. Pixar has followed up the brilliant INSIDE OUT (2015) with one that picks up Riley a couple years later as she hits those teenage years, which as all...
Greetings again from the darkness. True stories are often at the heart of many movies each year. However, there are true stories and then there is the story of the Paiva family. Marcelo Rubens Paiva has written two books, which along with numerous interviews...
Greetings again from the darkness. Realistically speaking, there should be more words for ‘friendship’, designating the multiple levels on which ‘being friends’ can occur. If Financial Advisors can have “A” (like Warren Buffett), B, C, and D (like me)...
Greetings again from the darkness. In the year of long movies, this is one of the longer ones at two hours and forty-eight minutes. Also, in the year of only a few great movies, this is one of them. Writer-director Mohammad Rasoulof was arrested and...
Greetings again from the darkness. I don’t recall a more unusual opening seven or eight minutes for a film (even including Terrence Malick). Slightly disorienting fragments of scenes from odd angles are made more obscure through nearly indistinguishable...
Greetings again from the darkness. Mike Leigh has long been one of the most interesting filmmakers working. His projects vary greatly and include such gems as HIGH HOPES (1988), VERA DRAKE (2004), HAPPY-GO-LUCKY (2008), ANOTHER YEAR (2010), and MR TURNER...