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...
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 Daniel Roher announced himself to the world with “Navalny,” his Oscar-winning documentary about the Russian opposition leader. That film demonstrated a rare talent for pacing and complex character development under pressure, and those...
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...
Greetings again from the darkness. Are there alien-human hybrids living amongst us right now? That’s the question documentarian Serena DC is looking to answer with this latest. She is a published author and talk show host, and has directed other documentary...
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...
Greetings again from the darkness. For those of us who love movies and watch entirely too many each week/month/year, we have hardened to the fact that every so often we find one that simply doesn’t click for us. Even then, we hope to latch on to a particular...
Greetings again from the darkness. The Farrelly Brothers (Bobby and Peter) were the creative force behind such comedy classics as DUMB AND DUMBER (1994), THERE’S SOMETHING ABOUT MARY (1998), and one of my personal favorites, OUTSIDE PROVIDENCE (1999). At...
Greetings again from the darkness. Stories on geopolitics are almost always interesting, and this latest from writer-director Olivier Assayas (CARLOS, 2010) and co-writer Emmanuel Carrere is also quite timely, given the current state of international events....
Review by Adam Courtliff If I had a pound for every time I’d heard “this is the scariest movie of the year” or “this is the best horror film of the decade” over the last ten years, I’d be a rich man. From Longlegs to Undertone and everything in between,...