Greetings again from the darkness. “Break a leg.” The well-meaning phrase dates back many years as a way to avoid the dreaded ‘good luck’ for someone preparing to perform on stage. When high school sophomore Sophie explains this to her mother, the mom hugs...
Review by Adam Courtliff The highly anticipated release of The End of Oak Street has been overshadowed by what can only be described as one of the most abominable marketing campaigns in recent memory. In an attempt to sell the film to would-be audiences,...
Review by Adam Courtliff The Cold War is one of the most fascinating conflicts in humanity's brief but destructive history. Despite lacking the large-scale military clashes of more famous conflicts, civilization has arguably never been as close to mutually...
Greetings again from the darkness. This can’t be right. It doesn’t seem real. Yet, it’s possibly the harshest form of reality. Documentarians Tanaz Eshaghian and Farzad Jafari managed to gain access to two families during a process most of us westerners...
Where to begin with One Night Only. As a romantic comedy, it is a decent enough movie. It plays all the clichéd hits and is largely predictable with audience pleasing sights, music, and humor. The leads, along with most of the cast, play their roles well...
Review by James Lidorf Girl Scout cookies are one of the few products in American life that almost everyone has interacted with, whether as a seller, a buyer, or a coworker being cornered in the break room by well-meaning parents. That universal connection...
Greetings again from the darkness. Movie weddings are fertile grounds for romantic-comedies. Folks get dressed up and meet at a fancy venue, while possibly drinking a bit too much and almost certainly dealing with an abundance of family drama. Emotions and...
Review by James Lindorf Will Gluck made two of the better romantic comedies of the last fifteen years with “Easy A” and “Friends with Benefits.” For fans of those films, he lost his way with “Annie” and the “Peter Rabbit” films, but “One Night Only” is a...
Review by James Lindorf Eli Roth built his reputation on films that made audiences deeply uncomfortable, most notably with "Cabin Fever" and the "Hostel" films. He suffered a mid-career slump before reestablishing himself with 2023's "Thanksgiving" as a...
Greetings again from the darkness. Olmo is like most fourteen-year-old boys. His visual fantasizing about the girl of his dreams requires nothing more than a toy car and a glimpse of her walking outside. Yet, Olmo is also different than most his age because...